These American generals were not wrong in their guesses, as early as not long after the initial attack of the two major mountain divisions was blocked, a young battalion commander named Xu Shuzheng wrote to his division headquarters regardless of his humble position, expressing his worries: "Now is the time when our army's momentum is at its peak, and it is still impossible to attack, and after a stalemate is formed, the morale of both sides will be weakened, and our logistics are also worrisome, I am afraid that the situation will get worse and worse." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Even if it doesn't end here, there are many American soldiers and we have few soldiers, and if it becomes a war of attrition, it will be a failure! ”

In this letter, Xu Shuzheng also concisely offered a plan to the division headquarters, that is, the intensity of the next attack, especially the frequency and intensity of the artillery bombardment, should be gradually reduced, so as to create the illusion that logistics supply is becoming more and more difficult, and by the way, draw more troops to sweep the American militia guerrillas in the rear, ensure the safety of the railway line in the rear, and wait until the artillery shells are enough and the American troops in the south are also paralyzed, and then concentrate all their efforts to launch a fierce attack and crush the enemy in one go!

After reading it, Zhao Hu thought it was very reasonable, so he showed it to the other members of the former enemy committee for reference, and everyone thought that this plan was good, so they decided on it. Later, it coincided with the landing of the Marines in Mexico, and this strategy was just convenient to cooperate with, so the timing of the general attack was also set, and now the Americans were really stunned all at once!

However, the U.S. military had built multiple lines of defense between Albuquerque and El Paso, and even if the Chinese army's sudden force caught them by surprise, it would have broken through two or three lines at most, and even if the U.S. military had suffered more than 100,000 casualties (including captured and missing) within a few days, El Paso would still be safe. But at this time, the 200,000 troops sent to the east to resist the Chinese marines fell off the chain......

Contrary to the two mountain divisions that were gaining momentum, the two marine divisions, which had been overwhelming since the landing, were now at the time of their sharpness, and the offensive against the temporary defense line of the American army was fully exerted from the very beginning, so that these American troops from El Paso felt pressure, and at this time, the continuous bad news from the rear became the last straw that broke the camel's back, leading to the complete collapse of the battle situation, and the commanders and fighters of the Marine Corps pursued the victory like tigers descending from the mountain, completely crushing this force of American troops, and capturing 70,000 or 80,000 prisoners, and the total number of casualties on the Chinese side was only six or seven thousand, most of which were lost in the previous fortified positions.

After receiving the war report, US President Theodore Roosevelt was shocked, but now that the battle of Pittsburgh had reached its final moment, it must not fall short, and he really could not spare many troops to go south to save the battle, so he could only be like a mustache in the later stage of the Battle of Stalingrad, and there was no other way but to promise some verbal checks to the beleaguered front-line troops.

Then again, by this time, even if President Roosevelt was willing to risk the escape of the Heavenly Punishment Column and split his troops south, it would already be too late, because the speed of the collapse of the American army was far faster than he expected......

The 200,000 American troops on the Western Front only escaped back 40,000 or 50,000 people, and they have become frightened birds, intentionally or unintentionally, doubling the enemy's terror and publicizing it, which makes the American troops in El Paso all panic, because the troops that are relatively capable of fighting have been sent to the front line, the American troops who remain in El Paso are either new units that are still in the process of training, or they have just replenished a large number of new recruits, but the defeated army whose morale has not recovered after retreating from the front line is no different from a rabble, and they are so frightened. There was a mass panic.

At this time, a bold Chinese Marine Regiment commander, stimulated by successive victories, took the risk of throwing away his baggage and heavy weapons, and without waiting for the friendly troops behind to follow, he took his regiment of less than 2,000 men to march lightly, and on the night of the next day, he hit only 50 kilometers from El Paso. As a result, even the regiment commander himself did not expect that he, the infantry regiment that was actually at the end of the crossbow, would become the shouting that caused an avalanche......

Because it was difficult to distinguish the number of enemies in the dark night, and the darkness magnified the fear in people's hearts, not long after the battle began, there were American troops in El Paso who deserted en masse, and then, as if they were infected with an infectious disease, countless American troops began to rush to scatter and flee, and El Paso and its nearby heavy army group with a total of more than 300,000 people collapsed so incredibly!

After receiving the regimental commander's urgent telegram, his division commander was surprised and delighted, and immediately ordered the troops to speed up, including a brigade of nearly 10,000 people who left heavy weapons to the friendly troops behind, and then forcibly marched for a day and a night, rushing to arrive in time before the US El Paso command stabilized the situation, and the US army finally collapsed completely, and even if the angels descended to earth, they could not be saved......

The bad news of the loss of El Paso instantly shattered the fighting spirit of the US troops on the northern front, and in the face of the desperate situation of being cut off from supplies and suffering from the enemy on their backs, the thinking of army building was completely chaotic around the US troops fighting on the premise of adequate supplies and strong support, and it was impossible to reserve enough ammunition and daily necessities for long-term use in advance in the "forward positions" that were laid out according to the idea of retreating layer by layer from the beginning, and these two or three hundred thousand American "elites" The troops soon lost the courage and ability to continue fighting, and with the exception of 20,000 or 30,000 killed by the Chinese army, the rest of the American troops either fled or became prisoners of the Chinese army.

Speaking of which, the number of Chinese troops is insufficient, and there are really a lot of American troops who have successfully escaped, but because the Chinese army has completed the sandwich, and the south is the territory of Mexico, which has now officially declared war with the United States, in fact, a situation of encirclement on three sides has been formed, forcing most of the American troops to flee to the west, but that direction is a dead end!

When the Chinese Marines occupied El Paso, the seven or eight hundred thousand American troops west of the Rocky Mountains all became turtles in the urn, don't look at their frightening number, but the proportion of recruits and defeated soldiers is higher than that of the previous American troops in El Paso, and the new recruits are renewed, the routs are even more defeated, and most of the logistics supplies are cut off, and the unusually large number has become a huge burden, making it more and more difficult to hold on, and even if the main force of the American army finally completely eliminates the Heavenly Punishment Column, free up their hands, Faced with the brutal reality that the few passes in the Rocky Mountains have been completely controlled by Chinese forces, even if you desperately try to lend a helping hand, it will be beyond your reach...... (To be continued.) )