bookpower Chapter 954
Chapter 954
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Eisenhower arrived at Hill 20 with the main force of the Southern Army, he was stunned by the scene in front of him!
Below this not very high nameless hill, there were piles of corpses!
These corpses were so dense that they almost filled the entire battlefield where the two sides fought!
Walking on the battlefield, you can almost step on shrapnel or bullet shells with every step, and the ground has completely lost its previous color and turned into a charred black. This is formed after the explosion, but to achieve this level, you need a lot of bombs!
Eisenhower was secretly surprised. Isn’t it just a battalion-level battle?
Why did it become a battle almost at the level of a meat grinder?
With such questions, Eisenhower found General Reinhardt, who was in charge of commanding this operation.
Although the operation was initiated by the German army, the main force participating in this operation was actually Eisenhower’s Southern Army.
After all, the number of German troops brought by Reinhardt was small, and most of the German troops were in the rear, not exposed, so as not to alert the enemy and scare away the American troops on the front battlefield.
However, considering the subsequent impact of this operation, as long as the American troops on the opposite side are not stupid, they will definitely give up the offensive plan to continue advancing southward, and immediately retreat or switch to defense on the spot!
Only in this way can they withstand the next attack of the German army!
“Haha, why did the fight turn out like this? I was not very clear about this question before, but now I have figured it out!”
Reinhardt was covered in dust and had a bandage on his head, but his expression looked quite relaxed, and his tone of voice seemed to sound particularly happy. While talking to Eisenhower, he also glanced at him.
Eisenhower followed his line of sight and looked to the side, and saw a dejected, captured American general.
Because Eisenhower himself had defected from the US military, he had an impression of some of the main generals of the US military. Although this person did not leave a deep impression on him, he vaguely felt that he seemed to have seen this person before.
Judging from what Reinhardt meant, the reason for the fight being like this was because of this person?
“He? No, no, no, of course not him, he is just a small army commander, how can he have such great power!”
Hearing Eisenhower’s question, Reinhardt shook his head repeatedly. Eisenhower couldn’t help rolling his eyes. From Reinhardt’s tone, he didn’t seem to take people of the army commander’s level seriously at all, but he seemed to have forgotten that he was just an army commander at the moment, and his army commander had just been promoted not long ago!
“Hey, you don’t know, we almost caught a big fish!
Reinhardt didn’t know what Eisenhower was complaining about. He seemed to have discovered some incredible secret and couldn’t help wanting to share it with someone.
Eisenhower was really interested and asked,”What kind of big fish? What level?”
He was going to say it was at the level of a corps commander, but after taking a look at the captured American corps commander whose name he couldn’t remember, he found that Reinhardt didn’t seem to care about him very much, so Eisenhower knew that he should be talking about someone else.
Since it was a big fish, but not at the level of a corps commander, it could only be the commander of the army group or a higher level!
“Hehe, General Guderian, the commander of the army group, has already caught one, that’s nothing, we almost caught that old guy MacArthur this time!”
Reinhardt was very proud of the first half of his words, but the second half was a little regretful. It was really just a little bit short!
Although he realized that there might be a big fish on the opposite side, he not only called in the heavy artillery group to assist his attack, but also called for air support to deal a more fatal blow to the US military!
But the tenacity of the US military exceeded his imagination. The other side was desperate and fought with huge casualties. It blocked the German army for half an hour, giving MacArthur time to escape!
Reinhardt didn’t know that MacArthur was opposite him until he caught an American general who fell behind.
After all, if you catch a major general with a casualty, the status of the fish that slipped through the net will definitely be higher, and the reason why the US military can fight so hard is probably related to the high level of the US military commander. Except for MacArthur, he really can’t think of any other general who has such great power!
“Is this true? A man of MacArthur’s level can’t just come to such a place casually, right?”
Eisenhower was also shocked when he heard Reinhardt’s words, but he thought about it again and felt that it seemed a little unlikely!
207 is just a well-known small hillside. There are no other high-value targets nearby except a field hospital. So he couldn’t figure out what was wrong with MacArthur to come here and personally command the front-line troops to fight the German army!
“Hehe, don’t say you don’t believe it. Even I don’t dare to believe it. If there weren’t witnesses and physical evidence here, I still can’t believe that I almost caught MacArthur!”
The witness Reinhardt mentioned was the captured American army commander, and the physical evidence was a US military map. It was found at the US forward command. From the logo on the map, it can be seen that this is a map of the US military’s front-line headquarters staff.
Either of these two pieces of evidence alone is not very convincing, but when the two are combined together, the persuasiveness is immediately improved a lot.
Eisenhower was very familiar with the US military, so after reading Reinhardt’s evidence, he basically believed 70% to 80% of what he said.
The remaining 20% was just doubts about whether he had the ability to catch MacArthur. After all
, Reinhardt did not have many troops, and the main force participating in this battle was still the Southern Army. In this case, it was almost impossible to capture MacArthur, unless MacArthur’s brain was watt, and he stayed where he was without running away, waiting for the German army to catch him!
Although MacArthur himself was not captured, this operation still had a lot of gains. At least they defeated MacArthur personally on the battlefield, and drove the latter around like a stray dog. Once this matter was announced, it would definitely cause a huge blow to the morale of the US military!
Thinking of this, Eisenhower immediately made a decision!
“General Reinhardt, the US military has been defeated this time, and I am afraid they will start to retreat. If the enemy advances, we will retreat, and if the enemy retreats, we will advance. Since they are retreating, then we should take the initiative to attack!”