Chapter 523: F16 fighter sorties
The Chinese Imperial Army galloped through the United States with the superiority of T23 tanks, and after the victory in the Battle of New York, the three armies marched in unison, and the offensive was almost unstoppable. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
In the Battle of Philadelphia, in addition to the tanks of the Chinese Imperial Army that made the US army desperate, in the urban warfare, mortars also appeared on the stage of history.
In less than three days, Philadelphia fell, and 200,000 American troops came with another blow, leaving 80,000 corpses behind, and hastily withdrawing from Philadelphia.
The offensive of the Chinese Imperial Army was unstoppable, and the whole world was singing about the United States.
A sudden heavy snowfall blocked the blitzkrieg offensive of the Chinese Imperial Army and saved the life of the precarious United States.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Roosevelt urgently ordered all the retreating American troops to abandon all their heavy equipment and assemble in Washington with light equipment.
This is no way, if the US army retreats with heavy equipment, it will definitely be caught up by the dragoon regiment of the Chinese Imperial Army, not only can not keep the heavy equipment, but also take the lives of countless American soldiers, that is not cost-effective, so Roosevelt had to throw down expensive artillery, heavy machine guns and other equipment, so that the US infantry rushed back to Washington with light equipment.
Roosevelt's intention was to redeploy the defensive line around Washington and fight another battle with the Chinese Empire.
At that time, the naval artillery of the Chinese Empire would not be able to support the Washington battlefield on land, and the Imperial Chinese Army and the American Army would be left to fight one-on-one.
Roosevelt directly blamed the defeat at the Battle of New York on the powerful navy of the Chinese Empire, ignoring the decisive role of tanks, and even directly ignoring the mortars that gave full play to the superiority of infantry fire support in urban street battles.
Of course, even the U.S. military itself was not aware of the mortars used by the Imperial Chinese Army, because on the frontal battlefield, the attention of the U.S. military was attracted by tanks, and they did not think about why the infantry artillery support of the Imperial Chinese Army was so rapid and accurate, and they always thought that it was caused by long-range howitzers.
Heavy snow hurts the tank a lot, because the tank is very hot, the snow and mud melt quickly after sticking, the tank tracks and transmission devices are seriously worn, on average every few kilometers will break down and drop the chain, etc., if it encounters the US army's blockade, radium, heavy artillery and other direct killing, will make the tank break.
Li Weiguo has ordered the relevant experts of the Imperial Academy of Sciences to conduct research, improve the existing T23 tank, and even share the valuable data on the battlefield with the new tank under development, so as to make the next model of the main battle tank perform better.
Roosevelt was massing forces in Washington, D.C., in Grand Columbia, and he was ready to fight a war on his back, because once the capital fell, it would have great harm and far-reaching effects on the American military and even the entire American nation.
For this reason, Roosevelt had already gone out and mobilized heavy troops from all over the country to continuously assemble in Washington to fight to the death with the Chinese Imperial Army.
At the same time, Roosevelt did not forget to attack the puppet government, the provisional government of the United States of America, which was established by the democratic leader Cleveland, accusing Cleveland and MacArthur of colluding with the Chinese Empire and betraying the interests of the American nation.
Roosevelt said that in the event of the Chinese Empire's military invasion of Washington, the puppet government forces would be accomplices, demanding that the whole people spurn them and not pay taxes on them.
Roosevelt's appeal was still very strong, and although his reputation had been hit hard by successive defeats in the past few months, there were still many Americans who supported him, at least firmly in the fight against the Chinese Empire, despite the legitimate government.
Cleveland would not sit idly by and immediately made a speech to counter Roosevelt. It was Roosevelt and his Republicans who caused this situation, and it was Roosevelt and his Republicans who rashly attacked Pearl Harbor and launched a war against China, which led to today's situation.
Cleveland directly stated that if Roosevelt and the Republicans went into the field en masse, then he would persuade the Chinese Empire to withdraw its troops and end this damn war.
Similarly, Cleveland did not forget to incite the American people, calling on those who were not firm to abandon their support for Roosevelt.
Indeed, the United States at this time is no longer the United States before the war, with the annihilation of the main force of the US Navy, the defeat of the Battle of New York, the invincibility of the Chinese Imperial Army, and the imminence of the Chinese Imperial Army, seeing that it is about to hit Washington, many timid Americans who are afraid of death began to resent the Roosevelt administration, especially the banks and merchants on Wall Street suffered heavy losses, and hundreds of tons of gold reserves were surrendered to the Chinese Empire. Even the Republican bigwigs, the Rockefeller consortium that supported the dictatorship, suffered heavy losses and expressed dissatisfaction with Roosevelt.
These emotions became stirring after Cleveland issued a call.
Roosevelt knew very well that if he couldn't hold Washington, then his political career would be over. At that time, the Republicans are likely to reunite with the Democrats and welcome Cleveland into the White House.
Therefore, Roosevelt was fighting with his back to the enemy this time.
Over the next three months, the advance of the Chinese Imperial Army suddenly slowed down.
Those who don't know the situation really think that the Chinese Imperial Army is blocked by heavy snow, but in fact, the Chinese Imperial Army is not inseparable from tanks, and without tanks, it can also launch a winter and spring offensive, and make the US army cry and cry for their mother.
It was not until mid-May that the Imperial Chinese Army slowly advanced to the vicinity of Washington.
At this time, Roosevelt had a few months to prepare, and assembled an army of four million in Washington, D.C., divided into four army groups, one each in the south, east, and west, to defend the capital.
This was already the largest troop that Roosevelt could mobilize, although there were more than 6 million new recruits of the US army after the war mobilization, but they had no combat effectiveness, weapons and equipment could not keep up, and they had to defend other parts of the United States, so it was impossible for them to be mobilized to Washington to participate in the defense of the capital.
Greenbelt, Washington's defense of Army Group North.
Miles personally inspected the frontline positions and looked out at the positions of the Chinese Imperial Army in the distance.
"Did the enemy make any moves?"
Miles asked a division commander next to him.
"Report to the commander-in-chief, for a month, there has been no movement of the enemy on the opposite side, and the fortifications are very simple, do you want me to lead a surprise attack? It should be able to catch the enemy by surprise! ”
The division commander answered truthfully, and was even a little eager to try.
Miles glanced at the other party, shook his head and said, "The Chinese are scheming, and it is estimated that they did it on purpose to lure us to take the initiative." Let's hold our ground, and order people to step up the planting of ground radium, and your trenches are not deep enough and not wide enough, and if you want to dig deep, you have to widen them by at least eight meters, and I don't believe that those tanks can still cross it. ”
The U.S. military was already frightened by the tanks of the Chinese Empire, so they could only bury a large number of radiums and dig trenches, hoping to prevent the tanks from passing through this method.
Don't underestimate these simple measures, if the Chinese Imperial Army has no better way, the mountains are full of radium and the roads are wide trenches, and it is really not easy for tanks to pass safely.
So, what is brewing in the past few months when the offensive of the Chinese Imperial Army has been delayed?
Sight travels through Greenbelt to Baltimore.
This is the third major city conquered by the Chinese Imperial Army in recent months, in addition to New York and Philadelphia.
But now Baltimore has become a ruin, a metropolis of millions of people, and now there is no one else except the soldiers of the Chinese Empire.
The Chinese Imperial Army directly turned the city into ruins, except for the barracks reserved for the officers and soldiers to rest and eat, all other city buildings were destroyed, countless factories and equipment were demolished, and then packed and sent to transport ships directly back to the Chinese Empire itself.
That's right, Li Weijun is strictly adhering to the scorched earth policy of defending the country, that is, completely destroying all the symbols of civilization in the United States, plundering all resources, and completely defeating the United States back to a primitive society.
From the very beginning, Li Weiguo did not intend to completely occupy the United States, and he was well aware of the price that the yellow race had to pay for dominating the white race. Nearly 100 million Americans, there is no way to be a good citizen, they are not Australia's millions of people can easily rule.
Therefore, Li Weiguo had already thought of a way to deal with the Americans.
Later generations of the United States regarded China as a leek, cut stubble after stubble, and forced China to buy more than $1 trillion in U.S. Treasury bonds.
Now that Li Weiguo has reported it back, he will also treat the United States as a leek, first cut a stubble ruthlessly, and then come to the United States to cut a stubble after 10 or 20 years of development and regain prosperity.
As a result, all the American territories occupied by the troops of the Chinese Empire were scorched earth, and all the valuable things were packed into boxes and shipped to the Chinese Empire.
Therefore, Li Weijun has been very slow in the past few months, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Chinese Imperial Army are also busy, working as porters every day.
Of course, this is only one aspect.
The main reason why Li Weijun did not take a large-scale military operation was to wait for the arrival of a new batch of secret weapons.
During this waiting period, Li Weijun organized his troops and secretly built three large airfields and various airstrips in Baltimore, enough to take off and land 500 aircraft.
That's right, Li Weijun is waiting for the plane, he has already received Li Weiguo's order, the Chinese Imperial Air Force will go to the Americas for the first time to participate in the war, and for the first time in human history, the era of aircraft participating in the war will be ushered in.
At this time, the Chinese Empire had produced 1,500 T23 tanks and 900 F16 fighters, as well as 100 F15 seaplanes, which was a strategic preparation that Li Weiguo had prepared for a long time, and now it is just in handy.
Upon learning that Roosevelt had fought to the death with the Chinese Imperial Army in Washington, Li Weiguo decisively ordered Li Weijun to suspend or delay the attack.
This is a typical military tactic, deliberately slowing down the offensive and giving the enemy enough time to gather troops.
In the previous Battle of New York, the U.S. military continued to assemble in New York, and was finally defeated by the Chinese Empire with a thunderous force. The more American troops gathered, the more heavy the losses.
This time was the same, Li Weiguo repeated his old trick and deliberately asked Roosevelt to gather more American troops in the Washington area.
That's right, Li Weiguo wanted to fight a decisive battle with Roosevelt, break the confidence of the Americans in one fell swoop, and break the backbone of the Americans, in order to achieve a quick victory.
For this reason, Li Weiguo decided to put fighter jets into the battlefield as well.
Of the 900 F16 fighters produced in China, 500 were directly transferred to Li Weijun and put into the upcoming Battle of Washington.
With the invincible T23 tanks and the Army's flexible mortar armament, it would theoretically have no problem crushing the four million U.S. troops in Washington, D.C., if you add the superiority of fighter jets in the air.
At six o'clock in the morning on May 30, 1895, more than 500 F16 fighters left the tarmac and assembled on the main runway at three airports in Baltimore.
With the roar of motors, one after another F16 fighters accelerated along the runway and then took off.
At the same time, the Imperial Chinese Army at Fort Meade was also mobilized.
From Vansaysta in the west to Gordon in the east, a 100-kilometer-long front, the Chinese Imperial Army dispatched 12 town troops, 300 T23 tank troops divided into three routes, opening the way in front, infantry companies followed behind the tanks, protected in the middle by tanks in the front and rear, left and right, and the mighty American defense line in Washington advanced.
At 6:17, after the US army received the report, the entire Northern Army Group of the Greenbelt Line quickly entered a combat state, and Myers learned that the Chinese Imperial Army had moved, and he was not at ease, so he personally arrived at the front line and saw that hundreds of tanks were opening the way on a 100-kilometer-long front, and more than 200,000 Chinese Imperial troops were in tactical formation.
The mighty and magnificent scene was even more shocking than the war blockbusters of later generations.
"What a huge team! It seems that the Chinese Empire has been quiet for a few months, and today it is ready for a decisive battle! ”
Miles exclaimed, for him, a tank is very difficult to deal with, let alone three hundred tanks dispatched together, the army is overwhelming, just that momentum, it makes people's hearts palpitate.
"Commander, this will make the Chinese Imperial Army no longer play tricks!"
An officer asked nervously, he still has a deep memory of the situation during the Battle of New York, which was a state of being bitten by a snake for ten years and afraid of the well rope.
Miles shook his head and said: "This is not New York, there is no long coastline, it is impossible for the Chinese Imperial Army to sneak attack behind the scenes, we have an army of four million, even if a hundred people kill a soldier of the Chinese Imperial Army, we will win." ”
Four million troops, indeed, this is the only rhetoric that Miles can use to calm the morale of the army.
Sure enough, after hearing the word "four million troops", all the US soldiers instantly gained confidence.
"I don't believe it, we have laid out a ten-kilometer-long radium area, buried tens of thousands of radium, even if there are 10,000 tanks, they will be blown to pieces."
"That's right! Our trench is ten meters wide and eight meters deep, and I don't believe the damn iron shell can drive straight through it! ”
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Miles was relieved to hear that the American soldiers had regained their fighting spirit, and he did not want another fiasco in the Battle of New York, this time, he would be ashamed.
"Inform the Eastern Group and the Western Army Group to transfer twenty divisions and regiments each to prepare to flank the Chinese Imperial Army on the left and right, and this time, we will fight a beautiful defensive counterattack!" (To be continued.) )