Chapter 1689 Fire Reconnaissance
The US military has all kinds of problems. The reason why the US military can fight the European war is so vivid is that there are still some basic strength. The Japanese made a mistake. They did not adjust, but still fixed their previous arrangements. They seemed to think that this defense line was strong enough and that relying on this defense line could solve all problems. They did not know that the war was constantly changing.
After the eight Canadian divisions were wiped out, the United States did not lose its will to resist. When they had no choice, they forced a test method and no longer used large-scale troops to attack the Japanese positions. This was equivalent to dying. However, without the use of a whole charge, the protection strength of the entire position may not be judged. This requires certain sacrifices or even certain courage.
Americans are not afraid of sacrifice. Although sacrifice will be very troublesome and will cause turmoil in Congress and parliament, they will lose hundreds of thousands of dollars, and they are not worried about losing tens of thousands more. If tens of thousands of dollars are spent, they can figure out the virtuality and reality of the Japanese defense line, which is also very important for the US military's subsequent attack.
Next, almost 400,000 troops began to move forward. The Japanese were ready to fight, thinking that the United States would make the previous mistakes, and once again buried explosives, but they had no effect. The Americans were deceived once, and of course it was impossible to be deceived for the second time. This time, the camp was not only huge in scale, but covered 5 square kilometers, with a total of 20 camps, and they supported each other. Every time they arrived at a place, before setting up camp, they would dig about 7 meters deep, and some stubborn ones, and even dig down 7 meters. Not to mention, this method is very useful. Among the 20 camps, at least 4 found a large amount of explosives.
The United States finally knew how Japan buried explosives. To put it bluntly, it was quite dense. After this density was a certain degree, even if it was a lucky one, it would hit the big fortune.
After understanding how Japan laid explosives in the U.S. military camp, the mystery of the Japanese army was shattered. After all, Japan's special forces were not as good as China. With preparations in the United States, especially under a large number of searchlights and perfect camps, they were at most guerrillas. They were rare and mortars outside the range of machine guns, and the number would not be too large. Otherwise, they would be reacted by US artillery fire. It would never be possible to strike for more than 20 minutes like before. They did not feel so comfortable to fight back. The US military was considered to have gained a foothold in the front line of Juno.
After the US military camped, the special forces were dispatched one after another, but unfortunately the effect was not very good. The US military, who was prepared, was almost like a hedgehog. Sometimes, if a little attack was slightly affected, it would react violently. The action was so great that Japan's imperfect and insufficient equipment could not resist it at all. After suffering several major losses, the establishment of Japanese special forces was at least 40%, and there was no possibility of large-scale attacks anymore.
Taking a firm foothold in front of Juno is just the first step for the US military. Japan has prepared for this. Although it has consumed a considerable amount of special forces, this special forces have also destroyed at least three times the enemy's army, which is considered dead. Relying on Japan's strength is a defensive position. Hundreds of thousands of troops are hated in front of this line of defense and proved the strength of this line of defense with blood. How could he engage in field battles with the US military? It is not to use his own shortcomings to attack the enemy's strengths, and it is not done by wise men.
In the Japanese, the US military should have gained a foothold and launched a large-scale attack to attack the entire Juneau frontline. Even the frontline Kawasaki Mikai Department issued an order that the US military must be weakened as much as possible, focusing on killing and injury. If the US military's offensive is too fierce, it can retreat under the premise of consuming a sufficient number of US troops.
The most unwise thing in defensive operations is to defend the enemy. The entire Alaska is the battlefield. There are many areas of more than 1.5 million square kilometers that can be used as defensive positions. Juno is just a small part of it. And the Miyan Kawasaki is located in the place where the defense line is thickest. The strongest defense line is 40 kilometers around Juno, which is already 20 kilometers away from the main defense line.
In itself, Kawasaki Mikai destroyed the US-Canadian coalition forces on this line of defense, which was several times the number of their entire line of defense. After continuing to consume part of it, they can already withdraw. The elite soldiers who grew up in the war, coupled with some of the new recruits, are another complete and combat-capable army. There is no need to fight hard with the United States for such a little land.
The Japanese made a good plan, but the Americans did not follow the script they arranged. After gaining a foothold, they did not organize large-scale attacks, but stabilized them. First, they stabilized the US military's camps and kept thickening their defensive positions. Like Japan, digging trenches. It has to be said that the US military has been on the European battlefield and learned the experience of digging trenches from the bloody battle. Before all this front was used, a three-dimensional fortification was quickly formed.
The US military's actions were a bit extraordinary, but they still did not attract too much attention from the Japanese side. What they had to do was to defend, not attack. Japan had never thought of counterattacking the US military. The previous sneak attack on the camp was to send special forces to try it while the US military was not firmly established and sat on the bomb. In this way, only a small number of special forces were still there, and none of the regular army was dispatched to reduce losses.
Now, if the Americans build positions, they will build positions just like what they mean. No one can do anything to the fortifications of this area that really turn into reinforced concrete. It is beneficial for Japan. At the current rapid development stage, every day in Alaska, the strength of the Japanese increases a little.
However, the actions of the US military were beyond the understanding of the Japanese. After the stability of their foothold, they were indeed attacking, but not on a large scale, but on a small scale. Because they knew the range of artillery shells and preparations of artillery fire, there was no more. The US military just sent a small group of troops to attack Japan's defense line in the dark or in the gaps of the Japanese fire network. There were several or even dozens of attacks every day, with varying losses, but it was almost impossible to shake the Japanese position, and it seemed like they were here to investigate.
In fact, the US military sent a small group of troops to carry out a series of feint attacks on the defense line, and it was really here to investigate, mainly to test the strength of the defense line and how dense it is. In fact, the density of this defense line is far beyond the imagination of the US military. Even the US military did not expect that in just less than seven months, there was a long winter, the Japanese would have created such a three-dimensional defense line here, with a defense intensity that is even higher than that of the US military's position in Bordeaux, Europe.
This is still the firepower that has been detected. If the hidden strategic firepower is included, the firepower density of Japan's defense line is really crazy, but even the intensity shown makes the US military a little in a dilemma.
I have seen the three-dimensional defense line of Europe and Germany, and the US military that participated in the European war also attacked in front of such defense lines. However, there are really no such things as Japan who are crazy about this. There are at least 200 bunkers and 750 machine guns of all sizes on the one-kilometer-long defense line. This is the first floor on the outermost side. As a result of their investigation, there are at least 4 defense lines in the dozens of kilometers from the front to Juno. In terms of proportion, these four defense lines will gather more than 3,000 machine guns in a kilometer-long area.
When the Americans think of this, they have a headache. At least 120 kilometers above the entire Juno defense line, which means more than 300,000 machine guns. Of course, it is impossible to have so many, but as long as there are more than 250,000 machine guns on this line, this line of defense is an indestructible line of defense. This line of defense has a threat to infantry, even above a large number of artillery.
In the current era of hot weapons, the combination of machine guns and barbed wire is the best thing on the battlefield. They have the greatest killing of infantry. Such a line of defense was unsolvable before the birth of tanks, especially the number of Japanese recruits, which made this dense defense area with at least 4 million troops. This is the real headache for the United States. The reinforced concrete defense line, a large number of machine guns and artillery, if enough people are added, even if the same number of casualties are paid, they may not be able to capture the defense line. When thinking about the Bordeaux frontline, the main attack casualties ratio, the US commander is depressed. Even a powerful Germany, with enough artillery preparations, will have to pay one-to-one casualties to attack the US military camp, not to mention that the Allies attack Germany without paying 5:1 casualties, it is impossible to take the position.
Attack a huge position with 4 million people defending. Even if the two sides have a huge difference in combat power, they do not pay the same number of casualties, so they can not conquer this position. Can the US military bear such casualties? Although there are 4 million troops here, they have already lost nearly 500,000.
The US commander, holding the report he had been tested for a month, shook his head helplessly, immediately ordered the messenger to contact the rear immediately, which was nothing more than two points: equipment, weapons, and forces, especially heavy artillery. If possible, even the naval guns of ships were required, otherwise the opponent's artillery range advantage would not be offset.
According to previous data, the Japanese artillery has an amazing range. It is arranged a few kilometers behind, but it can reach about ten kilometers after the front line. Calculated, the minimum range is more than 20 kilometers. With such a range, ordinary artillery fire is useless at all. One artillery fire suppression is enough to make the US military blind. At least one range is about 15 kilometers before it can hold back the situation.
For fixed positions, artillery is probably the only useful one. Even reinforced concrete fortifications, after being attacked by large-caliber artillery fire and armor-piercing shells, may be able to rely on protective forces to resist at first. Over time, they will inevitably loosen, destroy, or even be broken. This is the stupidest method and the most effective method.
As this request was sent to the rear of the United States, there was also a comprehensive investigation and evaluation of Japanese positions. Although most of them were about 30 kilometers outside Juno and there was no information on the inside, the inference from the outside would be even more crazy. No one expected that Japan would complete this defense project that could be called a miracle.
After rushing the messenger, after feeling Vancouver, he could quickly pass the developed railway network in the Americas and send this information back. Anyway, he was no longer ready to defeat Japan at this time. It took more than a month to test it. It took the messenger 15 days from the front line to Vancouver, but it took less than 4 days from Vancouver to Washington.
The Joint Army Conference has been paying attention to the situation of this battle. The war of millions of troops has also lost 500,000 troops before. Although more than 60% of them are Canadian troops, they always lose so much. They have to figure out what strength the Japanese have and how much preparations they have made in Alaska.
Finally, there was a definite news, but it was such a news, a complete, three-dimensional reinforced concrete fortification or a huge range, spread around Juneau, nearly 10,000 square kilometers. No matter which of the two, it would be a huge casualty. Some officers did not believe why the Japanese made such a huge fortification. However, the detailed information of the front-line commander, a large amount of data and some picture information, proved how crazy the entire fortification was. It was just a machine gun that made people unable to look directly. After a little calculation, you will know how much the price it would cost to break through such a line of defense. This is not something that Americans can afford.
Heavy artillery and soldiers can be given, but if you really want to attack like this, all the generals fell into a big discussion. Some people even asked whether to live in peace with Japan, even if they pay Alaska, they were rejected by most of the joint meeting members. Japan's greed can be clearly shown from his history. Once they have gained a foothold in Alaska, they will face Canada. The huge Canada cannot be a threat to the United States before, and it cannot be a threat to Japan. Once Japan obtains enough nutrients from Canada, it will definitely compete with the United States in the Americas. Therefore, for the long-term stability of the United States, it must win this battle, and the loss is not too great. (To be continued.)
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