Chapter 1821: The Fall
In the silent night, the sudden appearance of lights and roars, especially so sudden, before sneaking into the range of 2 kilometers, they used a relatively slow speed, the sound is not loud, now the full speed roar coupled with the rising lights, suddenly let all directions be such sounds, this kind of movement, it is impossible not to attract the attention of Salt Lake City, they have been guarding against being attacked, but no one thought that the enemy is already close at hand. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Mark has always been on the periphery of Salt Lake City, arranging a line of defense, as an officer who once served in the army, he knows very well the layout of the military formation, although there are less than 700 National Guards in his hands, and 3000 people, but under his large number of barricades and trenches, it is enough to deal with the same number of horse bandits, even if it is the regular army of the United States, less than 1500 people, do not want to enter Salt Lake City, but unfortunately, he chose the wrong opponent, he is facing not only the real regular army, but also the Japanese army, carefully selected regular army, or fully mechanized troops, the area he focuses on protecting, is only a part of the entire Salt Lake City, the tank has at least 100 roads, can enter Salt Lake City from various places.
"What the hell?" At this time, the tank was still 1,000 meters away, although the roar was endless, but in the bright lights, I only saw countless headlights, and I couldn't see the true shape of the tank, until about 600 meters, with the help of the lights of Salt Lake City, I could barely see what was attacking, even Mark couldn't help but be surprised.
It was not the horse bandits who rushed over in a frenzy, but the tanks, he was able to recognize the tanks, and thanks to the location of Salt Lake City, all the tanks to the Alaska front line passed through here, and there were even a few military columns, resting in Salt Lake City for a night, as the head of the garrison, he and Henry, together with Henry, welcomed the heads of the armored corps and discussed tanks with them.
This kind of new weapon that has just been born, it shows extraordinary strength, which is very interesting to Mark, he has been away from the main force for 12 years, although he has been promoted to the regiment commander, but he wants to go to the main force, he is ready to go to the cavalry or light infantry unit, the appearance of tanks, let him see another opportunity, and even take advantage of the opportunity to ask the officers of these tank units a lot.
Thick armor, super mobility, abundant firepower, this is simply the nemesis of trench groups and infantry, except for more failures, reliability is not very strong, there are no other shortcomings, he even rode in a tank, and carefully observed the shape of the tank, in the glimmer environment, what he saw, and once passed through Salt Lake City, almost the same.
The dark night obscured the difference of the tank, the Japanese tank itself, that is, it was born from the capture, and the American tank has eight or nine points similar, China is transforming the power and internal results, for the general shape, there is no significant adjustment, it seems, there is not much difference with the American tank, it is Mark who understands the tank, so he feels incredible, what the hell is going on, it is definitely impossible for the horse bandits to get the tank, the United States is lax in armament, but it does not mean that the United States can relax for all kinds of weapons, Even explosives were rarely released, let alone machine guns and tanks.
At most, the horse bandits are some light weapons, and occasionally they can get some artillery, which is also old-style artillery, and some can even go back to more than 20 years ago, and the horse bandits have only recently come up with new weapons in the United States, which is impossible.
Could it be the rebels, more than an hour ago, the doubts of the dispatch army appeared in front of Mark again, he looked at the tanks that were getting closer and closer, cold sweat kept rising on his head, Rao was he thought he was full of wisdom, but in the face of absolute power, he was helpless.
What happened to him, why was there a tank attack, when all the information was reported to Henry, Henry was also surprised, as the highest governor of the state, and in charge of the political and military affairs of Utah, he thought he was doing a very good job, but this good was based on a small group of horse bandits, not like this, under a large area of armored forces, especially from the lights, the number of these tanks was thousands, rushing towards Salt Lake City from three directions, and he arranged positions at the four entrances, I'm afraid I really can't stop this.
Henry was at a loss, but Mark on the front line began to defend, and found that these tanks, especially the tanks, besieged them on three sides, they had no way to escape, no matter how fast people ran, how could they run past the tanks, under Mark's orders, the attack began, arranged at four entrances, each entrance had about 2 heavy machine guns, their voices sounded first, but unfortunately, heavy machine guns, for unprotected infantry and cavalry, have a huge lethal effect, especially on the barricades, there is enough defense, But against the tank, it is useless, the frontal armor is the strongest tank, and the tank also has machine guns on it, and there are two, from the comparison of machine guns, the attacker is far above the defender,
About 600 meters away from Salt Lake City, the tank's machine guns began to return fire, and the powerful barrage directly annihilated Salt Lake City, and the dense bullets immediately made the machine guns in Salt Lake City dumb, and even those soldiers who were guarding the front line were so pressed by countless barrages that they couldn't raise their heads.
The Americans' barricades were arranged quite strongly, when the machine guns attacked, the barricades were not breached, but unfortunately this was useless, several attacks, when the machine guns could not raise their heads, the tanks slowly approached, slightly bypassed a little barricades, the Japanese side was also worried about the US military explosives packs, cluster grenades counterattack, these tanks, emphasizing mobility, in terms of protection, is insufficient, in the entry into the city, must ensure a sufficient distance, otherwise they would rather not attack.
Several barracks located at the entrance and exit did withstand the attack of dozens of tanks, which made Mark slightly happy, he only knew a little about tanks, but he didn't expect that the tanks were blocked so simply, it seems that they might be able to block the tank's attack outside Salt Lake City.
Mark didn't know about tanks, let alone that tanks could be attacked with explosives packs or cluster bombs, and Japan didn't get close to these barricades just for safety, and besides, these barricades couldn't resist tanks for a long time, because in the eyes of tanks, Salt Lake City didn't have so many entrances.
Salt Lake City, is the city that should be the rise of the railway, around the railway, formed at least 20,000 houses, plus a variety of buildings, constitute the main body of Salt Lake City, although there are a lot of masonry structures, the defense capability is far above Ogden, but it does not mean that there are no wooden houses, among all the structures, the wooden structure is the most economical, because the United States has a huge territory, a huge scale of forests, plus close to Canada, Canada has more forests, as long as a little development, The developed forests were enough for the Americans, and wood was easy to build and inexpensive compared to bricks and cement made of clay.
In Salt Lake City, most of the early buildings were wooden, only later, after the construction of the Pacific Railroad, there were more masonry structures, but outside the city, on the edges, most of the houses were also wooden, these houses, in Mark's opinion, could block the footsteps of the tank, but he didn't know that in front of the tank, it became an entrance one by one, like Ogden, countless high-explosive bombs, into the houses, in the explosion, these houses ignited a fire, in the scorching fire, The structure of the house changed, it collapsed, and eventually, a road was opened, which took a long time, more than half an hour, but when the tanks went around the barricades and rushed from behind, and countless machine-gun bullets were fired at the soldiers at the barricades, the big picture was decided.
The tank in the back cleared the soldiers of the barricade, at this time, the tank blocking the outside immediately rushed in, dozens of tons of tanks, when they had to rush directly to the barricade, the barricade did not have any ability to resist at all, the tank rushed directly into Salt Lake City, and the killing began, the lack of the defenders of Salt Lake City was shown here, no matter how much Mark was arranged, he could only arrange some soldiers in the direction of the four entrances, some core places inside, with a force of less than 4,000 people, Defending a city of tens of square kilometers and a population of more than 60,000 people was itself overstretched, and it was against armored forces, and when the armored forces entered the interior of Salt Lake City one by one and wreaked havoc along the Salt Lake City connection, the entire Salt Lake City was boiling.
The fire that ignited in Ogden also burned in Salt Lake City, and Salt Lake City burned even more, because Salt Lake City was bigger and had more houses, and even when there were many high-explosive bombs, even some masonry structures would also ignite fires, but it was not as easy as wooden structures, and the relentless flames devoured human lives, and the entire Salt Lake City became a desperate area, and the south, which was undoubtedly not attacked, became the only direction for these people to flee, and Mark was the first to bear the brunt, After the barricades at the three entrances were captured, he retreated, as an officer, he knew very well what would greet him if he did not block these tanks at the entrance, whether it was death or despair, he had to escape from the city, only the vast wilderness, in the dark, escape the pursuit of tanks, the United States is too big, the tanks that come, after all, are a minority, it is impossible to spread throughout the United States.
Of course, before leaving, he also informed Henry, Henry was at a loss, heard this and left, their departure led to the entire Salt Lake City high-level, rich businessmen and big families began to flee, of course, there was no time to take anything away, when the peripheral resistance was killed, and the remaining military strength was taken away by these high-level people, the fate of Salt Lake City was finally decided.