readx; Clark is one of them, he became a general before he was fifty years old, and it is not the kind that has been steadily promoted, but belongs to the general who soared all of a sudden in the later period, this command ability is actually really average, last year he led the 5th Army to land in Italy, but when fighting the German army in central Italy, the 5th Army suffered heavy losses and was able to break through the German defense line, and finally after China marched rapidly from the Balkans, the German army in order to avoid being surrounded by the Chinese and American armies, Only then did he take the initiative to abandon central Italy, so that Clark could lead his troops to capture Rome, and in the subsequent northern Italian operations, Clark actually did not take the initiative to repel the German army, but the German army took the initiative to abandon northern Italy, transferred to southern France and retreated to Austria back to Germany, which allowed Clark's 5th Army to capture northern Italy without a single shot. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo.

No matter although his tactical command ability is very average, as a soldier, he naturally cannot bear that Kechakh was attacked and conquered by the Chinese, and he wants to counterattack.

However, when Washington got the news, it demanded that Clark's troops exercise restraint and not launch large-scale military operations without authorization. This upset Clark, but he had no choice but to listen to Washington's advice: to stop the large-scale offensive on the front line until the situation was clear and Washington had not decided to start a full-scale war against China.

Based on this, General Clark also ordered the 9th Division to stop the counteroffensive against Quechach in the evening and build a defensive line on the spot, but the reinforcement of troops did not stop, and the 39th Infantry Regiment, another infantry regiment of the 9th Division, had also arrived, and a follow-up US infantry division also sent a considerable part of the troops to approach and move forward to threaten the other main force of the 3rd Division, that is, the defense line of the 3rd Division's A battle group.

In fact, after one o'clock in the afternoon, the early large-scale battle had already ended, although the US troops launched a counteroffensive at 3 to 4 o'clock in the afternoon, but because the defense system of the 3rd Division B Battle Group and the Austrian 6th Division had been constructed, the US troops saw that it was difficult to take it in a short period of time, so they stopped the offensive and prepared to wait for the arrival of the main forces of the 60th and 39th regiments and the 767th tank battalion before launching a counteroffensive.

And by five o'clock in the afternoon, the fighting in the direction of Kochakh had completely stopped, and there was no more cold gunning.

At this time, the diplomatic tussle has begun!

However, although the battle is over, the battle of Kchach, which was only a skirmish in World War II, continues to exert its enormous influence.

While the diplomatic debate is going on, the top military officials in China and the United States are analyzing a large number of Kochakh's war reports. As far as China is concerned, this time the battle of Kochach is not only to slap the Americans in the mouth, but also to learn the real combat effectiveness of the US Army and the possible gap between the two armies in actual combat.

"According to the report of the Third Division, we have sorted out a detailed battle report of this battle!" In the Nanjing General Staff, Liu Tuguang, head of the Operations Department and lieutenant general of the army, was explaining the battle in Kechakh to the top brass of the army present.

At the same time, a topographical sand table centered on Khachach in the conference room was also moved by a colonel, constantly moving various small flags according to Liu Tuguang's explanation.

"At 10 o'clock in the morning local time, the air force unit conducted a multi-level reconnaissance of the medium, high and low altitude of Kechakh and the surrounding area, and finally confirmed the deployment of the US troops, the 332nd Infantry Battalion and the 13th Tank Battalion of the 3rd Division B Battle Group led by Lieutenant Colonel Zhao Lindong moved forward, and the first self-propelled rocket artillery company and a self-propelled artillery battalion of the B battle group also went forward and deployed to the predetermined area. At 11:20 a.m., a bomber group of 58 planes of the Air Force arrived over Khachakh and bombed with 11:30 a.m.

At 35 minutes, Lieutenant Colonel Zhao Lindong led his troops to the outskirts of Quechach and directed his troops to attack forward, while the artillery units launched a large-scale artillery bombardment of Quechach, and at the same time the Austrian Wehrmacht also made a rapid march three kilometers away to reinforce Quechach.

In the following thirty minutes, the 332nd Infantry Battalion and the 13th Tank fought fiercely with an infantry battalion and a tank company of the American Army in Quechach, and at 12:08, the 13th Tank Battalion found the enemy tank unit reinforced from the southeast, and after the battle, it was confirmed that the enemy's 751st Tank Battalion belonged, and then the 13th Tank Battalion and the enemy's 751st Tank Battalion engaged in fierce tank fighting, and successfully blocked the 751st Tank Battalion outside the town of Kechach, about 12:30, The 332nd Infantry Battalion drove out the American units in the town of Quechach, forcing the remnants of the American army to retreat from the east. Subsequently, the 334th Infantry Battalion and the 13th Tank Battalion of our army, in cooperation with the 17th Infantry Battalion of the Austrian Wehrmacht, resisted the counterattack of the enemy's 47th Infantry Regiment and the enemy's 60th Infantry Battalion and 767th Tank Battalion.

By 5 p.m. local time, the large-scale fighting between the two sides had ended and was now in a stalemate. ”

After briefly describing the course of the Battle of Kechakh, Lieutenant General Liu Tuguang continued: "In this battle, our 3rd Division lost a total of 37 soldiers killed and 240 wounded, and the casualties accounted for 10 percent of the troops participating in the battle. Thirteen tanks, four infantry fighting vehicles, one self-propelled assault gun, and 27 other armored vehicles were completely destroyed, and about 400 small arms were damaged and lost. The number of casualties of the Austrian 6th Division, which was fought in concert, was about 200 men, 15 armored vehicles and about 300 light weapons. ”

This is China's own loss, among the casualties, although the number of casualties is not large, but the wounded are very large, mainly because the Chinese Army's front-line ambulance is quite efficient, and many seriously injured soldiers have been saved. The loss of other armored vehicles was also relatively large, because the battle of Khachach was actually a duel between the tanks of the two sides, and the main force of the battle was the 13th Tank Battalion of the Chinese Army and the 751st Tank Battalion of the US Army. In this fight, the tank losses on both sides were relatively large.

After talking about his own, he naturally has to talk about the Americans!

"Due to the withdrawal of the US troops and the removal of a large number of wounded and corpses, it is difficult for us to determine the casualty statistics of the US troops, but according to the estimates of the 3rd Division B battle group itself, they killed and wounded at least more than 400 US troops!" This data is not accurate and contains a certain amount of moisture.

"In terms of armoured vehicles and heavy weapons, we can confirm that 27 enemy tanks were destroyed or captured, of which six were M26 heavy tanks and the remainder were M4 medium tanks. Destroyed or captured 12 enemy self-propelled anti-tank guns, self-propelled assault guns, self-propelled artillery and other all-tracked armored vehicles. Destroy or capture 19 enemy towed artillery, mortars, and recoilless gunners. Destroyed or captured 27 enemy wheeled and half-track vehicles. ”

In terms of the comparison of heavy weapons losses, China's losses are much smaller than those of the U.S. military, and the reason why the most important tank battle loss ratio is relatively large is mainly because of the four tank companies equipped in the 751st tank battalion of the U.S. Army, three tank companies are M4 tanks, and only one tank company is an M26 heavy tank, and the M26 tank company did not arrive until a long time after the battle broke out, which also caused the U.S. military to rely on M4 tanks to reach China's T18 tanks and T14 light tanks in the early stage of the battle. As a result, huge losses of the US M4 tank were caused. It was not until the arrival of more than a dozen M26 tanks of the US army that the decline was slightly reversed, and thirteen T18 tanks were destroyed. Of the thirteen T18 tanks lost, nine were destroyed by the M26's frontal penetration of the hull frontal armor at medium range, and only three were destroyed by the U.S. M4 tanks from behind the flank. You must know that among the tanks that the United States participated in, the number of M4 tanks and M26 tanks reached three to one, but the comparison of results became one to three. It can be seen that the main tanks of various countries in the early stage of World War II, such as Germany's No. 4, the Soviet Army's T34, China's T9\12, and the United States' M4, compared with the main tanks of various countries in service in the late World War II, such as China's T18, the United States' M26, the Soviet Army's T44-100, IS-2, etc., have become insurmountable.

"Judging from the loss of personnel and equipment, the US military is stronger than we originally estimated!" In fact, throughout World War II, the Chinese Army has always been quite proud, basically thinking that the army units of other participating countries are second-rate troops, and in actual combat, the Chinese Army has basically fought with the troops of various countries, in the Southeast Asian War, and the armies of Britain and the United States have had small-scale battles, and in the Sino-Soviet military conflict in 1940, it also fought with the Soviet Army, and in 1944, it said that "Ben has been down, In the first half of this year, there was a battle with the German army in the Balkans, and in many of the above examples, basically the Chinese army was able to win, so it was natural to give birth to the psychology of arrogance.

However, in the Khachach conflict, the Chinese Army's proud firepower superiority was neutralized, although the Chinese Army has more artillery and tanks, but there are also many Americans, and if the gap in firepower is not very large, it generally cannot play a big role. Although the combination of the 1944 automatic rifle, the 1944 submachine gun and the 1943 general-purpose machine gun makes the Chinese infantry squad very powerful, but the Americans are not bad, M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle, M1 carbine, and then a lot of light machine guns and heavy machine guns, although the 332nd and 334th infantry battalions commanded by Zhao Lindong can still occupy a certain infantry weapon surname, but this is only a one-sided.

Because the advanced 1944 automatic rifle and 1944 submachine gun are not completely equipped with the entire huge Chinese Army, but only partially equipped, the above two automatic rifles were only mass-produced and put into service last year, and now a total of only more than one million units have been produced, but this number is actually completely impossible to completely replace the 1937 semi-automatic rifle and the 1936 series of submachine guns. At present, the 1944 automatic rifle series is only equipped with troops stationed in Europe, and the troops in China and Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Siberia and other regions are still equipped with 1937 semi-automatic rifles and 1936 submachine guns on a large scale, and it is very difficult to completely replace them in a short period of time. Many second-line troops have only been equipped with 1937 semi-automatic rifles in the past two years, and from the surname, the 1937 semi-automatic rifle is not backward, even if it is placed in the US Army, it is definitely the main rifle, so it is impossible to completely replace the semi-automatic rifle with a fully automatic rifle in a short period of time, and the current automatic rifle is only equipped with troops stationed in Europe.

That is to say, once a full-scale war breaks out between China and the United States, in terms of the weapons used in conventional warfare, the Chinese Army will actually not be able to take much advantage, whether in terms of numbers or surnames.

As for the quality of the soldiers and the quality of the officers, although the senior generals of the Americans do not have much experience, the US Army has been fighting large-scale wars for three or four consecutive years, and the Australian and North African wars, the Italian Wars, and the French battlefields have all given the US Army extremely valuable experience in large-scale campaigns, and these are what the Chinese Army lacks.

In other words, even though the officer corps of the Chinese Army surpasses that of the US Army in terms of quality, it is inferior to the US Army in terms of combat experience, and in particular, the war experience of ordinary soldiers and non-commissioned officers in the unit is very lacking.

When Liu Tuguang continued to explain the battle of Kechahe, it made the big army bosses present frown.