Chapter 394: Lao Mei's life is also very sad
But then again, in fact, even after the war against Russia, China's center of gravity still stayed on the North American continent, and although it invested a lot of troops to deal with the Russian army, considering the elite of the troops and the participation of the navy (due to the long-term blockade of the Chinese Navy, the Pacific Fleet of Tsarist Russia was forced to disband before the war, so the war to recover Vladivostok basically did not use the navy, but the Japanese Navy sent a few warships to help). Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info), various war resources are obviously still more inclined to the other side of the Pacific.
Under the care of the Chinese government, the United States had even more difficult times during this period of time than Tsarist Russia, if it were not for the fact that the family had a big business and strong strength, and the US military had grown rapidly in the war, I was afraid that if Russia did not collapse, the United States would have collapsed first......
Soon after Missoula's Chinese army seized the Rocky Pass to the east and had the strategic advantage of attacking and retreating, the 1st Mountain Division, the 2nd Mountain Division, and the Heavenly Punishment Column, which had completed the replenishment of personnel and materials and necessary repairs, had a total of no less than 100,000 troops and fearlessly advanced into the Great Plains of the central United States. Because the firing range of China's 105mm mountain artillery is farther than that of the American field artillery, the firepower superiority that the infantry division should have cannot be demonstrated at all, not to mention the help of the heavenly punishment column equipped with 150mm or even 210mm heavy artillery, and it is even more difficult for the US army to have any chance of winning......
However, the two mountain divisions advanced into the plains not to fight the American army here, but to save time to move south as soon as possible, and in order to take all the land west of the Rocky Mountain, it was not enough to cut off the two railroads in the north, and the Central Pacific Railroad in the center and the two in the south were also cut off.
However, US President Theodore Roosevelt was not an amateur, as early as after the fall of the Rocky Pass, he had guessed the next movement of the Chinese army and the great threat it might pose, and actively deployed troops, when those three divisions entered the central Great Plains of the northern country, the land between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River had deployed as many as three armies of more than one million troops, in addition to the militias of the states were also fully mobilized, and the number of troops was also no less than one million.
Speaking of which, although there are only three railway lines left in the United States that run through the east and west, the western part of the United States also has a decent amount of industry, but the departments are not complete enough to be inseparable from the support of the east, which is very different from the situation that the eastern part of Tsarist Russia is completely supported by Europe, and the technical level of the American railroad and the climatic conditions of the areas along the way are also better than that of Tsarist Russia, so the number of troops that a railway can support is obviously more than that of the Russian army, which is also an important reason why the United States is far more difficult to deal with than Tsarist Russia......
However, the trump card is the trump card, and the power of the three Chinese ace divisions is really amazing, and it took less than a month for China's 100,000 troops to break through the seven main lines of defense of the US army in a row, all the way to Cheyenne, an important transportation hub in the central United States, and cut off the Central Pacific Railroad of the United States, which has condensed the blood and tears of countless Chinese workers!
During this period, the number of U.S. casualties reached almost 500,000, of which more than 300,000 were lost on the central plains, which shows how tragic the battle situation was. Perhaps the only consolation that could comfort Theodore Roosevelt was that the U.S. military did not give the Chinese army a chance to encircle and annihilate it, and there were fewer casualties and fewer prisoners, as long as there was enough time for the wounded soldiers to recover and return, the losses were not too great.
On the contrary, although the Chinese side has won successive battles, but because of the strong attack on the US military positions and the need to rush for time, the casualties are obviously large, especially the first mountain division responsible for the main attack suffered the most, more than 1,700 people died clearly, and more than 700 people are missing (most of them are recorded without bones, but unless people find them, the families of the missing people also enjoy the treatment of martyrs, so it will not cause any disputes). More than 11,000 people were injured, which made Zhao Hu, who had never cared much about life and death, heartbroken.
Even if it was replenished with personnel from China before advancing eastward, such a large casualty inevitably caused the vitality of the First Mountain Division, so the Second Mountain Division took over the heavy responsibility of the main attack without giving the defeated American army a chance to recover, and the Chinese army continued to advance southward with all its might, and soon took Denver, an important city in the central part of the United States, and cut off the Santa Fe Railway.
If the Chinese army continues to cut south and cut off the last lifeline of the American army in the west, then the vast land west of the Rocky Mountains will no longer be owned by the United States, and the total number of four or five hundred thousand American troops in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and other places will also become turtles in the urn. Theodore Roosevelt could not have allowed such a situation to occur under any circumstances, and he did his best to send more than 700,000 troops to the line between Albuquerque and El Paso, and he could not believe that with so many troops in front of him, the Chinese eastward advance troops, which had already suffered heavy casualties, could break through again?
The Chinese eastward march did not make it through, but before Theodore Roosevelt could rejoice, he received the news of an emergency in central Kansas City, and was shocked, "God, can you tell me what is going on?" Didn't the Chinese go south? How did it suddenly appear in the east? ”
It turned out that after assisting the two mountain divisions in the capture of Denver, the Heavenly Punishment Column parted ways with them and began their own mission. Although carrying a large amount of heavy equipment, but because it is all composed of biochemical soldiers, and Li Hui's "doppelganger" with the army, what equipment and types of troops are lacking can be urgently used to produce and deploy the system, after clearing all the living people nearby, a large number of ships suddenly appeared on the Kansas River, and then the Heavenly Punishment Column except for the cavalry troops all boarded the boat, went down the river and went straight to Kansas City, until the distance was not far away, they abandoned the ship and landed on the shore to attack Kansas City, and sure enough, the American troops here were caught off guard, from the beginning of the exchange of fireIt took less than two days to take full control of the city.
It was not only the defenders of Kansas City who were caught off guard, but even Theodore Roosevelt, the president of the United States, who was stunned for a moment, and after a brief shock, his heart was filled with boundless fear...... (To be continued.) )