Chapter 1709: Armored Ambition

The U.S. armored forces, after entering Juno, an attack ended like this, lasting more than 2 hours of fighting, and finally ended with the Japanese losing about half of their defensive positions, less than 1,500 casualties, and the U.S. army losing more than 400 tanks and almost 12,000 soldiers. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

If it is placed on the European battlefield, especially the Bordeaux front, it seems that it should be regarded as a victory for the US army, because the Bordeaux front line is too important, breaking through a few square kilometers of defense line, for the Entente and the Central Powers, it may take several divisions, or even more casualties, to be able to take it, sometimes, even the consumption of artillery shells is calculated in 100,000, millions, such a small casualty of the US army is really nothing, but for the situation in the Americas, it cannot be counted like this, because Juno's defense line, Not Bordeaux's thin perimeter strip of defense, his line of defense is piecemeal.

It was only under the different temptations and searches of the U.S. military that the Americans realized how frustrated the Japanese were, the entire 70 kilometers outside Juneau, a vast area of more than tens of thousands of square kilometers, every mountain, every river, and even some flat land that seemed to be unsafe to defend were used by the Japanese and layers of protection were arranged. A few square kilometers of defense can only be regarded as a drop in the bucket in the face of the entire tens of thousands of square kilometers of defense in Juneau, but the losses of the US army cannot be called a drop in the bucket.

This is the fundamental reason for Delved's withdrawal, he didn't prepare a forcible attack before thinking of a way to deal with it, but he didn't expect that in the history of war, for Delved's moves, more criticism, Delved can only be regarded as an excellent soldier, and even in the mastery of armored forces, it is quite good, but he is not a master of strategy or a genius commander, he thinks the right choice, but it is the slowest trick, which is exactly in line with the strategic intentions of the Japanese army.

It was delayed for 5 days, and then stopped for most of the day, to a certain extent, Kawasaki Meijing successfully spent a day, from him to continue to hold on, there is only one day, as long as the defense is a day, his team can selectively push out this area, of course, with the madness of the Japanese army, it is impossible to withdraw in vain, they will definitely arrange these defensive lines, equipped with a similar existence like a standing team, and then give the United States the final blow, but most of the strength, It will retreat into the layers of defense that Japan has prepared.

7 days, for both Japan and the United States, is a lifeline, Japan used a variety of methods, with crazy rush and delaying tactics, successfully spent 7 days of critical time, and finally won the initiative on the battlefield, the two sides of the war, the change is like half of the same clouds, for the US military, they have not yet realized that the balance of victory is getting farther and farther away from them, after the 7 days of time is up, there is almost no possibility of a turnaround, spent a huge price to transport the tanks to the front line, just 7 days of delay, to lose all the advantages, which Delved did not expect at all.

At noon, the U.S. troops had all retreated, even if they were trapped in the tanks, most of them successfully withdrew, which was unimaginable in infantry combat, after the U.S. tanks were blocked by tank trenches, the mobile force was still there, under the dense machine gun network, not to mention that Kawasaki Meijing did not prepare so many assault forces, even if they were prepared, what could they do, they could not have much damage to the armored force at all.

1 brigade of Japanese troops, caused a large number of casualties of US tanks and personnel, that was unexpected, but the price was, such a brigade of Japanese troops were basically broken, in the forefront of the war, in the case of the enemy's tanks and personnel dense, the impact position, not a suicidal impact like the standing team, but there is not much difference from suicide, 1 brigade of Japanese troops, only 27 people survived in the end, almost only a dozen, this is still a surprise effect, when the infantry of the US army is in place, After a large number of tanks and machine guns were arranged, there was even less room for the Japanese army to move.

After all, the Americans are also well-trained, armored forces, and they are the absolute elite forces in the American army, after they appeared in the tank trenches, after a little shock, they quickly lined up in a neat camp, this camp may be lost in the artillery fire, but will not be reached by the army.

At this moment, the Japanese side also has concerns, long-range artillery fire, can kill these armored forces, but 10 kilometers apart, it is easy to hit the tank trench close at hand, the tank trench is made of soil, it is impossible to pour reinforced concrete, it is easy to be damaged under the attack of large-caliber artillery, in case there are several passages, if the US tank breaks through, maybe the Kawasaki scenery will collapse.

The Japanese tank trench in the rear is still being excavated, this time is the weakest time, once the superior tank strength of the United States breaks through the tank trench, then all the Japanese arrangements will collapse, then it is really in line with the idea of the United States, the US tank can play a full role, and even the entire Juno will be unstable at that time, I am afraid that only the core is less than 5% of the entire defense line, because of the existence of anti-aircraft machine guns, and stabilized, the rest, will be devastating.

Under such circumstances, the strategic artillery fire has died down, and the US defense line has become more stable, and they can even escort most of the tank drivers out at leisure, and then send them to the back of the defense line first, and then the infantry and tanks will retreat alternately.

In fact, Kawasaki Meijing did not want to attack forcibly, if the purpose of Kawasaki Meijing was to have an attack with the US army and consume the strength of the US army, maybe he continued to attack, and he did not hesitate to consume too much, but the purpose of Kawasaki Meijing was just to drag on the time of this day, in this case, of course, he could not fight hard with the US army, especially under the premise that the US military had already retreated and could not continue to attack, this day would be considered to be over.

The 7-day period itself has been reduced to 2 days because of the delay of the United States, and the time of holding one day means that 50% of the tasks have been completed, and the next day, there are still two-thirds of the weaker positions, so there should not be too many problems.

The afternoon sun is warm on the body, the smoke of the position has not completely dispersed, looking at the loss of one-third of the position, the beautiful scenery of Kawasaki is glad for a while, it seems that the US army is ready to stop today's day of attack, the position still needs to be cleaned up, especially those tanks, these treasures, he doesn't want to give up, and even the ambition in his heart rises, and he wants to get these tanks.

Many of the previous ones were hearsay, and when they really saw the power of tanks, they realized that having tanks is a huge threat to the infantry, even if they have prepared a lot of tricks specifically for tanks, at most they only let the infantry not even have the ability to resist at all, even if such preparations, set traps and sacrifices, it is just a pit to a part of the tank, and the rest, it is actually a successful retreat, which is almost a refresh for the beautiful scenery of Kawasaki that has been guarded in Juno for so long.

The advantage that the Japanese army occupied before, if it was only an infantry charge, even if it was the charge of the elite small infantry behind, in this case, basically, the whole army was annihilated, and it was not like the armored troops to walk around leisurely, under the absolute weakness, it was able to deploy layers of defense, and even the crew of more than 400 groups of tanks trapped in the tank trench could successfully retreat without much loss, which is simply unbelievable.

The one who knows a person best may not be his brothers, his colleagues, they may know a little, but they are not the most comprehensive, the most understanding of a person, or even the most comprehensive understanding of a person, the most likely is the opponent, only the opponent, will study every point of others thoroughly, so as to be able to choose a breakthrough from the middle.

Kawasaki Meijing is similar to Delved, and it is also a representative of the Japanese Young Zhuang faction, and the speed of acceptance of new technologies and new equipment is relatively fast, and the Japanese military has not put forward the need to equip tank troops, because it does not match the strategic goals, and there is no money.

But these tanks, which were trapped here and could not move, became his target, and he even did not hesitate to ask the Chinese side for help. Zhang Tianyou heard the request of the Japanese side, slightly surprised, tankman, he really has it on hand, among the staff, among the more than 300 staff officers, 100 are from the tank unit, among the escort forces of the reconnaissance unit, there are also those who know how to drive tanks, and it is not impossible to send 200 people who know how to drive tanks to support Japan, but the strangest thing about him is why Kawasaki Meijing can think of this, it seems that in China's intervention, the era of armor has come in advance, The United States has set up a large-scale armored force, and now among the entire Japanese army, the most outstanding young Zhuang faction has actually set the goal of saving the country on tanks.

Forget about the tanks of the US military, through the reconnaissance of reconnaissance aircraft, this kind of tank is the most primary, and even at most it can only be equivalent to a few years ago, when China and Russia were at war, with China's rapid development speed, don't look at just a few years, China's tanks are completely different from before, even if Japan gets it, it doesn't matter, on this basis, the tank force composed of Japan and the United States, if it encounters the Chinese armored forces, it is almost an overwhelming disadvantage, under the premise of this cognition, help Japan easily, Increasing Japan's power and making it more flexible on Juno's side does not seem to be a violation of the strategy of the Americas. (To be continued.) )