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Chapter 450 Under the Black Blitzkrieg

Fighters roared in the air, and combat vehicles on the ground roared. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ╔╗

The Chinese Emperor opened the way with planes and chariots in front, and quickly broke through the defensive positions of the American army, which was unstoppable.

After the capture of Los Angeles, the 2nd Marine Division quickly implemented militarized management of Los Angeles, seized and looted the state treasury of California, major banks, jewelry stores, and other financial stores, and plundered gold, silver, jewelry, cash, and bonds, and conservatively estimated that it had made windfall profits of more than $1 billion.

On the other hand, the U.S. military amassed on the U.S.-Mexico border was routed, a large number of war materials were lost, the territory was destroyed, and the economy was destroyed and plundered.

This was the first time in the history of human warfare that a large march of mechanized troops on an unprecedented scale was carried out. In this great march, the Chinese Empire successfully practiced the theory of armored warfare, used the theory of blitzkrieg for the first time in actual combat, and achieved a brilliant victory.

As a result, the U.S. military gathered heavy troops on the border line, resulting in the main force being defeated and heavily damaged as soon as the war began, with heavy casualties, heavy equipment and strategic materials were all destroyed or fell into the hands of the Chinese Emperor, and the U.S. Army failed to build more strategic defense fortifications in depth, resulting in the fact that after the U.S. defense line was breached, it was unable to quickly organize effective in-depth fortifications in the rear, so that the Chinese Emperor smoothly broke into the hinterland of the United States, resulting in the fall of a large area of the United States. ╔╗

The 1st Panzer Corps of the Royal Praetorian Guard is subordinate to the 1st Army of the Central Army Group, with 2 armored divisions, 2 mechanized infantry divisions, and 1 bicycle infantry division. It was both the middle of the 1st Army and the attacking vanguard of Army Group.

After breaking through the U.S.-Mexico border defense, the Praetorian Guard crossed the Gege River on the night of June 10 and advanced to the line of the Louise River on the 12th, completing the encirclement of the U.S. Arizona Group Army in the "California Marina Corridor" area.

During the encirclement and annihilation of the Arizona Group Army, most of the besieged US troops were recruits who had never experienced war, and the US troops thought that they could block the offensive of the Chinese Emperor's armored division by dispatching 200 tanks, but they did not expect that in the absence of air supremacy, the 200 tanks of the US Army had just rushed onto the battlefield and had not yet confronted the Chinese Emperor's chariot regiment, and they were attacked by a large number of Hellfire fighters of the Chinese Imperial Air Force that had swooped down at ultra-low altitude.

Although the rockets mounted on the Hellfire fighter have a very low hit rate in aerial combat, they are very effective against American tanks on the ground that are not fast.

As a series of howling sounds approached, the Hellfire fighters fired two rockets at each dive, quickly destroying more than half of the U.S. tanks and successfully disrupting the battle formation of the U.S. tank troops.

Subsequently, the M16 tanks and Z16 anti-tank tanks of the Chinese Emperor Armored Division took the opportunity to rush up, and the fierce artillery quickly destroyed the American tanks, and in less than 20 minutes of fighting, the American tank division was defeated. ╔╗

After the defeat of the tank division, which was pinned on by the American army, only a small part of the American troops in front knew about the battle situation and quickly retreated, and most of the American troops continued to advance before receiving the order to retreat, and when they found out that the tank assault force of the Chinese Emperor was approaching, it was too late to run.

Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, and quite a few American troops have not seen a combat vehicle, and obviously do not understand the performance of the combat vehicle, thinking that the armor of the combat vehicle is just some camouflage made of tin plates, which is used to bluff people. As a result, many American cavalry swarmed up and launched a fierce attack on the chariots of the Chinese Emperor with their sabers and pistols.

At first, the Chinese Emperor couldn't help but be taken aback when he saw this, but he soon came to his senses and mercilessly bombarded and strafed the American troops with tank guns and machine guns, and crushed the American troops with tracks. The battlefield duel imagined by the American cowboys turned into a massacre of disparity.

By June 13, the Chinese Emperor had formed an encirclement of the Arizona Army, and the American forces were encircled in the forested areas south of Mesa and west of Chandler. The cavalry of the American army, because they did not understand the performance of the chariots of the Chinese Emperor, suffered great losses as a result. There was an American artillery regiment that was moving in the direction of Phoenix, and on the way it was caught up by the chariot regiment of the Chinese Emperor, and all of them were annihilated, and only two guns had a chance to fire. ╔╗The U.S. infantry also suffered heavy casualties. Part of their bridge-building column was captured during the retreat, and the rest were annihilated.

By October 4, the six infantry divisions and one cavalry brigade of the U.S. Arizona Army had all been annihilated, while the four divisions of the Imperial Chinese Guard had only 150 dead and 700 wounded.

The next day, the Mexican Minister of Defense was shocked when he visited the 1st Armored Division of the Imperial Janissary Guard, and in a subsequent report to the Mexican president, he said: "The bravery and strength of the Americans cannot be underestimated, even astonishing." However, in this battle, the reason why our Allied losses were so small was entirely because of the high power of our Allied chariot units, and the American troops were unable to organize a counterattack after losing the first line of defense, and were run lifeless on the Arizona Plains like a rabbit by the Chinese Emperor. ”

The Chinese Emperor's lightning attack completely put the US military in a situation of being passively beaten, and this was the first time that the Americans and the world experienced the taste of "blitzkrieg." The U.S. military command originally thought that the war would unfold slowly as before, and that the Chinese Emperor would first carry out avant-garde activities with light infantry and then attack with heavy troops, and was unprepared for the "blitzkrieg" in which the Chinese Emperor used a large number of chariots and aviation.

British theorist Liddell. Hart pointed out that "the U.S. military is still copying the experience of positional warfare in the European theater, but they have forgotten that their opponent is not European, but the more powerful Chinese emperor." It is no exaggeration to say that their thinking lagged behind the Chinese Empire by more than 10 years. ╔╗ The Chinese Empire's armored corps tactics were more than five years ahead of Europe, this is the gap in strength, and the Europeans should pay attention to it. ”

The U.S. High Command was overconfident in its military strength and hoped that it could hold off the Chinese Emperor on the border, so it deployed all its troops on the U.S.-Mexico border, believing that as long as it carried out a resolute counterattack, it could achieve victory. This kind of deployment, which has no flexibility in advancing and retreating, made the US army either annihilated or divided and surrounded under the high-speed and large-depth advance of the Chinese Emperor, and became a lone army left behind the Chinese Emperor, and the resistance quickly collapsed.

On 7 June, the First Armored Corps of the Imperial Chinese Army inflicted heavy losses on the US "Utah" and "Virginia" armies, occupying Mesa, an important industrial town in the southern part of the United States, and Tucson, the second largest city, and the 16th Armored Division, the vanguard of the 10th Army, entered the southern suburbs of Phoenix on 8 June, cutting off the retreat of the US "Wisconsin" Army from the south.

The Mexican Army's attack on Washington Army Group for the first three days had no effect, and was even heavily damaged by the American Army in turn, but as the Chinese Emperor made a breakthrough from the left flank, it tore open the American defense line and forced the American High Command to order the Washington Army to retreat to avoid being encircled.

In this way, the Mexican Army was also able to advance rapidly, and picked up the missed blows and eliminated the US 94th Army, under the strategy of the 5th Army of the Chinese Imperial Army, creatively inflicted heavy losses on the US New Mexico Army that was eager to retreat, occupied the "New Mexico Plain", and then forcibly crossed the Powa River, seized the three high ground on the road east and southeast of Phoenix, and cooperated with the Chinese Emperor to attack the American Army in Phoenix Mountain. ╔╗

On June 8, the 1st Army and the 2nd Army of Army Group Left launched a surprise attack on Phoenix from the west and southwest, trapping 200,000 American troops in Phoenix and forcing them to fight to the death.

On 11 June, the 1st Panzer Division of the Royal Janissary crossed the Naxi River and began a rapid advance towards the Brescott River behind Phoenix. And the remnants of the nearby American army were forced into Phoenix City one after another, increasing the total strength of American troops in Phoenix City to 350,000.

On 15 June, the three major armies of the Chinese Emperor surrounded Phoenix, and the US military completely lost contact with the outside world, and 370,000 US troops became a lone army, crowded in a city of less than 25 square kilometers. More than 80 percent of the Americans in the region are of Mexican descent, and when they learned that Mexico had also declared war on the United States, they also hoped that the Mexican army would regain lost territory.

On June 17, the U.S. Ohio Army Group went south to reinforce and tried to rescue the U.S. troops trapped in Phoenix, but was blocked by the 12th Army of the Chinese Emperor on the front line of the Grand Canyon in Utah, and the U.S. forces failed to advance after three days of fierce fighting.

During these three days, the follow-up troops of the Chinese Emperor arrived one after another, and the total strength of the Chinese Emperor besieging Phoenix increased to 700,000. After three days of onslaught, the American troops suffered heavy casualties, and most importantly, they ran out of ammunition and food, and the soldiers fought hungry and demoralized.

On June 20, Lieutenant General Rand, the supreme commander of the U.S. forces in Phoenix, ordered the U.S. troops to surrender to the Chinese Emperor, but refused to surrender to the Mexican army, on the condition that the Mexican army was forbidden to enter the city.

The Chinese Emperor agreed to Rand's terms and unilaterally accepted the surrender of the remaining 270,000 American troops, to which the Mexican Army and the Mexican authorities immediately protested to the Chinese Empire, but the Chinese Empire ignored it.

At this time, Mexico had little use value for the Chinese Empire, so the 500 million dragon dollar loan promised by the Chinese Empire to Mexico was stopped after only 30 million arrived, and only a small part of the equipment required for all the Chinese-style armaments promised to the 20 Standing Army of Mexico was provided, and only one Mexican division completed the refitting of all Chinese-style equipment, and the equipment of the other Mexican armies was postponed indefinitely by the Chinese Empire for various reasons and excuses.

In this regard, the Mexican government was very dissatisfied, but it did not dare to offend the Chinese Empire, so it had to believe the lies of the Chinese Empire and strive for the interests as much as possible.

With the surrender of more than 270,000 U.S. troops led by General Rand, the black blitzkrieg of the border campaign launched by the Chinese Empire also came to an end, and the U.S. military was forced to abandon Arizona, California, and most of New Mexico, and retreat 400 kilometers in one go to rebuild defensive positions.

And the Chinese Emperor launched this blitzkrieg also consumed a huge amount, ammunition, oil, and logistics supplies were no longer something that Mexico could afford, so the Chinese Emperor had to suspend and rest for a few days and wait for the logistics troops to keep up.

In the black blitzkrieg that lasted for half a month, the US military suffered 660,000 casualties, captured more than 400,000 people, lost millions of tons of weapons, equipment and logistical materials, and lost two and a half states, with economic losses as high as $7 billion. The Chinese Emperor lost 9,354 killed, 43,000 wounded, 403 missing, and plundered various riches worth about 1.2 billion US dollars, which not only offset the consumption of military expenditures in the campaign, but also made huge profits.

On the other hand, when the Imperial Chinese Army launched the Black Blitzkrieg, the British naval base in the Atlantic, Bermuda, was also captured by the U.S. military on June 17.

Because the Chinese Emperor transferred most of the combat aircraft that were originally going to reinforce Bermuda to Mexico to participate in Operation Black Lightning, so that the air force of the Chinese Empire in Bermuda weakened sharply, and finally in the air battle on June 9, the Chinese Imperial Bermuda Air Wing was defeated, except for 9 Thunderbolt fighters and 2 bombers flying back to the San Juan base, the other more than 70 fighters were all lost, and the Bermuda Air Wing suffered more than two-thirds of the casualties, if it were not for the preservation of the seeds of the Bermuda Air Wing, It is not so that the Bermuda Air Wing will be denumbered and organized, and they will all die in the country.

After the loss of air supremacy, the daily casualties of the Bermuda base defenders surged, and finally on the night of the 16th, 30 submarines were dispatched from the San Juan base to rescue the 233 officers and men who finally held their positions, so that the Bermuda base defenders would not be wiped out.

The Battle of Bermuda lasted more than a month, and the defenders of the Chinese Empire fought to the end with the most tenacious will. Although the Chinese Empire paid the price of 23,000 officers and soldiers, it lost 1,032 combat aircraft, 1 aircraft carrier, and 17 other warships. However, it caused more than 230,000 US casualties, 3,482 combat aircraft, 6 aircraft carriers, and 47 warships of various types.

Although the U.S. military seized Bermuda, it did so at a high cost. Moreover, strategically, the US Navy focused on the Battle of Bermuda, which enabled the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy to safely pass through the Panama Canal and complete the assembly and rest in the Caribbean Sea, and the US military missed the best opportunity to attack the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy.