The encounter was fought without any suspense. Relying on the advantages of tanks, the Chinese army quickly eliminated more than a hundred M4 tanks of the Boston Army. The remaining wildcat tanks, destroyers, armored vehicles and other lightly armored weapons were
No longer an opponent.
Gao Quanfei did not give the opponent any chance to make up for the loopholes. He led the armored troops forward quickly and overwhelmed the two Boston armies in one fell swoop. Then the three paratroopers were like sharp knives, piercing the Boston people's side.
River defense line.
The depth of the defense line along the river was only a dozen kilometers. The tanks of the paratroopers surged all the way and quickly broke out of a passage from the middle of the position. Facing the Chinese army attacking from behind, the troops in the defense line seemed extremely panicked. In the darkness
They also didn't know how many Chinese troops were attacking.
Bombarded by heavy artillery in front and crushed by chariots in the back, the weak-willed Boston river garrison was quickly defeated. The three paratroopers occupied a two-kilometer-wide section of the river in one fell swoop and expelled all the Bostonians here.
Three red signal bombs rose into the sky, which was a signal that the assault was successful. Su Zhizhen, who had been watching from the other side, immediately ordered the engineering troops to start setting up a pontoon bridge. The Snake River is not wide, with the narrowest point being only over 100 meters, and the widest point
It's only four hundred meters.
The paratroopers on the other side lit two bonfires to point out the direction for the engineers. Between the two bonfires was an area controlled by the Chinese army. The pontoon vehicles quickly drove to the water's edge and divided the pontoons into sections.
After putting it into the river, the engineers jumped into the river, connected the boat bridges in sections, fixed them with wooden piles in the shallow water area, and tied them with steel cables in the deep water area. A strong pontoon bridge was quickly built.
Seeing that the pontoon bridge was built, the infantrymen who had been waiting for a long time immediately stepped onto the pontoon bridge and rushed towards the other side. At this time, three paratroopers of the Chinese Army were holding on to their positions, enduring the increasingly fierce counterattack of the Boston army. They were captured on the river bank.
After being occupied by paratroopers rushing from behind, Devers knew that he was in danger. Once the opponent's large force rushed across the river, his troops would quickly collapse. Therefore, Devers hurriedly mobilized nearby troops at all costs.
They launched a charge towards the paratroopers, hoping to eliminate them and regain control of the river bank.
The Boston army was large in number, and although the paratroopers had more than a hundred tanks in the formation, they did not have the mass-destruction capability of heavy suppressive firepower. Facing the Boston army, which was several times more numerous than their own, they could only fire at the fastest speed.
Desperately trying to stop the opponent's attack, more than a hundred Grizzly III tanks rushed to the front, charging through the enemy group from time to time to reduce the pressure on the infantry.
The pontoon bridge was quickly built, and the infantry of the brigade quickly passed through the pontoon bridge and supplemented the paratrooper blocking force. The troop strength was greatly enriched, and the paratrooper force immediately launched a counterattack to expand the control area again. At the same time, the Chinese army on the other side of the river
The heavy artillery units also opened fire, bombarding Boston's follow-up troops.
The temporary pontoon bridge did not have a strong load-bearing capacity and could not pass Grizzly III tanks or even self-propelled artillery equipped with large-caliber artillery. Therefore, in addition to infantry, Su Zhizhen could only add some armored vehicles and other light armored troops to the other side.
The inability of heavy armor to cross the river does not mean that the troops on the other side of the river cannot be supplemented by heavy armor. As the battle between the two sides was fierce, multiple troops suddenly launched an attack from the flanks of the Boston army. They used a large number of Grizzly 3s.
The chariot took the lead and launched the attack, catching the Bostonians by surprise.
These troops were air assault troops that parachuted into various cities in advance. After they took complete control of the city, the airborne Behemoth 3 transport aircraft used the military airport on the outskirts of the city to transport a large amount of heavy equipment and support from the three armies to the city.
The process of transporting the troops was relatively slow. Even with a large number of Behemoth 3 and Behemoth 2 transport planes shuttled back and forth, the transport of the troops lasted for nearly two hours, so it was only then that they arrived at the battlefield near the river bank.
The addition of the airborne troops was the straw that broke the camel's back. Facing the enemy troops rushing up from two directions, the Boston recruits who were already unsteady no longer had the courage to continue fighting. They all chose
They fled, leaving their backs to the enemy. The Chinese army pursued them all the way and killed a large number of Boston's defeated soldiers on the way to escape.
Devers also fled. This was not his intention, but after the entire army collapsed, there was no use for him to stay, so he had no choice but to retreat. With his own guard troops, Devers
Firth fled eastward.
He originally wanted to enter Boise, and after getting supplementary supplies from the local garrison, he could hold on to the city. But what he never expected was that as soon as he arrived near the suburbs, he was violently attacked by the Chinese army who stayed behind. Only then did he know that it turned out that
The city in the rear was also occupied.
Devers did not dare to stop all the way, and ran wildly toward the east. He did not stop until he retreated to the city of Helena on the Missouri River, a hundred kilometers away. At this time, there were only less than 10,000 troops left with him. Devers' defeated troops
Give up large tracts of land west of the Missouri River.
After the engineering troops rebuilt a dozen pontoon bridges that were sufficient for the heavy armored troops to pass through, Su Zhizhen's troops advanced more than 500 kilometers in ten days without any hindrance, and occupied more than one-fifth of the territory in the northern part of the Boston Empire.
.Including the previously occupied areas, the Chinese Army's Northern Forces have controlled more than a quarter of the land in the northern region of the Boston Empire, reaching an area of more than 500,000 square kilometers in six states.
The progress of Su Zhizhen's troops was so rapid that the Boston high-level officials were not mentally prepared. Originally, according to Marshal Pershing's considerations, Su Zhizhen's troops needed to pass through a large number of rivers to attack eastward. We only needed to use a small number of troops to resist the rivers and defend them, and bomb them before retreating.
Destroying the main bridges can seriously delay the opponent's offensive pace and buy enough time for the main force in the direction of San Diego Port.
In Pershing's plan, as long as the main force of the Chinese army in the direction of San Diego Port is eliminated, the victorious division can flank the Chinese army in the north. Once these two forces are eliminated, the Chinese Empire will have no mobile troops capable of landing operations.
.If the Axis forces on the Western Continent Front make further gains, the Boston Empire can take the initiative in the subsequent peace talks and let the Chinese Empire give up more benefits. This is also the best outcome he can think of.
As for the complete defeat of the Chinese Empire, after such a long period of time, Pershing has roughly understood the huge war energy and potential of the Chinese Empire, and he no longer has any extravagant hopes for this.
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