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"Please apologize to Your Majesty on my behalf, I, Lei Tao, will lead tens of thousands of soldiers to fight to the death with the enemy army, and fight to the last soldier!"

"General Lei, please hold on for a few more days, we will do whatever it takes to open supply lines or cover your safe evacuation. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ╔╗”

In front of the radio intercom, Lei Tao made a final report to the Imperial General Staff on the decisive battle. Due to the sudden deterioration of the weather, Typhoon Chiyou swept across the eastern Pacific Ocean, and tens of thousands of combat planes in the Hawaii theater could not take off to attack the US troops in Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea also entered the rainy season.

Even if they reluctantly took off to airdrop supplies, the US troops in the direction of Haringen were also very cunning, and MacArthur had already sent a large number of "bandit" troops to the airdrop area to grab supplies with the Chinese Emperor, after all, the Chinese Emperor's troops were limited, the airdrop area was too large, and the supplies flew everywhere, some were even far apart, and some fell into rivers, lakes or mountain streams, and less than one-third of the materials were in the hands of the Chinese Emperor, and it was difficult to maintain the combat consumption of the day.

"Please tell General Zhang, our retreat has been cut off by the US army, the ammunition can last at most two days, and the supply is no more than three days, I don't want my soldiers to starve to death because they are surrounded by the enemy and have no provisions, even if we die, we must die on the way to the charge, and we should die in a dignified battle!"

"I'll convey it right away, please General Lei must hold on a little longer, the empire won't let you die like this!"

Lei Tao hung up the radio. Although he knew very well that the reply given to him by the General Staff was a cliché and that the current situation was difficult to change, he still had the idea of luck and decided to hold on for another day to wait for help, hoping for a miracle.

On the other side, in the operational conference room of the General Staff Headquarters of the Chinese Empire, Zhang Zizhong had already learned from the operational staff officer that he had just sent a letter of death from Lei Tao.

"No matter what method you use, you must get them out!"

Zhang Zizhong has been having a lot of headaches recently because of things in Mexico. On the one hand, for the sake of face, the congressmen did not allow the imperial ** team to withdraw from the Mexican battlefield, demanded that Lei Tao's troops stay there and not retreat, and urged the General Staff to continue to send troops in the direction of Haringen, so as to save the passive situation on the Mexican battlefield. ╔╗

But on the other hand, the Imperial General Staff was well aware of the current situation in Mexico, at the moment when three million American troops poured into Mexico. With the bombing of the Brownsville Bridge, the only retreat for Lei Tao's troops, the entire Harlingen battlefield has become a dead game. It's stupid to fill it with people.

It is worth mentioning. The strategy and tactics of the U.S. military mostly come from the mental analysis of the senior generals of the U.S. military, while the Chinese emperor relied more on a rigorous battlefield analysis system.

In order to avoid losing the war due to the commander's hot head and making wrong judgments, the Chinese emperor set up a separate institution called the shogunate. The shogunate consisted of members of the Emperor's Staff Corps and the Divisional Staff, with the smallest unit being the Operations Research Group.

"The weather is bad at the moment, and our air force is no longer able to provide air support to Lei Tao, and the only possibility is that we can repair the Brownsville Bridge before Lei Tao's supplies are exhausted. So that they can get out smoothly. ”

The words of Major General Xie Nande, a senior staff officer of the shogunate, made Zhang Zizhong's eyes light up, and Zhang Zizhong hurriedly asked, "Do you have a plan?" ”

"I'm not sure enough, though. But we've got a plan in mind and want to give it a try? ”

"Better than nothing!" Zhang Zizhong said: "You talk about it. As long as there is one in 10,000 hope, I will not give up! ”

Xie Nande nodded, so he explained the rescue plan drawn up by the Shogunate Operations Staff Office to Zhang Zizhong.

"Can it be fixed in three days?" Zhang Zizhong showed surprise and added: "Our King Tiger chariot is very heavy, are you sure that we can build such a long steel bridge?" ”

Xie Nande nodded and said, "We have already simulated it through the Galaxy 1 computer, and it is absolutely feasible in theory. ”

Zhang Zizhong didn't pay attention to the Galaxy No. 1 computer in Xie Nande's mouth, but asked directly: "What I want is whether it is actually feasible?" ”

Xie Nande nodded affirmatively again: "We also considered this problem, so in the General Logistics Department, our engineers built a steel bridge in Qingtongxia in the upper reaches of the Yellow River within 64 hours, which can pass two M28A3 tanks at the same time, and I think it can completely pass through the M36 King Tiger tank." ╔╗”

Zhang Zizhong suddenly showed joy and said, "Great! The Brownsville Bridge is not as long as the Yellow River and can definitely be completed in three days. If there is still not enough time, we will blow up the King Tiger tank and let the soldiers cross the bridge on foot. ”

Zhang Zizhong thought about it again and said, "But the time is still very tight, and it is best to fight for an extra day or two." Otherwise, even if the bridge is erected, the soldiers will all be sacrificed, or they will not have time to return. ”

"We've thought about that, and we think we should use hellfire to support Lei Tao," Sheynand said. The Hellfire is not affected by the weather, and with its powerful ground attack power, if it is sent at a critical moment, it will definitely be able to catch the American troops off guard and win time for the soldiers to retreat. ”

Zhang Zizhong frowned and said: "Hellfire is the secret weapon of the Empire, and the General Staff has decided to use it as a cover for landing operations when attacking the West Coast of the United States and the second battlefield in Europe. ”

Xie Nande shook his head and said: "The two best ground attack weapons are the Fire Meteor and the Hellfire, but now the weather is bad, the Fire Meteor can't take off, and only the Hellfire remains!" ”

Zhang Zizhong thought for a while and said, "You go and prepare to repair the bridge immediately, and I will solve the rest of the things, now you must race against time." ”

"Yes!"

Xie Nande received the order and hurriedly went down to prepare, while Zhang Zizhong went to the Forbidden City and asked the Chinese Emperor Wang Chenhao for permission to use hellfire.

According to the supreme constitution of the Chinese Empire, the military and the government were separated in peacetime, and political decisions were decided by the imperial cabinet and the National Assembly. ╔╗Military matters are decided by the Emperor, the Ministry of National Defense, and the General Staff. During the war, the military and political affairs of the Chinese Empire would be sent to the emperor for the final ruling.

Since the defeat and surrender of Mexico, Lei Tao's department was in deep danger, Wang Chenhao has been staying in the imperial study and has never left, he wants to know the military situation in Mexico as soon as possible, and deal with military and political affairs as soon as possible.

After Zhang Zizhong explained the situation to Wang Chenhao, Wang Chenhao immediately made a decision to go all out to rescue the tens of thousands of soldiers of the Chinese Emperor who were trapped in Mexico.

"I will allow you to use hellfire to rescue the Thunder Bolts. As for the fact that the General Staff had planned to use Hellfire as a secret raid weapon for the landing wars in the Americas and Europe, there was no need to worry about those, on the battlefield, the life of the emperor was the most important, and everything else was secondary. ”

"Your Majesty is wise!" Zhang Zizhong hurriedly said gratefully: "The tens of thousands of imperial soldiers who fell into the battlefield in Mexico thank Your Majesty for your care!" ”

Wang Chenhao nodded and said, "Your rescue plan is worth trying, but the airdrop bridge building facility will inevitably use transport planes. Will this weather work? ”

Zhang Zizhong explained: "The minister will organize a death squad and plan to use 200 large Pegasus transport planes to airdrop five sets of bridge-building facilities to Lei Tao. There will definitely be losses in this adventure. But as long as Lei Tao gets a set of equipment, tens of thousands of soldiers can be evacuated alive. ”

Wang Chenhao nodded and said, "Sacrifice the small self to complete the big self!" It is worthy of praise and admiration, and I will pass on the word to these warriors, and the people of the empire will always remember their heroic deeds. ”

Zhang Zizhong hurriedly shook it to the end, and said: "The minister obeys the order!" ”

On the evening of the 26th, 200 Pegasus strategic transport planes took off from the Beiyuan Air Base of the Chinese Empire. Loaded with five sets for the construction of a steel bridge over the Brownsville Grand Canyon.

At the same time, when Lei Tao learned that the imperial government had sent a powerful transport plane death squad. ╔╗ Immediately grateful, and hurriedly ordered the division's engineer battalion to prepare to receive equipment.

When Lei Tao was preparing to receive advanced bridging equipment. MacArthur also sent secret forces to closely monitor the place. So, a battle around the Brownsville Bridge quietly began.

The Brownsville Bridge, 25.6 kilometres west of Isabel, spans 11.8 metres and ends in steep cliffs with an abyss of the Rio Grande below. There are no roads around that can be detoured, so Lei Tao's part is blocked here. Once the bridge is blown up, passing vehicles can only be stopped here. MacArthur saw the great value of the bridge, so he launched a bombing operation many days earlier, completely destroying the bridge.

In order to rescue Lei Tao's headquarters, the powerful logistics organization of the Chinese Emperor began to operate in an all-round way, and 300 large transport planes with five sets of bridge-building equipment braved death to fly on the thunderstorm-ridden battlefield in Mexico. Five sets of national standard 3A steel and wood standard bridges made by the Royal Heavy Industry of the Chinese Empire overnight arrived at four o'clock in the afternoon of the 27th Mexico time a day later, more than 10,000 kilometers away near the Brownsville Canyon in Mexico, after more than two hours of circling, finally at about six o'clock in the evening, under the guidance of Lei Tao's ground radio and radar, it was directly airdropped into the narrow annular position of the Chinese Emperor at 18:12 with a giant special parachute, and 3 of them landed safely. The other 3 sets fell into the mountain stream and were damaged.

But only 223 of the 300 large transport planes eventually flew to the base in Havana, and the other 77 transport planes and more than 600 crew members died due to the severe lightning weather.

After a day of intense construction, the engineer units of the 33 Airborne Division erected a temporary bridge through all heavy equipment, including the M36 main combat vehicle, at four o'clock in the afternoon of the next day.

Lei Tao was immediately overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered the logistics troops to withdraw first, and the combat troops continued to block the attack of the US troops, because once they suddenly withdrew, they were afraid of being followed by the US troops, and they would fall into a dangerous situation.

Unfortunately, a small force deployed by MacArthur in a secret ambush near the Brownsville Bridge discovered the situation. MacArthur was shocked to learn of this and immediately ordered the force to blow up the bridge at all costs.

That night, the U.S. army braved the rain to attack the Chinese Emperor ** as a containment, and then sent a number of bridge bombing teams to intersperse near the bridge and blow up the Brownsville Bridge. ╔╗

When Lei Tao learned that the bridge had been bombed again, he was furious, and because of the lack of troops, he had to send his last guard platoon to guard the bridge, and at the same time ordered the sappers to repair the bridge at any cost.

Fortunately, the US military hurriedly blew up the bridge. Only a part of the connecting facilities were destroyed, and most of the steel bridge was intact, so the sappers rushed to repair it overnight and resumed traffic the next morning.

MacArthur was about to go crazy, so he ordered the American bomber group to also send a death squad to bomb the bridge.

On the 29th, more than 500 bombers of the US bomber group braved the thunderstorm to forcibly take off, and at the cost of more than 170 planes, they blew up the bridge built by the Chinese Emperor for the second time.

But. In order for tens of thousands of comrades-in-arms to survive, they were not afraid of fatigue and hardship, and erected a steel and wood bridge at the root of the remaining bridge of the original bridge, which took only five hours to restore traffic.

Of course, MacArthur was not idle, in order to completely annihilate Lei Tao's department. He spared no expense, again sending hundreds of bombers to bomb.

30th. When the American bomber group arrived. The nearby U.S. military bridge bombing team was also dispatched at the same time, and simply blew up the part of the newly built bridge and the root of the original bridge of the Chinese Emperor.

Just when Lei Tao was almost in a desperate situation, Major Chu Tiange, an engineer staff officer and commander of the 1st Engineer Company, put forward a bold idea: Send some people to pretend to repair the bridge near the original bridge, because the US bridge bombing team and the US bomber group continued to bomb, and the real engineers rushed to another place five miles away to rebuild the bridge.

Lei Tao had no choice but to agree.

The new bridge site was one chosen by the Mexican government and later abandoned due to lack of technology. But for the sappers of the Chinese Empire. Strong technical and equipment capabilities are not a problem at all.

But it would take a day and a half to rebuild a new bridge there, and Lei Tao was well aware that he was seriously short of ammunition. It can only last for a day at most, and how to solve the remaining half day and the evacuation time of the fastest night. It made his eyes darken.

But soon Lei Tao was pleasantly surprised, the General Staff of the Chinese Empire had already dispatched a Hellfire attack helicopter wing from Havana, and 200 Hellfire attack helicopters had arrived in Port Isabel, and it only took a day to reach reinforcements.

So, in the next day, Lei Tao personally supervised the battle and commanded all the soldiers to block the crazy attack of the American army.

This day is also the most tragic, the U.S. army invested 330,000 fresh troops to attack, and the soldiers of the Chinese Emperor ** have been fighting for more than half a month in a row, physically and mentally exhausted to the extreme, the key is that the bridge was bombed and caused chaos in the army's heart, and the ammunition supply is about to run out, making this day the day of the greatest loss since the Chinese Emperor ** intervened in World War II, the two divisions in the hands of Lei Tao lost more than 4,000 people, leaving less than 13,000 people, less than one armored division.

At the most tragic time, when many of the Chinese Emperor's vehicles, artillery and heavy machine guns ran out of ammunition, the helicopter reinforcements that Lei Tao was looking forward to were a full hour late, so that the soldiers of the Chinese Emperor had to fight hand-to-hand with the American army, and the enemy who was several times his own caused heavy losses to the Emperor's team.

Just when Lei Tao was desperate and ready to commit suicide by swallowing a gun, the Havana Helicopter Wing finally arrived.

When more than two hundred Hellfire helicopter gunships suddenly appeared over the battlefield, everyone was stunned and didn't know what it was.

But soon, as the two hundred Hellfire helicopters approached the battlefield, and the fuselage was painted with the eye-catching logo of the Imperial Chinese Army Air Corps, the officers and soldiers of the Chinese Emperor, who had fallen into despair, suddenly shouted loudly.

"Reinforcements have arrived!"

Many iron-clad men couldn't help but shed tears of excitement at this moment, they fought too hard, and the flowers waiting for reinforcements were grateful.

"Bang bang bang!"

The Hellfire helicopter gunship that flew rapidly at an ultra-low altitude was in full swing, the machine guns on the nose and the multiple rocket launchers mounted on the wings spewed out tongues of fire, and one rocket after another and artillery shells dragged their long tails and fired at the US troops.

Under the fierce blows of the Hellfire helicopter gunships, the US troops suffered heavy casualties, and the US troops, who did not understand what kind of weapon this was, retreated in a hurry, only to find that they were still running too slowly, and were chased by one Hellfire helicopter gunship all the way for several kilometers, causing huge casualties to the US troops of nearly 30,000 people.

MacArthur was very surprised and immediately ordered the American troops to retreat ten kilometers along the entire line.

When the Hellfire helicopter gunships that had achieved brilliant results on the battlefield returned, all the soldiers of the Chinese Emperor on the ground cheered enthusiastically and watched them leave.

On that day, due to the heavy losses of the American army, MacArthur did not understand the sudden change on the battlefield and did not act rashly. However, he knew that the Chinese Emperor ** on the opposite side no longer had much ammunition, and the bridge had not been repaired, so he was very relieved and decided to eat the Chinese Emperor ** in one go after the weather improved tomorrow.

In the evening of the same day, the new steel bridge was erected.

And MacArthur didn't realize that the Chinese emperor ** had this ability, he thought that Lei Tao had no good bridge building equipment in his hands, and at the same time his people stared at the bridge, seeing that the bridge was not repaired, it happened to rain heavily that night, and under the weather of lightning and thunder, MacArthur did not think that Lei Tao could build the bridge, so he slept well that night.

But Lei Tao was not idle, he felt that God was helping him, and there was no better opportunity to retreat than at this time.

So, Lei Tao decided to take advantage of the heavy rain to evacuate overnight.

In this way, more than 6,000 chariots and trucks of the Chinese Emperor carried tens of thousands of officers and soldiers, dragged artillery and only ammunition and supplies, and successfully passed the bridge overnight. And the thunder precisely drowned out the sound of the movement of combat vehicles and trucks.

After crossing the bridge, the Chinese Emperor quickly blew up the bridge to prevent the American army from continuing the pursuit.

When it was dawn the next day, when MacArthur learned the news that all the Chinese emperors on the opposite side had run away, he stood on the spot, the cooked duck flew, and he wanted to buy a piece of tofu and kill himself.

Many years later, the U.S. military summed up the battle by saying that it had underestimated the enemy. In fact, it is a collision of human thinking and mechanical thinking. The commander of the US military proceeded from his own manpower support method and believed that after three sabotages, it was impossible for the Chinese emperor to repair a steel bridge in a short time. But the Chinese Empire created a miracle, and the miracle was based on the tenacity and perseverance of the Chinese Emperor, as well as maximizing its own mechanized advantages, and the powerful national strength showed its incomparable advantages at that moment. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point () to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. )