Chapter 704: The end of the summer war
On the morning of April 11, the summer island was full of Marines searching for advances, all of whom were the pride of the Han Empire.
The Citi reinforcements in the early morning of the 25th did not successfully land ashore because they were still in the sea and were sunk by Deng Dalin's battleship formation. All the supplies and personnel above sank into the sea, and perhaps they had already become sharks' supper.
The only support Lao Mai received was two thousand fighter jets, but for him, two thousand fighter jets could only allow the Han Empire to control the sky for two days less. Without an army on land, he would definitely not be able to defend it.
Next, the two thousand fighter jets sent to Lao Mai by Lao Luo, plus the more than 800 fighter jets left by Lao Mai and more than 2800 fighter jets, which made Lao Mai last for another week. After a week, Lao Mai completely lost air supremacy. The sky above Xia Island was full of black fighter jets, and the figure of p47 became a thing of the past.
Then the Marine Corps began to attack Lao Mai's army. The place they attacked the most was not Citi's gathering place, but Citi's airport. They broke through Citi's airport one by one, and even if the airport was damaged, they were unwilling to let Citi control the airport.
Among them, the Marine Corps suffered a lot of casualties, but Citi had even more casualties. It is said that without natural soldiers, the most elite soldiers were often born on cruel battlefields.
This sentence is a famous saying. Under the cruel war, the new recruits of the Marine Corps began to grow rapidly. They were confused when they first went to the battlefield, and they wanted to vomit when they saw the corpses until they did not react at all when they were rotten. They even went to the corpses to collect water sources when they did not have water on them.
They are no longer afraid of war and have become indifferent to death. The experience of bullets flying overhead countless times tells them that when the King of Hell doesn't want your life, even if you half-kneel on the ground, the King of Hell will not take you away. When the King of Hell wants you to go down to accompany him, even if you hide behind the valley, a mortar shell will come to you.
The sorrow of the death of the comrades in the army did not make them lose their fighting spirit. Those dead comrades were just glorious and were waiting for them in another world.
The army of the Han Empire implemented a policy of not having only sons in the family, not having two brothers join the army together, and if his father and brothers join the army, he would not join the army. Han Ling did not want a tragic incident in which several brothers in a family, and his father died in battle for the empire, and a group of women, children, weak and weak were not allowed to die for him.
It is said that father and son fight in battle, but this is a kind of sorrow. It is a kind of sorrow of the times, so Han Ling is avoiding these situations.
Just like on this battlefield, these soldiers may have died, but the incense in their homes has not been cut off. His parents were not without support, because he must have a younger brother or older brother. Of course, except for the people of the Taotie Legion, this is an army composed of criminals.
Citi's airport began to fall, the large airport above was lost, and the small airport was lost.
Citigroup retreated step by step as the Marine Corps grew up.
I have to say that the order Lao Mai gave was correct. All the troops gave up the front line and retreated to the center of Xia Island. This was the wisest and correct order Lao Mai gave.
After Citi retreated, the Marine Corps did gain a lot of positions and land, but they also lost the support of naval guns, and naval guns could no longer provide effective support to them.
In this case, in the first week, because Citi's Air Force received support, they were unable to obtain air support, which made the week very difficult.
But no matter how hard they fight, they are moving towards victory.
Citi also took this week to dig deep tunnels and fortifications on Xia Island.
Citi has moved countless materials into underground fortifications. They have dug a large number of tunnel fortifications seven or eight meters or even more than ten meters underground.
A week later, when the Marines received air support, Citi had already suffered heavy casualties.
At this time, Citi's number had dropped sharply to less than 100,000, but they also dug the tunnel fortifications and began to drill into the ground.
Lao Mai also moved his command center into the underground.
The Marine Corps also began to engage in underground operations with Citi for more than ten days.
Does Citi open a position from somewhere on the ground, and then place a heavy machine gun or light machine gun to start shooting at the Marines that are searching, or extend a muzzle from somewhere to shoot the Marines' black gun.
Citi seemed to have learned guerrilla warfare without any instruction, hiding underground to fight guerrilla warfare with the Marine Corps.
At the beginning, Ren Fei was very annoyed. Citi's actions could only be said to be average and not big for the casualties of the Marine Corps, but the key is that it would affect morale too much.
Many soldiers who died did not know how they died.
This situation even affected the morale of the troops for a time.
Ren Fei had no choice in the face of this situation, but his ability to do so does not mean that Yang Qing had no choice.
Yang Qing knew that these Citi had drilled into the ground and dug a large number of underground fortifications, but they were short of time and there was definitely no time to pour reinforced concrete inside the fortifications. Since there was no reinforced concrete, it would be easy to do.
Under Shen Chengzhang's order, more than ten battleships were dispatched to surround Xia Island and let all the Marines withdraw from the area of Citi.
Then the main naval gun on the battleship, the 505-caliber giant cannon, began to cover that area with artillery fire.
Xia Island has the longest distance between north and south, and even if the battleship is on the sea, it is only about 180 kilometers!
The 505-caliber main naval gun of the Sky City-class battleship has a range of more than 100 kilometers. The two battleships are mounted face to face and can easily hit Xia Island.
So Citi's doomsday has begun to come. Perhaps other small-caliber artillery can't kill Citi, but these giant cannons with a caliber of 505 can let Citi know what fear is.
Even if you dig more than ten meters underground, a few giant cannon shells can destroy the fortifications above you and bury you alive.
If your fortifications are only five or six meters long, don’t think about anything else. Be prepared to die!
A giant cannon with a caliber of five or six meters and a caliber of 505 cannon can kill you with just one shot.
It was in this situation that Citi underground became a bunch of lambs to be slaughtered.
On April 11, Lao Mai finally couldn't stand it and was about to surrender.
Because we defend here, we can't see the hope of victory or the hope of reinforcements coming.
The reinforcements from Mi Jian’s local area have come a few times, and all of them have been sunk. Even if you have a large number of aircraft carriers to escort, it is useless. The Australian fleet of the Dahan Empire, aircraft carriers and battleships cooperate to fight.
Chapter completed!