Chapter 835: Subic's Great Retreat

Countless aerial bombs and air-to-ground missiles landed on the positions of the United Nations troops in and around Subic City, inflicting very heavy losses on the US Army's 2nd Mechanized Infantry Division, the US Marine Corps' 5th Division, and the British Army's 7th Infantry Division defending Subic City.

"What about the Air Force? Where is our Air Force? If we continue to be bombed like this, we don't have to wait for the Huaxinghui ground forces to attack, and our 3 divisions will be blown up! "Hamilton, the commander of the 5th Division of the U.S. Marine Corps? Fish, inside the temporary headquarters in Subic City, facing the commander of the 2nd Mechanized Infantry Division of the U.S. Army, Daniel? McLean and the commander of the British Army's 7th Infantry Division, Henry? Lewis said with a depressed face.

These 3 divisions of troops were taken by the commander-in-chief of the United Nations forces, Lewis ? Blake was sent to Subic City to prevent the troops of the Huaxing Society from continuing to attack the Subic Naval Base, but Lin Daxin wanted to leave more United Nations troops on Luzon Island, so the Free Corps moved quickly, and the troops of these 3 divisions had not yet built any decent fortifications, and the bombing of the Free Corps Air Force fighters had already fallen on the heads of these 3 divisions.

U.S. Army 2nd Mechanized Infantry Division Commander Daniel? McLean, dusting off the dust on his helmet with his hand, sighed and said: "Our United Nations Air Force has suffered very heavy losses in the previous air battles, and the Huaxinghui Air Force is now not only bombing Subic City, but also bombing Subic Naval Base, and the remaining carrier-based aircraft of the aircraft carrier in the waters near Subic Naval Base should be in the sky above Subic Naval Base, fighting with the fighters of Huaxinghui Air Force." ”

Commander of the 5th Marine Division, Hamilton? Fish immediately said, "Then you can't leave us alone, right?" If the Huaxinghui Air Force continues to bomb Subic City like this, what will our three divisions use to resist the attack of the Huaxinghui ground forces? If it weren't for the persistence of our 3 divisions in Subic City, the Huaxinghui ground troops would have directly attacked the Subic Naval Base, and at that time, the entire United Nations force would have been finished! ”

Daniel? McLean sighed again and said, "Won't you leave us alone, Lewis?" General Black didn't say that he had ordered all the remaining warplanes on Fuga Island and Galayan Island to take to the skies to cover the withdrawal of UN troops from Subic Naval Base and provide air support to Subic City, believing that our warplanes would be arriving soon. ”

Sure enough, Daniel, commander of the 2nd Mechanized Infantry Division of the US Army? As McLean expected, 77 F-35C Lightning fighters, 19 A-10B Intruder fighters, 33 FA-18 Super Hornet fighters, 20 electronic attack aircraft, and 20 AWACS fighters from seven aircraft carriers of the US Navy, as well as 24 F-35B fighters from two aircraft carriers of the British Navy, have all flown over the Subic Naval Base and are fighting to the death against several times the number of Freikorn Air Force fighters.

After Lin Daxin decided that the Free Corps would continue to attack the Subic Naval Base, more than 1,000 fighters of the Free Corps Air Force pounced on the Subic Naval Base, of which about 300 fighters directly launched an air attack on Subic City, where a large number of United Nations troops were gathered, and the remaining more than 700 fighters flew to the sky above the Subic Naval Base and carried out a fierce bombardment of the very dense United Nations forces on the ground.

The combined 153 carrier-based aircraft of the navies of the United States and Britain can be used as fighters, and in the face of more than 700 fighters of the Free Corps Air Force, although they suffered great losses in air battles, they still cooperated with the anti-aircraft fire on the ground and stubbornly resisted several times the number of Free Corps Air Force fighters.

The 357 fighters of the U.S. Air Force and the three Marine Corps aircraft wings of the U.S. Navy on Fuga Island and Galayan Island, as well as 110 fighters from Britain, France, and Germany, soon joined the air battle, of which only 110 fighters from Britain, France, and Germany joined the battle over Subic City, while all 357 fighters from the United States joined the air battle over Subic Naval Base.

The hundreds of UN fighters from Fuga Island and Galayan Island did not change the situation of the air battle between the two sides, and the Freikorps Air Force still had a clear advantage in the air battle, and soon after hundreds of UN fighters joined the air group, more than 1,000 Freiko Air Force fighters came to the skies over Subic City and Subic Naval Base, making the Fross Air Force fighter numerical advantage more and more obvious, and the losses of the UN fighters were getting bigger and bigger.

Commander-in-Chief of the United Nations Forces, Lewis? Blake saw that more and more fighters were shot down, and knew that the war situation was becoming more and more unfavorable for the United Nations forces, and that the United Nations troops at the Subic Naval Base must be evacuated immediately.

At this time, not many passenger ships and transport ships drawn by the United Nations forces from nearby countries arrived at the Subic naval base, so at this time, the main force transporting the army units of various countries to evacuate the Subic naval base was the warships of the United States and Britain, and the warships of the United States and Britain gave priority to carrying the American officers and soldiers and British officers and soldiers, and the officers and men of the armies of the other countries could only scramble to grab places on a small number of passenger ships and transport ships.

The fighters of the United Nations Air Force are no longer the opponents of the Free Corps Air Force, which has caused many fighters of the Free Army Air Force to transfer their opponents to the warships that are loading the officers and soldiers of the United Nations forces in the port of the Subic Naval Base.

Even some warships, passenger ships, and transport ships filled with officers and men of various countries of the United Nations forces were constantly bombed by the fighters of the Free Corps Air Force on their way to Innduro Island, and the route of the withdrawal of the United Nations forces to Mindoro Island could be called a death route, and many ships full of officers and men of the United Nations forces, whether they were warships with strong anti-aircraft firepower or passenger ships and transport ships that were powerless to resist, were bombed and sunk on this death route.

Of course, in order to bomb the warships of the United States and Britain, the fighters of the Free Corps Air Force also suffered very large losses, after all, these warships of the United States and Britain have perfect air defense systems and powerful anti-aircraft firepower.

Inside the temporary headquarters in Subic City, the commander of the 5th Division of the U.S. Marine Corps, Hamilton ? Fish said gloomily: "The more than 100 fighters that supported our Subic City have basically been lost, and it seems that except for a few fighters that escaped, the other more than 100 were destroyed by the superior number of Huaxinghui fighters, so that our 3 divisions should not have any air support." ”

The commander of the 7th Infantry Division of the British Army, Dean ? Rusk frowned and asked, "Daniel?" General McLean, Hamilton? General Fish, will your U.S. Navy be able to add new aircraft carriers to the waters near Subic Naval Base in a short period of time? Or add some US Air Force fighters in a short period of time to the battlefield here? As long as we have more fighters, we can make our 3 divisions better, without air support, it is too difficult for our 3 divisions to block the Huaxinghui ground attack force! ”

Hamilton? Fish directly lamented: "In a short period of time, it is impossible for fighters to support our three divisions, and the air battle situation at Subic Naval Base is also very bad, the sky has basically been occupied by the fighters of the Huaxinghui Air Force, and it is impossible for us to mobilize fighters from the surrounding areas in a short time, let alone aircraft carriers." ”

U.S. Army 2nd Mechanized Infantry Division Commander Daniel? McLean nodded with a heavy face, "Our 3 divisions can only rely on ourselves now, no matter what, we must block the attack of the Huaxinghui ground forces, the land forces of various countries at the Subic Naval Base have begun to retreat, Lewis, the commander-in-chief of the United Nations forces?" Blake ordered our 3 divisions to stop the Huaxinghui ground attack force at all costs, cover the main force of the United Nations forces, and withdraw to Mindoro Island. ”

The 2nd Mechanized Infantry Division of the United States Army, the 5th Division of the United States Marine Corps and the 7th Infantry Division of the British Army are all worthy of being called ace troops, after the Free Corps Air Force basically eliminated more than 100 fighters supporting more than 100 United Nations Air Force units over Subic City, the 1st Armored Tank Brigade and the 2nd Armored Tank Brigade of the Free Corps Army immediately launched a fierce attack on 2 American divisions and 1 British division in Subic City, but they were blocked by these 3 divisions. The two armored tank brigades of the Freikorps Army attacked for more than ten hours, although they gave two American divisions and one British division heavy casualties, but they were still blocked here in Subic City.

Later, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Integrated Divisions of the Free Army also joined the attack on Subic City, which made 2 U.S. Army divisions and 1 British Division unable to withstand it, and finally the 2nd Mechanized Infantry Division of the U.S. Army, the 5th Marine Division and the 7th Infantry Division of the British Army completely collapsed after 24 hours of stubborn resistance to the ground and air three-dimensional attack of the Free Corps in Subic City, and the Ruin Subic City was captured by the Free Corps Army troops. More than half of the officers and men of the two American divisions and one British division were killed or wounded, and the remaining officers and men of the two American and British divisions of the three divisions basically became prisoners of the Free Corps Army units, and at this time, the remnants of the three divisions could no longer retreat.

And even if they retreat to the Subic naval base, what can they do, the army units of the Free Corps are behind the butts of the remnants of the 3 divisions, and the remnants of the 3 divisions will not even have the opportunity to board the ship.

Thanks to the desperate resistance of 2 US ace divisions and 1 British ace division, by the time the Army units of the Free Corps rushed into the corpse-strewn Subic Naval Base, most of the UN troops in the base had already boarded the ship and withdrew, but now the remnants of the officers and soldiers of the various countries who did not board the ship in the base will no longer have the opportunity to board the ship......

On November 29, 2031, one day has passed since the great retreat, but the officers and soldiers of the United Nations forces who withdrew to Mindoro are still thinking about the tragic retreat.

Commander-in-Chief of the United Nations Forces, Lewis? Blake stood on the pier of the port of Galera on Mindoro Island, looking at the fleets of the United States and Britain on the sea near the port, and the whole person was very sluggish.

What makes Lewis the most? What Black could not accept was that the USS Stennis and the Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Lexington were hit by a number of aerial bombs and missiles during the retreat, and finally sank in the waters near the Subic Naval Base because of their injuries.

In addition to the sinking of two aircraft carriers in the US Navy, the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers USS Reagan and USS Truman were seriously damaged and had to return to the shipyard for major repairs, in addition to the sinking of two missile cruisers, three missile destroyers, three missile frigates and one nuclear-powered attack submarine, and many other warships were also damaged.

The carrier-based aircraft on the remaining aircraft carriers of the United States now add up to only 10 F-35C Lightning fighters, 4 A-10B Intruder fighters, 4 FA-18 Super Hornet fighters, 6 electronic attack aircraft, and 8 AWACS aircraft.

The Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier of the British Navy, the King Edward, was also sunk by the fighters of the Free Corps Air Force, and the British Navy also lost 1 missile destroyer and 2 missile frigates, and the surviving British Navy Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier only had 2 F-35B fighters and 3 anti-submarine helicopters left.

The naval fleets of the United States and Britain suffered heavy losses in the great retreat, but compared with the air force and land forces of the United Nations forces in the great retreat, the naval fleets of the United States and Britain were quite good.

Of the hundreds of thousands of United Nations Army troops at Subic Naval Base, less than half of them were able to successfully withdraw to Mindoro Island, and the remaining half were either corpses or had entered the Freikorps Army prisoner of war camp.

The United Nations Air Force was even more miserable, with only 36 of the hundreds of UN fighter jets taking off from the islands of Fuga and Galayan escaping the ascension to Nau Seoul on the island of Mindoro, a former Philippine Air Force airfield. (To be continued.) )