While the Ming army on the southern front was in full attack, another powerful attack group of nearly fifty divisions also launched a ferocious offensive from northern California towards the interior of the United States. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Info: This massive army attacked from north-central California, and then first invaded Nevada.

Nevada is a complex state of mountains and hills, as well as deserts. Fortunately, the Ming army has a strong logistical supply capacity and a fully mechanized army. They were able to maintain their formidable combat capability under a variety of complex terrains, and in a very short time, they swept through Nevada.

In fact, at this time, the main forces of the U.S. military in Nevada have basically been exhausted in the previous battles. It was the local National Guard that really took on combat duty. These National Guards are numerous, not badly equipped and trained. But they are strictly militia units.

No matter how strong the militia is, it is only a militia. Compared with the Ming army, which had been tested for several years in blood and fire, the gap in their spirit and technique and tactics was fatal.

And like the National Guard elsewhere, the National Guard in Nevada is the type of person who sweeps the snow in front of his own door. Even the National Guard of the entire state could not be rallied and concentrated to fight the Ming. Hundreds of thousands of National Guards are scattered across cities, large and small.

This deployment was a desperate move, as the officers and men of the National Guard were largely locals. Moreover, the United States is a federal country, which is easy to say in normal times, but in this bad situation, the officers and men of the National Guard everywhere want to defend their own homes, not to go somewhere else to fight to defend other people's homes.

There is no doubt that the scattered National Guard simply could not resist the powerful Ming attack group. Compared with the resistance of the American army, the greater threat to the Ming army was the local desert and harsh climate in Nevada.

It's early spring, and the climate here is cold and dry, because of the desert and valleys everywhere, which makes the wind and sand very severe. Many vehicles of the Ming army had to be repaired or even scrapped directly because of the sandstorm. Its number far exceeded the losses caused by the resistance of the defenders.

The Ming army that invaded Nevada was very divided into two parts, one was from the central region of Nevada, and the goal was to cross the entire Nevada and then attack Utah and Colorado, which were also terrainically complex, so as to directly break through the entire Rocky Mountains and enter the central plains of the United States.

The other destination is the Las Vegas area of southern Nevada, near which there is a huge dam, the Hoover Dam. The Ming army did not necessarily have to capture it, but the giant dam named after the former president of the United States had spiritual significance for the Ming army, so they chose to attack the dam on the border between Nevada and Arizona, blocking the Colorado River.

The attack on the dam was very smooth, the Ming army first captured Las Vegas, which was only 50 kilometers away from the dam, and then sent special operations troops to directly take the ****** to land on the surface of the dam reservoir. In conjunction with the ground forces, a fierce attack was launched towards the dam. This important dam was captured a few hours later.

The reason why he is important is because the downstream of the dam is the predetermined march route of the Ming army. Once the defenders decided to open the floodgates and release the water, it would cause great trouble for the Ming army.

In fact, the defenders of the dam had received orders from their superiors to detonate the explosives that had been planted before to destroy the dam, thus cutting off the Ming army's attack route. But the defenders refused to carry out this order. The reason is not complicated, the defenders stationed here are basically locals. If the dam is blown up, it means that their own homes will be flooded. This is the kind of thing that no sane person would do when he sees his home and his family being submerged.

In fact, with the continued victories of the Ming army and its advance inland, Washington had gradually lost its ability to control the states everywhere. Many locals do not believe that the United States will be able to win the war.

As a nation of immigrants, the country doesn't actually have a lot of cohesion. It's okay to say when it's going well, but when the disaster comes, the individual's mind will naturally be different. Many locals began to prepare for the arrival of the Ming army. After all, since you are powerless to resist, you can only choose to accept.

After capturing the Hoover Dam without danger, the Ming army quickly swept through southern Nevada and northern Arizona. The Ming army then marched into Colorado from northern New Mexico along with the Ming army that had invaded Utah. and engaged in a series of fierce engagements with the defenders stationed here at the exit from the Rocky Mountains.

In order to keep the Ming army at bay in the complex terrain of the Rocky Mountains, the U.S. forces mobilized a large number of troops from nearby areas to fiercely resist the area leading from the Rocky Mountains to the Central Plains. Especially in the Denver area, the fighting between the two sides was nothing short of tragic. There have even been cases where the attacking troops of the Ming army were destroyed by intensive artillery fire, resulting in the destruction of a large number of wreckage of various vehicles and blocking the passage out of the mountain.

However, although the resistance of the American army was very fierce, the Ming army was significantly stronger than the American army in strength. Their resistance near the various mountain passes was eventually broken one by one. In fact, the Ming army only needed to capture one exit to force the defenders of the entire line to retreat. Because the loss of an exit means the collapse of the entire line of defense.

About seven divisions of the Ming Army surrounded the Colorado town of Denver. Nearly 60,000 defenders were surrounded by the city.

In the beginning, U.S. troops in the vicinity also tried to come to reinforcements, such as U.S. troops from Wyoming and Nebraska in the north, and moved south through Fort Corinthian and Loveland areas to try to rescue U.S. troops besieged in Denver. However, they were scattered by the Ming army's armored clusters in the vast area between Loveland and Denver.

By this time, the U.S. military had lost a large number of troops and various heavy weapons. Moreover, the loss of large areas of land and transportation lines made it difficult to replenish the US military. Moreover, most of the last elite main forces of the US army were actually deployed on the east coast, which made the US troops in the central region not too strong to resist the offensive of the Ming army.

Lacking tanks and artillery, and not having an advantage in air power, it was almost impossible for the American army to defeat the Ming army's armored forces in the field. The gap in combat effectiveness between the two sides was very large, even to the point that one Ming armored division could deal with two American armored divisions. At this time, the U.S. military has gradually fallen into the rhythm of collapse on all fronts.

Unlike the Federal Army, which began to decline in combat effectiveness, the American defenders stationed in various towns and cities were fighting in a stronger way than the American field troops. Such was the case with the defenders of Denver.

Most of the garrisons stationed in Denver were local National Guardsmen, with only a small number of federal troops. There aren't many of them, but many of them are Denver locals who are familiar with the city's environment. They took advantage of their familiarity with the terrain to resist the Ming army's attack in various neighborhoods and numerous buildings, and brought a lot of casualties to the Ming army.

In fact, the number of defenders was much more than 50,000. Denver is a large city with a large population in the downtown area. Many locals chose to join the defenders after the Ming army entered the city.

In this era of poor information dissemination, many locals have actually lived in their towns almost all their lives, and are not very clear about the situation in the world at large. They just knew they had to defend their homeland, so it was natural for them to take up arms and resist.

The Ming army's attack on Denver was thwarted, and it also suffered considerable losses. Under these circumstances, the Ming army quickly mobilized a large number of reinforcements to join the attack. Among them was a number of self-propelled guns. In particular, the demolition machines, which were equipped with 150 mm guns and were designed to attack fortified structures.

Numerous reinforcements and heavy weapons were added to the battle, and progress was made very quickly. Many of the fortified structures held by the defenders were destroyed one by one, and it took the Ming army nearly ten days to capture the bombed-out city in ruins. Destroyed a large number of enemy troops.

After capturing Denver, the Ming army quickly swept through the entire state of Colorado in multiple ways. And then he invaded Kansas, roaming this gentle land as if it were no one.

There were no larger formed garrisons in Kansas and Missouri, as well as northern Oklahoma. The National Guards stationed everywhere were also powerless to resist the powerful offensive of the Ming army, and could only be eliminated one by one in the artillery fire of the Ming army.

During this time, there were cases of the surrender of the establishment in many places. The defenders of many towns felt that they were powerless to resist the Ming army's attack, so they chose to give up resistance when the Ming army approached, in exchange for the Ming army not attacking the city, so as to protect their homes from destruction.

Faced with this situation, of course, Ming Jun laughed and would never deliberately add trouble to himself.

When the front-line troops swept everywhere, the Ming army in the rear had no intention of stopping. Thousands of transport ships of all kinds brought a large number of weapons and equipment, military supplies and a large number of soldiers to the United States. By the beginning of May, the number of Ming troops who had landed had exceeded 7 million. And that number is increasing rapidly.

In mid-May, the Ming troops, who had attacked from both the north and the south, entered Tennessee almost simultaneously and were about to launch a general offensive against the targets pointed out by Zhang Cheng. (To be continued.) )