Chapter 220 Brisbane
These are all practical experience summarized by the Army on the mainland battlefield.
At that time, the Army had issued a manual with precautions for combat to grassroots troops, and all officers and soldiers of front-line armored troops knew how to deal with the US military's ground warfare system.
As a result, the Marines did not do similar preparations. It was not until after the Battle of Brisbane that the Marines asked for tens of thousands of battle manuals from the Army and distributed them to the frontline troops.
It can be seen from this that if the US military can make good use of these four divisions, it will definitely be able to fight a beautiful battle.
Unfortunately, Herris is not Donald, and he doesn't know the purpose of Donald taking great pains to get the four ace six in Brisbane.
In fact, Herris had never seen Donald. When he took office, Donald had already returned to China.
The result was that Hris was preparing to send these four divisions to the front line and launch a counterattack at the end of February to act as a vanguard of the counterattack forces.
Tactically speaking, this is not wrong.
If the US military's counterattack could be fought and four ace cities equipped with ground warfare systems took the lead, the result would definitely be difficult to predict.
The key is that what Hris got was wrong information and arranged a counterattack operation based on the wrong information.
The wrong information is: the Chinese Marine Corps will not march south until early March.
Of course, strictly speaking, this is not any wrong intelligence, because the original plan was to attack in early March, not in late February.
As a result, Hris issued an order on the 19th to let the four ace masters go to the front line on the 21st.
Now, the Marines hit the knife edge of the US military.
When the Marines attacked Brisbane on the 21st, the four American ace divisions were in Brisbane, and they all completed the dressing work and were ready to go to the front line. In other words, all ground warfare systems were sufficiently powered and filled with ammunition, and the officers and soldiers were also very excited.
On the contrary, on the Chinese Marines, they believed that they could quickly capture Brisbane like they did in Townsville.
It is not difficult to imagine what this battle will look like.
By the 25th day, the reduction rate of the five land divisions exceeded 30%, and the equipment loss rate was as high as 45%.
It can be said that if the five marine divisions had not had much more troops than the four US military divisions, and had air supremacy, and had more intense artillery fire support, the US military might have achieved a small victory before the 25th day, defeating the Chinese Marine Corps that attacked Brisbane.
When he learned that he had encountered a US ace force equipped with a ground warfare system, Pang Yuelong immediately increased his troops to Brisbane.
On the 26th, two ace Marine Divisions arrived in Brisbane, two more days later, and nine Marine Divisions eventually besieged Brisbane.
As the saying goes, a tiger cannot fight a pack of wolves.
Besides, the combat effectiveness of the four ace Marine Divisions is definitely above the four US ace divisions, and the four US military divisions have withstood the five land divisions' five days of attacks. The reduction rate and equipment loss rate are above the five land divisions, so it is impossible to withstand the fierce attack of the four ace Marine Divisions.
On March 1, the Chinese Marine Corps attacked Brisbane.
Next, the two sides fought fiercely in the city for a week and fought the most tragic street battle on the Australian continent. It was not until the last batch of US troops were eliminated that the Chinese Marine Corps occupied Brisbane.
For the largest city in Northeast Australia, the Chinese Marine Corps paid the tragic price of 12,000 officers and soldiers killed, more than 27,000 officers and soldiers injured, and more than 3,000 officers and soldiers disappeared. Nearly 70,000 US troops from the four ace divisions, as well as about 50,000 Australian troops mobilized locally, less than 20,000 were prisoners of war, and the rest became burial objects of this city completely destroyed by artillery fire.
By March 8, the battle to encircle and annihilate 1.2 million US-Australia coalition forces had also entered the final stage.
During the siege of Brisbane, the Chinese Marine Corps was fully launched. On other battlefields, there was nothing to be praised for the performance of the US-Australia coalition.
At that time, Pang Yuelong was fighting this battle with the idea of completely annihilated the US-Australia coalition forces.
To this end, the Marines captured Diamantinelex west of Longridge, Wendora and Selangora southwest, and Quipol west of Charville, and cut off all the breakout routes of the US-Australian coalition. Of course, Pang Yuelong also used all the reserve teams.
It can be said that if the morale of the US-Australia coalition was not collapsed, the outcome of this battle would be difficult to say.
You should know that the length of the Marine Corps' front line is more than 800 kilometers, and except for the nine Marine Divisions besieging Brisbane, only nineteen Marine Divisions are guarding this front line, with less than 400,000 troops, while the total strength of the US and Australian coalition forces in the encirclement area is as high as 1.2 million. In the case of concentrated breakthroughs, the US and Australian coalition forces can gain ten times or even more than twenty times the strength advantage at the breakout site.
Interestingly, it was Brisbane's fall that caused the morale of the US-Australia coalition to collapse, and the Marines were exhausted from the reserves. It was the US ace division who insisted on Brisbane. In other words, the battle in Brisbane actually determined the final result of the battle.
Judging from the situation at that time, if the US military had lasted for two more days in Brisbane, at least one-third, or about 400,000 US-Australia coalition forces, successfully broke through. By March 8, the US-Australia coalition forces that broke through from Charleville had actually tore open the Marines' defense line and surrounded the Marines' position in Charleville. A large number of troops were preparing to go south, and Pang Yuelong had no reserve team to send. As a result, he learned that Brisbane had lost.
Later, the US-Australian coalition did not go south, but waited for two days and finally surrendered on March 10th. According to the captive US commander's explanation, there was a disagreement on whether to move eastward and assist in breaking through friendly forces from Toowoomba, which resulted in the US-Australian coalition missing the breakthrough army. In the past two days, Pang Yuelong had already drawn a land division from Brisbane and established a new blockade line south of Charleville, blocking the US-Australian coalition.
Chapter completed!