Age of Rebirth

This was the only counterattack by the U.S. military in the U.S.-Mexico border battle after the German army began to attack, and it also achieved great results. It became the only bright spot in the defense of the U.S. mainland, but the opponent was the Italian army.

The American soldiers jumped out of the trenches, swept the guns in their hands, and the mortar shells rained down on the pile of Italian soldiers. In one round, the Italian soldiers were killed and injured. , Picking up cheap Italian soldiers, where have they experienced such a terrifying scene.

In the eyes of the Italian soldiers, the American soldiers who fought back were almost like monsters and ghosts. As a result, the Italian soldiers' will to fight immediately collapsed.

Fear can spread, and soon, fleeing became the behavior of all Italian troops. The German attack on the left side of the US-Mexico border in the direction of Phoenix, because of the defeat of the Italian army, became the only attacking force that did not Complete the direction of the pre-battle plan.

The aggressively attacking Italian army had five divisions, with a total strength of more than [-] troops. In the end, they lost more than [-] people and lost all their tanks. Good news for breaking through US positions.

However, what they got was the loss of more than [-] people and all the tanks, and the report of the disastrous defeat. Admiral Orozuo sprayed a mouthful of blood gorgeously in the sunny sky in North America in January, and then, his eyes went dark, Very simply passed out.

After receiving the report of the fiasco of the Italian offensive, Marshal Rommel was completely speechless.Fortunately, he had been prepared for a long time, and he ordered the two armies following the Italian army.Taking over the attack, the assault group composed of four group armies plus five motorized infantry brigades pressed forward across the board.

Marshal Rommel was not worried about whether the left assault group could complete the scheduled tasks. In his view, the three attacking troops were all attacking in separate directions.Just because there is an accident in one direction, it will not affect the entire offensive deployment.The Italians' overreaching and ridiculous performance just delayed the time to break through the U.S. defense line in the direction of Phoenix!

As the German army went into the offensive, since then.US Army No.13 in the direction of Phoenix.The good times came to an end. The American soldiers who had just beaten up the Italians returned to the trenches. Before they could boast of their bravery and enjoy the joy of beating the enemy hard, they were greeted by German artillery fire like a volcanic eruption.

The artillery group of the German army is not as scratchy as the artillery of the Italian army, it is all large-caliber heavy artillery.There are a lot of them, and the dense shells have a piercing scream.The ground was smashed on the U.S. military positions, and immediately, the U.S. military positions were filled with dust, and the smoke plume soared into the sky. The soil was mixed with reinforced concrete fragments, mixed with the corpses of U.S. soldiers, and flew high into the air.

After the bombardment, the German soldiers lined up in a skirmish line to charge fiercely. The tank clusters covered the infantry. The tank guns knocked out the American anti-tank firepower one by one. When the tracks of the German tanks crushed the U.S. positions, and when the boots of the German soldiers set foot on American soil, the first line of defense of the U.S. military on the southern border collapsed.

On the evening of the day when the offensive was launched, the German three-way assault group all broke through the first line of defense of the US military on the southern border, and advanced an average of more than 150 kilometers in the United States. The speed was comparable to that of the German army in the middle. After the German army broke through the US position, the forward troops did not get entangled and approached the city of Santa Fe.

After the German assault group on the left side took over the offensive of the Italian army, it quickly broke through the defense of the No.13 Army of the U.S. Army. Surrounded the two divisions of the No.13 Army of the U.S. Army.

The German offensive troops on the right side surrounded the city of Austin and encircled most of the U.S. Army No. 11 in the city and its surrounding areas. Among them, the 260st Armored Division of the German Third Army, which had the fastest assault speed, broke into the United States. More than one kilometer, the soldiers 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 the troops to encircle and annihilate the U.S. troops in the encirclement at the fastest speed. Then, according to the predetermined plan, attack the target.

Marshal Rommel, in particular, commended the First Armored Division of the Third Army to the entire army, but at the same time he sent a telegram to Brigadier General Rudolph, the commander of the division, "Commander Rudolf, your advance is too fast. Already in a prominent position of the lone army, order your troops to stop the attack immediately and wait for the arrival of follow-up troops!"

Brigadier General Rudolf, commander of the [-]st Armored Division of the [-]rd Army Group of the German South American Army Group, is the father of the German Armored Forces and a protégé of General Guderian, the creator of the Blitzkrieg. Brigadier General Rudolph, who stopped the attack and was on the verge of fighting, was very dissatisfied and puzzled.

Speaking of which, Brigadier General Rudolph and Battelle still have a deep relationship. During the European Continental War initiated by Germany, Battelle was 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 the time. He witnessed with his own eyes that the Chinese, who was only 20 years old, used the armored group assault tactics originated in Germany to the fullest and even unpredictable.

Commander Battelle, who commanded the most elite "Lightning Assault Division" of the German Army across the battlefields of the European continent, made the British and French allied forces frightened at the time. After the fight, Battelle became the second object of sincere admiration after his teacher Guderian.

After being transferred to the South American Army Group, when the war against the United States was launched, Brigadier General Rudolph absolutely practiced the tactics and style of play of the two idols. The First Armored Division was like the "Lightning Assault Division" on the European battlefield in the past. Entering the land of no one, within a day, the advancing speed is the champion of the whole army!

Brigadier General Rudolf, who was suspended, couldn't figure out why Marshal Rommel would issue such an order, but he believed that Marshal Rommel, who had shown excellent military command skills on the European battlefield, would not commit low-level crimes. Wrong, in the face of such a famous general, he didn't even have the idea of ​​objecting, he could only resolutely execute 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 in the distance, Brigadier General Rudolph thought to himself, "If the First Armored Division is now commanded by Commander Battelle, what will he do? Do?"

On an island far away across the ocean, Battelle, who is conducting combined training with Han Tie, the commander of the Marine Corps of the Independent Division, commanded the armored forces and the Marine Corps. He would not know that on the North American battlefield, there was a German Brigadier General who was once his old subordinate. Teacher, I will think of myself!

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

The United States is different from the Soviet Union at that time. One is the overlord of the American continent that has been prepared and has strong national strength, and the other is a country that hastily confronted and has just experienced internal friction. Different opponents have to adopt different tactics.

Marshal Rommel's plan is that after breaking through the first line of defense of the US military, he does not pursue continuous rapid advance, but stops the attack before the second line of defense of the US military, and turns to encircle and annihilate the main force of the US military on the first line of defense. Mainly, after clearing the rear, continue to attack.

If it is said that in the war against the Soviet Union, Germany used rapid advance, long-distance and long-distance detours, and encircling the main force of the Soviet army as the main means. Then, in the war against the Americans, Marshal Rommel's strategy was to fight steadily and with every The battle must annihilate the vital forces of the US military.

Now, after breaking through the first line of defense of the U.S. military, the three-way assault group reached the predetermined target, and then spread out on the spot, forming a huge encirclement circle, enclosing more than [-] U.S. troops in one net, and then annihilating them. On the first day The progress of the battle clearly achieved the goal of Marshal Rommel.

According to the order of Marshal Rommel, the three-way assault group continued to attack for two days, captured the set target, and then began to expand horizontally, cutting off the US troops along the US-Mexico border, and withdrawing to all passages in the north. Hundreds of thousands of US soldiers There is no way to escape!

The defense of the U.S. military on the U.S.-Mexico border in the south was riddled with holes in one day and was divided into several sections. This was something Admiral Sutland, the commander of the U.S. southern border garrison, never expected. As soon as the battle started, the battle situation has been corrupted to this point!

Admiral Sutland 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 formulated before the war, the southern defense system was configured with a light front and a heavy rear. , Most of the troops and weapons and equipment are deployed on the second line of defense. Using the first line of defense, it can withstand the German army for at least three to five days, and try to slow down the German attack speed, so as to obtain sufficient preparations for the second line of defense time.

However, the German attack was so ferocious, the time it took to break through the first line of defense was so short, and the advance speed was so fast, it completely exceeded Admiral Sutland's expectations, and he was at a loss for what to do. In a short time, it was impossible to take Come up with effective countermeasures!

Oklahoma City, the seat of the U.S. Southern Frontier Command, in the war room of the headquarters, on a large military map, there are thick blue lines marking the German offensive route, like three sharp knives, pointing directly at the Forte of the United States, Oklahoma City Homer City is the target of one of the sharp knives.

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