Chapter 388: Bloody Battle Carnason
In the office of the Supreme Commander of the Wei Qing Pavilion, there is a mysterious document box. This is on the basis of the sub-base, when the Weiqing Pavilion was rebuilt, the base master Tianya Bird deliberately stayed. There are no keys, no mechanisms, and the only condition for opening this file box is the fingerprints of the Supreme Commander.
This is a mystery that even His Majesty's two secretaries before and after cannot touch. Rao is Wu Jiayi's coquettishness, and she pouted and betrayed the alliance and failed to find out. Even the actions of the Goddess of Martial Arts aroused His Majesty's alarm, and soon after, MI2, which was in charge of Asian affairs, received a telegram from Director Mu himself to order the highest-level secret operation: to re-investigate all the relationships and resumes of the Wu reporter during the Chinese period.
Ruthless is the most emperor's family, and Wu Jiayi, who is purely spoiled, didn't know that she was almost "put into the cold palace" by His Majesty, but fortunately, in the top secret report of the Military Intelligence Bureau, in addition to receiving countless love letters since she was 10 years old; After the age of 15, he has been known as the school flower and other trivial things that make His Majesty laugh, and the resume of a martial arts reporter can still withstand scrutiny.
In fact, Xinhua did not do anything in this regard. Harmony or placing a person next to His Majesty who can help Xinhua speak, in the era when Xinhua urgently needed imperial assistance, was nothing more than to express a gesture of goodwill. Even if there are some laws, they are only some long-term plans. Whether it is Taizu or Wu Hao, they know that a woman from Xinhua, no matter how favored the Han Emperor is, will definitely investigate her life experience clearly.
The prestige or murderous name of the Han Military Intelligence Bureau was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in China during the Anti-Japanese War. The interception of Zhang Hanqing from Nanhua under the heavy protection of the chairman of the committee has already proved that as long as they want to do it, there is nothing they cannot do.
This evaluation is a very high praise for the Imperial Military Intelligence Agency, but if it can be heard by Director Mu in Houston, he will definitely not agree. Saying that "as long as you want to do it, there is nothing you can't do?" At least in the face of the "Manhattan Project Zone," which the United States is strictly guarding, the Military Intelligence Bureau is running into a bloody head.
Since the beginning of 1944, at least dozens of MIA agents have died in a few months after a failed infiltration of Oak Ridge. The strength of the Military Intelligence Agency in the United States has been seriously damaged, even if Director Mu personally sits in charge and concentrates all elite forces, but the "Manhattan Project" is still just a mirage for the empire. Some of His Majesty's inferences about the US nuclear project are actually the most reliable information that the Military Intelligence Agency can have, and nothing else has been found.
This made Mu Yu very frustrated, after His Majesty had already delineated the scope of the "Manhattan Project", the Military Intelligence Bureau was still unable to carry out effective infiltration, and the US military's strict protective measures were outrageous.
In a villa in Houston, Director Mu looked at the artificial lake outside the window with some distracted eyes. I am afraid that this operation will live up to His Majesty's hopes, and after the failure of many plans, not to mention the loss of troops, it will also make the Americans more protective of Oak Ridge and pay more attention to the nuclear engineering program.
The price of surprise may be that the Americans will be desperate to speed up nuclear research. It is impossible for them not to know that the Empire is already eyeing Oak Ridge.
Three days, Mu Yu plans to wait for another three days in Houston. Because, for the infiltration of the "Manhattan Engineering Zone", the Imperial Military Intelligence Agency has one last hope, and that is the super spy Delmar.
It's been a week since the wake-up signal was sent, and the fact that the same content has been published in mainstream American newspapers is going to attract the attention of American intelligence. The CIA guys are also experts in this kind of espionage method.
Now, Mu Yu can only wait. Wait for Del Mar to receive the wake-up order, so that he can send back valuable information in time.
But for the Allied mountain clusters that had already assembled in Sacramento, it was no longer possible to wait. Lieutenant General Zhang Houqun took a special plane and flew to Chang'an within 48 hours to receive a face-to-face lecture from His Majesty, and then flew back to San Francisco without stopping. The taste of a trapeze artist is not pleasant, but it is not worth the trip to get His Majesty's tips on mountain warfare.
The Americans had high hopes for the Nevada Line, but on the Allied side, why not break through here and win more space for the Indian kingdom.
The ferocity of the battle for Melus Pass has reminded the rest of the Allied forces that the battle will never be as simple as imagined. The 102nd Division of the Coastal Corps will be missing ten "Falcons" in almost every day of fighting, and the "Stinger" anti-aircraft missiles of the US army have formed a series of developments. Helicopter gunships, a unique weapon of the Han army, have encountered the greatest challenge since its inception.
However, the commander-in-chief of the allied forces, Marshal Ye Weixun, remained unmoved and insisted on not reducing the intensity of the attack. In the mountain defense line, where the combat effectiveness of the air force and armored forces was extremely limited, the Allies did not have any advantage over the American army.
Lieutenant General Zhang Houqun understood that the friendly troops who shed blood and died in the southern part of the line were creating opportunities for their own mountain clusters. In order to be able to contain all the reserve forces of the US army in the southern part of the Nevada Line, it even did not hesitate to pay heavy losses to the 102nd Air Cavalry Division.
Lassen Peak, 3,187 meters above sea level. In the Sierra Nevada, peaks over four thousand meters above sea level are not uncommon, and Lassen Peak, as famous as its height, is not well known on the roof of western North America.
However, the northern part of the U.S. Army's Nevada Defense Line is precisely the highest point and defensive center of Lassen Peak, which holds the choke point of communication from California to Nevada. If you want to cross the Sierra Nevada and enter the Great Basin region, the small town of Carson at the foot of Lassen Peak is the way to go.
Just when the Melus Pass, known as the bloody bottomless pit, was still devouring the lives of Allied soldiers, and when Lieutenant General Mike, commander of the US Army in the Nevada Line, had to fill his reserve forces into the pass position to ensure that there was still enough strength to hold on to the pass under the heavy artillery fire of the Allied forces, on April 5, the Allied mountain cluster commanded by Lieutenant General Zhang Houqun officially started the Battle of Carlson.
During the Qingming Festival, it rains a lot, and passers-by want to break their souls. By asking where the artillery was bombarding, the general pointed to Lassen Peak.
Zhang Houqun shook his head and shook his head, which made the staff officers cover their mouths and force a smile. Lieutenant General Zhang is full of confidence in taking Carson City with superior forces and opening up the choke point into the central region of the United States.
On the traditional day of the Han Chinese Qingming Festival, Allied artillery poured thousands of tons of shells on American positions. The small town of Carlson, which arose during the Great Gold Rush, was wiped out almost immediately after the first round of shelling.
However, the strong fortifications built by the US troops relying on the mountain did not suffer much damage in the shelling, and the existence of the highest point of Lassen Peak also made the US artillery return fire accurate and fierce.
The positions of two "Black Widow" rocket artillery regiments were destroyed in an instant by the American 155-mm howitzer group. The huge explosion on the position made it clear to the headquarters of the group army more than ten kilometers away.
Even, in the smoke after the explosion, you can see the trucks that have been dragged into the sky.
The artillery positions of the American army, which were condescending, inflicted heavy losses on the Allies in the first day of fighting.
The hippie smile on Zhang Houqun's face gradually became serious. For the huge casualties that may be suffered in this battle, the Allied command was quite mentally prepared before the battle. But suffering such a big loss in the first round is definitely not something that Commander Zhang, who has a high spirit, can endure.
"Contact the Air Force and blow up those peaks for me!"
Before the war, the U.S. military transported many M114 155mm howitzers to the top of the hill to use the terrain to bombard the Allied forces, which not only had a much longer range, but also made it impossible for the Allied artillery to pose a threat to their own positions. This was a headache for the Allies.
On the first day, he had to ask the Air Force for help, which was not the character of Lieutenant General Zhang, but he was urgently transferred back to Chang'an by His Majesty, and after some advice, Zhang Houqun's awareness of multi-arm coordination increased a lot.
The Allied Raptors that took off in Oakland and Berkeley were the first to reach the skies over Carson City, and they were not armed with surface-to-surface missiles. In the words of Air Force Commander Yun Jiu, it is the body of the "Raptor", if there is a trace of it for ground attack, it is a waste.
As a standard heavy bomber, the "Raptor" is also the only air supremacy fighter in the current Royal Air Force that can have absolute superiority in the battle with advanced American fighters.
In the short period of two or three years, from Africa and Europe to the skies of North America, the trend of air warfare has changed from winning by speed to being the difference between life and death with an out-of-sight strike. An excellent fighter is not one who flies faster, but whose avionics are more advanced, whose radar can detect and lock on to the other side earlier, and of course, the most important thing is whose missile can hit farther.
The advent of the "Prison" air-to-air missile has brought the US Air Force and the Royal Air Force infinitely closer. "Lock-and-shoot" is no longer the prerogative of "Dragon-Phoenix", and the initial version of the AIM-120 can also launch a tracking attack on enemy fighters from beyond visual range.
After experiencing the pain of the West Coast being bombed by the Han army in the early days of the war, the U.S. Air Force, which had been lying on the back for several years, finally ushered in the era of the Han Emperor's air force duel in the sky after obtaining the advanced aviation technology of Britain and vigorously innovating.
However, in the sky above Carson City, higher than Lassen Peak, the "Raptor" group commanded by the "Spinosaurus" early warning aircraft is still the hegemon of this airspace. 22 to 3, on the day of the Qingming Festival in 1944, in the air battle of the Han and US air forces to seize air supremacy on the battlefield near Lassen Peak, the Han Royal Air Force shot down 22 US F-107A ultimate sabres at the cost of three "Raptors" being hit by "prisons". While ending the history of the Sabre series fighters of the North American company playing a leading role in the US Air Force, it also cleared the obstacles for its own bomber and attack aircraft units.
In order to win the Battle of Carson, Ye Shuai personally ordered the commander of the Air Force in Hawaii to be relocated to Oakland, and on April 6, the day after the campaign was launched, two flying regiments of "Weilong" were dispatched to attack the American hilltop position.
In the reckless ground-to-ground missile attack, one after another marked US artillery positions were overturned at Lassen Peak and in the vicinity. The Hong's Penguin-3 and Changguan-5 air-to-surface missiles fell on the heads of American GIs as if they did not want money.