In the previous wars, the Republic Marines and the Navy ordered a lot of prefabricated parts, which could quickly repair ports damaged by the war. Therefore, during the combat operations of the attack on Portland and Boston, the Republic Marines did not care too much about the port infrastructure.

Due to the situation at that time, the Marine Corps had no way to focus on its infrastructure.

After the battle at Poustsmouth, the Republic Marines had some difficulty in combating the United States, and realized that the subsequent battle would not be easy, so they were ready for a fierce battle. It was precisely so that the Marines marched towards Portland on the fifth day after landing and Boston on the seventh day, because it was not until this time that reinforcements arrived and the Marines had enough powerful troops.

The problem is that Marine Corps officers and soldiers still seriously underestimated the will of the US military to resist with the Americans.

During the march into Portland, the Marines left Pousmouth and were stubbornly blocked by the US military and the expanded National Guard. The average advance speed was less than kilometers per hour! It took a full 4,000 meters from Pousmouth to Portland. And it was the result after paying a huge price of nearly a thousand casualties.

There is no doubt that the operation to attack Portland was also very unsuccessful

In fact, it was precisely because the battle to attack Portland was much more difficult than expected that the Marines forced the Marines to send their originally planned brigades to the south, thus delaying the battle time of the attack on Boston.

In a sense, postponing the hours is not a bad thing.

Although Portland is the largest city in Maine and the northernmost large port city in the United States, in the northeastern United States, Portland, with a population of only ten thousand, can only be regarded as a big city, and there are no decent large and medium-sized towns in the surrounding area, so it is much less difficult to enter Portland than to attack Boston. You should know that Boston was the Boston Tea Treasure Incident where the American War of Independence broke out, and it is one of the most important port cities in the northeastern United States. It is also the capital of Massachusetts and the location of MIT. It is the old one near Boston.

Within 0 kilometers, there are also large and medium-sized cities with populations of about 00,000, such as Manchester and Nassau, New Hampshire, Lynn, Brockton, Worcester, New Bedford and Princefield, Massachusetts, Providence belongs to Rhode Island, Hartford, New Haven and Tatebury, and many small and medium-sized towns with populations of only tens of thousands. In the words of some Republic Marines, marching from Poustsmouth to Boston is actually marching in the city, marching in one piece after another in the city.

The troubles encountered in marching towards Portland attracted the attention of the Republic Marine Corps.

When marching towards Boston, the Marine Corps commander did not entrust the firepower cover from the beginning. Not only did the firepower support fleet that followed the Marine Corps' operations belong to the navy, but when supporting landing operations, the Marine Corps directly commanded the coastline, shortening the artillery distance and shortening the range, which was equivalent to reducing the output energy of the electromagnetic gun, which could also reduce the heat emitted by the accelerator, so that the electromagnetic gun could fire at a faster speed, or continue to shoot for longer, and also contacted the Navy and demanded that all the forces that could be sent were sent, and the Marine Corps would be expanded to attack Boston at all costs.

Anyway, the Navy and the Marines were ants tied to a rope.

According to the information disclosed after the war, long before entering the Atlantic Ocean, the Navy and the Marine Corps reached a secret agreement, that is, the Marine Corps unconditionally supported the Navy's combat operations into the Atlantic Ocean, in return. The Navy would unconditionally support the Marine Corps' combat operations into the United States. Although the Navy and the Marine Corps never admitted that there was such a honeymoon. Moreover, with the Navy's announcement of disbanding shortly after the war, it was precisely reduced from the military to a single plant, and there was no way to confirm whether there was such a secret agreement, but one thing is certain, that is, when the Navy marched into the Atlantic Ocean, it did receive selfless support from the Marine Corps. For example, when attacking Buddha

When the Cape Delhi Islands, the Marines sent two brigades of troops to obey the navy's dispatch and became the main force of the navy to capture the Cape Delhi Islands, rather than letting the army intervene in maritime operations. In fact, when we marched into the United States, even without this secret agreement, the navy would unconditionally support the Marines. Because whether it was attacking Boston or advancing southward, it was to help the navy achieve the purpose of the war, that is, to fundamentally defeat the United States. In a sense, the Marines' ground operations were only to consolidate the results of strategic strikes, so the Navy had every reason to adjust the strategic strike arrangements according to the requests of the Marines.

The Navy's support. The attack on Boston turned into a devastating war.

It can be said that along the way, the Navy used shells and bombs to pave the way for the Marine Corps.

Two days later, when the Marines arrived outside Boston on July 2018, the area between Patchmouth and Boston was almost completely flattened by artillery fire, only some were recognized by the Republican authorities, and the facilities promised to be protected by the Supreme Command of the Republic were preserved, such as dozens of universities north of Boston.

This time, the Marines did not invade the city in one breath.

In the next two days, the Marine Corps called hundreds of aircraft, including those affiliated with the Shuangshuang... Many large-scale strategic soldiers were customized in July. The old custom-made knife and swords were scattered to the Greater Boston area. Ironically, most of these leaflets were printed by American prisoners who voluntarily worked and obtained the nationality of the Republic through labor, and clearly claimed that the general offensive would be launched on July 19. That is to say, if the residents of Boston wanted to survive, it would be best to leave the city before that. In order to speed up the evacuation of civilians and create a more

In the tense atmosphere of terror, the Republic Marine Corps also announced the establishment of a civilian evacuation site in the north of Boston. Using military equipment including vertical take-off and landing transport aircraft, civilians who are willing to evacuate to safe areas, that is, refugee concentration camps in Pousmouth, At that time, the Republic Marine Corps had set up Lido refugee concentration camps on Newfoundland and Anticosti Island, which was enough to accommodate tens of millions of war refugees. The Republic authorities allowed the Marine Corps to set up refugee concentration camps, or the reason why the Republic authorities used the Marine Corps to set up refugee concentration camps.

It was very complicated. Judging from the situation at that time, in addition to hosting refugees, preventing humanitarian disasters and avoiding giving European excuses, it also weakened the resistance of Americans in New England and reduced the possibility of riots. After the war, some people even believed that this was the Republic's action to combat Jews, that is, all refugees who were resettled would be distinguished by ethnic groups, in name, in order to prevent ethnic riots in concentration camps, it was actually to centralize some "high-risk and ethnic groups, including the Judahs," he said.

Moreover, the ten thousand Jews who received resettlement at that time were less than ten thousand Jews who chose to stay in the United States after the war, and the rest chose to go to their new Jewish homeland, namely Puerto Rico on the Caribbean Sea. Affected by this, many people believed that this was a deliberate act by the Republican authorities. The establishment of war refugee concentration camps during the war was aimed at the Jews, and the Jews were separated from Western civilization. Of course, no matter how many accusations were received, almost everyone admitted that it was. Setting up special war refugee resettlement concentration camps is an effective way to reduce the casualties associated with war.

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Mo Yong doubted that, the big, enough, the Americans in Boston District made a choice.

July 10, 1000, the combat operation to attack Boston was officially started. Because the tactical intelligence provided by the Navy showed that at least the Liwanmei people and militia were guarding the city, and defense lines were set up on almost all roads. If a ground attack was simply launched, the Marines would be very casualties, so before the attack began, the Marines called for artillery support, and it lasted for several hours. You should know that in addition to the four fire support fleets commanded by the Marines, there were also four fleet groups of old main fleets, Yichanzhi Aviation Fleet and four sea base groups. Even if the aviation force was not considered, Boston could be erased from the ground by just the fire support fleet and the main fleet.

This is indeed the case. Boston no longer existed when the fire broke out.

According to the combat records of the Republic's Navy and Marine Corps, in these hours, the fire support fleet and the main fleet threw a total of 10,000 tons of shells into the Greater Boston area, and the aviation army also dropped about 20,000 tons of bombs. The fierce artillery fire covered the entire Greater Boston area three times.

There is no doubt that when the Marines launch an attack, the only thing left is to clean the battlefield.

The fierce fire strike made it easy to occupy the Greater Boston area, but it made the battlefield cleaning work after the occupation extremely difficult.

To this end, the Marine Corps not only deployed the engineering battalions of the Marine Corps to the front line, and the personnel were several times that of the combat battalions. It also had thousands of large-scale engineering equipment, and its total equipment quality was equivalent to that of one infantry brigade, leaving behind two land brigades.

Even so, it took a lot of time to clean up the battlefield.

According to the remains of the officers and soldiers of the Marine Corps, the equipment and other relics found in the ruins of the Marine Corps, the US military guarding the Greater Boston area at that time was definitely not even half of the number. According to the data released after the war, the Republican Navy adjusted its tactical evaluation method after this battle, that is, it admitted that it made a mistake when attacking the Greater Boston area and overestimated the strength of the US military. Using an investigation report submitted by the Navy to the Supreme Command after this battle, it was because American civilians held a large number of guns.

The United States has a large number of armed civilians, and some US troops deliberately disguised themselves as civilians when performing combat missions. Therefore, it is not strange that the navy's reconnaissance system failed to accurately distinguish civilians from soldiers, that is, the responsibility lies not with the navy. In fact, the Supreme Command did not hold the navy responsible, but insisted on the navy's tactical judgment that armed civilians had posed a fatal threat to the republicans who performed combat missions, and should be treated as military personnel, rather than as civilians.

As a result, no one could tell how many military personnel were there in Greater Boston at that time.

Just two days later, the Republic Marines "captured" Boston Harbor.

By this time, with the occupied Portland Port, the Republic Marines had occupied two more large ports with a throughput capacity of more than 100 million tons in the Northeast of the United States.

Of course, because the port infrastructure was severely damaged in the war, it would take some time to repair damaged facilities before it was put into use. The first fleet of the Portland Marines made a bet, including two very rare armored brigades in the Marines. Because the Marines mainly carried out landing operations. Moreover, before that, they mainly fought on islands with limited area. Due to the basic circumstances, the Marines did not form a special armored force like the Army, and strengthened armored forces for the front-line combat forces when necessary. Until the end of the year, as the days of advancing to the United States approached, the Marines would sooner or later take the lead in landing on the North American continent, so the Marines of the Republic established several armored brigades with the support of the Navy. To be precise, several outstanding units were reorganized into armored forces.

Four days later, on August 3, Boston Port welcomed the first large transport fleet. In addition to sending the Marines, this fleet also sent the first batch of army units: 4 main combatants, tens of thousands of army officers and soldiers and all weapons and equipment!

Fortunately, before this, the Marine Corps and the Army had reached a tacit understanding on the march.

With the intervention of the Navy and the Sky Army, the Supreme Command made a division of the Marine Corps and the Army's combat operations, that is, the Marine Corps operates in the coastal areas and is supported by the Navy, and the Army operates in the inland, supported by the Sky Army, and the Dividing Line between the coast and the Inland is the Dividing Line between the Eastern and Central and Eastern United States, namely the Alapacia Mountains. There is no doubt that this arrangement is definitely the result of strong Navy intervention, because it is equivalent to giving the Army no choice.

At that time, the US military had blocked the St. Lawrence River, and it was unlikely that it would be possible to go upstream and enter the Great Lakes region. Therefore, if the Army wants to fight inland, it must rely on ports controlled by the Marine Corps. In this way, even if the Navy does not need to look at the Navy's face in combat operations, it is still subject to the Navy's restrictions in terms of material support and military mobilization. To be honest, even if the Army lands on the US mainland, the Navy can still use the influence of the Marine Corps to make the Army insignificant.

It can be said that at this time, the conflict between the army and the navy developed to an uncontrollable earth poison.

According to some news released after the war, Pei Chengyi was no longer able to control the internal struggle of the army led by Yuan Chenhao and Hua Jianfeng. In fact, it was this struggle that led to the "tragedy" after the war that Pei Chengyi launched the fifth military reform before leaving office, completely abolishing the military branches. The army and the Marines merged into ground combat troops, and the navy was demoted to maritime combat forces. The sky army became a three-dimensional combat force, and the new troops of these military levels were all

We must obey the dispatch and command of the Head of State, the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff, and when performing combat missions, we must obey the command of the theater command or the front line command. Some of the powers held by the military, such as budget power, personnel power, etc., were transferred to the Ministry of National Defense. In other words, the Republican team has become an integral force, no longer a combination of various troops. Of course, for the ongoing war, the post-war changes have no impact.

The army came ashore and the Marines advanced from north to south as usual.

In mid-August, the old combat brigade of the Republic Marine Corps surrounded the largest city in the United States. To be precise, the largest urban area in the United States, namely the Greater New York area. Whether it is from the perspective of population, regional area, economic aggregate, influence and other aspects that determine the status of the city, the Greater New York area is among the best in the world, second only to the Yangtze River Delta region of the Republic, and before the Greater Paris in Europe. There are nearly 40,000 people living in this area of ​​about four square kilometers. Among them, Americans living on Manhattan Island are helpful, and in addition, they are long across the sea.

There are 200,000 residents on the island, with 10,000 residents on the south of Staten Island, and 40,000 in Newark, New Jersey, across the river. It can be said that according to the population per unit area, Manhattan Island is definitely the most densely populated area in the world! Of course, due to the influence of the war, when the Republic Marines arrived, two-thirds of the residents had left their homes, some fled south to the surrounding areas of the Chesapeake Bay, which were hit by artillery fire not long ago, and more fled west to inland areas, especially small towns and villages in the Alapaccia Mountains.

In order to find out how many people there are in the Greater New York area, the Republic's Sky Army also launched a group of small satellites to detect living organisms. It took a week to collect data and finally determined that the number of people operating in this area would definitely not exceed Hong.000.

It was this detection result that helped the Republican authorities make the decision to attack the Greater New York area.

From a military perspective, occupying New York is not very valuable. Although New York has the largest port in the United States, if the Republic Marines need it, it is better to go south to capture Philadelphia. Besides, Boston is only a few hundred kilometers away from New York. With Boston Port, New York Port has little value.

Obviously, this is an offensive operation serving politics.

In a sense, New York can be regarded as a symbol of the United States, or a symbol of American prosperity. New York has more than Washington in the hearts of Americans!

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