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Tepesi is a small town north of Mexico City, about thirty kilometers from Mexico City. The reason why Major General Shi Deyou, commander of the Armored Brigade of the 7th Group Army of the Chinese Army, chose this place as the location to cut off the retreat of the US troops was also completely based on the terrain. Tepesi is bordered by Lake Regnar to the east and mountains to the west by about 3,000 meters above sea level, and the road to northern Mexico leads to the town of Guò. As long as the squadron occupies this place, it will be able to intercept the American troops to the south. And the fate of these intercepted American troops is to be eaten by the main forces of the squadron that is advancing towards Mexico City. Other than that, there is no other possibility.

When Major General Shi Deyou and his troops arrived here, the American troops were retreating north from the Guò Highway from a distance. The armored forces of the Chinese army immediately launched an attack on the American troops, and the advancing tanks and armored vehicles, like tigers slaughtering into a flock of sheep, easily routed the American troops and captured the town. The U.S. troops, who were retreating north from Mexico City, were cut in two.

"The 22nd Tank Battalion, the 23rd Tank Battalion and the 24th and 25th Mechanized Infantry Battalions will go to the north to build a defensive line, the 72nd Tank Battalion, the 73rd Tank Battalion and the 74th Mechanized Infantry Battalion and the 75th Mechanized Infantry Battalion will go to the south to build a defensive line, and the other units will act as reserves and act immediately, the Americans will not give us too much time!" Major General Shi Deyou ordered. The armored forces of the squadron occupied Tepesi and blocked the way for the American troops to retreat, and the American troops would definitely not give up lightly. You must know that the US troops intercepted south of Tepesi at this moment have a total strength of more than a million people. If these U.S. troops are swallowed by the squadron, the U.S. Army will be greatly injured by it!

The armored units of the Chinese Army moved quickly. Tanks drove along the road in the town of Guò to their intended location. The light tank battalion and mechanized infantry battalion of the 6th Army and the soldiers of the 231st Regiment of the Army also took an active part in the construction of the defensive line. Their total strength is only 10,000 people, and it is conceivable how difficult it will be to resist the attack of the US army, which is dozens of times their size. Even if the combat effectiveness of the armored forces far exceeds that of ordinary infantry, it is conceivably difficult to hold the position before reinforcements arrive. After the capture of Tepesi, Major General Shi Deyou had already sent a telegram to the commander of the 7th Army, General Du Qizheng. Admiral Du Qizheng instructed Major General Shi Deyou to hold Tepesi before reinforcements arrived. Reinforcements will not arrive until tomorrow morning at the earliest. Not to mention. Now it's getting dark, and Air Force fighters can't come to support them. This means that they will have to face hundreds of thousands of US troops alone until dawn tomorrow morning. Fortunately, Tepesi's terrain was relatively dominant, and the large American army could not deploy. Otherwise, the armored forces of the Chinese Army will be in even greater danger! Everybody knows. What they are going to face is a bitter battle!

Thirty kilometers north of Tepesi, Polotitlan, became the seat of the new command of the U.S. Army. After discovering that the squadron was approaching Mexico City, Admiral Pershing and Admiral Davis withdrew from Mexico City and fled here. It's just that the faces of the two of them are very ugly now, although they escaped. But the main forces of the American army have not yet escaped.

"General, the situation has been clarified, the armored forces of the Chinese occupied Tepesi and are now building fortifications!" Admiral Davis anxiously walked into the temporary headquarters. Reported to Admiral Pershing.

"How many troops are there in the Chinese? How many troops have we withdrawn? Admiral Pershing asked.

"General, according to the information we have obtained, there are only more than 10,000 Chinese who occupy Tepesi, less than 20,000. But. All are tough armored units. And the troops that we withdrew from Mexico City, a total of twenty corps. Now there are only sixteen corps north of Tepesi, and four more are trapped south of Tepesi. In addition, if we fail to recapture Tepesi, the main forces of the eight armies retreating from Cuernavaca will also be annihilated by the Chinese! Admiral Davis said.

"Hell! Immediately organize troops and prepare to recapture Tepesi. Give orders to the troops left southwest of Tepesi, and if they want to survive, storm Tepesi, and we will fully cooperate with them! Admiral Pershing ordered viciously. The U.S. army has lost too many troops in this battle, and he must try his best to bring out more troops. The surrender of Lieutenant General Richard heralded the annihilation of the eight armies stationed in Puebla. Now that Cuautra was also surrounded, it was clear that the forces of the twelve corps there had no hope of escaping. Two other armies were at Cuernavaca to fend off the Chinese attack. Therefore, Admiral Pershing had to release the 12 corps stranded south of Tepesi, so as to ensure that the main force of the American army still existed.

"Yes, General!" Admiral Davis also knew that it had reached the most critical moment, so he did not dare to slack off, and immediately organized troops to prepare for an attack on Tepesi. However, it is not an easy task to organize a strong force from the fleeing US military to attack Tepesi. Many U.S. troops are now bent on escaping north, and the farther they can escape, the better, and it is better to be able to escape back to the United States all the time. It's harder to get them to turn around and join the fight than to kill them. Admiral Davis had an hour to complete the preparations, and the 15th and 16th Armies of the U.S. Army became the troops attacking Tepesi. It's just that the U.S. troops of both armies are quite reluctant.

Before the U.S. forces attacked from the northwest of Tepe, the U.S. forces in the south had already begun their offensive. At 7 p.m., the 71st Infantry Division of the 18th Army of the U.S. Army took the lead in attacking Tepesi. Their division was quite unlucky, just when their infantry division passed guòte pesci, the squadron killed, and after encountering a fierce blow from tanks and armored vehicles of the Chinese armored forces, the entire infantry division quickly collapsed. They were only one step away from escaping, which made the officers and men of the 71st Infantry Division of the US Army very depressed. After the division commander collected the rout, he immediately launched an attack on Tepesi, wanting to break through the defense line of the squadron and successfully escape from here while the squadron was not firmly established.

Without any artillery preparations, two infantry regiments of the 71st Infantry Division of the U.S. Army, nearly 6,000 American GIs, launched an attack on Tepesi, and the survival of the ** made them very brave at this moment. But wars are not won by bravery alone.

Although the armored units of the Chinese Army did not carry heavy artillery when pursuing, there were quite a few mortars and infantry guns. Immediately after the US troops entered the firing range, they were hit by intensive fire. Mortars and infantry guns, although not as powerful as large-caliber howitzers, have a much faster rate of fire. When the dense artillery shells exploded in the ranks of the American troops, the American GIs were dizzy. Due to the terrain, the frontal defense line of the squadron is not long, only two kilometers long. It was quite enough to guard the two-kilometer-long line of defense with two light tank battalions and two mechanized infantry battalions of the 7th Army.

On the defensive line, there are no fixed machine-gun fire points, and tanks and armored vehicles are the best fire points. After the U.S. troops entered the firing range, the machine guns on the tanks and armored vehicles opened fire quickly, and the dense bullets shrouded the U.S. troops like a storm, and the American GIs fell to the ground one by one.

Just twenty minutes after the start of the battle, the attack of the 71st Infantry Division of the US Army was repulsed, and the two regiments involved in the attack lost more than half. The retreating US troops were also depressed, and their morale was greatly affected. Originally, they only relied on a force of courage to attack the squadron, but in the face of huge casualties, the courage quickly retreated, and they recognized the reality only to find that the squadron was terrible.

At 7:30 p.m., U.S. forces also launched an attack northwest of Tepe. The U.S. forces to the north were much more prepared. Before the attack began, the US military gathered more than two hundred large-caliber heavy artillery pieces and carried out a heavy artillery attack on Tepesi. Tepesi was originally just a small town, and after the squadron occupied it, it did not have time to build strong fortifications, and suffered heavy losses in the heavy artillery bombardment of the American army. The tanks and armored vehicles deployed on the frontline positions were also damaged a lot by the heavy shelling of the US army, and with the tanks and armored vehicles that broke down on the road, the two light tank battalions of the 2nd Army's armored brigade were only half of the tanks left.

In order to get rid of this declining situation, Major General Shi Deyou ordered the armored troops in the north to take the initiative to attack, break through the American defense line, destroy the American artillery position, and the 231st Regiment transferred a battalion of troops to take over the defense line.

After receiving the order, dozens of tanks and armored vehicles of the armored brigade of the 2nd Army quickly drove towards the US troops. Originally, seeing the squadron being bombed, the morale of the US troops was high, but when they saw a large number of black iron bumps approaching them, they were frightened again one by one. At this time, it was close to dusk, and the sky was gradually darkening, and the armored troops of the squadron attacked the US troops against the background of the night, which made many US soldiers so frightened that they dropped their weapons and fled.

Originally, the U.S. Army placed the strength of an infantry division on the attack position, ready to attack after the artillery bombardment. However, the active attack of the armored forces of the Chinese army caused this infantry division to collapse ahead of schedule, and the armored units of the Chinese army broke through their positions lightly, and the troops pointed directly at the artillery positions of the American army!