Age of Conquest Reborn

The operation was successful. The highly skilled military doctors sutured every wound on Lieutenant General Penrak's body and removed the shrapnel. However, after the operation, Lieutenant General Penrak had become a corpse. The military doctor's operation,

More of a cosmetic surgery was done on the body. This was the first senior officer of the U.S. Army lieutenant general level to be killed in the battle to defend the U.S. homeland, but it was by no means the last!

Major General Woolsey stared blankly at his boss's body under the white sheet. His mind was still filled with Lieutenant General Pontrac's weak voice more than ten minutes ago, "Woolsey, I can't survive. You need to call Mr. President right away."

Call and Mr. President will tell you everything!”

After sitting blankly next to Lieutenant General Punrak's body for a while, Major General Woolsey walked out of the operating room, went to the war room, and picked up the phone that communicated directly with the wartime high headquarters.

The person who answered Major General Woolsey's call was President Roosevelt himself. He was silent for a while and told Woolsey, "You will take over the command of the troops immediately. The wartime high command will quickly send someone to take over Punrak's position!"

"Then the phone was hung up.

On the other end of the phone, Major General Woolsey was still stunned. It seemed that the President was on the phone and said nothing. Then, what Lieutenant General Punrak said before he died, "The President will tell you everything!"

What does it mean?

The sad news of the death of Lieutenant General Punrak immediately shocked the top brass of the United States. It also dealt a huge blow to the Americans. President Roosevelt immediately held an emergency meeting and finally decided to appoint Army Deputy Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Evans to serve as the new U.S.

The position of Commander, West Coast Defense Command.

The frontline commander was killed in action, leaving the three armies without a master, and it was a mess full of crises. Major General Woolsey, who temporarily took over the command, was not qualified for the position in terms of qualifications and experience. Lieutenant General Evans, who was supposed to take over like a spark, was instead

President Roosevelt left him alone for a secret conversation.

When Lieutenant General Evans and his astonished expression listened to President Roosevelt's words, he thought he had heard wrongly. He could not help but be filled with anger and stared at his eyes and said: "Mr. President, I really don't understand Punrak who has been killed in action."

Lieutenant General, what is the purpose of the advice given to you, and I don’t understand why you still accept his advice?"

Lieutenant General Evans is indeed annoyed. The West Coast Defense Line is a line of defense that the United States has worked hard to prevent the Japanese from succeeding in their attempt to bring the flames of war to the United States. Now, they have to give up. What they took over was a mess to begin with.

, we must arrange a retreat, to put it mildly. It is an escape, handing over 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 Punrak. Instead, they will remember that the West Coast was lost in the hands of Evans. Am I not going to take the blame? Besides,

, the West Coast Defense Headquarters, if there are still hundreds of thousands of troops, can't they fight again? Perhaps it is not possible to turn the tide of the war around?

President Roosevelt was unmoved by Lieutenant General Evans's anger. His sallow face was as cold as ice and he said without a doubt: "Evans, there is no need or time to argue about these issues now.

What I need you to do is to carry out my orders unconditionally!"

Full of grievances and dissatisfaction, Lieutenant General Evans took a transport plane and rushed to Los Angeles in the midst of war with great resistance to take up the post of commander of the U.S. West Coast Defense Headquarters, which was not easy to do.

, to put out the fire, but also to clean up a mess, a war situation that has been corrupted, but where to start, he was confused and had no clue.

When Lieutenant General Evans rushed to Los Angeles to take up his post, more than 400,000 U.S. soldiers deployed on the second line on the roads leading to the front line of the West Coast were following the instructions of the former commander Lieutenant General Punrak who had died in action.

The order was sent to the directions of Los Angeles, San Francisco and Eureka as fast as a spark, and the troops used in the direction of Portland included three infantry divisions, one motorized infantry division and two tank regiments, aiming to recapture Portland.

After Lieutenant General Evans' plane arrived in Salt Lake City, it could not fly any further, otherwise it would become a target for the Japanese carrier-based aircraft. He took a car instead and followed the reinforcements in the direction of Los Angeles. Along the way, from time to time,

Seeing the logistics convoy loaded with supplies, the combat troops were almost reaching their destination.

In the speeding car, Lieutenant General Evans pondered very puzzlingly. Since Mr. President had adopted the suggestion of the dead Punrak, he abandoned the west coast area and relied on the favorable terrain of the Dilera Mountains to establish a third route.

Line of defense, then why do we still need to talk about the original troops deployed on the second line of defense and reinforcements? Is it necessary?

Lieutenant General Evans was confused. He also mentioned this issue in a secret conversation with President Roosevelt, but the president's answer was, "The current troops are needed to slow down the Japanese army's advance deep into the mainland in order to establish a third line of defense.

Buy enough time!"

But the president also said: "While slowing down the Japanese advance, you must withdraw the reinforcements with as little loss as possible!"

It is necessary to both block the Japanese army and withdraw the troops to the third line of defense with minimal losses. At least in the eyes of Lieutenant General Evans, this requirement is difficult. However, after carefully thinking about President Roosevelt's words, he seemed to have some understanding.

Some insights.

Yes, it's time. The reinforcements from the second line will rush the first batch of Japanese troops to land before the second batch of Japanese landing troops arrive. Then, they will fight against the second batch of Japanese troops that landed and give them a huge blow.

After killing and injuring, they abandoned the frontline area on the west coast and retreated, which also achieved the purpose of delaying the Japanese army's advance deep into the mainland. This should be the case, otherwise, Mr. President's words would be contradictory!

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

Off the coast of Portland, on the flagship of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet, Admiral Yamamoto closed his eyes slightly, seeming to be in some kind of emptiness. The battle to land in Portland ended yesterday afternoon. The entire U.S. infantry division

This was also the first U.S. Army organic unit that the Japanese army completely annihilated after the landing battle began.

Therefore, there was no sound of gunfire on the battlefield and it seemed very quiet. If it weren't for the ruins everywhere in the small town of Portland, the smell of gunpowder smoke that has not completely dissipated, and the newly built fortifications of the Japanese army, the thick muzzles of the cannons raised

, Portland is as comfortable as a resort.

While the fight in the direction of Los Angeles, San Francisco and Eureka was bloody, Portland was always in a state of calm. General Yamamoto had a rare good sleep. When he woke up, he was full of energy and high spirits. He was waiting.

An information.

Lieutenant General Matsuda, chief of staff of the fleet, opened the door of the command module, walked to Admiral Yamamoto, and said softly: "Commander, the carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft group reported that traces of US military reinforcements were found. Among them, the fastest US military unit,

There is still about 170 kilometers away from the Los Angeles battlefield. Preliminary estimates suggest that the number of troops is between 300,000 and 400,000, with more than half of them being mechanized marchers!"

"Finally here!" General Yamamoto suddenly opened his eyes, and two cold lights flashed, "Matsuda-kun, send a telegram to Chief of Staff Minamino, follow the second plan, and be sure to severely damage the second-line reinforcements of the US military and defeat their reinforcements.

situation!"

"Order all carrier-based aircraft units in the fleet to be ready for take-off from now on. They will directly obey the command of the fleet headquarters, wait for the command's attack order, and report this change to the plains of Los Angeles.

Will!"

In the Eastern Pacific, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the seat of Japan's North American Combat Command, General Minamino Osamu did not sleep a wink all night. General Yamamoto personally came to the front line to command, and all 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. At the same time, he was also worried about the battlefield on the west coast of the United States.

General Minamino, who looked rather haggard, was also waiting for a piece of information. At the field airfields on various Pacific islands, more than 4,000 combat aircraft of various types of the Army and Navy Air Force were ready to go. This was all the North American Combat Command had.

The trump card will be played out all at once.

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

"Yo Xi, we finally got the news from Yamamoto-kun!" After reading the telegram, General Minamino said to himself, and then he received the command from the staff in the war room: "Order, the fleet will take off immediately! Follow their respective bombing missions!

"

The morning of December 8th was a disastrous morning for the more than 400,000 U.S. soldiers who rushed to reinforce the frontline battlefields on the West Coast. Thousands of Japanese fighter jets and bombers suddenly appeared on the battlefield like locusts covering the sky.

of American soldier's head.

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!" Fires were everywhere, smoke pillars were rising into the sky, and shrapnel was flying across the sky. A huge disaster befell the American soldiers. All moving or fixed targets became the targets of Japanese aircraft bombing and strafing.

The bodies of American soldiers were burning, trucks were burning, tanks and armored vehicles were burning, and thick smoke and fire filled the sky. This sunny morning became gloomy again.

Highways, bridges, and Japanese pilots dropped bombs and strafed any targets they saw. The Japanese army's huge fleet used thousands of tons of heavy aerial bombs and dense airborne machine gun bullets to transform the land on the West Coast of the United States.

It became a sea of ​​fire and a death spiral that harvested the lives of American soldiers.

After receiving the report, Lieutenant General Brennan, commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces, gritted his teeth and committed the only two fighter wings in his hands to the battlefield.

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

(To be continued)(To be continued)