Chapter 234: The Fragile U.S. Army
The fleet surrounded Pearl Harbor, which was already in tatters, and also around Oahu.
Under the suppression of full-scale electronic interference, telephone lines are also constantly being destroyed, not only on Oahu, but on the whole of Hawaii.
In order to capture all of Hawaii in one go, the Red Guard Expeditionary Corps dispatched three Marine Divisions and two Airborne Divisions to take charge of the ground offensive.
Two amphibious battle groups were dispatched for this purpose, including six capital battleships, as well as a large number of cruisers and amphibious landing ships and attack ships.
At the time of the successful encirclement of Oahu, the landing operation began quickly.
The US ground forces have not yet been fully deployed, and a large number of umbrella flowers in the sky have fallen on Oahu, which is a key defense of the United States.
The appearance of paratroopers almost made the defense of the US Army full of holes, because the front line of defense was close to the coastline, in the center of Oahu, and the troops were very empty.
And the area where the Red Police paratroopers landed was the central area of Oahu, and the size of the empty troops, the landing of the paratroopers, met with little resistance.
At this moment, everyone on Oahu knew that the enemy was coming, and most people thought that the Japanese had landed.
Thousands of paratroopers quickly captured the roads, bridges, and towns on Oahu, and gunfire rang out from inside Oahu, making the American soldiers defending at the front of the island very anxious.
Bombers and fighters in the sky, like locusts passing through, were almost silent, and did not spare all the American troops that had gathered.
Dropping thousands of bombs, the U.S. military barracks on Oahu could not find a single intact building, could not find a complete piece of land.
The few defensive bunkers and forts on Oahu were reduced to ruins in the intensive air raids, and a large number of American soldiers were killed in the air raids.
This was much more serious than the Japanese air raids, which were only aimed at Pearl Harbor, against warships and airfields.
And the new enemy, the target of the air strikes was the living combat forces on the island, American soldiers.
The nearly 50,000 troops defending Oahu simply could not play an effective defensive strategy.
Even on one of the most landable beaches at the front, the Americans' defensive strength was less than five hundred.
Moreover, these 500 people are still rapidly decreasing, and the reinforcements are blocked by the bombing in the area more than 1,000 meters behind them.
The American soldiers here could only rely on the old defensive batteries, and after the war, they huddled in the corners of the batteries to avoid shelling and bombardment in the sky.
On the road behind them, several M2 tanks have been blown up on the road, and in the surrounding jungle, hidden snipers will support the American troops supporting the seaside, desperately suppressing the road, not daring to show their heads.
Two minutes later, the ambushed snipers quickly withdrew, and bombers appeared in the sky, dropping thousands of small bombs on the road, covering the entire road.
The seven or eight M3 tanks that came from behind were destroyed by bombs without seeing the coastline, and a large number of American soldiers suffered heavy casualties.
In the US military hospital not far away, thousands of wounded people could not be treated at the first time, and a large number of seriously wounded died one after another, while more wounded were concentrated.
If it weren't for the fact that the Red Guard had not attacked targets such as hospitals, I am afraid that many more people would have died from their injuries.
In the hospital where the wounded, I don't know who shouted: "The enemy landed, landed ......"
The whole hospital was agitated, and many American soldiers picked up their weapons and equipment and ran towards the coastline under the shouts of the non-commissioned officers, while others followed the troops to the center of Oahu to block the destruction of the rear by the enemy paratroopers.
When the first American soldier appeared on the beach, he looked at the beach in the distance in amazement.
On the beach, huge air-cushion landing craft rushed directly onto the shore of the beach, and the hatch of the landing craft opened, and it was not soldiers who came out, but huge tanks.
Defensive American machine guns, bullet attacks on landing craft at these starting points, simply could not cause damage, and striking tanks and armored vehicles, is even more of a joke.
In the distance, several warships roared, and the US military firepower points on the coastline were soon covered by artillery fire.
The first batch of Marine armored companies to land moved forward rapidly, and the amphibious armored vehicles quickly followed behind the tanks, climbed onto the beach, and followed the tanks to consolidate the landing field.
The Americans were desperate to find that their weapons were completely ineffective against the attacking enemy.
The enemy landed, but there was no enemy infantry to be seen, and machine guns were hitting people's tanks and armored vehicles, just tickling.
And on the sea, more amphibious armored vehicles are climbing onto the beach, blocking the advancing US Marine Division, except for the loose mortars falling on the sea, there is no other means.
The American soldiers who had never encountered this kind of war were numb one by one.
The war turned out to be so frustrating.
The tanks and armored vehicles that rushed to Oahu spread rapidly, and a large number of infantry also disembarked from the armored vehicles, cooperating with the armored vehicles and landing tanks, and launched an attack.
Is this the enemy's means of landing?
The American soldiers supporting the beachhead retreated helplessly, and at a faster pace, withdrew from the blockade of the forward coastline.
In the Doge's Palace on Oahu, Governor Dur trembled. He put down his binoculars and sat down on the balcony all of a sudden.
On the beach of Honolulu, the defense line of the US Marine Division was torn apart in an instant, and the landing means of enemy tanks and armored vehicles made Dulzhin tremble all over his body. Trembling.
What kind of opponent is this?
Dulzhin really couldn't think of any country that could launch such a terrible attack that would make the defenses of the American army as fragile as tofu.
Armored vehicles, tanks, ferocious offensives never seen or even heard of.
The American soldiers in front of them, barbed wire, obstacles, were easily crushed.
The machine gun on the armored car easily tore through the defense line, and the American soldiers in front of them would instantly turn into a sieve, or even fall apart.
Honolulu's outer defenses were breached, and the landed enemy directly attacked the city of Honolulu.
The U.S. soldiers could only rely on the city's buildings as shelter to block the attack.
However, the enemy was terrible, so that most of the American soldiers could barely hold the weapons in their hands.
On the bloody and cruel battlefield, many American soldiers kept vomiting, and fear spread among these American soldiers who had no combat experience, and there were even American soldiers who threw down their weapons and surrendered when they saw the enemy from a distance.
No one laughs at those who surrender, because then at least they will survive, and of course as long as you don't have weapons in your hands and on your body, as long as you kneel down and raise your hands high, you won't be attacked.
There were also American soldiers who were still holding on to the battle, hiding in the city and preparing to counterattack, an armored vehicle rushed into an intersection in Honolulu, and an American soldier in the corner, raised a flamethrower, and spewed scorching flames at the amphibious armored vehicle.
However, the armored car, which was completely unafraid of flames, had no effect, and there was no entrance for the flames to enter the car, and the remote-controlled machine gun on the roof directly detonated the oil drum carried by the American soldier, and the streets were blazing with thick smoke.
The American soldier carrying the flamethrower was instantly engulfed in flames, struggled and rolled on the spot several times, and let out a piercing scream, and then slowly died.
At the entrance to the street, a Red Alert medic tried his best to save a wounded man next to him, and the American bullet penetrated the soldier's abdomen, and a large amount of blood gushed out.
Unfortunately, before he could rescue the soldier, an American soldier on the roof in the distance pulled the trigger again.
The bullet easily pierced the helmet, and the corpses stacked on top of the wounded, and soon there were two corpses.
No one is immortal, a complex battlefield, the first Red Alert marines to land, faced a huge number of enemies, although there were tanks and armored vehicles, but also under great pressure from the enemy everywhere.
Casualties are inevitable, because God is not on the side of the Red Police, and of course, God is not on the side of the American soldiers.
On the blue and white mixed Marine Corps camouflage combat uniforms, many Marine Corps soldiers were stained with blood, and the attack and defense of Honolulu made the battle very fierce.
On the roof more than 200 meters away, the American soldier who fired two shots in a row, nervously dodging the cement fence of the roof, he moved a few steps quickly, and was about to rise to continue the attack, when a bullet rushed and directly pierced his head, spraying blood, staining a white sheet drying on the roof with a large red patch.
It seemed that God felt that the casualties of the Americans were not enough, and behind the Red Alert marines, whose attack was blocked, the naval guns roared, and a large number of shells fell around Honolulu, and the fighters in the sky swept over the streets and slaughtered the American troops on the streets.
Amid the invective and shouts of the American soldiers, the second group of landing troops arrived at the probe, and the American soldiers, who had lost almost all artillery support, were about to face a larger number of enemies, and their numerical superiority was rapidly decreasing.
The second group of Red Guard marines who landed all took assault boats and began to strengthen the beachhead shore to prevent infiltration by US defense forces.
On the sea not far away, tank landing ships and troop landing ships also rushed up, the landing hatch in the bow of the ship opened, and the Rhino main battle tanks drove out of the cabin, and a large number of soldiers also rushed off the landing ship.
On the huge circular beach, the second batch of landing troops, consisting of more than a dozen amphibious landing ships, rushed to the landing ships on the beachhead and sent a large number of troops and heavy equipment.
The US military, which has not yet perfected its operational concept and has no combat experience, does not know how to block the attacking enemy at all, so it can only fight while retreating, and use the most primitive instinct to block the enemy's attack.
The rudimentary command of the U.S. Marine Division was also busy contacting all the troops, and then sending all the contacted troops to Honolulu, especially the port location.
This is the area that the two sides are fighting for, and the main direction of attack of the troops landing in Honolulu is concentrated in the port position.
On the other side, in the western bay of Pearl Harbor, another Marine team landed in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
There were not many civilians here, the fire support of the fleet had no scruples, and under the cover of naval guns, there were even landing ships that directly clashed with Pearl Harbor and conducted landing operations directly inside Pearl Harbor.
A large number of U.S. sailors became prisoners and were escorted onto ships, and several submarines that the U.S. Navy tried to counterattack were directly blown up and sunk.
The whole of Oahu was filled with the sound of gunfire from the fighting, and the death toll of the American troops, which was increasing by the minute, was increasing in an extremely large number.
By one o'clock in the afternoon, the Red Alert Marines had established themselves on Oahu, tens of thousands of American sailors and troops had been captured, and the American lines had been pushed far from the coastline.
More Marines, landing on Oahu, the battle has changed from a landing operation, to a war of annihilation.
The Governor of Oahu, Durzhin, was escorted by U.S. troops and fled the Governor's Palace, but where could he go?
The entire perimeter of Oahu was completely controlled, from the sea, underwater, and from the sky.
And not to mention Oahu, all the islands of Hawaii were blocked, and when they landed on Oahu, the other islands were also attacked by paratroopers and landing forces.
Thousands of Red Guard Marines and paratroopers are also engaged with U.S. soldiers on seven major islands, including Kauai, Niihau, Molokai, Lanai, Maui, Kahulawe, and Hawaii.
Similar to the battle on Oahu, the American forces, which had no naval forces to defend and no air and firepower superiority, had to withdraw from the coastal defense line and were facing a double attack by landing forces and paratroopers.
From the very beginning of the war, it was completely beyond the imagination of the US military, and the advanced means of landing operations made the defense of the Americans completely useless.
The combat level and tactical concepts of the US soldiers are still very immature, and they are even more backward in terms of weaponry.
A large number of equipped M2 tanks, weak defenses combined with weak firepower, even amphibious armored vehicles are difficult to destroy, let alone Rhino tanks.
And the few M3 tanks that began to be equipped, although they had a 75 mm caliber gun and also had great firepower, but, unfortunately, could only threaten armored vehicles.
However, the American tank force does not even have a chance to encounter the enemy, and the fighters in the sky can easily destroy these bulky big guys.
Without air supremacy, sea supremacy, even weapons and equipment on the ground are completely backward, and there is no firm belief in combat, the US military is simply unable to resist an opponent of the level of the Red Guard Corps.
From the very beginning of the war, it presented a one-sided situation, although the Red Guard Corps also paid the price of casualties, but the casualties on the part of the American army were even greater.
The defending force, which was more than 70,000 people, had already suffered nearly 40,000 casualties in just two hours of fighting.
Hawaii is at stake.