In fact, the U.S. military has never received any guerrilla warfare training, nor has it any anti-guerrilla warfare training. www.biquge.info They did not know how to conduct guerrilla warfare even when the rear of the Ming army was actually relatively empty, and the US military only kept sending some small detachments in vehicles or directly parachuted in to carry out sabotage.

The main targets of the U.S. military have always been some important locations. For example, bridges, warehouses, communication centers, headquarters and so on. These places are all heavily defended.

And the local guerrillas, who are really the main body of guerrilla warfare, are the real core and main force. They are familiar with the terrain and the human situation. If you make good use of the instructors and a large number of support weapons and ammunition, you can still cause some trouble to the Ming army.

But most of the time, the U.S. military uses these precious, time-saving guerrillas as cannon fodder. Over and over again, the guerrillas were driven to attack well-defended targets.

Under these circumstances, the guerrillas in the rear of the Ming army were simply unable to form the desired climate, and the intensity of the attack and containment of the Ming army's logistics soon lost its effect.

In just a few months, the Ming army suffered some losses, but they succeeded in eliminating most of the guerrillas and American task forces. The results were brilliant. The U.S. military alone sent special operations forces behind enemy lines lost tens of thousands of people. And the losses of the guerrillas everywhere were as high as hundreds of thousands.

Such huge losses not only dealt a great blow to the strength of the guerrillas, but also weakened their combat capability. More importantly, the defeat of these guerrillas greatly deterred the enthusiasm of the locals to participate in them. After all, there are not many people who are willing to devote themselves to this mortal situation after watching those familiar people join the guerrillas all day long.

During these battles, the professional anti-guerrilla warfare units of the Ming army performed well, and hundreds of them were awarded various medals. At the same time, these people will get an official Ming green card and become a second-class citizen of the glorious Ming Empire.

These units have actually set an example. Many Americans in the occupied areas also wanted to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty when they were desperate, and joined the puppet security teams and security forces formed by the Ming Dynasty.

After paying huge losses, the US army's operations behind enemy lines fell into a trough. After all, after a large number of troops were dispatched, they did not receive any decent results, but suffered heavy losses. The US military, which was in dire need of cannon fodder on the front, had to gradually discontinue this actually very useful mode of warfare.

For example, the 1st Parachute Division of the US Army, with a total strength of nearly 13,000 troops, has less than 5,000 troops that can be mobilized after several months of guerrilla warfare. Such losses are unacceptable to the US military.

And when the U.S. forces on the frontal battlefield gave up guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, the guerrillas in the occupied areas were even more unable to make any waves. In the end, it had to be reduced to the military merit medal of the Ming army and various puppet army organizations.

The battles on the rear battlefield did not affect the actions of the Ming troops at the front. After a period of readjustment and deployment, Zhang Cheng took the initiative to organize a large-scale general attack operation. Two improvised armoured clusters were formed in Memphis and Marion, respectively.

The Panzer Group formed in Memphis was named the First Panzer Group, and had nine Panzer Divisions under its command, including the Fifth, Sixth, Eleventh, Fifteenth, Seventeenth, Twenty-Eighth, Thirty-third, Forty-Seventh, and Fifty-first. and the 31st, 34th, 45th, 167th, 199th, 255th, and 267th mechanized infantry divisions, a total of seven mechanized infantry divisions.

These units are armed with nearly 2,500 Leopard, Tiger and IV tanks, and thousands of armored vehicles and half-track armored personnel carriers of various types. It was supported by about 400 self-propelled guns and more than 1,200 guns of various calibers. The total strength is close to 300,000.

Up to nine wings of air support will be provided to the 1st Panzer Group, who will hold up the umbrella in the sky for the 1st Panzer Group. And the goal of the first armored group is also very clear, that is, starting from Memphis, forcibly breaking through the American defense line in the area of Florence, and then advancing quickly all the way to the east.

The target rushed directly to Charlotte, an important town in North Carolina, along the line of Huntsville, Chattanooga, and Anderson, intending to join forces with the second armored group moving south from the north in Charlotte, thus encircling all the heavy American groups in Tennessee.

According to the plan proposed by Zhang Cheng, behind the 1st Panzer Group was a follow-up corps consisting of three armored divisions and fourteen mechanized infantry divisions. They will follow the attack route of the First Panzer Group, responsible for securing its flanks and rear supply lines.

The temporary armoured cluster that had been assembled in the Marion area to the north was named the Second Armoured Cluster. It has a total of ten armored divisions of the 7th, 12th, 19th, 20th, 24th, 35th, 38th, 57th, 59th and 61st. and the 14th, 16th, 18th, 20th, 29th, 33rd, 41st, 99th, 155th, 166th, 237th and 238th mechanized infantry divisions.

The second armored group has nearly 3,000 tanks of various types, and the number of armored vehicles of various types and tracked armored personnel carriers is as high as tens of thousands. It was supported by about 500 self-propelled guns and nearly 1,500 towed guns. Its total strength has exceeded 400,000.

The Army Air Force, which provides air support for the 2nd Panzer Group, including fighters and bombers, has a total of 13 wings.

The goal of the 2nd Panzer Group is to start from the Marion area, force a breakthrough of the U.S. defensive positions in the Louisville area, and then pounce at high speed to the U.S. military town of Cincinnati, and then kill Huntington, Blacksburg, Greensboro, and the final goal is to successfully join forces with the 1st Panzer Group in the south in the Charlotte area. Surround U.S. forces in Tennessee.

Followed by the 2nd Panzer Group, which provided flank and rear security, was a large army group of four Panzer Divisions and nineteen mechanized infantry divisions. They will provide follow-up protection for the 2nd Panzer Group.

From the distribution of troops, it can be seen that the strength of the second armored group in the north is obviously stronger than that of the first armored group in the south. This is because they are going to penetrate Kentucky, where the U.S. military has a heavy deployment. Moreover, the strength and number of American troops in the North far exceeded those in the South.

In order to ensure the smooth progress of this powerful armored encirclement battle, the Ming army also prepared about 20 divisions as reserves, which could be put into battle at any time.

These participating units did not include the main corps of the Ming army that confronted the American forces along the Tennessee River on the front line. If the front-line troops are included, then in this large-scale battle, the Ming army mobilized a total of about 170 divisions, totaling a huge strength of more than 3.5 million people.

The number of self-propelled guns for tanks and armored vehicles is more than 30,000, and the number of guns of various calibers of more than 75 mm is more than 20,000! The Army also mobilized a huge force of more than 33 wings to provide air support for the campaign.

And these troops are just troops on the front line. At this time, the Ming army also had more than 190 divisions and about 4.5 million troops in the occupied areas. This does not count the large number of local puppet soldiers and a large number of Ming army logistics support troops.

Correspondingly, Zhang Cheng mobilized such a large army to launch a campaign, and the strength of his opponents was also extremely powerful.

Between 270 and 3 million of the most elite troops in the U.S. military were deployed on the Tennessee line. And that's not even counting the huge armies deployed in Kentucky to the north, Alabama and Georgia to the south, and North Carolina to the rear.

If you count all the U.S. troops who were able to participate in this campaign, the number is already more than five million. There are more than 35,000 tanks and armored vehicles of various types, and more than 40,000 artillery pieces of various calibers. It can be said that the final elite and main forces of the US military have been deployed here.

If the Ming army can completely eat these American troops in this battle, then the American army will suffer a real heavy blow like tearing the bones and digging the heart. Even if they still had a large number of troops, they were no longer capable of continuing decisive battles with the Ming army.

At this time, the Ming army was in addition to the main battlefield in Tennessee. It also launched an offensive in the south around Mississippi, attacking Alabama and Georgia. The intention is to push the front into the area of Florida, so as to penetrate the entire southern part of the United States.

In the north, the same Ming army launched an offensive in Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Nadakota, Iowa, and Illinois at about the same time. The U.S. military also does not know which of these offives are diversionary and which are the real main offensives. For the U.S. military, there is no land they can give up, especially Illinois and Iowa, which are close to heavy industrial areas, and where they must be protected.

Under these circumstances, the U.S. forces were forced to disperse a large number of troops in various places to block the Ming offensive. This has led to a significant reduction in the strategic reserves in its hands. It also reduced the amount of support it had put into the Tennessee battlefield.

Moreover, the strategic bomber units of the Daming Army Aviation have been constantly carrying out fierce air raids on various important cities, which has greatly damaged the strength of the US military and also destroyed a large number of transportation facilities and industrial production capacity, forcing the US military to reduce the speed of its troop mobilization.

By late May, the biggest super-offensive in history had officially begun. (To be continued.) )