Nevada, in the heart of the city, north of Jefferson Mountain, on an inconspicuous ridge, Lieutenant General John De Witt, commander of the 4th Army of the United States Army, held a small tree with his hands, panting, and trying hard to straighten his body, but his waist was still bent very weakly, making him look particularly tired.

Next to it, more than a dozen guards formed a dense cordon, each carrying Thompson submachine guns, widened his eyes and focused on the surroundings and in the sky. Everyone carefully integrated their bodies with the surrounding vegetation, so as not to appear special as possible.

Lieutenant General Witt took the kettle handed over by him, slowly drank it in a small gulp of about two ounces, and stopped pouring it in. He raised his head and let the last little water moisten his throat, which seemed to be on fire. He held his breath for a minute before he slowly spit it out, sighing in a low voice: "I really want to strangle those guys who are lying on the map to make plans! Damn, do they know how difficult it is to leave Nevada's hinterland?"

Next to him, a lieutenant colonel who was following him grabbed the camouflage helmet and picked it halfway, pressed it back helplessly, flashing with his sleeves, and replied: "Or they thought we could all walk in the desert like camels without eating or drinking! But I can be sure that they must have been holding a ruler in their hands at that time and gestating. Otherwise, how could they calculate the route that was so big!"

This not-so-funny complaint just shows the dilemma they are facing now. The main force of a whole army was forced to disperse into a mountainous area of ​​more than 200 kilometers wide, and it was difficult to respond to each other. The scheduled time and place of the meeting were difficult to achieve. Now, Commander Witt, who had lost radio contact, did not know where the divisions under his command had gone.

They naturally followed Eisenhower's plan and made a big circle from the direction of Salt Lake City, quietly spreading to the infiltration attack army in central Nevada!

Lieutenant General Witt's 4th Army was originally a West Coast Defense Force stationed in San Francisco. After leading Zhu Bin the ocean-going fleet, he paid half of the casualties and fled to the mountains. After a confrontation for a while, he was forced to retreat again. He retreated to the middle reaches of the Humboldt River in one breath, and the headquarters simply arrived at Salt Lake City.

After running all the way, it would be better to say how embarrassed or embarrassed they were. Just losing their territory was enough to get rid of their military ranks. Fortunately, it was not just one or two of them that failed, but the entire US government. The entire US military power, especially the US Navy, which almost completely wiped out, were considered decent.

In the past six months of retreating, the 4th Army reorganized and replenished its forces, and even strengthened a lot of troops than before the war started. All kinds of new weapons were installed, and then they were full of energy. They thought about when they would come back and take revenge.

If they followed the previous idea and attacked from Carson again, the other party would only need to block a few valleys, or simply blow up the mountain tunnel that the Chinese workers had built with bones, and they would have to stare at them!

However, it is obvious that the Chinese did not give up and planned to continue using those railway bridges, and the US military also had the same opportunity.

This time, General Witt led all his troops to become the new force to counterattack the West Coast. He took the initiative to request the first batch to be dispatched. So they quietly arrived in the north by train, and then took advantage of the night to spread out and enter the mountains one by one.

The huge Nevada system is lined up from north to south, forming mountains that are 10 or 20 kilometers wide, with a large number of Gobi, deserts, grasslands, saltwater lakes and other roads in the middle... Don't expect it, it's good to be able to walk on both legs quickly.

The 4th Army began to use a large number of off-road vehicles. After running out, it started to lose parts and break down after less than a hundred kilometers. The speed could not even catch up with two legs, and was decisively abandoned. The motorcycle could walk for a longer period, but later it became more and more intense in the sky. Any smoke-producing thing might leak the target, and the oil could not be supplied, so it was decisively abandoned again.

Fortunately, I dare not say anything else here. I have as many horses as I want. I have returned to the era of expanding westward a hundred years ago. Cowboys dragged their families in groups, hunting Indians with rifles while expanding westward. The US Army soldiers used modern weapons that have been upgraded many times to sweep the mountains and sweep the earth, which is simply an epic reproduction.

However, no matter how well this thing is, it can be practical if it is practical. The most serious thing is that sheds of horses may become targets of air strikes. Those Chinese attack aircraft and patrol aircraft, who are idle and frustrated, are wandering around the low altitude all day long. When they find the target, they are curious and go around for a walk, and when they find something wrong, they open fire and fire.

People have camouflage costumes on their bodies, so they can hide at least. There are so many horses, and there are ammunition and cannons on them. It is too eye-catching. They sweep the machine cannons and reimburse them all, which is not worth the loss!

From the beginning, this journey was destined to be unstable. After entering the mountainous area for only a hundred kilometers, most of the water they carried was consumed almost the same. Horses died, cars were left behind, the position deviation of air supplies, and so on, etc., all of them were exhausted, including General Witt!

American soldiers rode a horse a hundred years ago, and later took a car, and really walked on the mountain road with two legs. This treatment is rare!

Various problems caused by insufficient estimates emerged one after another! It turned out that a unit of a company and the largest battalion was divided into several layers, becoming more and more chaotic. When it was the first small gathering after entering the mountainous area, at least five numbers of people appeared... Damn it was not until the war officially started, so it was so scattered that everyone was scattered!

It cannot be said that they did not fight at all. Airplanes in the sky, pilots who jumped, and special reconnaissance teams who rescued were numerous and numerous. Although on the surface, they did not seem to have exposed their intention to attack on a large scale--except senior commanders, even the officers at the battalion level did not know how many people they had come out, but only knew the first or second place that must be reached. The final combat target? Not clear.

In the hinterland of Nevada, the mountains are undulating, the population is running away, and the wild beasts are rippling by endless air battles, so they are not as good as eating or sleeping, and they are as thin as four taels of meat.

The tired and hungry soldier was fine. He was marching from the mountain grassland. When it was night, the cooling of the high ground made people feel extremely uncomfortable. He was covered in sweat and sticky, and then he was frozen and stuck to his body. It was awkward!

You can't make a fire and be afraid of being discovered. The strange smell that can kill people with cold cans can be smoked. Damn it is all unqualified products, various preservative additives, dead pigs and cows, and even feces! Bacteria? Just add some medicine to the army. Why do you eat it so well?

I dare not relax when I sleep. I dare not say that there are different species of poisonous snakes, especially in the Gobi desert at the lowest point, the rattlesnakes live so moist. I usually shake my tail and remind me that when it gets cold, I like to drill into the heat source--people's clothes. If I don't pay attention to intimate contact, I will foam at the mouth!

After four days, the American soldiers were tortured to death, and they were extremely miserable! Even General Witt, who was serving a bunch of people, almost broke his waist.

As the three-sided feint attack battle entered a stalemate, their troops completely disappeared into the mountains. The soldiers slowly began to adapt to the environment, but the food and water became less and less. The worst thing was that communication was completely interrupted!

When you enter the mountain, you can't drag the phone line, it's all up to radio. You were afraid of exposing the target and dared not open it all the time. Later, the attack on the periphery was too dense. Wang Zhangtang, who was impatient, simply started the full-band blocking operation. The sky was filled with electronic reconnaissance aircraft. The large transmitting antenna built in the mountains also operated at full power. The wireless communication environment of the eight Nevada, Utah, and Arizona war zones made a mess!

This is the first time such a large-scale tossing has completely lost its temper.

The worst thing is that General Witt discovered that no matter how good the plan was before, even if he had an accurate aviation map comparison, he would really enter the mountain, and many routes that seemed to be able to take could not be taken at all, and he had to change his route. This change may have missed the supply point, and it is very difficult to find the next one!

After finally getting to the big supply point, he found that the people who came here were unexpectedly more! If there were too many wolves and not enough meat, he would have to argue. He mediated for this, and he was too tired.

After all, on the seventh day, he finally led most of the people to the central part, using the Grand Canyon where Jefferson Mountain was located as a gathering point, but found that the level of the troops' agglomeration was far from reaching the planned goal, and they were at least one-third slower than the speed required by the plan!

Otherwise, why would the lieutenant colonel complain? If it were a flat road, it would be an inhumane practice for Americans to take a bus since childhood, or simply conceive in a car (miss) growth environment, relying on walking to advance hundreds of miles is simply an inhumane practice. Not to mention such a bad mountain environment, it would be a disaster!

Judging from the map, it seems that the route is not particularly difficult to walk, but after actually getting off the ground, the American soldiers realized how amazing they were to complete a hundred miles of mountain road in seven days. They had to complete the planned two hundred miles. Please, kill them!

General Witt was moving forward against the opposite direction along the largest tributary of the Humboldt River. There were dry river banks to walk along the way and drinking water to use. They were all exhausted. So how miserable should people on other routes be?

He couldn't help but remember another army on the East Road. Their gathering target was near the Troy Grand Canyon. Not to mention there were no rivers along the way, even if there were lakes, they were mostly saline-alkali lakes and could not be drunk. If you could not get enough supplies, you wouldn't know how much you would die of thirst!

Relatively speaking, the Eastern Army is easier to walk on, it is nothing more than more sand than stones, it depends on their luck.

According to the plan, the two troops must arrive at the predetermined location within seven days. The 4th Army needs to occupy Tonoppa first, and then split a part of them forward to the east, echoing the northern attack on Carson's troops, and be alert to the direction of Lake Mono, which may come from California, or provide restraint. Their location and role are very critical!

Then its main force will go south and rush to Las Vegas from another road. This requires coordination with the Eastern Army and a two-pronged approach. It is not only sudden, dense, fierce, but also extremely efficient!

The plan seems perfect, but when it is implemented, it is so hard to do it!

Looking from the hill to the distance, General Witt's biggest concern was that without radio communication, they would not know the progress of the Eastern Route Army. Whether they had arrived ahead of schedule at the attack, and once the two sides could not coordinate, they might become victims of the tactics.

He was also worried that before his own people arrived, the Air Force guys could not wait to throw heavy equipment and other things to Tonopah in advance. Once they were discovered by the enemy and quickly destroyed, their infantry carrying rifles and light machine guns would have no way to fight the armored forces head-on!

Only after entering the battlefield did I realize that the plan was not as fast as the change!

The Air Force released heavy equipment. Well, this is the idea of ​​Eisenhower's genius again.

Isn’t Nevada difficult to walk on the road? It doesn’t matter, our Great America has so many planes! If you can’t walk, we will jump over the air! Large-scale paratrooper airborne is too eye-catching and can easily attract the opponent’s fighter jets to intercept. It would be too unpleasant to be dead.

But what if people move from the ground and then use large numbers of transport aircraft to deploy in chaos? That would be more perfect!

Nowadays, the largest transport aircraft of the US military can transport M41 light tanks! Those towed artillery and other things are no problem. In particular, with the perfect demonstration of the Chinese, the major American arms groups are urgently working. The original version of airdrop armored vehicles, infantry fighting vehicles, etc., and even armed JEEP are all mass-produced. It is unrealistic to drop an armored division at one time, and a semi-mechanized infantry division, no problem!

In the past few days, General Witt has been watching the movements in the sky to see if there are a large number of transport planes overtaking. The radio also starts in time. See if you can find loopholes to contact the rear command.

All kinds of things are not going well!

He sighed deeply again. Just as General Witt was about to go out to observe the terrain environment, a buzzing sound suddenly came from the sky. The guard immediately rushed up to hide him. Then he saw a peregrine attack aircraft, arrogantly passing by from a low altitude. Under his wings, two thick rocket nests were showing shockingly, enough to make a battalion of armored units frightened!

This thick-skinned guy can't beat him up with anti-aircraft machine guns alone. Once the target is exposed, they won't have to survive.

General Witt waved his fist into the sky angrily, waited for a few minutes, and found that no troops were exposed, so he was full of anger. He waved his hand fiercely: "Continue to move forward!"

After getting off the hill, when it was dark, a small team of reconnaissance cavalry returned from the front and brought pretty good news. They had already survived the worst section of the road, and within fifty kilometers ahead, no trace of the enemy was found, and the Air Force did not throw umbrellas and bags. Everything seemed to be smoother.

General Witt applauded and ordered the troops to work harder to strive to reach the concentration of the Grand Canyon when dawn came the next day. Although it was still a little late, fortunately it was not too much. He had enough of such a broken road!

But he didn't know that if he could have such proper regulation, he would be the one who was cursed by them and who could only measure the ruler on the map, which could control the overall situation.

Behind, Eisenhower learned that there was a problem with communications in the entire Nevada theater. On the one hand, he reminded the Air Force to immediately find interference points and try to destroy them. At the same time, he made re-adjustment to postpone the originally planned airdrop time and continuously sent communication reconnaissance planes to repeatedly investigate and search for signals at the scheduled meeting place.

The plan he came up with was not so easy to collapse. General Witt and others planned that when they arrived at the ground, they would send out light signals at night to the reconnaissance plane to discover. This was all taken into account the possibility of communication terminals.

On the seventh day, the signal did not come, and he knew that something must have happened in the middle. Combined with the results of air combat and reconnaissance, he boldly determined that he encountered irresistible natural environmental obstacles. Eisenhewell suggested that the Air Force increase the supply efforts in the middle and put food, water, and ammunition into the secondary open supply points that were not calibrated.

This trick is really done right!

A large number of troops who ran the wrong route and missed the opportunity were replenished. As for those wasted, Americans were never afraid of wasting...

Before the early morning of the next day, General Witt could not wait to order the troops to send a signal, using special rocket fireworks to release rhythmically from the scheduled hilltop highlands, repeated several times.

Soon, the instructions from the General Command arrived in his hands after the plane, determined their location, re-planned the time for the launch of the general offensive, and conveyed the current position of the Eastern Route Army.

The Eastern Route Army was even worse than General Witter expected!

They were closer to the Eastern Front battlefield, with less vegetation on the ground, more open land, more poisonous snakes and less water, and many transport aircraft were shot down, resulting in insufficient early delivery.

Later, the opponent's reconnaissance force increased, which made it more difficult to move forward, and more small-scale conflicts intercepted. On several occasions, more than one company's organizational force was found infiltrating. At least with the cover of the feint attack troops, their main force was not exposed, but that was only a matter of time.

After realizing the crisis, the Eastern Route Army, regardless of fatigue, boldly determined that it would take the equipment and launch a fierce attack for only one day of repair. This made the 4th Army of Witt feel helpless, but had to do so.

So, after a tense daytime rest, a large number of fires lit up in the Grand Canyon that night, pointing out the direction for the transport aircraft group. Under the escort of fighter jets at night, a large number of supplies were thrown from the sky! Even the twin-engine P61 was involved in the delivery work!
Chapter completed!