Macho Wars

In the past 40 minutes, a total of three battleships in the auspicious fleet were sunk, five were severely damaged, and the remaining ships were damaged to a certain degree.Among them, the damage of the Giant had a great impact on the morale of the entire auspicious fleet, because no one would have thought before the expedition that such a large fleet would actually encounter the enemy’s main force because of some small aircraft. A battleship was lost in an air strike.

According to this method of play, the Dragon on the opposite side only needs to give them another two to three waves of air strikes, and maybe they can be wiped out at sea.

This kind of unilateral beating war is unwilling to continue!

Chapter 539

Phillips inspected the remaining fleet. If they continue to support Teddy Island as originally planned and fight for the annihilation of the entire army, they still have the ability to inflict heavy damage on the Dragoon task force, but the price is to completely ruin all of their navy. The vitality of the country has since completely lost control of the sea.

From a strategic perspective, this is obviously not worth the gain.

So hesitated again and again, Phillips made a difficult decision to give up supporting the defenders of Teddy Island, and take back the fleet and the lessons learned in exchange for blood, even if he had to bear the infamy of "cowardly fighting a coward" for this. Don't hesitate!

In this way, the scarred auspicious fleet under the command of Phillips rescued the survivors who fell into the water, the whole team quickly turned around, preparing to withdraw to the home port behind.And their every move was seen by the air reconnaissance planes, and the pilots immediately reported this information to Dragon in the rear.

On the side of the task force, the news that the air attack was successful has just spread to the entire army. They sank three enemy ships and damaged more than three at a slight price of losing seven carrier-based aircraft.With such an impressive record, Dragon was about to win the chase, but learned that his opponent had suddenly confessed and was about to stray, so naturally he refused to let it go easily.

So the task force was divided into two groups immediately, with three aircraft carriers as the core, some high-speed ships were deployed to form a mobile fleet to pursue the enemy, while the rest continued to besiege Teddy Island and carry out a real landing operation, so as to maximize Take it quickly.

The defenders on the island were still struggling to persist under the artillery fire of the fleet at this time. Dragon only deployed four of the five flying groups to attack the auspicious fleet, leaving a dive bomber group to take care of them.

On the defending side, the commander, Brigadier General Malach, did not know that the auspicious fleet he was waiting for had released his pigeons, thinking that the opponent was on his way.The upper part asked them to hold on for more than two days at all costs, but Malach felt that it was a question of whether they could survive until dark with the current style of play.

"Sir, the Marines are starting to grab the beach!"

"According to the plan, let the artillery cover the beachhead."

"We just called the artillery, but..."

"but what?"

"They didn't respond..."

Teddy Island is a bit too big for Malach’s troops.Normally, there should be at least three divisions deployed here to be able to defend it, but now there are only more than 10,000 of them, so the defenses in many places are stretched, and they are overwhelmed.

Dragon knew the plight of the defenders on the island, so he gave them a trick to "flower more".While letting the naval artillery bombard the beach to attract the attention of the defenders, a number of elite company-level troops with climbing equipment were sent ashore from the weakly guarded cliffs of the defenders.

After these elite troops successfully landed, under the guidance of the leading scouts, they immediately attacked the artillery positions and armory positions of the defenders deployed in the middle of the island. When they succeeded here, the large troops on the other side really began to rush. beach.

After Dragoon’s combination of punches, the defense line of the defenders basically collapsed. At nightfall, most of the First Marine Division had already landed, and the remaining thousands of defenders were besieged in the main island in the middle of the island.Commander Brigadier General Malach didn't learn until then that the auspicious fleet that should have come to support had already been dismissed by the task force.

At this time, Dragon issued an ultimatum to the defenders, asking them to immediately lay down their weapons and surrender. Malachi, who knew that he had no chance of winning, hesitated again and again. In the end, he did not choose to be a foolish courtier, and honestly played white flag.

At this point, Teddy Island has completely fallen into the hands of Dragon, and the accompanying engineering units came ashore with the prepared building materials and started work overnight. It took only 18 hours to build a 1,000-long piece in the middle of the island. The two-hundred-meter airport runway is ready for the bomber wing that will arrive later.

At the same time, on Philavi’s side, bad news came one after another. First, the auspicious fleet, which had high hopes, was hit hard, the battleship Giant was sunk, and many warships were sunk and injured. Although Commander Lieutenant General Phillips retreated with the surviving fleet decisively, the task force reluctantly caught up with them and carried out two more air strikes against them.

Fortunately, Phillips fully learned the lessons of the previous time, and no longer hoped for unreliable air defense firepower. Instead, the distance between the fleets was enlarged in advance, giving the ships sufficient space for maneuvering and avoidance.

Although the aviation troops took orders again and killed three warships one after another, they at least saved the vast majority of the fleet, allowing them to survive until dark.

It is worth mentioning that in the three successive attacks, although Phillips’ flagship Southern County King was attacked many times, it miraculously survived, evading all the torpedoes fired at him, and the only An aerial bomb is still a dud.On the contrary, the other two battleships in the same group were unlucky one by one. The Giant was dead, the Perseus was bombarded by four aerial bombs and the entire bridge was destroyed. The entire command organization on the ship was wiped out.

While they fled back to their home port in desperation, many coastal islands, including Teddy Island, have also been lost.The defenders on these islands are generally weak, and they have no way of parrying the attacking task force.

Filavi could understand the reason for their fiasco, but he was still annoyed.

Late on the fourth day of Teddy Island's change of hands, Angelica, the home port of the Western Imperial Navy, suddenly welcomed a group of uninvited guests.

Most of the local residents have fallen asleep, but the strange sounds in the sky gradually awakened many people from Jingyi's dreams.Out of curiosity, some people opened the windows and looked at the night sky, and soon found a strange moving "stars".Before they could figure out what it was, stern and sharp air defense sirens sounded throughout the city.

With "kind greetings" from the Eastern Empire, eighty "Flamingo" medium bombers from the Marine Corps Aviation Division's First Bomber Wing flew over Angelico.The goal of their trip is the heavy industrial zone north of the city.

After the outbreak of the Civil War, it became the location of Firavi's most important arsenal, and therefore became the first target of the aviation division's bomber unit into actual combat for the first time.

When the bomber formation arrived in the sky above the target, a large area of ​​lights suddenly lit up in the industrial area on the ground. At this time, the spies who had sneaked into the industrial area beforehand did so to guide the bombers in the air in the direction of attack.

After the pilot plane confirmed that the target was correct, it immediately signaled the formations behind him and followed the pilot plane to start dropping bombs.Eighty medium bombers carried a total of 480 iron bombs with a total weight of more than 100 tons.

All bombs were installed with sound whistle at the request of Dragon, so when hundreds of bombs fell from a high altitude, everyone on the ground could clearly feel the terrible pressure of death!

Chapter 540: Airspace Crisis

The bombing of the Anjelikang Industrial Zone was a decision made by Dragon and Howard after repeated weighing.After all, this civil war was a disaster to Xiaoqiang, so no matter how fierce the two sides fight, they are essentially throwing their own things.

Therefore, in the planning stage of combat operations, Howard clarified several of his requirements to Dragon. One is to clarify the target, only attack military-industrial units, and try to avoid harm to local civilians, and the other is to control damage to acceptable levels. To the extent of this, you cannot hurt the roots of your country’s industry.

As a result, only one wing of eighty bombers were dispatched in this air strike, and the incendiary bombs were abandoned, and the attack time was set late at night after get off work in the factory.This is all thanks to Firawi’s failure to activate the overall combat mechanism. Otherwise, the factory would run three shifts 24 hours a day, and the bombers would really not find a suitable opportunity to start.

Nearly 120 tons of bombs, the fireworks from the explosion instantly covered the large factory buildings below, and the deafening roar awakened the entire nearby city. People took to the streets one after another, looking at the skyrocketing flames from the north in horror.

Only one hour after the bombing ended, the news reached Firavi.The actual losses in the industrial zone are still being counted. The bombing almost completely destroyed their tank factory and ammunition production line. Reconstruction is estimated to take more than one month, which means that the production capacity of the Angelica Industrial Zone will shrink significantly.If the East launches large-scale operations at this time, with their existing inventory reserves, I am afraid it will not last long.

Putting down the telegram at hand, Philavie scratched his head in pain. This is a habit he has only developed recently. Whenever there is bad news, he can't help but squeeze his hair. This made him feel full of gold for himself. The hair is very worried.

In order to curb his desire to grab his hair, Firavi got up and went to the map.As the world's number one industrial power, the Empire has seven major industrial zones in the country, including the "four heavy and three light" industrial zones. Angelica is just one of them, but the scale ranks second in the country, second only to the central heavy industrial zone in the southern part of the capital.

The Central Industrial Zone was affected by the war in the previous imperial capital war, and most of the workers and their families were transferred to the colony by the central government, so the production capacity dropped sharply.Without a machine controlled by a skilled artisan, it is just a pile of broken copper and iron.

Therefore, Firavi paid particular attention to the Anjelikang Industrial Zone. After all, this was the base camp where he started, but now it has been smashed by Dragoon's bombers.

"It turns out that he wants to do this on the coastal islands!"

On the southeast coast at this time, Dragun is commanding the task force and the Second Army Group to clear out the defenders on the surrounding islands. It looks like they are going to build a chain of blockades and trap Firavi’s navy to death. At the door of his house, while using Teddy Island as the air force forward base, he used bombers to continuously harass the rear of Firavi.

On the other side of the northeastern part of the empire, the First Military District commanded by Howard himself is continuously increasing its troops, exerting tremendous positive pressure on Firavi's troops.

Firavi discovered painfully that he was in an unfavorable situation of being attacked by the enemy.There is a heavy hammer wielded by Howard in the front and a sharp knife extended by Dragon in the back. No matter which side hits him, it may be a fatal blow.

"The southeast coast?"

Filavi's gaze patrolled the coastline of the map back and forth, and he was more worried about Dragoon and his Marines than the heavy forces on the front battlefield.

Intelligence showed that during the time Dragoon returned to the colony, the Marine Corps was expanded from one division to one corps, and equipped with a large number of cutting-edge technical weapons.Such a top-down force full of offensiveness, obviously will not stay peacefully on the island to blow.

Two days later, the southeastern coastal area was attacked again. Thirty bombers came to a military base 150 kilometers away from Angelicang. After dropping dozens of tons of bombs, they turned to visit a nearby town. , Scattered a wave of flyers.

After that, every one or two days, the bombers would come across the sea, like a group of bear children with no ethics, leaving behind all kinds of weird things.The local troops had nothing to do with these iron birds up and down, because they didn't have any weapons in their hands that could threaten the height of the opponent, so they could only fire their guns indiscriminately and furiously.

Felavi realized that if this continued, the morale of his military and civilians would be too great, and he could only urge his military-industry departments to seize the time to develop new anti-aircraft guns, and then relocate some of his only aircraft and pilots inland.

Firavi knew very well that the best way to deal with the enemy's air force was to vigorously develop its own air force.Airplanes are easier to handle. After all, he controls multiple industrial areas. Before the outbreak of the Civil War, the colonial aviation research institutions provided relevant technical information to the mainland. Therefore, it is not difficult to mass-produce airplanes.The difficulty lies in the training of pilots and aircraft fuel, both of which require time accumulation.

The Empire had planned to assign a wing fighter jet to several major military regions, but until the outbreak of the Civil War, the southeast and northwest military regions had received less than one squadron of aircraft, and there were more than 20 pilots in total.

As for oil trees, Firawi has obtained thousands of saplings and tree species piecemeal through various channels, but it takes more than three to five years to cultivate a scale. Can the civil war be fought for so many years? Not necessarily!

In a word, Firavi was helpless. He had never thought that one day he would be so troubled by an issue of "dominance of the air".