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Text 676 Battle of the Solomon Islands (2)

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    Naturally, such a request for withdrawal cannot be granted. The U.S. Asia-Pacific Theater Command cannot accept that just one contact will cause the U.S. aviation force to be defeated. Even if the investment is greater and the losses are greater, the U.S. military needs to achieve results and at least maintain the front line.  , among the several large islands in the Solomon Islands, it is impossible for the U.S. military to let the Chinese Marine Corps seize any one of them.

    However, the U.S. military is not stupid. According to the reports, the U.S. military can basically determine the location of the Chinese air defense fleet. Drawing a circle of 20 kilometers is a relatively common defense radius for Chinese air defense missiles. U.S. military fighters try to hide outside this circle to engage with Chinese fighters.  Air combat, but this situation was also discovered by the Chinese aviation force, so they under the cover of the air defense fleet and within the defense radius carried out indiscriminate bombing of the US military stronghold on Choiseul Island.

    The US military has only set up limited anti-aircraft artillery, short-range anti-aircraft missiles, etc. at these strongholds. There is nothing that can be done about the Chinese fighter planes that appear in large areas in the air and attack outside the defense zone. However, the US military is not stupid. The US military commander took advantage of the dense vegetation of Choiseul Island.  The underground jungle hid soldiers and important military supplies in the woods, which directly made the naval aviation's air strikes not particularly effective. Previously, big things like the Type 6 shore-to-ship missiles could not be hidden, but infantry and other  Weapons that are relatively small in size can be hidden. Even after strong upgrades, they have the ability to track heat signature targets on the ground, but the probability of success in places like jungles is not high.

    Naturally, China¡¯s PLAl does not only expect to wipe out all the U.S. troops with air strikes. In fact, the ground forces landed are also quite powerful.  Riptide A, which stormed Choiseul Island from several beaches, laid down a combat team organized into companies.  The equipment of these Marine companies is not particularly heavy. It is mainly used to adapt to combat in jungle areas. The main vehicles are infantry fighting vehicles, including Type 04 tracked infantry combat and Type 09 eight-wheeled infantry combat. In addition, in order to enhance suppressive firepower, each vehicle  The company also carries a Tengu mecha, which can serve as air strike firepower and can also fight flexibly in the jungle.

    A marine company that landed from the south was attacked from the jungle shortly after landing. However, they were all riding in infantry fighting vehicles when they landed on the beach, so except for one rocket that hit a Type 09 infantry fighting vehicle, causing  Several soldiers in the car suffered some concussion injuries.  However, the raid destroyer parked in the outer sea immediately used 10UmmR Gatling cannons to bombard the place where the jungle fire was fired. The intensive artillery fire immediately flooded the place. The US military could not hold on to this jungle defense line and had to retreat slowly.  Under the cover of our own naval guns, the marine company advanced.  However, where the woods are too dense, infantry fighting vehicles cannot enter, so the mechas can only lead the infantry in. This also puts the Marine Company at greater risk of loss. The U.S. military may be hiding somewhere to prepare for a sneak attack, but this risk means that they have to  Risky.

    The second batch of landing soldiers began to build temporary strongholds on the relatively open beaches. They would not choose places that would be flooded when the tide rose. They generally chose hard ground instead of beaches. Some other machine gun points were also erected.  To prevent sneak attacks from wandering US troops.

    Most of the PL Marines were fighting in this kind of jungle warfare. Only in the northern part of the island, two Marine companies had an encounter with a U.S. battalion that basically suffered no losses.  The strength of the Chinese Marines in this encounter was slightly inferior. Although they had multiple infantry combat vehicles and infantry combat mechas, who would have thought that the US military actually sent two Nl main battle tanks to this small island.  Facing the US main battle tanks, many Chinese infantry fighting vehicles were destroyed, but in the end, even a Tengu was disabled by the Abrams main gun that rushed out of the forest because it could not dodge. In the end, it was still  After the other Tengu attack mechanized, it used anti-armor missiles to kill the two Nl.

    The Marine Company suffered certain losses and was unable to capture the US battalion. The two sides entered a bitter battle. In the end, the air support from the naval aviation broke the situation. The US Army fled into the jungle after being unable to survive. The Chinese Marine Corps finally won the battle.  victory.

    The battle on Choiseul Island lasted for a day and night and has not yet come to an end. The resistance of the US military was somewhat beyond the imagination of the Chinese military.  Originally, the number of Chinese ground troops stationed on New Britain Island was not large. There was only one Marine Division, with a combat strength of less than 20,000. The defense was acceptable, but the offense was not enough.  Therefore, the landing force invested in attacking Choiseul Island actually only had one regiment, which was not even as large as the defenders. This was also inconsistent with the common sense that a landing force required several times the number of defenders in a landing battle.  Mainly because the Chinese army has a clear advantage in three-dimensional firepower.

    "Perhaps we don't need the strength of a front army in the Southwest Pacific Theater, but we need at least the strength of a group army. The US military is very determined and we cannot lose to them." The frontline commander expressed to the General Staff, hoping to obtain an entire marine group army.  Participated in the Battle of the Solomon Islands.

    The commander of the US military, Fargo, was very dissatisfied with the aviation wing's cowardice, but he also knew that if he was too demanding and forced US fighter planes to attack, it might cause greater aviation losses.  But Fargo will not leave the officers and soldiers guarding the island alone.??Immediately planned a counter-landing operation to ensure the presence of NATO allies in the Solomon Islands.

    The U.S. Navy dispatched several surface ships to cooperate with the landing force, and under the cover of aviation, began a counterattack on Choiseul Island.  After the Chinese reconnaissance drone discovered this situation, the Chinese fleet also responded immediately and sent fighter jets to counterattack.

    The U.S. carrier-based aircraft performed their combat missions very well, thoroughly protecting the ships below within the air defense circle of the landing fleet. No matter how they provoked these U.S. military aircraft to leave the air defense circle, the U.S. fighter planes remained stationary, while the ships below  Many U.S. air defense ships can also pose a considerable threat to Chinese fighter jets.  Originally, the Chinese Navy planned to send a dreadnought battleship to lead several cruisers and destroyers to support, but the arsenal ship's Iron Curtain system had some malfunctions and was stopped for repairs, while another ship had just carried out an attack.  There is a system check going on, so getting to support is a little slower.

    Despite insufficient firepower, the U.S. military successfully sent a thousand U.S. soldiers to Choiseul Island. However, its cover fleet could not stay at the southern end of the island for too long, and the threat from Chinese warships and aircraft was still too great.  In the end, the U.S. military on Choiseul Island still had to face the situation of fighting alone.
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