Chapter 1804 cut off the railway
A small city with a total population of only more than 10,000 people, without even a city wall. How could such a city withstand the fierce attack of armored forces, let alone they have no defense?
As a city in the central United States, it is more than 1,000 kilometers away from the border between the United States and Canada. In the eyes of Americans, it is safe. Even if the Chinese occupy Hawaii, it threatens the entire west coast, causing panic on the west coast. However, the huge Rocky Mountains, like a huge city wall, protect the city in the central United States, and make the Americans very relieved. The war burns to the west coast and it is impossible to attack the hinterland of the United States.
As for Canada, Americans never regard Canada as a threat. A place where the population is only one-tenth of the United States and technology is far inferior to that of the United States in all aspects, such as technology, is fine if the Americans don’t cause trouble for him. How dare he attack the United States? Therefore, the entire border between the United States and Canada has no defensive force. That is, in the Great Lakes and near Chicago, the United States stationed some troops, not to guard against Canada, but to suppress bandits.
Years of comfort and mindfulness allowed Americans to taste the bitter fruit here. Americans never expected that Japan and China would burst out with such a powerful force. An armored torrent rushed over from the Great Plains, unstoppable and secretly rushed to the vicinity of the Pacific Railway in the middle.
The powerful armored force directly flattened the wooden fences on the periphery and rushed directly into the wooden houses. The thick wooden walls could withstand the invasion of the cold wind, but could not stop the bullets of the heavy machine gun. The bullets of about 7 mm penetrated the barriers of the walls, turning Ogden into a terrible realm.
In a city with more than 10,000 people, there are thousands of houses. Even if the tanks of three divisions are besieged together, it is impossible to completely kill these houses in an instant. When the Americans inside were awakened and found that someone was attacking, the bloody Americans began to fight back.
The United States can own guns, but in this era, the United States is not the only superpower in the world. Ordinary people have one or two guns, or even seven or eight guns. However, in this era, even ordinary urban female workers have a monthly salary of about 5 to 8 US dollars, even technical engineers are only 20 US dollars. A rifle may only be purchased by the military. However, in the gun shop, after several layers of price increase, the price is above 30 US dollars. These guns are really luxury goods.
Although gold is the general equivalent, the price of one ounce of gold can reach thousands of dollars in the United States in later generations, and some things are not ordinary equivalents, which are equivalent to, not really equal. After all, what determines the standard of living will always be basic living materials, rice, flour, oil, eggs and meat. In the early 20th century, $20 could be exchanged for one ounce of gold, but the exchanged materials for living materials, if rice, flour, and flour are used as the benchmark, it may be only equivalent to four or five hundred. In the 21st century, what can four or five hundred be done? It can only maintain basic living needs.
In fact, in the early 20th century, the same was true. These monthly wages were basically fixed living expenses. Most workers could only barely make a living. A few of them were destroyed and their families were destroyed. In this case, even if the United States could not ban guns, only a few guns were rare. Among the more than 10,000 people, there were only more than 1,000 guns. This proportion was considered high. In some small cities in the east, there might be only a few hundred, but more than 80% of these more than 10,000 guns were firearms from more than 20 years ago.
Such weapons are already good to defend against horse thieves. In the western films of later Americans, many horse thieves laughed at the city, but in fact, such actions were very rare after the 20th century. On the one hand, horse thieves were almost completely seized. On the other hand, among the civilians, the rise in possession of guns has increased among the civilians. Ordinary civilians also have enough force to resist these lawless enemies and dare to test the law with their own hands.
The New First Army is not a horse thief. At least the three armored divisions below attacked the city from both east and west and north. They were all armored vehicles armed to the teeth. They could block the artillery fire of the regular army. Facing 10,000 regular troops, they could rush forward without hesitation, not to mention the scattered soldiers. The US's resistance has always been relatively weak. All the counterattacks were hit by the Japanese army. In the end, the gunfire became more and more sparse, but the fire of Ogden burned violently. The final result was that in less than 40 minutes, the battle was over, the entire city was destroyed, and the loss of personnel and materials was huge.
This is a step of victory. It has not arrived at Salt Lake City, but it is already the first step to attack the Pacific Railway. Of course, they also know that they will be completely exposed. As early as yesterday, they knew that they could not hide it. When attacking the city, they did not consider hiding or cutting off the telephone line. With the speed of the telegram, this news might have been spread long ago. In this case, the secret is useless. What they need to do is to avoid the main force of the US military. According to the results they evaluated, it will take a certain amount of time for the United States to use enough threatening their army to block their armored forces.
During this time, it is their opportunity. They need to have enough time to destroy enough railways and walk along the railway. The East Coast is always the focus of the United States. The military force on the East Coast of the United States is at least 5 or more on the West Coast. In addition, Alaska's troops are more transferred from the East Coast. Because the distance here is relatively close and the difficulty of mobilization is very small, so after the Cherry Blossom Plan, it needs to go directly westward, from Salt Lake City to Rocky Mountains, about a few hundred kilometers.
When the Armored Legion attacked Ogden, there was also a small part of the force. At the attack station, the station was on the periphery of Ogden. Although it was also turning to the west, there was no industry, no population or agriculture around Ogden. His station was very few, which was much worse than Salt Lake City. The station was placed on the edge of the city.
The station has arranged 30 road guards and has some weapons, but this weapon is completely ineffective compared to armored power. A 40 tank only took 10 minutes to break through the station and then began to arrange explosives. When the armored power completely broke through Ogden, the bombs were finally arranged. When the detonation began, the entire Ogden Station, three railway bridges, and important railway fulcrums including 12 nodes were all blown up.
It takes a long time to recover just such a node, not to mention that this is just the first step on the New First Army's attack. Next, the attack continues.
There was no concealment on the Japanese side, and because of time, the telegrams did not cut off the contact. Ogden's side still used wired telegrams to spread the news that Ogden was attacked. The first news was quite simple, but it was attacked by a large number of unknown forces, and the second one was attacked by armored forces. Basically, the situation on Ogden's side was told.
Not to mention the US government and military, how surprised it would be when they received this telegram. In Kawasaki Mijing's command vehicle, Kawasaki Mijing received a report from the correspondent and Ogden was breached, she immediately began to contact the headquarters behind. The radio waves passed through the entire United States and then connected to the radar relay aircraft located 500 kilometers away from their location. In this operation, they notified the headquarters long before the action, and the radio relay aircraft had been hovering around the US-Canada border to help any war situation here to reach the headquarters as soon as possible.
Through the radio relay machine, it was transported to Alaska and Japan's base camp, cheering for this moment, and was always suppressed by the United States. This kind of frustration in my heart is conceivable. Now I finally retaliated against the United States. The Sakura Plan itself exists to fight back against the United States. Now, it has finally achieved the result, and it is the final result. This excitement in my heart is conceivable, as if the black clouds pressed on my heart have basically been wiped out.
For Japan, as long as they fight to the United States, it will be victory. After starting from Canada, they are worried, and only after they arrive in the United States will they feel a little relieved. Anyway, as long as they arrive in the United States, even if they solve the problem, even if they cannot achieve the ultimate goal and destroy the Pacific Railway, they will only destroy it in the United States and after passing through the Missouri River, which can be considered as a goal.
Now, this is even more so, destroying the greatest railway in American history and connecting the key railways between the East and the West. This will be in all directions for Japan's military force. For Japan, it is no less than a shot of a heart attack. Basically, it is a bit crazy like a chicken blood. Next, should we arrange it according to the arrangement of the Sakura Plan or go further and attack the eastward along the Pacific Railway, posing a greater threat to the United States.
While the Japanese were excited to attack the United States, Baotou was always waiting for this news. The entire Sakura Plan was basically carried out with the help of China. To a certain extent, the feasibility of this plan is very high and can be basically achieved. However, to achieve it, it requires opportunities. It depends on how much the Japanese have worked hard and how lucky they are.
Coincidentally, it may happen under any circumstances. It is unlikely that in Canada, but in the United States, the population has increased a lot, and it may be discovered. The plans in the United States may be adjusted at any time after the plan. Once discovered, the purpose will be changed directly. After the Missouri River, China is basically waiting. The possibility of achieving the goal is very high. Basically, it is not a problem to achieve the goal. After two days, they can only be found in Salt Lake City.
The entire armored convoy was completed under the modification of China. How powerful are such 5,000 armored vehicles and tanks? If the United States cannot preset its positions in advance and mobilize a large number of artillery and excitement, it will be impossible to resist the offensive of this armored force. According to the assessment of Japan based on China's help, even the most elite troops in Japan need at least 20 divisions and various heavy weapons, they can completely surround this armored force. Once there are any twists and turns in any place, it will be allowed to escape.
Now, even if it is not Salt Lake City, it is the city in front of Salt Lake City, but the distance between this city and Salt Lake City is only 53 kilometers, a 2-hour drive away, which means that the possibility of Salt Lake City winning is very high. In this case, it means that the Cherry Blossom Plan has been basically completed and the Pacific Railway has been cut off, which means that their Chencang plan can also be implemented.
This is the focus of China. The other, even several cities are destroyed. If the United States does its best and takes out the construction method of the Panama Canal, it may be possible to temporarily penetrate the railway in one or two months, at least reaching the level of utilization. This is not difficult. Even if it is fully repaired, it may not be difficult.
However, Chen Cang's plan is different, and he specifically destroys railway nodes in the Rocky Mountains, especially mountain tunnels, so the maintenance is the most difficult and almost impossible to repair.
After the Cherry Blossom Plan was launched, in a few days, the selected personnel in China had finally been completed. The total number of personnel did not reach the number of 600, but it also reduced to 680 people, with 80 more people. It has little impact on the overall plan. Instead, there are 80 more people who can carry enough explosives.
It can be imagined that the Pacific Railway was cut off from the north, and the United States must have been shocked. They took advantage of this time to blow up the part of the Rocky Mountains, close to the Great Plains. The reason for this is to support Japan from the side. The intercepted place here, the troops from the West Coast will not be able to be mobilized through the Pacific Railway, and the United States may not know who made it. Then they acted slowly until the buttons on both sides were sealed, and then gradually dealt with the middle part.
There is a prerequisite here, that is, there cannot be too many garrisons here in the Rocky Mountains. China is preparing to fight a time difference. After considering time, the West Coast will definitely send troops, but after the first wave of troops is dispatched and before the second wave of troops is dispatched, it is the best choice.
Chapter completed!