69novels Chapter 788
Chapter 788
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: 0.051s Scan: 0.044sThis bloody and tragic battle shocked the entire Eagle Sauce. They had never fought such a bloody battle. In just two days, they lost 200,000 troops!
And the worst thing is that Jackson City is still in the hands of the Southern Army!
In the previous battles, the fighting will shown by the Southern Army was really terrifying. They were like monsters who were not afraid of death. They rushed up in the night and used various means to send the Eagle Sauce soldiers to see God!
Night battles have never been the strong point of the US military, especially in complex battles such as street fighting!
Every sneak attack by the enemy made them terrified and unable to sleep and eat, so the Eagle Sauce soldiers began to fear. They refused to stay in Jackson City at night, because nine out of ten troops who did so before died in the city.
Under the strong demands of the soldiers, the US military had to make concessions. They formulated a strange tactic: launch a fierce attack at all costs during the day, strive to capture Jackson City before dark, and then organize defense outside the city to resist the enemy’s attack.
If the entire city cannot be captured during the day, then the positions occupied during the day will be completely abandoned at night, retreat outside the city, and continue the attack the next morning!
This tactic caused the Southern Army to delay for several days, giving Eisenhower time to understand the current situation of the Southern Army and time to take over the army!
To be honest, the current situation facing the Southern Army is quite bad.
After the Eagle Sauce Army was dispatched, the pressure they faced immediately increased.
A large number of Eagle Sauce troops were transferred from the north to the south. In the Florida front alone, the US military had a strength of 1.3 million.
Although the Southern Army had undergone an emergency mobilization, the total strength of the troops at this time was still less than one million, only about 800,000.
Moreover, their equipment was very poor. Most of them were various firearms brought by the people from their homes. They lacked heavy weapons. They did not have weapons such as heavy artillery, tanks, and airplanes at all!
Moreover, Florida is a peninsula, and they have no navy, so the enemy can attack them from the sea and threaten the safety of their two wings!
But the good news is that the main fleet of the Eagle Sauce Navy led by Admiral Jin is on the way north at this time. They have just participated in the Battle of Greenland, attacked the German base on Greenland, shelled and bombed the German airport in the south of Greenland, and also broke out an artillery battle with the German troops stationed on the island!
In the artillery battle, although the Eagle Sauce Navy had more artillery, the German artillery defense facilities were very complete, resulting in the Eagle Sauce not taking advantage in the artillery battle. In the end, they relied on bombers taking off from two aircraft carriers to destroy the German airport on Greenland.
However, even if they did not attack these two, after entering midwinter, the temperature in Greenland dropped sharply, and planes could take off and land normally here, so the German army transited from Greenland, and the bombing of North America has come to an end!
Now, their eyes have been set directly on the homeland of the sauce. As long as Model’s Second Army can gain a foothold in North America and obtain a stable base, the German Air Force and Navy will come across the sea, relying on these bases occupied by the army to erode the sea and air force space of the Eagle Sauce and help the army win the war!
In this case, the US Navy ran a long way. On the surface, they destroyed the two airports in Greenland, but in fact they had no results. On the contrary, because their main force was not in the homeland, they could not launch a comprehensive siege of the Southern Army from the sea!
Jackson City is on the Atlantic coast.
If the main force of the Eagle Sauce Navy is still in the homeland at this time, then this battle will be their stage for performance!
What’s more serious is that because the main fleet of the Eagle Sauce went north to attack Greenland, the German Second Army and a large number of combat supplies fleets that the Germans risked sending out encountered almost no trouble during the voyage at sea.
The German escort fleet only encountered a few sporadic Eagle Sauce warships along the way.
These warships did not pose any threat to the German expeditionary fleet at all and were easily killed by the Germans!
At this time, the Second Army has entered the waters near the United States. In two days, they will land on the mainland of the United States!
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In fact, before Eisenhower arrived in the South, Model had already arrived here.
The second half of the Jackson Campaign was actually commanded by Model.
Although the losses of the Southern Army in this battle were much heavier than those of the Eagle Sauce Army, in Model’s view, he didn’t care about the number of casualties at all. He only cared about the final result. As long as the city of Jackson was still under the control of the Southern Army, then in his view, this number of casualties was completely acceptable!
The Southern Army was not a regular army. Although they absorbed a lot of German soldiers who had served in the Eagle Sauce Army, the number of soldiers from these regular armies was still too small. Most of the soldiers in the Southern Army were ordinary civilians.
They had not undergone any formal military training. They fought with passion. They could not execute too complicated tactics, and they had no conditions to execute them. In this case, in addition to using blood and life to slow down the enemy’s advance, even Model could not find any better way!
However, Model is Model after all. What he is best at is one-for-one or even one-for-many. In such an unfavorable situation, he cleverly took advantage of the extremely high morale and firm fighting will of the Southern Army, and used the tactics of night battle sneak attack and hand-to-hand combat to sneak close to the US Army, and then fought hand-to-hand combat with the other side, pulling the US Army into a combat environment they are not used to!
This trick really worked. The US military’s night combat level is quite poor, and the level of hand-to-hand combat is also extremely poor.
Moreover, in the night battle, because the enemy and ourselves cannot be seen clearly, the US military’s heavy artillery and other various firepower dare not fire indiscriminately. The Southern Army does not have to fight against the enemy’s fierce artillery fire like during the day, which greatly boosts their morale and improves their combat effectiveness.
However, because the Eagle Sauce side did not get the support of firepower, and was hit by the opponent in close combat, which they were not used to, they naturally could not stand it and were soon defeated!
As a result, the Eagle Sauce attacked during the day on the battlefield, and the Southern Army suffered heavy losses.
The Southern Army counterattacked at night, and the Eagle Sauce suffered heavy losses!
Neither side was able to completely occupy the city of Jackson, and several days of fierce fighting turned the city into complete ruins. German reinforcements were about to arrive, and the battle was about to reach a turning point! On
October 9, 1928, the army landed in St. Augustine. Two newly formed light divisions immediately assaulted northward after landing, running 80 kilometers in one breath, and captured four important towns, Tallahash, Varrick, Vicklos, and Brunswick, in just one day! The