The interview went on for some time as the President continued to assure the American people that the war was moving in the right direction. The bottom line was that the country was recovering from the nuclear attack, and the economy was stronger than ever. At the end of the day, most Americans were going to be content with the fact that they had decent jobs and money in their pockets.
The Invasion Begins
As the Russian fleet approached the city of Nome, Alaska, they encountered the Navy’s new Swordfish underwater drone for the first time. The drone was able to launch four torpedoes before the Russians even knew it was in the area. It sank a troop carrier, and damaged one of the two Russian carriers. The other two torpedoes hit an ammunition ship and a troop transport, sinking both ships.
The Russian fleet began to launch a massive missile barrage in coordination with the carrier air wings, heavily damaging the airport and city of Nome. While the bombardment was underway, hundreds of smaller amphibious landing crafts were making preparations for the first Russian seaborne invasion of America.
While the amphibious landing was taking place, the sky was being filled with drones and aircraft vying for control of the battlespace. Dozens of transport aircraft were dropping thousands of Russian paratroopers deep behind enemy lines to sow as much confusion and chaos as possible. As the first wave of infantry hit the beaches, they met heavy resistance from the American positions near the coastline. The battle for the beach raged on for nearly three hours; it was not until the Russians landed their third wave of forces (intermixed with tanks) that they broke through the American positions.
The shore and several hundred meters inland were littered with the dead and dying. Hundreds of bodies could be seen floating in the water and crashing against the shore as the waves continued to push their lifeless bodies against the sand and rocks. The water became red from their blood.
Once the beach area was lost, the Americans began a quick retreat to their secondary positions. The troops returning from the coast were exhausted, beat up, dirty, and low on ammunition. They passed through the secondary defensive line and the troops assigned to defend it, giving them as much information about the oncoming Russians as they could before they were loaded into waiting vehicles and driven to the third line of defense. That is where they would reform and prepare to meet the Russians once again.
Clash for the Kodiak
The massive Chinese fleet began their final approach to Alaska, with their next stop being Kodiak Island. A smaller PLAN fleet and landing force was securing the Aleutian Island chain and peninsula, while the main fleet sailed closer to Kodiak and the inlet that would lead them to Anchorage. The goal was to secure Kodiak Island and turn it into a land base and logistical hub for the main invasion of Alaska. They needed to secure the city and the airport nearby; then they could move on and capture Shuyak Island State Park, Ushagat Island (in the center of the channel), and Kachemak Bay State Park. Once these locations had been secured, the Chinese Navy would begin to ferry in millions of PLA soldiers and equipment. From there, a gravy train of supplies and troops would be sent from China directly to the frontlines.
As the fleet moved closer, the five Chinese Supercarriers began to launch their air wings of drones and manned fighters to begin battling for control of the skies. While the fighters were mixing it up in the air with the Americans, the Naval Task Force began a massive rocket and missile barrage of the entrenched American positions throughout the state parks, islands and Anchorage itself. Hundreds of amphibious landing crafts were disembarking from their Motherships, and began heading towards the beaches and various landing sites in a well-orchestrated and massive invasion.
As the landing craft neared the city of Kodiak, they started to receive enemy fire from numerous heavy railgun positions. Short-ranged rockets and mortars were starting to be launched by the hundreds as the invaders continued to get closer and closer to the shoreline.
Corporal Chang stood in the leading vessel wearing his specialized exoskeleton combat suit; he was ready to kill Americans. This was Chang’s first time using this new combat suit and he was eager to see if it lived up to its reputation; it was also his first time facing the Americans. Everything he had heard was that the Americans fought like men possessed by devils. He had been told this would not be an easy landing, and that he should not to take the Americans for granted. They all knew the 1st EF had been defeated in the Middle East; no one wanted to repeat that history.
The PLAN infantry had been given priority to receive the suits first, since they would be leading the amphibious assault against America. The suits gave their users an incredible advantage over their adversaries. Aside from being able to run at close to 30 mph and lift nearly 2,000 pounds, the suit’s wearer was sheathed in the newest generation of Dragon Skin body armor. This was the same body armor that the American soldiers used. The blueprints had been stolen years ago, and the Chinese saw no need to change the name. The name fit its design. The Dragon Skin was essentially bullet proof against all current modern day assault rifle ammunition, with the exception of the Americans’ new M5 AIR. The soldiers’ arms, legs and neck were still somewhat exposed, leaving the suit still vulnerable in certain areas.
As Chang’s landing vehicle began to get closer to the targeted site, they began to take heavy enemy fire. Dozens of bullets were bouncing off of the armored shield on the front of the landing vehicle; the craft itself was being bounced around by artillery and mortar rounds landing nearby. Geysers of water began to spout and soak the troops on the landing vehicles from nearby misses. Fire and shrapnel would consume others who were not so lucky. Chang looked through one of the bullet proof window slits in the landing craft to catch a glance at the shore. What he saw was nothing short of spectacular horror.
Tracer rounds could be seen crisscrossing between the landing crafts’ heavy weapons and those of the Americans entrenched near the shore. It was like watching a laser show, with the sheer volume of terror being unleashed between the two sides. Rockets continued to hammer the American positions while heavy mortars and artillery continued to land amongst the amphibious fleet that was nearly to the shore now.
A voice came on the radio (barely audible over the growl of the engines and machine gun fire) to let Chang’s squad know they were about to make landfall and that they should be ready to exit the rear of the vehicle quickly because they would not be sticking around very long. The landing vehicle needed to head back to the mothership and pick up the next wave of soldiers. Suddenly, the vessel hit the gravelly beach, and the back door dropped down for Chang’s ten-man squad to exit the vehicle and make for their objectives. Chang’s squad had been assigned three gun emplacement positions to secure before moving inland to engage other targets.
While they were exiting the rear of the vehicle, a mortar round landed nearby and exploded. It knocked Chang off of his feet and threw him a couple of feet back into the water. The rest of his squad began to fire their rifles at the American positions and advanced in good order, just as they had been drilled and trained to do. Chang quickly got to his feet, and ran after his squad. Just then, the landing vehicle began to back up where Chang had been just seconds earlier. The roar of all of the machine guns and explosions was almost deafening. As Chang neared a disabled Chinese tank that his squad was using for cover, he ordered them to advance to the first gun emplacement 100 meters to their front. Two of the soldiers in his squad moved forward ten meters while the remainder of the squad provided covering fire.