bookpower Chapter 927
Chapter 927
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Boom!
Fierce artillery fire continued to sound in Beaumont.
A large number of rednecks hid in the ruins and bunkers in fear, paying close attention to the sound coming from above, fearing that a shell would suddenly fall on their heads and send them to see the King of Hell! The
German bombardment had lasted for two days. On the first day, the intensive artillery fire had turned most of the buildings in Beaumont into ruins. The German army concentrated its firepower and focused on attacking the defenders’ fortifications, completely disintegrating the defense system hastily built by the defenders! On the second day
, after losing the exact target, the German artillery began to fire freely. As long as they saw which street or area in the city had soldiers gathered, they would immediately open fire. After the fortifications were destroyed, facing the flying shells in the air, the American soldiers could only look for cover everywhere to avoid being killed in the artillery attack, which caused them to be frequently exposed to the German army’s vision, so they suffered even more fierce attacks!
In just two days, the casualties of the American troops stationed here have exceeded half, and as the artillery attack continues, their casualties will inevitably continue to increase. By then, they may be wiped out by artillery fire before the German army launches a ground offensive!
Since the invention of the cannon, it has been called the king of war, and its performance is indeed worthy of this title. Whether in World War I or World War II, the number of soldiers who died in artillery bombardment is far greater than the number of soldiers who died under the muzzle of the gun!
Facing the bombardment of heavy-caliber artillery, the defenders in Beaumont City did not have any temper at all.
The enemy’s heavy artillery has a long range, hiding in a place where they can’t find it and bombing them from a distance. Although they want to fight back and knock down the enemy artillery positions that bombard them, so as to resolve the situation of being passively beaten, but the German artillery positions are really a bit far away, and they can’t reach them!
Moreover, they lacked anti-artillery radar, so they could not accurately locate the position of the enemy artillery. In addition, the German army had a large number of troops on the periphery for protection, which made their idea of attacking the German artillery position unrealistic!
If the regular army led by Ridgway was stationed in Beaumont, then in the face of the German artillery attack, they could at least use their own artillery to counterattack, and perhaps there would be a chance to kill the enemy’s artillery position.
However, most of the American troops trapped in Beaumont were the rednecks who had followed Anthony. These rednecks had few heavy weapons, and they lacked technical arms that could use these weapons. This led to them being passively beaten when facing the German artillery attack, but they could not find any chance to fight back!
Originally, the rednecks were still cheering themselves up. They felt that they had sent a telegram to the US military in Houston. After receiving the telegram, the US military would definitely come to rescue them. Houston was not far from Beaumont, and reinforcements would arrive in at most one day!
So they gritted their teeth and persisted through the first day. When they waited until the second day, they did not see any reinforcements at all!
The Americans who had said they were going to rescue them did not go out at all. They were still staying in Houston and had no intention of rescuing them!
This news was passed privately through other red necks, and the Eagle Sauce had no intention of revealing this matter!
So, the rednecks in Beaumont suddenly felt that they had been betrayed! The despicable Eagle Sauce people’s original promise was like a fart, and none of it was fulfilled!
They helped the US military kill Anthony and recapture Texas, but they didn’t expect the US military to treat these heroes like this!
This made the rednecks extremely angry, and at the same time they felt deeply disappointed with the Eagle Sauce!
Considering that they had cooperated with the German army before, and the German army outside the city was powerful and had a large number of troops, they would definitely be sacrificed as cannon fodder if they continued to fight, so many rednecks thought of surrendering to the German army!
If the German army accepted their surrender, they would not die here!
However, after some contact with the German army, the rednecks were clearly told that the German army did not like those who were fickle and repeatedly betrayed, and they happened to be such people!
The rednecks originally participated in the war against Germany as the Eagle Sauce militia, and then bravely fought with the German army on the battlefield. At that time, they represented the identity of the Eagle Sauce!
But then they found that they could not beat the German army, so under the leadership of Anthony, they betrayed the Eagle Sauce and reached a secret agreement with the German army in private, so that Texas broke away from the rule of the Eagle Sauce and established an independent country!
At this time, these people represented the interests of the Texas rednecks!
When the Eagle Sauce in the north moved south and began to invade Texas, these rednecks betrayed their big brother Anthony again, resulting in Anthony’s death, and they changed their allegiance again and joined the Eagle Sauce again!
If you don’t count their intention to join the Third Reich this time, then their position has been reversed three times before!
According to the ancient saying of the Celestial Empire, they can be regarded as slaves of three surnames!
When a person keeps betraying others, his moral standards will be quickly lowered. In this case, if he encounters a critical situation next time, it will be easy for him to betray again!
And no one likes such a person. No one likes to be betrayed, not to mention that this group of people has betrayed themselves once!
So Model didn’t even think about it and directly rejected the rednecks’ surrender.
Their former big brother Anthony was killed by them. Model didn’t believe that they would be loyal to the German army. Maybe in the future, under the temptation of huge interests, they would even take risks to assist the US military in doing some crazy things.
Instead of accepting such a huge hidden danger left by them, it is better to take this opportunity to kill them all to prevent future troubles!
“It seems that the rednecks are not very popular with the Eagle Sauce. In the past few days, the rednecks in Beaumont have sent a lot of telegrams to Houston, but Houston’s replies are getting fewer and fewer. It seems that Ridgway doesn’t want to care about the lives of these people anymore!”
Although Guderian has not personally experienced the taste of being betrayed by these people, he has obviously heard about this matter, so he said jokingly:”If Ridgway believed them, he would not leave them in such a dangerous place. Beaumont is a place where, if we really want to go west, this place will bear the brunt and will definitely be attacked. So Ridgway left all the rednecks here, in fact, he wanted to use our hands to kill all these people!”_