stonecrandall Chapter 936
Chapter 936
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: 0.080s Scan: 0.035sAfter learning that MacArthur had sent out his entire army and dispatched heavy troops to attack the German positions, Eisenhower not only did not feel the slightest bit of worry in his heart, but he breathed a sigh of relief!
“Finally he’s here! I thought he would hesitate for a while!”
Because he had worked as an aide to MacArthur for a period of time, Eisenhower knew his opponent inside and out!
In Eisenhower’s view, MacArthur had the ability, but he also had some shortcomings and deficiencies.
After meeting Model, Eisenhower couldn’t help but compare the two.
Compared with Model, MacArthur had a higher starting point.
After all, he was a descendant of a general and a top student at the West Point Military Academy.
His background brought him a high starting point and excellent resources, which made him ahead of Model from the beginning.
However, Model’s actual combat experience in the army, coupled with his outstanding personal combat command ability, made him appreciated by Mainz, and then he rose to prominence and caught the rapid rise and take-off of the Third
Reich!
The rapid rise of the Three Reichs was inseparable from the powerful German army, and as a key figure who grew up with the German army, Model’s many military ideas have been integrated into the construction of the German army!
Eisenhower had never worked with Mainz, so he was not sure about Mainz’s abilities, but he had to admit that Mainz knew how to use people, and he trusted his people!
His support for Model was all-round. Not only did he equip Model with a powerful army group, but he also equipped his troops with equipment and tactics based on Model’s personal style and characteristics.
With such an arrangement, although Model’s troops were small in number, they were as powerful as his own arms. He could maximize the abilities of the more than 300,000 people in his hands and fully demonstrate their powerful combat effectiveness on the battlefield!
Model has already… Not only has it been integrated into the German combat system, but it even has its own system.
And in this regard, no matter how good MacArthur’s family background and academic qualifications are, it is impossible for him to completely transform an army for his own use according to his personal wishes!
No American army is the personal plaything of any one person. Although MacArthur has great power, he is restricted by the Ministry of Defense and the civil service system. His control and transformation capabilities of the army are far less than that of the German army that was completely rebuilt after World War I!
Therefore, in Eisenhower’s view, Model and MacArthur belong to two types of generals. Model is the founder of the army and can implement his will in the army.
MacArthur is at most a tinker. He can influence the army but cannot transform the army!
If you have to rank them, Model’s The army belongs to the new army, while MacArthur’s US army still stays in the ranks of the old army!
The experience of the past few hundred years has shown that the new army that has undergone ideological changes can burst out with extremely strong combat effectiveness when facing the old army. Most of the fights are won by the new army!
The German army is very good at fighting, which Eisener knows very well.
But what he is more concerned about is whether the Southern Army in his hands, which has undergone more than three months of assault training, has such a strong combat effectiveness as the German army and can become a new army like the German army?
Whether it can, we will know after fighting!
Eisenhower took a deep breath and issued an order for the Southern Army to attack!
This order is not easy, because this is not only a time to test the quality of the Southern Army, but also a confrontation to compare the superiority and inferiority between him and MacArthur!
“I wonder what MacArthur would feel if he knew that the enemy he was facing was me?”
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“Have you found out clearly? Are the only third-rate Confederate troops appearing in front of us?”
The massive mobilization of the Confederate Army naturally could not be hidden from the eyes of the US military, so after learning the news, MacArthur and the US generals began to pay attention! After the
Confederate Army changed into weapons and uniforms provided by the German army, they actually looked no different from the German army from the outside.
So in the eyes of the US military, this enemy army that suddenly appeared in front of them was naturally regarded as the German army!
Because the US military believed in advance that the main force of the German army had left, their base camp should be very empty, so they did not expect that so many”German troops” would suddenly come out, so after discovering this army, the US military was greatly shocked. The front-line troops of the US military that were originally launching an attack actually stopped the attack without receiving an order to stop the action.
This made MacArthur very angry!
“Yes, these people are indeed the Southern Army that had fought against us before.
Because the German Army transported a lot of weapons, equipment and uniforms from Europe, and after they replaced these equipment, they looked not much different from the German Army in appearance, so they were easily mistaken for the German Army.
However, there is still a big gap between them and the German Army.
After our troops fought with them, it was obvious that their combat effectiveness was far inferior to that of the German Army!
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Although they lost the battle last time and lost face greatly, General Patton made up for it this time. When other troops were scared to death when they saw a large number of German troops and dared not attack, his troops dared to take the initiative to attack the ‘German Army’ and test the opponent’s quality!
This is already very rare!
So after hearing what General Patton said, MacArthur nodded slightly and said approvingly:”Well, you did a great job this time!”
Patton is capable. Although he made mistakes before, now is the time to use people. MacArthur doesn’t have any better candidates. So after seeing Patton turn over a new leaf and mend his ways, he also slightly changed his impression and began to think about re-employing General Patton!
However, there is no rush. Anyway, let’s wait and see how he performs next!
“Since the opposing army is the Confederate Army, then we don’t need to worry. Pass this message on and let the frontline soldiers know that the opposing army is not the German Army, but just a group of Confederate Army under the guise of the German Army!”
“Even if they were equipped with German equipment and uniforms, the Confederate Army was only a third-rate army. It would be no problem to defeat them!”
MacArthur said in a rather arrogant tone, looking down on the Confederate Army!
If the enemy was really the German Army, he would definitely not have this attitude!
“Let me see how strong you are, Mr. Eisenhower!”_