stonecrandall Chapter 953
Chapter 953
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“The shelling from the opposite side has stopped!”
“Why did they stop? Did they give up the attack?”
“It seems so, you see, their attacking forces have stopped attacking!”
“Yeah, I saw it, but why didn’t they retreat?”
“Maybe they are worried about being hit by machine guns and artillery fire on our high ground, so they plan to retreat in alternating cover?”
The sudden stop of artillery fire made the US military feel a little excited.
Although both sides had been engaged in an artillery battle before, the German artillery power was much stronger than theirs.
The main reason was that the German army on the opposite side was equipped with a large number of self-propelled artillery.
This kind of artillery had a higher rate of fire and moved faster.
It could go wherever it was needed.
Therefore, the German artillery support in local areas was far greater than that of the US military.
Because they were at a disadvantage in the artillery battle, the US troops on the front line actually felt considerable pressure. The German artillery shells posed a great threat to them, and most of the casualties on the positions were caused by the artillery bombardment!
At this moment, the German artillery fire finally stopped, and the US military was excited. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief!
There are usually two reasons for stopping the shelling. One is to prepare for the attack. After completing the artillery preparation, in order to avoid hurting themselves, the artillerymen will stop the shelling.
The other is to give up the attack and prepare to retreat. The artillerymen need to move and have no time to continue shelling!
The situation at this time is obviously the latter!
After all, the German soldiers are still a long distance away from the attack position. If the shelling stops so early, the support for the infantry will be too weak. The US military can easily complete the deployment before the German infantry touches the position and attack them head-on!
So stopping the shelling at this time is actually a call to retreat.
“The German army is nothing more than that, just a group of guys who bully the weak and fear the strong. When they saw that we sent reinforcements, they were scared!”
When most of the American soldiers breathed a sigh of relief, some of them were not very clear-headed. After seeing the German army retreat, they became arrogant!
In their opinion, the reason why the German army retreated was because they were scared away by them. If they further associate it, these people think that the German army has no blood and dare not fight them head-on with huge casualties. Therefore, they are regarded as the type of bully who only bully the weak and fear the strong!
This statement soon became popular throughout the US military. Since last year, they have never gained an advantage when facing the German army, so that the image of the German army in the hearts of the US military has always been an insurmountable mountain.
At this moment, after they forced the enemy back, they seemed to have discovered the scenery on the other side of this mountain, and thought that they had found a way to target the German army. This is obviously a life-saving straw for the US military, which is currently shrouded in the shadow of the German army!
They are belittling the enemy at this moment, which is actually cheering themselves up and making the US military think that the German army is nothing special and not invincible!
With this idea, when they face the German army again in the future, they will not be scared by the other side, and they will not be mentally inferior before the war starts!
Only after overcoming the inner demons can they have the possibility of victory!
So even though he knew that his subordinates were inaccurate and even a little inflated, MacArthur did not stop them.
The US military needs a victory so much. They need a victory to boost morale, even if it is just to repel the German attack. For them, such a result is very rare!
Change the role He thought deeply that if this position was still breached by the German army even though he was in charge, how serious would the morale of the American army be!
So although he failed to defeat the German army this time, the fact that the German army was able to withdraw was a relatively acceptable result for MacArthur.
However, the appearance of this strange German army still aroused his vigilance.
It is true that this German army is the real German army, but this German army does not seem to be the Second Army under Model that he had encountered before.
This seems to be a new German army!
The new German army obviously came from Europe, and after the failure of the Battle of Bermuda, the Eagle Sauce lost control of the western Atlantic, which allowed the German army to transfer troops from the mainland unimpeded.
This German army that appeared on the battlefield at this time The number of troops is not large, but they are obviously not the last German reinforcements, but just the beginning of the German large-scale landing!
When MacArthur thought that he might have to face hundreds of thousands or even millions of elite German troops arriving in North America from Europe in the future, he felt a little scalp numb!
Model’s army group is already so difficult to deal with. If there are more German troops, he really doesn’t know how to fight this battle!
Wait!
MacArthur just flashed Model’s name in his mind, and immediately thought of something!
The reason why Model dared to take his main force to attack Texas this time was because he had long known that a group of German troops were coming from the mainland to reinforce, and with the existence of a million Southern troops in Florida, the US military would never be able to capture this place anyway?
If so, then his attack in Florida might not be able to mobilize Model to come back for help!
Thinking of this, MacArthur suddenly shuddered, as if he was frightened by something!
Ridgway might be in trouble!
“General, an urgent telegram from Texas!”
What you fear will come true!
He just thought that Ridgway’s Southwest Army might be in danger, and then a telegram came from Texas!
MacArthur immediately opened the telegram and checked it. After reading it, his eyes went dark!
The content of the telegram was very short, just one sentence: The Southwest Army was ambushed by the German army in Saikin Town and has been completely destroyed. The whereabouts of the army commander Ridgway are unknown!
MacArthur closed his eyes in pain and remained silent for a long time.
The American generals around him who were still happy about the German withdrawal saw MacArthur’s uncomfortable expression, and their smiles dried up one by one. face.
Although I didn’t see the content of the telegram, seeing MacArthur’s appearance, combined with the source of the telegram, I can guess that something happened in Texas!
Boom!
It rains on a leaking roof!
Just when the US military was in doubt about what happened in Texas, a loud explosion suddenly exploded on their positions! The
American soldiers who originally thought that the German army was going to give up this attack changed their faces, because they had seen that the German attack was far from over!