Fighting Across 800 Kilometers in Germany
Chapter 256:Fighting Across 800 Kilometers in Germany
The vast array of the Texas Plain has always been synonymous with richness and beauty, and the plains are magnificent, rich in goods, and plenty of farm and ranches that can feed the entire United States.
The fighting destroyed almost everything here, littered with smoke, trucks fleeing, refugees stranded on both sides of the road, and defeated U.S. troops.
From time to time, the aircraft over the sky can be seen on the top of the head, and the roar of explosions and the sound of gunfire in the distance are often heard.
No one attacks such a worthless target, even on a congested road, the target is very obvious, but whether it is a combat aircraft in the sky or a reconnaissance aircraft, they turn a blind eye to these targets on the road.
There is no value of attack, even if there are many defeated American soldiers in the crowd, the Red Guard Corps does not want to attack.
The main force of the Expeditionary Corps in Latin America was divided into three fronts, launching an attack on the American mainland from Mexico.
The Eastern Front, entering from Texas, engaged U.S. troops on the plains.
The Central Front, coming in from New Mexico, the Western Front attacked Arizona.
Two months after the full-scale capture of Mexico, a full-scale offensive on the American mainland began.
The three fronts, with a total strength of 1.5 million, were in front of them more than five million American troops.
Attacking three times as many as its own enemies, the Red Guard Expeditionary Corps remained confident.
In their words, the enemies in front are all scouts, and they are generally only recruits who have received military training for one or two months, and even guns have not been stabilized.
However, the widely received Texas Plain is also a great challenge for the Red Guards, that is, the increase in the number of troops is diluted.
The attack, which began three days earlier, was now going so well that the expeditionary corps quickly took control of most of Texas in the form of a blitzkrieg, capturing hundreds of thousands of American troops.
However, the Eastern Front's half-thousands of troops were also scattered over the vast Texas plains.
Often a battalion has to be divided many times, basically dozens of kilometers of each company fighting, especially the front line of the attack, the Red Guard Corps is not currently gathered together heavy troops.
On Route 79 in Texas, three rhino tanks followed dozens of infantry and two infantry fighting vehicles.
Originally a heavy tank battalion, dozens of rhino tanks, various armored vehicles and trucks, and self-propelled artillery units.
However, with the change of the battlefield situation, this heavy tank battalion has long been scattered, each row of separate operations, three to five kilometers away.
In the vast number of small towns and farms in Texas, the Americans did not build a large defense line in Texas, but scattered troops everywhere in Germany.
This also made the Red Guard Corps have to carry out division, the result is that it is quickly dispersed, and it is possible to encounter war at any time.
On this road, all kinds of abandoned garbage along the road, three rhinoceros tanks stopped advancing, docked on the edge of the road, and released scouts around them, not far from them, there was a farm, the farm's dirt road connected to the road, more than a dozen farmhouse houses, faintly visible.
Two hours earlier, the reconnaissance aircraft had reported an update, 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, blocked the U.S. counterattack on Route 79, and bought time for the armored division to retaliate.
In the rear, there are also a large number of US troops, which have not been cleared, and the troops cannot be assembled quickly, and the task is very heavy.
At least for a short time, do not want to have ground support to arrive.
Li Youming, who commanded this small force, put down the telescope in his hand, entered the scouts who visited the farm, left safely and gave a safe signal.
Li Youming patted his headphones and said, "Go into the farm to rest, and then don't take a break, you will be tired."
Everyone who heard the command, all took action, and this moment, whoever it was, wanted a good rest.
In these three days, everyone was tired, continuous combat, tossing and turning the battlefield nearly 800 kilometers away, along the way to fight down, no one is not tired.
Into the farm, I did not see a living person, and the people who lived here had already been evacuated.
Both farm planes were destroyed and everything they couldn’t take was destroyed.
This is nothing for Li Yuming and others.
Except for a few vigilantes, all of them lay on the ground for the first time after entering the farm, snoring.
Li Youming did not sleep, and after walking down the tank, he helped the already sleeping infantry to check the guns in his hands.
The more advanced the weapon, the more need to pay attention to maintenance and maintenance, especially assault rifles, after several days of continuous high-intensity combat, maintenance can reduce the probability of failure as much as possible.
When Li Youming checked the rifle, some people did not sleep, in the inspection of armored vehicles and tanks of mechanical equipment, the place where the added lubricating oil, absolutely do not let go, check the various parts of the mechanical parts, check the truck and armored vehicle tires, check the operation of the mechanical system.
These details often determine the fundamentals of combat capability.
Three consecutive days of attack, the tank tossed 800 kilometers, in fact, the mechanical problems have been very prominent, especially the wear of the tank's track and load-bearing wheel, very serious.
This is also Li Youming is very worried, from the rhino tank service to now, has not carried out such a long distance of toss and turn operations, only 500 kilometers of life of the weight wheel and track, close to the limit.
The results of the inspection are not optimistic, and if possible, the engineers accompanying the army will absolutely require the replacement of the load-bearing wheel and part of the track.
However, there is no replacement of the maintenance environment, and the battle may break out at any time, and only determine how much time there is still to be combat.
In the battalion's communications, Li Youming also knew that the heavy armored battalion already had three tanks lying on the road behind the back due to mechanical failures.
Although the rhino tank has strong performance and the mechanical failure rate is almost zero, but within the normal mechanical life required, after more than 500 kilometers, the mechanical failure rate will no longer be guaranteed.
However, there are also rhino tanks that run a thousand kilometers when they are tested, and they are still full of fighting, but after all, they are a minority.
Eight hundred kilometers, for many rhino tanks, has reached the limit.
The rear-assembled forces also face this problem, so they need to stick to the front line here for a longer time.
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