The Ming Dynasty's policy of managing prisoners of war was very practical. They knew www.biquge.info that if they wanted to control the prisoners of war, they had to isolate the officers. Without the guidance and command of the officers, ordinary soldiers would not have been able to do anything at all. After all, the Ming Dynasty is a normal country, and it is impossible to do such a thing as a large-scale massacre of prisoners of war. Therefore, in order to divide the prisoners of war, officers were deliberately treated differently from ordinary soldiers.

Officers in prisoner of war camps were not required to work. They have relatively spacious rooms and adequate supplies. Of course, the so-called spacious rooms and supplies were compared to those of ordinary prisoners of war. After all, the officers still lived in wooden houses, and what they ate was nothing more than field rations that the Ming soldiers were unwilling to eat.

It's just that there is no harm without contrast. Watching the officers enjoy the good stuff without having to work in the heat or even get a supply of cigarettes. This immediately angered the large number of ordinary prisoners of war.

Seeing that I was eating steamed porridge and pickles all day long, I had to clean toilets, build trenches, build wooden houses and other physical work in the hot weather after eating. Ordinary prisoners of war were already extremely dissatisfied with their officers. After all, now that everyone is a defeated prisoner of war, why should they be treated differently? Fighting the battlefield, but after becoming a prisoner of war, he has to be angry with the officers who command indiscriminately?

Especially after a group of prisoners of war tried to escape and were captured some time ago, the ordinary prisoners of war were hung up, while several officers of the organization were only held for a few days before being released. Since then, ordinary POWs have lost any trust in their officers.

After successfully stirring up antagonism among the prisoners of war, the management of prisoners of war in the Ming army became much easier. Because the attention of the prisoners of war was diverted.

It's not that there are no discerning people who can't see the routines of the Ming army. It's a pity that there is nothing there is to do about this kind of conspiracy. After all, most people only focus on immediate profits. Who would say no when they could get the benefits? The appeal of a minority will only be dismissed as a fool.

With the continuous victory and advance of the Ming army, more and more American troops became prisoners of war of the Ming army. The Ming army built a large number of prisoner of war camps in various places to house these prisoners of war. And as a super-large-scale battle unfolds, the number of prisoners of war captured by the Ming army will soon be astronomical.

The massive armoured clusters that attacked from both sides of Tennessee managed to break through the American defenses after a tough battle. Although they paid a great price for this, their breakthrough played a decisive role in the victory of the battle.

In late May, the Ming army's million-strong army broke through the U.S. defense line on the Tennessee River from both sides. Immediately, they made a rapid assault at the deep position of the US army at an extremely high speed.

With the rapid assault of the Ming army, the US defense line immediately fell into a crisis. The outflanks could lead to the U.S. forces having to mobilize their strategic reserves to carry out a counter-assault in an attempt to prevent the Ming army from continuing to flank the attack. Because everyone knows very well that once the flank assault of the Ming army is successful, then the millions of troops in Tennessee will become the turtle in the urn of the Ming army.

The U.S. military sent its own Strategic Reserve Corps from Atlanta and Cincinnati. Dozens of powerful armored and mechanized infantry divisions launched a ferocious counterattack against the Ming army, trying to stop the momentum of the Ming army's flank assault. An armored battle broke out between the two sides, both on a massive scale and with great momentum.

The heaviest of these fierce battles broke out in the Dalton area south of Chattanooga.

The main reason why it chose to be here is that after capturing Chattanooga, the 1st Panzer Group is moving quickly towards the Greenville area, and needs to pass through the Dalton area. The U.S. Strategic Reserve from the Atlanta, Georgia area, preparing to launch a counterattack on the already lost Chattanooga area.

Both sides invariably passed through the Dalton area, so a collision was inevitable.

The most colliding lines are the forward units of both sides. The Ming Army's 15th Panzer Division's Power Search Battalion quickly advanced into the town, and then drove away all the local National Guards. The Ming army was going to rest here for a while before continuing its attack in pursuit of the Americans who had fled from Chattanooga. But just as they were starting to eat lunch, the 2nd Armored Teaching Regiment under the US Army Armored Instructor rushed up.

The Ming army was caught off guard and was immediately routed. After all, the Power Search Battalion is equipped with armored vehicles and half-track armored vehicles, and it is simply not able to fight against the tank clusters that are being there. Moreover, the Ming army gradually began to become arrogant because of the successive victories, and they even began to relax their efforts in intelligence reconnaissance.

It was already known that a large number of U.S. armored troops were rapidly moving north from the Atlanta area. But the Ming army judged that the Americans could not come so quickly. After all, the continuous bombing of the Ming Army Aviation caused serious obstacles to the operation of the US military. The Ming commanders at the front judged that the American counterattack force would arrive in two days at the earliest. And the area where they are scheduled to meet is not here.

The 15th Armored Division of the Ming Army destroyed 11 armored vehicles, lost more than 100 personnel, and several people were captured.

Through the interrogation of the prisoners, the US troops learned that only a regiment under the 15th Panzer Division of the Ming Army was several kilometers away, and its front commander immediately gave the order to assault at full speed. This is a rare thing in the U.S. military. As the Ming army's advantage on the battlefield continued to expand, the U.S. military was passive defensive in most cases. The number of active attacks has gradually decreased.

The American commander was very smart, he only sent a part of the troops as a decoy to lure the Ming army to come and pursue. The main force was deployed in the woods in a hilly area north of the town of Dalton.

When the armored regiment of the Ming army received the report of the search force and came to attack in a big way, and easily defeated the decoy force sent by the American army, and began to pursue all the way. These concealed American tanks quickly rushed out from the flanks of the Ming armored forces, and fiercely attacked the flanks of the Ming tanks with their own artillery at close range.

With the passage of time, the tanks equipped by the Ming armored forces have gradually eliminated the No. 4 combat vehicle, and its basic main force has been changed to various models of Leopard tanks, as well as the Tiger tank as the core. The thickness of the armor of these tanks was staggering, but the armor on their flanks and rear was not enough to withstand direct fire from the American troops.

Moreover, the officers and men of the US army's armored instructors are all elite in the army, and they have given full play to their strong strength in this ambush war. In this ambush battle, which lasted only more than 20 minutes, the US armored instructor successfully destroyed as many as 100 Ming tanks with a similar number of troops. However, its own losses were very small, and it calmly retreated before the arrival of the Ming fighters.

This short exchange played a great shocking role. The Ming army's overwhelming offensive was suddenly blocked, and the low morale of the American army was also boosted.

In fact, a large part of the reason for the success of this ambush battle was due to the light enemy of the Ming army. After all, since the landing, the Ming army has been almost invincible, and the morale is a little high. However, this ambush battle also successfully sounded the alarm for the Ming officers and soldiers, and calmed down their somewhat hot heads again.

Compared with the real strength, the Ming army still has an advantage. After the Ming army calmed down, it was still more powerful than the US army.

Over the next two days, reinforcements from both sides arrived in the vicinity of Dalton. As the Ming army readjusted its deployment, a large-scale battle soon began again. The battered 15th Panzer Division was withdrawn to rest and replaced with other strong forces to attack.

This time, the Ming army dispatched the powerful strength of four armored divisions, and the thousands of tanks of three armored divisions were arranged into three huge steel phalanxes that were very close to each other, and they were like stormy waves and suppressed straight towards Dalton. The other armoured division was positioned slightly further back as a reserve.

Both sides threw huge forces into the sky, and the entire sky was almost filled with air forces on both sides. The whistling fighters continued to spit out tongues of fire, turning enemy fighters into ruins of smoke and fire and rushing towards the ground.

In fact, the idea of building the US army is very similar to that of the Ming army, or the US army is imitating the Ming army, especially the armored forces of the Ming army. The establishment, personnel, composition, firepower and so on between the two sides are almost identical. Therefore, after the ground attack began, both sides used a large number of self-propelled guns to carry out heavy shelling at each other.

On the battlefield filled with gunsmoke, the US army, determined to block the Ming offensive no matter what, mobilized several armored divisions to rush towards the opposite side in almost the same way and formation. Tanks on both sides continued to spit tongues of fire, firing armor-piercing projectiles at each other.

The two sides began to shoot at each other from a distance of 3,000 meters, and because they were both facing each other, the distance between the two sides was constantly shortening. Two thousand meters, one thousand meters, eight hundred meters, five hundred meters and even three hundred meters. Eventually, two huge torrents of steel collided with each other.

In fact, both sides have no way back at this time, there are steel monsters on all sides, and there is nothing to move. Therefore, at this time, there is no other option but to take out the enemy on the opposite side.

The battle lasted from after lunch until the sun set in the west, and both sides paid a huge price in the battle and were forced to use their reserves. In the end, however, no one was able to achieve a decisive victory on this day. (To be continued.) )