Chapter 876: The Japanese Ambush in Sydney
"How so?" MacArthur's murmuring echoed through the silent command room.
The U.S. military successfully landed on the coastline of Sydney, Australia, several dozen kilometers away, but was soon driven out to sea by the Japanese himself.
How could the "Day", who got the news from Skynet in advance, let go of this opportunity to set up an ambush? Moreover, the Japanese himself has always been calculating, and arranged the coastline near Sydney into an ambush circle in advance, and the Americans, who had unequal intelligence, stepped in with one foot.
The first batch of allied troops to land was about 70,000 people, and the Japanese themselves were greedy enough to let them go into the first batch of closed doors and beat dogs, and then swallow all the entire landing force one after another, at least half of it.
But apparently they overestimated themselves and underestimated the artillery fire and air fire cover of the Americans. The Americans were no worse than the vanguard army in their squandering of ammunition, so that the Japanese troops on the front line could not raise their heads.
Seeing that the fake show was going to be real, so that the US military could stand firm on the beachhead, and even the whole of Sydney would be in danger, he had no choice but to launch a counterattack in advance.
More than 300 Japanese fighters suddenly appeared from all sides, taking the US plane group by surprise.
Among them, only about 100 of the Nakajima 1st Falcon and 2nd Zhong Kui fighters are familiar to the Americans, but the other fighters are all new fighters that the Americans have never come into contact with.
In the hands of the Chinese fighters, the "Japanese" himself, who had been defeated repeatedly, ruthlessly let the Type 3 Feiyan fighter and the Type 2 Dragon Slayer Heavy Fighter be born ahead of schedule and were incorporated into active service early.
At this time, more than 60 Feiyan, which was good at high-altitude combat, swooped straight at the bomber group, while more than 80 Kawasaki-made dragon-slaying heavy fighters began to give full play to their ship-to-ground attack and bombing superiority, and swooped straight at the US troops who were hurriedly erecting positions on the beach and the landing ships that were rushing to the beachhead in the rear.
When Wildcat and Hellcat, as well as Lightning and Thunderbolt, who were on the bomber escort mission, rushed to intercept them, they were stopped by the Super Falcon fighter of the Japanese himself.
The Army Aviation and the Hainan Airlines were not on the right path, but in the face of the suppression of China, the Army Aviation still learned from the experience of the HNA Super Zero Fighter. The Super Falcon fighter with similar performance was developed. Even a little stronger than the ultra-zero performance, comparable to the early models of the American Hellcat.
When 110 Super Falcon flew at the American fighters, the Americans, who could not figure out their performance, suffered a big loss all of a sudden.
This time, the Americans also dispatched less than 400 fighters. In the early stage, a lot of ammunition and fuel have been consumed. Among them, more than 200 of the bombers who were the first to escort the bomber group were about to return, and they were already a little soft-footed in the face of the fierce Japanese fighters. As a result, more than 50 planes were shot down by the "day" himself. Caught off guard, the initiative of air supremacy was taken away by the "day" himself.
After losing air supremacy, the American bombers fell under siege by Japanese fighters.
The B-17 bombers were able to defend themselves and were still able to hold on, losing only 7 units, but the B-25 bombers obviously could not get rid of the four 12.7mm machine guns of the Feiyan equipped with German-style liquid-cooled engines, and lost 26 units in succession.
Having lost air cover, the US landing force began to suffer.
Having already flown to the beachhead with its 37-mm muzzle exposed, the Dragon Slayer first aimed at the landing ships that did not have much anti-aircraft cover.
After seeing the means of ground attack of Huaxia fighters, the Dragon Slayer was also equipped with a 37 mm caliber cannon. Together with two 12.7mm heavy machine guns, it quickly tore through the thin-skinned landing craft, knocking them over one by one.
Even a landing ship carrying more than five or six hundred people was directly hit by the 37-mm guns of the dragon-slaying change, and the munitions on board sank directly in a terrible explosion.
It was not only this large landing craft that sank. When the "Japanese" fighters in the sky swarmed out. Gun muzzles of various calibers appeared in various hidden fortifications underground, aimed at the landing American troops and the landing ships that were still approaching the coast. Nearby on the high ground and in the mountains, in some places camouflaged by rocks near the ruins of fortresses where real and false targets were mixed with those destroyed by the American army in advance. The muzzles of the large-caliber fortress guns were raised again and bombarded the large landing ships that were moored in the sea.
Even if it didn't hit a single hit, the huge waves often lifted the ant-like rubber boats around the large landing ship into the sea.
The battleships covered by the Americans fired back one after another.
But this time their sharp artillery fire didn't work.
Under the lessons of the Chinese people, the well-behaved "Ri" himself transferred the fortifications to the underground and caves, and was not afraid of ordinary artillery bombardment.
The northern border of the Korean Peninsula has not been recovered by the Chinese for a long time, that is, the fortresses built by the Japanese themselves in the mountains and underground are difficult to clear, so that the Chinese troops can only encroach step by step.
Although Australia, the land of his dreams, did not have the time and energy to build complex underground fortresses in other places, in the southeast, with the help of the foundation left by the allies, they made arrangements in advance, especially after the Chinese invaded Australia, and he himself was crazy about building underground and mountain fortresses.
In order to build these fortifications, nearly 200,000 white Australians and Allied soldiers who were captured by the Japanese army were directly killed to death, so that these fortifications were completed in a short period of time. As a result, the bitter fruit of this preparation for the Chinese people was the first to be tasted by the Americans.
No matter how much the Americans suppressed the firepower, they could not stop the massacre on the beach by the artillery fire of the Japanese themselves.
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"Call for support, call for artillery support!" Trembling, Ryan lay on his stomach among the corpses of American soldiers, clutching the microphone of the walkie-talkie and screaming loudly.
It's like a dream.
Although he encountered the resistance of the Japanese army, under the suppression of the American artillery, the resistance of the Japanese himself slowly weakened, and even in some places there was no sound, he also followed the troops across the waist-high sea, and he successfully landed on Australian soil.
Everything really seemed to be a relaxing holiday camping, he looked at the Australian land under his feet, and even looked up and looked around easily, eager to find the veteran who warned him and see his expression.
Before the scorching Australian sun began to dry his pants, the artillery fire of the sun himself turned everything around him into hell.
At first, he disdained the quail-like recruits who would just lie on the ground and sway, but the constant falling corpses, severed limbs, and various mutilated or half-mutilated human organs that littered the beach made him panic as well.
He even shot the rifle bullet out in one go, and as for what hit, he didn't see it at all, lying in a crater without looking up.
Even if he looked up, the smoke that filled the beachhead made him only a blur in front of him, he only knew that there were fewer and fewer teammates around him, at first all the other teammates in his squad fell, and then the entire platoon could no longer find a living person, and in the distance, Ryan didn't dare to go over at all, behind the smoke of gunpowder, there were only all kinds of cursing and wailing and groaning.
It wasn't until the walkie-talkie that fell next to the platoon commander made a stabbing sound that Ryan, who had been staring blankly into the depths of the gunsmoke, reacted, grabbed the microphone frantically and began to scream.
But there was no response at all, except for the sound of tearing.
"Boom!"
A 100 mm shell fell not far away, the ground trembled, and the upturned sand instantly piled up Ryan's body. When he spit out the dust in his mouth, his eyes froze on the half-cut body that rolled in front of his face.
The frightened face vaguely made him recognize the appearance of the smoking veteran.
"Hold on, hold your ground!" A voice suddenly came from the intercom, which woke up Ryan, whose eyes were a little dull.
"Hold your ground!" It was the somewhat distorted voice that came from the microphone again that Ryan realized that this was not a hallucination, but he looked up at the position that there was no longer a living person around, and then looked at the landing craft carrying a shipload of dead bodies drifting farther and farther away, and couldn't help but howl loudly to the sky: "Fake! ”
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"We are ambushed and need to be evacuated as soon as possible!" Requests from the landing forces to evacuate came from the front.
"No evacuation!" MacArthur slapped the case with red eyes and said angrily, ignoring the staff officers' persuasion and directly rejecting it.
"Hold your ground, reinforcements will be there soon!" He promised to the troops at the front. The second group of landers is on their way to the beach, and perhaps with a little more persistence, the American troops will be able to gain a foothold on the beachhead and open the door to victory. And evacuating at this time means the failure of the operation he commanded, and it also means that he may never have the opportunity to turn over and prove his ability.
"The battleship of the 'Day』 himself is here!" Just when he had a glimmer of hope in his heart, a staff officer who was out of breath and slammed open the door of the headquarters told him bad news.
The main fleet of the Japanese himself did not collide with the American fleet, but after the Japanese counterattacked, the main fleet of the Japanese himself entangled the main American warships in the rear and led them into the distance.
The U.S. fleet also hoped to have a decisive battle with the Japanese fleet, but at the beginning of the battle, they realized that the main fleet was just a façade composed of several capital warships.
At this time, a large number of Japanese cruisers, destroyers, and even torpedo boats and gunboats poured into the US landing fleet on the Sydney side.
After finally confirming the news, he gambled all the warships in Melbourne and other places on the battlefield in Sydney.
So the Americans, who also lacked the main battleship, tragedy.
In the end, they had to evacuate, but the beachhead was firmly held hostage by the artillery fire of the Japanese themselves and the Japanese soldiers who rushed up frantically in the smoke of gunpowder, and the Americans paid a huge price to withdraw the first batch of troops to less than 10,000 people.
More than 60,000 Allied officers and soldiers were swallowed up by the Japanese themselves in the next six days, including about 40,000 American troops.