bookpower Chapter 955
Chapter 955
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“Hello, is this the headquarters? This is the Perry Front. Our position is under fierce attack. Please send reinforcements quickly. We can’t hold on any longer!”
“This is the Hiram front. More than half of my troops have suffered casualties. Please send us reinforcements as soon as possible!”
“Hey, this is Madison. When will our reinforcements arrive? Huh? They haven’t arrived yet? What are you doing? The Germans are attacking our positions like crazy, but you still don’t send reinforcements. I will go to General MacArthur and sue you!”
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Suddenly, the American positions in all directions were attacked fiercely by the German army almost at the same time. Unlike the previous tentative attack on Hill 207, the German army had no intention of probing this time. They directly dispatched the main force, with Guderian’s First Army as the main force, and matched the millions of troops and hundreds of thousands of militiamen of the Southern Army, and launched a vigorous counterattack on the entire front!
Such a counterattack came too suddenly, especially the participation of more than 300,000 elite German troops, which greatly exceeded the expectations of the US military, so that most of them were stunned when facing the German attack.
As a result, a large number of calls for help from the front line bombarded the US military headquarters!
MacArthur, who had just arrived at the headquarters, was already in shock because of the disastrous defeat on Hill 07. At this time, he encountered such a sudden situation, and he was even more panicked!
“What is the situation at the front?”
There were too many troops asking for help at the same time. MacArthur did not have that many troops, so he could not meet everyone’s needs at the same time.
Therefore, he could only make choices based on the actual situation of each position. If the situation at a position was urgent and the location was important, then this would definitely be the priority direction for reinforcement!
“It’s not good, especially on the Hiram front. Three brigade commanders under General Ricker were killed, and an entire division was wiped out. Just now, he sent the last guard company to the front line, but our reinforcements have not arrived yet. If the reinforcements don’t come, the Hiram position will definitely be lost. By then, the German army will tear a huge hole in the central position, and then form a flank attack or even encirclement of our left and right wing troops!”
MacArthur glanced at the map. Hiram was not far to the east of Lake City. The terrain of this place was relatively flat, which was very suitable for the rapid advance of the German armored and mechanized forces. Therefore, this was always the area where the US military focused its defense.
It can be imagined that the US military could see the important strategic value of this place, and there was no reason why the Germans could not see it, so it was not surprising that they invested heavily in attacking here.
However, the entire front was in chaos, a complete mess, and MacArthur lacked accurate intelligence. He didn’t know how many troops the Germans had invested in Hiram, let alone how many troops the Germans had invested in other places.
So he couldn’t make a decisive judgment. After all, the troops in his hands were limited. Hiram must be rescued. The key issue was how many reserve troops should be invested! If too few troops were invested, it might not help, but if too many troops were invested, other battlefields would not be able to rescue.
“We were too passive. We didn’t even notice the Germans’ large-scale military operation in advance. In my opinion, this was a mistake made by the intelligence system, and they should be held responsible!”
Faced with the messy situation, the U.S. military was at a loss. At this time, the first thing everyone thought of was not to find ways to solve the problem, but to shirk responsibility and find someone to take the blame.
The military unsurprisingly pushed everyone to the CIA and other intelligence departments!
“That’s right, hundreds of thousands of German troops landed in Florida ahead of time, and we didn’t even notice it. If we had known that there was such a German army in Florida, we would have been prepared in advance and arranged our defenses. In that case, we wouldn’t be in such a passive situation!”
This sentence seems to be fine, but in fact it is still an excuse to shirk responsibility.
After all, it doesn’t mean that they can hold on if they are well prepared! It’s not like the U.S. military has never fought with the German army before. Even if they are well prepared in advance, once the German army is determined to launch an attack, their defense line still can’t stop the German steel torrent. This has been reflected in several previous battles!
“I think the biggest crisis right now is not the front battlefield!”
Just when everyone was busy shirking responsibility, a young staff officer stood up and spoke slowly.
MacArthur looked in the direction of the voice and found that the person who spoke was the young staff officer, Major Clark!
Clark did not notice that MacArthur was looking at him. He walked to the front of the map, pointed to the west of Florida and said:
“The German offensive on the front was certainly massive and brought us a lot of trouble. Battle reports from all over the country came in like snowflakes, drawing all our attention to the front battlefield, and thus neglecting to guard against German threats from other directions!”
“Don’t forget, there is another German army group in Texas, and according to the intelligence we got before, General Ridgway’s Southwestern Army Group has been defeated, and Texas has fallen into the hands of the German army.
They only need to leave a small number of troops in Texas to maintain the situation, and the rest of the troops can all be withdrawn and inserted into the battlefield from our west to cooperate with the German army fighting head-on to form a semi-encirclement of our army!
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As Clark drew a semicircle on the map with his baton, everyone realized that if the German army really advanced from the west, the U.S. army would definitely not be able to stop it from the west. At that time, the U.S. army would face attacks from the south and the west, and their retreat direction would definitely be to the east and the north. In this way, they would be driven to the seaside!
If it was before, it would not matter even if they were driven to the seaside. After all, they had control of the Atlantic Ocean, and their navy was enough to protect their safety!
Even if they were surrounded by the German army, they could safely evacuate by boat from the sea.
But now is different from the past. With the failure of the Bermuda Battle, they have lost control of the sea in their southeastern coastal areas. So once they are driven to the seaside, even if they have a ship, they can’t leave by boat, because if they go out to sea by boat, they will definitely be intercepted by the German navy!