Australian Storm 1876 - Chapter 1057

Chapter 1057 Break the deadlock

Red River Valley Metropolis

Flags fluttered and fluttered in the wind.

The fully-armed soldiers, wearing steel helmets and holding zero-type semi-automatic rifles, lined up neatly through Victory Street.

The people on both sides of the road gathered here like a sea of ​​people, dancing the national flag and saying goodbye, and the cheers like the mountains and tsunamis resounded through the sky.

After the infantry queue, there are half-tracked transport vehicles, towed artillery and self-propelled artillery, three-wheeled motorcycles, and the T-2 and T-5 tank teams that appeared at the finale. .

Li Fushou led a group of important military and political officials to stand on the reviewing stand, watching the troops under review pass by, and asked loudly, “What is the mission of the soldiers?”

“Be loyal to the royal family and defend the glory of the empire.” The officers and soldiers of the troops under review answered in unison.

asked again; “Barbarians are rampant, what are you doing?”

“Those who violate the empire clearly will be punished even if they are thousands of miles away.” The voice of the answer was uniform and resounded through the sky.

Li Fushou waved his hand and ordered; “Go on an expedition…”

“Remember the Holy Order, be loyal to the Holy One, be loyal to the Empire, be loyal to the mission, and the power of the country is beyond the waves of thousands of miles.”

The military music was played, and the bells and drums sounded in unison.

The troops under review marched in neat footsteps, sang loud military songs, and walked towards the pier. One after another, the phalanx of infantry, the phalanx of armored vehicles, and the iron stream rolled away.

After reading

The officers and soldiers will board the ship at the pier, and then go through a two-week long-distance sea transportation, pass through the Panama Canal, and arrive at Norfolk, an important port in the Republic of Virginia on the east coast. After resting here for more than 20 days, they will set off again and finally arrive in the UK.

After the outbreak of the World War

The 10 provinces of France on the western front were quickly occupied, and the massive and unprecedentedly tragic war was being waged on the French mainland. Paris was almost on the front line of the war, and the German army was only less than 5 kilometers away from the closest.

The 10 provinces on the French-German border are the textile and smelting centers of France, accounting for 63% of all French steel production, 81% of iron production, 74% of coal, 81% of wool fabrics, and 76% of sugar; after being occupied for 3 years, they lived with the French economy. Isolated and devastated by the war, a large number of refugees fled to the southwest of France.

The southwestern part of France is another scene. The influx of refugees has made it overcrowded, prices have skyrocketed, the economic and social order is in chaos, all kinds of hoarding are common, and the phenomenon of speculating, buying and selling has been repeated, and the lives of the majority of people are difficult.

More than 5.7 million Anglo-French coalition troops are fighting on the front line, all of which need the logistics of the rear in southwestern France.

under these circumstances

The landing of hundreds of thousands of troops of the Empire in Europe may further aggravate the chaos in the rear of southwestern France. The situation is much more severe than imagined.

Relatively speaking, the situation in the UK is much better.

The basic social order is in order, and the supply situation is also good, which is suitable for the imperial army to carry out pre-war restorative training.

Just as the Ocean Empire was fully mobilized, new news came from North America, and the Japanese army broke the deadlock of confrontation…

After the sudden death of Marshal Dashanyan, the Fuso Army Base Camp quickly dispatched General Tanaka Yoshida to North America to preside over the overall situation and serve as the commander-in-chief of the North American Expeditionary Forces Command.

The Japanese heavy army group that had pressed the pause button had an arrow on the string and had to send it.

The fierce fighting began in late June and lasted until early August. The United States and Japan fought **** battles on the front line of Colorado Springs for two months.

At the beginning of August, after the arrival of a large number of reinforcements, the US military in Denver launched a large-scale counterattack called “Strong Will”. Millions of US troops were divided into four groups to attack. After five days of hard work, they recaptured Colorado Springs and took advantage of the situation. Advance to the Watsonsburg line.

The **** battle for more than two consecutive months caused great losses to both the American and Japanese armies. About 170,000 Japanese soldiers were killed and wounded, and more than 400,000 American soldiers were killed. More than 860 armored vehicles of various types were destroyed, and countless artillery and ammunition were destroyed.

In the face of the invincible U.S. Denver heavy army group, the Japanese commander, General Tan Zhongyi, changed his ways and concentrated on the fifth and sixth powerful divisions of the army and the Suzuki mixed brigade, with a total of more than 57,000 people. , across more than 260 kilometers of arid Gobi Desert and desert terrain to the east, straight into Kansas.

August 19

The eastward Japanese troops raided the Burlington line of defense in Kansas, and broke through the U.S. defense with fierce and quick action. Within two days, three lines of defense were broken down, and the 147,000 American troops on the line were defeated.

Then quickly moved eastward without stopping, and surrounded San Francisco again. After fighting for several days, he severely damaged 92,000 American troops and occupied it.

At this point, the soft central part of the United States was completely exposed to the Japanese army, and everything was in chaos for a while.

The Japanese army eastward occupied Kansas City on August 27, which is a very important transportation hub in the central state of the United States. There are 6 railway trunk lines connecting the southern United States, the eastern urban intensive area, the northern Great Lakes heavy industrial area and the Denver front line.

The Japanese army who occupied Kansas City was like no one. In 11 days, they used convenient railway transportation to attack several important surrounding cities, stirring up the central area of ​​the United States.

In the case of serious threats to the heartland, the main force of the U.S. military on the Denver front had to retreat in a big way, and was followed by a fierce attack by the Japanese army, so tragedy occurred.

The retreating U.S. military collapsed, and was chased by the Fusang people and fled everywhere like a rabbit, with countless casualties.

After the **** battle, Princeton in Colorado fell again, only two weeks apart.

The Japanese army crossed the Colorado-Princeton Line, broke through the Denver Line two days later, and fought fiercely with the remnants of the more than 300,000 American troops who had retreated here.

The main force of the Japanese army was only more than 230,000 at this time, but under repeated attacks regardless of casualties, the retreating US military couldn’t bear it, and had to retreat again along the railway line.

In early September, the Japanese occupied Denver.

The fall of the most important city in Colorado means that the entire Colorado has been completely controlled by the Japanese army, and the Americans lost the entire Colorado defense battle.

At this point, the Japanese army was also exhausted. The main force was less than 200,000 people, and the ammunition and supplies were extremely consumed. Nearly 50,000 troops were dispatched eastward in Kansas City, more than 770 kilometers away from the main force in Denver.

And nearly 200,000 U.S. remnants who retreated in great strides lost their armor and armor. They gathered troops from the rear who were preparing to reinforce the defense line, mobilized military supplies to rearm, and prepared to fight a protracted war.

At this point, the entire Colorado defense battle has ended, and a new round of the central US battle has begun.

This large-scale battle that lasted 14 months cost both the United States and Japan a heavy price.

According to post-war statistics;

The Japanese army successively invested 747,000 troops and suffered 390,000 casualties, including 145,700 casualties and 244,300 light and serious injuries. With the Japanese army’s brave character, more than 70% were seriously injured and could not return to the battlefield.

The US military has invested 1.56 million troops successively, with 637,000 casualties, more than 629,000 captured, 73,300 missing, and tens of thousands more fleeing. Among them, more than 307,000 people were killed and 337,000 people were seriously injured.

The reason why the casualty ratio of the US military is so large, which is almost half to half, is because most of the wounded and sick are discarded and left in the hands of the Japanese army, who lacks medical treatment and medicine. How can there be any conditions for treatment?

It’s not good to say something, don’t talk about medicine, you don’t even have food, how can you survive?

Among the 100 seriously wounded, if one survives by chance, even if God blesses, less than one third of the lightly wounded will survive due to serious wound infection.

Can’t blame the Japanese for not actively treating them. They couldn’t save their own wounded and sick. There were so many that they had seriously affected military operations, and they could no longer launch a new round of attacks.

(end of this chapter)