The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

As if he felt that it was not safe enough, Eisenhower, who was overly cautious, took the third step of luring the enemy to the extreme, and sent two forces that no one could ignore, from Salt Lake City and New Mexico, respectively. Las Vegas, Phoenix.Naturally, it is also indispensable for the Northern Army to launch an attack on the Carson, Redding defense lines, and northern California.

As the saying goes, Qi and Zheng complement each other, which is the second key to the classical Chinese art of war!

It's hard not to know about this kind of fanfare.No matter who it is, it is impossible to ignore the spectacular scene of thousands of vehicles of various kinds moving suddenly, and the torrent of steel rolling across!

And Barton, who is back in battle, is one of them.

He can be regarded as guilty and meritorious, and Chief of Staff Marshall continued to use him against all opinions, which can be said to have taken a lot of risk.Reasonably, he couldn't let the old man's face drop to the ground.

Furthermore, he was very dissatisfied with the loss last time. He was inexplicably taken back, and he killed a large army in a daze, and was besieged by heavy artillery regiments. Failure is not a crime of war!

This time, he wanted to save face no matter what, and he didn't believe that with his own means, he couldn't wash away the shame!

Today, of course, the U.S. Army is equipped completely differently.First of all, the most terrible thing is that the threat of attack aircraft from China has been greatly weakened. Dozens or even hundreds of dense air force fighter planes are rampant in the entire airspace in the direction of approach, and the [-]-kilometer area is tightly controlled. Don't expect to sneak in quietly to carry out surprise ground attacks.

Then there are the tanks they use. Those m4 Shermans and m3 Grants that were not useful before are all retired.Replace it with a brand new m41 series tank. [

Among them, m41 light tank.It is directly a replica of the monkey version of the "Bayonet" tank developed by Zhu Bin for the original Central Army. After further strengthening and localization improvements, it was manufactured into a tank weighing about 24 tons, with an American 762mm main gun and a 762mm heavy machine gun. , and set up a guy with an anti-air 127mm heavy machine gun.

The coquettish half-egg-shaped cast iron turret, wedge-shaped front armor, and a light structure with five pairs of road wheels.The excellent cross-country passing performance and relatively balanced protective armor have deeply attracted the US military. After mass production without any psychological barriers, they will be equipped with troops.

To be honest, the Americans themselves feel bad about this guy, because they really can't beat the perverted Chinese armored troops deployed in front of them---Nimma tanks with a minimum caliber of 105mm.How to make such a light car body!It is simply cheating!

Therefore, they are not the main force of the U.S. Army's armored forces, but an auxiliary force for infantry operations. Those produced in excess are shipped to Europe to deal with German soldiers.

The real main force is after combining the advantages of the m4 Sherman and this tank.A redesigned and manufactured one, named m41 Sherman 2, followed the naming habits of the British, and could also be used to confuse the enemy's intelligence system.

But things are completely different things!

This tank.The total weight of the battle is as high as 48 tons, which is fully doubled!Six pairs of large road wheels.The half egg-shaped turret, the low wedge-shaped front armor is completely flooded, and the skirt armor is the same!

The main gun system, the first version uses the American M1 90mm anti-aircraft gun, which greatly increases the armor-piercing power, and can successfully threaten enemy armor units with a thickness of more than 100mm.With the current Cheetah series of Zhu Jiajun, it is really embarrassing to fight without composite armor!

On this basis, this tank focuses on thickening the front armor, with a full 105mm homogeneous steel plate, and uses an 810-horsepower twin-turbocharged gasoline engine. It is full of power, with a maximum speed of 48 kilometers per hour and a maximum travel distance of 465 kilometers. It can be described as an excellent choice for a while. .

Ford and Chrysler, two of the world's largest automobile factories, frantically use assembly lines to manufacture these steel monsters, nonstop around the clock, and can equip several divisions a month at a speed that is still increasing.

This guy, after wearing the American version of the copycat composite armor, has a defense capability of more than 200mm. It can't be pierced by the Americans' own anti-tank rockets, and the 90mm anti-aircraft gun can't be fixed. A sharp weapon!

It is said that there is also a heavy-duty guy with a 105mm main gun mounted on this chassis. It is not known when it will be available in the development and trial production, but at that time, the attack power of the US Army will definitely be turned upside down!

In addition to tanks, self-propelled weapons are essential.For example, the 41mm self-propelled artillery, 155mm self-propelled howitzer, double-barreled 105mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun manufactured on the m40 "Bulldog" light tank chassis, and there is even a new one that has just been built, and its performance is not very stable. The rockets installed, etc., etc., a series of steel creations, modeled on the structure of the Chinese heavy armored division, have increased the amount of steel several times on the previous basis.

The combat effectiveness of such a rebuilt heavy tank division has at least doubled several times!The speed of action, the ferocity of the attack, the convenience of arranging troops, and the depth of the attack, that is earth-shaking!

After holding back his anger for more than half a year, Patton finally found a chance to vent his anger. After mastering the troops, he took the lead in a fierce attack on Las Vegas from the north! [

If you want to talk about the scary hundreds of tanks and thousands of vehicles, not to mention the scale, the dust alone is enough for satellites to find out. The huge steel cluster is too obvious, so they drove out of Salt Lake City and were investigated. arrive.

Looking at the photos taken from various angles and heights, Wang Zhangtang stood up excitedly, and laughed loudly: "Okay! I'm not lonely anymore! Finally, a fat sheep that looks a little decent came to my door. Haha, I can move now!"

Chief of Staff Zhao Nai's dissuasion: "You'd better be careful! Without certain preparations, the Americans will not easily stand out. They are so blatant, they must have sufficient coping strategies, how can they just come out and die?"

Wang Zhangtang was arrogant: "That's nothing to think about! There is no army stronger than ours in the world! No matter what he has, just run over him!"

Tank to tank.Since the enemy army is in such a posture, don't go up and clean up.In fact, it is not as good as a beast.

After expanding into a special mountain division, Wang Zhangtang's headquarters, each of which was overstaffed, added an expanded army aviation unit, a strategic guidance unit, an air force unit, and an electronic warfare unit. Of course, the armor of the main attack force will not be missing. group.

The original structure of one heavy, two light and three tank regiments has been changed to two heavy, three light and five regiments.Huge and staggering.

The main equipment is also mainly the Cheetah-105 equipped with 3mm high-pressure smoothbore guns, with the heavy punch of double 105 guns as the backbone, while the 120mm Tiger tanks, which only accounted for a small part, have greatly increased their proportion!

Anyway, all kinds of crazy and unlucky heavy weapons spread in his division one by one.After half a year of effort, the combat power continued to double!

With an order, the tank regiment stationed in St. George's forward guard immediately moved into action, rushing the huge armored group towards Salt Lake City, posing a half-way interception posture.

After crossing Cedar City, the simultaneous march of the two sides was exposed.They are generally difficult to walk on broken roads and broken terrain. It is impossible to play the same desert melee as last time, and you can't put on a posture, and you don't want to be blocked by people.Therefore, Lake Sevier in the middle became the target of competition.

It is 40 kilometers long and 11 kilometers wide.Just like the Great Salt Lake in the north, the saltwater lake that can only be entered is a good place to extract brine salt, but it has no mining value for the time being.

The area where the Colorado Plateau meets the edge of the Nevada Great Basin, the terrain is relatively gentle compared to other places, and it is also the main channel for the southward attack. Whoever takes the lead may pay less.

The previous two parties were not ignorant of the "importance", but no one had a headache for the bad mountainous terrain of at least two or three hundred kilometers.If the Americans hadn't had to retreat because of the homeland war, they wouldn't have started fighting west of Colorado. Just transporting troops here would be troublesome enough.

Of course, the Zhu family's army didn't have much interest in expanding. The west coast alone was enough for them to work. If the front line went all the way out, they would have to defend a full 3000-kilometer front from north to south!How many troops do you plan to deploy, is 100 million enough?That's not what California has to offer.

Passive defense has never been the original intention of Zhu's army's survival. The previous "sexual" defense was just for today's series of actions.When the power reserve is sufficient, a million troops will land, and it will be a huge attack that will spread throughout the United States!

Of course, at that time, the United States must have been cleaned up and dying.Unlike now, people's industry and population, military strength and morale are not damaged, and rashly recruiting 100 million troops with weak successors to fight a protracted war on a battlefield more than 2 miles away is courting death!

If it weren't for the US military's comprehensive siege today, Wang Zhangtang and the others could only continue to implement the original strategy.

On Barton's side, he frantically pushed the speed of all the troops to the limit.The three armored regiments marched side by side along the railway, from the southern end of the Great Salt Lake, and Lake Sevier, with a great momentum, for fear that others would not know.

The fighter planes that flew ahead to open the way were discovered and intercepted in advance not long after they came out. They were never given a chance to attack the ground troops. The preemptive fight was connected with the explosion that broke out over Nevada, full of heat and flames!

It can be said that China and the United States have brought the air combat of this era to the extreme!The density is so high that it is far beyond what European battlefields can compare. Thousands of fighter jets dance wildly at every turn. Just imagine a battlefield with a width of hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, and it will make people feel hot all over!

Patton's troops set out at night, and after a night's trek, at around nine o'clock the next morning, the forward line reached the center line.

Because of the priority strike of air power, the railway between the two sides was destroyed by continuous bombing, so the first-line railway transportation became the slowest.Instead, the Chinese army running wildly all the way appeared at both ends of Lake Sevier, separated by a huge salt lake, each stopped their movements, facing each other from a distance!

The leader of this road is none other than the craziest Luo Zhendong Fifth Regiment.After the upgrade, he has the same color as a colonel, and his luck is so good. Look at the troops under his command who have just gone through a frenzied journey. They are exhausted and messy. The enemy's situation has also been clarified. It is obvious that the performance of American tanks is a lot worse. Under the all-out rush, many of them broke down.

Ordinarily, it is a good time to launch a violent attack.But Luo Zhendong ordered everyone to rest on the spot.The overhaul of the overhaul, the supplement of the supplement, made for a massive addition arrayed along the south side of the lake.

The U.S. army on the opposite side took a relatively smoother path, and the performance of the tank was slightly worse, but the bumps were not serious. I thought that the opponent would kill me while my position was not stable.Seize the wide battlefield, open up the battle, nervous, no, no, no, I didn't expect, first class, second class, people won't come!

Americans were a little dumbfounded at the time!

They don't quite understand, in terms of geography.The area on the south bank of the lake is too narrow and steep, and it is fundamentally impossible to deploy a large number of armored units. Whether attacking from the left or the right, there will be consequences for a small number of units to face a large number of sieges. This should not happen to experienced Chinese enemies Negligence!

Could it be that.They have a conspiracy?

Americans instinctively thought of this.Nothing else, I'm afraid of tossing.

Like a conditioned reflex, the head of the regiment hurriedly ordered the troops to disperse and deploy, and never gather them together, lest they be taken over by the opponent with special weapons.

Then.And let the accompanying self-propelled artillery aim at the two sides of the lake from the rear, ready for intensive strikes at any time.Give the opponent a ruthless blow head-on!

A tense waiting, a relaxing rest, the effect is completely different!It took more than two hours until it was almost noon, when the scorching sun was about to burn oil, Luo Zhendong looked at his watch and waved his hand lightly: "Action!"

Three red "red" signals went into the air, and the troops who had rested responded loudly!The two tank battalions, led by all Cheetah-3, opened a sparse space, dispersed from both sides of the lake, and moved forward!

To say that this unlucky salt lake is surrounded by undulating mountains on both sides, it is impossible to run, and even in some places, there are corroded ravines, which need to be temporarily opened by the pontoon unit to pass through, which can be described as extremely troublesome.

The U.S. side is relatively better, but because they dare not face it head-on, they can only wait patiently.

This wait is several hours!The Luo Zhendong armored troops, which kept opening roads and building bridges, were slowly advancing. They were always unable to reach the place. They finally made it almost [-] kilometers longer. The high point of the Liangmianshan system, the last come first, and the exchange of fire has begun!

The U.S. military fighting back from the Jedi is quite aggressive!The weapons and equipment are slightly inferior, but it does not affect their daring to fight. The heavy Browning heavy machine gun, the Garand rifle, and the M1 carbine match, in the face of twice or three times their dense firepower, they are not afraid at all. Suddenly, a stalemate formed!

But in this way, no one has time to control the ground attack.

After waiting for a long time, the U.S. troops drying in the sun on the saline-alkaline Gobi Desert were all sluggish like frost-beaten eggplants. After drinking the water they carried, they immediately turned into sweat, and their mouths and tongues were dry. All dizzy.

At this time, Mr. Commander suddenly realized his mistake!Armored troops, the action is to seek a fast word first, to be able to break through the enemy's formation, to rush forward, is the key skill, to lead behind to seek a half-way block is what infantry should do, it is not suitable!

What's wrong with the enemy's strength, they would rather risk their losses than make them feel better. Isn't this the core purpose of this dispatch?

The U.S. Army, which suddenly woke up, finally became active. Two groups of tanks moved along the beachhead to the narrow area in the south, and soon reached the edge of the dog and complex, allowing the engineers to open the way and slowly advance.

Speaking of which, the choice of this battlefield is really dirty enough, the Americans cursed as they moved forward, what a damn idea came up with!Could it be that the Chinese are not familiar with the terrain after staying here for more than half a year?Or, it was intentional at all!

The worried commander ordered the self-propelled artillery to move forward, especially the 155mm heavy artillery. After dragging it ten kilometers away, he gestured and saw that the enemy had reached the maximum range, so he pulled out a few doors and fired first!

The roaring cannons swept across the air for more than 20 kilometers, and rushed towards the middle of the curved and uneven Lake Sevier. On the trajectory blocked by regular raised ridges, clusters of brilliant fires began to bloom fiercely!

It's so far away, it's basically not accurate.The Chinese tanks seemed to have not considered the consequences of being hit at all, and continued to open the way and march in an orderly manner!

Unknowingly, around five o'clock in the afternoon, the mountains on the west side began to elongate their shadows, and the uncomfortable sultry heat gradually subsided. Seeing that the two sides were less than ten kilometers away from each other, it was a strange battle. It can explode in full force!

Suddenly, the Chinese tanks suddenly accelerated their speed of action!

A ridge with a height of more than 100 meters suddenly bulges across the front, covering the sight of both sides. The slope is so large, and the curvature caused by the intrusion into the lake forces the two sides to go around carefully before they can face each other. The US military is completely unprepared At that time, I suddenly saw that there were groups of tanks rushing out of the water!

"Tanks can run in water!? They aren't made of steel, are they made of paper? Or are they fucking with the navy?!"

Before the dumbfounded Americans could react, the amphibious tanks on the ground had already raised their muzzles and opened fire!

Face to face, the U.S. tanks crawling on the shore of the lake twisted and struggled, and they were hit one after another. In the explosions, they had high hopes, and they became piles of steel ruins emitting thick smoke!

The entire tank unit of the Luozhen East Regiment, who had been dawdling all this time, became crazy as if they had suddenly taken a "drug". They broke through the center line along the passage they opened up, crossed the short lake beach, and rushed to the opposite side all the way!

The rough terrain that had originally been the fetters of the two sides suddenly disappeared. A large number of tanks piled up by the US military were out of line, and the formation was chaotic. , and then gathered together, towards the middle and rear, rushed over!

The U.S. military commander was so frightened that he yelled: "Stop them! Don't let them attack the artillery! Damn it! What are they trying to do!" (To be continued. If you like this work, welcome Come to the starting point to vote, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. For mobile phone users, please go to m to read.)

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