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Volume 1 On the Songhua River Chapter 2881 The first general killed in battle

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    The operation was successful. The highly skilled military doctors sutured every wound on Lieutenant General Punrak's body and removed the shrapnel. However, after the operation, Lieutenant General Punrak had become a corpse. The operation of the military doctor,  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 stand it any longer. Please call Mr. President right away."  Call and Mr. President will tell you everything!¡±

    After sitting blankly next to the body of Lieutenant General Punrak for a while, Major General Woolsey walked out of the operating room, came to the war room, and picked up the phone that communicated directly to the highest wartime 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 call 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 means?

    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 crisis-ridden mess. Major General Woolsey, who temporarily took over the command, was not qualified for this position, neither in terms of qualifications nor experience.  Lieutenant General Evans, who was supposed to take over like a spark, was left alone for secret talks by President Roosevelt.

    When Lieutenant General Evans.  And his shocked expression after listening to President Roosevelt's words.  Thinking that he had heard wrong, he couldn't help but be filled with anger and said with his eyes wide open: "Mr. President, I really don't understand the purpose of the advice given to you by Lieutenant General Pontrac who has been killed in action, let alone you.  Why would you accept his advice?¡±

    Lieutenant General Evans was 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 inherited was a mess to begin with. As soon as they took office, they had to arrange a retreat. That's right.  It doesn't sound good.  It was to escape and hand over the vast area of ????the west coast to the Japanese!

    Americans won¡¯t remember.  This is the mess left by the dead Lieutenant General Punrak. On the contrary, they will remember that the West Coast was lost in the hands of Evans. Am I not going to take the blame? Furthermore, the West Coast Defense Headquarters  , if there are still hundreds of thousands of troops, we can't fight again.  Perhaps it is not possible to turn the tide of the war around?

    Anger at Lieutenant General Evans.  President Roosevelt remained unmoved, his face sallow.  As cold as ice, he said without any doubt: "Evans, there is no need or time to argue about these issues now. What I need you to do is to execute my orders unconditionally!"

    Full of grievances and dissatisfaction, Lieutenant General Evans took a transport plane and rushed to Los Angeles amid the war and smoke with great resistance. He took 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 it? Is it necessary to reinforce the troops deployed on the second line of defense?

    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 and to establish a third line of defense.¡±?Buy enough time!  "

    But the president said again: "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, but when he carefully thought 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 landing troops into the sea before the arrival of the second batch of Japanese landing troops. Then, they will face the second batch of landing Japanese troops 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. It should be like this, 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 and seemed to be in a state of emptiness. The battle to land in Portland ended yesterday afternoon. The entire U.S. infantry division  This was also the first U.S. military formation unit that the Japanese army completely annihilated after the landing battle began.

    Therefore, there was no sound of guns and artillery 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 cozy as a resort.

    While the fights in the directions of Los Angeles, San Francisco and Eureka were 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 intelligence.

    Lieutenant General Matsuda, chief of staff of the fleet, pushed open 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,  It is still about 170 kilometers away from the Los Angeles battlefield. It is initially estimated that the number of troops is between 300,000 and 400,000, and more than half of them are mechanized marches!"

    "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 prepare for take-off from now on, 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!"

    Eastern Pacific, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the seat of Japan's North American Combat Command, General Minamino Shuyama, but he didn't sleep a wink all night. General Yamamoto personally came to the front line to command, and all the military affairs in the rear were on him. 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 quite 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 at once.

    "Reporting to the 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. 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 ground like locusts covering the sky.  of American soldier.

    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 targets for bombing and strafing by Japanese aircraft.

    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 tens of 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 put the only two fighter wings in his hands onto 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!

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