Age of Conquest Reborn

This was the only U.S. military counterattack in the U.S.-Mexico border battle after the Germans began to attack, and it was also a counterattack that achieved great results. It became the only bright spot in the battle to defend the U.S. homeland, but the opponent was the Italian army.

The American soldiers jumped out of the trenches and fired fiercely with the guns in their hands. Mortar shells fell like raindrops on the Italian soldiers. In one round, the Italian soldiers suffered heavy casualties. They had always followed the German ally, picking them up.

How could a cheap Italian soldier ever experience such a terrifying scene?

The American soldiers who fought back were almost like monsters in the eyes of the Italian soldiers. As a result, the Italian soldiers' will to fight immediately collapsed. First, the Italian soldiers who were at the forefront of the attack could not resist, so they turned around and ran back.

Fear can spread, and soon, fleeing becomes the behavior of all Italian troops. The German attack on the left side of the US-Mexico border in the direction of Phoenix, due to the defeat of the Italian army, became the only one among all the attacking troops that did not

Complete the direction of the pre-war plan.

The five divisions of the Italian army that aggressively attacked, totaling more than 80,000 troops, ended up losing more than 30,000 people and all their tanks, and returned in defeat. The smug General Orozo was still waiting for the Italian army.

Good news about breaking through the US military positions.

However, what they got was a report of a disastrous defeat with the loss of more than 30,000 people and all tanks. Admiral Orozo sprayed a mouthful of blood gorgeously on the sunny sky in January in North America, and then his eyesight went black.

Passed out very simply.

After receiving the report of the disastrous failure of the Italian offensive, Marshal Rommel was completely speechless. Fortunately, he had already prepared. He ordered the two armies following the Italian army to take over the attack, four armies plus five motorized infantry brigades.

The assault group was formed and pressed forward across the board.

Marshal Rommel was not worried about whether the left assault group could complete its scheduled mission. In his view, the three offensive forces were all in separate directions of attack. It would not be affected just because something unexpected happened in one direction.

The entire offensive deployment, the Italians' overestimating ability and ridiculousness, only delayed the time to break through the US military's defense line in the direction of Phoenix!

As the German army entered the offensive, the good days of the Thirteenth Army of the US Army in the direction of Phoenix came to an end. The US soldiers who had just beaten the Italians severely returned to the trenches, before they had time to boast about their bravery.

Action, enjoy the joy of beating the enemy, and then ushered in the German artillery fire like a volcanic eruption.

The German artillery group was not like the Italian artillery. They were all large-caliber heavy artillery. There were many of them, and the dense artillery shells came with a harsh scream. They hit the U.S. position overwhelmingly. Suddenly, the U.S. position was

Dust was everywhere, and smoke pillars shot into the sky. The soil was mixed with reinforced concrete fragments, mixed with the fragments of the corpses of American soldiers, flying high into the air.

After the bombardment, there was a fierce charge by German soldiers in skirmish lines. The tank clusters covered the infantry. The tank guns knocked out the US anti-tank firepower point by point. In front of the Italian tanks, the US anti-tank weapons that showed their prowess were no longer available.

An idea came to him. When the tracks of the German tanks rolled over the U.S. military positions, and when the boots of the German soldiers stepped onto American soil, the U.S. military's first line of defense on the southern border collapsed.

On the evening of the day when the attack was launched, the three German assault groups all broke through the first line of defense of the US military on the southern border. They advanced an average of more than 150 kilometers in the United States. The advance speed was so fast that during the war against the Soviet Union,

The speed of the attack on the first day was comparable. After the Central German army broke through the US position, the forward troops did not struggle and approached the city of Santa Fe.

After taking over the offensive of the Italian army, the Left Lutheran Army Assault Group quickly broke through the defenses of the Thirteenth Army of the US Army, dealt a severe blow to the US Army who had not had time to celebrate their victory in repelling the Italian army, and captured Phoenix in the afternoon of the same day.

Surrounded the two divisions of the US Thirteenth Army.

The right-wing Lutheran offensive troops surrounded the city of Austin and surrounded most of the US Eleventh Army in the city and its surrounding areas. Among them, the First Armored Division of the German Third Army, which had the fastest assault speed, broke into the United States to the point of reaching two

After more than 160 kilometers, the troops approached the Beaumont area southwest of Baton Rouge.

On the day of the attack, the German army made great progress in the three assault directions. The progress was so smooth that Marshal Rommel was surprised. He immediately ordered all troops to encircle and annihilate the American troops in the encirclement as quickly as possible.

Then, according to the predetermined plan, the target is captured.

Marshal Rommel commended the First Armored Division of the Third Army in a special report to the entire army, but he also sent a telegram to the division commander Brigadier General Rudolf, saying, "Commander Rudolf, your unit is advancing too fast. Now,

We are already in a prominent position alone. I order your troops to stop the attack immediately and wait for the arrival of follow-up troops!"

Brigadier General Rudolf, commander of the 1st Armored Division of the Third Army of the German Army Group South America, was the father of German armor and a disciple of General Guderian, the architect of the blitzkrieg. He most admired his teacher's blitzkrieg tactics of armored group assault. He was very concerned about Marshal Rommel's orders to him.

The attack was stopped and Brigadier General Rudolf, who was in the mood of fighting, was greatly dissatisfied and puzzled.

Speaking of which, Brigadier General Rudolf and Battelle have a deep connection. During the European Continental War initiated by Germany, Battelle served as the commander of the German "Lightning Assault Division" at that time, and Brigadier General Rudolf was the chief of staff of the colonel division at that time.

, he witnessed with his own eyes that the Chinese, who was only twenty years old, used the armored group assault tactic originated in Germany to its fullest and even unpredictable proportions.

Commander Battelle commanded the most elite "Lightning Assault Division" of the German Army across the battlefields of the European continent, which frightened the British and French forces at the time. After fighting wherever he fought, Battelle became the second person whom he admired sincerely after his teacher Guderian.

After being transferred to Army Group South America, Brigadier General Rudolf absolutely practiced the tactics and fighting styles of the two idols when he launched the war against the United States. The 1st Armored Division was like the "Lightning Assault Division" on the European battlefield in the past.

Entering uninhabited territory, within one day, the advancement speed is the fastest among the entire army!

Brigadier General Rudolf, who was stopped, could not figure out why Marshal Rommel would issue such an order, but he believed that on the European battlefield, Marshal Rommel, who had shown extremely high military command skills, would not commit low-level crimes.

What was wrong was that in the face of such a famous general, he did not even have the thought of raising objections, but could only resolutely carry out the order.

Standing on a high ground outside Beaumont, facing the sea breeze of the Gulf of Mexico, looking at the southern part of the United States and the rays of the setting sun, Brigadier General Rudolph secretly thought, "If the 1st Armored Division is now commanded by Commander Battle, what will he do?

Do?"

On an island far away on the other side of the ocean, Battelle, who was conducting combined training with the divisional marines commander Han Tie and commanding the armored forces and marines, had no idea that on the North American battlefield, there was a German brigadier general who was one of his old subordinates.

, will think of myself!

Marshal Rommel's eyes were not just on one division of Brigadier General Rudolf, but on the overall situation. Guderian's armored group assault tactics were a key factor in Germany's victory in the war against the Soviet Union, but they were not unbreakable.

The golden rule.

The United States was different from the Soviet Union at that time. One was the hegemon of the American continent that was well prepared and had strong national power, while the other was a country that was rushing to fight and had just experienced internal strife. Different opponents would adopt different tactics.

Marshal Rommel's plan was to not pursue a continuous rapid advance after breaking through the first line of defense of the U.S. military, but to stop the attack in front of the second line of defense of the U.S. military and instead to encircle and annihilate the main force of the U.S. military on the first line of defense.

For the main purpose, after clearing the rear, continue the attack.

If Germany's war against the Soviet Union relied on rapid advancement, deep and long-distance detours, and encirclement of the Soviet main force, then in the war against the Americans, Marshal Rommel's strategy was to fight steadily and with each step.

The war will focus on annihilating the effective strength of the US military.

Now, after breaking through the first line of defense of the US military, the three-way assault group reached the predetermined target, and then spread out on the spot to form a huge encirclement, bringing in more than 500,000 US troops in one net, and then annihilating them on the first day.

The progress of the battle clearly achieved Marshal Rommel's goal.

In accordance with Marshal Rommel's order, the three-way assault group continued the attack for two days and captured the designated target. Then, it began to spread horizontally, cutting off the US troops along the US-Mexico border, and evacuated all channels to the north. Hundreds of thousands of US soldiers

There is no way to escape!

The U.S. military's defense along the southern U.S.-Mexico border was riddled with holes and divided into several sections within a day. This was something General Satland, the commander of the U.S. Southern Border Guard Force, never expected.

As soon as the battle began, the situation became so rotten!

General Satland did not have extravagant expectations. Relying on the first line of defense, he could keep more than one million elite German troops out of the country. According to the plan drawn up before the war, the southern defense system was configured with a light front and a heavy back.

, most of the troops and weapons and equipment are deployed on the second line of defense. Using the first line of defense, we can withstand the German army for at least three to five days, and try to slow down the German army's attack speed to make adequate preparations for the second line of defense.

time.

However, the German attack was so ferocious, the time to break through the first line of defense was so short, and the advance was so rapid, it completely exceeded General Sartland's expectations and left him at a loss. Within a short period of time, it was impossible to capture the enemy.

Come up with effective countermeasures!

Oklahoma City, where the U.S. Southern Border Garrison Command is located, in the operations room of the headquarters, on a large military map, thick blue lines marking the German offensive route are like three sharp knives, pointing directly at Oklahoma, the center of the United States.

The city of Homer is the target pointed by one of the sharp knives.

(To be continued)(To be continued...)

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