It can be said that some people have long believed that the Republican authorities refused to expand the scale of the continental forces. For example, during the Stockholm negotiations, the Republic had the opportunity to gain more share for the Marines, but in the end he made a fuss in the army. The main reason for giving up the opportunity to expand the army was to build the Marines into an elite unit. That is, a standing military force with combat effectiveness between the regular army and the special forces, but with a much higher scale than the special forces.

This is also in line with the interests of the Republic.

You should know that during the Killing Years from the Year to the Year of the Year, the Republic faced non-traditional threats most of the time, when the Middle East War was eliminated, there was no need to use heavy army. The cost of using special forces was too huge or too sensitive, so the Marines could only be used.

There is no doubt that low-altitude assault operations rely on vertical take-off and landing transport aircraft are definitely small-scale battles.

Considering the actual environment of Saipan, that is, the battlefield is relatively narrow, and the field where troops can be airborne and landed will not be large. Therefore, the landing troops are engaged in combat in units of platoons and rarely concentrate on operations. Although after landing, nearby troops must be contacted as soon as possible to avoid being surrounded and annihilated by the enemy, in the crucial landing stage, the characteristics of the Marine Corps being good at small-scale assault warfare were fully utilized.

In comparison, the US military is not very adaptable to this kind of combat method.

Although the Marines guarding Saipan Island are also Marines, and the combat effectiveness of the US Marines cannot be considered. According to the common saying in the international community, the combat effectiveness of the US Marines is even better than that of the US Army. Especially under unfavorable conditions, the US Marines have always been famous for their tenaciousness and good combat. However, the US Marines are better at attacking, rather than facing enemies coming from low-altitude assaults on the ground, and are even less good at small-scale battles that determine victory or defeat with individual soldiers in complex battlefields and chaotic situations.

It can be said that the Republic Marines fought with ease, but the American Marines were in a hurry.

The battle lasted until afternoon, and the US military basically gave up the defensive positions in Saipan City and began to actively retreat to Mount Tapocho in the middle of the island.

This is also impossible. If you don’t retreat, the US military will be trapped in Saipan.

Although the US military could hollow out the entire Tapocho Mountain and turn it into a military fortress made of granite. However, the US military did not have the power to dig underground fortifications under the houses of residents of Saipan. It has to be admitted that the US military is indeed a very disciplined and respects the law, so it is impossible for it to hide in underground fortifications and continue to resist. As the Republic Marines gradually surrounded Saipan and began to sweep the city, the US military, which had long lost heavy equipment, could only retreat voluntarily to avoid heavy casualties in the city.

Of course, retreating into Tapochoshan does not mean that everything is good.

The Republic's army did not use weapons of great power and destruction before this, which does not mean that there is no, nor does it mean that it does not dare to use it in war.

Mu Yong doubted that no matter how strong the fortifications are, they cannot withstand powerful bombs. Even if a ground-boring bomb cannot penetrate the ceiling of the US military's underground fortifications, as long as several or even dozens of ground-boring bombs are dropped in succession, even if the head of the US military's underground fortifications is armored steel plates, they will be blown through. In fact, from the perspective of destruction, there is often no need to blow up the ceiling of the underground fortifications. It is possible to use earthquake waves generated by the explosion to collapse the underground fortifications to kill the enemies inside, or to generate high-intensity infrasonic waves to shake the lower fortifications.

Enemy. You should know that only during the Indian War, the Republic Army proved in practice that as long as the ammunition is powerful enough, the seismic waves generated by the explosion can collapse almost all underground defenses that have not been particularly strengthened. If bombs are detonated in a special way, such as precisely controlling the detonation of several bombs, high-intensity infrasonic waves that are sufficient to cause death in a specific area in a coherent way, and the earth is an ideal medium for sound waves, so it is easier to use infrasonic waves to deal with personnel in underground fortifications than to directly blow up underground fortifications.

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It can be said that even advanced technology is beneficial to the defense side, passive defense cannot bring victory.

This is also the core military idea, that is, no matter when, even when it is far weaker than the enemy, only by taking the initiative and actively attacking and consuming the enemy can we achieve victory.

If the US military does not understand this principle, it is obviously a fraud.

You should know that the United States itself is a country built on guns and cannons, and it is one of the countries that experienced the most wars in the industrial age and one of the countries that won the most wars.

The United States was able to replace Britain and become the global hegemon, and stayed there for more than four years, which was related to its advanced military ideas.

It can be said that the Republic Marines occupied Saipan City, and the offensive and defensive battles on Saipan Island have just begun.

For the US military that loses one move first, it is not that there is no chance to turn defeat into victory, but it just depends on whether the opponent will give them this opportunity.

When the Republic Marines began to advance south, the U.S. military was also preparing for a defensive counterattack.
Chapter completed!