Only ten days after the departure of the US troops who abandoned the infected people, Li Yongji's unit, which was still stationed in Smithland, received the news, of course, this news was not searched by themselves, but the information provided by the "defectors" specially sent by Burnside.

For such a "defector" who took the initiative to come, Li Yongji would definitely not be able to greet him, but conducted a detailed examination of this group of people as soon as possible.

"How's the trial?" Looking at Sun Xiangbing who entered the door, Li Yongji immediately asked, "Is the problem a big deal?" ”

"As far as the current interrogation goes, it doesn't seem to be a big deal." Sun Xiangbing shook his head and took the initiative to hand over the interrogation record to Li Yongji, "But as far as my personal feeling is concerned, they should have something to hide." ”

"How do you feel personally?"

"Yes, Commander, personal feelings." Sun Xiangbing nodded, "Although their reasons are very good, they also have noses and eyes, and there are even whip marks on one person's body, which doesn't seem to be a problem, but because there is no problem, it makes me feel that there is a problem, because this qiē is too normal, a bit like the feeling of bitter meat tricks." ”

"Bitter meat trick? Hehe. Li Yongji smiled, and then carefully looked at the interrogation record in his hand, and at this time, Sun Xiangbing immediately stopped talking, just stood quietly aside and waited in a standard military posture.

After less than three minutes passed, Li Yongji, who had seen it cursoryly, closed the interrogation record and nodded to Sun Xiangbing, who was standing aside: "You are right, judging from the interrogation records, the confessions of these five people are quite consistent, at least there are no discrepancies, and their statements about each other's backgrounds, why they came, and how they came here are also very tight, which is indeed quite perfect." ”

Hearing Li Yongji say this, Sun Xiangbing immediately said seriously: "The commander's eyes are as wise as a torch, it is true. There is a commander to check it. Any demon clown will have nothing to hide. ”

"Well, Xiang Bing, your serious kung fu is getting better and better."

"Where, lowly duties are just telling the truth."

"Huh." Li Yongji smiled lightly, no longer continuing the topic, but pointed to the written interrogation record that he threw on the desk, "It's okay with everything else, why are they coming." I don't care too much either, what I care about is the military information they provide...... Tell me, is it true that they said that the so-called two corps of the US army were trapped by the wind and snow and were in a dilemma? ”

"It's hard to say." Sun Xiangbing thought for a while and said, "Frankly speaking, we are stuck here and can't walk because we have a lot of motorized equipment. Especially those wheeled motor vehicles. These vehicles are naturally very good to use in ordinary times, and they are also good at trekking through mountains and rivers, but in this kind of situation, the average snow thickness around them is more than 20 centimeters, and the temperature is as low as more than 20 degrees below zero. These vehicles are a drag, and that's the biggest factor in why we're stuck here, and we can't just leave them all here.

On the contrary, the U.S. military is not as high as our motorized range. But most of them are infantry and cavalry, and not only do they not put as much pressure on logistics as we do, but they are also more dependent on terrain than we are. If you abandon your heavy equipment and simply walk, you should still be able to move forward, and at most the speed of the march will be affected. ”

Hearing Sun Xiangbing say this, Li Yongji nodded silently.

Indeed, just as Sun Xiangbing said, the unit led by Li Yongji, aside from the mercenaries of the coalition army, only spoke the words of the Chinese, and the mechanization of the unit was very high, and it had basically achieved the category of moving away from manpower and reaching the mode of fully mechanized marching. The reason why it is not called a mechanized corps and is called motorized is only because the heavy weapons are not up to standard, of course, the heavy weapons are not up to standard, which means that Li Yongji refers to the standards of modern society, and if it is according to the standards of the 60s of the 19th century, it is absolutely a tall and fully mechanized army, which is unique in the world.

However, there are advantages and disadvantages to any unit, and it is impossible to conquer the world; taking Li Yongji's motorized corps as an example, although it has completely destroyed other units of the same era in terms of mobility and firepower, this unit is very dependent on logistics, even if Li Yongji takes into account the characteristics of this time and space, and deliberately engages in super durable and simple wheeled vehicles with maintenance, and does not have tracked vehicles, but the demand for logistics is still very great.

Not to mention anything else, once the troops are mobilized, the daily fuel consumption of the vehicles used by more than 20,000 people in the three regiments is not a small amount, plus the road conditions here are very poor, and the loss of parts and components is also large, if there is no Li Yongji's golden finger that can trade with modern times at any time, he will not be able to play mechanization in this time and space.

Of course, it's not a big problem just for supplies, but the key is that the weather is now making it impossible for these vehicles to continue to drive.

First of all, the most important point, that is, the ground clearance of the vehicle, although most of the vehicles purchased by Li Yongji have a relatively large ground clearance, after all, they are calculated according to the off-road ability, but these off-road abilities have a certain limit, once faced with a large area of snow road with a thickness of more than 20 centimeters, these vehicles that were originally designed according to the normal off-road road surface are completely useless.

A large area of snow like this requires a special vehicle, such as a snowmobile with a ski paddle, and it is difficult to walk on a road with an average snow thickness of more than 20 miles if the tires are not designed according to the snow.

Maybe to say, wheeled vehicles are not impossible to walk on the snow, can't it be modified, such as modifying tires, changing to snow tires, or even directly on the tracks? Modern society is not without examples of such modifications.

But the problem is that to carry out this kind of modification, it is unlikely that the Chinese will rely on this time and space, they lack such high-end maintenance technology, and they also lack the corresponding equipment. And if it is sent to modern society for modification, it will take a long time to come and go, not to mention the cost, and the cost is also very high, which cannot be achieved in a short time.

In addition, there is also a big problem that because most of the vehicles purchased by Li Yongji are domestic goods in modern time and space, and most of these vehicles are under the banner of exporting to Africa, and because Li Yongji pursued cost-effective at the beginning, all he wanted was to remove all kinds of unnecessary facilities and cheap goods at very low prices, so the low-temperature capacity is not strong.

The specific table is that once the temperature drops to minus 20 degrees, except for those few armored vehicles, other wheeled vehicles. In particular, the lightweight paratrooper assault vehicles, etc., are completely unable to start, the reason, in addition to the battery, even the cheap engine oil with poor frost resistance in it is not good.

All in all, when the temperature drops to more than minus 20 degrees, those vehicles that were originally designed according to the minimum limit temperature of minus 10 degrees Celsius are basically unable to move, which is why many people suffer frostbite when the snowstorm first appears. Because the vehicle can't fight, the heater naturally can't be turned on.

In short, the mechanized troops are very good in normal temperature weather, and they are okay on not too treacherous roads, but if they are faced with extremely low temperatures of more than minus 20 degrees Celsius at the same time, and a large area of snowy roads with a thickness of more than 20 centimeters, it is not very powerful, on the contrary, it is a drag on the troops.

Seeing that Li Yongji didn't speak. Sun Xiangbing continued: "Originally, we could still rely on the channel of the Ohio River, but because of the rapid cooling, the river surface was covered with a thick layer of ice. And as time goes on, it is getting thicker and thicker, which makes our fleet incapacitated, and we can only stay here and not move.

And it turned out. Not only would we not be able to use the capacity of the surface forces to achieve a fast march, but we would have to leave our troops to guard the ships from land forces. This also involves a lot of our troops and energy.

In short, our equipment is too much and too expensive to be used in this situation, but it is impossible to give up at will, so in terms of mobility, we are far inferior to the pure infantry units of the US army, so that we can't move, we can only stay here, it doesn't mean that they can't move, it's just going slower. ”

"Well, that is, you think those guys who came over didn't tell the truth about that?" Li Yongji asked, "Do you think those two legions will not be trapped in one place like us and will not leave, but will choose to continue marching?" Or ......"

Speaking of this, Li Yongji frowned and paused: "Or, those guys are all Huang Gai in the bitter meat plan, and the US military hopes to use this opportunity to lure us over so that they can ambush us?" ”

"Theoretically, that's possible." Sun Xiangbing shook his head, "However, from another point of view, the Americans don't know much about our situation, at least it is impossible to know that our vehicles are unusable in this situation."

Then, if I were their commander, I would have assumed that our vehicles and weapons were still functional, and in this case, any ambush by them would have been a joke, since they were outnumbered, but their firepower was far from ours, and their mobility was far inferior.

In other words, their commanders, as long as they have a little brain, will not want to lure and ambush us with that little bit of strength. ”

"Makes sense." Li Yongji nodded.

"Of course, there's another possibility." Sun Xiangbing said suddenly.

"Is there another possibility? What is possible? ”

"This possibility is that those soldiers who came to surrender are testing us."

"Temptation? What do you mean? Li Yongji frowned and asked.

"Let's see if we still have the strength and whether the equipment can still be used." Sun Xiangbing said sternly, "As I said earlier, if our equipment is intact, it is naturally impossible for them to play any ambush, and it would be good to be able to fortify layer by layer and rely on desperate lives to block our attack." But on the contrary, if we can know with certainty that our motorized equipment cannot be used, then with their numerical superiority, if they are pressed again, the threat to us will still be great.

After all, although our firepower is strong, in this weather, the power will be greatly reduced, especially those artillery. Therefore, mobility is our indispensable magic weapon to win, once our mobility becomes the same as them, or even inferior to them, then even if the firepower is stronger than them, it is impossible to suppress their numerical advantage, they can use the crowd tactics to rush over, and play hand-to-hand combat with us, in that case, we are likely to lose a lot! ”

"Well, it's really a temptation, that's really possible, after all, there are more than 500,000 people." Li Yongji also stood up sternly, "So, how do you think that those people are here to test us?" ”

"It's simple." Sun Xiangbing said, "As the humble post said earlier, it is unlikely that they will directly lure our large army to attack them without knowing the details of our troops, and that is purely looking for death." However, their commanders may also think that in this kind of weather, weapons and mechanical equipment are likely to fail, after all, under normal conditions, ordinary gunpowder weapons will be greatly reduced.

Then, if I were their commander, I would have sent someone over to test us, and by the way, to spy on our intelligence.

Assuming that we know exactly where they are stationed, but remain indifferent for a long time, then even if these people who come to spy on the intelligence cannot escape and report back, the commander of the other side can get a lot of information.

You must know that according to our past combat practice, as long as we want to fight, we only know where the opponent is, and never care how many people there are, and we must have a deep understanding of our combat effectiveness.

Then, since we are a force with extremely strong attack power and self-confidence, and the ability to move quickly, it is impossible not to react after knowing the specific location of the other party, and if we do not react, then there must be something wrong with us here.

In the same way, if it were me, and the other party did not take the bait at all after using the bitter meat trick, then I would at least send another unit to continue the reconnaissance along the trajectory of the probe, and if I found that the situation was not right, it was likely that the whole army would be pressed. ”

"Well, I get the general idea of what you mean." Li Yongji said, "Do you think these Americans who have defected to me are a temptation?" Or is it the first temptation? ”

"Yes, it's a possibility." Sun Xiangbing nodded.

"Have you ever thought that maybe they're really trapped?" Li Yongji asked, "Indeed, as you said, they are pure infantry, and in this kind of weather and road conditions, their mobility ability has indeed surpassed ours." But don't forget, this cooling down is so rapid, even our troops with such adequate supplies have a large area of flu and frostbite, those Americans are more numerous than us, the supplies are not as abundant as ours, and there are not many special medicines, will there also be a large area of frostbite and cold and fever? If that's the case, it's possible to be trapped in one place, right? ”

"Commander, of course it is understandable for you to think so, after all, your behavior of loving soldiers like sons is obvious to all." Sun Xiangbing smiled, "But please forgive me for being blunt, if there are really a lot of injuries due to the sudden cooling, then the U.S. army will only run faster." ”

"Why?"

"Quite simply, they don't have enough medicine, and if they stay, they will only speed up the infection and get more and more people sick. On the contrary, if they isolate the patients in time, and then abandon these guys and leave the original camp lightly, that is the most rational thing to do, and believe that their commander will not continue to stay in the same place as long as he is not stupid, let alone be trapped for this reason. Unless they really don't have enough supplies, such as not enough food and drink, but as far as our intelligence goes, there is still no shortage of food and cotton clothes for these two legions. ”

"So you think the motive of these American defectors is to test us in preparation for their further attack?"

"It's hard to say." Sun Xiangbing shook his head, "Frankly speaking, this is just a guess on my part, and the probability is actually not high. However, our army is now trapped here, in a dilemma, and our vehicles are indeed unable to move, looking at the weather, it is unlikely that it will warm up in the short term.

In other words, we are now in the weakest period, and of course we have to prepare for the worst, and it is clear that those two legions, which we have not looked down on in the past, can already pose a threat to us in this kind of weather and road conditions.

Since it can be a threat to us, it is not too bad to consider the situation, don't you say? My Honorable Majesty? (To be continued......)