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Chapter 0880 US encirclement network ([-]) soaring forward

The rumble of the car is the sound of tens of thousands of internal combustion engines roaring at the same time. It feels so earth-shattering and unstoppable!Behind this sound is the largest mechanized combat force in the world - the U.S. Army!Compared with the German Army and the Chinese Army, which are also famous for mechanized warfare in this time and space, they are actually just an army of horse-drawn cannons, with a little mechanized troops as the blade to cut through the opponent's defense line!Although the Chinese and German armored forces as the blade have far more attack power than the American armored forces, when it comes to the mechanization and motorization of the entire army, the US military is second to none.

The United States in this era has the world's largest industrial production capacity!Their steel production is three times that of Germany and five times that of China, and their car production is ten times that of Germany and thirty times that of China!And their oil output is also the first in the world. In this era, the oil resources in the Middle East have not been fully utilized. The United States and Russia are the world's largest and second largest oil producers respectively, but the United States, the world's largest oil producer, is Russia. Several times that of the second in the world.

After nearly 7 months of full production, although the U.S. Navy still does not have enough equipment, the U.S. Army weapons and equipment, the aircraft needed by the Army Air Force and Naval Air Force have already piled up like a mountain!Even in terms of quantity, it is more than what the United States had in the early days of World War II!After all, they don't need to ship millions of tons of supplies to Britain, the Soviet Union, and China right now.Since the fall of Panama, almost all the weapons produced by the United States have been used to equip its own army to defend the United States.Regardless of the performance of those weapons and equipment, at least in terms of quantity, they can only be described as "sea"!That is the sea of ​​planes, the sea of ​​tanks, the sea of ​​cars, the sea of ​​cannons, and of course, the sea of ​​people!Maybe there will be atomic bombs in the future...

Moreover, the huge industrial production capacity of the United States has now completed the transition to wartime, and more and more weapons and equipment will be produced in the future!

When General George S. Patton sat on a jeep with a three-star Lieutenant General Peugeot, looking at the torrent of steel with no boundaries.There is only a feeling in my heart that I am number one in the world.No matter how powerful the Japanese tanks are, his American First Armored Army can use ten times as many tanks to completely submerge them!With the backing of the strong industrial base of the United States, and fighting in the continental Americas, how could it be defeated?

Yes, it is local!Just look at the Mexicans waving flowers and the Stars and Stripes on both sides of the road, and you will know how popular the United States (US green card and US dollars) is in America!

On this continent, 90.00% of the children of the so-called "anti-American fighters" of the upper class in Latin American countries live or receive education in the United States.As for the "anti-Americans" among the lower class, as long as they have the opportunity to get a green card from the United States, they will definitely not refuse it.The Japanese devils and the Germans actually want to use the "anti-American sentiment" in Latin America to deal with the United States, they are simply out of their minds.With so many tanks, planes, cannons, and the help of thousands of local Mexicans who love the United States, and the enemy is still a fool with water in their heads, it is impossible to win this war, right?

At this time, a military jeep galloped from the front of the marching team and stopped beside Patton's jeep. A lieutenant officer jumped out of the car and handed a document to Major Perry, General Patton's adjutant.

"Lieutenant General!" Perry exclaimed excitedly after glancing at the document: "The report from the [-]st Armored Division says they have already entered the city of Monterrey. We surrender!"

Patton snorted: "What a spineless guy! Surrendered... These Mexicans are not worthy of being called soldiers at all. In comparison, I still admire the Japanese devils after all. Although they are a bit stupid, they are still brave enough. At least not surrendering without firing a shot."

"Lieutenant General, please ask Brigadier General Clark whether the [-]st Armored Division should continue to advance, or take a break in Monterey and wait for the follow-up troops..."

Patton interrupted Major Perry with a wave of his hand, and said loudly, "Attack! Tell Brigadier General Clark to keep moving forward! Until the tank runs out of fuel."

"However, Lieutenant General Bradley wants us to act cautiously and not to advance rashly." Perry knew that this was in vain, but he still wanted to remind General Patton not to forget the command of General Bradley, the commander-in-chief of the East Road. instruct.

General Patton patted Major Perry on the shoulder, smiled indifferently, and said, "Don't pay attention to that Omar (Bradley) who is always suspicious, he is not a general who commands tanks, and he doesn't understand how tanks are used." .The tanks are going to attack! Attack! Attack again! All the while driving the little Japanese into the Pacific Ocean to feed the fish! Now, write up the order and sign it for me.”

Perry shrugged a little, took out his notebook, and drafted the order in the jeep. After asking General Patton to sign it, he handed the order to the second lieutenant of the military communications department who sent the document.Seeing the second lieutenant jump into the jeep and drive away, Patton patted his driver on the back and said, "Let's go too."

In the afternoon, General Patton's 200st Armored Corps Headquarters, along with the 400nd Armored Division, went south through Monterey and marched towards the city of Victoria, more than [-] kilometers away.In the city of Monterrey, Patton's convoy was welcomed by the enthusiastic Mexican people as usual... The long line of more than [-] tanks from the Second Armored Division (the Second Armored Division is a heavy armored division) took a full In the afternoon, I passed through downtown Monterey, which was packed with welcome crowds.This is probably the slowest time since the United States invaded Mexico!

And on the next morning, there was another good news. Due to the hard work of American engineers, the railway from the United States to Monterrey, which was so carelessly destroyed by the Mexicans, was completely repaired. Troops and supplies can be transported by rail, directly from Texas to Monterey.In addition, good news came from the front line. Due to the rapid breakthrough of the U.S. Army on the East Road and the surrender of the Northeast Military Region of Mexico, the flanks of the Northwest Military Region of Mexico immediately lost cover. All the Western Madre Mountains were handed over to the US Third Army!

As the pioneer of the East Road, the US First Armored Division is still advancing furiously. On May 5, the division advanced a full 20 kilometers, from the US-Mexico border to the outside of Monterey. On May 210, the Mexican Northeast Military Region made an emergency landing in Carlos, and at the same time advanced more than 5 kilometers to the southeast. On May 21, after receiving fuel supplies from Monterrey, the division made great strides forward again for more than 130 kilometers, and captured Victoria, which was defended by a small number of Mexican troops, that night.

At this time, only 3 days have passed since the United States invaded Mexico!The U.S. military has advanced more than 3 kilometers from the U.S.-Mexico border in just three days!There are only 500 kilometers left to the Bayes-San Luis Potosi defense line established by the Japanese, Central American and Mexican coalition forces!

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"Nani!? The Americans have captured Victoria City!"

Just after getting off the train, Yamashita Fufumi, who rushed to the Japanese Army Command in Basye City, got such incredible information. In 3 days, we have advanced more than 500 kilometers!And still in enemy territory.This rush speed itself probably already shows the strength of the opponent, right?

"Ishihara-kun, what do you think of the speed of the US military?" Yamashita Fengwen turned his head and looked at Ishihara with the same serious expression and asked with a smile.

"Formidable enemy!" Ishihara smiled wryly: "Outsiders only saw our victories in Central America and the Pacific Ocean, and thought that the United States was vulnerable... In fact, the empire was just a time lag! Using the effect of a surprise attack In the months before fully arming with the United States, try to maximize the results of the war. But now the United States has armed itself by at least 50%, so it is already a formidable enemy for the empire!"

"Why, Ishihara-kun no longer has the confidence to defeat the United States?" Yamashita Fufumi asked again, his face darkening.

"Of course there is confidence!" Ishihara smiled and said seriously: "After all, the Japanese Empire is not fighting alone. Although the United States is powerful, it is not an opponent of the entire world. Only the Empire can persist in Central America until the German army lands on the east coast of the United States." One moment, and victory in this war will be at hand."

"Those are long-term strategies. Ishihara-kun should talk about how we should face the powerful enemy in front of us!" Yamashita Fengwen's face softened slightly.In his opinion, Ishihara Wanji is good at strategy, but he often appears conservative in dealing with the enemy. Maybe this has something to do with the setbacks he suffered in China?

"Of course there is only a challenge right now!"

Yamashita looked at Ishihara Waner quietly, and nodded gently: "How should we fight?" Ishihara Waner said indifferently: "The U.S. armored forces have advanced more than 500 kilometers in three days. Behind such a speed, I am afraid Is it because the equipment integrity rate has been greatly reduced? Moreover, according to the investigation, the American army that rushed into Victoria City was just an armored division. With the strength of our Central American Front Army, we can completely cut off a finger! Annihilate this American armored division!"

"Yaoxi!" Yamashita Fengwen smiled with satisfaction: "Ishihara-kun's opinion is exactly the same as mine. Although the combat power of the US military is not weak, but with the combat power of one armored division, it will definitely not be able to stop five divisions and other troops. The siege of a tank brigade! I reckon this American armored division will surely march south tomorrow.

There are two options for going south from Victoria City, one is to go west and enter the Eastern Madre Mountains, pass Tula, Mais City to Rio Verde.The second is to walk along the edge of the Eastern Madre Mountains and go south through the city of Mante.Considering that it is an American armored division going south all the way, they will not choose mountainous areas with too complicated terrain, but will take the relatively flat line of Mante City. The plains on the east side of Mount Drei run south. "

Speaking of this, Fengwen Yamashita paused for a moment, took a breath, pointed to a long and narrow valley north of Bayes City on a military map in front of him, and said, "This is the Panuko River Valley, located in the east of the city. On the eastern edge of Sierra Madre, my idea is to deploy the 16th Division, 102nd Division, and 104th Division on the plains east of Sierra Madre East to attract the attention of the US Armored Division. Take the 6th Division The Regiment, the 56th Division and the 1st Tank Brigade crossed from the Panuko Valley to the rear of the U.S. Army, captured Mante City, and cut off their way back! Then they flanked back and forth to annihilate the U.S. armored division!"

Just as he was talking, there was a wailing air defense siren outside, followed by a deafening explosion!The door of the war room opened, and Lieutenant General Heitaro Kimura, the chief of staff of the Central American Front, walked in quickly, looking a little flustered.

"Your Excellency, Ishihara-kun, bombing! American planes are bombing the city of Valles, and the 105th Division in San Luis Potosí also reported being bombed."

boom!boom!boom……

There was another roar, and several people in the war room seemed to feel the ground tremble under their feet.Looking out of the window, the city of Bayes under the night sky is full of flames. There are only a few beams of searchlights on the ground searching the sky. Occasionally, a four-engine heavy bomber can be seen. A few anti-aircraft guns can't help these American bombers at all!

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枪声如炒豆一般噼里啪啦地响了起来。日本的歪巴子机92式重机枪枪像喘气似的发射声音，和M2勃朗宁轻机枪嗒嗒嗒的吼叫声交织在了一起。其间还夹杂着迫击炮和美军的M39式106mm无后坐力炮交相爆炸的声音。在帕努科河南岸，在5月24日的夜间来临之后，日军第16师团的侦察巡逻部队突然就同美军的先头部队意外遭遇了！日军似乎想将已经渡过了帕努科河的美军先头部队压回北岸去。因此很快就调集了1000多人步兵骑兵部队，分成落干个中队规模的战斗群同美第一装甲师的机械化骑兵侦搜营的三个连队打成了一团。

As soon as the battle was fought, the Japanese squadron leaders who commanded the battle on the front line were immediately stunned by the powerful firepower and maneuverability of the US military.The means of transportation used by the American soldiers on the opposite side is neither horses nor soldiers' legs and feet, but a wheeled armored vehicle with light armor, and why is this light armored vehicle equipped with a large-caliber M2 anti-aircraft machine gun, or a kind of anti-aircraft machine gun? There are recoilless guns with a caliber of more than 100mm, in addition to many 80mm mortars and light and heavy machine guns with a caliber of 7.62mm.

Although the Japanese army has a superior force of a cavalry regiment (less than a chariot brigade, with a total strength of about 500) and an infantry brigade, the artillery they have, if not counting mortars, is only four 75mm cavalry guns and two The 70mm infantry gun is no match for at least eight 106mm recoilless guns!However, the Japanese army was unwilling to give up control of the battlefield easily... After all, the heavy troops of the three divisions had just deployed on the plain on the south bank of Panuko, and the defense line had not yet been completed.If the U.S. military can see through the truth so quickly, the Americans may be caught off guard!Therefore, they had no choice but to bite the bullet and launch attacks again and again by virtue of their superiority in numbers, and the south bank of the Panuko River was immediately smashed into a pot of porridge.

Mante City US First Armored Army Command.Lieutenant General Patton arrived at the headquarters at dawn on May 5 after a night's march.Immediately received a large amount of battlefield intelligence sent by the First Armored Division.According to these intelligence analyzes, the Japanese army seems to be preparing for a decisive battle with the US 25st Armored Division in the plains on the south bank of the Panuko River!The currently identified number is the 16th Division, but it is expected that more Japanese troops will participate in this battle.After dawn, the U.S. Army Air Corps sent a large number of reconnaissance planes, and sure enough, traces of a large number of troop movements were found on the south bank of the Panuco River.In broad daylight, there are still brigades of Japanese infantry moving forward in an endless stream!The road is almost full of khaki long dragons.

Major General Ward, the chief of staff, hurried into the headquarters.Patton was looking at the map with Harmon, the commander of the Second Armored Division.The surrounding phones rang non-stop, and all kinds of information were continuously gathered here.Seeing Ward walking in with a worried face, Patton frowned slightly, looked at him and asked, "Ward, how is the front? How many troops have the Japanese army concentrated waiting for us to destroy?" Major General Ward took out a Passed the telegram to Patton, took the coffee cup handed over by the adjutant, took a big sip, refreshed himself, and replied with a heavy face: "Just received a telegram from General MacArthur, he ordered us to try to send The main force of the Japanese army was attracted to the south bank of Panuko, creating conditions for the smooth implementation of his "Operation Soldering Iron".

In addition, the reconnaissance of the Air Force found that at least 4 Japanese infantry were advancing to the south bank of Panuko!It is estimated that their artillery and supplies were transported at night.Judging from the number of infantry, it should be two divisions of the Japanese army. In addition to the 16th division whose number has been identified, the Japanese have concentrated three divisions in front of us. The total strength should be between 7.5 and 8. Thousands of people!Lieutenant General, the [-]st Armored Division relying on Major General Clark might not be able to deal with them, right?Is it possible to withdraw the troops across the Panuco River first, and we can confront the Japanese army along the river. As long as Admiral MacArthur's "Brandiron Project" is successful, the Japanese army will inevitably retreat towards Mexico City. Follow and chase under cover, and you will definitely win a complete victory. "

Major General Ward's suggestion is a surefire solution.As long as MacArthur's landing operation on the Yutanca Peninsula (the Branding Iron Project) is successful, the Japanese troops assembled south of the Panuco River will have to retreat towards Mexico City. There is no problem.

But General Patton shook his head lightly...

Chapter 0881 US encirclement network ([-]) sick cat or jaguar?

General Patton frowned, stared at the military map silently, and said after a long while: "Call General MacArthur and tell him that there is a rare opportunity to wipe out the enemy on the south bank of the Panuko River, so the First Armored Army had better seize this opportunity." Opportunity, destroy the three divisions of the Japanese army in one fell swoop!"

Major General Ward was startled, and quickly asked: "The opportunity to wipe out the enemy? Where is it?"

General Patton pointed to the Panucco River Valley on the map: "This is the edge of the Eastern Madre Mountains, but the terrain is not very narrow. The railway from Monterrey to Mexico City also passes through this valley. And our First Armored The division, the second armored division and the three divisions of the Japanese army faced each other on the plain east of this valley. If we can send a force to pass through this valley, we can go straight to the city of Bayes behind the Japanese side. The Japanese devils of the three divisions are about to be surrounded! Ward, do you think this method will work? Will General MacArthur support us?"

He patted the map, and then said: "I plan to let the third armored division that arrived this afternoon carry out this task. Tanks should be able to pose a threat to the Japanese defense line in Bayes City. I estimate that there are two Japanese divisions and a Japanese tank brigade in Bayes City...so we'd better launch on the south bank of the Panuko River A fierce attack, try to attract some Japanese reinforcements. In this way, we have a great chance of winning, and maybe we will kill them all before General MacArthur's 'branding iron' is branded on the little Japanese's ass!"

Major General Ward's eyebrows couldn't help but twitched again, this General Patton must be too bold!It is necessary to use 4.7 people from three armored divisions and up to 600 tanks (active) to defeat the nearly 14 Japanese army of five divisions and one tank brigade!Those Japanese devils would not have fought all the way from across the Pacific Ocean to Mexico if they hadn't been beaten so hard.But before he opened his mouth to dissuade him, General Patton said again: "Ward, I leave this to you, immediately make a plan to detour to the Panuko Valley, and let Major General Walker of the [-]rd Armored Division arrive to execute it. Major General Harmon and I went with the [-]nd Armored Division to go to the south bank of the Panuko River to see how those Japanese devils were crushed into meatloaf by tanks!"

The Japanese army was again taken aback by the swiftness of the offensive launched by General Patton and the American armored forces.In this battle known as the Battle of the Panuko River by later generations, the Japanese's good luck seemed to have come to an end. Their decisive battle plan was extremely unsatisfactory during the deployment phase. The overwhelming number of American planes made the Japanese army's military mobilization during the day almost stuck. Paralyzed!Since the night of May 5, hundreds of B-22 and B-17 heavy bombers have been dispatched day and night. They bombarded the roads, railways, and transportation hubs in central Mexico during the day, and began to bomb again at night. Every town where Japanese troops were stationed.

However, the biggest trouble for the Japanese army was not the bombs that fell from these American planes. Although there were quite a lot of Yankee planes, their pilots' bombing skills were not very good, and there were not many bombs that actually hit the target.But the reaction of those Mexicans who were already on the verge of national crisis and subjugation to the American bombing left the Japanese devils speechless.

Especially those Mexicans working on the Mexican railway, as long as they heard the buzzing sound of American planes, they would immediately stop the train and flee for their lives, and threw a load of Japanese military supplies on the railway, so that the American planes could bomb them!And as long as there is any slight damage to the railway, the staff of the Mexican Railway will use this as an excuse to stop all transportation, and then repair it slowly... No matter how the Japanese logistics personnel try to lure them, they will never speed up even a little work progress !Of course, Mexico and Japan are allies right now, and bayonets are still inconvenient to use.And the logistics and transportation of the Japanese army in Mexico are all maintained by the Mexican railways!Now the railway is paralyzed, and a large amount of military supplies are all piled up in Panama City, and there is no way to deliver them to the frontline troops who urgently need them!

Also, the Mexicans in the war zone were extremely unfriendly to the Japanese troops who came all the way to defend their homeland, and hardly anyone would do anything for the Japanese troops... and would not give anything to the Japanese troops who were half-starved due to logistical disruptions Food, even if it was bought with Mexican pesos by well-meaning Japanese devils, they would not sell it.So much so that after receiving these reports, the two Japanese devils, Fengwen Yamashita and Wanji Ishihara, began to wonder who was the real invader?

Of course, Yamashita and Ishihara's "reflection" on the war did not last long, and their attention was attracted by the urgent military reports sent from the south bank of the Panuko River.What surprised them was that the real "urgency" of these emergency military reports was not that they found out how many US troops had crossed the Panuko River, nor was it that the US military's offensive preparations were nearly completed.But because the air supremacy was completely controlled by the United States, and the light armored vehicles of the US military covered the battlefield south of the Panuk River, the Japanese troops on the front line had no idea of ​​the situation of the US troops in front of them!Based on the limited information, it can only be estimated that there are about two armored divisions of the US military in front of us.These American armored divisions have an M3 Grant Lee medium tank equipped with two artillery pieces. A 97mm gun, the performance is probably close to the Japanese Type 3 light tank.In addition, the Japanese knew nothing about the military mobilization of the US military!

Regarding the US tanks, Yamashita and Ishihara did not take it too seriously. After all, after the September 9.18th War, the Japanese Army, with the Chinese National Defense Forces as its imaginary enemy, has been practicing hard on anti-tank skills.In addition to being equipped with a large number of 37mm and 47mm anti-tank guns, anti-tank guns, anti-tank grenades, and anti-tank mines, after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese Army began to assign "anti-tank special attack teams" at the wing level. Or it can be called an anti-tank human bomb!

However, Yamashita and Ishihara still felt a sense of crisis that they had never felt before in the current situation where they could not grasp the enemy's situation.For this reason, they ordered Lieutenant General Maeda Toshiyuki, the commander of the 6th Division, who has experience in commanding armored forces, to command the 6th Division, the 56th Division, and the 1st Tank Brigade to travel day and night secretly to detour the US troops through the Panuko Valley. rear.On the one hand, he ordered the former commander-in-chief of the Japanese army on the south bank of the Panuko River, Lieutenant General Ushishima Mitsuru, to urge the front-line Japanese troops to step up digging anti-tank defense traps, laying anti-tank mines, and building anti-tank strongholds.In two days on May 5th and 24th, the Japanese troops of the three divisions on the south bank of the Panuko River dug more than 25 anti-tank traps; laid nearly 3 anti-tank mines, and nearly 1000 anti-infantry Landmines; two anti-tank areas, 3 anti-tank areas, and 2 anti-tank support points were built, and a 30mm or 90mm anti-tank gun was deployed on each anti-tank support point.The two 37mm infantry guns owned by each infantry brigade are also equipped with armor-piercing projectiles, which are evenly deployed in various areas of the entire defense line.And the 47 "anti-tank special attack teams" belonging to the 2 wings of the 70 divisions are also ready, waiting to exchange one person and one life for an American tank at any time!

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