Fortunately, not far north of Pittsburgh, the Ohio River upstream made a bend, which was just right for the Heavenly Punishment Column to set up positions in it, and there were rivers behind and on both sides to protect it, so the enemy could only attack from one direction, and it was much easier for the Heavenly Punishment Column to defend. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, theoretically, the US military can completely cross the river to attack, but with the strength of the artillery of the Heavenly Punishment Column, the boats on the river are simply the best targets, and if one shot hits, all the officers and men of the boat will be finished, and this efficiency should not be too high. In particular, the Heavenly Punishment Column had 210mm heavy howitzers, and when the Heavenly Punishment Column crossed the Mississippi River before, several American gunboats were sunk, and those small boats on the Ohio River were even more unbearable.

First, the artillery bombardment is actually not very effective for the troops with perfect field fortifications, especially the biochemical soldiers have no concept of morale, so it is even less practical; Second, the artillery of the Heavenly Punishment Column is more ruthless than that of the US military, and the heavy casualties of the US artillery units have proved how stupid such a long-range bombardment is.

In fact, the Heavenly Punishment Column has never been afraid of the artillery of the American army, and the only thing that can destroy them is the light infantry of the enemy, which is so numerous, once it is killed in the trenches, because the American army is already equipped with a large number of submachine guns. Often three American soldiers can be exchanged for the life of one biological and chemical soldier, and with the overwhelming strength advantage of the American army, it is easy to exhaust the remaining strength of the Heavenly Punishment Column.

Therefore, if the Heavenly Punishment Column wants to pull more American troops on its back before it is destroyed, it must keep a distance from them as much as possible, and in the case that the enemy infantry can only attack from an open and flat front, this is not difficult to do......

Of course, the U.S. military can actually encircle without attacking and trap the Heavenly Punishment Column to death, but the previous "miscalculations" have caused the US staff officers to lose confidence in estimating the enemy's supply carrying, and God knows if they can hold out under the siege for a month, two months, or three months? And after this force has committed such a serious crime, the US government must eliminate it as soon as possible no matter what, and it is absolutely impossible to wait patiently for so long, otherwise I am afraid that the United States itself will collapse because the domestic people and even the financial groups behind it have lost confidence in the government and the army, especially now that the paper strength of the US military deployed on this battlefield is still far stronger than that of the heavenly punishment column, and the strength of the troops is dozens of times that of the enemy, and it still does not dare to attack? Does that make sense?

Almost every battle called the "meat grinder" in history was caused by serious military mistakes, and the reason for such serious military mistakes was almost always due to political pressure, and the Battle of Pittsburgh was also due to the same reason, entering a more brutal second stage......

Considering the strength of the enemy's combat effectiveness, Pershing, who had not officially led the troops at this time, proposed to tear apart the enemy's defense line through a night attack first, although with the enemy's well-trained, the night attack may not be successful, but even if it fails, the exchange ratio is definitely much better than a daytime attack, after all, a night battle is equivalent to reducing the organization of both sides at the same time, and weakening the heavenly punishment column with a higher degree of organization more. But Theodore Roosevelt did not take this advice, but personally called the command in Pittsburgh and asked them to storm during the day, "It's not that the night attack can't be carried out, but it can only be used as an auxiliary, only an auxiliary!" ”

It turned out that although the night attack seemed to be beneficial to the US military, because the degree of organization had dropped so badly, the scale of the operation could not be increased, otherwise the attacking troops themselves would have collapsed without a fight. And the scale of the battle is limited, the progress will not be fast, and the time consumed will be long, and what the Roosevelt administration is most afraid of now is that this campaign will drag on too long!

Since the boss said so, what else can be done? It can only be frontal, but even if it is just frontal, the US army, which has already suffered a big loss before, is only willing to slowly implement the sapper excavation tactics, and does not dare to directly charge at a long distance, and the enemy's terrifying artillery fire washes the ground, which is simply suicide! In the face of the scolding of the generals, the junior officers, including Jerry, all put forward a reasonable request that the former could not meet at all, "Artillery suppression? How can this be done? ”

It must be known that in the first stage of the Battle of Pittsburgh, the United States damaged as many as seven or eight hundred field guns, including large-caliber heavy artillery and the new 75 miss, which is almost equivalent to the configuration of a complete group army. No matter how rich the Americans were, such a loss was enough to make Theodore Roosevelt feel distressed.

You must know that the US Army's substantial expansion is a matter of the past ten years, and it has been upgraded once in the middle, and the reserves of artillery and artillery are actually not very sufficient, and the serious losses so far have reduced the establishment of artillery units under the jurisdiction of many US infantry divisions by half.

However, the sappers are digging too slowly, you must know that the position selected by the Heavenly Punishment Column this time is very open, and you can see it at a glance within 10 kilometers, that is to say, the US army must start digging trenches from 10,000 meters away, and can only hide in the trenches and slowly dig forward, and it can only move forward dozens of meters in a day and a night, how long will it take to launch an attack?

As for the practice of using the cover of night to organize a large number of people on the ground to dig at the same time to speed up the progress, some people have thought of and tried, but when the distance is long, it is okay, after advancing to a few thousand meters, the enemy's flares are enough for the Chinese artillery to see the target clearly, and then the American GIs who are digging trenches in a long row have become the best targets, if they are lucky, one cannon can be put into dozens, because the Chinese artillery has lowered the elevation angle, the flight speed of the shells is faster than the sound, and the US troops have no time to dodge, and the result is extremely heavy losses.

There was no way, and then the U.S. troops could only hide in the trenches that had been dug at a certain depth as soon as they saw the dawn in the sky, or simply lie down, which greatly reduced casualties, but the speed of construction was completely uncontrollable...... (To be continued.) )