Age of Rebirth

Chief of Staff Woolsey looked gloomy, and replied: "Commander, all the troops on the front line have been thrown into the counterattack against the landing Japanese army. We have no soldiers to redeploy!"

Lieutenant General Peng Rack sat down slumped, the last ray of hope in his heart was completely shattered, and he said to himself in a daze: "Could it be that Eureka will also fall into the hands of the Japanese?"

Judging from the current battle situation, if there is no miracle, the two German-style Marine Corps divisions under General Yamamoto will have no problem in taking Eureka. The current Eureka area is also facing the Japanese army. The two first-class infantry divisions with advanced equipment and gained a foothold attacked from the sea. If there were no US Marine Corps divisions for the counterattack, Eureka would have fallen long ago.

However, the Japanese army coming from the direction of Portland pierced the north side of Eureka fiercely. This knife was deadly enough. Now, the situation in front of Lieutenant General Peng Rack is quite bad, and the second-line reinforcements are still on the way , All front-line troops are thrown into the battlefield, Portland needs to regain it, and Eureka cannot be lost, but I have no soldiers in my hands!

For a while, Lieutenant General Penrack burned all five inside, but he had to take no action. He said to Major General Woolsey: "Chief of Staff, order the No.17 Army, which was originally scheduled to reinforce San Francisco, to immediately change direction and head for Portland. Command Lieutenant General Richard Holder, the commander of the group army, to take back Portland no matter how heavy the casualties are, and hold it there, and I will continue to mobilize follow-up troops to reinforce them!"

"Order... Alas! Forget it."

Lieutenant General Peng Rack was speechless, what to order.Eureka needs reinforcements, but there are no soldiers available in his hands, and Portland's loss is a foregone conclusion.The most important thing now is Eureka, which cannot be lost again.

"Commander, can the No. 16 Army, the motorized infantry division, which is counterattacking and landing the Japanese army in the direction of San Francisco, be transferred from the counterattack battlefield to reinforce the direction of Eureka?" Major General Woolsey.A compelling solution was proposed.

Doing so, however, would lead to a counterattack in the direction of San Francisco because there were not enough troops.The goal of driving the Japanese army out of the sea could not be achieved, but this was the only feasible solution. If Eureka fell, the Japanese troops from both sea and land directions would join together.There are nearly 10 troops.The next target is San Francisco. In this way, a chain reaction will be formed on the west coast.

"Okay, Chief of Staff, give an order to the No.16 Army!" Lieutenant General Peng Rack finally agreed, although it was to tear down the east to make up for the west.But it's better than Eureka falling.

After Chief of Staff Woolsey went out, Lieutenant General Penrack sat in a chair blankly.He hadn't eaten anything for more than a day, but he didn't feel hungry, his mind was as confused as a pot of porridge, and his heart was swollen with fire. Recalling the Japanese army's landing attack since the morning of the [-]th, it seemed like an unreal dream.

For more than a whole day, I was busy with passive coping. The anti-landing battle on the west coast has been passive from the beginning. My opponent, the Japanese Yamamoto 56, is an excellent tactical master. Sudden and violent, especially the secret landing of Chen Cang in Portland, is a stroke of genius, and Lieutenant General Peng Rack sighed.

All the troops on the front line were used to counterattack for more than three hours, but there was no progress at all. Portland fell, and Eureka was being attacked by the Japanese army from two directions. The reinforcements on the second line would have to be tomorrow morning at the earliest. It took more than one night to reach the front line, and the reinforcements of the Japanese army will definitely be able to reach the battlefield. Will the Japanese give themselves another chance to fight back?

Lieutenant General Peng Rack sat for a long time. He listened carefully. There were dense gunfire outside. The counterattack troops were attacking the Japanese landing site regardless of casualties. The fierce battle was in full swing, but he seemed to see In the end, he walked to the phone, seemed to have made a lot of determination, picked up the phone, "I am Lieutenant General Penrack, commander of the West Coast Defense Command, put me through Mr. President, right now, there is an important military report ..."

On the other side of the Pacific Ocean, on the battlefield on the west coast of the United States, in the dark night, the soldiers of the United States and Japan were fighting inextricably, blood and blood flying everywhere. It was already a sunny morning in the Indochina Peninsula. They followed closely, and as soon as they arrived at the teacher's office, the chief of staff, Zhao Yuhe, and the chief of the staff, Ge Zhenzhuang, came to the office.

Before Tang Qiuli could sit still, Zhao Yuhe took out a telegram and said, "Master, I have received information from the intelligence office that the Japanese troops successfully landed in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Eureka on the west coast of the United States. The first successful landing site is in Portland in the north!"

"What's the situation on the battlefield now?" Tang Qiuli said with a smile, "Limited by the sea transport capacity, the Japanese's first landing force cannot be too large. A successful landing does not mean that they can hold the landing site." , the U.S. military will definitely fight back with all its strength, whether the Japanese can gain a firm foothold on the landing field on the west coast, the key lies in this night!"

Zhao Yuhe replied: "The intelligence department is in the US intelligence network, which has not reached the level of full coverage. Most of the intelligence provided is in the general direction of the battlefield. According to the intelligence, the frontline troops of the US military have already begun to counterattack, and the battle is very serious. Intense, the second-line U.S. troops began to reinforce the front line, and the three divisions of the Japanese army that landed in Portland, two of which quickly moved south, are attacking Eureka, and this is the situation for the time being!"

"Time, the key is time. I'm afraid that the American reinforcements will not be able to achieve the goal of driving the landing Japanese troops into the sea!" Tang Qiuli shook his head and said, "Yamamoto 56 is an extremely good tactician, and he uses Portland as the main force. The landing site has achieved the purpose of surprise, and the southward attack on Eureka can be described as a very ruthless move, and the Americans will suffer a lot!"

Zhao Yuhe thought about it and said: "Master, it should be admitted that Yamamoto 56's tactics have achieved unprecedented success, but according to the information from the Intelligence Department, the strength of the U.S. troops coming from the second-line reinforcements will reach more than [-]. And more than half of them are motorized infantry divisions, and the marching speed is very fast!"

"In addition, the road network on the west coast of the United States is very developed. The reinforcements of the US troops will definitely be put on the battlefield before the second batch of Japanese landing troops arrive. Since the first Japanese troops landed, since there are not many troops, it may be difficult to stick to the landing ground. It is very difficult, if not done well, the Japanese army will really be driven into the sea!"

"Yuhe, what do you think?" Tang Qiuli glanced at Zhao Yuhe and said with a smile.

Zhao Yuhe's eyes focused, and he vaguely felt that there was another meaning in what the teacher said, so he hesitated.

"Before the Japanese army officially landed, its supreme commander Yamamoto 56 launched an air battle that lasted for several months. What is the purpose?" Tang Qiuli looked at the large military map on the wall and said, "To completely consume the air force of the US military. Strength, after the goal is achieved, the landing operation is launched, and now it seems that Yamamoto has achieved this!"

"Thus, Yamamoto is an excellent tactician. He will not fail to consider what kind of pressure the Japanese troops who have already landed will be under when all the U.S. troops on the second line are overwhelmed. But Yamamoto dares to do this, which proves that he is prepared for this." The key is still in the Japanese Army and Navy Air Force. If I guess correctly, the thousands of combat aircraft assembled by the Japanese army in the Eastern Pacific Ocean are prepared for the second-line reinforcements of the US military!"

Zhao Yuhe's thinking followed the teacher's words at high speed, and he heard the teacher say again: "Yuhe, order Yu Deshui to pay close attention to the battlefield situation on the west coast of the United States, and report every five hours!"

Berlin, Germany, Reichstag Building, Head of State Hitler's office, Chief of the German General Staff, Marshal Struns, walked in quickly, raised the telegram in his hand, and said: "My Head of State, just received a report from the Japanese, they On the morning of the [-]th, western time in the United States, the troops successfully landed in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Eureka and Portland on the west coast of the United States and obtained the landing sites, and are now facing the counterattack of the Americans!"

"My God! The Japanese really succeeded!" Hitler exclaimed in surprise, then rolled his eyes a few times and said, "My dear Strong, what do the Japanese ask us to do? They don't Will inform us of victory just to show off!"

Marshal Strong really admired the wisdom of the head of state, and he guessed the truth at once. He could not achieve this kind of skill anyway. He replied with a smile: "Prince, the Japanese asked us to immediately On the U.S.-Mexico border to coordinate with their landing operations, shall we order Field Marshal Rommel to start the attack?"

"No, no, no!" Hitler said, shaking his head like a rattle, "Strance, the successful landing of the first batch of Japanese troops does not mean that the Japanese have won the victory, and the Americans are on the west coast. If you have a heavy army, you will definitely launch a crazy counterattack, and it is too early to say that the Japanese have won!"

"Führer, how do we deal with the Japanese?" Marshal Strong, who was also a professional soldier, immediately thought of the crux of the problem.

Hitler, with his hands behind his back, paced unhurriedly on the carpet, obviously thinking hard. After a while, he stopped and said, "Answer to the Japanese, we have ordered Ryumi, the commander of the German South American Army Group Marshal Al, execute the plan to attack the continental United States!"

"At the same time, send a telegram to Rommel, ordering the troops to immediately enter a state of combat readiness, and start attacking as soon as they receive orders from home.

I think Rommel's waiting time will not be too long. There will be definite news on the morning of the [-]th at the latest. For Americans and Japanese, tonight is a night of life and death! "

(to be continued) (to be continued...)