stonecrandall Chapter 928
Chapter 928
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“So what do you think, should we kill him or not?”
Model suddenly turned around and asked curiously.
“Is there any need to say this? Do we need to care about these small fish and shrimps?”
Guderian sneered, and his words were understated, but in the blink of an eye, he had already decided the fate of tens of thousands of rednecks in Beaumont!
“Well said, I don’t want to care about them anymore. I originally recruited them because of their fighting power, but I didn’t expect that they would be defeated by the propaganda offensive of the Eagle Sauce. In this case, they have no meaning to us at all!”
Model shook his head as he spoke. It seemed that the efforts he and Vanelk had invested in this group of rednecks were in vain, which made him very unhappy!
“Humph, even if they can fight, so what? We have seen people who are better at fighting than them. If every good fighter comes to bargain with us, then we might as well go home and hug our children. Is it worth it to go through so much trouble to come to North America and fight with the Americans?”
Guderian never thought highly of these rednecks. In his opinion, since Texas is so important and has such rich oil resources, this place must be directly under their control. Handing it over to the rednecks for jurisdiction and then buying oil from them obviously made him very unhappy!
Why should the rednecks get a share?
If Anthony was still there, he might have had such an idea, but the rednecks trapped in Beaumont at this time had no such idea at all. All they wanted now was to save their own lives. If they wanted to bargain with the Germans, they would have to have the capital to do so!
After Model and Guderian made the decision, the intensity of the German offensive immediately increased a lot!
As a result, the rednecks, who were originally dizzy and suffered heavy casualties from the German artillery bombardment, were suddenly hit even harder.
They thought that the bombardment they had experienced was the worst. Fierce, so many people still hold a fluke mentality in their hearts, thinking that they can survive under the intensity of the German artillery bombardment before.
However, when the German army launched the president and tilted multiple shells to Beaumont in a short period of time, the fantasy in these people’s hearts was completely shattered! Before the shelling was over, the German armored forces and infantry had already begun to coordinate with tanks and began to kill the positions of the defenders in the city!
As a result, the artillery bombardment had just stopped, and the sound of gunfire from the German attack rang out again on the streets!
The rednecks were not regular troops, and they had never seen such exquisite infantry-artillery coordination and infantry-tank coordination tactics!
So when they finally recovered from the shock of the shelling and had no time to shake off the dust on their heads, they saw a black-painted steel behemoth!
The German tanks had hit the tank guns on their heads. The last scene that many redneck soldiers saw in this world was the flash of the German tank guns when they fired!
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Although Ridgway decided to sell the rednecks, it did not mean that he did not care about the situation in the Beaumont area.
The Beaumont area is not far from Oran and Houston. Generally speaking, this place is quite critical. If the German army takes it, then the next step will definitely be to attack Houston!
This has been proven in the last action of the German army entering Texas. With the previous successful experience, the German army has no reason to change its tactics this time. Therefore, even if the German army has not taken Beaumont for the time being, he must think about the next response measures! There are not many options in front of Ridgway. He has only two choices: stay and resist or temporarily avoid the front and retreat!
Staying to resist means that he will have to fight a positional war with the German army. The war experience in Europe shows that the German army has a strong positional warfare capability, and their tanks are extremely sharp. It is difficult for any line of defense to withstand the impact of their armored forces.
Therefore, in fighting a positional war with the German army, Ridgway is still somewhat lacking in confidence!
If this road is not feasible, it stands to reason that Ridgway should choose the second method.
But the second method is also not feasible!
If he takes his troops to take shelter and leave Houston, then the victory report he sent to the White House will be overturned immediately!
Moreover, he does not know the specific purpose of the German army’s action this time. Are they coming for him, or are they really coming to rescue the rednecks?
Or do they have other purposes?
Ridgway could not guess the thoughts of the German commander, so he did not dare to retreat easily, because if he retreated easily, the German army would be able to take the territories he withdrew from without any effort!
After the two previous serious blows, there were not many rednecks left in Texas, and because of the previous experience of surrender, the rednecks in Texas would easily choose to surrender when facing the German army, instead of choosing to fight them to the end. After all, they have figured out the characteristics of the German army. As long as they do not cause trouble for the German army and do not pose a threat to the German army, the German army will basically not come to trouble them.
The strong combat effectiveness of the German army is recognized by the world, but in fact there is another fine tradition that cannot be faulted by peers all over the world-the German army’s military discipline is also world-class!
“General, the front-line report, Beaumont fell three hours ago!”
Just as Ridgway was thinking about what decision he should make, the news of the German victory on the battlefield once again stimulated his nerves.
“After they captured Beaumont, did they stop in Beaumont, or continue to move westward?”
Ridgway no longer had time to think about the previous questions, because it was meaningless to think about them now!
Now his troops were no longer able to decide whether to fight or retreat!
They had to act according to the Germans’ mood!
If the Germans advanced too fast, they would catch up before they could safely withdraw from Houston. If they dared to continue to retreat, they would definitely be caught up by the German armored forces and then be bitten hard!
Of course, if the Germans did not pursue them, they would still have a chance to retreat.
However, Ridgway felt that Model would not give him such an opportunity.
“No, they did not stop at Beaumont, but immediately sent troops westward, and their vanguard had already set out even before Beaumont was captured!”
“What? They have already marched in, so why didn’t you say so earlier?” Li Qiwei was shocked. If what the deputy general said was true, wouldn’t it mean that the German army was already at the gates of the city?
Boom boom!