The vast plains of Texas have long been synonymous with abundance and beauty, with magnificent plains, abundant crops, and plenty of pastures to feed the entire United States.

The fighting has destroyed almost everything here, with smoke-filled wreckage, fleeing trucks, refugees stranded on both sides of the road, and routed American troops.

From time to time, you can see warplanes flying across the sky overhead, and the roar of explosions and the sound of fighting guns can often be heard in the distance.

No one launched an attack on such a target of little value, and even if the target was very obvious on the congested highway, both the combat planes in the sky and the reconnaissance planes turned a blind eye to these targets on the highway.

There is no value in attacking, even if there are many defeated American soldiers in the crowd, the Red Guard Corps has no intention of attacking.

The main force of the expeditionary corps in Latin America was divided into three front armies and launched an attack on the American mainland from Mexican territory.

The Eastern Front, which entered from Texas, engaged the American forces on the plains.

The Central Front, which entered from New Mexico, attacked Arizona.

Two months after the full-scale capture of Mexico, a full-scale assault on the American mainland began.

The three front armies have a total strength of 1.5 million troops, and in front of them are more than five million US troops.

Attacking an enemy three times their size, the Red Alert Expeditionary Corps is still full of confidence.

In their words, the enemies in front of them were all boy scouts, and they were generally only recruits who had received a month or two of military training, and they had not even held their guns steadily.

However, the vast Texas plain is also a great challenge for the Red Guard, that is, the dilution of the force is overstretched.

The offensive that began three days ago has now gone very smoothly, and the expeditionary corps has quickly taken control of most of Texas in a blitzkrieg and captured hundreds of thousands of American troops.

However, the 500,000 troops of the Eastern Front were also scattered across the vast plains of Texas.

Often, a battalion has to divide its troops several times, and basically each company fights dozens of kilometers apart, especially on the offensive front, and the Red Guard Corps does not currently have a heavy force assembled together.

On Route 79 in Texas, three Rhino tanks were on the road, accompanied by dozens of infantrymen, plus two infantry fighting vehicles.

Originally a battalion of heavy tanks, dozens of Rhino tanks, various armored vehicles and trucks, as well as self-propelled artillery units.

However, as the situation on the battlefield changed, this heavy tank battalion had already dispersed, and each platoon acted alone, three to five kilometers away.

In the vast state of Texas, with countless small towns and farms, the Americans did not build any large defensive lines in Texas, but scattered their forces throughout Germany.

This also forced the Red Guard Corps to divide its troops, and as a result, they dispersed quickly, and skirmishes could break out at any time.

On this road, along the road is all kinds of abandoned garbage, three rhino tanks stopped their advance, stopped on the side of the road, and released scouts in all directions, not far from them, there is a farm, the dirt road of the farm connects to this road, a dozen farmhouse houses, looming.

Two hours earlier, reconnaissance planes had reported the latest situation, and behind Route 79, a large number of U.S. troops were massing.

In order to avoid being partially dispersed and annihilated, the armored division at the front of the attack asked the heavy tank battalion to advance and block the counterattack of the American army on Route 79, so as to buy time for the armored division to assemble and counterattack.

In the rear, there are still a large number of US troops, which have not been cleared and suppressed, and the troops cannot be quickly assembled, and the task is very heavy.

At least for a short time, don't expect ground support to arrive.

Li Youming, who was in charge of commanding this small unit, put down the binoculars in his hand, and the scouts who entered the farm to reconnoiter left safely, giving a signal of safety.

Li Youming patted his headphones and said, "Go to the farm to rest, if you don't take a break, you will be tired to death." ”

Everyone who heard the order took action, and at this moment, no matter who it was, wanted to have a good rest.

In the past three days, everyone was very tired, fighting continuously, traveling nearly 800 kilometers on the battlefield, and no one was not tired after fighting along the way.

When I entered the farm, I didn't see a single living person, and all the people living here had already been evacuated.

The planes of the two farms were also destroyed, and the things that could not be taken were also destroyed.

This is nothing to Li Youming and others.

Except for a few people who were on guard, everyone lay on the ground and snored as soon as they entered the farm.

Li Youming did not sleep, and after stepping out of the tank, he helped the infantrymen who had fallen asleep to check the guns in their hands.

The more advanced the weapon, the more attention needs to be paid to maintenance and maintenance, especially assault rifles, after several days of high-intensity combat, maintenance can reduce the probability of failure as much as possible.

When Li Youming was inspecting the rifle, there were also people who did not sleep, and they were inspecting the mechanical equipment of armored vehicles and tanks, where lubricating oil should be added, and they did not let go of them, inspecting the various parts of the mechanical parts, checking the tires of trucks and armored vehicles, and testing the operation of mechanical systems.

These details often determine the fundamentals of combat capability.

After three consecutive days of running, the tank traveled 800 kilometers, and in fact, the mechanical problems were already very prominent, especially the wear and tear of the tank's tracks and load-bearing wheels, which were very serious.

This is also what Li Youming is very worried about, since the Rhino tank has been put into service until now, it has not carried out such a long-distance tossing and turning operation, and the load-bearing wheels and tracks with a life of only 500 kilometers are approaching the limit.

The results of the inspection were not optimistic, and if they could, the engineers accompanying the army would definitely demand that the load wheels and part of the tracks must be replaced.

However, there is no environment for changing maintenance, and battles can break out at any time, so we can only determine how much time there is left to fight.

In the battalion headquarters communication, Li Youming also knew that three tanks of the heavy armored battalion were lying on the road in the rear due to mechanical problems.

Although the Rhino tank is very powerful, the mechanical failure rate is almost zero, but this is within the normal required mechanical life, and after more than 500 kilometers, the mechanical failure rate will no longer be guaranteed.

However, there are also cases where the Rhino tank runs 1,000 kilometers when it is tested, and it is still full of combat power, but that is a minority after all.

Eight hundred kilometers, for many Rhino tanks, has already reached the limit.

The troops assembled in the rear also face this problem, so they need to hold out here at the front for a longer time.