The Multinational Force's underestimation of the speed of the Allied counterattack led to the success of Xiao Guoxing's blitzkrieg with the Guards Corps on the south bank of the Trent River in Derbyshire.

In the days that followed, the 6th Guards Infantry Corps engaged in an artillery battle with the multinational forces on the north shore. American-made M101 105 mm howitzers, M114 155 mm howitzers, and even smaller numbers of M100 203 mm heavy guns were concentrated.

Since the pontoon bridge on the river had been completely blown up by Allied planes, and under the precise strikes of the opposing air force, it had become a luxury for the multinational forces to continue to storm and cross the river, so Eisenhower was determined to open a bloody road with artillery.

The cannon, known as the "king of war", is certainly infinitely powerful. Although the number of artillery pieces of the Guards Army did not suffer, it was really inferior to the American Army in terms of caliber. Even the M100 203 mm howitzer, known as the "siege artillery", was taken out, and the 155 mm caliber of the "Vulcan" self-propelled gun of the Jibu Army would definitely be completely exploded by the M100 type of the US army.

It's just that in this world, compared to firepower, when did the Han army suffer? The rapid development of the performance of various types of missiles has enabled the three armed forces of the Han Dynasty to have the ability to defend against strikes outside the circle.

After a week, the large-caliber artillery of the American army was almost completely mute. Eisenhower, who almost vomited blood, made it clear in a telegram to the mainland that if a balance of air supremacy could not be achieved, the possibility of a final victory in the military operations of the multinational forces on the island of Great Britain would be infinitely close to zero.

The telegram deeply shocked the military in the United States and the senior officials of the White House. If the multinational forces were not able to effectively resist the Allies in Britain, and if there was really such a big gap in the combat effectiveness of the two sides, as Alhower said, then no one would dare to have any optimistic hope for a defensive war on the North American mainland.

The ensuing series of battles has further disappointed the Americans, who are still hoping for luck.

The multinational forces on the south bank of Trent, under the command of Lieutenant General Scott, took Loveborough as a base and launched a continuous onslaught on the positions of the Guards Corps, but instead of breaking through the positions of the 4th Guards Mechanized Infantry Corps, they were crushed by the attack on the flanks by the "Tigers" cluster of the 2nd Guards Panzer Corps.

The 4th Armored Division, under the command of Major General Liu Gen, met the 12th Armored Division, the only formed armored unit of the US Army on the south bank, in Melton, a town with a population of only a few thousand.

After taking over the task of defending the opposite bank of Nottingham from the Guards Corps, the Chinese Expeditionary Force under the command of General Sun Liren took the town of Melton as a transit place and continuously increased troops to the south bank of the Trent River, but the US Lieutenant General Scott commanded the US 7th Army, but it was bloodied in front of the position of the 4th Guards Mechanized Infantry Army, and after seeing that it was hopeless to recapture the river crossing pier and withdraw to Derbyshire, the 12th Panzer Division was immediately dispatched to raid the town of Melton.

As long as Melton is taken, the US 7th Army and other troops can turn eastward, attack the positions of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, cross the river in the Norhan area, and withdraw to the north bank.

However, the loss of air supremacy on the battlefield is tantamount to losing the initiative in war. Even though Scott made many deceptive actions, the large-scale movement of the armored division still could not escape the tracking and detection of the "Little Dragon" reconnaissance plane. After the advent of the "Spinosaurus" second-generation early warning aircraft, the Royal Air Force's coordination and reconnaissance capabilities have increased exponentially, not to mention the visible actions of the armored division, which are billowing black smoke and dust.

After receiving the information from the AWACS, Admiral Xiao immediately ordered the 4th Guards Armored Division, which was responsible for penetrating the right flank, to rush to the small town of Melton to support the Huaxia Expeditionary Force.

The time when the two armoured armoured units arrived at Melton was less than two hours apart.

But in just two hours, the 27th Division of the Chinese Expeditionary Force stationed in Melton had already suffered heavy losses. The positions built around the woods were almost penetrated by American tanks, and several of the town's stockpiled distribution centers were shelled. The M4a3 Sherman's 76mm M1 long-barreled smoothbore gun not only has strong anti-tank capabilities, but also has a fairly good shelling range. After replacing it with HE high-explosive grenades, the US tanks carried out several rounds of shelling of the town before breaking through the positions of the Chinese Expeditionary Force.

The M4a3 was equipped with a Browning heavy machine gun, which also gave the expeditionary soldiers in the trench position a heavy lethal effect. The 27th Division of the Expeditionary Force used Han-standard night owl rocket launchers and 75 mm infantry guns to return fire on the US armored division.

Holding bundles of wooden-handled grenades or explosives bags, rushing towards the iron-clad behemoth with flesh and blood, such a thing was never done during the Chinese War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, whether it was the National/Army or the Eighth Route Army.

When the anti-tank firepower of this side encountered key blows, one by one, and the positions on the outskirts of the town were about to be breached, the expeditionary force once again sent a death squad, pretending to be a dead corpse and lying in the trench, and when the American tank drove by, it immediately pulled the bomb pack, and blasted it from the relatively weak bottom of the Sherman tank's armor.

In the 5,000-year history of this great country, there has never been a shortage of dead soldiers in every dynasty and generation of Chinese people. In ancient times, there was Jing Ke and wanted to leave, and now there are iron-blooded death squads. On the other side of the ocean, far away from their homeland, the Chinese Expeditionary Force once again staged a tragic scene of the Anti-Japanese War, allowing the Western barbarians to see the indomitable and fearless Chinese soldiers.

If there is a difference, it is that during the War of Resistance, after the soldiers shed blood and sacrificed, they were still inevitably defeated and retreated, and the great rivers and mountains were left to be humiliated by the Japanese invaders. And this time, the 27th Division of the Expeditionary Force dragged the American tanks on the positions with flesh and blood, and their insistence certainly would not be wasted. Then he rushed to the 4th Guards Panzer Division and kicked the fart/stock of the 12th Panzer Division of the US Army.

Unable to quickly defeat the 27th Division of the Expeditionary Force, the US 12th Panzer Division was forced to abandon the town of Melton and turn around to face the 4th Guards Panzer Division.

The duel between the Tiger tank and the M4 Sherman tank was once again staged after the end of the African campaign.

Different plots, different characters, but the ending is always the same.

Compared with the US armored forces in Africa, the M4A3 M1 long-barreled gun has been greatly enhanced in anti-tank performance. But unfortunately, in the face of the Tiger tank, which has been fully equipped with composite armor, the lethality of the Sherman tank is still limited.

Although the total number of tanks of the 4th Guards Armored Division has dropped to more than 300 after continuous fighting, the M4 Sherman of the 12th Armored Division of the US Army is almost besieging in a two-on-one situation. But the winner of the Iron Knight's head-on collision was still the "Tiger" in the end.

Division Commander Liu Gen concentrated the 300 tanks in his hands on the frontal charge, but nearly 200 "Cheetahs" with a small number of "Tigers" were arranged on the flanks. When the tanks on both sides were firing at each other, and even Liu Gen's No. 4001 tank was broken and had to lie down and shoot in place, the "Cheetah" group on the flank bravely launched a charge, of course, the main weapon of the Cheetah tracked armored personnel carrier was only two heavy machine guns, and there was no threat to the M4 Sherman tank.

If the US military can obtain aerial reconnaissance information in a timely manner, just like the Han army, then the 12th Armored Division can completely defeat the Han army's "tank group" that suddenly appeared in their belly as long as it detached 100 tanks. However, in the skies over Great Britain, the US military has completely lost its eyes in the air, and the roar of the engines and the armor-piercing shells fired by a few "Tigers" made the US commander firmly believe that another tank unit of the Han Army has arrived!

In ancient times, more than 100 cavalry branches of Zhang Yide of Changbanpo swept the ground, and the suspicious soldiers scared off Xia Hou's clan; Now Major General Liu Gen is chasing the US tanks for 20 miles with the "Cheetah", which can also be called a good story of war.

27 to 74, this is the ratio of tank losses on both sides in the Battle of Melton. With a loss rate of almost 1 to 3, the Tiger once again proved its supremacy among the world's medium tanks.

When the 12th Armored Division of the US Army found that it was only a group of armored vehicles that had no main guns at all, it immediately returned to Melton the next day, intending to compete with the 4th Guards Armored Division again.

It's just that after a classic tank battle in which less fights more, although Xiao Guoxing praised Liu Gen's tactical ability, he could never bear the reality that the Guards would suffer in the number of tanks.

"Fight tanks? Is there anything in this world that can scare our Han Guards? ”

With a wave of his hand, the 6th Guards Armored Division rushed to help. But the news that Admiral Xiao, who had been waiting for the results of the second Melton tank battle, was that the 12th armor of the US army had not come to Melton at all. The two tank divisions of the Guards Army, which were waiting in formation, did not see the shadow of the American tanks at all.

Subsequently, the 21st Guards Army Aviation Division and the 24th Guards Army Aviation Division flew to the south bank of the Trent River in Derbyshire and reported to the corps commander requesting to return to the team. Admiral Xiao knew that on the way here, these boys easily solved the 12th Armored Division of the US Army!

"Damn, two army aviation divisions, nearly 600 Sea Holly helicopter gunships, how can the remaining hundreds of tanks of the US armored division be enough to fight?"

Two paratrooper divisions of the 7th and 8th Airborne Corps of the Guards Corps suffered heavy losses in the Joffel blockade with heavy casualties. Jiang Yunzhi immediately arranged for the 20th and 22nd Airborne Divisions of the Guards to be withdrawn to Spain for repairs, but the Army Aviation Divisions of the two Airborne Corps, because of the shortage of ships in the early days of Operation "Overlord", had been on standby in Spain, and it was only recently that they were transported to Britain by tanker-converted transport ships.

After Xiao Guoxing commanded the three armies of the Guards Corps to easily complete the intersperse, and cut off the return route of the American troops who crossed the river and left them on the south bank, the annihilation of this force of more than 200,000 American troops was almost a foregone conclusion, but Jiang Yunzhi certainly would not be satisfied with this.

200,000 people, although it can also be called a great victory. But for the multinational force on the island of Great Britain, which has a total of more than 1 million people, it is not enough to talk about breaking the bones. Taking this opportunity, it was not delusional to quickly advance to the north bank of the Trent River, or even to the north of Hadrian's Wall (the dividing line between Britain and the Soviet Union), with the strength of the Allied forces.

When the two army divisions landed in England, Jiang Shuai's confidence was strengthened. These air cavalry are still incomprehensible to the US-led multinational forces. In the Jufra Desert, the 102nd Air Cavalry Division of the Coast Corps suffered a great loss from Eisenhower. Those shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles towed in small trucks caused great trouble for the WZ-20 Falcon helicopter gunships of the Coast Corps, and even indirectly contributed to the defeat of the Battle of Jufra.

However, in Jiang Shuai's view, there was a big misunderstanding about the use of "air cavalry" in ink painting in that battle. Before the advent of MANPADS, helicopter gunships were an unsolvable problem for multinational forces. Therefore, the "Falcon" group of the Coast Corps almost unscrupulously strikes at the armored forces of the multinational forces at the height of the treetops, and even attacks the opposing infantry.

However, the armor of a helicopter gunship cannot be compared with that of a tank after all. Even if it is a tank, isn't it often penetrated by various anti-tank weapons? The strengths and weaknesses of helicopter gunships are equally prominent.

Exposing a fleet of gunships to the enemy alone is absolutely underestimating and irresponsible.

The role of helicopter gunships is by no means an assault force, but a raid. At the end of the ground battle, a sudden air strike disrupts the enemy's deployment and destroys the enemy's determination to resist.

In short, in modern warfare, the greatest significance of the existence of expensive helicopter gunships is to decapitate and suddenly strike at the most valuable strategic targets.

Otherwise, if in the Jufra Desert, someone would be easily repelled at the cost of exchanging a pickup truck for a helicopter, and that kind of loss would be unbearable for any country.

In fact, in this era, among all the countries in the world, only the Han Empire had the ability to form an army aviation force of such a size. Without the support of the Red Alert base, what country could have invested astronomical sums of money and resources to build such a large number of helicopter gunships?

Putting aside technical barriers and other problems, the cost of a WZ-20 Falcon is equivalent to the cost of ten tanks, and it is not much cheaper than the main fixed-wing fighters of other countries, such as the German "Black Knight" and the American triangular javelin.

Build thousands of helicopters with money that can build several wings of advanced jet fighters? No one as crazy as a mustache can do such a crazy thing.

There is only Dahan, only Zhong Yi, and only the Red Police base.

Building fighter planes, armed helicopters, and even aircraft carriers and missiles is, in Zhong Yi's view, nothing more than a click of a finger. After owning a huge colonial area, Zhong Yi has not worried about the availability of funds for the base for a long time. Of course, at the beginning of the crossing, the days of counting funds with fingers crossed are long gone. Wang Yizhe brought back a shipload of gem ore in South Africa and threw it into the refinery, which could be exchanged for a marshal-class aircraft carrier or a squadron of Raptors; The jade mines that were airlifted back from Myanmar were all used by His Majesty to build the breakwater of Lanfei Lake in Weiyang Palace.

This made the imperial dignitaries who were qualified to appear on the shore of Lanfei Lake squat on the shore and observe the round stones that were neatly stacked into piles. When there is a happy event in the palace and the royal family gives a reward, these people don't want anything, and everyone goes to the lake to take a stone home. Of course, happy or sad, after taking it back, some can take out a large piece of jadeite of various colors, carve a few pieces for their daughter-in-law and lover, and even more fortunate people, get a large piece, simply invite a Chinese jade master at a high price, and carve it into an heirloom. But if you are unlucky, you will bring back a stone, and if you cut it with grinding, the stone will still be a stone, but it will change from a large stone to a piece of stone.

Also moved back from Lanfei Lake, a few happy and a few sad, cut out a good jade, daughter-in-law and lovers are happy, it doesn't matter if you can't take it out, continue to work hard, and when Your Majesty is happy, maybe there will be a chance to move another piece again. Many people are obsessed with going to the lake when they have nothing to do, making a count of the stones in the photo, waiting for the opportunity to move home, and sometimes they have nothing to do together to exchange and discuss, and everyone also gives this thing a name - "gambling stone".

Zhong Yi smiled after hearing this, as a traverser, of course he understood the value of these Burmese jades, but in his opinion, this thing was purely a plaything. No matter how beautiful the jade is, you can't eat and drink! Throwing it into a refinery can exchange some money, but the problem is that the current empire simply doesn't lack this thing. Monopolizing jade in the empire is also of great benefit to the economic development of the empire in the future. But all good things can't stay in the royal family, for these heroes who have sweated and even shed blood and sacrificed for the empire, they don't know how to save a few heirlooms, and Your Majesty is of course happy to do it.

However, the wind of obscenity cannot rise, and for those who take out the jade and take it to coax the little lover, the National Security Bureau will record them one by one, and regularly make small books and transfer them to His Majesty.

Therefore, for a period of time, before the meeting of the Supreme Command in the Weiqing Pavilion, all the dignitaries would take out a small notebook and read it carefully with wide eyes. However, unlike the three fat men who went down to inspect and everyone took out small notebooks to scribble, these people were looking for their own names in the report of the Discipline Department of the National Security Bureau. Those who have been admitted to the department three times in a row will be invited to the National Security Bureau for tea and accept a personal conversation with Director Leng.

Its content is not limited to small unspoken things such as coaxing a little lover with jade, corruption, dereliction of duty, and even a series of inaction and a series of names, once you enter the sight of the National Security Bureau's Discipline Department and are invited to tea, then ...... It's really "hehe".

This Discipline Department, which is subordinate to the National Security Bureau, is of course not qualified to invite everyone from the Supreme Command to drink tea, but Director Leng is notoriously fearless in this regard, and even His Majesty's night meeting Monroe has been on the small book circulated within the Command, let alone others?

Marshal Yunjiu, who is merry by nature and has suffered many times, once crawled into Jiang Yunzhi's arms at a plenary meeting of the General Headquarters, "Old/Jiang, you hurry up and defeat the Americans, the emperor needs you, and we all need you!" ”

Just when Jiang Shuai felt the chrysanthemum cold and wanted to pull out his legs and escape from Wei Qing Pavilion, His Majesty also laughed, "Yun Zhi, you can think about this matter!" Otherwise, I'll give you special approval, and you can transfer Director Leng to the front line! ”

"No way!" When he heard that the Allied General Headquarters on the European front was going to set up an anti-corruption bureau for war materials, thoroughly investigate the cases of some generals using war materials to enrich their own pockets, and transfer Major General Leng Yun of the National Security Bureau to the post of director of the "War Counter Bureau" and promote him to the rank of lieutenant general.

Such an obvious act of rising and falling, announcing personal vendettas, occurs in an empire where the status of women is gradually improving, and the absolute uncle can bear it, and the aunt can't bear it.

"The harem is not allowed to interfere in politics! This is an iron law. Yingxue, you can't disobey either! "Your Majesty righteously and awe-inspiringly rejected Director Qin's improper act of meddling in the appointment of officers. But when Leng Yun, who came to Jinhua Hall later, changed her usual image of a cold-faced queen, she sweetly called out to her brother-in-law twice, "I still have some beautiful scenery photos, can I show them to Sister Xue?" ”

Zhong Yi immediately got up and reprimanded sternly, "Leng Yun, you are in a high position and shoulder the heavy responsibility of the country, how can you take on the heavy responsibility of being the 'director of the war rebellion'?" It's really a shame to trust me. Hmph, I have decided to cancel your order to serve outside the territory and continue to think about the national security situation...... And those photos of the scenery, which will be handed over to the office of the High Command tomorrow. ”

Leng Yun smiled, His Majesty was angry, "You can't miss a photo, if you don't do your job properly in the future, you will ......"

"What?" Qin Yingxue's beautiful eyes smiled like a crescent moon, walked in, and took advantage of the situation to hold Zhong Yi's left arm with one hand, and gently supported His Majesty's waist with the other.

"Well, I still have to go to Wei Qingge to read the battle report on the front line, Jiang Yunzhi's battle is really not very good, even a woman...... Even more than a million Americans have not been disciplined until now! ”

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