In the early morning of August 27, Rommel boldly divided the landing troops into two according to the changes in the situation. The main force went to Victoria Harbor to land. He and Gauss led the command center, an infantry division, two land brigades, a heavy armored battalion and an air force wing to land in El Salvador.

Except for one escort aircraft carrier, three destroyers and several submarines under the water, there were no protection warships. But Rommel went there with the courage to enter the main aircraft carrier air defense circle in the early morning. Heard that Rommel did not go to the safe area and changed his combat plan to El Salvador. Even Ozawa was stunned. This style was more cruel than that of the domestic army's Malu!

Maschel smiled and shook her head, telling him: "During the French Battle, Marshal Rommel was still a division commander, and often rushed to the forefront with tanks and armored vehicles; during the Battle of Kungunier, the head of state led his troops to play escort combat, and went down to the beach to land in North Africa with his eyes on the British Mediterranean Fleet. At that time, the commander was also Marshal Rommel! As the king of amphibious landings in our army, no one can match his style of strength!"

"But he has become a marshal, is it really good to do this?"

"Actually, Marshal Rommel has not commanded many troops. I remember that it is at most over 100,000. The head of state has a joke, it is best to give Marshal Rommel to 100,000 to 120,000 troops to ensure supplies. He can give you 300,000 yuan. If you give 300,000 yuan, the effect of the result is still 300,000 yuan, which means you lose 180,000 yuan..."

"Ha..." All the staff laughed, and even a bunch of Japanese observers were amused.

The Joint Conference was shocked by the shocking changes in Brazil. Marshall was so angry that he slapped the table at the meeting, scolded Clark, and then took a telegram to Patton, asking him to go to El Salvador to take over the command of the 5th Army and prepare for a counterattack. Eisenhower and other senior officials now understand that once the German army takes El Salvador, no matter whether they can eat the 5th Army, at least the connection between the US military will be interrupted. Not only will Roosevelt's armored cluster be attacked from both sides in the future, but the US military in Recife will also feel direct pressure.

The second bad news came: "General Hewitt's transport fleet was subjected to enemy air strikes, losing most of the ships, and has abandoned all ships. Navy officers and soldiers have arrived ashore and retreated. General Patton sent three battalions of army cover."

Li Hai didn't blame Hewitt for anything. The other party had only one transportation formation. It was good to be able to safely send the Roosevelt cluster to the port to land and save most of the lives of people. He quickly asked Marshall for help: "Be sure to let the army assist them in retreating safely. These officers and soldiers will also undertake the task of continuing to transport materials to the South American theater in the future. Of course, I will prepare other ships."

Marshall nodded in embarrassment. The Navy's request was not excessive, but in this way, the Roosevelt cluster would have to hold on for a few more days in Port Segulu, which in turn required El Salvador to continue to stick to it.

On the evening of August 27, Rommel took his troops to El Salvador to land. Shoken took the armored troops who were rushing forward to attack the preset positions of the Roosevelt armored cluster on the front line of the Saiguru. Faced with Marshall's strict orders, Patton, who originally wanted to cooperate with Roosevelt, had to hand over all defense tasks to the other party, and took his staff to El Salvador to have more important tasks.

In the early morning of August 28, the Joint Conference, which had no choice but to do anything, received the third bad news from Patton: the German troops began to land in El Salvador, and the El Salvador Aircraft Corporation had lost nearly 90% of its aircraft and could not fight at all.

"Transfer troops there immediately and ask for planes, the more the better."

Admiral Arnold had a bitter face and could not say a word. He just silently handed the report on the damage to the Land Airlines to Marshall.

In the past week, the China Airlines in Hawaii has achieved certain results: it sunk 5 Japanese tankers, 1 escort aircraft carrier, 4 cargo ships, 7 landing craft, 2 light cruisers, and 3 destroyers, severely hitting one escort aircraft carrier and 1 cruiser, and sank (hardly damaged) more than 140,000 tons of enemy ships (actually 129,000 tons), and destroyed more than 70 enemy aircraft (actually 49, half of the pilots were rescued). However, the price paid by China Airlines was extremely astonishing, losing 517 aircraft and 4 heavy bombs (including 389 that could not return), and more than 4,000 people were lost (dead and missing).

This is not a small number. Not only did the nearly 400 four-round heavy bombers deployed at Pearl Harbor before the war completely lost, but more than 100 new aircraft were also boarded. Now there are less than 200 B-29 or B-17s that can be deployed in Pearl Harbor without any damage (only one-fifth of them are from HNA), so we can only continue to reinforce them in the future.

Considering that the Japanese army lost 103 additional aircraft when they attacked Midway Island, it means that the Hawaii war has lost more than 600 aircraft.

The losses in Brazil were even worse. The German army attacked El Salvador and ate more than 600 aircraft of the Land Airlines (many of which were destroyed on the ground, and the crew lost more than 200 units). Recife Land Airlines fought against the enemy artillery fleet, landing troops and carrier-based aircraft, losing more than 200 aircraft, and lost a total of nearly 900 aircraft. So far, the total number of combat aircraft in Brazil has dropped to less than 300. Land Airlines has arranged to draw reinforcements from the Caribbean, Guyana, Venezuela and Colombia again, but due to the destruction of the El Salvador aviation base, it can only reinforce the Recife area at most, and the first batch is about 400.

As for the originally agreed to arrange 3,000 planes to South America, it was planned to be completed one after another in more than a month. Now, more than 900 planes were lost in two days of war. How should we fight next?

After reading the battle damage report, Marshall and Li Hai gasped. Li Hai seemed to remember something and added: "Hewitt lost nearly 140 planes yesterday afternoon!"

"How many planes do the Germans have?"

"It is estimated that 500-600 aircraft in Rio and 700 aircraft carrier fleets, and 1200-1300 aircraft are expected to be at the level of 200 aircraft. The enemy has lost more than 200 aircraft in two days, and at present there are at least 900 aircraft left..."

Arnold's estimate is a bit different, but the answer is basically accurate: the South American German Air Force and the HNA transferred by Crank are indeed nearly 500, but the Marshall main fleet has 4 aircraft carriers + 8 escort aircraft carriers, not as many as 700 aircraft, and only in just over 500 aircraft. In this way, the German army has a total of 1,000 aircraft. However, the German army did not lose as much as more than 200 aircraft, with only 94 aircraft in total, so the remaining aircraft are about 900.

Of course, this is just the figure on August 28. When Rommel's Air Force wing is launched on August 29, and when the two air force wings on the main landing force are launched, the Germans will immediately add 700 new aircraft. As for the carrier-based aircraft that Maschar loses, they are not afraid. In addition to spare aircraft, they can also add carrier-based aircraft of La Crank to always maintain the full scale of the more than 500 aircraft...

"We can only grit our teeth and continue to reinforce, otherwise the situation in South America is at risk of a complete collapse." Marshall knew that as the main force of the German army began to land in El Salvador, the army would become increasingly difficult to fight. It was calculated that Patton rushed to El Salvador to control the 5th Army. What can he do with the German ground forces with naval gun advantages and air superiority?

So Arnold could only continue to implement this order to increase troops: four heavy bombs were continuously deployed to the west coast and Pearl Harbor. Now the main force of the Japanese joint fleet left Midway and began to move south. In the next few days, you can breathe a little relieved and slow down. Fighters and twin-engine bombers and attack aircraft stepped up to send to Recife. Even if the army could not guarantee the counterattack and capture El Salvador, at least it would be necessary to ensure that it could retreat to Recife safely: There are nearly 20,000 troops in the port of Seguru, and there are also Hewitt clusters that break through lightly on the way to El Salvador, and El Salvador has the main force of the Fifth Army, and there are more than 10,000 light infantry retreating in a hurry on the way from El Salvador to Recife...

During the day on August 28, the German and American armies started a fierce melee:

To the south is the Shoken cluster attacking the Roosevelt cluster, to the north is the Patton commanding troops to counterattack the Rommel cluster, and the planes of both sides help each other, and the German army also received assistance from the artillery fleet.

But from the scene, the US military was at a disadvantage overall: the Shoken cluster took the heavy armored division as the spearhead and used strong air superiority as cover to force Roosevelt's troops. The m26 heavy tank, which was highly anticipated by the latter, was proved not to be the opponent of the Tiger 2 equipped with 88mm/l71 tank guns in actual combat, and the German air superiority obviously made the Americans even more sad. When did the American soldiers fight a fight without any aerial cover?

In order to increase the pressure on the ground forces, the Crank carrier-based aircraft cluster also played the fun of "shuttle bombing". The carrier-based aircraft pilots first mounted bombs from the Rio base to attack the Port of Saiguru. Then, instead of returning to the Rio base, which was more than 800 kilometers away, they went to El Salvador or aircraft carrier 400 kilometers away, and then landed on El Salvador or aircraft carrier, after replenishing the oil bomb, attacked in the afternoon, and then returned to Rio before the evening.

When night fell that day, everyone of the participating leaders of the Federation collapsed: China Airlines added 474 aircraft to Recife yesterday. After fighting today, more than 380 were lost, which was equivalent to the fact that the Germans had more aircraft than yesterday. In fact, it was mainly because Rommel had an air force wing with more than 250 aircraft, and the Germans lost less than 80 aircraft.

Patton's attack on the ground was defeated. The three main divisions lost a total of more than 4,000 people. Not only did the front line not advance, it was repelled 2,500-4,000 meters; and Roosevelt's situation was even more miserable. His armored troops lost more than 90 tanks under the full attack of German tanks and aircraft. He was forced to shrink back 15 kilometers as a whole, but even so, the German army still rushed over.

The only good news is that Hewitt's retreating vanguard and the Fifth Army joined in. They were lucky. Since German planes were all restrained by the battles between El Salvador and Seguru, no one attacked them...
Chapter completed!