Chapter 438: What a Big Dumpling (Part II)

The natural danger of the Rocky Mountains is no joke, coupled with the fact that the mountain troops are already good at fighting on this kind of terrain, and they are the defensive side that has taken advantage of the advantage, and the advantage has expanded exponentially, compared with the plain field battle, the combat efficiency has increased tenfold?

In addition, as the saying goes, "the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road," and a battle such as the Yamaguchi Defensive Battle, which was waged on a narrow terrain, was mainly more important than the combat effectiveness of the troops on both sides, and the overwhelming superiority of the US military in strength was completely impossible to bring into play, and the decline in the quality of personnel caused by the excessively rapid expansion of the army and the annihilation of a large number of main forces by the formation was even more obvious; even if there was a superiority of troops dozens of times, there was no attempt to recapture the mountain pass and open up the limited few railway lines of communication. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In fact, after the Chinese army took El Paso, the two mountain divisions in the rear were immediately liberated, and after that, the Chinese only needed to put one mountain brigade or even fewer troops in each mountain pass to ensure that nothing was lost. Even if the reserves were arranged in the most careful manner, a maximum of 100,000 men would need to be deployed on the Rocky Mountain defense line, which means that China's mobile forces on the North American battlefield would explode to nearly 200,000 men, and the American militia guerrillas who were still in the rear would finally meet their ends......

If the U.S. military refuses to give up and insists on attacking, then Li Hui is also welcome, even if their troops can catch up with China's combat effectiveness, they will have to bear more than 10 times the terrible exchange ratio, although Li Hui hates to fight a war of attrition, but such a war of attrition is not opposed, because under such a disparity in the exchange ratio, even if the United States has a home advantage, it will definitely shed blood first!

It took just over a month for the regular American army trapped west of the Rocky Mountains to completely collapse, and with the exception of a small number scattered to the countryside and small towns to engage in guerrilla warfare to persevere the struggle, the rest were either wiped out or surrendered in despair.

If you take the previous Battle of El Paso (broadly speaking, including the campaign that routed the 200,000 American troops to the east. The total number of dead and missing in the U.S. military has reached 330,000, and the number of captured troops is as high as 680,000, even if there are almost no real elite troops among them, and it is a bit reluctant to call them cannon fodder, but after all, they are all young adults who have the hope of becoming elite soldiers! With the loss of no less than 1 million young adults, how many more times will the United States of America, which had a total population of more than 80 million before the war, be able to bear?

Of course, in order to achieve such astonishing results, the losses of the Chinese army are not small, if we count from the landing in Mexico, the total number of Chinese troops attrition before and after even exceeds 60,000, of which more than 10,000 are dead, missing, and permanently disabled. Fortunately, this battle was finally won, and Li Hui, who had been paying attention to the North American battlefield, finally breathed a sigh of relief and could shift his focus to other places......

It can only shift the focus, although the U.S. army is now losing very badly, but now nearly 2 million mobile troops have been freed up, and after the tempering of the Battle of Pittsburgh, weapons and tactics have also been initially upgraded, and the previous combat effectiveness is no longer the same, if the Chinese army is hot-headed and kills the Jishan Mountain, it will definitely receive a bloody lesson, in case it is dumpled by the U.S. army, and then take advantage of the situation to counterattack, if it is not good, there will be a mountain pass to gain and lose, then the situation will completely collapse, Li Hui is not willing to take such a big risk, "Tie hard village, Dumbfounded. Although the stupid method is not pretty, I don't know how many famous generals in history have lost to this trick, which is enough to show how effective it is.

Moreover, the Chinese army must also settle down in the rear as soon as possible, and only by completely exterminating the hundreds of thousands of American militia guerrillas west of the Rocky Mountains, and at the same time making efforts to immigrate here and actively develop industry, can the Chinese government and the people at home get rid of the burden of the North American battlefield and put economic development back on the fast track. No way, with the cost of shipping in this era, the cost of transporting people and goods across the entire Pacific Ocean is too great. Although due to the influence of various reasons such as combat efficiency, the cost is much smaller than that of the United States, and it will definitely be able to win if it fights, but the problem is that there are more than two powerful countries in the world, China and the United States, and even the current enemy country has an old man!

The focus of the Triple War was on the showdown between the two great powers, but if you look at the scale of the forces invested, the war between China and Russia was more important, and in terms of the total number of casualties on both sides, by the end of 1907, the Sino-Russian War had surpassed the Sino-American War, even if the latter was counted until the Battle of El Paso (the name is a collective term for a series of battles that revolved around the Battle of El Paso, including the annihilation of American forces in Los Angeles). After that......

Although frightened by a series of fiascos, the Tsarist Russian government did everything it could to mobilize a large number of Russian troops in order to seize the last chance to retake Omsk, considering that the situation would inevitably become more difficult once China repaired the Trans-Siberian Railway. But the miracle did not happen, the Russian army's hasty offensive lasted less than two days before it failed, the number of dead and missing exceeded 200,000, and more than 600,000 people were captured or surrendered......

After the war, Bai Lang, who was rated as the first meritorious service in the Battle of Omsk, gave full play to the advantages of cavalry mobility, and he used a small group of cavalry to destroy the railways in the rear of the Russian army, while the main force made full use of the opportunity to destroy the enemy created by the sabotage battle, and achieved a surprising result. The inability to restore railway transportation in the rear has plunged the already somewhat unsupplied Russian army's logistical supply into an even greater crisis. An army of millions sounds scary, but if the logistics can't keep up, it's a huge burden.

After the full-front offensive that was forced to launch was thwarted, the morale of the Tsarist heavy army group, which had already lost more than 100,000 elite troops in the war of movement (it was definitely the elite units of the Russian army that dared to fight the Chinese cavalry now) fell to the valley, and the soldiers no longer deserted individually, but often mutinied on a large scale in formations. Finding that the situation could not be controlled, the Russian command could only order a retreat, but as a result, it failed to do a good job of organization, and under the fierce counterattack launched by Bai Lang to seize the fighter plane, the retreat of the Russian army quickly evolved into an unprecedented rout...... (To be continued.) )