Chapter 563 The Boat of Friendship
"There are quite casualties!"
Yang Feng looked at the latest casualty report and said.△↗,.
The Ming army suffered more than 1,000 casualties in half a month, and more than 50 tanks and infantry fighting vehicles were lost. Eight cobra armed helicopters were shot down. In addition, two ghosts and tiger sharks were lost in the air battle, and three flying leopards were shot down by ground fire. Especially these three flying leopards were shot down in the Japanese army controlled area. The wreckage of one of them was not destroyed. It is very likely that they were obtained by the latter. The avionics system does not have to worry about leaking secrets, but the two turbofan engines were not properly taken into account.
Although such losses are not worth mentioning compared to the US military, they are already shocking to the Ming generals.
"According to this situation, if we want to drive the Japanese army out of Tokyo, we have to prepare for at least 3,000 casualties. If we do, it may reach 5,000. If we really want to drive them back north of the 39th line, it will probably result in more than 20,000 casualties. Now other problems are still fine. This Scud missile is really helpless. One hit our assembly point the day before yesterday, and a whole company of tanks were directly bombarded."
Chen Hu said.
A problem that the Americans cannot really solve in half a century. What can you do to solve it?
Yang Feng thought to himself.
“Unless we also use campaign tactical missiles.”
Chen Hu continued.
"Explain it."
Yang Feng said.
"It's very simple. The Japanese army's missile launch bases are in Fukushima, Koriyama and Aizu. Because they are mobile launches, they have multiple missile launch sites for use. Usually no one knows where they are hiding. Once they need to launch, they suddenly sail to the launch site to deploy and evacuate in less than an hour. We cannot know before they launch that not only will their MiG21 intensive patrol, but also a large number of camouflaged surface-to-air missile positions. Our large aircraft group can fight targeted in the past, and small aircraft group patrols are easily besieged by their air-to-ground coordinated siege. So only after they launch the missile can they determine which position they are launched, but even if they take off the carrier-based aircraft from the sea, they cannot arrive before they evacuate their positions.
If a combat tactical missile is used, then the time should be almost done. We can deploy multiple sets of launchers, one set of preset positions aimed at a Scud. All missiles are ready to be launched at any time. Once they are determined which launch position they are using, they will immediately launch missiles at this position. The two missiles use cluster warheads and sprinkle nearly two thousand sub-bombs. It is enough to destroy a set of launch devices."
Chen Hu said.
The Ming army's combat tactical missiles were quite advanced. In fact, they were just like the original version of the Steel Rain Rocket Launch System, which was directly installed in this rocket launcher. However, a group of launch units originally equipped with six rockets could only carry one solid fuel missile. The range was not too long, only 150 kilometers, but it did not have the changeable accuracy of the original mgm140. The latter was guided by satellite, while the Ming army's combat tactical missiles were actually only 50 meters.
But that's enough.
A steel rain rocket launcher can fire two such missiles, each carrying 950 bombs. If one thousand nine hundred bombs are scattered, it is estimated that a Scud missile battalion will be finished.
More importantly, it is fast and has a five-speed sound missile that passes by more than one minute. If it is aimed in advance, it will be launched when it is discovered, and the Japanese missile battalion will definitely not have time to transfer.
"Then use it!"
Yang Feng said immediately.
"But we need to land in Hitachi first, and the range from our control area in Tokyo is not enough."
Chen Hu said.
"Then let's log in once, and it happens to be used as a publicity stunt!"
Yang Feng said.
At the order of the head of state, the Kunpeng transport plane immediately transported two steel-rain rocket launchers equipped with combat tactical missiles to Kagoshima. At the same time, the Eighth Army of the Ming Army also announced that in order to end the war as soon as possible, and also presented a gift to the American people during the head of state's visit to the United States, the Ming army would carry out flanking landings behind enemy lines. The specific location cannot be said, in short, the Ming army will open a second battlefield.
Even the Huaxia battleship, which had just completed maintenance, rushed north to provide reinforcements.
Just as the Huaxia set sail, Yang Feng also boarded his Air Force One special plane in Yingtian. Because this was an official visit, the head of state of the head of state was of course accompanied by his wife. In fact, this was the first time that Yang Feng visited the United States as the leader of a diplomatic diplomatic country since Eisenhower came to power. Although he traveled several times a year, it was all informal in his private capacity, and he had never had a formal visit.
The first stop of Air Force One is Guam, the second stop is Hawaii, the third stop is San Francisco, and the fourth stop is Washington.
This plane is an Airbus A310, not a 380, and it is impossible to fly directly across the Pacific Ocean. Guam’s welcome ceremony is just that. After all, it is a small place, but the welcome scene in Hawaii is quite enthusiastic. When Air Force One landed at Honolulu Airport under the escort of eight handsome F106 interceptors, hundreds of thousands of people were waiting to welcome this American best friend.
Although he always changes roles between American friends and opponents, at least for now, he is indeed the best friend of the United States.
"Someone advised me that it is best not to come to the United States at this time, because that evil witch will probably prepare an atomic bomb for me."
The head of state said to the microphone at the airport.
There was an awkward smile below.
"But I have to come. I just want to tell you, tell your people that no matter what danger or how terrifying the enemy, the people of the Ming Empire and I will face you together. The Ming and the United States will always fight side by side and fight all enemies, whether they are evil countries, gangster regimes or terrifying people, will be destroyed under the sword we hold together. The boat of friendship between Ming and American is not afraid of any storm!"
Immediately afterwards, Chief Yang shouted in a very pretended manner.
There was an instant scream in excitement in front of him, especially the enthusiastic American girls, who flew at him frantically, and the scene almost lost control for a moment.
Of course, Yang did not stop in Hawaii for a little visit, met with the governor and parliamentary speaker of Hawaii, as well as local Chinese celebrities, and personally unveiled the newly built Chen Fang Memorial Hall, and then boarded Air Force One to San Francisco amid the farewell. Then he stayed in this largest Chinese settlement in North America for a day before flying to Washington.
Just as he walked down the Air Force One shook hands with the welcome US Secretary of State Rax, a huge fleet had already appeared outside Hitachi. Then twelve Yinglong bombers appeared under the protection of fighter jets. They dropped the mother of twenty-four bombs on the coast, and instantly created a large area of unmanned areas near Hitachi Port and its surroundings. At the same time, the Ming army's Huaxia, Yanhuang, the US military's Iowa, and Wisconsin. In addition, dozens of light and heavy cruisers began to carry out crazy bombardment within a depth of ten kilometers on the shore. The terrifying 406 mm and 356 mm naval guns easily created a death barrier.
Next is the landing ship to take the field.
The air-cushioned landing craft transporting Leopard tanks and the crocodile infantry fighting vehicles that float directly, quickly sailed out of the landing ships and headed straight to the coast under the cover of artillery fire from a large number of destroyers.
At the same time, Elephant helicopters loaded with soldiers flew away from the deck of the amphibious assault ships, and landed on the beach before the air cushion landing craft arrived, opening the landing ground at the fastest speed, and clearing the remaining enemy troops. Of course, there are no remaining enemy troops anymore. If the mother of twenty bombs goes down, let alone living people, even living mice cannot be found. Although there are also certain shore defense fortifications here, this kind of thing is just a coffin of reinforced concrete in front of the cloud bomb. There is almost no living person in the entire Hitachi coast, let alone soldiers.
"Three-dimensional login, these guys are playing with this set of things more and more beautiful, compared to their login. We are like the low-cost bad movies of third-rate Hollywood directors in Incheon!"
On the battleship Iowa, Westmoreland held up a telescope and said, it was obvious that the first time I was immersed in the experience of the three-dimensional landing operations of the Ming army, which made the US general very excited. Although the Ming army had used this landing tactic countless times, the description of the text and the impact brought by his own eyes were not the same level after all, especially the scene of the air cushion landing craft hunching the main battle tank at a high speed of 50 knots and then continuing to rush on the land, which was absolutely shocking.
"Fortunately, it won't take long, and we will have them too."
The general beside him shrugged and said.
The US military's Tarava-class amphibious assault ship has been launched. It will join the navy at most by the end of next year, and four of them will be built in the first batch. In addition, there are twelve Austin-class dock landing ships that will be completed and put into service. It can be said that the US military will soon have amphibious combat capabilities that are no less than those of the Ming army.
"Do we have this?"
Westmoreland pointed expressionlessly at the deck of the Loyal amphibious assault ship, and a Sea Harrier attack aircraft that was taking off vertically.
"Well, there isn't this, but we should be able to buy it from Britain, right?"
The general said.
"What about this?"
Westmoreland said, pointing to a fleet of cobra armed helicopters flying overhead.
"Well, if our Cheyenne is completed, it should be better than Cobra, right? Although its development speed is a little slower, it will definitely be able to be developed."
"What about this?"
Westmoreland said, pointing to an air-cushioned landing craft carrying a leopard tank and an additional pile of infantry.
"Well, ours is indeed a little smaller and cannot fit tanks, but it is still okay to load infantry and trucks. The next generation of people who can transport main battle tanks are also being developed."
The general said.
The Americans did develop an air cushion landing craft, but because of the lack of technical strength in this regard and the performance of Lycoming's gas turbine, it is much smaller than that used by the Ming army. It cannot load the m60 tank, and even the lighter m48 cannot be installed, so it can only be equipped with m41 light tanks, but at least it can solve the problem of whether there is any or not.
"Well, we have all, but do we have nearly ten years of experience in using it? Do we have countless practical experiences? Do we have the perfect tactics we exchanged for with our lives?"
Westmoreland said.
"Uh, there's really no this one."
Chapter completed!