Night, west bank of the Hoogri estuary, port of Khortia. Super-fast-updated latest novel chapters* are available for online reading

Brigadier General Scotter, commander of the 12th Mechanized Infantry Brigade of the Imperial Marine Corps, was reclining behind the tall, fat rear of his "Alligator" amphibious command vehicle, enjoying his first cigarette in hours, as he swayed past the bits and pieces of the past few days.

Before sunset on 6 September, the main force of the brigade landed smoothly on the coast of Ganti, and with the exception of a crocodile amphibious vehicle of the 2nd Battalion 8, which crushed a traffic guide of the military police company of the military headquarters due to a brake failure, it did not cause further losses on both sides of the enemy.

During the day of 7 September, the whole brigade braved a storm to sweep the enemy's coastal defense positions along the coast east of Ganti, destroying more than 10 shore artillery positions and main support points in succession, capturing nearly 500 British and Indian officers and men, and more than 200 water ducks.

In the next two days, with the support of the 1st Battalion of the 1st Marine Brigade, the 1st Battalion of the Independent Amphibious Artillery, and the 2nd Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Marine Division, the 12th Brigade of the 12th Infantry Brigade made an all-out assault on the port of Hortia, which is located on the right bank of the Hoogeri River, more than 40 kilometers northeast of Ganti. By this time, the surrounding enemy forces had finally been cleared and this excellent deep-water auxiliary port was firmly controlled.

What impressed history the most was that in the afternoon, when the street fighting was still raging, the 2nd Squadron of the Independent Special Service Brigade of the Indian National Liberation Army (PLA) was impatiently raising the flag of the "National Provisional Government of India" on the roof of the port building.

After capturing the port of Hortia, the follow-up team and supplies were continuously unloaded from the dock, and the dock was clean, and there was no trace of the expected shipwreck.

Although this is only a small step in Part A of the landing operation plan, it is not too easy......

Scott gently dropped a circle of spark-laden soot and suddenly remembered the first time he met with Her Majesty the Empress.

Elegant and friendly, there is something inscrutable in his eyes, which makes people can't help but be entangled between anticipation and apprehension.

"You have that kind of awareness. Give me your life. ”

What was the feeling when I first came to this place...... Anyway, there was not the slightest bit of falling out of favor.

In a word. Her Majesty saw through her ambitions at a glance. And took advantage of the situation to present a non-negotiable. There is no need to follow the guidelines. God's covenant with man.

Scott scoffed. I was shocked again. It turned out that the cigarette butt burned between the fingers. Shook his head in indignation. He was heard called by the local communications officer in the car. Hurriedly stepped on the tailgate that fell to the ground and got into the cramped cabin. I copied the microphone and fed it twice. On the other end of the telephone line came the voice of the Chief of Staff of the Army, Sha Hedi.

"Brigadier Shi? Have you cleared the enemy in the port area? ”

Scott switched the mic. Put your hot right hand on the cold subway platform and rest it. Unhurriedly, he agreed, "Yes." Report to the Chief of Staff. All the enemies in the port area have been eliminated. I haven't heard a gunshot here for almost half an hour, right. When will my supplies arrive? ”

"Supplies are available for the time being."

Scott's heart suddenly felt cold, and he clenched the microphone and shouted, "What? No supplies? What's going on? I haven't had a supply since I landed, and in the past few days, I've bottomed out all the fuel and ammunition here......"

"Calm down, listen to me, in order to prevent the Jericho fleet from breaking into the landing site, the convoy has been evacuated in advance, and only after receiving the exact notice that the Jericho fleet has been repulsed, the convoys will return to continue unloading, and then we can count on surplus supplies and trucks to deliver supplies."

Scott pressed his breath and asked, "Hasn't there been an announcement yet?" ”

"Not for the time being, but now you can rest assured that your left flank has just received a report from Lin Taiping that his detachment has basically taken control of the city of Klegpur, and this most important railway junction west of Kolkata has been cut off by us like this, so we can buy a lot of time."

Scott smacked his lips: "So, Brigade Commander Lin's side is so important, and the supplies are all given to him, right?" ”

"Don't be emotional, Huang Zhifeng's detachment is still fighting hard under the city of Balasol in the west, if you don't solve it early, it won't be fun for the enemy in South India to touch along the railway."

Scott shook the microphone helplessly: "Zhilu Dao, Zhilu Dao, I said Chief of Staff, you have made up your mind to make this riceless cooking, right?" ”

Obviously not eating this set over there: "Don't pretend to be poor with me, you will pick up the most oceans in the past few days, and if you run out of fuel, you will defend it, Commander Ma has already sent a minesweeper to you, and when the Jericho fleet rolls back, the mines on the river are also swept away, and the transport ship can go directly to Hortia to unload, and then you will not be the first to be full?" ”

"Isn't this painting bread to satisfy hunger, it really can't supply oil, and I can even some ammunition to come......"

"Let's borrow a little improvised with Ah San on the other side first, that's it, Holtia must hold it, I lost the bag, I heard it clearly

If you are gone, you will hang up......"

"Wait...... I still ......"

As soon as he spit out half of the words, there was only a busy voice on the phone, and Scott stomped his foot so hard that he shook the microphone, rushed out of the car with his back hand, and turned around to call out the communications staff in the car.

"Pass the battalion commanders, hold a meeting here at zero o'clock."

……

In the North Pacific Ocean, in the Gulf of Alaska, off the northeast coast of Kodiak Island, the flagship of the Alaska Raiders fleet of the United States and Canada, the battleship "Idaho".

In the ship's special dining room, Admiral Benson, commander of the Raiders Fleet and commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, was having dinner with several key subordinates, including Vice Admiral Schroeder, deputy commander of the fleet and commander of the 2nd Battleship Squadron, and Vice Admiral Robinson, commander of the Alaska Corps. It's just a small private gathering of an old friend in a cosy private house away from the war somewhere on the East Coast.

However, judging from the inside of their conversation, there is no doubt that this is indeed a battlefield at this moment, but it sounds like they are already winning.

The huge raider fleet around the Dreadnought battleship "Idaho" is now being assembled, totaling 8 Dreadnought battleships, 7 cruisers (including armored cruisers), 24 destroyers, 3 water carriers, and 26 transport ships that had departed from Seattle and Vancouver a week earlier, completed their rendezvous in September, and arrived in the waters near the Kodiak Islands on September 8.

Kodiak Group is located in the south of the Alaska Peninsula, the main island of Kodiak Island is 160 kilometers long, 16 to 96 kilometers wide, with an area of 8,975 square kilometers, the largest island in Alaska, and the second largest island in the United States after the Big Island of Hawaii, Russia established a colonial base on the island in 1784, and sold to the United States with Alaska in 1867.

The island's unique topography is characterized by year-round peaks and fjords deep inland, abundant rainfall and lush vegetation in summer, rich in salmon and salmon-eating Alaskan brown bears, and long and bitterly cold winters, with only a few thousand permanent residents, mainly concentrated in the port of Kodiak in the Gulf of Chignac in the northeast of the island, where fishing is a livelihood. Before the war, the U.S. Department of Agriculture had planned to build a cattle farm on the island, but due to the explosion of a volcano on the island three years ago, the whole island was covered with volcanic ash, and the initial attempt failed.

On the day of September 8, the American and Canadian attack teams first reconnoitred the Chinyak Bay and the Sansheng Bay in the southeast of the island by seaplane, and now there are 9th ships moored in the Fenak Bay, which was determined to be a special transport ship group sent by the Japanese army to reinforce Kodiak Island, including 5 transport ships and 4 escort ships, Admiral Benson immediately ordered the main force of the fleet to break into Ziniak Bay in batches with two Canadian cruisers as the lead. The U.S. and Canadian fleets pursued unsuccessfully, and the division of troops sank the 5 transport ships that fled separately one by one.

Early the next morning, Benson ordered the battleship force to shell Kordia Harbor to cover the landing of the advance detachment of the Alaskan Army on two small islands south of the port city: Long Island in the south and Woody Island in the north, and prepare to establish an advance base and artillery position here in preparation for a decisive surprise attack by the main force on the island in the future.

After nightfall, the organized resistance on Long Island and Woody Island was basically destroyed, and the Marines captured the first Japanese prisoners, and after interrogation, they learned that with the 3,000 reinforcements that had just been added to the transport ship regiment, the total number of defenders, including the miscellaneous personnel, exceeded 10,000, far exceeding Benson and Robinson's original expectation that the total strength of the Agar Corps invested this time was only 25,000 men, and that they should not only undertake the mission of recovering Kodiak Island, but also "wait for an opportunity under the premise that our army is in a clear superior position" purge the Japanese occupation forces on the Kenai Peninsula".

"Ten thousand? Are they going to live by eating salmon? Lieutenant General Robinson grinned wittily as he poked a small piece of bloodshot steak on his fork.

"What's the problem, don't all Japanese people like to eat sashimi?" Admiral Benson's chief of staff, Colonel Peterson Dyer, raised his glass and laughed.

"The problem is, the salmon here belong to the bears." Robinson is a brown bear spokesman, as he declares, "Every year heavily armed bear hunters disappear without a trace from one side of the mountain or the other." ”

Colonel Dale shrugged, "I wish your bear could tell the difference between a white man and a yellow monkey." ”

"Now is not the time to get along with brown bears." Lieutenant General Schroeder grimaced, "The key to this operation is not how many defenders there are, and it has nothing to do with the political stance of the brown bears...... Speaking of which, the unprecedented epic duel on the other side of the ocean, I don't know if there is a result ......or not" (to be continued, if you want to save more things in the future,!) )