Chapter 522: Tank Exit, Allies Pain and Happiness
"No backsliding! Give me all back! ”
A U.S. military officer yelled and couldn't help but pull out a pistol and kill an escaped U.S. soldier. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
However, this shot was useless, and in the face of the slowly approaching Chinese Imperial tanks, the US troops were already frightened, and they did not dare to defend the position at all, scrambling to retreat.
That's not a retreat, it's a fight-and-run operation.
"Fack!"
Seeing that it didn't work, the American officer immediately became angry, kicked away the shooter on the heavy machine gun position next to him, personally aimed at the American soldiers who had fled, and pulled the trigger.
Da Da Da ......
Heavy machine guns spewed tongues of fire, and the American soldiers who scrambled to break and flee fell in an instant, and their flesh and blood flew everywhere.
"Death to those who retreat!"
"Get back to me!"
"If you want to die, you will die on the way to the charge!"
"Don't make me look down on you!"
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The U.S. officer scolded angrily and fired mercilessly.
The American soldiers who fled in a moment were instantly tragic, and they didn't want to be killed by their own people, so they could only rush back.
People are like this, they are forced to be anxious, and they can do anything.
What's more, it is a soldier, they are not holding a burning stick in their hands, and their combat effectiveness when they are in a hurry is also very amazing.
A group of American troops was blocked, and two American forces were also blocked, and soon a group of American troops were forced to retreat one after another, and even launched a counter-charge against the Chinese Imperial Army.
However, in the face of indestructible tanks, the infantry charge of the American army was useless, and it was just a waste of more bullets from the Chinese Imperial Army.
"Hurry up and bury the radium!"
"Blow up the bridge!"
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These two sentences have almost become the mantra of the US military officers, and in the face of the tanks of the Chinese Empire, they can only use these two methods.
In fact, they have a better way, which is to bundle up the grenade as a cluster smashing egg, and then let an American soldier carry out a suicide attack, which under normal circumstances, can destroy the tank.
This situation was used by the soldiers of the Chinese army during the Anti-Japanese War in history, which was very tragic and caused serious psychological fear to the Japanese army.
However, the Americans do not have that kind of spirit, and they pursue the supremacy of money, so no one in the US military dares to play self-destruction, and in this regard, they are even inferior to the terrorists of later generations.
Ground Radium can indeed stop tanks from advancing.
When the tank of the Chinese Imperial Army is hit by the ground radium, the chain will generally be dropped, and the power of the US army is not enough to blow up the tank of the Chinese Empire.
Soon, the vehicle-mounted maintenance soldiers of the Chinese Imperial Army will rush to repair the tanks, put on tracks, and launch a new attack.
Blowing up the bridge can also block it for a while, but it will not take more than two hours, because the Chinese Imperial Army still has a strong boat and bridge force, and will soon erect pontoon bridges to make the American troops on the other side of the river desperate.
Li Weiguo allocated a total of 50 tanks to the New York battlefield, as well as a number of maintenance parts, but limited by the level of industrial technology in this era, the actual combat performance of the T23 tank on the battlefield was quickly questioned by the military, and various mechanical failures also made the maintenance soldiers kneel on the ground.
Fortunately, the U.S. army is a big rout, and the combat effectiveness of the Chinese Imperial Army is strong, as long as the U.S. military does not rely on a strong position defense, there is no need to rely on T23 tanks to attack the fortification, and it is entirely possible for the soldiers to defeat the U.S. army with the existing advanced weapons and equipment.
After the Battle of New York, the Chinese Imperial Army divided into five routes, sweeping through eastern Pennsylvania and northern New Jersey.
Lee divided the force into three corps, the first corps for New Jersey, the second for Pennsylvania, and the third for the former marines, who attacked Washington, D.C., from the sea after recuperation.
There is also a special legion, led by Shi Dakai and composed of Rhode Island defenders, which continues to contain the American troops in New York, Maine, Connecticut and other states, and prevent the American troops in these three states from moving south for reinforcements.
Li Weijun had already set his sights on Washington, the capital of the United States, and he believed that as long as Washington was captured as soon as possible, then the American people's determination to resist could be broken.
Li Weijun's plan was approved by the Imperial Chinese military, as well as by Emperor Li Weiguo.
For this reason, after Li Weiguo and Zhang Xiaoliu studied, they again transferred troops from the mainland to reinforce the 20 towns. Among them, 12 towns were put into the U.S. West Coast battlefield, and the other eight towns were put into the U.S. East Coast theater, cooperating with Li Wei's army to attack the United States from east to west and force the United States to surrender as soon as possible.
At the same time, the Alaska Military Region of the Overseas Theater of the Chinese Empire also sent the Eight Towns Army to attack British Canada and contain the British troops in Canada to reinforce the United States, taking a huge step towards the complete occupation of the North American continent.
At the same time, changes took place on the European battlefield.
After several months of tug-of-war, both the British, French, and Russian blocs, as well as the German-Italian-Austrian bloc, were so angry that they vomited blood at the radium, machine-gun bunkers, and barbed wire fences all over the mountains, the offensive of the Allied troops was blocked, the Allied troops held their positions to the death, and the two sides fought hard every day, and the number of casualties did not fall below 10,000.
When the Battle of New York ended, the Anglo-French-Russian bloc had already suffered more than 1.5 million casualties, and the German-Italian-Austrian bloc was no better, as the attacking side, more than 2 million people were killed and wounded, of which Italy, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire suffered the greatest losses, more than 1.6 million people, while the German army was strong in combat and only suffered more than 400,000 casualties.
This kind of brutal battle and huge casualty figures have made both camps feel painful, especially the consumption of war, and the daily guns and bullets are not a number, nor a catty, but a consumption of tens of thousands of tons.
War devours all resources, the consumption of weapons and ammunition is only one aspect, a large number of wounded soldiers also devour the drug reserves of various countries, especially the Entente, because of the blockade of special drugs in the Chinese Empire, the inventory is not much, three months after the start of the war, all are exhausted, the wounded soldiers can not be completely treated, even if they are not killed on the battlefield, but only wounded, it is basically equivalent to the death sentence, because these soldiers have no medicine to prevent wound infection, can only wait for death, and those who can carry it are considered miracles.
In addition to weapons, ammunition and medicines, the loss of equipment also surprised the leaders of the belligerents in Europe, who did not anticipate the speed of wear and tear of military equipment in the war, so that the logistics were under tremendous pressure, and the spare parts of firearms and artillery had to be transferred from military factories to private factories in anticipation of expanding production and ensuring supply.
Before the start of the war, both the Entente and the Central Powers believed that the war should end within three months.
It's a pity that it backfired, and both sides had no intention of ceasefighting, but the fighting became more and more intense, and they both killed red-eyed.
In the countries of the Entente group, the financial system was once again dealt a fatal blow.
The fake pounds, francs, and rubles made by the Chinese Empire were wildly popular in Britain, France, and Russia, destroying finance and markets.
If in the past, the Chinese Empire printed these illegal banknotes in order to make a profit and disrupt the economy of the enemy countries, then with the outbreak of the world war, the Chinese Empire has printed illegal banknotes regardless of the cost, and does not need money at all, and even dumps the money in Britain, France, Russia, and other countries, with the intention of destroying the market economy of the Entente countries and leaving the Entente countries with no money to continue the war.
In just a few months, Britain, France and Russia were in tears by the illegal banknotes.
As a last resort, the governments of Britain, France and Russia had no choice but to suspend the use of their respective national currencies and replace them with food stamps.
Because the anti-counterfeiting ability of grain stamps is far inferior to that of currency, the British, French and Russian governments had to limit the scope of use of food stamps, at first each state used one type of food stamps, and soon changed to each county using its own food stamps separately, food stamps could not be circulated nationwide, only used locally.
In this way, the British, French and Russian governments temporarily stopped the attack of counterfeit money, but the negative effect was also great. For example, ordinary people cannot use currency to trade, and can only barter, for an industrialized country, the emergence of such a situation of bartering means a serious social regression, causing a huge obstacle to economic development.
Britain, France, and Russia also had no way to resist the counterfeit attacks of the Chinese Empire.
Fortunately, during the war, Britain, France, and Russia all imposed military control, which was barely acceptable.
However, the Allied members were no better.
Although the Chinese Empire did not export counterfeit banknotes like its allies, it does not mean that Britain, France and Russia will not print counterfeit banknotes to attack Germany, Italy and Austria and other enemy countries.
Due to the Chinese Empire's counterfeit-banknote technology, resulting in the great development of the world's banknote manufacturing process, the exquisiteness of the renminbi, so that the world was shocked, also after more than 20 years of research, the United Kingdom, France, Russia and other countries that were attacked by counterfeit-banknotes, vowed to retaliate against the Chinese Empire, so they invested heavily in the study of banknotes.
With the progress of science and technology in the world, Britain, France and Russia are no longer the girls who were casually ravaged by the Chinese Empire, especially the United Kingdom, which suffered the most and was ravaged by the Chinese Empire, and it is also the most hard-working country.
Britain's counterfeit-banknote technology has made great progress, forcing the Chinese Empire to revise the renminbi three times, but the latest version of the renminbi of the Chinese Empire still cannot be imitated vividly, but the imitation of the German mark, the imitation of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Kingdom of Italy, and the Ottoman Empire's currency is much more handy.
Therefore, as soon as the war began, the British Empire started the counterfeit money machine and sent a large number of counterfeit money into the territory of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy and other countries, causing serious economic losses to these countries, and the people panicked and did not dare to use the mark and other currencies.
Kaiser Wilhelm II discussed with Bismarck, and he could only suspend the circulation of the mark and use German military tickets instead.
This German military stamp, which was formulated by the German Empire after consulting the Chinese Empire, was formulated according to the wartime military stamp rules formulated by the Chinese Empire, which is basically similar to the food stamp rules of the British Empire.
Therefore, at the level of financial warfare, both the Entente and the Central Powers are basically evenly matched, and they are all hurting each other.
With the end of the Battle of New York, the European countries that were in tears in the face of trench warfare suddenly found inspiration from the new equipment that appeared on the battlefield of New York - the T23 tank.
The trenches built by the U.S. military in the Battle of New York were much stronger than those built by European countries, but they failed to stop the attack of the Chinese Empire.
The performance of the T23 tank in battle has dazzled the military of European countries, especially the ability to break through trenches, and it is simply the savior of the European battlefield.
Both the Entente and the Central Powers discovered the magic of tanks, and whoever put them into the battlefield first would win the European War.
As a result, the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Italy of the Allied member states sent notes to the Chinese Empire, demanding that the Chinese Empire share tanks and other new weapons with the Central Powers.
Of course, the imperial Chinese military did not want its allies to get tanks, let alone transfer tank technology, but considering that the Entente group had also begun to study tanks, it would not be long before it would be successful, and secrecy would not be much use, but would affect alliance relations.
After weighing the pros and cons, Li Weiguo also looked forward to accelerating the process of world history, so he agreed to provide T23 tanks to his allies, but not to transfer technology, and asked his allies for gold.
Allies are used to sell, and allies are also used to exchange for money, this is Li Weiguo's famous saying, and it is also the code of conduct for the Chinese Empire to deal with alliance relations.
When it's time to sell, you have to sell, and when it's time to pit, you have to pit them without hesitation!
The average manufacturing cost of the T23 tank in the Chinese Empire is 5,300 yuan, excluding the supporting ammunition, and the T23A1 is exported to the German Empire, with the gearbox and suspension system removed, and the price is 53,000 yuan, a tenfold increase. The German Imperial military did not know the true cost of the T23, and if they knew that it was slaughtered ten times the price by the Chinese Empire, Wilhelm II and Bismarck would have vomited blood in anger.
However, even if you know, you can't help it, every day with the Entente on the ground, the military consumption is astronomical, far more cost-effective than the expensive price of T23.
So the German Empire directly purchased 500 T23A1 tanks, as well as supporting armor-piercing shells, blasting shells, and heavy machine gun bullets, and spent 40 million yuan to send them to Berlin through the world railway.
The second largest buyer was the Kingdom of Italy, which spent 12 million yuan to buy 120 T23A2 tanks, which were also castrated with a lot of key technologies.
Next is the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire, these two countries each bought 100 T23A2 tanks, each costing 9 million yuan, which is cheaper than Italy and Germany, but it is really because these two countries are too poor, Li Weiguo is worried that the price is too high, and the two countries cannot afford it, so he gave them a nine-percent discount.
The Entente bloc was frightened when they learned that the Chinese Empire had provided T23 tanks to the Allies, although they were actively researching tanks, they were obviously unable to support the battlefield in a short period of time, and the tanks purchased by Germany and other countries from the Chinese Empire would arrive in Europe in a few months, and the Entente would be too late even if they were powerful.
As a result, the Entente bloc retreated to the next best thing and quickly developed weapons to restrain tanks.
The French spies lurking in Germany soon got the performance of the T23A1 tank purchased by Germany from the Chinese Empire, and for the performance of the T23, France took the lead in developing a 25mm large-caliber rifle, which was specially designed to fight the armor of the T23 tank.
The time for the development of large-caliber rifles is obviously much shorter than the time for the development of tanks, especially since France has mature gunsmithing technology, just increase the existing maximum caliber 12,7 mm barrel to 25 mm, and then step up the production of a batch of 25 mm armor-piercing ammunition, which can be used in time for the deployment of T23 tanks to the front line in Germany to offset the tank crisis. (To be continued.) )