Considering that the number of enemies is indeed very large, Li Hui, who is determined to win, even agrees that the "doppelganger" can recruit level 1 infantry to deploy to replenish the force if necessary, anyway, level 1 infantry is cheap, and recruiting 10,000 people only needs 10 tons of gold, even if the precious metal reserves are relatively tight now, he can still afford it. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The U.S. government is not unaware of the importance of the steel industry, and the reason why it failed to move the steel plant in Pittsburgh in time is because it is already the hinterland of the United States! Who would have thought that the Chinese army would be able to fight here? When it is discovered that something is wrong, it is too late for the US government to want to relocate, because the heavy industrial equipment is heavy, the technology content is high, and the danger is great, so how can it be moved away in a hurry?

In desperation, the U.S. government can only do its best to mobilize troops to defend the city, even if the Heavenly Punishment Column avoids the real attack and captures some other important cities, it can only be admitted, in the early 20th century, when petroleum products have not yet been widely used and the power industry has just emerged, steel production can almost be directly used to measure a country's industrial strength, and its importance is simply incomparable. And the construction cycle of the steel plant is still very long, almost comparable to the shipyard, when the steel king Andrew Carnegie once pretended to say that as long as the talent is still there, he can create another Carnegie steel company, theoretically it is true, but the problem is that it takes several years to build a new steel plant, and now the war situation is already very difficult How can the United States afford the loss of halving steel production for several consecutive years?

One side must hold on resolutely, and the other side vows to take it, and the battle for Pittsburgh has naturally become extremely fierce, and because the casualties on both sides have set a new record since the outbreak of this war, the Western media who like to make a fuss call this tragic battle "Pittsburgh meat grinder......

The goal of the Heavenly Punishment Column was very clear, they did not necessarily have to occupy the entire city, but only needed to destroy the steel plant, so the focus was also on the role of artillery, especially long-range heavy artillery. Calibration is crucial, and balloon firing is now a matter of death, so there is only one way left - send infantry to infiltrate the vicinity of the U.S. Steel plant, and then direct your own heavy artillery through the radio to attack the important facilities of the steel plant, which will inevitably lead to brutal street fighting with the Americans.

In street fighting, the distance of fire is generally close, and the accuracy advantage of rifles is not easy to play, so most of the infantry who perform this task are replaced by submachine guns with strong melee firepower. However, to the surprise of the whole Heavenly Punishment Column, as soon as they exchanged fire with the enemy, they found that the enemy had actually used submachine guns!

It turned out that Theodore Roosevelt also knew the characteristics of street fighting, so he decisively equipped the first batch of successfully copied submachine guns to the defenders of Pittsburgh......

"Oh! Oh! Recruit Tom excitedly grabbed the submachine gun he had just been assigned and imagined the scene of himself firing and strafing the enemy, saying that when he first saw the appearance of this thing, he didn't like it very much, it was like the work of a pipe man, it was so ugly! But after a test shot, Tom was immediately conquered by the feeling of frantically pouring fire and reaping the lives of the enemy, but unfortunately the enemy hadn't hit yet, otherwise they would have known that they were powerful!

The veteran Jerry looked at Tom's current appearance, as if he saw himself who had just entered the battlefield two months ago, and Jerry, who didn't want Tom to die like his former comrades, unceremoniously gave him a hairy chestnut and taught him a lesson, "Young man, the firepower of this gun is fierce, but if you die, no matter how strong its firepower is, what is the use?" The enemies we will face are very ferocious and cunning, and their weapons are more powerful than ours, if you don't want to give your life to the first battle, you must learn to protect yourself, it is more important than killing the enemy! ”

Jerry is one of the few lucky people in this company who have fought against the Heavenly Punishment Column, but can still survive, if it weren't for the fact that he died in his squad every time, which made his boss feel unlucky, with the tradition of seniority in the U.S. Army and the unprecedented shortage of non-commissioned officers after the continuous expansion and fiasco, Jerry was fully qualified to be promoted to squad leader or even platoon leader. But even if he is still an ordinary big-headed soldier, as a veteran, Jerry's words are not something that a new recruit like Tom can question casually. But when Tom asked him what he should do, the old soldier shook his head and replied, "It is difficult for me to explain to you now, and you will do what I will do when the time comes, so that although it may not save your life, it will always be safer." ”

Even if it is an old-timer, this kind of vague words are hardly convincing, although everyone agreed, but from the expressions they could see that they didn't really take it seriously, but Tom felt the sincerity in Jerry's tone, and secretly remembered it......

Although the focus of the Battle of Pittsburgh was street fighting, the situation on the side of the American army was already very dangerous at this stage, and although Pittsburgh was important, because of the small number of workers needed for heavy industry, which affected the number of urban population, its urban area was not large, and if it insisted on accumulating too many troops in the city, it would only cause unnecessary casualties.

Therefore, the U.S. 12th Army, which was tasked with holding Pittsburgh, did not retreat inside the city, but built a cobweb-like defensive network of trenches, machine guns, and barbed wire outside the city, and behind these fortifications, a large number of artillery was ready to provide support, and Jerry and Tom's squad was assigned to such an outlying position......

Tom was very excited about this, because he felt that he could kill the enemy earlier, but Jerry, who had seen countless of his comrades die in the past two months, seemed a little depressed, because he knew that his squad had become the first cannon fodder in this battle, and the earlier he joined the battle, the sooner he died......

Sure enough, it didn't take long for this position to be fiercely attacked by enemy artillery, but fortunately, the distance of the artillery bombardment affected the accuracy, and there was the protection of the trenches, and there was no casualty in the squad, but Jerry's did not dare to relax at all, because he knew that this was just the beginning. (To be continued.) )