Age of Rebirth

The operation was very successful. The skilled military doctor sewed up every wound on Lieutenant General Penrak and took out the shrapnel. However, Lieutenant General Pengrak had become a corpse after the operation. It is more about cosmetic surgery on the body. This is the first senior officer of the US Army to be killed in the defense of the United States, but it is by no means the last!

Major General Woolsey stared blankly at the corpse of his boss under the white sheet, and the weak voice of Lieutenant General Penrack more than ten minutes ago was still echoing in his mind, "Wolsey, I can't do it anymore, you will give Mr. Call and the President will tell you everything!"

Sitting next to Lieutenant General Penrack's body for a while, Major General Woolsey walked out of the operating room, went to the war room, picked up the phone, and went straight to the wartime high command phone.

The person who answered the call from Major General Woolsey, President Roosevelt himself, was silent for a while, and told Woolsey, "You will immediately take over the command of the troops, and the Supreme Command in wartime will quickly send someone to replace Penrack! "Then, the phone hung up.

On the other end of the phone, Major General Woolsey was still in a daze. It seemed that Mr. President was on the phone and didn't say anything. Then, what Lieutenant General Penrack said before he died, "Mr. President will tell you everything!" What means?

The sad news of the death of Lieutenant General Penrak immediately shocked the top of the United States. Commander of the West Coast Defense Command.

The frontline coach was killed, and the army was left without a leader.It was another crisis-ridden mess. Major General Woolsey, who temporarily took over the command, had no qualifications or experience.Lieutenant General Evans, who was supposed to take over like a spark, was left alone by President Roosevelt for secret talks.

When Lieutenant General Evans, with his astonished expression, heard President Roosevelt's words, he thought he had heard wrong.I couldn't help being filled with anger, and said with my eyes wide open: "Mr. President, I really don't understand Lieutenant General Peng Rack who has died in battle. What is the purpose of the suggestion I gave you, and I don't understand why you still accept him. suggestion?"

Lieutenant General Evans was indeed annoyed.The West Coast Defense Line is a line of defense that the United States has painstakingly managed.It is to prevent the Japanese from succeeding in their attempt to bring the flames of war to the mainland of the United States. Now, they have to give up. What they took over by themselves is a mess.To put it bluntly, it was running away.Give up the vast area of ​​the west coast to the Japanese!

Americans will not remember that this is the mess left by the dead Lieutenant General Peng Rack, but they will remember that the West Coast was lost in the hands of Evans. Am I going to take the blame? , the West Coast Defense Command, there are still hundreds of thousands of troops, so they can't fight again, maybe it may not be known to turn the tide of the battle?

Facing the anger of Lieutenant General Evans, President Roosevelt was unmoved, his sallow face was as cold as ice, and he said beyond doubt: "Evans, there is no need or time to argue about these issues. What I need you to do is to carry out my orders unconditionally!"

Lieutenant General Evans, who was full of grievances and dissatisfaction, took a transport plane and rushed to Los Angeles, which was in the midst of war, with a lot of resistance. , To put out the fire is also to clean up a mess, a battle situation that has been corrupted, but where to start, his head is confused and he has no idea.

When Lieutenant General Evans rushed to Los Angeles to take up his post, more than 40 American soldiers deployed in the second line on the roads leading to the front line of the West Coast were following the orders of the deceased former commander, Lieutenant General Penrack. , rushed to the direction of Los Angeles, San Francisco and Eureka, and used the troops in the direction of Portland. There were three infantry divisions, one motorized infantry division and two tank regiments, intending to recapture Portland.

Lieutenant General Evans' plane could not fly forward when it arrived in Salt Lake City, otherwise, it would become a live target for Japanese carrier-based planes. He changed to a car and followed the reinforcements in the direction of Los Angeles. Along the way, from time to time It can be seen that the logistics convoy full of supplies and combat troops are about to reach their destination.

On the speeding car, Lieutenant General Evans was very puzzled. Since Mr. President adopted the suggestion of the dead Penrack, he abandoned the west coast and relied on the favorable terrain of the Delera Mountains to establish a third road. The line of defense, so why talk about the original, is it necessary to reinforce the troops deployed on the second line of defense?

Lieutenant General Evans was confused. He also mentioned this issue when he had a secret meeting with President Roosevelt, but the president's answer was, "We need the current troops to slow down the speed of the Japanese army's deep advance into the mainland, in order to establish a third line of defense. Buy enough time!"

But Mr. President You said: "You must withdraw the reinforcements with as little loss as possible while slowing down the advancing speed of the Japanese army!"

It is necessary to stop the Japanese army and withdraw the troops to the third line of defense with the least loss. At least in the eyes of Lieutenant General Evans, this requirement is very difficult, but when he thinks carefully about President Roosevelt's words, he seems to have something to say. Some insight.

Yes, it's time. The second-line reinforcements will drive the first batch of Japanese troops to the sea before the arrival of the second batch of Japanese troops. Then, they will face the second batch of Japanese troops and give them a huge blow. After killing and wounding, he gave up the first-line area on the west coast and retreated, which also achieved the purpose of delaying the Japanese army and advancing the speed deep into the mainland. It should be like this, otherwise, what Mr. President said would be contradictory!

Lieutenant General Evans, who had no clue at all, suddenly felt a sense of epiphany. He shouted to the driver: "Speed ​​up and catch up with the troops in front!"

Off the coast of Portland, the flagship of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet, Admiral Yamamoto closed his eyes slightly, and seemed to be in a state of emptiness. The battle to land in Portland was over yesterday afternoon. Annihilated, this is also the first U.S. formed unit that the Japanese army wiped out after the landing battle began.

Therefore, there is no sound of guns and guns on the battlefield, and it seems very quiet. If it is not for the ruins in the small town of Portland, the smell of gunpowder smoke that has not completely dissipated, and the newly built fortifications by the Japanese army, the thick muzzle raised , Portland is as comfortable as a resort.

While Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Eureka were battered with blood and blood, Portland was always in a state of calm. General Yamamoto had a rare good night's sleep. After waking up, he was refreshed and refreshed. He was waiting for the an intelligence.

Lieutenant Admiral Matsuda, Chief of Staff of the Fleet, pushed open the door of the command cabin, walked up to Admiral Yamamoto, and said softly: "Commander, the carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft brigade reported that they found traces of U.S. reinforcements. The fastest U.S. troops, There are still about 170 kilometers away from the Los Angeles battlefield. According to preliminary estimates, the number of troops is between 30 and 40, and more than half of them are mechanized marches!"

"It's finally here!" General Yamamoto suddenly opened his eyes, and two cold lights flashed, "Matsuda-kun, send a telegram to Chief of Staff Nanye, proceed according to the second set of plans, must severely damage the second-line reinforcements of the U.S. Army, and defeat their reinforcements situation!"

"Order all the carrier-based aircraft units of the fleet to prepare for take-off and take-off from now on, directly obey the command of the fleet headquarters, wait for the command of the headquarters, and report this change to the plains in Los Angeles. Will!"

The Eastern Pacific Ocean, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the location of the North American Combat Command of Japan, General Minamino Shuyama, did not close his eyes all night, General Yamamoto came to the frontline command in person, and all the military affairs in the rear were on his shoulders. The second batch of landing troops last night He had already boarded the ship and set off, and at the same time, he was also worried about the battlefield on the west coast of the United States.

General Nanye, with a haggard complexion, was also waiting for a piece of information. On the field airfields of the Pacific islands, more than [-] combat aircraft of various types from the Army and Navy Air Force were ready to go. The hole card will be played out at one time.

"Report to the Chief of Staff, I received a telegram from Commander Yamamoto!" A staff officer hurried into the war room.

"Yoshi, I finally got news from Yamamoto-kun!" After reading the telegram, General Nanye said to himself, and then, he received an order from the staff in the combat room: "Order, the fleet will take off immediately! Carry out according to their respective bombing missions! "

On the morning of December [-], it was a disastrous morning for the more than [-] American soldiers who urgently reinforced the frontline battlefield on the west coast. Thousands of Japanese fighter jets and bombers, like locusts covering the sky, suddenly appeared on the road. American soldier overhead.

In an instant, the sky was filled with the roar of engines, and then dense bombs and bullets poured down from the sky.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Flames blazed, smoke plumes soared into the sky, and shrapnel flew across the sky. A huge disaster befell the American soldiers. All moving or fixed targets became the targets of bombing and strafing by Japanese planes.

The bodies of American soldiers were burning, trucks were burning, tanks and armored vehicles were burning, thick smoke and fire filled the sky, and this clear morning turned gloomy again.

Highways, bridges, and Japanese pilots dropped bombs and strafed any targets they saw. The huge Japanese fleet used tens of thousands of tons of heavy aerial bombs and dense airborne machine gun bullets to turn the land of the west coast of the United States into It became a sea of ​​flames, a swirling web of death that harvested the lives of American soldiers.

After receiving the report, Lieutenant General Brennan, commander of the U.S. Army Air Corps, gritted his teeth and threw his only two fighter wings into the battlefield.

But in the face of more than ten times the number of Japanese fighter jets, the U.S. fighter jets of the two wings disappeared into the sky in an instant like snowballs falling into a boiling water pot!

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