bookpower Chapter 796
Chapter 796
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Fighting in their homeland, they actually let the German army eat up 50,000 of them so easily. If this news spreads, it will definitely shock the whole country! This is indeed the case!
After the German army captured Lake City, the news of the tragic defeat of the US military quickly spread throughout the United States under the deliberate spread of people with ulterior motives!
This news caused an uproar in the Eagle Sauce country, and the people were extremely dissatisfied with the performance of their army on the battlefield!
“Even if there were 50,000 pigs, the German army would not be able to catch them all in three days, but they lost their position within two hours and were completely wiped out. Shame, damn shame!”
In a pub, a group of rednecks gathered to discuss the situation on the front line.
Before, when the US soldiers went south and the front line had frequent good news, they boasted about the US military. However, since the German army landed, the front line has received fewer and fewer good news, and more and more bad news, which made the rednecks very depressed!
They refused to accept the result that the US army could not beat the German army, but instead vented their anger on their own army!
“I heard that the German army only had more than 300,000 soldiers, while our troops to the south numbered more than 1.3 million. Together with the millions of troops under MacArthur, our strength was seven or eight times that of the enemy. With such a huge advantage in strength, how come they were surrounded by the enemy, and were so passive on the battlefield, getting beaten everywhere?”
The rednecks couldn’t understand why the difference in strength between the enemy and us on the battlefield was so great. It was reasonable that they should have surrounded the enemy and beaten them, but why was the real situation the other way around? They were surrounded and beaten by the enemy?
This made the rednecks a little confused!
“I have to admit that the German army is still strong. It is worthy of being the strongest army that swept across Europe. Even the Gauls and the British were not their opponents. Our army is not as good as others, so it is normal that we can’t beat them!”
At this time, some knowledgeable people began to realize that there is a gap between the US and German armies!
They were able to achieve very impressive results when facing the Southern Army before, because the Southern Army itself was very weak, and lacked soldiers and guns, and had no heavy weapons, so it was naturally unable to beat the regular army of the Eagle Sauce. But the German army is completely different from the Southern Army. They are well-trained, well-equipped, and they even have armored divisions that the US military does not have!
Facing the attack of the German armored forces, the US military seemed at a loss. They didn’t know how to deal with such an enemy, so they fought timidly. Although they had a huge advantage in manpower, they were passive everywhere. Fortunately, the German army had fewer troops. If the German army was more, even if there were not as many as the US army, as long as they had more than half of their troops, the US army in the south would probably not be able to resist.
“Therefore, we should build our own armored forces as soon as possible. Infantry should have been eliminated as early as the First World War. The future battlefield belongs to tanks and armored vehicles!”
Seeing the German armored forces showing off their might in front of the army and causing them to lose many soldiers and generals, the rednecks were so angry that their teeth itched!
But at the same time, they also realized the power of the armored forces, and some of the members of parliament wanted to build an armored force of their own!
“Our tanks seem to have been successfully developed, right?”
If you want to form an armored force, you must have qualified tanks. The reason why the German armored forces are famous is because their tanks have excellent performance and strong combat effectiveness, which are the existence that tanks of other countries cannot deal with!
If their tanks were as vulnerable as the Renault tanks in Gaul, then the Allies would not have to be so afraid of the German armored forces. They might have found a way to deal with the German armored forces long ago!
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The U.
S.
military actually developed tanks quite early.
In the late period of World War I, they had already introduced a batch of Renault tanks from Gaul to counterattack.
After the German No.
4 tank came out, they immediately began to imitate it.
At present, they have developed the Vickers tank and the M2 medium tank.
Among these two tanks, the first one is a copy of the Gaul Renault light tank, which is similar to the German No.
1 tank.
However, compared with the German No.
1 tank, the performance of the Vickers tank is much worse.
The M tank is the first medium tank independently developed by the U.S. military. It is a tank that they have made within their capabilities following the trend of the German army!
The tonnage of this tank is about 17 tons, equipped with a 37mm tank gun, and the maximum speed of the tank is about 43 kilometers. The performance of all aspects has improved a lot compared to the Vickers tank, and it is much more advanced than the tanks equipped by Gaul and the sun never sets at this time!
Of course, this tank has a big gap with the German No. 4 tank in terms of tonnage, firepower, protection performance and mobility, and even compared with the No. 3 tank with discounted performance, it has no advantage.
Therefore, this tank is destined to be just a transitional equipment for the US military. It will not be equipped on a large scale. It is developed only to solve the problem of having or not having.
They have currently urgently launched two tanks, namely the M3 Stuart tank and the M4 Sherman tank!
These two tanks are completely imitating the German tank No. 3 and tank No. 4. The Stuart tank emphasizes mobility, and the Sherman tank emphasizes firepower and protection capabilities. In this respect, they are almost identical to the German tank No. 3 and tank No. 4.
If the US military can successfully develop these two tanks and mass-produce them, it will be of great help to improve the combat effectiveness of the US military!
At this time, not only the rednecks in the civilian population thought of the tank problem, but also the senior officials of the American government and the military thought of this matter.
At the beginning of the war, the two light divisions of the German army ran 800 kilometers in one day, and the fact that they took down four cities in a row scared them!
Although the American army is big, how many 800 kilometers can the German army gallop unscrupulously?
The German army can easily run around like a no-man’s land under the noses of 100,000 American troops. If they change their target and do not try to encircle Jackson’s American troops, but rush straight to the capital of the north and the Eagle Sauce’s core areas in the northeastern coastal areas, I am afraid that the Eagle Sauce will not be able to stop their attack at all!
Thinking of this, both the Eagle Sauce government and the Eagle Sauce military can’t sit still. They absolutely cannot sit idly by and watch the German army wantonly encircle their own territory. They must be equipped with the same weapons to curb the German army’s actions and weaken the German army’s huge advantage in armored warfare!