"Order the troops to charge. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 General Zhou Qi, commander of the 311th Mechanized Infantry Division of the Ming Army, put down the binoculars in his hand, looked at the top of Komatek Mountain, which had been shrouded in war in the distance, and ordered loudly: "Take this mountain!" ”

As the order was issued, thousands of Ming officers and soldiers stretched out a long line of skirmishers and rushed towards the top of the mountain.

The Ming officers and soldiers were highly trained soldiers, and they would not run fast before charging, because that would be a great drain on their physical strength. They formed groups in squads and platoons, hunched over, and with the help of the cover of the terrain, they shot while dodging left and right towards the top of the mountain.

As the Ming infantry attacked, the support fire in the rear also reached a peak. Numerous artillerymen used brutal artillery bombardment to accurately send shells up to the defenders' positions on the top of the hill. The dense artillery fire tore through the bodies of the defenders, shrapnel flew everywhere, and the shock wave spread in all directions, sending the defenders into a hell from which there was no turning back.

The reinforced concrete fortifications of the defenders looked unusually strong, but they were blown apart by large-caliber heavy artillery under the precise shelling of the Ming army. Basically, none of the officers and soldiers inside survived. The words of the Ming artillery armor in the world are not just talking, they are really powerful.

The artillery has advanced performance and is of the upper quality level. And there is never a shortage of ammunition, and the training of the gunners is the best in the world. This made the artillery of the Ming Dynasty enough to sweep the world.

Of course, under the protection of a strong enough air force. When they landed just before, because of the lack of air protection, in the face of the fierce counterattack of the Americans, the artillery of the Ming Dynasty did not show enough strength. And now, they can.

About two regiments and more than 5,000 Ming soldiers slowly climbed this mountain at an altitude of more than 400 meters under the cover of artillery fire. When the Ming infantry approached a hundred meters of the defenders' positions on the peak, the large-scale artillery support of the Ming army began to extend behind the peak, blocking the reinforcement channel of the defenders. In reality, however, the defenders did not pay much attention to this crucial mountain.

The Ming charge soon began, and numerous erected machine-gun points began to fire ferociously, and the defenders, suppressed by a dense rain of bullets, could barely raise their heads. The same large number of mortars was to accurately drop a large number of shells into the defenders' positions. This is true both at the point of fire and in the trenches.

The defenders tried to put up a final resistance, but they failed.

When the Ming infantry quickly charged into a distance of thirty meters, a large wave of grenades was thrown out like dense raindrops. Violent explosions and smoke almost covered the defenders' positions all over again. Then, the Ming infantry successfully stormed the defenders' positions on Komatek Hill!

The Ming troops, heavily armed with submachine guns and shotguns, entered the trenches under heavy strafing fire, and the defenders were knocked to the ground almost in groups. In the face of such trench sweepers, the defenders had nothing to do.

After more than 20 minutes of fierce fighting, the Ming attacking troops successfully captured the position of Komatek Mountain, and after eliminating nearly 2,000 defenders, the Ming army planted its flag on the mountain. Subsequently, a large number of artillery spotters and light artillery were transported up the mountain. Condescendingly, it bombards all over the important targets in the city of Phoenix below.

Many important buildings and positions in the city of Phoenix were hit one by one under the precise shelling of the Ming army. Barracks, artillery positions, airfields, communications centers and command posts with a large number of antennas, warehouses and heavy weapons gathering places were all bombed from dawn to dark by a dense rain of bullets. In the face of this brutal and one-sided artillery bombardment, the defenders were literally bombed by the ascension of one Buddha to heaven and the birth of two Buddhas.

The defenders, who were cornered, launched a night attack on the Ming army on Komatek Hill at night. However, in front of the dense flares of the Ming army, which were wantonly dropped as if they didn't want money, and in front of the Komatek Mountain, which was reflected like a day, those American troops who were preparing to attack had no concealment at all.

Shells, or shells. Shells whistling through the sky fell in droves in the ranks of American troops, and the huge flames that rose up densely almost reflected the night sky. In this case, the US military failed unsurprisingly for the night attack, and paid the price of thousands of people.

This was the end of the fact that the defenders did not pay too much attention to the Komatek mountain position. By the time the stupid commander realizes that something is wrong, it will be too late.

The Ming army's attack on Phoenix lasted only six days, not even a week. It was not the capture of Komatek Hill that caused the collapse of the defenders, which led to the entire Phoenix being covered by Ming artillery. What really forced them to defeat was the fact that the armored forces of the Ming army bypassed the Komatek Mountains and captured the land link between Phoenix and Tucson!

When Casagrande, located between Phoenix and Tucson, was captured by the Ming Army's Panzer Corps. In the middle of the valley, Phoenix has actually been cut off from the outside world.

In fact, the real strong army on the west coast had been sent to the front line long before the Ming army landed for the operation. Most of the troops stationed in Phoenix today are ordinary troops who have only been trained in boot camps and their respective units, and have no actual combat experience to speak of.

These armies are far from being comparable to the veterans of the Ming Dynasty who have experienced a hundred battles in terms of combat effectiveness and will to fight. When the armored forces of the Ming army covered a large number of infantry and rushed into the city of Phoenix. A large number of defenders laid down their weapons and chose to surrender.

After taking Phoenix, there is no decent threat in all of Arizona. The nearest heavy group of American troops was no more than Tucson, at the intersection of several railroads and roads, where about four or five divisions of defenders were stationed. In other places, the defenders were only in the thousands, and the largest was more than 10,000 men. Some smaller cities may have only a few hundred defenders.

The most fundamental reason for this situation is that the United States is a federal country. In fact, each state has a strong sense of autonomy. And the National Guard of the states, which account for a large proportion of the US military, belong to the command of each state itself.

Although the law clearly states that the National Guard will be under the direct command of the Union in times of war. This situation was not a problem before, especially when the battlefield was mainly overseas. The states are also subordinate to the federal government. The command of the house. But when the U.S. military retreated around the world and the Ming army landed on the American mainland, everything changed.

The so-called National Guard is basically the local militia of their respective states, and their members are basically also made up of local people from each state. Although they belonged to the Union Army, when the pace of war approached their respective hometowns, the officers and men of the National Guard, who did not have much connection to the Union, chose to defend their hometowns rather than follow orders from far away Washington.

In fact, there are large armies in the continental United States, and it has been so long since the Ming army landed, but they have never been able to gather a strong enough superior force to drown the Ming landing force. The main reason for this is that the National Guards, which occupy a large number of the U.S. military, are mostly reluctant to leave their homeland to fight for other states in this situation.

Don't think that the country is so united, the regional discrimination between the states is simply madness. There have even been cases where some states explicitly prohibit people from such and such states from entering such and such strange incidents. Although there is a federal government. The government's repression forced the bill to be annulled. However, it also shows the antagonism between the states.

In this case, although the whole of Arizona has a large number of troops, they are all scattered in various places and cannot form a joint force. In the end, it became logical that they were defeated by the powerful Ming army.

Over the next few days, the Ming army swept across Arizona, capturing hundreds of thousands of local defenders. It was only in Tucson that there was strong resistance, but in the face of the powerful attack of the Ming army, Tucson's resistance lasted only four days before it came to an end. Tens of thousands of defenders marched into the Ming army's prisoner of war camp in southern California.

Subsequently, the million-strong army of the Ming Southern Front Cluster swept all the way from Arizona like a surging wave. In mid-March, a powerful military cluster assembled with U.S. forces launched a massive battle of the magnitude of a million in the vicinity of El Paso and Waltz City.

The reason for choosing this location is because behind El Paso is where the Rocky Mountains finally stop. Follow the Rio Grande between El Paso and Waltz City into the Rio Grande Valley, a gateway between the Rocky Mountains and the Chihuahua Mountains in Mexico to the south.

The Rio Grande Valley is a North American trench that can be used to storm the plains of Texas through Monaghans and Fort Stockton.

In terms of the strong combat ability of the Ming Army's mechanized corps, once they successfully broke through this river valley and rushed into the great plains of the central United States. If the U.S. army wants to successfully stop the Ming offensive first, it will inevitably have to pay an unparalleled price. And these are forces that the US military cannot come up with now.

In this case, the U.S. military had to gather the forces it could muster to make a final effort on the front line of Hernas. They did not seek to be able to completely block the large-scale group of the Ming army in the mountain area where the Rocky Mountains were not conducive to the operation of mechanized troops. But at least buy time for superweapons.

The U.S. top brass no longer expects to be able to defeat the Ming army in a conventional war. They are now using the lives of ordinary officers and soldiers to buy time for superweapons. (To be continued.) )