Just when the Americans were in a mess over the Boston incident, their enemies had already started a new action, and they were acting in two directions at the same time. Not only the Spanish army in Cuba began to prepare to attack Pensacola, but also the Chinese army in San Francisco
After leaving a regiment and the overseas Chinese army led by Situ Meitang to take charge of defense, the remaining main force and tens of thousands of Japanese, blacks, and Mexicans as servants also sailed south to attack Los Angeles on landing ships and merchant ships requisitioned from San Francisco.
"Xiao Sun, I almost didn't recognize you after not seeing you for the past two years." The deputy commander of the Fourth Division in charge of this operation looked at the commander of the servant army in front of him and said curiously while smoking a cigar.
"Please call me Takano Nagao, General Qin Hanting." Takano, the Japanese spiritual leader, said expressionlessly.
"Takano Nagao, who named you this name? It's so unpleasant that you wouldn't have chosen a better one yourself." Qin Hanting said in a funny tone.
"Given by the emperor." Gao Ye continued to say expressionlessly.
Qin Hanting, who was smoking a cigar, was choked and coughed on the table. Looking at his red face, Takano's very stern face finally showed a smile. He was not a Japanese, but a Ryukyu.
And he was also a Ryukyu noble, but he grew up in Japan. After Ryukyu was restored, he joined Yang Feng's army. Later, he was promoted to company commander because of his contribution to the war in Japan. Qin Hanting was the battalion commander at that time, and they worked together after the war.
He entered the military academy for further studies, but before he graduated, Emperor Yang personally selected him for a secret mission.
When he arrived in San Francisco, he relied on his literary knowledge carefully cultivated by the Japanese since he was a child and the various help secretly provided by JY Company to expand his influence among the Japanese in San Francisco and the entire California until he became their leader. In the past two years, he
He did a very good job. Not only did he run a Japanese newspaper, he wrote a lot of sentimental Japanese poems, but he also tried his best to solve problems for the Japanese, especially when they were bullied by white people, he bravely came forward. He used legal weapons or used the behind-the-scenes work of JY Company.
Manipulating to protect their interests, he now seems to be the spiritual leader of the entire Japanese immigrants in California.
"You should also pay attention. I am performing a secret mission after all. What if you spill the beans one day and delay the emperor's important events?" He said to Qin Hanting dissatisfiedly while smoking a cigar.
"Okay, Mr. Takano, let us now study the operational deployment of attacking Los Angeles. The landing ship will seize the beach here. Avoid the coastal defense fortress in Los Angeles. Your people are not needed for the landing operation. After we secure the landing area, you will use small
Just land the boat in a boat, but you will need to take the lead in the next battle. Anyway, those people under your command are cannon fodder. We will not attack until they test the strength of the US military.
As a reward for your hard work, after entering Los Angeles, your people are allowed to play as they please, even if you massacre the city, but no matter how much you gain, you must give 60% to us. Go back and tell those Japanese and niggas about this.
Be clear, don't complain when the time comes." Qin Hanting said.
The Chinese army has to maintain its image and cannot do this kind of thing, so it is necessary to let these people do the dirty work. In fact, this is the main reason why Emperor Yang trained them. The number of immigrants from the east of California must be greatly reduced. San Francisco
The war has already left regrets in this regard, and Los Angeles cannot afford to kill less. This is what the army does with these 10,000 servants.
Anyway, no matter what they do, it has nothing to do with the Chinese. They spontaneously organized themselves to fight for freedom and democracy because they couldn't stand the oppression of the white people. They have nothing to do with the Chinese army and Mao, and they are not under the command of the Chinese army. They blame and criticize.
It's not the fault of the Chinese people. And afterwards, you can also make a list of Japanese people who are usually not obedient or still have hatred for China. In order to avenge the souls of the dead in the United States, they can be arrested and killed as war criminals. In this way, you can still
Internationally, it can be said that the image of China's military with strict discipline has been established. It can be said that every move has achieved a lot.
Of course Takano has no objection to this. To put it bluntly, his role is to deceive the Japanese into working for Emperor Yang. At that time, it will be nothing more than shouting a few more slogans. It is not easy to talk. In this way, the two conspirators quickly
The plan was finalized.
Los Angeles is only less than two days' sail from San Francisco, and the Americans don't have a navy right now, so the attack fleet quickly reached the waters off Los Angeles. Compared with San Francisco, which has strict sea defenses, the city's coastal defenses are very weak.
This is not surprising. In 1850, this city was just a small village with a population of less than 2,000. In addition, there were no enemies in the Pacific direction, so naturally it would not waste time on coastal defense.
There is too much money, there is only a small fort near the port, and the doors are basically open to other places. This kind of defense method naturally has no problem with the old maritime attack method.
The landing method of transporting troops by small boats allows the defenders enough reaction time, and it is also difficult to transport large weapons ashore. As long as the port is protected and the enemy is not allowed to enter the port, this defensive method is useless against the landing ship.
It doesn't make any sense anymore. There is no location suitable for beaching near the Port of Los Angeles. However, there are many good places outside the range of shore fire protection, such as Santa Monica Beach, a tourist destination for future generations.
When the fleet arrived here, there were not even defenders on the beach. Almost all US troops were stationed near the port of Los Angeles. By the time they discovered the enemy's true intentions and rushed from Los Angeles, the landing ship had already rushed onto the beach unimpeded.
, the only resistance they encountered came from a nearby fisherman who fired a shot at a landing ship with his double-barreled shotgun to show the courage of the American people to defend their homeland and freedom, and then rowed the fishing boat hastily towards Los Angeles.
And escape.
After a journey of more than 20 kilometers, when the U.S. Army spent an hour of hard work running, more than 10,000 troops of the Fourth Division not only completed the landing, but also dug trenches and set up cannons on the shore to wait for them. The brave
The U.S. soldiers, because their army artillery was behind them, and because it was getting dark and they could not see how many people were in front of them, they launched a charge without hesitation, hoping to drive the enemy back to the sea before their foothold was stable.
, Needless to say, the result was that the artillery and machine guns slapped them back hard. The enemy did not drive away, but left a pile of corpses.
The U.S. troops who were awakened quickly retreated to a safe area, and then prepared to dig trenches to block the attack, but unfortunately they forgot that there were a bunch of large warships on the sea! The U.S. troops digging trenches with searchlights in the night were particularly eye-catching, and the trenches were not yet
Digging a foot deep attracted shells from large-caliber heavy artillery. After a violent bombardment, a bunch of corpses were left behind. The poor American troops had to continue to retreat. In this way, they withdrew all the way to the sea and bombarded the naval guns next to them, waiting for the United States
When the people retreated to their own coastal defense artillery protection circle, more than 3,000 people from the entire division that attacked did not come back.
Their enemies, however, were lying comfortably on the white beach, eating canned beef and watching the army of servants from the sea being continuously brought over by small boats. By the next morning, the 20,000 people who attacked Los Angeles this time
All 3,000 people had completed the landing and had had enough rest. Then, the energetic servants who had eaten canned beef opened the way, and the huge attack army moved towards Los Angeles within the protection circle of naval guns at sea.
This is a strange team, especially the servants in the front. The tall black men and the short Japanese are mixed together to form a funny pattern. These people do not have uniform military uniforms, and the black men are all of the same stature.
Most of them were wearing military uniforms ripped from the bodies of American prisoners. As for the Japanese, they really couldn't put on American clothes, so they simply wore kimonos. The American militiamen who were preparing to attack them in the distance had a look at this scene.
It feels like a circus clown. Unfortunately, it won’t take long. After these guys caused the horrific massacre in Los Angeles, no one would think they were clowns anymore.
Behind them are all wearing People's Liberation Army-style camouflage uniforms, imitation German M35 helmets, carrying imitation British Lee Enfield rifles, imitation German MP18 submachine guns, revolvers on their waists, and imitation American style rifles hung on their shoulder straps.
The Chinese Army carries M2 grenades, imitation Czech ZB26 light machine guns, Maxim heavy machine guns, imitation Japanese grenade launchers, and imitating French Schneider 82 mortars. To be honest, their soldiers used to carry this set.
When the equipment appeared in front of him, Emperor Yang sighed that he could really mess with it.
In the middle of this team, there are hundreds of steel monsters that make Americans tremble when they look at them. Of course, they are not tanks. Because most of the landing operations will take place on the sand, the vehicles equipped by the Fourth Division are all tracked.
These tracked artillery carts and ammunition carts are directly modified from engineering machinery. They have astonishing horsepower and can drag those 105 cannons freely on the soft sand. These 105 cannons are all imitations of the German style from World War II.
But it's not the 105 howitzer, it's the 105 cannon. Although its performance is not up to World War II level, its maximum range is more than fifteen kilometers. It is especially effective against the bunkers that everyone likes to build at this time.
In addition, there are two seaplanes circling overhead, reporting the deployment and mobilization of the US military ahead at any time to the commanders of the regiments commanding the troops below through the radio. It can be said that all the movements of the Americans are under their control.
At this time, the two warships, the USS Haichi and the USS Predator, three warships with ultra-long-range artillery, had arrived outside the Port of Los Angeles and were bombarding the coastal defense forts under the guidance of aircraft to prevent the Americans from using these coastal defenses.