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The battle to attack Maui is indeed a tough battle.[..com]

Unlike the battle on Guadalcanal, the morale of the US military was extremely low this time, and 700,000 soldiers were crowded into underground fortifications that could only accommodate 300,000 soldiers, which caused a lot of problems, which further hit the morale and fighting spirit of the US military. As a result, this battle was not so bloody.

This is also true that many people ignore the nature of the Battle of Maui.

On September 14, the Marines boarded Maui and the battle began.

The US military learned from the Battle of Guadalcanal and no longer held on to underground fortifications. Instead, they actively went to the ground to fight with the Marine Corps.

Of course, there is nothing we can do about this, because the underground fortifications cannot accommodate so many American troops.

The battle in the first week was very difficult because the US military actively fought, which caused great trouble for the Marines and also made the Marines truly suffer from landing operations. You should know that from the Mariana Islands to the Solomon Islands, the Chinese Marines had almost never fought a real landing operation. Only when they attacked Digo Garcia in early 2053 did they encounter similar situations.

Interestingly, in this way, the casualties of the Marine Corps are not very large, but the combat pressure of the front-line troops is relatively high.

During this week's "ground war", the Marine Corps only suffered more than 3,000 officers and soldiers, but the US military lost more than 100,000 people, and tens of thousands of officers and soldiers were captured.

After discovering that it could not defeat the Chinese Marine Corps, the US military retreated to underground fortifications.

Starting from September 21, the battle entered the stage of a tough battle and evolved into the kind of battle on Guadalcanal that destroyed the underground fortifications of the US military.

In fact, this is the battle that makes the Marines the most headache-inducing.

At that time, the Marines did not use the tactics they had used on Guadalcanal Island, such as drilling to blow up the underground tunnels of the US Marines, trapping the US troops hidden underground in those separated underground facilities, making it impossible for the US troops to move around.

As for why the tactics on Guadalcanal were not used, it was related to the bloody battle on Guadalcanal, that is, the Marines believed that the battle on Guadalcanal turned into a bloody battle that caused more than 80,000 casualties, which was closely related to tactical errors.

Obviously, this is an extremely wrong judgment.

It is undeniable that in the early days of attacking Guadalcanal, the Chinese Marines made many mistakes and adopted many wrong tactics, but some correct tactics are worthy of recognition, such as defending in segments, only controlling key areas and not occupying irrelevant places.

The problem is that the Marines did not face these problems, but completely denied the tactics of Guadalcanal.

As a result, Maui almost became the second Guadalcanal island.

Fortunately, the US military's low morale has helped the Marines to a great extent, and the casualties caused to the Marines are minimal.

More importantly, the Marines have plenty of time.

Although Mu Haoyang clearly demanded that Maui must be fully controlled by the end of the year and later also demanded control of Oahu, compared with the Battle of Guadalcanal, the Marines did not have to worry about threats from the outside world, that is, it would be difficult for troops deployed in the United States to rush to support the Hawaiian Islands, and troops on other islands were even more difficult to pose a threat. Marines could fight on Maui as they please.

It would not be difficult for the Marines to occupy Maui in the next three months.

However, by the end of September, the situation changed.

The main reason is that Sima Wenzheng believes that there is no need to send all the Marines to Maui, so the remaining forces of the Marines can attack the second large island.

Obviously, this is exactly in line with Mu Haoyang's appetite, because Mu Haoyang is preparing to let the Marines attack Oahu.

On October 3, the Battle of Oahu began.

It can be said that Mu Haoyang was a little too hasty and Sima Wenzheng was too confident.

You should know that the US military on Maui has no will to stick to it and will surrender in a month. Therefore, the Marines will get enough troops to attack Oahu at the end of October or early November, and attacking Oahu at the beginning of October is equivalent to exhausting all reserves.

At that time, Sima Wenzheng had only twelve land divisions in his hands, and six land divisions had already fought on Maui.

In other words, he only has six land combat divisions available.

Although Oahu is much smaller than Maui and requires fewer ground troops, and other aspects are not a problem. For example, air support and artillery fire support are sufficient and will not be weakened by attacking two large islands at the same time, Oahu's defense deployment is stronger and the will of the defenders is stronger. The direct result is that when the Marines boarded Oahu, Sima Wenzheng discovered that the six Marine divisions were not enough at all.

Because Maui has not been captured yet, and the battlefield is 10,000 kilometers away from the nearest Chinese air force base, exceeding the maximum range of electric tactical transport aircraft, so the number of troops on the front line can only be transported by sea. Even if the reinforcements set off on October 3, it will take five days to arrive.

In fact, reinforcements only set out from Port Alap on October 5.

That is to say, it will not be reached on October 10th.

As a result, the battle on Oahu made the Chinese Marines suffer, with more than 10,000 casualties and more than 3,000 soldiers and more than 3,000 soldiers killed and killed.

You know, on Maui, the Marines suffered more than 3,000 casualties in the first week.

The hard battle produced an unexpected result, namely the "water attack tactic" that was later widely known.

On October 8, the Marine Corps used the "water attack tactic" for the first time to pour sea water into a US military underground fortification located north of Pearl Harbor.

At that time, the Marine Corps drilled a total of twelve drilling holes, each drilling diameter was above 20 centimeters, which could make the irrigation volume reach 12,000 cubic meters per hour. After the drilling was completed, the Marine Corps first carried out a slight blast to prevent the US military from blocking the wellborehole. Then, 24 large water pumps and 24 pressurizers were mobilized, and seawater began to pour into the US military's underground fortifications day and night. During the irrigation, the Marine Corps drilled the twelve wells.

Twelve tall towers were built nearby, each with a capacity of up to 2,000 cubic meters and a water level monitoring system was installed. Two days later, the sea water filled the US military's underground fortifications, and the tower was filled with sea water. Three days later, the Marine Corps sent several underwater robots carrying life detectors from the wellbore into the US military's underground fortifications and found that more than 3,000 US officers and soldiers hidden in the fortifications were drowned, and the US military in the adjacent fortifications were forced to block the underground passage.

The effect of the "water attack tactic" completely exceeded the Marines' expectations.

You should know that during this operation, no officer or soldier of the Marine Corps was killed, and the traditional tactics were adopted, at least hundreds of officers and soldiers would be sacrificed.

Since the "water attack tactic" was effective, the Marine Corps followed suit and began to promote this tactic.

As a result, the Battle of Oahu did not turn into a bloody battle, but became the "sea hell" of the US military.

By late October, the tactic was promoted to Maui, and eventually forced the stubborn U.S. troops on Maui to surrender in early November.

It can be said that the US military has no way to deal with the "water attack tactics".

At that time, what the US military could do was to block the underground passages leading to the submerged area. The core content of the Marine Corps tactics was to prevent the US military from moving into underground facilities, trapping the US military in major underground facilities, and then flooding these underground facilities one by one with seawater. In other words, blocking the underground passages was equivalent to tying itself up, and when the seawater poured in, there was nowhere to escape.

The US military on Oahu persisted for a longer period of time, mainly because these US military were of higher quality.

The result was that hundreds of thousands of US troops became cannon fodder for this war without any hope, and to be precise, the wronged souls buried deep underground.

After the war, the Chinese Marine Corps only cleaned up part of the underground fortifications on Oahu and then stopped cleaning. The main reason was that too many US troops were drowned in the underground fortifications, and by the end of the war, many of the bodies had been severely rotten and there was no way to clean them. Later, the part of the underground fortifications cleaned up by the Chinese Marine Corps became the most famous tourist attraction on Oahu. Millions of tourists came here every year, most of which were the families of the US soldiers who died on Oahu. Because they could not know exactly where their relatives died, these US families built a church on Oahu to commemorate their loved ones who had lost in this war initiated by ambitious people, and hope that their souls could enter heaven.

It is obvious that no one can tell whether US military officers and soldiers can enter heaven after their death.

In a sense, it was their fighting spirit that caused hundreds of thousands of American soldiers to be buried on Oahu. If the US military on Oahu also surrendered in early November, at least 300,000 people would die less. However, the officers and soldiers of these elite US Marines held on until early December. After several of the most important underground facilities, especially the underground facilities that housed small fusion reactors, were flooded by sea water, less than 50,000 American soldiers surrendered. In the end, more than 450,000 American soldiers were buried on Oahu.

On the battlefield of Oahu, the Chinese Marine Corps only paid a slight price of more than 5,000 officers and soldiers being killed, and more than 18,000 officers and soldiers being injured. Even if the casualties attacking Maui were included, the Chinese Marine Corps only sacrificed less than 10,000 officers and soldiers, and more than 30,000 were injured.

Compared with the bloody battle on Guadalcanal, this was definitely an extremely minor casualty.

But everything has both positive and negative sides.

After conquering Maui and Oahu at such a weak price, not to mention Sima Wenzheng, who was commanding on the front line, even Pang Yuelong and Zhou Yusheng, who were in the rear, believed that the morale of the US military had collapsed, so they could attack the US mainland at a very weak price and occupy the west coast of the United States.

The result was that in December 2055, Pang Yuelong and Zhou Yusheng began to plan combat operations to attack the United States.

At this time, Mu Haoyang had little concern for the frontline battles.
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