The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

In the center of Nevada, north of Mount Jefferson, on an inconspicuous ridge, Lieutenant General John DeWitt, commander of the 4th Army of the U.S. Army, held on to a small tree, panting, and tried to straighten his body. Still bent very weakly, making him look extraordinarily tired.

Next to it, more than a dozen guards formed a relatively dense cordon, each carrying a Thompson submachine gun, staring at the surroundings and the sky with wide-eyed eyes. Everyone carefully blended their bodies with the surrounding vegetation, trying not to look special.

Lieutenant General Witt took the water bottle handed over from the side, and slowly drank about two ounces in small sips, then stopped filling it, raised his head, let the last bit of water moisten his throat that seemed to be on fire, and held his breath for a full 1 It took only a few minutes to spit it out slowly, and sighed in a low voice: "I really want to strangle those guys lying on the map and making plans! Damn it, do they know how difficult it is to travel to the hinterland of Nevada?"

Next to him, a lieutenant colonel who was following him grabbed half of the helmet covered in camouflage cloth, pushed it back reluctantly, flicked his sleeve, and replied: "Maybe they think that we can all be like camels, You can trek in the Gobi desert without eating or drinking! But I can be sure that they must have used a ruler to measure the distance at that time. Otherwise, how could they calculate the route with such a big gap!"

This is not a funny complaint at all, but it just illustrates the dilemma they are facing now. The main force of the entire group army is forced to disperse into a mountainous area with a width of more than 200 kilometers. Simply difficult to do.Now, Commander Witt, who has lost his wire contact, doesn't even know the divisions under him.Where did he go?

They, of course, followed Eisenhower's plan, made a big circle from Salt Lake City, and quietly dispersed the infiltration attack army that moved to central Nevada!

Lieutenant General Witt's 4th Army was originally a west coast defense force stationed in San Francisco.After Zhu Bin led the ocean-going fleet to raid.Paying half the price of casualties, they fled to the mountains in embarrassment. After a confrontation for a while, they were forced to retreat again, retreating to the middle reaches of the Humboldt River in one breath, and the headquarters simply arrived in Salt Lake City.

This way run down.Not to mention how embarrassing they were, or how embarrassing they were, just losing their country is enough to lose their military ranks.Fortunately, it was not one or two of them that failed, but the entire US "government".The military power of the entire United States, especially compared to the US Navy, which was almost wiped out, is relatively decent.

Back in the past six months, the 4th Army has reorganized and replenished, and its strength has even been strengthened a lot compared to before the war. Various new weapons have been installed one after another, and then it is full of energy.Thinking about when to kill him again, to get revenge. [

If they follow the previous thinking and attack from the direction of Carson again, the opponent only needs to block a few valleys, or simply blow up the high mountain tunnel that Huagong used to pave the way with bones, and they can only stare blankly!

But obviously the Chinese did not give up and planned to continue using those railway bridges, and the US military also had the same opportunity.

This time, General Witt led all the troops and became a new force to counterattack the west coast.Take the initiative to request the first dispatch.So, they quietly arrived in the north by train, and then spread out in the dark, entering the mountains one batch after another.

The huge Sierra Nevada ranges from north to south.It forms a series of mountains with a width of [-] to [-] kilometers, and in the middle is a large number of Gobi, desert, grassland, and saltwater lakes.

The large number of off-road vehicles that the 4th Army planned to use at the beginning began to lose parts and break down within a hundred kilometers after running out. The speed could not even keep up with the two legs, and they were decisively abandoned.The motorcycle could go a little longer, but then the fighting in the sky became more and more intense. Anything that smoked might give away the target, and the fuel supply could not be supplied, so he decisively abandoned it again.

Fortunately, I dare not say anything else here. How many horses are needed? Back to the era of westward expansion a hundred years ago, cowboys dragged their families in groups and hunted Indians with rifles while expanding westward. The U.S. Army Soldiers, using modern weapons that have been upgraded many times, sweeping the vast mountains and sweeping across the land, it is almost like an epic reappearance.

But no matter how well thought out this thing is, it will only work if it is practical.Worst of all, herds of horses could also be targeted by aerial strikes.Those idle Chinese attack planes and patrol planes wandered around at low altitude all day long, and when they found the target, they came down curiously and circled around, and fired when they found something wrong.

People are camouflaged with camouflage uniforms, so they can hide for a while. There are so many horses, and there are "powder" cannons on them.

From the start, this journey was doomed to be uneventful.It is only about a hundred kilometers into the mountainous area, and most of the water carried is almost consumed.The horse died, the car was left behind, the position of the air supply was dropped, and a bunch of other things were mixed up, including General Witt, all were exhausted!

American soldiers, riding a horse 100 years ago, and later riding a car, really walked the mountain road on two legs. This is a rare treatment!

Various troubles caused by underestimation appeared one after another!It used to be a company as a unit, and the largest battalion was divided into several layers of decentralized organization, which became more and more chaotic.During the first small meeting after entering the mountainous area for [-] kilometers, at least [-] of the [-] people had numbers... Nima, before the war officially started, what happened to all the people scattered!

It cannot be said that they did not fight at all.Aircraft attacks in the sky, parachute pilots, rescue special reconnaissance units, all kinds of short and small-scale firefights caused by this are countless.Although on the surface, it seems that their large-scale offensive intentions have not been exposed---except for senior commanders, even officers at the battalion level don't know how many people came out of them, they just know the first or second one. Two places that must be reached.The ultimate combat goal?Not sure.

In the hinterland of Nevada, the mountains are undulating, the population has run away, and the beasts are noisy due to endless aerial battles.

Tired and hungry soldiers.It’s okay to travel from the mountains and grasslands, but at night, the cooling of the highlands is extremely uncomfortable, and the sweat is sticky and sticky to the body.Awkward!

Don’t start a fire for fear of being found out, eating cold canned food can suffocate people with a strange smell, Nima is all substandard products, various preservative additives, dead pigs and cows, and even feces!bacteria?Just add some medicine to it, soldier.Why eat so good! [

I can’t sleep, but I dare not relax. I dare not say anything else in Nevada. There must be a complete variety of poisonous snakes, especially in the low-lying Gobi Desert, where rattlesnakes live so well.I usually wag my tail to remind me that when I get cold, I like to burrow into the heat source --- people's clothes, and if I don't pay attention to intimate contact, I will foam at the mouth!

After four days, the American soldiers were tortured to death, it was miserable!Even if it is General Witt who has a bunch of people serving him.I almost broke my old waist.

As the three-sided feint battle entered a stalemate, their group of troops also completely disappeared into the mountains. The soldiers slowly began to adapt to the environment, but food and water became scarcer and scarier. The most terrible thing was that the communication was completely cut off. up!

You can't drag the telephone line into the mountains, it all depends on the line.In the past, he was afraid of exposing the target and did not dare to open it frequently. Later, the peripheral attack became too intensive. Impatient Wang Zhangtang simply started the full-band jamming operation, and the electronic reconnaissance plane suppressed it in a loop.The large transmitting antenna built in the mountains is also operating at full power, and the communication environment of the eight Nevada, Utah, and Arizona theater lines is a mess!

This is the first time that such a large-scale toss has been made, and the US military generals have completely lost their temper.

The worst thing is.General Witt found that no matter how good the previous plan was, even with accurate aerial map comparisons, many routes that seemed to be possible to walk in the mountains were impossible to walk at all, and the route had to be changed. If you miss a supply point, it is very difficult to find the next one!

After finally getting to the big supply point, I found that there were unexpectedly many people coming over!If there are too many wolves but not enough meat, there will be disputes.He was too tired to mediate for this.

Anyway, on the seventh day, he finally led most of the people to the central part, taking the Grand Canyon where Mount Jefferson was located as the meeting point, but found that the concentration of troops was far from the planned goal, and, They were at least a third slower than the speed required by the plan!

This is why the lieutenant colonel complained.If it were a flat road, it would be inhumane for Americans to travel hundreds of miles on foot in the environment in which they were born in a car—or even conceived in a car (囧).Not to mention such a bad mountain environment, it is a crime!

From the map, it seems that the route is not particularly difficult to walk, but when they actually got off the ground, the American soldiers knew how amazing they were to complete the [-]-mile mountain trek in seven days. Miles, please, kill them!

General Whitt is still heading in the opposite direction along the largest tributary of the Humboldt River. Along the way, there are dry river banks to walk on and drinking water to use. They are all exhausted, so how miserable are the people on other routes?

He couldn't help but think of another army group on the east road. Their gathering target was near the Troy Grand Canyon. There were no rivers along the way. Even if there were lakes, most of them were saline lakes. Sufficient supplies, I don't know how much I will die of thirst!

Relatively speaking, the road of the Eastern Group Army is easier to walk. If there is more sand than stones, it depends on their luck.

According to the plan, the two troops will arrive at the predetermined location within seven days respectively.The 4th Army needs to occupy Tonopah first, and then send some people forward to the east, echoing the troops attacking Carson in the north, and be alert to the direction of Mono Lake, which may come from the enemy in California, or provide diversion.Their position and role are very critical!

Then its main force will go south and attack Las Vegas from another road.This requires coordination with the East Road Group Army, a two-pronged approach, not only sudden, intensive, violent, but also extremely efficient!

The plan seems to be formulated perfectly, but when it is executed, all kinds of hardships ah!

Observing from the top of the hill, what General Witt is most worried about is that without the radio communication, they will know the progress of the Eastern Route Army and whether they have arrived at the starting point of the attack ahead of time. Once the two sides fail to coordinate, they may Became a victim of refueling tactics.

He was also worried that before his own people arrived, the guys from the air force could not wait to throw the heavy equipment to Tonopah in advance.Once discovered by the enemy and quickly destroyed, their group of infantry carrying rifles and light machine guns will have no way to confront the armored forces head-on!

After entering the battlefield, I realized that the plan is not as fast as the change!

The Air Force drops heavy equipment.Well, again, this was the brainchild of Eisenhower's genius.

Aren't the roads in Nevada difficult?It doesn't matter, we have a lot of American planes!If you can't walk, let's airdrop Leapfrog!The large-scale airborne paratroopers are too eye-catching, and it is easy to attract the opponent's fighter planes to intercept them. It would be too unpleasant if everyone died halfway.

But people move into place from the ground.Then use a large number of transport planes to launch in the chaos?That would be perfect!

Now, the largest transport aircraft of the US military can transport m41 light tanks!Those towed artillery and so on are not a problem.In particular, with the perfect demonstration of the Chinese, the major arms groups in the United States rushed to work.The original version of the air-dropped armored vehicle, the infantry fighting vehicle, and even the armed jeep have been mass-produced.It is unrealistic to airdrop an armored division at one time, a semi-mechanized infantry division, no problem!

In the past few days, General Witt has been making people watch the movement in the sky to see if there are a large number of transport planes overtaking them.The radio stations are also turned on in different time periods.See if you can find an opening to contact the rear headquarters.

All kinds of troubles!

He sighed deeply again. Just as General Witt was about to go out to observe the terrain, there was a sudden buzzing sound in the sky. The guards immediately rushed to hide him, and then saw a peregrine attack aircraft, arrogantly It passed slowly from the low altitude, and under the wings, two thick rocket pods were shockingly displayed, enough to make a battalion of armored units terrified!

This rough-skinned and thick-skinned guy can't be beaten by anti-aircraft machine guns alone.Once the target is exposed, they don't have to live anymore.

General Witt shook his fist towards the sky angrily, waited for a few minutes, and found that no troops were exposed, and he was suffocated.He waved his hands vigorously: "Keep going!"

After descending the mountain, when it was dark, a small group of scouting cavalry returned from the front, bringing a piece of good news. They had survived the worst part of the road, and within [-] kilometers ahead, there was no trace of the enemy. There was no "littering" of umbrella bags, and everything seemed to be relatively smooth.

General Witt applauded again and again, and ordered the troops to work harder, and strive to march to the concentration area of ​​the Grand Canyon when the dawn of the next day arrived. Although it was still a bit late, fortunately, it was not too much.He has had enough of such a broken road!

But he didn't know that such a proper regulation was only possible because of Brigadier General Eisenhower, who was cursed by them, who could only measure with a ruler on the map, and controlled the overall situation.

In the rear, Eisenhower learned that there was a communication problem in the entire Nevada theater. On the one hand, he reminded the Air Force to immediately look for interference points and try to destroy them. , Repeated investigations to the scheduled meeting place, searching for signals.

The plan he came up with is not so easy to collapse. According to the plan of General Witt and others, when they reach the ground, they will send out a light signal at night to be discovered by the reconnaissance plane.This is all taking into account the possibility of communication terminals.

It was the seventh day, and the signal did not come, so he knew that there must be something wrong on the way. Combining the results of the air battle and the reconnaissance, he boldly judged that he encountered irresistible natural environmental obstacles. , put food, water, and "medicine" into the secondary open supply point that was not originally marked.

This trick is really right!

A large number of troops who ran the wrong route and missed the opportunity were resupplied. As for the wasted ones, the Americans have never been afraid of wasting... .

Before the early morning of the next day, General Witt couldn't wait to order the troops to send out a signal, using special rocket fireworks to be released rhythmically from the predetermined hilltop highlands, repeated several times.

Soon, the instructions of the general headquarters arrived in his hands after the plane was dropped, their positions were determined, the time for launching the general offensive was rescheduled, and the current position of the Eastern Route Army was conveyed by the way.

Compared with General Werther's prediction, the Eastern Route Army was even worse!

They were even closer to the battlefield on the Eastern Front. There was less vegetation on the ground, more open land, more poisonous snakes, and less water. Many transport planes were shot down, resulting in insufficient early deployment.

Later, the opponent's investigation force increased, which made the march more difficult, and more and more small-scale conflicts were intercepted. On several occasions, it was discovered that more than one company was infiltrating.At any rate, with the cover of the feint attacking troops, their main force was not exposed, but that was only a matter of time.

After realizing the crisis, the Eastern Route Army, regardless of exhaustion, boldly decided to receive equipment and launch a fierce attack after only one day of rest.This made Witt's 4th Army feel sorry, but it had to do so.

Therefore, after a tense rest during the day, a large number of fires were lit in the Grand Canyon that night, pointing out the direction for the transport fleet.Under the escort of night fighter jets, a large amount of supplies were thrown from the sky!Even the twin-engined p61 was involved in the casting effort!

First, a large number of prefabricated slab materials were used to lay two simple runways. The engineers and soldiers were busy all night. In the early morning, large transport planes began to arrive. While sweeping down at low altitude, heavy packages came out from behind and slid along the runway. And take off to launch on a large scale at the fastest speed! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote and monthly pass. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users, please go to m to read.)

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