Chapter 662 662 The End of the Battle of Madagascar

After the end of the naval and air battles in the Battle of Madagascar, the 2nd Marine Division and the 4th Infantry Division of the Army, which had landed on the island of Madagascar, were in a desperate situation, the Chinese fleet completely isolated the island, the US fleet could not support them, at most the American transport planes could risk dropping some supplies to them, while on the contrary, their enemy, the Chinese PLA, was constantly sending troops to the island.

Earlier, Diego Suarez in northern Madagascar stationed a heavy marine division of the Chinese Marine Corps, and then the Air Force began to deploy a large number of strategic transport aircraft to transport troops to Madagascar. In addition, China also transported heavy troops from the west through Pakistan and arrived in Madagascar by sea, although it took a little longer, but the war situation was at an extremely favorable time, so it was not worried.

Over the years, the Chinese Navy has built more than 50 heavy troop transport ships, which are huge in tonnage and have various functions, which can transport a large number of heavy equipment at one time, including tanks, self-propelled guns, heavy missile vehicles, etc., and these military transport ships have ultra-fast speeds that ordinary transport ships do not have, and can send troops into the battlefield in the shortest possible time.

Qi Yiming directly took out several of these transport ships directly from the Red Alert cryogenic space, and equipped with all the weapons and equipment required by a group army, while ordinary soldiers will be separated from the equipment for transportation, with hundreds of Y-20s, it is obvious that it is not a safe and smart choice to transport 100,000 soldiers with troop carriers.

The military plans to send the entire 57th Marine Army to Madagascar, along with the 35th Airborne Army and the 11th Red Alert Army. Obviously, these 300,000 troops are not needed to deal with the troops of less than 30,000 troops in two divisions of the US army, and the target of the PLA is not only Madagascar, but South Africa, which is across the sea from Madagascar.

As long as South Africa remains an ally of the US military, it will also be the forward base for the US military to enter the Indian Ocean, and even if China wins several battles in the Mozambique Channel and Madagascar, the US military will still seek ways to break through the Indian Ocean theater from South Africa. Therefore, to solve the hidden dangers of the Indian Ocean theater once and for all, the only way to defeat South Africa and expel the US military and NATO allies here, South Africa is also a small military power, and NATO allies also have a large number of troops here, the PLA estimates that the three army groups are not enough to conquer South Africa, but it can make a good start, and then the PLA will put more ground troops into South Africa until it completely defeats South Africa and drives away the US military and NATO allies.

This is a relatively medium-term plan, and all the military has to do now is to thoroughly understand the battle of Madagascar and let the heavy forces of the Marine Corps completely defeat the American forces on the island.

After the Battle of Madagascar, a retired US general said helplessly: "We are back to a similar situation in the Philippine Campaign during World War II, the isolated US army will face the attack of the Chinese like a hornet, and we cannot see the hope of victory, all they can do is the will of the Chinese until the United States resists, and our unyielding ambition." ”

In a way, Madagascar does reappear like yesterday in the Philippine Campaign of World War II, but there are many differences, such as at the beginning of the land battle in Madagascar, the size of China's ground offensive force was actually not larger than that of the American army. And the Chinese army has completely seized air supremacy, and the US military has lost its own sky, and they are facing a large number of Chinese fighters and attack aircraft, and even backfire bombers from the island of Diego Garcia.

The US Fourth Infantry Division had basically advanced to the center line of the island before the sea battle, and after the sea battle, the Fourth Infantry Division fell into a position where it could not advance or retreat, and the Fourth Infantry Division was not allowed to surrender directly without engaging the Chinese, Bush Jr. personally sent a letter to the major general and division commander of the Fourth Infantry Division, "Even if it fails, let the Chinese pay a painful price, let them know that the war is definitely not as easy as they imagined!" ”

However, even if the U.S. Fourth Infantry Division wanted to find the Chinese Marines for a decisive battle, the Fifth Marine Division had no intention of doing so.

"We've got plenty of time to concoct these Yankees, so let's finish the battle when they're done enjoying our bombing and we're exhausted." Kang Dahan, commander-in-chief of the South African First Front Army, who was newly transferred, said. This lieutenant general had participated in the Russo-related war, but in fact came from Qi Yiming's Red Alert base, and was a command-and-conquer general, with the ability and experience to command a front army in a large-scale battle.

The U.S. Fourth Infantry Division began its own nightmare, and the Chinese naval aviation, and even the air force already stationed in Madagascar, constantly bombed them with warplanes, and the heavy equipment of the Fourth Infantry Division suffered considerable losses as a result. A large number of tanks were bombed by Chinese fighters and scrapped, and the US barracks were also damaged by night attacks by Chinese fighters.

Although the U.S. military's Avenger and other air defense equipment have also achieved some results, shooting down many Chinese fighters, the Chinese air force has inflicted greater losses on them. In just three days, the 4th Infantry Division was reduced to a very severe rate, with losses of more than 40 percent in armored vehicles and more than 30 percent in personnel.

When it was discovered that this road could not lead to a decisive battle with the Chinese Marine Corps, the US Fourth Infantry Division chose to retreat, withdraw to Tuliara, and join up with the Second Marine Division of the Marine Corps, maintaining a relatively strong force as much as possible, and not suffering too much loss in the face of the Chinese.

It's just that the situation of the Second Marine Division is not good, Tuliara was blocked by a Chinese fleet after China seized sea supremacy, and a number of Chinese destroyers directly froze the port, including several Type 052A destroyers that have been in service for many years in the navy, these destroyers are not very useful in the current naval warfare, but the navy is very optimistic about their 155mm naval guns, and the naval gun fire directly poses a relatively large threat to the US marines stationed in the coastal areas. Six 052A destroyers and six 052D destroyers bombarded Tuliara with their guns, turning one of Madagascar's largest cities into a scorched earth. The U.S. Marines attempted to counterattack with their artillery, but their counterattacks often led to immediate blows from the Chinese naval aviation, resulting in the loss of the 2nd Marine Division.

In the end, the 2nd Marine Division had no good way, directly abandoned the equipment that was more difficult to carry, left Tuliara offshore, and headed further inland to avoid the attack of the Chinese.

The 4th Infantry Division and the 2nd Marine Division were actually ready to go into the mountains and jungles of Madagascar to fight guerrilla warfare against the Chinese, just as their ancestors did in the Philippines during World War II. However, the U.S. military obviously had nothing to do to deal with this relatively bad war, and the U.S. military in the Philippines finally surrendered, and it is clear that the fate of the U.S. military in Madagascar should be no different from that of their predecessors.

The 5th Marine Division of the Chinese Marine Corps appeared at this time, they had been recuperating for a long time, and when the US troops were already unsustainable, they carried out a forced march, guided by a large number of theater pterodactyl drones, and conducted an encounter with the 4th Infantry Division of the US Army.

The outcome of this battle was obvious: the Fourth Infantry Division, having lost a large amount of heavy equipment, did not put up the kind of desperate resistance that Bush had demanded in the face of the sophisticated weapons and high morale of the Chinese ground forces, and in fact they did resist desperately, but the gap was too great.

At the very beginning of the battle, the Chinese air force was put into the battlefield, carrying out an overwhelming air surprise attack on the US army, a large number of guided bombs bombarded any slightly denser US troops, the US troops dug trenches and built a front, but they did not play any role in front of the enemy in the air, and soon the improvised defense line built by the US troops was full of holes, and at this time the mechanized infantry of the Chinese Marine Corps attacked in a big way. Under the synchronization of the 99A7 tank and the MIFV infantry fighting vehicle, the US infantry could only fire a few shots at most to be killed or captured by the Chinese soldiers, the most tragic part is that after the US army was defeated, it was difficult to retreat, they ran wildly in the field on two feet, unable to keep up with the Chinese armored vehicles and infantry mechas, the US army suffered more than 2,000 casualties in this battle, and more than 2,000 were captured, while the main force of the 4th Infantry Division was basically lost, and only a small scattered US army remained.

After seeing that the general trend had gone, the US front-line command was not completely indifferent, during which the US military also launched a large-scale air offensive, trying to regain air supremacy and support the US forces in Madagascar, but the US air force, which was already insufficient in numbers, could not break through the guard of Chinese fighters and could only lose more.

However, the U.S. military sent a lot of MV-22 Ospreys to sneak into Madagascar during the air battle, and Jill Robinson was lucky to be a member of the rescue rotorcraft, but the road back to South Africa was quite tortuous, the U.S. military sent a total of more than 40 Ospreys, and only 20 successfully returned to South Africa, which means that more than half were lost in the mission. Some were shot down by Chinese fighters, some were shot down by anti-aircraft missiles, and some were non-combat losses, but in any case, 20 Ospreys rescued more than 100 people, and these more than 100 people were the only American troops who did not fall on the island of Madagascar.

Other and even some high-ranking generals were either shot down or directly captured, and the Fourth Infantry Division and the Second Marine Division were almost empty in their formations after the Battle of Madagascar, because there were no more soldiers under the formation.