Chapter 683: Sending troops to support

Marshal Pershing was well aware of the purpose of this apparently attention-grabbing move of the St. Martin Empire, so he remained unmoved, allowing the army of the Kingdom of Moss to support but not to the rescue.

In the face of tremendous military pressure, the Moss Kingdom was a little overwhelmed, so they sent a representative to cry to Prime Minister Bauer, claiming that if the Boston Empire did not send reinforcements, they would have to surrender like the Viking Kingdom.

The loss of the Vikings and the Grand Duchy of Gothenburg had deeply pricked the Boston government, and if the Moss Kingdom followed in the footsteps of the two countries, it would be a great blow to the morale of the Axis members, a situation that Washington III would not allow. From a military point of view, Marshal Pershing could safely wait for the Chinese Empire to strike first, but the Boston government could not help but estimate the political implications, so they could not sit still.

Prime Minister Bauer asked Marshal Pershing to send the main army three times in a row to stabilize the war situation in the Moss Kingdom and prevent the war from spreading to the Boston Empire, but Marshal Pershing pushed back on the grounds that he would strengthen the defense of the west coast and had no extra troops.

But when the NATO coalition forces occupied a large part of the territory of the Kingdom of Moss, and the city of Moss had become an isolated city, Prime Minister Bauer could not sit still, and this time, in the name of Washington III, gave a strict order to Marshal Pershing for the fourth time. Prime Minister Bauer was not an autocratic man, and he explained to Pershing that this was not a purely military issue, but also a considerable political and economic problem.

The first is that if the countries in the Axis bloc that are so close to the Boston Empire are defeated and surrender first, it will cause instability in the entire alliance, and the position of the Boston Empire in the Axis bloc will plummet, and all countries will have doubts about the victory of the Axis Bloc, which is not conducive to the war on the battlefield on the Western Continent, which is quite tight.

In addition, the oil in the territory of the Moss Kingdom supports half of the consumption of the Axis group, and once the entire territory of the Moss Kingdom is occupied, the Axis army is prone to a state of fuel shortage, which is a very serious problem for completely mechanized modern warfare. Therefore, he hoped that the Ministry of Defense would be able to send enough troops, at least to control enough oil-producing areas in the Moss Kingdom, so as to ensure the smooth progress of the war on the Western Continent.

Seeing this earnest order, Marshal Pershing sighed, he didn't know about these problems, but after NATO deliberately weakened his coastal defense forces, I am afraid that what followed would be a large-scale landing operation of the Chinese Empire.

The Chinese Empire This is a naked conspiracy, let yourself know that it is a trap, and you can only jump into it, thinking of this, Marshal Pershing couldn't help but sigh. Now Pershing can only accept Prime Minister Bauer's suggestion and announce that he agrees to transfer troops into the Kingdom of Moss to fight, at least he cannot give the army of St. Martin the opportunity to land on the Kingdom of Moss from the flank and cut off contact with the Boston Empire.

Originally, Marshal Pershing had deployed sufficient defensive forces in all areas of the west coast that could be landed, and although these were poorly trained recruits, they could still inflict heavy casualties on enemy troops attempting to carry out amphibious landings by relying on the geographical advantages of the coast. Moreover, in the cities of the second line, Marshal Pershing also deployed a large number of mobile troops, so that the front is light and the rear is heavy, which can ensure that the defense system against the amphibious landing is full of flexibility, and any defense line in a crisis will have enough new troops to replenish it.

Now the war situation in the Moss Kingdom is tight, so Marshal Pershing has to draw a large number of troops from the mobile forces and enter the Moss Kingdom to fight, so that the second-line troops in the rear are much worse to support the beachhead defense troops. The lack of mobile forces could only strengthen the first-line forces, so Pershing had to strengthen a large number of second-line troops into coastal positions, which in turn further weakened the mobile forces of the rear reserves.

Three million Boston recruits formed three army groups and entered the territory of the Moss kingdom to fight, which greatly strengthened the strength of the Moss government army. Due to the narrow size of the kingdom of Moss, millions of troops could not be fully deployed, but the Boston army took echelon attacks and entered the battlefield in turns, and they had army equipment that was not weaker than that of the St. Martin Empire, as well as superior air power.

After the Boston army entered the territory of the Moss Kingdom, it progressed quite smoothly, and with the support of superior forces, especially the air force, they quickly recaptured many areas in the northern part of the kingdom. In the event that the army could not be fully deployed, the strength of the air force was very advantageous, and a month after the Imperial Air Force of St. Martin ravaged the kingdom of Moss, the Boston Air Force fought against it for air supremacy.

The fighter pilots of the St. Martin Empire are of high quality, and they simply look down on the air force units of the Boston Imperial Reserve, but the Golden Eagle 4A fighters they fly are already lagging behind the F86 fighters equipped by the Boston Empire in terms of performance, and they feel uncomfortable as soon as they engage the opponent's fighters.

The F86 is a bit faster, especially in dives, and can even exceed the speed of sound. Such a performance advantage completely suppressed the Golden Eagle 4A fighter. The pilots of the San Martin Empire have a flying habit, because they like to rely on the dive performance of the Golden Eagle 4A fighter very much, and they always take advantage of this advantage to rely on dive to pursue or get rid of, but when they encounter the F86 fighter for the first time, they immediately suffer.

The F86 fighter had a faster dive, and when the St. Martin pilots were used to diving away after being bitten off, they were surprised to find that the other side was actually faster than themselves. After being shot down several times in such a situation, they realized that the jet fighter they considered an artifact was actually lagging behind.

After all, the pilots of the St. Martin Empire were experienced, and after suffering a small loss, they immediately stabilized their positions and relied on the flexibility of the two-plane formation to launch an offensive battle with the other side. Relying on more exquisite skills, the two sides barely reached a draw, losing nearly thirty planes each and retreating.

Although it was a tie, but Boston people are novices after all, given the time the St. Martin Air Force will certainly not be an opponent, and with the strong industrial capacity of the Boston Empire, the monthly output of F86 fighters has been as high as more than 500 units, and a large number of new pilots continue to leave the aviation school, with a huge number of aircraft, how is the St. Martin Empire can be compared.

Boston pilots are all novices who fly no more than two hundred hours, while the Imperial Air Force of St. Martin is a veteran of more than two thousand hours. With such a one-to-one attrition, the St. Martin Empire couldn't withstand it in the first place, and they had to choose to temporarily withdraw from the battlefield and use the army's anti-aircraft guns to deal with more and more bombers in the Boston Empire.