Chapter 683 : The Northern Front That Takes the Lead
There is a saying that goes well.
"War comes suddenly! When you are still laughing, the war comes. Before you can react, the war suddenly ends again. Before you know it, the war takes away everything from you and makes you have nothing."
When Shen Chengzhang and Yang Qing's Australian fleet were on the way and were about to arrive in Hawaii, the ice at Ustica Kantsk port began to thaw.
Chen Houfu, who has been patrolling this generation for a long time, knew that once the ice layer began to melt, it means that the ice and snow would melt soon.
He immediately ordered the fleet of seas that were staying in Vladivostok to set off north and advance towards Ustikūtsk. He calculated that according to the speed of the fleet in the seas, it was a few days later when he arrived here.
A few days later, the ice here was completely broken, the ice began to decompose, and the ships could already sail.
Then use bombs to blow up those big ice cubes, and warships can sail on it, and there will never be any big problems.
On the 22nd, 1939, when the Australian fleet led by Shen Chengzhang and Yang Qing arrived in Hawaii this afternoon, Wang Chenggang and Chen Houfu were already attacking the first island in this island chain, Bailing Island.
Bailing Island, the island is mostly mountainous and terrain, making it difficult to build an airport.
But because this is the front line to resist the attack of the Dahan Empire, the Citi Army specially transferred tons of explosives to blow up the mountains above in order to build a large airport on it, and then spent a lot of energy to build a large airport and three small airports on it, which completely turned the island into an unmoving aircraft carrier.
The Citi Army spent such great energy and placed more than 400 fighter jets on it. It can be said that the entire island was turned into a large airport by the Citi Army.
In fact, the Citi Army not only spent energy on this Bailing Island, but also spent a lot of energy on this entire island chain.
There are many small and large islands on this chain of islands. Most of these islands are mountainous terrain, and many of them still have deep snow on them.
In order to make these island chains work completely and block the attack of the Dahan Empire, the Citi Army leveled the mountains with explosives and then built an airport on them.
In order to better support, some unknown islands, even the islands without people, have turned these islands into airports. There are not many fighter jets parked on these airports, and some airports can only park one brigade of fighter jets. However, they still built airports with the goal of turning these airports into a place from the rear to support fighter jets.
In this way, air combat occurs in the islands in front, and the fighter jets behind can also rush to support. If the fuel is insufficient, they can load fuel in the airport in the middle.
In fact, this is also something that the Citi Army prepared, because it is only a voyage of more than 1,800 kilometers from Ustica Kantsk to Manimac Island in Alaska, which is the last peninsula of this island chain.
Unless it is a fighter jet that takes off from here, the fighter jet that takes off from the middle island does not need to be transferred at all.
And this is also the strategy of Citi Army
Crush the power of the entire island into a fist. Once your Han Empire attacks one of my islands, the fighter jets from other islands can arrive immediately to support.
The P47 fighter equipped by the Citi Army is currently a modified P-47d model. This model of P-47 Thunderbolt Fighter is also the most produced fighter in history.
His speed of 65 per hour ensures that he supports the frontline as fast as possible.
Outside the sea, the sea fleet flagship North China
At this time, Wang Chenggang and Chen Houfu were both standing outside the bridge, holding a telescope looking at the sky in the distance.
At this time, the Black Hawk carrier-based aircraft of the Han Empire were fighting the Citi Army's p47 fighter jets.
Fighters flying in the air and fighter planes being shot down were staged in the air.
"Brother Houfu! It seems that the Citi Army has prepared for a long time! Look! The Citi Army had only more than 400 fighter jets before, but now two hours after the war started, the number of fighter jets in the sky of the Citi Army has increased to more than 500. During this period, with the fallen fighter jets of the Citi Army, they invested more than 700 fighter jets into this area.
Now more than 200 P47 fighter jets have been shot down, and more than 500 more. I don’t know how many Citi Army fighter jets come to support them later. It seems that this battle is not that easy to fight!"
Wang Chenggang put down his telescope and squinted his eyes and looked at the sky in the distance.
"Well! This is natural! We have been preparing for half a year, and the Citi Army has also prepared for half a year! In the past six months, we have been dispatching various materials here, and the Citi Army is also deploying these! This series of island chains is very close to the Citi Army's local area, and it is only a distance of two thousand kilometers to reach the westernmost end of their local island chain!
But it is also the most difficult to fight here. As long as Hawaii is taken down in the South China Sea, the Citi Army will be driven out of the sea, but it is different here!
It is too close to the Citi Army, and they support it very well. I just looked at it. If this continues, we are completely fighting a war of attrition with them. His Majesty once said that we should try our best to avoid a war of attrition with the United States. Brother Wenli, I wonder if you have any solutions?"
Chen Houfu also put down his telescope. The war was much more difficult than they thought. The Citi Army prepared very well here, and it was really difficult to conquer this place in a short while!
"There is one way! But our army will suffer a lot of casualties!"
After Wang Cheng said that, he turned his gaze to a young man next to him with a fierce look on his face. He was General Song Dianyuan, the commander of the Taotie Legion.
He is probably the youngest general in the Han Empire, and he is only twenty-five years old this year.
But he had already killed countless people in his life, experienced many wars, and made great contributions to the empire.
He is a classic gambler, gangster, and bandit, but he has the most prominent feature of this era.
That is to be loyal and be grateful.
Chapter completed!