Fortunately, President Roosevelt, who had just experienced great joy and sorrow, felt bad and decisively ordered another army group as a reserve to send a large number of troops to urgently reinforce it, so as to avoid the loss of the position, and launched a new offensive a day later. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info It's just that due to the heavy casualties of the Seventh Army, and the excessive physical strength of the survivors in order to rebuild the fortifications, they are no longer able to carry the heavy burden, and the actual main attacking force has been replaced, just to avoid chaos in the command system, and for the convenience of post-war propaganda (claiming that one army group eliminated the Heavenly Punishment Column instead of two army groups), the command of the Seventh Army is still responsible for commanding the entire battle.

In addition, the Heavenly Punishment Column has already been wary of the new tactics of the US army, and while the main force retreats, some machine gunners and submachine gunners will be left to prevent the US troops from breaking through the trenches, and very good results have been achieved. The U.S. military attacked many times, suffering more than 100,000 casualties, but still failed to break through the second line of defense of the Heavenly Punishment Column, which kept President Roosevelt awake at night, but now he can only pray to God except to trust his subordinates......

I don't know if God really answered Theodore Roosevelt's prayers, or if the good fortune of the Heavenly Punishment Column ran out, and the rare good weather that had been maintained for more than a month suddenly changed and it rained heavily, and it lasted for the whole week. Originally, this should be beneficial to the defending side, but the heavenly punishment column chose to lay out the defense line with its back to the river, the groundwater level was already high, and drainage became a big problem after a large rainfall, and many trenches became muddy ditches, which was troublesome, and sure enough, everything has advantages and disadvantages, and it is impossible to only enjoy the benefits without suffering......

The problem is that the Heavenly Punishment Column has gone through hard battles during this period of time, and the number of wounded commanders and fighters in the troops is extremely large, even more than half of the remaining troops, although the degree is not serious, but in the case of a sharp deterioration in the health situation, small injuries can easily become serious infections and kill people, and the temperature has dropped significantly after entering October, and it is easy to catch a cold and get sick when fighting in the rain. As a result, in just a few days, more than 3,000 people were abandoned by the Heavenly Punishment Column because of the worsening of their injuries, and the losses were as great as a fierce battle, thanks to penicillin, otherwise it is very possible to kill tens of thousands of officers and soldiers.

In the heavy rain, the accuracy of long-range firepower was greatly affected, thus narrowing the gap between the weapons and combat effectiveness of the two sides; under the overwhelming offensive of the US army, the Heavenly Punishment Column lost two lines of defense in a row, and most of the wounded soldiers were left to entangle the enemy and sacrificed, and the remaining strength was sharply reduced from more than 34,000 to less than 20,000, which was also the biggest setback suffered by the Heavenly Punishment Column since its formation. Li Hui, who was far away in China, was also fully aware of the greatest difficulty in fighting without rear, "The United States can survive many losses, because internal operations can be continuously replenished, while the lone army that goes deep behind enemy lines will be greatly damaged and unable to slow down as long as it loses a slightly larger battle." ”

However, Li Hui did not regret this, anyway, the Heavenly Punishment Column was originally ready to give up in his plan, and the destruction of half of the steel industry in the United States alone was worthy of their sacrifice, not to mention that the Heavenly Punishment Column had killed and injured so many American troops......

As the president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt naturally hated the Heavenly Punishment Column, but as the rain passed and the sky cleared, the favorable fighters had been lost, and the Heavenly Punishment Column still had nearly 20,000 troops, and the proportion of wounded soldiers among them had dropped greatly. In order to reduce casualties and end the battle as soon as possible, the U.S. military sent envoys to persuade the Heavenly Punishment Column to surrender, but the latter delayed it for two more days according to Li Hui's order......

After discovering that they had been tricked, the U.S. troops couldn't help but be ashamed and angry, and immediately launched a more frantic attack, but although the Heavenly Punishment Column suffered great losses, the battle line was also greatly shortened, and at the same time, there were so many wounded soldiers who were dragged down, to some extent, it was more difficult to gnaw than before. On the contrary, the two US army groups have lost a large number of elite and strong generals, and many units have been crippled, and their combat effectiveness has actually declined significantly. Although the US army exerted its strength and suffered two or three hundred thousand casualties, it still had nothing to do with the remaining remnants of the Heavenly Punishment Column.

Unconsciously, it was already November, and the United States had mobilized more than 1 million troops before and after, but it was still unable to eat the tens of thousands of lone troops, and public opinion at home and abroad was in an uproar, and remarks such as "Americans will not fight" were in the air for a while, and even the British Government, which was worried that China would become too powerful after defeating the United States and Russia, and was ready to intervene, became ambiguous and began to consider whether it should send charcoal in the middle of the snow or take advantage of the fire to rob.

At this time, the two group armies transferred back from the west coast were already too weak to continue the offensive, and as a result, the three army groups that they had thought had no chance to fight again went into battle again after completing the replenishment of personnel. The Heavenly Punishment Column, which had only a little more than 10,000 troops left, was finally unable to withstand the onslaught of the new forces with superior forces and retreated again.

To make matters worse, because the accumulated losses of the artillery had increased to an astonishing tree, and had not been replenished, so that there were not so many people to operate the heavy weapons, and many artillery pieces could only blow up on their own, and the American artillery could finally vent its fire unscrupulously, and everyone could see that the Heavenly Punishment Column could no longer hold on. But even so, the U.S. troops suffered tens of thousands of casualties before they finally completely wiped out the Heavenly Punishment Column, which made Theodore Roosevelt, who received the "good news," unable to laugh at all......

The only thing that made President Roosevelt breathe a sigh of relief was that the U.S. military finally confirmed that the enemy was indeed much more than just one infantry division, which proved that the difference in combat effectiveness between the two sides was not as wide as initially thought, but even if it was actually two infantry divisions (Note 1), the price paid by the U.S. military for this was still too great, too great!

Note 1: According to this calculation, it is more than 70,000 people, but in fact, with the temporary recruitment of 20,000 level 1 infantry, it is only more than 55,000 people...... (To be continued.) )