Chapter 707: Crossing the Snake River (Part II)
The encounter was fought without suspense, and the Chinese army relied on the superiority of the chariot to quickly eliminate more than 100 M4 tanks of the Boston Army, and the remaining light armored weapons such as Wildcat chariot destroyers and armored vehicles were even more unrivaled.
Gao Quanfei did not give the other party the slightest chance to make up for the loopholes, and led the armored troops to move forward quickly, breaking the troops of the two Boston armies in one fell swoop, and then the three paratrooper corps were like a sharp knife, stabbing into the Boston people's defense along the river.
The depth of the defense line along the river was only a dozen kilometers, and the chariots of the paratrooper army were racing wildly all the way, and soon rushed out of a passage in the middle of the position.
With heavy artillery bombardment in front and chariots in the back, the weak-willed Boston garrison was quickly routed, and the three paratrooper corps occupied a two-kilometer-wide stretch of the riverbank, expelling all the Bostonians here.
Three red signal flares rose into the sky, which was a signal that the assault was going well, and Su Zhizhen, who had been watching from the other side, immediately ordered the engineering troops to start building a pontoon bridge. The Snake River is not wide, only more than 100 meters at its narrowest point and only 400 meters at its widest point.
The paratroopers on the other side lit two bonfires to point out the direction for the engineers, and between the two bonfires were the areas controlled by the Chinese army. The sappers jumped into the river, connected the bridges in sections, and fixed them with wooden stakes in the shallow water, and tied them with steel cables in the deep water, and a solid pontoon bridge was quickly built.
Seeing that the pontoon bridge was built, the infantry who had been waiting for a long time immediately stepped on the pontoon bridge and rushed towards the opposite bank, at this time the three paratrooper corps of the Chinese army were holding their positions, bearing the increasingly fierce counterattack of the Boston army. After the area on the riverbank was occupied by paratroopers rushing from behind, Devers knew that he was in danger, and once the opponent's large force rushed across the river, his troops would quickly collapse, so Devers hurriedly mobilized nearby troops and charged the paratroopers at all costs, hoping to eliminate the opponent and regain control of the riverbank.
The Boston army was numerous, and although the paratrooper unit had more than 100 combat vehicles to suppress the formation, it did not have the mass destruction ability of heavy suppressive firepower, and in the face of the Boston army, which was several times larger than their own, they could only shoot at the fastest speed and desperately stop the opponent's attack. More than 100 Grizzly 3 vehicles rushed to the front, occasionally rushing through the enemy group for a while, relieving the pressure on the infantry.
The pontoon bridge was quickly erected, and the infantry of the brigade quickly crossed the pontoon bridge and replenished the paratrooper blocking force. The troops were greatly strengthened, and the paratrooper units immediately launched a counter-charge, expanding the area of control again, and at the same time, the heavy artillery units of the Chinese army on the other side of the river also opened fire one after another, bombarding the follow-up troops in Boston.
The temporary pontoon bridge does not have a strong load-bearing capacity, and it cannot pass through Grizzly 3 tanks, or even self-propelled guns equipped with large-caliber guns, so in addition to infantry, Su Zhizhen can only replenish some armored vehicles and other light armored units on the opposite bank.
The inability of heavy armor to cross the river does not mean that the troops on the other side of the river cannot be replenished with heavy armored units. When the battle between the two sides was raging, from the flank of the Boston army, a number of troops suddenly launched an attack, and they launched an attack led by a large number of Grizzly 3 vehicles, which caught the Boston people by surprise.
After they took full control of the city, the airborne Behemoth 3 transport plane used the military airfield on the outskirts of the city to transport a large amount of heavy equipment and the support of the three armies to the city.
The process of transporting the troops was relatively slow, and even with a large number of Behemoth 3 and Behemoth 2 transport planes shuttling back and forth, the transportation of troops lasted almost two hours, so it was only at this point that they arrived at the battlefield near the river bank.
The addition of the airborne troops was the last straw that broke the camel's back, and the Boston recruits, who were already weak-willed, no longer had the courage to continue fighting in the face of enemy troops rushing up from both directions, and they chose to flee one after another, leaving their backs to the enemy. The Chinese army pursued and killed a large number of Boston routs on the way to escape.
Devos also fled, which was not his intention, but after the collapse of the army, it was useless for him to stay any longer, so he had no choice but to retreat. With his own guards, Devers fled all the way east.
He originally wanted to enter Boisi, and after obtaining the reinforcement of the local garrison, he could defend the city to the death, but what he never expected was that as soon as he arrived near the suburbs, he was violently attacked by the Chinese army left behind, and at this time he knew that the city in the original rear was also occupied.
Devers did not dare to stop all the way, and ran wildly to the east, until he retreated to Helena City on the banks of the Missouri River a hundred kilometers away, and by this time there were less than 10,000 troops left on his side, and Devers's rout gave up a large area of land west of the Missouri River.
After the engineer unit reconstructed a dozen pontoon bridges with enough heavily armored troops to pass through, Su Zhizhen's troops advanced more than 500 kilometers in ten days without hindrance, and occupied more than one-fifth of the northern territory of the Boston Empire. Together with the previously occupied areas, the Chinese Army's northern forces had controlled more than a quarter of the northern part of the Boston Empire, reaching an area of more than half a million square kilometers in six states.
The rapid progress of Su Zhizhen's troops left the Boston top brass unprepared. Originally, in Marshal Pershing's consideration, Su Zhizhen's troops needed to pass through a large number of rivers to attack eastward, and as long as his side used a small number of troops to resist the river and blow up the main bridges before retreating, he could seriously delay the pace of the opponent's attack and buy enough time for the main force in the direction of San Diego Harbor.
In Pershing's plan, as long as the main force of the Chinese army in the direction of San Diego Harbor was eliminated, the Chinese army in the north could be flanked by the victorious division, and when these two forces were eliminated, the Chinese Empire would have no mobile troops capable of landing and fighting. If the Axis forces on the Western Continental Front have any more gains, the Boston Empire can take the initiative in the next peace talks and let the Chinese Empire concede more benefits, which is also the best outcome he can think of.
As for the complete defeat of the Chinese Empire, after such a long period of time, Pershing had roughly understood the huge war energy and potential of the Chinese Empire, and he no longer had any extravagant hopes for this.
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