First, in Li Youming's eyes, the movement of the US troops on the opposite side, the outflanking tactics of the two wings completely failed.

A total of 45 US tanks from three directions were paralyzed on the opposite side of the road, and not a single US tank was able to climb to the position of the road.

When the last tank of the US army was destroyed, the US infantry that followed the tank also lost at least 200 people, and the remaining US soldiers all lay on the ground and did not dare to make any other moves.

This small highway has become a graveyard for US tanks, with black smoke from the wreckage of the tank and bloody corpses everywhere, as if resisting.

Li Youming seemed to be able to hear the American soldiers who were still alive not far away, praying to God incessantly.

In less than five hours of fighting, the five tanks led by Li Youming almost disabled a US armored regiment, made the US infantry pay a lot of price, and also destroyed an artillery regiment of the US armored division.

However, this is only the beginning, Li Youming, who has successfully destroyed the enemy's artillery, will not continue to choose to retreat, and the infantry lurking in the rear has already itched his hands.

"Advance, mechanized infantry company, follow the attack." Li Youming ordered loudly.

A mechanized infantry company lurking behind the tank quickly emerged from the hidden foxhole, the tank broke out of the camouflage net, and the infantry followed the tank and launched an attack on the other side of the road.

These US soldiers, who had already lost their courage, did not put up a decent resistance at all, and most of the US soldiers chose to throw down their weapons and raise their hands.

No one despised them, and in the attack just now, everyone's courage had already been destroyed.

He simply captured the enemy in front of him, but Li Youming knew that the war had just begun.

This was only five hours before the start of the general offensive, and there was still a long battle to continue.

In fact, the five tanks led by Li Youming have been fighting continuously for more than eight hours.

"All tanks, check the fuel for all."

"There's still about half the way to go."

The other four tanks all heard their voices, and half of the fuel was simply not enough for a high-intensity battle.

"Get into the woods before, let the infantry cover, refuel spare, and we won't have fuel and ammunition until five hours later."

When Li Youming said this, he paused and continued: "After the fuel is added, we will attack immediately." ”

As soon as he heard Li Youming's voice, the crew immediately cheered.

"Following Chief Li, it must be very exciting. Love, there is a war. ”

"That's right, Lao Li is a student of the commander, the ace of our armored division, it must be very cool to follow along."

"I just like Lao Li's violent temper, just do it."

Li Youming ignored the various voices in the tank crew, took out the map and pounced on the turret, looked at the enemy situation above, and connected to the division headquarters and began to update the map enemy position.

The entire armored division was engaged in battle with the enemy, and what was in front of Li Youming was not one or two enemies, but a complete armored corps of the US army, with tens of thousands of troops and more than 1,000 tanks.

Behind Li Youming, there is also the strength of an armored group army, and the two sides are about to start a decisive battle, and Li Youming's position is the sharp knife position of the entire group army.

In the previous battle, Li Youming played a beautiful record.

First set up an ambush in the woods, killed the enemy's tank vanguard, then retreated, and then completely annihilated the enemy's follow-up main tank force.

After the two battles, the tank group commanded by Li Youming achieved very brilliant results, which also made the US armored division on the opposite side think that it had encountered a large-scale main force of the enemy, and for a while, it did not dare to move.

When the results of the battle were reported to the General Headquarters, the reports of the battle from various units from all directions were gathered in the hands of Eisenhower.

At the beginning of the war, Eisenhower thought that he had found the enemy's main forces, and all of them attacked, forcing the enemy's main forces to start a decisive battle.

Eisenhower thought that with the huge force in his hands, he would be able to decide the outcome of a war and completely destroy the enemy in Panama.

However, after a day of fierce fighting, on the front-line battlefield, the battle report fell like snowflakes, and the expected quick end of the battle did not appear, but the battle became more and more intense.

Especially at night, taking advantage of the enemy's inability to quickly dispatch air forces on a large scale, the US military launched many full-scale attacks, but there were no obvious results.

In front of the U.S. military, the expected breakthrough is still standing as strong as a rock in front of the U.S. military.

By the time of the second day, on Eisenhower's headquarters map, what was presented to everyone was that the enemy's more and more regular defenses and more and more solid defense lines also made everyone in the headquarters feel more and more afraid.

The staggered defensive front, with its protruding points and concave lines, is embedded in the battlefield like a cog, and is advancing towards the attacking forces of the American army.

It was only then that Eisenhower truly felt that this was a conspiracy of the enemy.

And in the army headquarters of the Southern Theater, everyone did not dare to take a breather, because the enemy was encircling the iron wall.

Even if he didn't want to admit it, Eisenhower saw the situation clearly, and what was in front of him was not an inner struggle, nor a reluctance to take the area that had already been captured, but how to save the troops that had already been surrounded.

He was willing to admit his defeat, because he was even more afraid of the tragedy of the death of hundreds of thousands of the main forces of the American army.

You must know that the hundreds of thousands of troops in Eisenhower's hands are most of the main forces of the US Army at the moment, and once they are all annihilated, there will be not many troops left in the United States that can be called the main force.

To put it mildly, if this force is completely annihilated, it is not a question of whether the United States can recover Panama, but whether the United States can defend the country.

If the enemy has the ability to completely annihilate these hundreds of thousands of troops, he will be able to advance to Mexico, and then the U.S. Army will not have all the elite troops to use for home defense.

Although Eisenhower was very conceited, he also understood the situation at the moment, and reported to Roosevelt overnight.

He did not dare to report directly to his superior, Marshall, the supreme commander of the Army, because he knew Marshall's temper too well.

Fortunately, Roosevelt was not an ordinary person, and he knew that Eisenhower was not to be held responsible, but how to change the outcome of the battle.

After all, Eisenhower's hands had hundreds of thousands of troops, and it was not said that they could be eliminated if they were eliminated.

That night, when the general offensive of the Red Guard Corps was launched, a large number of troops and weapons and equipment in the United States were also frantically transported to Mexico.

There is no doubt that the United States must rescue these hundreds of thousands of troops.

All the soldiers who had been trained for more than three months hurriedly went to the battlefield.

Roosevelt hurried to Capitol Hill the next morning and signed an emergency order for the nation's defense.

At this moment, Roosevelt also saw that the enemy was not simply attacking Panama and wanted to control the Panama Canal.

The real target is the mainland of the United States, and it has a huge military force capable of encircling the main force of hundreds of thousands of American troops, but it is only to control Panama.

The United States must prepare for the defense of its homeland, and this will be the first time since independence that the United States will be invaded by an enemy from outside the Americas.

And Eisenhower, who was on the front, received a clear reply from Roosevelt, and also stabilized his mind, after all, he was not incapable at all, and after receiving an accurate reply from the country, he also gave the order for the front-line troops to continue to maintain the offensive.

It's February, and the weather in Panama isn't too hot, but it's not cool at all.

On the front-line battlefield, on the artillery position of the Red Guard Corps, it is called a hot one.

The shirtless sturdy man pushed the cannonball into the cannon chamber with the cannonball, and the stacked charge was also pushed into the cannon chamber, and the cannon bolt was quickly closed, and the whole process was completed in one go, and everyone cooperated closely.

The flag officer next to him waved the red signal flag in his hand, and dozens of 155mm howitzers on the position let out an angry roar at the same time.

The artillery structure of the Red Guard Corps is clearly different from that of other countries, and it has a complete artillery system at all levels.

At the division or corps level, the direct support firepower is large-caliber heavy artillery, but in the establishment, there are also a large number of small-caliber artillery, from 76 mm guns, self-propelled guns, as well as mortars and rocket launchers equipped by infantry, and the firepower connection is very perfect.

And if you count rocket artillery, the firepower and superiority of the Red Guard Corps in artillery can stabilize any country in the world.

I am afraid that only the later Soviet Army artillery can compete with the Red Guard artillery unit.

After all, the artillery units of the late Soviet Union were frightening in scale and had a lot of experience in artillery strikes, so they were not so useless.

As for the German artillery, in fact, there were many shortcomings, and if you want to make a comparison, on the whole, the capabilities of the German artillery units, in fact, were on a comparable level with the Japanese artillery.

The difference between the two was that the Japanese small-caliber artillery was very well developed, but it lacked heavy artillery.

And Germany has heavy artillery, but small-caliber direct support artillery is a shortcoming.

Especially when Germany was on the battlefield of the Soviet Union, when the German artillery faced the Soviet artillery, the shortcomings were instantly exposed.

If it weren't for the fact that Germany had captured a large number of French artillery and Polish artillery, it would not have been able to compete with Soviet artillery at all, and Germany would basically not be at a disadvantage with the help of a large number of captured artillery.

Compared with the perfect artillery system of the Red Guard Corps from the very beginning, and the new artillery tactics that various countries began to explore on the European battlefield, the American artillery can only be regarded as a staggering and crawling state, and has not even learned to walk.

The Red Alert ran to that position, and the salvo of artillery fire flew to the battlefield in the distance, and as for the effect of the shelling, the artillerymen naturally did not know.

They just repeated their movements, reloading and completing the shelling.

Naturally, someone set the parameters and adjusted the angle of the shelling.

Next to the artillery, there were signal soldiers who adjusted their firing according to the forward observation posts, and the paper was full of lines of shelling and enemy positions and distances.

Each time a new parameter is acquired, the artillery commander re-orders the artillery to adjust.

The busy artillery positions are more lively than anywhere else, all kinds of sounds are constant, the flags are flying, and sometimes the high-intensity artillery bombardment is down, and everyone can lie down tired.

The artillery shells that flew over the mountains and over the rivers fell intensively on the US positions, and a large number of US barracks and vehicles were actually destroyed not by the bombing by the air force, but by the hands of these artillerymen.

It has been more than two days since the general offensive was launched, and 32 hours after the initial offensive of the US troops, the entire line has turned to the defensive, and a large number of trenches have been erected to defend on the spot.

The attack of the Red Guard Corps slowed down as a result.

However, in the past 32 hours, the US military has already paid an unprecedented price in casualties, and of the more than 400,000 US Army troops, there are less than 250,000 troops left that can defend.

This is a rather terrible casualty figure, and of course, most of the American soldiers have become prisoners.

The erosion of occupation forced Eisenhower to put all his troops on the defensive.

This war was fought more aggrieved than the war in the Philippines, and it was fought so helplessly.

At this moment, on the front-line battlefield, the US troops, who had built trench defenses on the spot, could only hide in trenches and foxholes and withstand the blows of artillery.

The battlefield is full of craters and corpses, and the accurate shells make people's scalps tingle.

On the opposite side of the US frontline defense, in a forward observation post camouflaged with planks and turf, looking at the shelling scene in the distance, he excitedly said to the radio: "Hit the target, it is very beautiful, the extended shooting is almost 30 meters, and the direction and position remain the same." ”

Without enough time to build a position, the U.S. Army suffered heavy losses in the face of the heavy artillery cluster of the Red Guard.

The haphazardly constructed defensive positions simply could not withstand the blows of heavy artillery, not to mention that the US military did not have enough time to improve the defense of the position.

At the forefront of the US defense, the Red Alert soldiers preparing for the attack were in high spirits, smoking cigarettes and enjoying the feast of artillery fire in the distance.

Beside the soldiers, tanks and infantry vehicles were being refueled, and many of the troops preparing to participate in the attack had just come from the line of fire, and their faces were covered with gunsmoke.

Arriving at the front line of the offensive, gobbling up food and drinks, and then it was a matter of gaining time to rest, check weapons and equipment, replenish ammunition.

After three hours of shelling, a small town controlled by the US military had already been engulfed in flames, and the signal flares for the attack were lifted into the air and the tanks roared.

After resting, the soldiers quickly got up, followed behind the tank, and boarded the infantry fighting vehicle.

The offensive began again, and the American soldiers on the defensive line, most of them, were still huddled in their trenches, praying to God.

An American soldier who was clearly a veteran oil, leaning back in the trench, smoking a cigarette and his eyes full of confusion.

The war is more difficult than imagined, it is only a few days, the situation is changing rapidly, and it is not human power to control and reverse.