The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 804

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US military is worthy of being the most wealthy army on the blue planet. During the economic crisis, President Harding expanded the size of the army and then placed a large number of arms orders to military factories, which to some extent solved the problem of high unemployment in the country.

The size of the US Army alone will expand from 100,000 to 3 million in two years, which directly absorbs 3 million unemployed people, and they are the most energetic young and middle-aged population.

The weapons and equipment required by the 3 million troops are also astronomical, which leads to the corresponding military factories The orders are also very full, and the military industry has therefore absorbed a large number of unemployed workers.

Although the Eagle Sauce people have a bad impression of President Harding, to some extent, these measures of President Harding actually solved the employment problems of many people, eased the contradictions in the Eagle Sauce, and made the situation faced by President Roosevelt when he took over a little better.

And benefiting from the expansion of a large number of military factories, the US military has stored a large amount of inventory in terms of weapons and equipment.

Their reserves of rifles, machine guns, mortars, artillery and even heavy artillery are extremely rich, not to mention bullets and artillery shells.

MacArthur stayed in the north for several days before and did not go south. On the one hand, it was his own strategic arrangement, and on the other hand, he was waiting for the arrival of these weapons and ammunition transported from the rear!

At this time, these arms are already in place, not only enough to meet their own needs, but even the 1.3 million US troops in the encirclement have a copy.

Even if the 100,000 surrounded US troops abandon all their weapons and run out empty-handed, they can immediately re-arm these soldiers with these weapons in reserve!

The richness of the US military’s supplies can be seen!

When facing a country with strong industrial strength like the Eagle Sauce, if you want to defeat them, you can’t expect to kill them, because it may be them or yourself who will be killed first! The best way to defeat them is to quickly cut into their country with blitzkrieg, focus on bombing the factories behind them, and quickly attack their homeland, control it, and make them lose the population and factories here!

In this way, the population and industrial strength in their jurisdiction will be greatly reduced, and their strength will be greatly weakened!

Historically, during the Soviet-German War, the German army used such tactics. They were not unaware of the strength comparison between the Soviet Union and Germany before the war. The military and government leaders of the Third Reich were actually very clear that the bears were stronger than them in terms of hard power, and they might not win if they delayed.

However, they still felt that they had a chance of winning, and this confidence came from their great victories in the two battles of blitzkrieg in Poland and blitzkrieg in Gaul!

The German high-ranking officials believed that although the bears were very strong, had a large land area, and a wide strategic depth, the Third Reich could not compare with them in these aspects.

However, the combat experience of the German armored forces was better than that of the Soviet army, and their lightning tactics were invincible in the world, so as long as they could successfully launch a sneak attack, and then quickly use blitzkrieg to attack the bears’ homeland, and bring the essence of Eastern Europe under the control of the German army, then the bears’ strength would be weakened, and the balance of the strength comparison between the two sides would tilt!

This strategic consideration was very reasonable from the perspective of the great success of the German army in the early stage of the war, that is, after the launch of Operation Barbarossa.

Operation Barbarossa was launched on June 22. After the Battle of Chifu in September, the Russians lost millions of troops on the front battlefield, half of the core areas of Eastern Europe fell, and more than 50 million citizens fell into the hands of the Germans.

At this time, the Russians had been crippled. As long as the Germans continued to make persistent efforts and continued to advance into the hinterland of the Russians and entered their industrial areas near Kazan as soon as possible, the Russians would be completely defeated!

However, the winter in Moscow blocked the German advance. The failure of this battle allowed the Germans to use blitzkrieg to quickly solve the strategic bankruptcy of the Russians. Even if the German high-level officials were unwilling, they had to accept that the two sides entered a stage of strategic stalemate, and the Germans had to fall into a cruel war of attrition with the Soviets!

In the war of attrition, the extremely strong mobilization ability of the Russians and the extremely failed management system of the Germans in the occupied areas made them lose the victory of this war little by little, and finally swallowed the bitter fruit of failure.

However, even if it failed, the huge consumption of the German army on the bear almost made the bear collapse. When the bear began to counterattack in 1943, the young and middle-aged people in the country had been mobilized, which led to the exhaustion of the Soviet army’s manpower. If they had not taken back Ukraine from the German army, they would have been relieved. Many of their troops might not even be able to make up for the new recruits!

The situation of the Eagle Sauce is similar to that of the bear. Their land area is also large, and their strategic depth is very wide. Moreover, because the German army landed from the south, and the most important industrial area of the Eagle Sauce is in the Great Lakes region in the north, and their core area is in the original independent thirteen states, most of which are located in the eastern coastal area.

Therefore, the German army’s attack on the Eagle Sauce is actually much more difficult than attacking the bear. They attack from south to north, and at least have to cross the entire Eagle Sauce to occupy the industrial area and densely populated core area of the Eagle Sauce!

This is obviously a very difficult thing, so the US military can continuously transport weapons and ammunition produced in the rear to the front line, so that the front-line troops can fight openly without worrying about insufficient ammunition!

The bombardment lasted much longer than the Germans expected. Their heavy artillery bombarded the German positions repeatedly, almost turning them upside down. It seemed that they would not stop until they killed all the German soldiers in the trenches!

After several hours of bombardment, the German positions were in a mess. The sandbags piled outside the trenches were blown up everywhere. Many trenches were blown down. The communication trenches dug by the Germans were almost all destroyed. As for the anti-artillery holes on the front-line positions of the Germans, although they had not been checked yet, they seemed to be destroyed from a distance!

“Haha, we haven’t attacked yet, and at least half of the German soldiers on the front line have been killed or wounded. Maybe the German troops on the front line have been wiped out by our artillery bombardment!”

Major General Frank was satisfied with the effect of the artillery bombardment, and felt that it would not be difficult for him to lead the First Army to attack later.

Perhaps, by the time they attack, there will be no living people on the position!

“The German positions are so quiet, there is no sound at all!”

After Marshall looked at the results of the bombing through a telescope, he felt a little suspicious.

The German positions were in a mess, and it seemed that the bombardment was very effective, but he did not see even a single German soldier, not even the bodies of German soldiers, which was a bit unusual!

Moreover, the Germans had not made any movement since they opened fire until now, not even a counterattack of artillery fire. Isn’t this too strange?

He had a vague feeling in his heart that the Germans seemed to have some ulterior motive waiting for them!