"It is strictly forbidden for the defenders to withdraw from their positions during the day, no matter how severe the conditions of the battle; When the marching column is within 20 kilometers of the front line, it is necessary to increase the distance between the people, even if this affects the speed of the march; Abandon secondary strongholds, concentrate forces on land fortresses capable of resisting heavy artillery, and then build modern field fortifications composed of trenches and barbed wire machine guns around them to resist the attack of the Chinese army; It is forbidden for troops to surrender, no matter what objective difficulties there are, they can use the battle team if necessary, and the captured personnel are also regarded as surrendering in principle, unless they can prove that they have lost their combat ability or have run out of ......ammunition and food when they are captured", Theodore Roosevelt read these suggestions and couldn't help but sigh and said, "It doesn't feel like the United States at all", but he still almost all complied, no way, now that the United States has reached the moment of life and death, if even the country is gone, how can it stick to those ideas and principles?

There is another problem that the technical staff officers did not point out, but Theodore Roosevelt keenly discovered, that is, the American troops on the front line seem to be frightened by the enemy's aggressive offensive, and they obviously have an absolute advantage in their own forces, so why only think of passive defense? Even if the enemy's artillery is powerful, it can also give full play to the advantages of its own forces, use light infantry as the main force to attack, pay attention to concealment, and if necessary, you can also choose to attack at night, although this is very risky, but it can greatly narrow the gap in firepower between the two sides, even if only one of several attacks can be successful, judging from the current disparity in exchange between the two sides, the US military still has an advantage. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In addition, since it is an internal battle, it is necessary to make full use of its familiarity with the terrain and try to ambush the enemy, while the militia in the occupied areas should also actively launch attacks on the enemy's baggage troops, hold back the enemy's footsteps, and buy time for reinforcements to gather.

Roosevelt's orders were quickly and resolutely carried out, and the previously overwhelming Chinese Fifth Mountain Division finally felt obvious resistance......

How easy was it to easily uproot the small strongholds on the periphery before, and with a few symbolic rounds of artillery, the enemy in the American fortress would surrender without a fight? But now the U.S. army has always held on to the fortress and refused to surrender, which is embarrassing, the army fortress that can be used as a core stronghold must be located at the commanding heights within a radius of at least a few kilometers, the fortress artillery has no dead angles at all, and the fort is strong enough, the 105mm mountain artillery can not do anything unless it risks approaching the direct artillery bombardment, but it can not be concealed in a state that can send the cannon to the enemy's 155mm heavy artillery attack range, isn't that looking for death?

After all, there are field fortifications on the periphery of the fortress, and it is impossible to take them in a short time, and in the process of attacking, they will be constantly attacked by fortress artillery, and the Fifth Mountain Division has a total of more than 30,000 people, how can it withstand such attrition?

"I can only leave three battalions to watch first, and wait for the railway to be repaired and the siege cannon will be brought up." The division headquarters of the Fifth Division made such a decision after a brief discussion, and as a result, heavy casualties were avoided, but the Fifth Division only had a total of 27 battalions, three battalions here and three battalions there, and soon there were no troops to attack, and seeing that Spokane was already close at hand, he found that he did not have enough troops to take it......

Not only is a large number of troops contained, the casualty figures of various units are also soaring, the frequent night attacks of the US army make it impossible for the Chinese army's artillery superiority to be fully utilized, even if precautions are taken in advance, the exchange ratio of casualties between the two sides is inevitably much more ugly, 1 life for 10 lives is a commendable performance, it is generally good to be able to exchange five or six, and the mountain division in the Chinese National Defense Force can at least be called one in ten excellent officers and soldiers, such a result can not be said to be a loss, It's certainly not going to make people happy.

Even some of the U.S. military's actually completely successful adjustments have also produced similar effects, such as the U.S. army's practice of sending troops to ambush, because the vanguard of the mountain division generally takes the ridge instead of the valley, and the result is that the ambush is not successful, and it becomes an encounter in which the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road, but those sharp knife companies that should be the highest quality in the division have suffered many casualties because of this, and the exchange ratio is even worse than being attacked at night......

The reason for this is that the ridge march is too difficult, and even the old mountain soldiers who are used to it have strict restrictions on their loads, even if the slope of the mountains north of Spokane is not too large (in terms of the relative height from the foot of the mountain to the peak, it can only be regarded as hills). At most, they can only bring 82mm mortars and heavy machine guns, and the ammunition carrying capacity is also very limited, and both artillery and automatic weapons must have enough ammunition to fully exert their power, plus the US army is on the defensive, and the heavy machine gun firepower can be fully exerted, which caused great casualties to the sharp knife companies of the Fifth Division, which had fought too smoothly and were accustomed to choosing the initiative to attack at the first time.

It wasn't until after suffering several heavy losses that the division headquarters summed up some useful experiences and passed them on according to the following feedback, such as the fact that it is not advisable to invest too many troops in the first attack, and the focus is on drawing out heavy machine gun positions so that they can be shot down with mortars, etc., that the casualty ratio becomes better again, but in any case, it can only reach about 1:10 at most, and the exaggerated exchange ratio of almost 1:100 as before is no longer possible......

Among the many adjustments made by the United States, the only one that suffered a near-complete failure was to launch militias in the occupied areas to attack the supply lines of the Chinese army, and the reason is not difficult to guess, the northwest of the United States is really vast and sparsely populated, excluding a few large and medium-sized cities such as Seattle, the population density is pitifully small, and the north of Spokane is a bitter cold mountain area covered with dense forests, and few people live there. It is naturally not an easy task to exterminate all the American militias hiding in the mountains and forests, but it is even more delusional for the US government to count on how much of a threat they pose to the supply line of the Fifth Division......

In any case, the decline of the American army finally stopped, which made Theodore Roosevelt breathe a sigh of relief, but the price paid for it made him fully aware of the strength of the enemy. What kept the president up at night was that even at such a great cost, he could not stop the enemy's advance, and the advance of the Fifth Division was getting slower and slower, but the battle line continued to move southward, and it was getting closer and closer to Spokane, the center of the northwestern battle...... (To be continued.) )