944 Tank Battle Vegas (1)
"It seems that our opponents are well prepared! They were already planning today's actions a few years ago, right? We actually regarded him as a threatless little white rabbit, which is really ridiculous."
Roosevelt's association ability was also quite rich, so he immediately turned his thinking to conspiracy theory. Otherwise, there would be no explanation. How could Zhu Bin get so many American goods so easily? It was obviously shipped out from nearby secret strongholds!
Mr. Hopkins lowered his head in shame. It seemed that as the number one think tank, he had been giving Roosevelt ideas to strengthen cooperation with the Chinese. Before the war started, there was a clear deviation in the analysis of China's situation. Although he did not know that he had made this mistake, almost covering the entire American upper class, there is an old saying that people who dared to admit that failures were wise men.
Of course, the President cannot take the blame. After a little silence, he adjusted his emotions and analyzed calmly: "Or the Chinese are not as smart as we think. Combining the wisdom of all smart people in the United States, the conclusions drawn should not be too biased, and perhaps it is more appropriate to evaluate them by coincidence. I am more willing to think that by chance, the situation today has led to the situation today. This should not be the responsibility of you or others. Everything is just because the development of the world situation cannot be easily grasped. Considering from another perspective, I think the Chinese are not prepared for a full-scale attack, which is too hasty, too crazy, and it does not benefit them."
Roosevelt nodded slightly, which made sense.
The United States is not Japan, it has money, weapons, industries, population, and huge territory. It also has a geographical distance of half the earth. It can be said that it has all natural advantageous conditions to not be attacked or even defeated. As long as it is not crazy or stupid, no one will easily launch a war that is doomed to fail.
Even if China has reached an economic base that is similar to the United States and crosses the sea to attack, the possibility of final victory is almost non-existent. The Americans are not primitive Indians, but the largest country in the world, with a population base of 130 million, which can meet all the conditions for long-term existence.
However, Hopkins' words can also be misinterpreted as if the United States did not take the initiative to poke Zhu Bin's butt, it would not lead to strong counterattacks and even today's crushing defeat. Some people would be responsible for this?
No, no, that is not the scope of consideration for Americans. Adhering to the colonial and invading civilizations that made a fortune in the West, the white Western robbery made a fortune, and the Jewish money supremacy, which had no moral and ethical limits to make money, and from killing tens of millions of Indians, cheating and robbing America, they all believe that starting a war for huge profits, tearing up treaties, and betraying faith are all reasonable and legal behaviors that conform to their logic.
In the eyes of Americans, Chinese people should be bullied and enslaved if they are backward, inferior, and ignorant. And they actually have money and technology with infinite wealth, it is worth robbing. It just seems that there is a very good opportunity, so what are you waiting for? Just rob it.
As a result, the mistake was beaten up, and the Americans would not feel ashamed, let alone think they had done something wrong. They even felt that they could ask the other party to sit down and talk. They smoothed out the matter and continued to find a relatively peaceful way to continue doing business...
Is this theory weird? At least for Chinese people, that is definitely true.
Chinese people emphasize being kind to neighbors and having friendly exchanges. You are idle and robbing, which is to make enemies! If you don’t get avenge, you will be a wronged person. How can you not fight back if you don’t attack? If I don’t take the initiative to invade, it doesn’t mean that I won’t fight back!
In short, American thinking is not the same as the Japanese weird idea that "I can rob if I have the ability, but it will be too much if you don't let me rob and beat me."
Now, whether it is Hopkins or Roosevelt, he still has this kind of judgment thinking based on interests in his mind. Especially during the years of communications between Mr. Situ, he thought he had figured out the nature of the Chinese, so he made such a judgment.
But Roosevelt didn't know that almost all of them were from Guangdong, Fujian. In history, the people there seemed to be easy to get close to the West because they communicated a lot with the outside world. But now the Ya who is in charge of the war is an alien, and the main body of the battle is a group represented by the orthodox northern culture of China!
These two things combined are full of ferocity and tenacity, "Those who dare to violate the power of China will be punished even if they are far away." If they don't give up a sufficiently relieved result, they will never give up!
Roosevelt and the entire American upper class did not see this fatal difference clearly, resulting in a series of misjudgments in judgment.
Today, he looked at the pile of things on the table, and still had a considerable degree of fantasy. Mr. Hopkins even proposed: "Based on the intelligence judged over the past few days, the Chinese are unable to support long-term overseas operations. At best, they stay in California for a while and after declaring their might, they will withdraw due to insufficient supplies. It is possible if we can launch a victorious ground attack or even a brief truce peace talks."
"Is this appropriate? The previous series of failures greatly damaged our credibility. If we rashly initiate negotiations, we will be attacked fiercely by the opposition!"
Roosevelt was a little hesitant. His starting point was political considerations. As a professional politician, he obviously did not elevate himself to the height of his country and nation - the United States really couldn't think about it for the time being. Who made their history too short? Until now, all states in the country have not been truly unified.
Hopkins frowned slightly. He noticed the President's thinking deviation and reminded him decisively: "Our current priority is to resolve the problem in war and win valuable preparation time for further counterattacks. We cannot let the Chinese move forward even a step!"
He didn't need to say what was left, Roosevelt himself knew that it would be reasonable to just half of California. If the Chinese attacked the heartland of the United States, it would be fatal. Not only his political future, but also the independent states in the United States may even be re-divided!
Nodding, Roosevelt said helplessly and tiredly: "Okay! Let's fight this battle first! Tell the generals in front of you that I only need to win, one perfect victory!"
"Yes! I believe they will satisfy you, Mr. President."
Hopkins promised that it seemed as if this matter could be done just by saying it. It quickly conveyed it.
But do the generals on the front line think so too? Obviously not that. In fact, when Major General Robert Eckerberg, the commander of the First Army, received the order from the Army General Staff, he almost ran away on the spot without any hesitation, pinching his waist and pointing his fingers at the sky, he cursed: "Let those damn witches go to hell! If the war can be won by just a mouth, what do we professional soldiers do?"
If there was no such damn war, he would have succeeded as the principal of West Point Military Academy to train some excellent officers. But the war unexpectedly came, and he had no choice but to go into battle, and even hurriedly was stuffed into the holes, leading a large group of rookies who had just passed several months of rough training to fight the elite veterans selected after years of brutal wars--and all bloodthirsty troops armed to the teeth!
This is a serious irresponsibility to the lives of the young men! Seeing a large group of subordinate officers who were being promoted in a hurry, holding brand new guns that had not been wiped clean, Eckerberg felt a pain in his mind. He felt that this was really unreliable!
Speaking of which, the US Army is quite tragic. At this time last year, there were only 180,000 troops in the country, including nearly 40,000 Army Aviation. There were another 190,000 National Guards.
This year, the temporary military service bill was urgently passed, transferring the National Guard to the one-year army, and recruiting in recent months, expanding the total force to 1.8 million in one fell swoop! Ten times the speed, which lowered the overall combat effectiveness of the army, which was originally of poor quality, to a heinous level. Just imagine, if you start a war with such a team, who doesn’t have a headache?
This is also the reason why the ocean-going fleet suddenly attacked and the US military had to give up the defense of coastal cities. It was really because the troops could not withstand the terrible bombardment of battleships, and leaving them could only lead to unnecessary casualties, which was quite cruel.
The problem is that complaining is useless. As a professional soldier, he has no other choice than obeying orders and defeating the enemy. He will not admit that he is timid and afraid. In desperation, he kept his head shut and studied the information about the enemy situation in his hand again. Finally, he confirmed that it seemed a little hopeful?
Well, it's just a little bit. The number of enemies in front of me is not large. Compared to the four armies on the southern front, the total strength of the six armored divisions is about eight times that of the opponent, but it is not enough to launch a recovery battle with the perverted firepower of a powerful fleet with four battleships. The only way is to launch a wide-ranging ground battle with the opponent in the desert in the southwest of Las Vegas when the opponent takes the initiative to advance.
So, will the enemy launch a large-scale attack? The answer is revealed soon.
Just ten days after the Marine Corps of the Ocean Fleet belonged to the Ocean Fleet, about 30,000 people occupied the two major urban circles of Los Angeles and San Francisco, more than 20 separate large floating platform factories arrived and took root in the beach to start production. Then, a huge fleet of ships escorted by the main force of the East China Sea Fleet successfully arrived on the West Coast.
They set out in sync with the amphibious assault ship group, but the road was significantly slower, and the total number expanded by more than ten times! Hundreds of 10,000 tons of ships were almost filled, transporting the entire Wang Zhangtang directly under the mountain brigade and three heavy tank divisions. In addition, there were engineering corps, auxiliary troops, countless materials and machinery, as well as motors, factory facilities, dock equipment and ship repair and maintenance equipment to restore basic production on the west coast, etc.
With so many ships coming, they immediately burst out several major ports on the west coast. Fortunately, the damage to the port facilities during the previous bombing was not too serious, and it was difficult for these big guys to blow up even if the Americans themselves wanted to blow up. After ten days of hasty repair and maintenance, they barely put them into use.
However, with hundreds of large loading and unloading trucks and engineering vehicles joining the operation, the port's recovery efficiency doubled. In just three days, the 31st Brigade had nearly 100,000 people and the main forces of tens of thousands of vehicles were all unloaded. The Wang Zhangtang Brigade, with super high autonomy, even took the lead and attacked from the north and south of Los Angeles across Palm Valley, and headed straight to the Murrok Aviation Base where a small number of US troops were still stationed and guarded!
This aviation training center, built in the desert center next to 10,000 square kilometers, is the largest and most important land aviation base on the West Coast. Since its establishment, it has trained thousands of outstanding pilots. It is also one of the US Air Force Command to command defense operations in the region!
When Zhu Bin led the ocean-going fleet to attack, the city guards retreated in large numbers. However, the base did not give up immediately, but insisted on using the world's number one runway facility to continuously take off fighter jets and head for air supremacy. Until now, it has maintained a base of no less than a hundred aircraft.
The main force of the First Army and all the troops of the two armored divisions were listed in the east of the base and ready for battle!
When the huge armed forces of Wang Zhangtang Brigade, which had nearly one division rushed in, the US military's lurking intelligence personnel calculated the number of tanks, and actually exceeded 300! And according to their standards, they were all heavy tanks, and some monsters with two tubes were almost scared on the spot! They hurriedly passed the information out, and Major General Eckerberg almost stood up when he heard this, and shouted in disbelief: "What?! Can you confirm?"
This is no joke! What is the concept of more than 300 heavy tanks? He knows that the Chinese standard is that those under 75mm are only light tanks, and those with 105mm are considered medium-sized. As for heavy... it is also a double-tube, can this be built, can it run?
It would be impossible not to believe it. It was not a message from an intelligence personnel. After a storm, the first, who had been waiting quietly for a long time, the Fourth Armored Division immediately took action, and divided into two groups to rush towards the middle of the battlefield to guard the two wings of the base. The Seventh Armored Division, who stayed in Las Vegas, did not dare to neglect it. They immediately stepped forward and were ready to respond at any time.
You have to go! The US armored division has only 228 light and heavy tanks in total, and the biggest one is the m3 75mm gun. Compared with the Chinese, the quantity and quality are not the same level. The goods that were rated as "garbage" after being seen by Japanese allies cannot withstand even the worst tank main gun bombardment in China.
The copycat version of the m3 heavy tanks is not enough. In addition to the fallen Patton second heavy armored division, the other third armored division is now on the front line of Phoenix City. I don’t know if the effect is good when I come up. There is no way. I can only compete for the number!
After repeated confirmation, Eckerberg issued a general mobilization order without hesitation, telling the First Army and the three armored divisions: "We have no choice, we must win! I don't care what method I use or how much I sacrifice. In short, we must not let the Chinese go further!"
An unprecedentedly large number of fighter jets rushed to the battlefield first! More than 100 aircraft that took off from the Muroko base rose to high altitude and immediately ushered in the same large number of Chinese war eagles! The two sides immediately became a ball over the Gobi Desert, and the violent bomb flows torn apart the sky hundreds of times in an instant. Countless explosion points set off three-dimensional firewalls, laying the most gorgeous background for the torrent of steel rolling on the ground!
Wang Zhangtang was still riding in the "Tianqing Chariot", holding a thick carrot-like cigar in his mouth, and half of his body poked out from the top of the turret. His unruly eyes passed through Ray-Ban's sunglasses, and coldly glanced at the fighter planes passing by from time to time, laughed, and poked the air force base seventy kilometers away with his little finger: "Go forward! Let me flatten the broken place first! Damn, I can finally get a foreign meat!"
On the radio station, there was an undisguised response of crazy laughter. It was the cheerful voice of overly excited boys. Being able to step onto the land of the world's largest power to conquer the city. For Boss Zhu's Imperial Guard, that was the supreme glory!
Wang Zhangtang then shouted: "Everyone cheers me up, don't lose to the defeated generals of the Central Army!"
"clear!"
"Don't worry, the traveler! Who are we? How can we let a group of young masters compete with you! Just hold on!"
Hehehe, I don't take it seriously at all.
This time, it was not only Wang Zhangtang, the ace brigade, but also a special team of the brigade, but it was from the Central Army Training Corps. It once launched a mutiny to deal with Lao Chiang’s Mixed Second Brigade!
The perpetrators Sima Jinming and Zhang Yansong were accomplished and also made a big splash. They were destined to become talents who could be written in Chinese history. However, what they did aroused great public outrage. No one dared to do anything to them on the surface. In private, whether they were colleagues in the teaching corps or other teams, they were far away from their traitors who were betrayed the Lord at critical moments and were very exaggerated.
Zhu Bin was also quite kind and did not do the trick of killing donkeys. He directly pulled out their brigade and reorganized it into a second special mountain brigade, running alongside Wang Zhangtang brigade, and renewed the equipment. After the personnel returned to the furnace for training, he was directly pulled to the North American battlefield this time, obviously to let them use their foreign military achievements to wash away the shamelessness of their bodies.
Wang Zhangtang did not look down on this opponent very much. He firmly believed that these backbones were all troops that killed Yangzi, the middle and upper-level Democratic Party master. They were just good things. Once they went to the battlefield, they had to rely on our real swords and guns to make elite soldiers!
However, after training the armed forces by Boss Zhu, he was unsure of how strong the other party was. To be on the safe side, he should not be embarrassed to be more embarrassed. He would inevitably give repeated advice and not lose his links at critical moments!
Chapter completed!