After hearing that Patton finally took office as commander of the Fifth Army and was willing to lead the troops to carry out the mission of boarding 6 behind enemy lines, Clark finally breathed a sigh of relief.

In his opinion, the navy's sudden proposal to land 6 behind enemy lines was quite unreliable and unserious, reflecting his impetuous and reckless attitude. According to his idea, the navy should cover the attack of the 6th Army and advance slowly from Brazil's east coast cities such as Salvador Ireus Seguru and Victoria, and then strive to seize the city of Rio in one go.

Is this tactic reasonable? Of course it makes sense.

The terrain between El Salvador and Rionejero is very strange. On the edge of Brazil's eastern coastline, there is a plain belt with a narrowest position of less than 10 kilometers and a widest position of only about 20 kilometers. This plain belt westward is a continuous mountainous hills and forest area, which is not suitable for heavy equipment cluster movements. At best, light infantry or mountain infantry can only be passed through. This is also the reason why Shoken estimates that the US military can only use up to 20,000 troops. If this limit is exceeded, the US military will not be able to provide sufficient logistical support.

But Shaoken still overestimated the Americans. He said that 20,000 people were calculated according to German standards. In his mind, troops could marches and necessary vehicles were used to carry materials and equipment. This was a little more compact and harder, it could maintain a scale of 20,000. But the problem was that American young men needed to take a car if they only had more than 5 kilometers, not to mention that this attack was not just a few kilometers, dozens of kilometers, but at least more than 1 kilometers, and such a long-distance marches had to bear the tactical requirements of personal equipment and were basically the same as asking them to live.

What's more, the US infantry division is much heavier than the German infantry division and has many tanks. According to German standards, each US infantry division can basically be considered an armored grenade division (referring to the old German organization). This is why Germany has more armored divisions in one go, and the tank production is more (after deducting the Soviet Union, the production of aid to Britain is basically the same as Germany). However, the 6th Army of the US Army only has 16 armored divisions, because the US military allocated a large number of tanks to traditional infantry rather than concentrated to supply armored divisions.

With the entire 8th Armored Division stationed in Britain being captured, there are now only 15 Armored Divisions of the US Army. Although the 2nd Armored Division has a complete number, it is a unit that has experienced the battles in Africa.

In this way, the required vehicles and equipment have increased greatly. Once the vehicles increase, the demand for fuel and accessories will also increase further, not to mention that the US military's demand for other daily necessities, including rations, exceeds that of the German army. According to Clark's calculations, it can only maintain a surprise attack team of about 500 people. No one wants to perform such a thankless task. To put it nicely, it is called a surprise attack team, to put it badly, it is called a death-sending squad.

Like Clark, everyone wants to use the tactics of moving forward together and relying on the advantages of air force and ground firepower to push through this slender plain belt. What should I do if I can't suppress it? Let the navy use naval guns to press! Most of the coastal areas are within the control range of naval guns, which is enough to clear out a front line.

According to Clark's idea, he had more soldiers than Germans, more artillery and tanks than Germans, more aircraft than Germans, and more navy support and supplies. According to this kind of front-line flat push, he would not lose no matter how hard he fought. This is also the reason why there is a "reasonable" theory.

Unfortunately, everyone, including Clark himself, did not know this tactic. In history, he had used this tactic in history. In the process of successfully landing in the Allied Army, Sicily and advancing to northern Italy, Clark led the Fifth Army to hit the German army commanded by Kesselin, who gave the US military a head-on attack. In September 1943, the Allied Army successfully landed in Italy, but until May 1945, the Allied Army failed to break through the German defense line. In Anzio, he hit the Gustav defense line and was bleeding from his head, and only advanced 70 kilometers in four months. In the Battle of Casino in 1944, Clark, then commander of the Fifth Army, gained four times the casualties of the German army under his absolute air superiority and firepower advantages. The Fifth Army he commanded accounted for 90% of the Allied casualties in the entire battle, so that Clark was called a "murderer" by grassroots officers and soldiers.

Even if Nimitz doesn't understand the 6th Army, he instinctively thinks that this tactic is inappropriate and too dull and wastes time. This means that the German army can intercept the US heavy army group as long as it is at a certain point. Even if it can't hold on, it is easy to retreat to the next defense point and snipe again. Is the reason why the Japanese 422nd Regiment can stubbornly defend and rescue friendly troops depends on this special terrain soon?

Not to mention that the Navy does not have so much time to spend with the 6th Army slowly, even if you have time, you can't do this. What should I do when the German fleet suddenly appears when it is crushing? Should I take charge of the 6th Army or the Navy?

General Jin had long seen through Clark's level and thought that he was just awesome. He said it well. He also closely followed the classic theories and the tactical secrets of famous military strategists. In fact, he would not fight at all. "It's far worse than Patton or Li Qiwei!" He was afraid that he would delay his blind command, so he tried every means to get the position of the commander of the Allied Commander of the South American War Zone for Nimitz, and asked Turner to tell Nimitz: "Don't worry about Clark's noise, fight as much as he should, and let Patton find more solutions."

So a very strange scene occurred in the Allied command system: the theater commander Nimitz stayed on the USS Franklin aircraft carrier to command, but the theater command was located in Recife, while the Fifth Army Command was still far away in Venezuela.

The German army did not show much more than this: Maschar, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the War Zone, is still in Europe, the War Zone Command is located on the Island of Cambodia, while the main force of the 6th Army's Shoken cluster is far away in Rio de Janeiro.

But there is one thing that the German army is much stronger than the US army. Shoken is not Clark, who is busy asking Patton to go to the front line. He holds real power and has the most excellent military equipment. The day after Berlin decided to adopt a radical plan, he commanded the troops to launch a sharp attack from the US army. The target was to intercept the German advancement of the 422nd Japanese Regiment.

After responding to the retreat of our troops, the 422nd Regiment retreated all the way north, but because they gave up a large number of vehicles to the retreating troops and had to cut off the cover, the retreating pace was unhappy. Clark wanted the retreating troops to assist the 422nd Regiment in defending the front line, but these guys had lost all their heavy equipment and could not play any role. He had to mobilize an anti-tank battalion and a tank battalion from the rear to assist the 422nd Regiment in jointly defending the first front near the city of Guarapari in Saint-Espiritu. It was the narrowest place in the entire East Coast Plain Belt of Brazil. The narrowest place was only 8 kilometers away, and next to it was a continuous hilly area, which could effectively block the passage of German heavy troops.

The 422nd Regiment had lost a quarter of its troops in the first blocking battle. Now the remaining troops and the newly added battalions of the regiment guarded the narrow passage and prevented the Germans from passing. In order to complete the mission, they not only cut off the coastal highway and dug three consecutive anti-tank trenches, but also cleverly deployed anti-tank firepower.

No matter how Clark is in other aspects, his personality charm is at least completely unspeakable to the 422nd Regiment. When other US troops disliked, discriminated against and even hated the 422nd Regiment, he not only did not show this emotion, but also pulled them over to act as the headquarters guard regiment, fully demonstrating his importance and mind. After the 422nd Regiment covered other troops' retreat, he did not regard it as a abandoned son who had been used, but sent supplies and supplementary soldiers in time (or Japanese). He also transferred two heavy battalions to coordinate the defense, and even made it clear that the 422nd Regiment commander of all troops.

The transferred heavy-armed battalions are not ordinary people, namely the 762nd Tank Battalion and the 898th Tank Destroyer Battalion. The former is equipped with the m26 heavy tanks that are rare in the US military, while the latter is equipped with the emergency modified m36 tank destroyer.

After the Battle of Cape Verde, the m6 heavy tank was confirmed to be a failed model by the US military and stopped production. More than 1ooo m6s produced were given to the British. After more than 1ooo each of the Canadian troops, the rest remained in the rear as training vehicles. However, the US military's desire for heavy tanks was not extinguished with the failure of the m6, but instead became stronger due to the stimulation of the Tiger tank. While the m6 was developed, the US military's two types of tanks were also exploring, which was a project that Roosevelt personally took charge.

With the day and night, the 9m tank gun was installed. The m26 based on the t26e2 (the second improved model) was finally released earlier than in history. Of course, this is a premature baby, because the m26 was improved on the basis of the t26e3 in history, but the Americans were eager to get equipment and did not care about so much. They could only improve while exploring. The newly released m26 car body has 12m armor on the front and the turret front armor is also 1o2mm. The new motor with 5oo horsepower has a height lowered by the use of a new dual-chamber carburetor, which significantly reduced the height of the car. The overall weight is controlled at about 42 tons, which is slightly lighter than the Tiger, but is beyond the Leopard.

According to the US military's view, the defense capability of this vehicle is close to that of the Tiger, and the artillery (9m) is slightly better than that of the Tiger, which uses 88mm/l56 tank guns. The maneuverability is basically the same, which is considered to be the heavy tank closest to that of the Tiger. Now there is a third and fourth modification. Among them, the fourth modification is deeply loved by the senior management of the 6th Army, that is, the hybrid version of the m26 turret and US-made components is installed on the I-2 tank chassis. The 6th Army Equipment Bureau even gave a special model m26/sp (combined with Stalin's S and Pershing's P) for the first time, and gave the Detroit General Factory a task of producing 8OO vehicles as soon as possible. As for the counterfeit I-2 chassis, Americans with a full set of drawings in their hands think this is not a problem. 8
Chapter completed!