Chapter 1690: Tanks Break the Trench

The Americans thought of a lot of ways to break through the Japanese defense line, but in the era of thermal weapons, after the appearance of trenches and barbed wire, and in the era when the defense was stronger than the attack, many tactics in the war were aimed at mobilizing the enemy's troops. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

This also refers only to a city, the real strategic defensive position, is in a small hundreds, more than thousands of square kilometers of huge land, for the purpose of combat, to build a series of defensive positions, these positions are not isolated, the connection between each other is very close, there is no weakness of the city at all, but strengthened to the extreme, but the kind of thousands of square kilometers of positions, with the Japanese largesse, almost all over the Juno area, 80 kilometers of range, more than 5,000 square kilometers of huge defensive positions, but the outer line of defense has been armed to the point that it makes people's scalps tingle, and to some extent, even more terrifying than the Bordeaux front in Europe.

It is precisely because of the results of the non-stop fire reconnaissance of the US military that it proves that there are almost no dead ends in the periphery of this line of defense, so it can be inferred that if you want to take Juno, almost all of these methods are excessive losses, even if it is the most optimistic estimate, to capture this line of defense, the US military needs to pay at least 2.5 million casualties, this casualty figure is not unbearable for the United States, but does this mean the end of the war in Alaska?

It is unlikely, after all, Juno is only the capital of the United States in Alaska before, not to mention how important the location is, but it is the closest to the mainland of the United States, the environment is relatively suitable, and the population is large, but after the Japanese occupy it, according to the geographical differences, Japan will definitely not continue to use Juno as the capital of Alaska, it is too close to the United States and Canada, and it may attack at any time, which can be seen from Japan's layout of the defense line on Juno, Japan's purpose is very simple, is ready to smash Juno, millions, or even close to 10 million troops, fighting frantically here, even if they can take it down, it will not be the same.

It is almost certain that Japan's capital in Alaska will be placed in the deeper part of Alaska, and when the time comes, it will fight Juno and then continue the attack, which still means that under the premise that the attack is smooth, if the attack is not too smooth, the number of casualties may even reach more than 5 million, and I don't think of any other way, and even really as someone said before, we must give up Alaska.

Alaska can't give up, and the assault can't be done, so you can only think of other ways, at this time, the sound of shirking responsibility and discussing why not fight last winter began to come out, and the War Department became confused, and at this time, a young general, suddenly put forward a plan, perhaps, think tanks.

This is only 39 years old, but the young general of the army, as the commander of the 118th division, happened to participate in the Bordeaux tank offensive and defensive battle, although he was an army division, but he followed behind the tanks, at that time he was lucky, was behind those undamaged tanks, witnessed the tanks in the trench battle, the power of the performance.

A tank into the trenches, just like a tiger into the flock, in a short period of time, burst out of what a formidable strength, 20,000 tanks, even if only a few tenths of the tank, into the line of defense, caused a huge lethality, such power, but unheard of. It's just that Germany was fully prepared and came up with something specifically to restrain tanks, even if it was the impact of 20,000 tanks, it was still able to destroy most of the tanks, and the coalition forces suffered huge losses, and they were almost unable to open and cut off, which made 1916 so calm.

Here are the Japanese, and here in the Japanese, there are no bazookas, if you get the tanks over, is it possible to solve the problem, Japan in the previous offensive and defensive battles, even if it was suddenly attacked by the squad, raided into the trenches, caused huge losses, did not use even the slightest bit of rocket artillery, or there were few bazookas, only in the core area, but more likely, no.

If Germany does not have bazookas, not to mention 20,000 tanks, even if it is 2,000, it can pose a huge threat to the defense line of Bordeaux, the power of tanks, most of the generals of the US army know that from the appearance of tanks on the battlefield, all kinds of exercises have not stopped, even when the tanks are absolutely nemesis by the bazooka, there is no exception, because in the cutting-edge US officers, see the infinite possibilities of tanks, tanks are just the initial form, once the strength of the tank increases, The threat of bazooka is also greatly reduced.

I have to say that the Americans still have a vision of war, they actually see the future development from the most superficial tanks, which is something that Britain and Germany have not done, the former because it is a naval country, for land weapons, there is no more urgent requirement, as for the latter, Germany is in this war, China has the most help, when they are facing the crisis of tanks, they directly obtained the bazooka urgently transported by China, the huge power of the bazooka, so that the tank that spent huge financial resources, It became scrap metal, and at this time, the more you understand the power of the bazooka, the more profound your antipathy to the tank becomes.

A tank of nearly 10,000 dollars may be easily destroyed by a bazooka of several hundred dollars, not to mention personnel, even if it is an economic loss, it is somewhat unbearable, rather than getting this, it is better to get more bazookas, Germany is deeply involved in the war, plus the army and the navy, the two big spenders, and finally chose to ignore the tank.

On the contrary, the United States, which is also a major army power, has seen the unusual tank, and now, perhaps it is still in the stage of exploration, but it will definitely shine in the future. Sometimes, the difference in equipment is so forward-looking, precisely because the United States has not completely let go of the tank project, which also makes the future of the United States' tank development very fast.

The proposal of this young general not only made the problems that plagued them seem to show signs of loosening, but the most important thing is that the current tanks, which have been produced all the time, were originally produced for the European theater, assembled and re-equipped some cavalry units, formed tank divisions, accumulated experience, and produced another batch.

The young brigadier general is the senior general who is most familiar with tanks and has the deepest understanding of tanks in the entire federation, and the plan he put forward has become more and more plump after some discussions, and some experts in this area have also roughly calculated that the approximate number of tanks needed to break through the Japanese defense line is about 20,000 in total, which is the lowest number made through careful comparison.

20,000 units, this is really not a small number, back then, between Britain and the United States, for the Battle of Bordeaux, prepared 50,000 tanks, of which almost 20,000 were put into the battlefield, but this one was pinned on high hopes, can effectively break the trench of the weapon, but in the front line of Bordeaux, was devastated, China took out the bazooka this big killer weapon, even if the current bazooka, there are such and such weaknesses, this bazooka has not grown to the maturity of ARG, but more than the number of imaginary arrangements, It rained down on all the tanks.

This attack, like a stuffy stick, hit directly on the seven inches of the Entente, and no one mentioned the remaining tanks, or parts, or finished products, but the final result was the same, these things were not cared for.

However, this time, the United States plans to be more detailed, the weakness of the bazooka is that it is impossible to deploy too many in the same area, when there are really a large number of bazookas, through harassment, transfer, and selection of weak links, as long as the tank can rush into the army camp, mix with the other side, and do not give the bazooka time to start, this problem can also be solved, but the loss is a little bigger.

However, even this kind of loss is much better than a forced attack by force, and in the current situation of the development of the war, the United States actually does not lack materials and weapons, and what it lacks most is people. In the face of the Japanese threat, the United States has mobilized all of its troops in the army, but it seems that there are still not enough people.

At present, the United States has shifted all its economic structure to wartime, and military production has expanded almost several times compared with before, and it was not easy to produce so many tanks in the past, but now, as long as the production line is re-laid out and personnel adjustments are adjusted, tanks can be produced in a steady stream.

In that year, for the sneak attack plan of Bordeaux, the Entente prepared a total of 50,000 tanks, leaving aside the 20,000 tanks that were destroyed, most of the rest were in Britain, stayed in the United States, and had not been loaded and shipped away, about 12,000, at this time these have all been assembled and used for training, and after that, 3,000 have been produced one after another, and the current number of tanks in the US Army is about 14,000.

The fundamental reason why it is not 15,000 is that even in training and use, the failure rate of the tank is not low, and most of them can be repaired, but if the key components are damaged, such as the engine, the tank has no value for repair.

After the tank war, the United States also obtained engines through Chinese channels, but under the premise of not much demand, it did not increase the number, and now there is a gap of 6,000 to 10,000, and they avoid cutting off the source after the Chinese find out, regardless of the fact that there are still 3,000 engines in stock, and suddenly order another 30,000 units. (To be continued.) )