Chapter 1838: All the way to the west
"Oh my God, what kind of monster is this. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info" A young American couldn't help but say loudly, he is named Peter Pan, an engineer of the Salt Lake City Railroad Bureau, mainly in terms of line setting and railway control, and he is not in Salt Lake City, but this year, Salt Lake City needs to expand the railway station, he arrived in Salt Lake City, he thought it was a good tolerance, but he didn't expect to encounter a war, from last night to now, he has been in tension, and he has been waiting until the Japanese chariot has left more than 1 kilometer, Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief, and finally saved his life, but he had time to pay attention to other things, but seeing the effect of this destruction, he couldn't bear the shock in his heart anymore.
As a professional railroad practitioner, Peter Pan understands very well the role of this weapon dedicated to destroying the railway, the Tianpingyang Railway, the largest railroad in the United States, is the most important railway hub, responsible for the connection between the East and the West, not only shouldering the transportation of huge passenger flows, but also shouldering the transportation of a huge number of materials, under the mutual contact of materials between the East and the West, a relatively good economic value has been achieved, and the most important thing is actually in the strategy, take Alaska this time, for example, If there is no Pacific Railway, if the United States wants to mobilize a large number of tanks and infantry to Alaska, the force consumed is not ordinarily large, and it may have to use the navy, but under the control of China, maybe the navy will be attacked by China by seizing the opportunity.
Peter Pan never thought that the Pacific Railway would encounter a crisis as soon as possible, as a senior practitioner of the railway, he knew very well that for the railway, it is impossible to completely destroy the railway by simply using explosives to explode, and a 100-kilometer-long railway, if explosives are used, it will be a huge number, which is even worse for the armored troops that have very high logistical requirements. In a sense, simply using explosives to destroy the railway, under the impetus of manpower, can be temporarily repaired, because the explosives destroy only one point, the other parts are still intact, as long as this point is repaired, it is fine.
The Japanese obviously thought of this, they used this thing, the rails were broken, the sleepers and the foundation were also relatively completely destroyed, every short section of heavy blows, and even hit more than 1 meter deep pit, so that the pits are densely distributed in the railway, it is obvious, now the Japanese practice, is really to cramp in the hinterland, and even those parts of the foundation that are not damaged, not only can not become an arm, but will have a huge impact on the future repair, if you don't eradicate it, There is simply no way to continue the restoration of the railway.
If last night, he still thought that the Japanese were only attacking cities in the hinterland of the United States, then now, as a railway practitioner, he has basically determined that Japan's goal from beginning to end is to destroy the Pacific Railroad, and when he thinks that the huge Pacific Railroad will be wiped out after today, this is a big blow to the Americans, and the Americans have not thought at all, and it will be very difficult to repair it in the future.
In the scene, there are many similar railway practitioners, and they basically see the purpose of the Japanese, but they know Japan's intentions, but there is no way, the reason is very simple, the Japanese have weapons in their hands, they have troops, they have tanks, what do they have in their hands, although there are four or five thousand young and strong, but these young and strong against the army, it is simply impossible to start, besides, what is there to let the army do, what is the American army doing, why the Japanese have hit the hinterland of the United States, They were attacked so fiercely by Japan, but what about the American army, why can't the powerful United States even defeat Japan, and the little Japan has bullied them.
Many American young and strong, with mixed feelings, looked at the saboteurs who were marching on the railway, the saboteurs didn't care so much at all, and began to operate, the powerful road-breaking machine, against the railway, carried out the destruction, the efficiency was high, far more than explosives, huge, weighing more than 2 tons of iron pillars, there were three, like pile drivers, frantically hitting the railway, not to mention sleepers and land-based, even if it was a steel rail, it could not withstand such an impact, and the rails were destroyed, from top to bottom.
Even if the Japanese have not used the Chinese saboteur, but for a long time, the kind of strength that Chinese has shown proves that their machines, all of which are first-class machines, not only have good results, but also have the effect of narration, which has been verified, the efficiency of the saboteur is not known to be much stronger than the explosives, and the instantaneous explosive ability of the explosives is strong, but it cannot be arranged in chains, and after a use, it is necessary to select other positions for layout, which wastes a huge amount of time, saboteurs, It may be that every time there is no explosive, the effect is better, but under the transmission of machinery and power, the efficiency of the saboteur is much higher than that of explosives.
Looking at the messy railway, the saboteurs who kept going away, the armor also slowly moved forward, and gradually moved away from these Americans, but the big stone in the hearts of the Americans, not only did not disperse, but became heavier and heavier, almost everyone was thinking, what happened to the United States, not only the hinterland was attacked, but even the Pacific Railroad had been destroyed.
No one will help them explain why, they are like abandoned people, in the summer, but in the summer, but they feel the cold that can only be felt in winter, the great plain in summer, even at 7 o'clock, is as high as 25 degrees or more, but at this moment, their hearts, like the yellow sky, there is no light.
Kawasaki Meijing just saw the saboteur's simple left and right, and immediately waved his army to the west, as long as it proved that the saboteur was of great use, it would be good to destroy the railway, and today there is still today's combat mission, you need to go all the way to the west, after crossing the Great Salt Lake, to reach Wells, a city that has penetrated deep into Nevada, which will pass through 7 small stations, 9 settlements, in today's combat mission, the armored forces in addition to taking Wells, but also to ensure the safety of the saboteurs when they destroy the railway, Although there is only one regiment of the National Guard in the entire central United States, including Salt Lake City, who can guarantee that there will be no eventuality.
In this case, only a small part of the escort force was left, and the rest continued to move forward, and the attack began like a bamboo, starting at 7 o'clock, 8:10, arriving at the first town, after 5 minutes of artillery fire, the town fell into a fire, and then, the fire kept rising on the west side of the Pacific Railroad, basically every 1 hour or so, there was news that a small town was attacked.
Around 8 o'clock in the evening, it was already dark, and in normal times, most of the government departments in Washington had already left work, but today, it was an exception, the entire Department of Defense, the Joint Conference, and even the Congress, were working overtime, countless radio waves, through limited telegrams, kept sending, and the staff searched for everything that could be contracted, and the big guys were in a crazy meeting, how did the Japanese enter the hinterland of the United States, this point, there is no need to verify, now for them, The crux of the matter is that we need to discuss how to get rid of this armored force as soon as possible so that their impact on the United States can be minimized.
Internally, in the core, even a small group of armed soldiers can cause great damage, for the simple reason that this is a city, it is a civilian, there is no armed force, there are no fortifications, and they can only consume their supplies with casualties, and this is only the premise of infantry, and now a stronger, more mobile armored force has entered the heart of the United States, and if it is not handled carefully, the resulting damage is powerful.
From last night to now, the data from all sides have been summarized, Japan is sneaking in, and there is not much damage caused on the road, obviously they deliberately avoided those settlements, but after crossing the Missouri River, large-scale killings began, at least a dozen villages were slaughtered, as well as Ogden and Salt Lake City, the former is almost a white land, Salt Lake City is slightly better, and it also lost more than 20,000, and before getting the news of 5,000 strong, they were also positioned as dead people, After all, it was taken away by the fierce and vicious Japanese, and I don't know where it went.
A day of exhaustion, a day of quarrels, the discussion of the joint meeting is nearing the end, first of all, it is necessary to mobilize an army of almost 400,000 people, to carry all the heavy weapons, they go to the vicinity of Salt Lake City, mainly to control a few nodes, to play a role in restricting tanks, the United States is to join the tank research sequence, and also understand the advantage of tanks, that is, speed, under absolute speed, tanks can quickly move between areas, if they can't block him, it will be very problematic. It's not that the infantry can't deal with tanks, the key problem is that the cost of dealing with tanks is too great, and it may take 300,000 or even more losses to be able to fight out these 5,000 tanks, which is unacceptable to the United States.
The main force against tanks is still tanks, but the new tanks of the United States will take a while to become an army, and the existing dispatch may not play a role, only the expectation of focusing on weapons to limit the speed of tanks, and the expectation that the other side will not exist for large-scale sabotage of railways.
In fact, by about 8 o'clock, for a whole day, no news of any attack came, and the Americans' hearts seemed to be settled, if the Japanese were just to show their strength, attack Ogden and Salt Lake City, and destroy the Pacific Railroad, everything could be reversed, even if all the Japanese ran back, they could not stay, so that the American losses could be minimized, and just when many generals of the joint conference were extremely relaxed, a series of information came like a torrential rain, 50 kilometers west of Ogden, The small station right next to the Great Salt Lake was attacked, devastatingly, and the entire station was destroyed.