69novels Chapter 922
Chapter 922
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After learning that Anthony and others were preparing to escape, Ridgway abandoned the army behind him and personally led an armored force to follow behind.
With the defeat of the US military on the battlefield, and after they saw the power of the German armored forces, the US military gradually realized the strength of the armored forces. As a result, a large number of orders flew to the industrial areas in the Great Lakes region like snowflakes, and ordered a large number of tanks and armored vehicles and other equipment from the military factories here.
Stimulated by the needs of war, the Eagle Sauce people developed three new tanks in one go, including the M3 Grant tank and the M4 Sherman tank and the heavier M26 Pershing tank.
These tanks are stronger than one another, especially the M4 Sherman and M26 Pershing tanks. The former is a medium tank specially built by the Eagle Sauce in comparison with the German No. 4 tank, and the latter is a heavy tank developed by the US military in order to suppress the German No. 4 tank in all directions!
If the US military could immediately replace the M26 Pershing tank at this time, then they would not have to fear the German armored forces on the battlefield. Even if they encountered the elite German armored forces, they would have been able to fight!
However, it is obviously not so easy to develop a new tank, so the Pershing tank is still a long way from being put into production. The US military can only rely on the M3 Grant tank that has been offline and the M4 Mann tank that is about to be put into production!
Since the outbreak of World War II, the German armored forces have achieved extremely brilliant results both in the European battlefield and in the American battlefield, which has made all countries attach great importance to the development of tanks, especially new tanks.
At this time, the mainstream powers in the world, whether it is the bear, the eagle sauce, the free Gaul that fled to Africa, and the sun that never sets that fled to South Asia, are speeding up the progress of developing their own new tanks. Even the foot basin people who originally had no idea about tanks were forced to join the tank arms race of various countries because they encountered more and more tanks on the battlefield of the Celestial Empire!
For the Eagle Sauce with strong industrial strength, it is not easy to develop a new tank, but if it is imitated according to the enemy’s tank, it is not very difficult, at least the appearance is easy to imitate, but the internal things need to be explored by themselves!
The automobile industry of the Eagle Sauce is very developed. There are a large number of automobile factories in their country, especially in the Great Lakes region, and most of these factories are concentrated in Detroit.
The production of tanks is actually not much different from the production of cars. If their production lines are slightly improved, they can meet the requirements of producing tanks.
Therefore, under the stimulation of a large number of orders, many automobile factories in the Motor City began to turn to the production of military products such as tanks and armored vehicles!
After all, affected by the war, the automobile industry of the Eagle Sauce has been hit hard.
The wealthy people in the eastern region have migrated inland in large numbers because of the panic of the German bombing.
Moreover, as the bombing planes have taken root in Florida, the inland areas of the Eagle Sauce are no longer safe.
In this case, the people have fallen into panic, and social and economic life have been greatly affected.
Car sales are even more sluggish, and they can no longer live on their old capital!
The transfer of a large number of automobile factories has made the tank production capacity of the Eagle Sauce advance by leaps and bounds. In just half a year, the production of their M3 tanks has become quite mature, and the production speed has also increased significantly. The production capacity has increased from hundreds of vehicles per month to thousands of vehicles per month!
According to the original strong production capacity of the Eagle Sauce during World War II, their peak period was more than 30,000 tanks per year, and an average of 2,500 tanks per month!
These tanks are enough to equip six armored divisions!
Although the production capacity of the Eagle Sauce has not increased so fast now, and a large number of factories have just started to produce tanks, the military pressure they face in this time and space is much greater than in history, so their demand for tanks is also greater, so the production capacity will increase faster. According to the current trend, in June, the monthly production of Eagle Sauce tanks may exceed 2,000!
From the beginning of the September War to now, it has only been more than three months, and the strong industrial strength of the Eagle Sauce has begun to rapidly transform into their military strength!
If the war is delayed any further, the strength of the military industry of the Eagle Sauce will become even stronger, and it will be even more difficult to deal with them at that time!
Therefore, the pressure on the German army is actually increasing rapidly!
The reason why Mainz decided to agree to Dönitz’s combat plan when the naval forces were not dominant, and sent the two fleets in the north and south to attack at the same time to find opportunities to attack the enemy’s fleet, was to open up the sea channel as soon as possible, transport the follow-up troops of the German army, and allow the German army’s troops to meet the requirements of launching a large-scale active offensive!
Facing opponents like the Eagle Sauce, it is necessary to use blitzkrieg tactics to quickly solve them. If it continues to drag on, the powerful military potential of the Eagle Sauce will be brought into play, and then both sides will fall into a cruel war of attrition!
Although after integrating the industry, manpower and various resources of the whole of Europe, the industrial strength of the Third Reich has surpassed that of the Eagle Sauce, but the Eagle Sauce is the country with the strongest industrial strength among single countries in the world after all. It is very difficult to drag it down in a war of attrition, and it is bound to consume a lot of time and energy.
Such a war of attrition is obviously not good for the empire. After all, there is a bear in Eastern Europe that is gathering strength and eyeing it covetously. Therefore, the German army must end the battle in North America as soon as possible and transfer its main forces back to Europe to participate in the upcoming war against the bear!
Ridgway did not know that the second batch of German troops was on the way. If he knew, he would have acted even faster!
“Anthony should have fled to the small town of Orange on the border of Louisiana and Texas. It is said that there is a German army stationed there, but the number of people is not large. If Anthony flees here, he can be protected by the German army. Once the other side retreats into Louisiana, it will be very difficult for us to catch him, because we must defeat the German army!”
Hearing the words of the deputy general, Ridgway nodded and said,”Since those people want to restore order, let them play their role and help us hold Anthony back. If Anthony escapes to the small town of Orange, don’t blame me for turning my back on him!”
“Yes, General, I will convey your words verbatim!”_