Chapter 1689: Fire Reconnaissance

The U.S. military has such and such problems, the reason why the U.S. military was able to fight the European war, and it is so impressive, in terms of basic strength, there are still some, the Japanese made a mistake, they did not adjust, but still fixed the previous arrangement, they seem to think that this line of defense is strong enough, relying on this line of defense can solve all problems, they do not know, war is constantly changing. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

After the annihilation of the eight Canadian divisions, the United States did not lose the will to resist, and when they had no choice, they forcibly tried to find a way to no longer use a large-scale army to attack the Japanese position, which was tantamount to sending them to death, but without the way of charging as a whole, they did not necessarily fail to judge the strength of the protection of the entire position, which required a certain amount of sacrifice and even a certain amount of bravery.

The Americans are not afraid of sacrifice, although sacrifice will be very troublesome, and it will also cause turmoil in Congress and Congress, but they have lost hundreds of thousands, and they are not worried about losing tens of thousands more, if they spend tens of thousands of dollars, they can figure out the reality of the Japanese defense line, which is also quite important for the next offensive of the US army.

Next, almost 400,000 troops began to move forward, the Japanese were ready to fight, thinking that the United States would make the previous mistakes, and once again planted explosives, but it had no effect, the Americans were fooled once, the second time of course it was impossible to be fooled, this time the camp, not only the scale is huge, covering 5 square kilometers, a total of 20 camps, each other is the horns, the most important thing is that every place, before camping, will dig about 7 meters deep, some stubborn, and even dig down 7 meters, Not to mention, this method is very useful, and in at least 4 of the 20 camps found large quantities of explosives.

The United States finally knew how Japan planted explosives, to put it bluntly, quite intensively, and when this density reached a certain level, even if it was a big luck.

Understand how Japan planted explosives in the US military camp, the mystery of the Japanese army was shattered, Japan's special forces, after all, are not as good as China, the United States has prepared, especially under a large number of searchlights and perfect camps, at most they are fighting guerrillas, outside the range of machine guns, mortars are rare, and the number will not be too much, otherwise, they will be reacted by US artillery fire, and it is no longer possible to fight for more than 20 minutes like the previous sneak attack, and there is no such comfort as a counterattack, The U.S. military is considered to be on the front line in Juneau, gaining a foothold.

After the special forces camped in the US army, they were dispatched again and again, but unfortunately the effect was not very good, the US troops with defense, almost like a hedgehog, sometimes, the slightest attack was subjected to a little attack, there would be a violent reaction, the action was so big, Japan's imperfect, not enough equipped special forces, could not resist at all, after suffering several large losses, the Japanese special forces were at least 40% killed, and there was no longer the possibility of a large-scale attack.

Gaining a firm foothold in front of Juneau is just the first step of the U.S. military, for this, Japan has long been prepared, although it has spent a considerable amount of special forces, but this special forces have also eliminated at least 3 times more than the enemy army, and it can be regarded as a well-deserved death, for Japan, the strongest reliance is on the defensive position, hundreds of thousands of troops hate in front of this line of defense, and proved the strength of this line of defense with blood, how can he engage in a field battle with the U.S. army, that is not to attack the enemy's length with his own short, this is not a wise man's doing.

The Japanese thought that the U.S. military should be able to gain a firm foothold next, and launch a wave of large-scale attacks to impact the entire front line of Juno, and even for the front line of Kawasaki Meijibu, an order was also issued that the U.S. military must be weakened as much as possible, focusing on killing and wounding, and if the U.S. offensive is too fierce, it can retreat on the premise of consuming a sufficient number of U.S. troops.

Defensive operations, the most unwise is to defend to the death, the whole Alaska is the battlefield, more than 1.5 million square kilometers of territory, can be used as a defensive position of a lot, Juno is just a very insignificant part of it, and Kawasaki scenery is not the thickest place in the defense line, the strongest defense line is 40 kilometers around Juneau, which is already 20 kilometers away from the main defense line.

In itself, Kawasaki Meijing on this line of defense, the United States and Canada forces that have been eliminated are already several times the number of their entire defense line, and after continuing to consume a part, they can already withdraw, the elite soldiers who grew up in the war, with some recruits, are a complete and combat-ready army, there is no need to fight hard with the United States for such a little bit of land.

The Japanese wishful thinking was very good, but the Americans did not follow the script they arranged, and after gaining a firm foothold, they did not organize a large-scale attack, but stabilized, first stabilized the US military camps, and kept thickening the defensive positions, and just like the Japanese, digging trenches, I have to say that the US troops have been on the European battlefield, and have learned the experience of digging trenches from the bloody battle, and before this one front, all of which were used, a three-dimensional fortification was quickly formed.

The actions of the US military are somewhat extraordinary, but they still have not attracted too much attention from the Japanese side, what they want to do is to defend, not to attack, Japan has never thought of counterattacking the US army, the previous sneak attack on the camp, is to take advantage of the US army's unstable foothold, but also sit on the bomb, only to send special forces to try, just like that, it is only a small part of the special forces, the regular army did not send a single one, in order to reduce losses.

Now, if the Americans build a position, it will be exactly what they want, and all the positions will be built, and it will really turn this piece into reinforced concrete fortifications, and no one can help anyone, which is advantageous to Japan, and at the current stall of rapid development, every day spent in Alaska, the strength of the Japanese will increase by a few points.

However, the next actions of the US army, so that the Japanese could not understand, after the foothold stabilized, they were indeed attacking, but not on a large scale, but on a small scale, because they knew the range of artillery shells on the Japanese side, what artillery preparations or something, and there was no more, the US army just sent a small force, taking advantage of the dark night, or the gap in the Japanese firepower network, constantly attacking the Japanese defense line, several times a day, or even a dozen attacks, the losses were different, but it was almost impossible to shake the Japanese position, It's like I'm here to investigate.

In fact, the U.S. military sent a small force to carry out a series of feints on the defense line, and it was really here to reconnoitre, mainly to test the strength of the defense line, how dense the defense line is, in fact, the density of this defense line far exceeded the imagination of the U.S. military, and even the U.S. military did not expect that in less than seven months, including a long winter, the Japanese would be here, and they would come up with such a three-dimensional defense line, and the defensive strength was even higher than that of the U.S. military in Bordeaux in Europe.

If you count the hidden strategic firepower, the intensity of the firepower of the Japanese defense line can really be described as frenzied, but even if it is the intensity of the display, it also makes the US military a little dilemma.

I have seen the three-dimensional defense line of Europe and Germany, and the US military that participated in the European war is also attacking in front of such a line of defense, but similar to Japan, it is really not like this, there are at least more than 200 bunkers and 750 machine guns of all sizes on the kilometer-long defense line, which is still the outermost first layer, as far as the results of their reconnaissance are concerned, in the dozens of kilometers from the front to Juneau, there are at least 4 lines of defense, according to the proportion, these four lines of defense will make a kilometer away, Gather more than 3,000 machine guns.

As soon as I thought of this, the Americans had a terrible headache, and there were at least 120 kilometers above the entire Junod defense line, which means that there were more than 300,000 machine guns. Of course, it can't be so many, but as long as there are more than 250,000 machine guns on this line of defense, this line of defense is an impregnable line of defense, so that the threat ability of the line to infantry is even higher than that of a large number of artillery.

In the current era of thermal weapons, the combination of machine guns and barbed wire is still the most outstanding thing on the battlefield, they have the greatest lethality for infantry, such a line of defense, before the birth of tanks, this is incomprehensible, especially the number of Japanese conscripts, so that this dense defense line area, at least densely packed with more than 4 million troops, this is the real headache for the United States, reinforced concrete defense line, a huge number of machine guns and artillery, if you add enough people, even if you pay the same number of casualties, They may not be able to capture the defensive line, as soon as they think of the Bordeaux front, the casualty ratio of the main attack, the American commander is depressed, even if it is a powerful Germany, under sufficient artillery preparation, attacking the American camp, it will have to pay one-to-one casualties, not to mention that the Entente attacks Germany, without paying 5:1 casualties, it is impossible to take the position.

Attacking a huge position defended by 4 million people, even if the combat effectiveness of the two sides is very different, without paying the same number of casualties, don't want to capture this position, such casualties can the US army bear, although there are 4 million troops here, but it has lost nearly 500,000.

The commander of the US army shook his head helplessly with the report he finally received after a month of continuous probing, and immediately ordered the herald to immediately contact the rear, which was nothing more than two points, equipment, weapons, troops, especially heavy artillery, and if possible, even the ship's naval guns, otherwise it would not be possible to offset the opponent's artillery range advantage.

According to the previous data, the Japanese artillery has an amazing range, arranged in a few kilometers behind, but it can hit about 10 kilometers behind the battle line, calculated, the minimum range is more than 20 kilometers, such a range, ordinary artillery fire is useless at all, one artillery suppression, it is enough for the US army to be blind, at least there must be a range of about 15 kilometers, to be able to suppress the position.

For fixed positions, artillery is probably the only useful thing, even if it is a reinforced concrete fortification, after being attacked by large-caliber artillery fire and armor-piercing shells, it may initially be able to rely on the power of protection to resist, and after a long time, it will inevitably loosen, destroy, or even be breached, which is the most stupid method and the most effective method.

Along with this request, it was sent to the rear of the United States, as well as a comprehensive reconnaissance and evaluation of the Japanese positions, although the vast majority of them were about 30 kilometers outside Juneau, and there was no information on the inside, but it would be even more frustrating to speculate on the inside from the information on the outside, and no one thought that Japan would complete this defensive project that could be called a miracle.

Hurry up the messenger, after feeling Vancouver, you can quickly pass through the developed railway network in the Americas, send this information back, anyway, at this time, there is no preparation for a quick victory over Japan, just a trial, it took more than a month, from the front line to Vancouver, the messenger took 15 days, but from Vancouver to Washington, it took less than 4 days.

The Army Joint Conference has been paying attention to the situation of this war, millions of troops have been fighting the war, and they have lost 500,000 troops before, although more than 60% of the Canadian troops are always lost, and they have to find out what kind of strength the Japanese have and how much preparation they have made in Alaska.

Finally, there is definite news, but it is such a news, a perfect, three-dimensional reinforced concrete fortification, or a huge range, spread over nearly 10,000 square kilometers of huge fortifications near Juno, no matter which of the two, will be a huge scale of casualties, some officers still do not believe, why the Japanese, get such a huge fortification, but the detailed information of the front-line commander, a large amount of data information and some picture information, proves how frenzied the whole fortification is, that is, the machine gun is so little, It is impossible to look directly, and after a little calculation, you will know what a big price it will have to pay to break through such a line of defense, which is not something that the Americans can afford at present.

Heavy artillery and soldiers, these can be given, but if they really want to attack like this, all the generals have fallen into a big discussion, and some people even raised the question of whether to live in peace with Japan, even at the cost of Alaska, but it was vetoed by most of the members of the joint conference, Japan's greed, from his history all the way, can be clearly shown, once he gains a foothold in Alaska, he will face Canada, a huge Canada, which cannot become a threat to the United States before, In the same way, it cannot become a threat to Japan, and once Japan obtains sufficient nutrients from Canada, it will definitely eventually compete with the United States in the Americas, so for the sake of the long-term peace and stability of the United States, it is necessary to win this war, or on the premise that the losses are not too large. (To be continued.) )