The 153rd Brigade of Surrender was as solid as a rock in the defensive positions of the five elders. The 37th Army and the 54th Army were double-teamed, gathered in Changjin Lake and the 1st Marine Division and the 2nd War Division around the Lake of War. In the absence of air support for the ground forces, no one thought that the US Marine Corps was an opponent of the Republic Army.

More than 70 years ago, the US military, with planes, cannons and tanks, was defeated by the volunteer army with only Xiaomi and rifles in Changjin Lake.

Now that both sides have evenly matched their equipment, is it possible for the US military to defeat the Republic's Army?

On the morning of the 23rd, Duqiwei contacted Lieutenant General Pibrook, the commander of the 8th Army, and asked the Korean and American coalition forces to regain air supremacy in the northern part of the peninsula at all costs, focus on bombing the five elders, and cover the retreat of the Marine Corps. Subsequently, Duqiwei issued an order to Major General York, the commander of the 1st Marine Division, responsible for the front-line battlefield command. The 1st Marine Division and the 2nd Marine Division stopped retreating, and deployed defensive positions with the war in Linchanli, respectively, ready to fight the approaching 37th Army and 5th.

There is no way to stop the Marines from retreating south.

The five elders cannot be defeated, and the air supremacy is not guaranteed. The fleet is thousands of miles away. Many Marine soldiers are coming like tides, gathering in the narrow river valleys of the city and rivers. This is definitely something that any commander must try to avoid. Forces that have no defensive positions can be relied on are gathered together. The Chinese Air Force only needs to dispatch dozens of heavy bombers to throw air-fired cruise missiles carrying anti-personnel/armored mother-and-child warheads hundreds of kilometers or even thousands of kilometers away. They can easily annihilate the US Marines where there is nowhere to escape and defeat the morale and fighting spirit of US officers and soldiers.

Before conquering the Five Elders, we must defend the northern defense line to avoid high concentration of troops.

Duqiwei did not lose all the chips. As long as China does not want to expand the scale of the war and does not bomb the Japanese air base stationed in US fighter jets, the Chinese Air Force will have to concentrate its efforts to ensure air supremacy in the northern part of the peninsula, making it difficult to provide sufficient air support to the ground forces. The two US Marine Divisions with more than 800 main battle tanks, more than 1,200 infantry fighting vehicles, and more than 600 self-propelled artillery are not cowards. As long as they adjust their mentality, they will never be beaten to pieces by the Chinese Army.

Can the US military adjust its mentality?

Since World War II, the US Army has never left air support and is more good at collaborative combat. From the Korean War in the 1950s to the Iran War in the 211th century, the most American soldiers did on the battlefield was to call for air cover and air support. Even if they carried out the "bandit suppression" mission in the mountainous areas of Afghanistan, the US soldiers would call on aircraft carrier-based fighters more than 1 kilometer away without any hassle, using bombs and missiles to deal with the Taliban in the cave, and would not first consider using the guns in their hands to fight the enemy.

Without air support, the combat effectiveness of the US military and local governments must be at least half-deal.

The Republic's Army has fought against powerful enemies without air support since the day of its birth. Its independent combat capabilities are unique around the world. The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the War of Liberation, the Korean War, Sino-Soviet border conflict, self-defense counterattack against India, and self-defense counterattack against Vietnam. The Republic's Army has been going all the way. It has defeated the enemy without air cover and air support.

Even in the Laos and Vietnam Wars, the Republic's Army was unable to compare with the US military with ground-air support. It paid more attention to and relied on its own local combat capabilities.

Fight a close battle with the Republic Army. Even Duchiway has no confidence in winning.

Not being able to win does not mean giving up efforts and surrendering without fighting.

All Duchiwei's efforts were made to allow more soldiers to get tickets to go home and send them back to their loved ones.

Only by defending the northern ground defense line will you have the opportunity to open the southern channel.

When talking on the phone with Peebrook, Ducheway used all the serious words he could think of, and did his best to convince the commander of the 8th Army that without air support and air cover, not only would the 1st Marine Division and the 2nd War Division be "deregistered", but many American families would also lose their relatives.

Even if Duchway doesn't say so seriously, Peebrook knows how serious the situation is.

Despite the risk of triggering a full-scale war, China used thunder to annihilate the Second Amphibious Fleet, with the purpose of not seizing the sea control power of the Sea of ​​Japan, because the Second Amphibious Fleet is not a sea control fleet. China has no ports and naval bases at the sea of ​​Japan and cannot send a fleet to the Sea of ​​Japan. China has only one purpose: to create opportunities for annihilation of the US Marines.

Killing the 2nd amphibious fleet eliminated the flanking threat to advance south along the eastern coastline of the Korean Peninsula, and also cut off the retreat for the US Marines to board ships and escape from Xingnan or Wonsan.

Success or failure is not about sea power, but about air power.

As long as the air supremacy is regained and the Marines are assisted in defeating the five elders, even if they cannot retreat from the sea, the Marines can retreat to Yuanshan along the highway and railway lines and break out of the encirclement of the Chinese Army.

After receiving a call from Duchway, Peebrook made two more calls.

First, we will ask the Chairman of the Joint Conference to request that the Northeast Asia be sent as soon as possible and strategic bombers be sent to provide air support to the Marine Corps; second, we will ask the Chief of Staff of the South Korean Army to adjust the deployment as soon as possible to assist the US military in recapturing it.

Ministry of air supremacy.

That's why the US military urgently dispatched B-2a to bomb the five old airborne positions with "super temperature-pressure bombs".

The attack was also caused by multiple troops, including the vanguard of the 54th Army that had just arrived in Langlin, resulting in the destruction of hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles and the casualties of hundreds of officers and soldiers.

The bombing came very suddenly. When the Air Force responded, the B-2 fleet had turned back.

As the war comes to this point, the US Air Force can only dispatch strategic bombers such as B-2 and B-1b. Because the survivability of strategic bombers is very limited, they can only use long-range ammunition to perform battlefield interruption and key bombing tasks hundreds of kilometers or even thousands of kilometers away, and cannot provide close air support to ground forces.

The strategic bombing of the US military aroused a strong reaction.

On the morning of the same day, Xiang Yinghui issued an order to the Air Force and the Army, using long-range strike forces to focus on the US Marines gathered in Changjin Lake and the Huazhan Lake.

The first one to appear is not h-99, because the number of h-9 is not large, and most of them need to carry out strategic deterrence tasks.

At 11:15, the Army's tactical ballistic missile force first appeared.

The tactical ballistic missile battalion of Liujiazi launched 120 DF-11ff and DF-21ee ballistic missiles in Tongyuan Fort, Liaoning, and Sanhehe, were deployed in Liaoning, and the three-member battle zones, Cangshi and Jilin. They fired 120 DF-11ff and DF-21ee ballistic missiles within 5 minutes, attacking the US military camps, command centers, troop assembly sites and material hoarding centers in Linchangli and the war.

The missiles in the strike military camp are equipped with child warheads specially used to kill personnel and soft targets, the missiles in the strike command are equipped with a single high-explosive warhead, the missiles in the strike force gathering site are equipped with child warheads specially used to destroy armored and semi-armored targets, and the missiles in the strike material storage center are equipped with high-explosive inflaming warheads.

Although the US military deployed a "war zone anti-missile air defense system" with a protection range of 120 kilometers in Hamhung, the forest industry is 70 kilometers away from Hamhung and 65 kilometers away from Hamhung when the battle is 65 kilometers away. When the US military's tactical anti-missile system responds, most of the missiles have hit the target. In addition, a "war zone anti-missile air defense system" deals with up to 24 air targets in one time (lowering half when dealing with ballistic missiles), and the 2~ system deployed in Hamhung intercepts at most one air target. There are as many as 120 missiles, which far exceeds the interception capability of the tactical anti-missile system.

For the first time in decades, the Republic's tactical ballistic missile forces participated in actual combat.

The intensive missile assault has made the US military suffer enough.

Because the US military dispatched strategic bombers in the front and the Republic used tactical ballistic missiles in the back, the United States could only swallow its anger after being beaten.

There is no fairness in war, but in war between great powers, the "rules of the game" are more important than anything else.

However, the Republic's counterattack did not end here.

The Army's missile assault has just ended, and 24 H-9s that completed the naval combat mission~My came on stage.

The h-99 aircraft fleet still carries air-launched cruise missiles, but it is replaced with ground attack models equipped with various warheads suitable for attacking ground targets.

At 11 o'clock, the h-99 fleet launched 288 air-launched cruise missiles over northwest of Liaoning.

Unlike the important targets of tactical ballistic missile assault, air-launched cruise missiles guided by large unmanned aircraft mainly attack the scattered US combat troops. Most of the air-launched cruise missiles are equipped with anti-personnel/armored dual-purpose sub-combat warheads. One air-launched cruise missile carries 88 bullets, and a total of tens of thousands of bullets were thrown at the US Marines scattered within more than 10,000 square kilometers. In addition to the bullets that directly hit the target, most bullets that did not hit the target became "mines" after landing. Using sensors equipped on the bullets, they can launch a sudden attack on targets entering the attack range at any time before using the electrical energy in the photovoltaic.

The two rounds of counterattacks demonstrated the Republic's determination to fight the war to the end.

However, counterattack cannot completely annihilate the enemy.

Everyone knows that the battle for air supremacy is about to break out again. The Republic Air Force, which was dispatched in full swing from the night of the 22nd to the early morning of the 23rd, was greatly damaged. As many as 116 pilots were killed, and some were injured and 211 were missing. If the special forces that were not sent to perform search and rescue missions in a timely manner, more pilots would be lost.

During the day of the 23rd, the Republic Air Force's tactical aviation force was almost not dispatched.

It takes time to mobilize forces from various places, and it also takes time to adjust tactics.

The question is, will the enemy give the Republic Air Force enough time?

Thankfully, the Army did not put pressure on the Air Force and was even reluctant to let the Air Force intervene in ground combat operations.

This is also the "feature" of the Republic's Army. As the big brother of the three armies, the Republic's Air Force and Navy were both born from the Army. For several years, the Navy and Air Force have played the leading role in many wars, but the Army has been on the bench. Even in the old wars and the Vietnam War, the Army's performance is still not as eye-catching as the Air Force and Navy.

After finally getting the opportunity to play the main force, will the Army let the Air Force intervene? (To be continued,)

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