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With the destruction of the United States Ironclad Fleet, the Mississippi River channel near Vicksburg was already under the control of the first detachment of the Chinese task force, which not only broke a gap in Grant's siege line and restored the water supply line to Vicksburg, but also controlled the nearby channel, and cut off the water supply line of Grant's Tennessee Corps.

You must know that the Battle of Vicksburg launched by the Tennessee Army led by Grant was actually a lone army, and there were only two ways to supply an army of nearly 80,000 troops, one was to rely on the waterway transportation of the Mississippi River, and the other was to use war to feed the war and capture the cities of the Confederate countries to obtain supplies.

As a qualified commander of a modern army, Grant was not a madman, and he would not put all his supply expectations on warfare, so his most important supply line, or the greatest support for his lone army, was the Mississippi River, the fleet of the United States.

Ordinary people only see the success of Grant's adventure, and only see his sharp attack, but they don't know that the reason why Grant's army has such combat effectiveness depends on the supply from the rear.

It is precisely because the surface fleet of the United States has absolute surface superiority on the Mississippi River that it can continuously deliver supplies to Grant's Tennessee Corps, and can continuously provide Grant with a large amount of ammunition, food and other materials, which allows Grant to attack and attack without scruples.

As long as you pay a little attention, you will find that almost all of General Grant's attacks on the Western Front are not far from the river, and it is by using water transportation that he keeps himself supplied. Keep your troops in full bloom all the time.

Not to mention anything else, look at the war launched by Grant before, although Grant used a series of maneuvers to let his troops grasp the initiative strategically, but in terms of specific tactical offenses, he has always been the superior side, whether it was the previous early attack on Jackson City, or the later siege of Vicksburg, he did so.

In other words, Grant's combat characteristics. It is to concentrate superior forces and superior firepower, and then engage the inferior enemy head-on, using more numerical superiority and firepower superiority to defeat the opponent.

For example, in this Battle of Vicksburg, it is clear that Grant has used various methods to gain superiority in all aspects, but he has not launched a forcible attack, but has kept bombarding Vicksburg with artillery, with almost extravagant shelling. to crush the confidence of the enemy.

On the contrary, once Grant feels that he does not have the absolute superiority in numbers and firepower, then he will not attack lightly, but choose to retreat or defend.

Therefore. Once Grant knew that the ironclad fleet had been wiped out and that the United States had lost control of the river near Vicksburg, it was likely that Grant would have chosen to retreat.

So, if you want to fight the opponent's main force. Relying on the main decisive battle to eat the opponent at one time, the action must be fast, and the opponent must react. Before leading the troops to retreat, take a step to stick to the opponent's army, so that the opponent does not dare to act rashly.

Fortunately, in this era, in terms of mobility ability, I am afraid that no army can compare with Li Yongji's dream army, so Grant's troops are destined to not run.

Just after the first detachment of the task force annihilated the ironclad fleet of the United States head-on by means of artillery bombardment, in order to gain speed, Li Yongji did not ask the fleet to continue to move forward, but took advantage of the momentum of berthing to directly let the troop transports behind forcibly land on this section of the river.

That is to say, for the rest of the way, Li Yongji did not plan to continue to take the boat, he was going to lead the army by land and attack the defenders placed by Grant on the periphery of Vicksburg by land.

As for the reason, it's not that I'm afraid that Grant will run away, after all, Grant's troops are all infantry, even if there is a small number of cavalry, they can't outrun the Dream Division, the reason why Li Yongji ordered the whole army to land is because the river in front has been blocked by a sunken ship, and to move on, the river must be cleaned up again, but that day was too time-consuming and laborious, and Li Yongji didn't want his infantry to waste time.

As soon as the order was given, the first detachment of the entire task force immediately became busy again, and the four frigates in front remained on alert, providing cover for the troop carriers and supply ships in the rear, while the ships in the rear tried to get as close as possible to the shore, and when they could not get close, they directly put down the landing sand boats or rubber boats, and transported the troops and combat vehicles over little by little.

That's right, combat vehicles, if only to transport troops, then not so many ships are used at all, and more than two-thirds of the troop carriers are for transporting combat vehicles.

Among these combat vehicles, most of them are light skirmisher assault vehicles and a small number of military trucks, and even the combat vehicles carried by these ships are actually just putting on a show and confusing their own people, because the number of vehicles transported on board is only less than one-fifth of all the vehicles in the division, and the real big heads are all in Li Yongji's personal space, and even many of them are still in Zhang Xinda's place in modern society, and they have not appeared at all.

The reason why this is so is because Li Yongji wants to reduce the tonnage of transportation, after all, if all the equipment and ammunition supplies of a motorized division are transported by ship, then more than a dozen ships are simply not enough, so he used his golden finger to use the space-time trading system to carry technical equipment and main supplies.

At the same time, in order to prevent things from appearing too abruptly, some equipment was placed in the back of the boats, giving the impression that these equipment were transported with the ship.

That is to say, after the troops land on the shore, they will first reassemble, and then Li Yongji will quietly spit out all the weapons and equipment he was carrying in a secret place, and then let the officers and men of the troops go to receive them, so that the optimization of mobility can be achieved and the transportation of supplies can be reduced.

The Dream Division established by Li Yongji is a quasi-modern motorized infantry division, although such a force is powerful, but its dependence on supplies is quite strict, so if Li Yongji leaves, it is really not easy to fully support the American soil in this era.

But after having a space-time trading system, the supply problem is no longer a problem, but limited by the tonnage of transmission, Li Yongji didn't dare to go too far, so he only built a motorized infantry division. But they didn't dare to make it too advanced, and they didn't dare to make too many quantities.

Therefore, an infantry division is already the best number that Li Yongji can support at present, and although it is not impossible to support it no matter how much it is, it will strictly occupy tonnage, and some gains outweigh the losses, after all, Li Yongji still needs some economic tonnage to do business with modern society, and cannot unilaterally get things from modern society. If you don't transport things over, you won't be able to do it for long.

After all, although the weapons and equipment of Li Yongji's current army are not too advanced in modern society, because of the large number and the price, these are all bought with money, not free goods that blow in the wind.

"Hahaha, old man, I finally see you again, I miss me!" Li Fei, the commander of the second regiment, ran quickly onto a four-wheeled vehicle. Touching the car door carefully, it is like the most beloved lover.

The vehicle that Li Fei was touching was actually a four-wheeled armored car, commonly known as the Little Lynx assault vehicle in the army. In fact, it is the VN3 wheeled armored vehicle produced by Hyundai Red China.

Although when Li Yongji established the Dream Division, in view of the actual situation, a motorized infantry division was established, and no tanks were purchased. It's just that a large number of military trucks and paratrooper assault vehicles have been purchased, which clearly focuses on maneuverability and firepower.

However, in the course of later exercises, Li Yongji found that he only used lightweight assault vehicles and military trucks. The mobility and firepower are guaranteed, but the ability to attack the fortification is greatly insufficient, or in other words, the speed of the attack is lacking, so a combat vehicle that can attack the fortification is needed, and a combat vehicle that can resist the opponent's artillery.

At the beginning, Li Yongji wanted to buy light tanks from Zhang Xinda, especially those that had been eliminated, but after a comprehensive comparison, even the eliminated light tanks were mostly bulky and heavy, and the price was not expensive, so it was not cost-effective.

On the contrary, the modern armored vehicles produced by Red China are quite good, although the defense is inferior to the tank, but it is comprehensively superior in terms of price, logistics support, endurance, etc.

Although the defense of armored vehicles is inferior to tanks, in the sixties of the nineteenth century, although artillery can also pose a threat to combat vehicles, it is not a big threat, and it can be pulled out in advance by using its own firepower, so the defense does not need to be too strong, only an armored vehicle that can resist the attack of the opponent's firearms.

Among them, the VN3 wheeled armored vehicle has entered the eyes of Zhang Xinda and Li Yongji.

The VN3 wheeled armored vehicle is a new type of armored vehicle designed and produced by Red China, which is generally used for foreign trade, and is a multi-purpose modular light armored vehicle capable of using a variety of complex battlefield modes.

In the sixties of the nineteenth century, the road conditions in the United States were quite bad, and it was said that the tracked type was the best solution, after all, the tracked armored vehicles were the most passable.

However, the disadvantages of tracked vehicles are not small, that is, they are easy to wear, have a high failure rate, and have high fuel consumption, and the difficulty of mastering the technology is complex, which is not suitable for the Chinese army in the sixties of the nineteenth century.

On the contrary, after the modern twenty-first century, with the development of the automobile industry, especially the great progress of chassis load-bearing technology, the performance of modern wheeled armored vehicles has been greatly improved, and wheeled armored vehicles have been comparable to the tracked armored vehicles, and they are not inferior to tracked combat vehicles in terms of site adaptability.

Take the VN3 wheeled armored vehicle for example, this four-wheeled light combat vehicle looks like a jeep, but the chassis is high, four-wheel drive, reinforced suspension, not only reliable performance, can pass all kinds of bad roads, but also takes into account the comfort of the personnel.

In addition, this armored vehicle is also very bulletproof, the front of the hull can resist 12.7 mm bullets, the side armor can protect against 7.62 mm bullets, plus the tires are also bulletproof tires, in terms of defense capabilities, in the nineteen and sixties, except for China, no rifle can pose a threat to this tank.

In addition to these basic functions, the biggest advantage of this car is that the whole vehicle is modular, realizing a multi-purpose vehicle, that is, the cabin part behind the cab of the vehicle can be replaced with different modules according to different needs.

For example, it can be turned into a purely infantry fighting vehicle carrying infantry, it can also reduce the personnel load, add electronic equipment, become a combat command vehicle, and even add weapon units, such as small-caliber mortars and large-caliber machine guns, to become a fire support vehicle.

Of course, what makes Li Yongji most tempted is. The price of this car!

This combination of defense, mobility and firepower, and easy to maintain, strong reliability of the combat vehicle, the price is less than two million, not as good as a Humvee off-road vehicle, it is simply the conscience of the industry, it is indeed a cost-effective armored car.

In fact, the so-called price of less than 2 million is a concession made by Red China's military industrial enterprises to Zhang Xinda, with the purpose of opening up the market.

To know. In modern society, although the arms trade of Red China has developed well, it is still at a disadvantage on the whole, and it is not in a good position to be besieged by the four major international hooligans of the United States, Russia, Britain, and France.

Although there are various practical factors, it is quite a frowning thing for Chinese military enterprises, because the overall environment of Red China at that time tended to be peaceful. Although weapons are constantly being upgraded, they are mainly concentrated in the navy and air force, and on the contrary, the investment in the army is relatively low. This also led to the lack of funds for the weapons of the Red China's army.

Just like the research of tanks and armored vehicles in Red China, originally in the nineties and before, the state invested in scientific research funds were quite sufficient, but in the nineties. Especially after the Gulf War, the Red Dynasty began to invest in the direction of scientific research in the field of national defense in space and navy, and the two branches of the military developed rapidly. But in the case of the Army, development has been very slow.

It is precisely because of this that the red China at that time was actually an extreme in the development of the military industry, that is, it attached importance to the air force and navy, and despised the army, not only the progress of the army's weapons was slow, but even in the international market, the market share of the army's weapons was declining, and it could only rely on cheap to maintain the market.

Before Zhang Xinda's rise, China's annual overseas arms sales basically relied on the air force, navy, and missiles to win the world, and the army could make money, generally that is, rocket artillery or 56 and a half and the like, and most of these cheap land weapons were sold to African countries.

However, after entering the 21st century, many countries in Africa have become more and more wealthy, and they have begun to gradually look down on Chinese weapons, plus Russia and Ukraine are probably poor and crazy, and foreign arms sales are becoming more and more crazy.

For example, in the African market, the price of a Type 56 submachine gun used to be nearly a quarter cheaper than that of a Russian-made AK47, but after entering the 21st century, especially in recent years, the price of AK47 has plummeted and is already cheaper than that of a 56 submachine gun.

There are other combat vehicles, and Russian-made products are about the same price as Chinese products, and many are even cheaper, coupled with the encirclement of the United States and Europe, which has led to problems in the sales of Chinese arms around the world.

Fortunately, Zhang Xinda appeared at this time, and he began to buy a large number of Chinese arms, although most of them were low-grade goods and obsolete goods, but it allowed China to clean up its inventory and return funds, especially Zhang Xinda's business is still sustainable, and the number is getting larger and larger, and the scope of weapons purchase is getting wider and wider, so that Red China pays more and more attention to Zhang Xinda.

The reason is very simple, Zhang Xinda took root in South Africa at this time, and no one would believe that he would buy weapons for his own use, that is to say, he is actually a middleman, and to this day, the Chinese arms purchased by Zhang Xinda are well-deserved first places on the African continent in terms of quantity and total price, and it can be said that almost all of the sales of China's military industry to Africa are pulled up by Zhang Xinda.

The person in charge of the military enterprise of Red China once said that Zhang Xinda alone has fed 20,000 people in China's military industry, and even provided strong support for the development of land warfare in China's military industry.

Since Zhang Xinda is so important, it is inevitable to give him a little preferential price and let him open the market.

Taking the VN3 wheeled armored vehicle as an example, the cost of this car is not small because of its advanced technology, but because Zhang Xinda began to purchase a large number of them, the price given by Red China to Zhang Xinda is quite favorable.

In other words, in terms of these light combat vehicles, the idea of Chinese military enterprises is not a one-shot deal, but a trickle, and they do not intend to make a lot of money on the vehicles themselves, but want to make money on after-sales service, just like the automobile industry.

In this way, China will not only make much less money in arms sales, but will also be able to send after-sales service personnel to increase jobs and strengthen its penetration into Africa, which will have many benefits anyway.

At the same time that China sold these vehicles to Zhang Xinda, China and Zhang Xinda also set up a vehicle repair factory in a development zone in Mozambique, which was responsible for the repair and maintenance of these vehicles. Of course. They thought that these vehicles were broken in Africa, but they didn't know that in fact, the objects they repaired were in the United States in the sixties of the nineteenth century!

In any case, because of the excellent VN3 wheeled armored vehicle, and the price is also cheap, not much more expensive than military trucks, so Li Yongji later purchased a large number of this kind of vehicles as a command vehicle for officers at or above the company level of the army, and Li Fei, as a regiment commander, naturally also used this kind of four-wheeled armored vehicle.

It is also because of the superior performance of this VN3 wheeled armored vehicle. Therefore, after Li Fei and others experienced it, they quickly abandoned the original paratrooper assault vehicle and military truck, and directly regarded this kind of car as their own command car, especially Li Fei, who loves drag racing, and loves this car to the core, but unfortunately because of the tonnage problem when boarding the ship, he could not continue to be with this car for the time being, which made him quite disappointed.

Now, the car has reappeared. Li Fei was naturally inexplicably excited, and he felt like he was newly married.

Just when Li Fei was still there touching the VN3 wheeled armored vehicle and couldn't put it down, a rumbling motor sound suddenly sounded behind him, and Li Fei was slightly stunned. Immediately turned around, and all of a sudden the mouth grew.

There was no other reason than because he saw a small convoy coming in front of him, and this convoy was ...... How to say it. It's not a lot, but it's shocking to him!

This convoy consisted of a small number of 9 wheeled armored vehicles. But they were all quite large, and the smallest one was at least one lap larger than the VN3 wheeled armored vehicle under Li Fei's command.

As the commander of the Second Regiment of the Dream Division, Li Fei certainly recognized the origin of these vehicles, because these armored vehicles were all directly under the special armored forces of His Majesty, and the performance of the vehicles was not at all comparable to the cars he mastered.

These vehicles, although they are still wheeled armored vehicles, are different from the four-wheel drive Little Lynx, that is, the VN3 wheeled armored vehicle, these vehicles are all larger six-wheeled armored vehicles, codenamed Big Lynx in the army!

The so-called Big Lynx is actually a foreign trade VN2 wheeled armored vehicle, which is actually an upgraded version of the Type 92 infantry fighting vehicle of the Red China.

Compared with the Type 92 infantry fighting vehicle, although this VN2 wheeled armored vehicle still uses the 6x6 drive method, the engine is replaced with a water-cooled diesel engine with stronger horsepower and more reliable performance, and a series of control systems such as chassis system, transmission system, operating system, and electrical system have been upgraded, and have been digitalized, automated and modularized.

It can be said that in addition to the appearance of the Type 92 infantry fighting vehicle, the other built-in, power system, control system, etc., have completely surpassed the Type 92 infantry fighting vehicle, and it is already a fairly advanced armored vehicle.

At that time, when the VN3 wheeled armored car was purchased, the VN2 wheeled armored car was also purchased, but because the price of this armored car was much more expensive than the VN3, Li Yongji did not purchase a large number of them, nor did he issue them to the company-level officers below, but separately formed a special armored battalion directly under the command, plus maintenance vehicles and the like, a total of 40 six-wheeled armored vehicles.

This special armored battalion is usually the treasure in Li Yongji's hands, and every time he acts with Li Yongji, he will not travel alone, so now there are nine cars at a time, which makes Li Fei quite surprised.

Under Li Fei's gaze, the convoy rumbled over quickly, and when it was still fifty meters away from the second regiment's station, it was intercepted by the sentry of the regiment headquarters, and the convoy stopped one after another, and then a young officer came down from the first car, who was only in his early twenties, but his rank was already a major.

After the young officer got out of the car, he quickly began to chat with the intercepted sentry, and after that, the sentry beckoned, summoned an assault car, and then asked people to drive straight to the rear with the young officer, and soon took him directly to Li Fei.

"Report!" After the officer got out of the car, he saluted Li Fei first, and then said loudly, "Hao Yonghui, commander of the third company of the first assault battalion of the special armored forces, is here to report to you!" ”

"The 1st Assault Battalion of the Special Armored Forces?" Li Fei was stunned and saluted in return, and then hurriedly pulled the other party to ask about the other party's intention, it doesn't matter what he heard, when he heard the other party's intention, his eyes immediately lit up, and he was about to flow out.

It turned out that the arrival of the third company of the first assault battalion of this special armored force was specially strengthened by Li Yongji for the use of the second regiment, in other words, in the future, the nine six-wheeled armored vehicles of this armored company will be under the command of Li Fei.

Although Li Fei had never commanded this special armored force before, as one of Li Yongji's favorite generals, he usually went to observe when he had nothing to do, so he still knew a lot about this armored force.

Take this third armored company as an example, there are a total of nine six-wheeled armored vehicles, four of which are mainstream assault combat vehicles, and the assault combat vehicles are equipped with a 30 mm caliber machine gun and a 7.62 mm caliber light machine gun, and their firepower and defense are not a little bit stronger than the VN3.

In addition to the four assault vehicles, this armored company also has two fire support vehicles, and this fire support vehicle is actually not a VN2 armored vehicle, but a PLL-05 120mm self-propelled mortar.

The chassis of the PLL-05 120mm self-propelled mortar is the Type 92 wheeled infantry fighting vehicle, that is, the chassis of the WZ551 infantry fighting vehicle, but with a reinforced suspension system and control system, in other words, it is basically the same as that used in the VN2 armored vehicle.

The engine used in the vehicle is the same as that of the VN2 armored car, but the weapon system is different, with a 120mm rifled mortar howitzer and a 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun added after reducing the number of personnel.

Among them, the most distinctive is undoubtedly the 120 mm rifled mortar howitzer. The gun is a fully enclosed turret that rotates 360 degrees and can fire a variety of ammunition such as mortar shells and grenades. At the same time, this gun also has an advanced fire control operating system, which can be loaded and fired by automatic, semi-automatic and purely manual means, which not only has a high automatic range, but also has a strong reliability.

The maximum range of high-explosive grenades fired by this type of artillery is 9.5 km, the maximum range of mortars is 8.5 km, and the rate of fire of grenades can reach up to 8 rounds per minute, and the rate of fire of mortar shells is up to 10 rounds per minute.

In addition to these, this car is also equipped with advanced equipment such as on-board computer fire control system, laser rangefinder, electronic compass, day and night optical aiming and monitoring system, which maintains high firepower and high mechanical power while also having strong accuracy.

Suffice it to say, this self-propelled armored vehicle equipped with a 120-mm mortar is no different from an assault gun, and with a VN2 armored vehicle on the same turf, it is a perfect match!

In the past, Li Fei had long coveted this army, but he knew that this was Li Yongji's personal guard battalion, so he never thought that he could command it, at least he never thought that he would command this army so quickly, but he didn't expect to give himself a company in the blink of an eye!

"Your Majesty is really a person who misses the old, and he actually gave me such a powerful army." After seeing these armored vehicles, Li Fei, who thought that Li Yongji had taken special care of him, burst into tears, and his heart was so excited that he didn't even listen carefully to the words of the major company commander, and he was moved by himself, "The master is so favored, Ah Fei and I can't repay it, in the future, I can only do my best, die, and go to the soup and fire...... Well, what's next? Yes, and more! (A pie-in-the-sky event, cool phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)