The frontline commanders of the U.S. military have become desperate. If you say fight, it will be difficult to impress these big iron bastards. They will also suffer retaliation from federal artillery fire.
If you leave the safe passage, the mines will lose their effectiveness.
After all these minesweeper tanks returned to the federal positions, the federal tanks appeared again, but among their ranks were some more weird-looking tanks. These tanks still had the body of a tank, but they had a long, large iron cabinet on top of their heads.
.Shortly when the tanks arrived at the river, federal long-range support artillery suddenly opened fire.
A large number of artillery fell near the U.S. defense line, making the U.S. soldiers dare not look up from the trenches. Moreover, some federal attack aircraft also appeared in the air again. They flew over the trenches in groups of three and five, clearing out what they could find.
Any US military firepower point.
The federal bombardment lasted for nearly half an hour. When the bombardment stopped, the U.S. soldiers listened to the whistle of entering the position and just raised their heads. Almost all the U.S. soldiers were stunned. There were already 2 people on the river that was originally more than 30 meters wide.
A bridge. The things that make up the bridge are very similar to the large iron cabinets on the heads of the tanks just now. Now these iron cabinets are connected together by thick steel cables and components, relying on their own buoyancy to form two
A steel bridge over 5 meters wide.
While the American soldiers were dumbfounded, two federal minesweeper tanks had already landed from the south bank of the river on large iron rollers and continued their work of pressing the ground, while more and more minesweeper tanks and regular tanks on the pontoon crossed the river.
Start climbing up the south bank of the river. The river, which is regarded as a natural obstacle, has basically lost its function.[
The battle situation at the front was quickly transmitted to the U.S. military headquarters in the rear. For fear of the federal interference with the U.S. military's communication equipment, the current communication between the U.S. military's front line and the rear has been changed to wired telephone and line communication double insurance. For the federal offensive forces,
This steady progress, relying solely on the overall strength of the crushing model, the US military generals are thinking about it, and they can't think of any good way to deal with it.
In fact, facing an army that has tended to be electronic, mechanized, and three-dimensional combat, the U.S. military, whose thinking and equipment are still in the stage of artillery, trench defense, and auxiliary air force, really has no good way. As long as the federal army does not advance rashly,
By lengthening your own supply line, your logistics supplies can keep up with the consumption on the battlefield. Currently, no army in the world can do anything about it, not even the top German army. At best, it will only cause the federal army to suffer slightly greater losses.
That's all.
In this way of fighting, the bravery of soldiers and the resourcefulness of generals are no longer the determining factors of victory or defeat. The quality of weapons and equipment, the time to master various information on the battlefield, the efficient logistics supply system, and the secure communication and command system
is the top priority. No matter how loyal or ferocious your soldiers are, there is no essential difference between killing a high-quality soldier and killing a militiaman in the face of overwhelming bombings. There is no cost difference either.
change.
No matter how skillfully your generals can use "On War" and "Sun Tzu's Art of War", if your tanks cannot hit the opponent's tanks, your planes cannot shoot down the opponent's planes, and your warships cannot sink the opponent's warships,
When your every move is under the strict surveillance of the opponent's detection equipment, it will be in vain for you to combine Zhuge Liang and Napoleon.
Of course, it cannot be said that poor weapons and equipment and poor tactics will definitely lead to invincibility. Under certain specific conditions, if you correctly use your own advantages, you can also defeat enemies stronger than yourself in the short term. For example, in the Vietnam War in later generations,
In the Korean War, the U.S. military still had no weapons and equipment that were more than one level ahead of its opponents.
The victory over the Vietnamese Army and the Chinese Volunteer Army was not a defeat, it was just a tie at most. But when one side can fight whenever they want, and not if they don’t want to, the other side is already passive. This is mainly related to political factors.
Very big. It has little to do with a decisive battle that determines the life and death of two countries.
At present, the U.S. military generals are facing such a situation. The federal army can attack wherever they want, and the U.S. military can only deal with it passively. When the U.S. military attacks the federal army, the losses will be even greater.
The desired results have not yet been achieved. What is even more passive is that this is a war on American soil. The US military cannot escape as easily as it wants, and must also consider the emotions of the American people.
But General Arnold really doesn't care about the mood of the American people now, because the federal tank group has begun to cross the river. Should he hold on and use the gunfire of American soldiers to block the charge of federal tanks and the bombing and strafing of federal aircraft? Or should he retreat?
Withdraw the frontline troops before the federal tank group breaks through in depth, completely cuts off the connection between the US troops, and closes the encirclement?
General Arnold chose the latter without hesitation. Anyone can fight hard. The United States does not need to spend decades cultivating a group of generals who know how to fight hard. The first responsibility of a commander is to accurately judge the relationship between the enemy and ourselves on the battlefield.
Situation, when we have the advantage, we find ways to expand our advantage, and when we are at a disadvantage, we decisively reduce losses.
The U.S. military retreated. This time, the federal army did not use artillery fire to see off the retreating U.S. troops. Instead, armored groups and mechanized infantry launched a pursuit. They used the absolute advantage in the sky to bomb the enemy's retreat lines and slow down the enemy.
The evacuation speed. It seems that the federal army is ready to complete its victory in one battle. They do not intend to let go of these elites in the US Army and let them go back to recuperate for a few days before turning back and continuing to confront the federal army.
After the retreating infantry was pursued by armored groups, mechanized infantry, and aircraft, the situation was in one word, chaotic. Since France reused wired telephones during the high-speed retreat, and wired communications were interfered with, the headquarters could not contact each division.
, each division cannot find its own regiment commander, the regiment commander cannot command his own battalion commander, and the battalion, company and platoon commanders cannot tell their commanders about their situation...
After all, humans are not horses. They can run long distances at high speeds. They cannot outrun tanks, nor armored vehicles, nor even motorcycles and trucks. A large number of organized U.S. troops are divided by federal tank groups, and then are driven behind by armored vehicles.
, surrounded by federal infantry on motorcycles and trucks, the final result can only be surrender. Even if you have the courage to break through the encirclement with great effort, what greets you is not hope, but hope.
It was a bomb dropped from a federal plane and two encirclements.
This major retreat turned into a major rout after an hour. Most of the divided US troops could not even figure out where they should run. Many US troops were scattered. They
Lost in their own country. However, not all US troops were frightened. After the federal army pursued them for more than 30 kilometers, they ran into the US armored troops heading upstream.
This tank group commanded by General Patton appeared very timely on the channel where the federal tank group continued to pursue, and then used their flimsy bodies to form a barrier for the American troops who were fleeing on two legs, making it difficult for them to escape.
The federal army encircled by large U.S. troops suddenly slowed down.
Although the Stuart and Grant tanks in the United States are not rivals of the Federal Leopard 2 tanks, they can still deal with Federal armored vehicles and mechanized infantry vehicles, and Patton deployed a large number of anti-aircraft missiles on his defense line.
Tank mines forced federal tank troops to slow down and engage in hand-to-hand combat with US tanks.
As the last line of defense for the US military, this tank unit fought very bravely. All their commanders got into the tanks and launched a desperate charge against the federal army. In many cases, they did not target federal tanks.
Instead, they specifically targeted those armored vehicles and personnel carrier trucks with weak protection, which suddenly increased the casualties of the federal army.
But their results ended here. As more and more US tanks were hit by artillery and blown up by aircraft, their offensive was also suppressed, and their retreat was also cut off by federal tanks. Although
They completed their mission and covered part of the American infantry out of the encirclement of the federal army, but they themselves were trapped in the encirclement and could never return.
