A month is a fast time, but for Kawasaki Meijing, it is full of expectations, in the past, he is about to go to the United States, to start a great journey, for the Japanese Army, it is a milestone event, even if he can't come back in the end, it can go down in history forever. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, for the front line, the Japanese army that was resisting the offensive of the American army was very tormented, and most of the second and third lines of defense had been completed, especially the second line of defense, and the troops withdrawn from Juno had already been deployed in the second line of defense.

The reason is very simple, it is the Sakura plan, if Juno's are completely abandoned, the U.S. military can drive straight in, directly threatening the second line of defense, the second line of defense is about 180 kilometers away from Juno's side, if the U.S. military enters that area, it will not have devastating consequences for Alaska, because there is a second line of defense, the U.S. military adheres to the current offensive intensity, from the current July and August, it should be no problem to hold on to the winter, as long as there is one more winter, let alone the second or third line of defense, Even four or five lines of defense can be erected, and Japan will definitely do its best with the experience of last winter.

The reason for the dilemma is that, after careful selection, it has been decided that the valley 120 kilometers north of Juneau will be the first choice for the passage, and if it is greatly retreated, the area that needs to be stabilized itself will no longer be safe, and in order to ensure safety, the location of the passage will continue to retreat by 150 to 200 kilometers, so that the entire route of the Sakura plan must be moved north, which is very unfavorable to the plan that has just been set.

If it is only a retreat of 200 kilometers, this is not insurmountable, but when Japan built the second line of defense, it did not plan to implement the Sakura Plan, and more concerned about security, how to use the smallest defense area to resist the most U.S. troops, rather than the convenience of the Sakura Plan, because at that time, no matter how prescient Japan was, could not have imagined that the United States would use tanks to attack their defense line, and they could.

Therefore, if you retreat to the second line of defense, there are at least 12 valleys, which are under the control and threat of the US military, and the most important three or four of them are, of course, to choose the best choice of valleys, I am afraid that you really have to choose an area at least 800-1000 kilometers away from the current Juneau, which is tantamount to artificially increasing the difficulty, from the original 5000 kilometers, to 6000 kilometers, not only the increase in the mileage of 1000 kilometers, but also the dangerous aspect, the United States controls more areas, The possibility of discovering the cherry blossom plan will increase.

The key to the Sakura plan, in fact, is not how powerful the tank is, but in the secrecy and suddenness, if the United States does not discover the premise of completely undiscovered, break into the United States, even before the contact with the Pacific Railroad, is not discovered by the United States, then the entire plan is more than half completed, in the hinterland of the United States, there are targets everywhere, the defense is extremely weak, an armored force composed of at least 4,000 tanks, not hundreds of thousands of army forces can deal with, if this part of the army, When there was still a lack of enough artillery fire, it was simply a food delivery.

The armored troops, can perfectly play the role of flexibility and mobility, maybe they can run out of the United States, so the possibility is very high, this is also the confidence of Kawasaki Meijing, if you can be in the belly of the US army, make a big fuss in the heavenly palace, and then successfully run out, bring a certain number of tankmen who have passed the test of war back to Alaska, what a great merit and glory it will be.

It is precisely on the basis of this realization that under the premise of the increasing importance of the Sakura Plan, Japan still held Juno, even if it was the Juno Line, which had retreated to a range of 17 kilometers and lost three-quarters of its defense area.

The contraction of the front represents a greater defensive force, especially the bazookas, the German bazookas, which can directly cost the Allied armored forces in the face of dense bazookas in an offensive and defensive operation, and directly affect the situation in Europe in 1916, and the Entente countries did not recover their vitality throughout the year.

Before, the 20,000 bazookas imported from China, the reason why it did not produce results, is that Japan must be fully protected, 20,000 bazookas seem to be sprinkled with noodles, all of them are covered, every line of defense is there, but they are not dense, although the bazooka restrained the tank, that is close enough, and has a certain number of premise, it is impossible for a rocket, can kill a tank, ten twenty, are considered good.

The result of the war was that Germany used more than 300,000 rocket launchers and fired almost 900,000 rockets, and in the end, only more than 20,000 tanks were dealt with, so that it had such an outstanding effect, and 20,000 rocket launchers were simply beyond their strength to deal with tens of thousands of tanks, let alone guarding a huge defense area of tens of thousands of square kilometers.

Now the U.S. military is constantly attacking, encroaching on a large number of defense lines, the current Juno's defense line, only the most core of the line of defense of about 15 kilometers, although the actual control area, only a few hundred square kilometers, the key protection area has also been reduced to 12, but in these 12 protection areas, each area has nearly 2,000 rocket launchers, in the narrower line of defense, the power began to show, the minimum protection capacity increased, the degree of counterattack against the United States attack also increased.

In the interval between the battles, more tank trenches were built, of course, individual tank trenches, the previous large tank trenches, in the initial period to establish a great feat, with the United States heavy artillery to come, and the Japanese artillery fire under the premise of attacking and defending, large tank trenches are no longer possible, but individual tank trenches and some high-power mines can still be arranged.

China did not support anti-tank mines, but Japan has strengthened the mines to a certain extent, just like tying a group of grenades together to form a cluster grenade, and getting a large number of mines together to make anti-tank mines, although the probability of triggering is not high, but there are also several records of destroying tanks.

It's another day of attack, Japan has become accustomed to the actions of the Americans, an attack every 3 days, the most advanced positions, will definitely usher in the largest attack, the United States' attack is relatively a month ago, slightly slowed down, still maintains 12 attacks every 3 days above the regimental level, so the number of casualties can be controlled within an acceptable range, but the intensity of the attack has slowed down greatly, but even so, it is also gradually encroaching on the defensive positions on the periphery of Juneau, It's only 15 kilometres from Juneau. In a short period of more than two months, with the US artillery in place and the correct use of tanks, a large number of positions were gradually obtained, which was equivalent to stabbing a sharp knife in the chest of Japan, and to a certain extent, Japan was quite uncomfortable.

The cannon rumbled, the heavy artillery of the Americans, completely different from the past, the sound was louder, and it was slightly dull, but the power was very large, this increased charge, the range was long enough, and the weight of the shells was relatively large, and the lethality of the Japanese defense line was huge, some fell on the bunker, which could resist the attack of most of the heavy artillery of the US army before, in the face of such artillery, if it was hit in the right position, under one shot, the bunker could be half crippled, which was another reason why the US offensive was strong.

The US artillery coverage will generally last for 20 minutes, if it is too short, it will not be able to clear out a sufficient safe area for the tank, and if it is too long, the vulnerable logistics of the Americans will not be able to bear it, after all, at least 25,000 such artillery pieces are concentrated on the front line, and in 20 minutes, each one will shoot an average of 25-30 shells, which is 7.8 million shells, which is a very great pressure on American logistics.

However, this time the artillery preparation lasted only 10 minutes, and the most important thing is that those senior officers on the front line clearly judged from the sound of artillery fire that this time the artillery preparation will not be more than 2,000 artillery fire, and the area covered is not much.

What are the Americans going to do, is it a focused attack on those salient areas? In just ten minutes of artillery coverage, the phone kept ringing, Japan with the help of tunnels, quietly strengthened the defense of these key areas, not only mobilized 3,000 bazookas in the rear, arranged on those key defense lines, but also mobilized a certain amount of artillery, if the US army uses a large number of tanks to charge in a group, this part of the bazooka, may not be able to withstand such a huge number, part of the artillery support, is the safest way.

However, when the sound of artillery gradually weakened, and the attack from the opposite side came up, Japan was surprised to find that the US military used not a lot of tanks, but very few, in the face of the attack of the 7 salients, the US army only used less than 60 tanks, but this time, these tanks did not directly attack the group, but a separate action, each tank is a unit, around the tank, not other tanks, but a large number of infantry, around a tank, there are almost dozens, even hundreds of infantry, They cats, following behind the tanks, made a rapid advance towards the Japanese position.