Chapter 991: Farewell, Old Mai
"Help me! Please, help me! Jiang Minyu looked at the American soldier who was crushed to the ground by the broken tree and cried out his hands to him, understood the *** repeatedly emphasized "help" in English, couldn't help lowering the muzzle of the gun, waved his hand back, and prepared to step forward.!
"Squad leader?" Zhang Baifu, who was maintaining a triangular formation behind him, stepped forward to remind.
"Rest assured, Americans are not little devils. We have all captured 15 American prisoners, but none of them dare to fight hard, and seeing us is like seeing Guanyin Bodhisattva who is doing good. Jiang Minyu said lightly, "Besides, this time it is allowed to capture prisoners, and these prisoners will be of great use after they are caught!" ”
"Useful?" Zhang Baifu looked at the American soldier who was covered in sludge and was crying bitterly, and wondered.
"These foreign devil captives are worth a lot!" Wang Jingguo, who had just joined the army directly after graduating from high school, muttered quietly.
"Worth the money?" Zhang Baifu couldn't help but glance at a canned American beef buried in the mud and sand not far under his feet.
The U.S. military is not only a fast army, but also a timely logistical supply. In the style of the American young master soldiers, clothing, food, housing, transportation, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea are indispensable, large piles of strategic materials are piled up on the beachhead, and there are many cargo ships docked at the seaside. When the tsunami swept in, not a single one of them ran.
As soon as the tsunami subsided, the Chinese army braved the aftershocks to continue to annihilate and capture the remnants of the enemy, and some of them were also tasked with searching for U.S. strategic supplies, weapons and ammunition, and stranded ships washed ashore by the tsunami.
The generosity of the Americans, with the exception of allowing some supplies to be swept away by the low tide waters, remained mostly on the coast.
Those general supplies are nothing, but they are to prevent Japanese civilians from running to pick up treasures and secretly hide weapons and ammunition to use cold guns.
Although there are subordinate troops who can use these resistance forces to further counterattack the massacre, these possible surprises to the Chinese army stationed in Japan are still not as safe and convenient as the clean-up plan that Meng Xiang has controlled step by step.
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"Damn it!" MacArthur scolded again and again.
This devastating earthquake had already made him a little desperate.
Under the secret compromise of the Japanese, he easily recovered the Philippines and finally fulfilled his promise of "I will come back". It also allowed him to temporarily get rid of the shadow of the defeat that had been criticized by the country before. He had planned to go one step further and make new contributions on Japanese soil, and then go to Washington with his head held high to receive his five-star general's medal. But a sudden earthquake destroyed everything.
For three days in a row, the 130,000 troops were able to find only 30,000 people, and most of them were captured by Huaxia under the slogan of humanitarian aid.
The other 100,000 U.S. troops are either dead or missing, and the chances of surviving are slim.
This was definitely one of the greatest disasters in the history of American warfare.
Even in the entire First World War, the Americans only counted 116,000 casualties. And this time, it was just an accident that happened in battle.
With such a large number of casualties, someone needs to be held responsible. The commander-in-chief of the Japanese mainland landing, who had been urging the US troops to land overnight before MacArthur had also taken advantage of the credit for recovering the Philippines, had become the most obvious target.
In addition, with the US Army's conquest everywhere, many young and excellent generals are rising, and it is obvious that MacArthur has been removed from the mountain that stands in the way, and it is more conducive to the high-level control of the increasingly large US Army.
Even the unfortunate luck of Lao Mai, who is extremely strong in the US Army, is also what the US Navy is happy to see, and the words of the hidden cold front of the naval personnel who came to coordinate the work just now almost exploded Lao Mai's anger, and then received the bad news that the Huaxia army had captured the east bank of the Tianlong River, and finally made the completely desperate Lao Mai scold.
The earthquake mainly affected the Kii Peninsula, Nagoya, Kobe and Osaka, and naturally affected the Tenryu River and other areas such as Hamamatsu.
The tsunami poured into the Tenryu River, knocking the defensive positions set up by the Americans on the shore to pieces. Before the Americans could wake up from the earthquake and tsunami, the 150,000 Chinese troops, who had been prepared for a long time, set off another tide and swept across the Tianlong River.
In just three days, they defeated the 70,000 American troops gathered on the five defensive lines east of the Tenryu River, and drove the remnants of the fleeing American troops all the way to Shizuoka.
With 13,000 U.S. casualties and more than 30,000 U.S. troops captured, the Battle of Tianlongchuan, which ended in three days, completely pushed Lao Mai's future into the abyss.
On the 11th, the U.S. troops, who had barely secured their foothold in Shizuoka, spread the word that they were going to change their commander-in-chief, because MacArthur was hastily summoned back to Washington on that day when the Chinese army was still advancing in the direction of Shizuoka and the fighting was fierce.
This time, Lao Mai did not leave a rhetoric like "I will be back", leaving only a slightly stumbling back.
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"MacArthur is gone, and I don't know who will be the commander-in-chief? I finally got acquainted with MacArthur's conducting style, and I'm afraid I have to do some in-depth research! Fan Chong sighed.
"It's not without benefit that MacArthur was driven out!" Meng Xiang, who still had the figure of the Japanese emperor in his previous life, said with a smile: "This person is very old in the US Army and has a background, so it is easy to suppress the contradictions in the army and unify the command. If it were someone else, it would be difficult to suppress those unruly generals. The U.S. Army can't afford to play a smooth coordination, and it's already lost half in front of us.
What's more, MacArthur was familiar with the Philippines. Leaving him is more beneficial for our next move in the Philippines! ”
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As soon as Lao Mai left, guerrilla forces in various parts of the Philippines began to stir up one after another.
At first glance, it is indispensable to Lao Mai's elastic pressure, but in fact, it gives Washington a worse impression.
The top level of the United States, who has the view of self-respect, still does not look down on this point of the uproar of the indigenous armed forces.
However, the sight of the Chinese navy in the waters near the Philippines made them a little nervous.
Although the losses caused to the Americans by the earthquake in Japan were enormous, they were not enough for the United States to withdraw its troops and dispel the idea of fighting China.
The casualties of the U.S. military in World War II in the previous life did not reach the bottom line of the Americans' suffering.
In this time and space, because of the strength of the Germans, the Americans paid several times the casualties to have a series of victories in North Africa, Sicily and Normandy, which was close to 300,000 killed in the North African and European battlefields, so that the Americans were used to more than 100,000 injuries.
What's more, the Americans have their own means to conceal the real losses and continue to stir up war enthusiasm at home. So far, Meng Xiang has not received the news of the destruction of the 130,000 troops published in the American media, and only a few words about the losses caused by the earthquake in Japan.
Without sufficient benefits, the war driven by capital will not be easily stopped.
Moreover, the Americans attributed the losses this time to force majeure natural disasters, and even the defeat in the Battle of Tianlongchuan was caused by the impact of the earthquake, and they were unwilling to take credit for the Chinese army.
However, the Americans landed only 340,000 troops on the Japanese mainland, of which 130,000 troops who carried out a sneak attack on the Kii Peninsula were completely annihilated, and more than half of the 70,000 American troops were annihilated in the Battle of Tenryugawa, and only the American troops in Sendai and Shizuoka and other places still held their positions.
The Japanese garrison needs support, not only personnel, but also more strategic materials.
During the tsunami caused by the earthquake in Japan, a large number of supplies that had just been transferred by the Americans from China to support the Golden Apple landing plan were swept away by the waves and the Chinese people's looting team, and even the supply of resources near Guam was in short supply.
Even the tsunami, which destroyed two escort aircraft carriers and three destroyers, directly killed more than 1,400 large and small ships supporting the landing, and made the Americans, who have always had a strong transportation capacity, a little unbearable.
At this time, the only one that can continue to provide supplies, and even provide stable supplies in the future, is the most suitable springboard. In particular, it is cheaper and more convenient to transport some materials directly from the Philippines.
The appearance of the Huaxia Navy in the vicinity could not help but make the Americans worry that they would cut off the transportation channel here, and maybe even land directly in the Philippines.
In order to land in Japan, Lao Mai transferred troops everywhere.
With the exception of the Fourth Army, which had taken over the defense of New Zealand and the Oceanian islands such as Fiji, the forces of the Sixth, Eighth, and Tenth Armies were almost concentrated in Japan.
They did not have the exaggerated strength of the Third Army's three or four hundred thousand, and the total number was only more than 300,000. In order to ensure his superiority, Lao Mai, who had been repeatedly warned by Stilwell and others, even transferred many garrisons in the Philippines. At present, the Philippines has less than 50,000 troops scattered everywhere, and it is no problem to deal with the indigenous forces, but it is only possible to deal with the Chinese army.
In the face of the Chinese army, which had always been good at raids and landings, and even air raids, the Americans did not dare to be careless, and immediately ordered troops in Guam and Oceania to go to support.
Of course, in the face of the shortage of troops in the Asian Army, and the heavy losses were suffered, the main force in this mission was to defeat the Japanese Navy, which has been promoted by the world to be the world's first.
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"I'm here to deliver food again!" Meng Xiang said with a smile.
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