Chapter 1840: Contradictions and Actions
The night is slowly getting deeper, and on the Great Plains, a huge team of wagons is heading all the way north, to Logan, which is a little north, which is north of Ogden, although Logan is a small town, there is no telegraph, but there are horses, they must report what they see to the US government, the Japanese actually have something to destroy the railway, and the ability to destroy the railway is very strong. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Thousands of people are young and strong, the Japanese actually left the carriage, this is also no way to do it, the armored corps, for the speed requirements are higher, the carriage can't catch up at all, the Japanese have no extra personnel, to drive the carriage, so they left the carriage in place, since they didn't kill this part of the young and strong, of course they also took into account the problem of their report, the United States is too big, their destruction has begun, the Americans reacted at the first time, if they attack this side, they will not be able to catch them at all, Not to mention that they've been delayed for a day.
This part of the young men also stiffened their brains, and they kept moving forward for two or three hours before they remembered that the speed of the carriage was slow after all, and they didn't have to go to report the news, but they found a dozen people who were familiar with the road and skilled in equestrianism, and squeezed out more than thirty horses from the carriage, one person and two horses, and then went to Logan, and the rest walked slowly.
This part of the news arrived at about 10 o'clock in the evening, then changed horses, and divided into three directions, respectively, to Boyesi, Billings, and Casper, all of which were the larger cities of Logan, and the most important was the cable telegraph.
After some tossing, more knights were dispatched, and finally at about 4 o'clock in the evening, the information was transmitted to Washington by wired cable, and Washington itself was having a headache for the Japanese tank corps, and received such a report.
Japan's attack on the Pacific Railway, this point, from the very beginning, was clear to the Americans, seeing Ogden and Salt Lake City, they knew that the Japanese were not aiming at a large industrialized city, but such a Pacific Railway, but what they thought before was that Japan would at most destroy some key nodes of the railway, blow up some stations and bridges, so that the broken words are points, in essence, these damage to the railway is not strong, as long as the next day, the Americans spend some manpower and financial resources, It is possible to repair the railway, and it will take two or three months at most, but according to the description of the railway engineer, if a tool that specializes in acting on the railway and can quickly destroy the railroad tracks and roadbed, and destroy the railway, this is another matter, and rebuilding and repairing are two different things.
"Is there really such a machine?" A general asked with a little doubt, to be honest, in today's time, they don't know how many questions they asked, Japan's sudden attack on the hinterland of the United States, brought them a huge shock, although they did not doubt the news from the front, but it was always incredulous.
"There should be!" A young general suddenly interjected and said that he had been to Europe and participated in the European War, and it seemed that he had heard that Belgium seemed to have a tool specifically for railways, in order to prevent the Germans from using the railway, but the Germans were too fast to even stop the Germans for long, although Belgium destroyed part of the railway, but it did not affect the overall situation.
The radio waves quickly crossed the Atlantic, and directly asked the commander of the US military in Europe, the time zone difference between the two places was almost 10 hours, in the early morning on this side, and it was daytime on the other side, and soon, the US commander found someone familiar with Belgium, and finally inquired that Belgium did have a special one for sabotaging railways, which was modified with a locomotive and specialized in sabotaging railways, which was quite similar to what was reported by the front.
The chairman of the joint meeting, grabbed his hair hard, his hairline moved upward, the hair on his head, itself was not too much, but he still couldn't help it, it was too depressing, just in the few hours after receiving the report of Japan's attack on the hinterland of the United States, the change of battle plan alone was carried out four times, and the troops that had begun to prepare were ordered to reorganize, and at this point, the final departure time would be delayed by a day, and now there was a new problem.
After a day's meeting, the whole conference room was smoky, to be honest, in the drowsiness, unconsciously, the meeting was off topic, a machine that acted on the railroad to destroy the machine, how did it come with the tank, the locomotive was not possible to be converted into a car at all, in the most developed era of steam locomotives, in the early stage of the birth of the automobile, someone designed a steam car, but such a car, the difficulty of implementation is too great, basically there is no substantive effect, but will waste a lot of resources.
According to the data obtained from the European side, the destruction of railway machines, even in terms of weight, is much higher than that of ordinary locomotives, such things, if they really leave the railway, it is very problematic to even move, let alone catch up with fast armored troops.
But if it wasn't for the armored forces, how did this machine come about, could it be that it really flew from the sky?
Not to mention, the Americans really guessed correctly when they opened their minds, these saboteurs really flew over.
The general only complained, after he said this, even he didn't believe it, flying over, under the premise that other explanations can't be explained, some nonsense, the matter still has to return to the destruction of Japan, whether to send a large army now to stop the destruction of the Japanese, or according to the original plan, to send out both the armored forces and the army, this has become the focus of contradictions, even if this meeting has been going on for more than 20 hours, it is necessary to continue to quarrel.
Thousands of miles away, the new 1st Army didn't think so much at all, they just followed the Sakura Plan, at most they detected the reaction of the United States, and then responded according to this reaction, but it was the United States, one by one plans were made, one by one the plans were overturned, for a while, there was no better solution, the Japanese armored forces, indeed hit their soft underbelly, it seemed that for a while, everything was wrong.
Now the crux of the problem is no longer the armored forces, but the Pacific Railway, the Pacific Railroad was built a few decades ago, but the role is huge, it is a bridge between the East and the West of the United States, once it is damaged, the main transportation artery in the middle of the United States will be destroyed, over the 6000 meters of the Rocky Mountains, this cost of manpower and material resources can be imagined, not that there were Chinese at that time, relying on the flesh and blood of Chinese workers, otherwise, it would not be possible to penetrate this unimaginable century project.
One of them, is more than 300 meters on the cliff, through the blast hole, blasted out a tunnel that can pass through the railway, but such a no protection, not even considered, this part is all dug out of the Chinese workers, sometimes, after the cannon hole, after the gunpowder, the gunpowder jet out of the airflow, it is also possible to swallow up the Chinese workers, this part of the Chinese workers died more than 10%, especially after entering the winter, in order to catch up with the construction period, in the winter still have to start, At least 1,000 people were buried under the snow line in one avalanche.
It can be said unceremoniously that this Pacific Railroad is basically made of Chinese flesh and blood, and in 50 years, the United States' national strength and science and technology have undergone earth-shaking changes, but once the Pacific Railroad in the Rocky Mountains is damaged, it is absolutely not easy for the United States to restore it, and I don't know how long it will take to happen.
The Americans also know very well that they can't let Japan destroy the railroad without any scruples, but how to stop it, most of the current forces of the United States are concentrated in Alaska, in order to break through Juneau, drive the Japanese into the sea, concentrate most of the troops that can be concentrated, and even the European plan has been affected, a small part of the forces, but concentrated in the eastern region, they need to train, arm, obtain weapons and equipment, but now, the east and west are cut off, and the speed of the other side is very fast, more than 200 kilometers a day, Then only the infantry should not be enough for their footsteps, and must rely on armored forces.
"We don't have much time!" The young general said everyone's heart, yes, 200 kilometers a day, 10 days, will reach the Rocky Mountains, in that case, even if the Japanese army is annihilated, 3000 kilometers of railway, at least 300 kilometers, or even 500 kilometers will be directly destroyed, and at least thousands of various railway bridges have been killed one by one, what does this mean, it will take a long time for them to recover.
This is not the most terrible, the most terrible is the Rocky Mountains, Japan will not know about the Rocky Mountains, and even let the destroyers enter the Rocky Mountains, the high mountains of the Rocky Mountains, will block them, but as long as they go along the railway, the layout along the way is destroyed, and the hundreds of kilometers of railways in the Rocky Mountains that are to be destroyed are still no problem, once those key nodes, or even the irrecoverable places are killed, then if you want to build the Pacific Railway, you need to rebuild a Pacific Railway, which is unacceptable for the United States.
The positions of the field troops one by one, unfortunately, are beyond the reach of the whip, and even have been urgently assembled, but they still have at most 2,000 taels of tanks on hand, these tanks are also in the east, and they are currently sent to Salt Lake City at most, and then, they need to catch up, but unfortunately this part of the tanks is not even as fast as the Japanese tanks, maybe by the time the tanks arrive, Japan has already moved towards the goal of the heart.
The telegram received at four o'clock in the morning became the last straw, and these American generals knew very well that at this moment, they had no reason to delay time, they had to complete preparations as quickly as possible, send troops to the middle of the United States, and stop the Japanese action, and that saboteur would also become a thorn in the flesh, and must think of all means to destroy it.