bookpower Chapter 847
Chapter 847
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Although they defeated the rednecks who attacked them on the road, Model was not in a good mood.
Because these people were just a group of civilians who resisted with weapons, they were not professional soldiers!
However, even so, their impact on the German army was greater than that of professional soldiers, which made Model’s heart full of worries.
If they also encountered such fierce resistance in other areas of the Eagle Sauce in the future, how much would it cost for them to defeat the entire Eagle Sauce?
Under such concerns, the outbreak of the Battle of New Orleans further exacerbated his worries!
The number of American troops who fled to New Orleans did not exceed 100,000, a large part of whom were defeated or even frightened by the German army in the Battle of St. Marys. Counting on such a group of American troops to fight against the elite division of the German army, Model felt that the other side had no chance of winning.
However, after the battle broke out, this group of damn rednecks appeared again. Not only did they run out to harass the Germans when they attacked New Orleans, they even took up arms and fought street battles with the Germans after the Germans entered the city!
These people hid in every building in the city, and attacked immediately as soon as they saw the Germans show up. The Germans did not react at the beginning, so they suffered a lot of casualties after being attacked. These casualties were basically all the casualties of the Germans in this battle!
Fighting street battles is not an easy thing for any army. There are too many places to hide in street battles. With just a gun, a civilian can kill a well-trained and experienced elite soldier!
In World War II, the German army used lightning tactics and pincer offensives in mobile warfare to win one victory after another, easily annihilating hundreds of thousands or even millions of enemies, but when they fell into brutal street fighting, they hardly won any victory. Whether it was Leningrad in the north or Stalingrad in the south, the German army eventually lost these two brutal street battles!
Not only did they lose the battle, but they also suffered huge casualties, which severely damaged the German army and thus lost the initiative in the war!
Model was very worried that such a situation would happen on the Eagle Sauce side. After all, the number of rednecks was in the millions, far more than the number of German troops!
Moreover, the rednecks were all locals born and raised in the area. Their familiarity with the local terrain was incomparable to that of the German army. Therefore, in such a melee, the German army’s advantages might not be brought into play!
They were adapted to conventional warfare with regular enemies, not this unconventional guerrilla warfare!
Therefore, Model felt that it was necessary to train a targeted force specifically to deal with these rednecks!
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To be honest, even though the rednecks participated in this battle, the German army still did not suffer many casualties.
In the Battle of New Orleans, the German army suffered 260 casualties. Their results were the killing of more than 23,000 American soldiers and redneck militants, in addition to the capture of more than 80,000 American soldiers and rednecks!
The American soldiers fell like docile sheep in front of the German army.
When they saw the German army break through New Orleans, they immediately realized that they were doomed to fail, and then they surrendered to the German army obediently.
However, these rednecks, after their army surrendered, not only did they not surrender together, but they fought desperately while cursing at their own surrendered army.
Some of the more excited ones even turned their guns around and shot their own army first!
This scene made the attacking German soldiers feel very psychedelic, and they felt like they were appreciating a reward for strange behavior!
After the rednecks lost the US army’s help to share the firepower, they were immediately targeted by the German army. After realizing that these rednecks were hiding in houses disguised as civilians, the German army immediately became more vigilant. Relying on the cover of tanks and armored vehicles, they had to control a house first for almost every step forward. When they encountered some more difficult ones, they even fired directly to blow them down first!
As a result, the tactics of the rednecks began to fail. Many rednecks had no time to shoot before the buildings they were hiding in were blown down by the German tank guns. Without the cover of these houses, the exposed rednecks were obviously not fighting regular troops, so the subsequent battles were still one-sided. After the German army learned from experience and accumulated experience in dealing with these rednecks, the threat of the rednecks to them was reduced a lot.
However, the result was that the entire New Orleans city was severely damaged, more than half of the buildings in the city were destroyed, and the houses on the streets along the German army’s advance were almost all turned into ruins! The reason why
Model’s face was not good was because he saw the ruins all over the street and the mess of half the city!
The resistance of these rednecks was really unexpected. Even though they were trapped in a desperate situation of fighting alone, they still refused to surrender. Except for a very small number of soldiers who were wounded and captured, almost all other soldiers chose to die in battle.
This was what really frightened Model.
“Why doesn’t the U.S. military recruit these rednecks? In my opinion, they are an excellent source of soldiers. These people have a strong will to fight and are not lacking in basic military qualities. If they join the army, they will definitely become an army with a strong will to fight and strong combat effectiveness!”
Model asked Vanelk his question. During the march into Louisiana, the U.S. military still gave him the feeling that it was vulnerable, which made him look down on it.
However, these rednecks left him with an extremely dangerous impression. Therefore, he couldn’t understand why the Eagle Sauce government didn’t select soldiers from these brave and fierce rednecks to join the army to fight for the country?
“Uh… this question… is actually an economics question……”
Vanelk didn’t know how to explain it. Two years ago, when the economic crisis just broke out, the number of US troops was still small, only 100,000 people, and this problem did not exist at that time.
However, after the outbreak of the economic crisis, in order to solve the problem of the sharp increase in the number of unemployed people caused by the economic crisis, the Eagle Sauce began to expand the army on a large scale, and their army expanded to more than 3 million at once!
Most of the three million troops recruited were unemployed workers in factories.
In the Eagle Sauce country, their main industrial areas are concentrated in the Great Lakes region and the original thirteen states, where the economy is the most developed and the population is the most concentrated, so there are a large number of factories and strong market demand. The problem caused by this is that a large number of unemployed people in the Eagle Sauce are concentrated in the north!
With so many unemployed people concentrated in one area, the hidden danger can be said to be very large. Once it is not solved well, it is easy to form a riot.
Therefore, most of the soldiers recruited for the emergency expansion are also northerners. There is no way, who said that there are more unemployed people in the north?
“Moreover, in addition to this reason, the rednecks and the southern states are not on the same page with the federal government. They still retain the flag of the Confederacy. The southerners who join the army have their own organization within the US military and are very united. Moreover, they will bring their own Confederacy flags when they fight, which makes the Eagle Sauce government very unhappy. So if possible, they don’t want to recruit these troops!”
After listening to Vanelk’s words, Model’s eyes lit up:”I feel there is something to be done here!”