In August, the hottest month of 46 years, the storm rolled up by the Chinese army directly cooled the hearts of Americans.

If the Chinese army does not move, it will be like an overwhelming force, and it will break down many of the Americans' defense lines at once.

The previous month of solid offensive was not without success, and the Chinese army had already nailed some nails on the opposite bank of the Huangshi River and other rivers. As long as the river is crossed, the river moats in many places have been gradually wiped out, and the steel army of China will flow again, and no amount of American troops in front will be able to block it.

Where will the Americans, who hastily arranged their positions, have time to build another Maginot Line? Even if they have the ability, they have already lost confidence in the passive defensive fortresses.

In the face of the attack of the superior fighter group and heavy artillery in China, the Americans who learned shrewdly also began to go underground.

The construction of a large number of underground fortifications such as tunnels and trenches has become another trick that the Americans learned from the Chinese army. Even after systematic calculations by the Americans, the underground fortifications were used by the Americans using a lot of steel and cement, and they were built more formally and firmly.

At least the Americans are complacent and better than the Chinese. However, if the Americans go to China and see the permanent fortifications of the three defenses built to prevent accidents, they will realize what is a better fortification.

On the front line, the Huaxia army had long focused on the offensive, and except for some important facilities that had been built in a strict and regular manner, it was impossible to put in a lot of energy in the temporary underground fortifications of the front line that had to be moved with the pace of advance in a short time. In addition to training officers and soldiers and developing the habit of prudence, even some underground fortifications did not need to be built.

"Offense is the best defense!" Now the Huaxia army has the confidence to shout such words.

The usual tanks and fighter planes in China were enough to block all the threatening attacks of the Americans, and the new equipment of the Chinese army specially strengthened by Meng Xiang for this attack made the Americans lose the courage to attack for a long time.

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"These are all new tanks from Huaxia?" General Patton of the United States held a telescope and looked at the Chinese tanks below the high ground in a daze.

When he heard the news of the surprise attack of the Chinese army, the first to muster the courage to attack and the first to propose a counterattack was Patton.

Withdrawn from Europe, he has already held back the fire in his belly. The U.S. armored forces he personally led had several skirmishes with the Huaxia army before, and although he also thought that the Huaxia tank was difficult to deal with, it was not so exaggerated. Relying on Pershing and Super Pershing tanks against the Type 59 tank, which has the largest number in China. Then rely on the Overlord tank to block the rhinoceros and grizzly bears in China, which are slightly less numerous. There is a chance to win in Huaxia.

As for the Chinese Mammoth tanks, after all, only a few appeared on the battlefield, and they could not decide a large-scale tank battle. Moreover, the Americans have recently had some countermeasures specifically aimed at the Chinese tank.

Truman, who was in dire need of a victory, was the first to approve Patton's plan to fight back.

It can't be called a counterattack, it can only be said that when other armies continue to lose and retreat in the flood of Chinese offensives, they have a hard-fought duel with the most famous tank unit in China.

For this. Truman ordered Eisenhower, commander-in-chief of the Northern Army, to give his full support to Patton's operation, and set up a position on the shores of Lake Michigan.

The Chinese army, which had already been aware of it, did not evade it at all, and the tank army that crossed the Mississippi River rushed directly. It's just that the main tank with the largest number is not the Huaxia modification of the Type 59 tank of the T-54/55 that Huaxia conquered in Asia, Africa and Europe, but the T-64A tank.

In the face of the all-out outburst of the Americans and the support of the United Kingdom and other allies, the performance of the jointly developed tank has been greatly improved. Although the old Type 59 was inexpensive and cost-effective, the casualties against the new American tanks were gradually increasing.

Huaxia has not yet been extravagant enough to use tankers as cannon fodder, so Meng Xiang is gradually looking for another alternative main battle tank.

The M60 series of Americans was first abandoned by Meng Xiang.

Not to mention the high cost of American weapons, that is, in terms of performance, the power and other aspects are slightly inferior to the Soviet and Russian tanks of the same era, while the fire control and electronic aspects that the Americans are most proud of cannot digest and absorb in this era. Even some models restrict the production of sub-bases because of the advanced electronic technology.

Among the currently available tanks. Compared with the British Chieftain tank and the Leopard 1 tank of West Germany, the high-quality and inexpensive Soviet and Russian tanks that once frightened the entire Western world in later generations are still the most favorite.

After all, he was most familiar with these tanks that were marketed all over the world. Moreover, the Soviet-made tank and the Type 59 tank are in the same line, which makes it easier for all kinds of tank talents that Huaxia has cultivated on the Type 59 tank to quickly adapt.

Meng Xiang directly abandoned the T-62 tank, which had too many shortcomings, and directly aimed at the T-64 tank.

Although later generations also picked on the T-64 in every way, in this era, it is already an invincible existence. Even Lao Maozi insisted on using it until the eighties, and even the main force of equipment.

And the more well-known T-72, only a modified version of it. Lao Maozi would rather sell the T-72 in large quantities than export the T-64, and the performance comparison between the two can be seen.

Moreover, because the T-72 was put into service in the seventies, more advanced electronic equipment was adopted, resulting in the base where the limitations of large-scale integrated circuit board technology had not been broken, otherwise Meng Xiang would have directly chosen the more famous Leopard 2 tank that was also produced and serviced in the late seventies.

This is the future development direction of the main battle tank in Meng Xiang's mind, but the T-64 can already support the Huaxia Tank Corps to completely crush the entire earth in this era.

And Meng Xiang chose the more advanced T-64A type. Although the T-64 is a little more delicate and the cost is a lot higher, all this is not a problem for the base.

When the 125mm smoothbore tank gun of the T-64A tank was raised high and formed a steel jungle, Patton, who opened the table on time, bitterly found that the Chinese dinner on the table was absolutely indigestible to the Americans.

Seeing that the Huaxia main battle tank was no longer the Type 59 that Americans and even the whole world were once familiar with, Patton's heart had already passed a trace of misery. But he still commanded his tank corps to bravely meet the opponent.

As a commander of the U.S. armored forces who had made great achievements in Europe, Patton not only commanded the main force of his 3rd Army this time, but also filled in with the main force of more than 5,000 U.S. tank forces, forming a huge armored force with more than 5,000 main battle tanks.

Judging from the concept of main battle tanks from China, there are more than 5,000 tanks in this huge armored team, excluding light tanks such as Sherman and Grant, and the weakest are Pershing tanks. If you count light tanks and those self-propelled guns and tank destroyers, the number is more than 10,000.

The sheer number of them is not even possible to invest in the surrounding wars at once.

Truman weighed heavily on this battle that he was determined to win, and this was also the confidence of Patton to dare to fight back.

Huaxia, which knows a lot about the intelligence of the Americans, also invested more than 3,000 main battle tanks here.

The two sides invested more than 8,000 tanks, and the number of troops on both sides who were reduced to supporting roles also exceeded 4 million.

The Chinese army invested a total of 2.6 million troops in the Great Lakes region, and 1.7 million on this line alone.

The Americans who were trying to win a battle also gathered in large numbers, gathering more than 2.4 million in this generation.

Even for this tank showdown, the Americans put more than half of the Sabres and Super Sabres produced with all their might into this area, even if these more than 2,300 jet fighters could not regain air supremacy in the hands of more than 1,600 new fighters in Huaxia, but at least they restrained Huaxia's air power and defended the sky for American tanks.

The front line stretched from St. Paul, the capital of Minnesota, along the shores of Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River to Chicago.

The factories in Chicago and Detroit in the rear were running at high speed, and more tanks kept coming off the production line, along the water transportation in the Great Lakes and the dense rail network around it, directly to the duel between the two tank forces near Chicago.

Without the alarm bells, there is no one to decide the outcome of this game.

When the large army of tank troops in front of the Chinese Breakthrough crashed in, this largest Chicago tank battle officially began.

With the order to attack Tiger Er and Patton, there was not much temptation at all, and the battlefield of fighting shirtless at the beginning gradually became white-hot.

Even though the battlefield of the tank duel between the two sides has expanded to more than 1,000 square kilometers, in some places, the tanks of both sides are still crowded together, and even bayonets are fought at close range.

But soon, the Huaxia T-64 tank and the Rhino and Grizzly Bear of the second class used their 125 mm and 120 mm tank guns to tell the Americans about the difference in tank generation. (To be continued......)

PS: Sorry, returned home today. Sorry for the delay!