69novels Chapter 931
Chapter 931
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: 0.059s Scan: 0.160sWhen the German bombardment was completed, it was already midnight.
At this time, Ridgway didn’t want to retreat. Even if he originally planned to retreat, this time was not suitable for retreat.
Darkness will bring chaos, and once the army is in chaos, the consequences will be more serious than those of civilians, especially when there are aggressive enemy pursuers behind them. They can’t make any mistakes. A little mistake may cost them their lives! Moreover
, during the few hours of shelling, Steiner’s Marine Corps follow-up troops also arrived at the battlefield one after another. After the assault artillery used up its own shells, the other artillery they carried could finally take over the battlefield and continue to bombard Houston! So, from the perspective of the US military and Ridgway, the German artillery bombardment was only heard for a while, and the rumbling sound of artillery began again.
And after hearing the second sound of artillery, Ridgway’s face suddenly changed!
“Oh no, it’s a 150mm heavy artillery!”
If the American soldiers who have been on the battlefield are impressed by any of the German weapons, there are too many. Many of the German weapons are the kind of big killers full of black technology.
However, there is a kind of weapon that is mediocre, just like an old ox plowing the field. There is nothing special about it, but it still makes people terrified.
This weapon is the heavy artillery equipped by the German army!
The caliber of the SFH50 howitzer is as high as 150 mm, which is definitely in the category of heavy artillery. For the army, all artillery with a caliber of more than 100 mm is heavy artillery. The larger the caliber of the heavy artillery, the more terrible the killing power, and the more soldiers are reluctant to encounter this kind of weapon on the battlefield!
New recruits are afraid of artillery, and old soldiers are afraid of machine guns. That’s what they say, but when they encounter heavy artillery, let alone new recruits, old soldiers are trembling in their hearts!
A 150mm heavy artillery shell weighs up to forty or fifty kilograms. After the explosion, the radius of the shrapnel is as high as eighty meters. The howitzer explodes and forms The shock wave can blow away people who are more than ten meters or even twenty meters away from the explosion point!
This kind of terrible power is not something that veterans can rely on the sound and the impact point to ensure their own safety, especially when the enemy conducts intensive covering shooting, their experience is even more useless!
Although Ridgway is a top student who graduated from a military academy, he also has experience in the grassroots, so Ridgway knows very well how afraid the soldiers in the army are of this kind of weapon.
It is precisely because of this that when he heard the sound of German heavy artillery outside, Ridgway changed his face!
“The German army launched a ground attack.
The bombardment of heavy artillery often opens the way for infantry troops to launch an attack. Once the opponent completes such firepower preparation, what awaits them next is a large number of enemy troops’ fierce attack!
Although Ridgway had already determined the combat strategy of fighting street battles with the German army, he didn’t want to fight street battles at night. If they fought street battles at night, their geographical advantages would be weakened a lot, and the dispatch of troops and mutual coordination would also be very problematic.
However, there is no choice now. If the German army wants to take the initiative to attack, then they can only fight. It is impossible to let the German army kill into the city and ignore it!
Just as he began to think wildly in his heart, the German artillery bombardment suddenly stopped!
Experienced generals have realized that the German ground attack is coming soon!
So, they commanded the soldiers to enter the position and wait for the German attack!
However, they waited and waited, and their eyelids began to fight each other, and they did not see the German army on the opposite side attack.
The battlefield was quiet. The rumbling sound of the German artillery had also disappeared. The American soldiers stared at each other in the dark, not knowing what was going on. Did n’t they agree to resist the enemy’s attack?
Why didn’t the enemy attack yet?
The enemy hadn’t come yet, so should they go back to rest or continue to guard here?
On the battlefield, both the commanders of the US Army and the ordinary soldiers began to look at their watches on their wrists. It was already past one in the morning. If it was usual, they would have fallen asleep at this time, but they still had to guard here at this time. They didn’t know if they could rest tonight.
When they thought of this, many soldiers felt a little sleepy and began to yawn one by one.
Yawning is obviously contagious. From the beginning, a few soldiers began to yawn, and soon most of the soldiers on the battlefield would surely begin to yawn.
At first, when everyone heard that the German army was coming to attack, they didn’t feel sleepy despite their tense spirits. However, after they entered the position, the enemy did not appear for a long time, and their tense spirits began to relax gradually, and the result of relaxation was that everyone felt sleepy.
After all, according to the normal work and rest habits, they would have fallen asleep at this time, but they violated their work and rest habits and stood by on the battlefield. The mental pressure brought by the German artillery bombardment in the evening and the psychological pressure brought by entering the position to prepare for battle just now made them more tired. If it weren’t for the military regulations that constrained them, many soldiers would have fallen asleep directly!
However, even if they didn’t fall asleep directly, seeing everyone yawning constantly, this wouldn’t work!
So, some middle and lower-level officers began to report the situation to their superiors, and the superiors did not dare to make a decision easily, so they had to report the matter to Ridgway and let Ridgway decide.
Ridgway didn’t have any good way. The German army hadn’t come for a long time, and he had basically guessed the German army’s intentions!
The enemy was planning to use this method to keep them hanging. If they dared to go back to sleep and relax their defense, the German army might come to attack them immediately and catch them off guard.
If they did not go back to sleep, the energy and spirit of the troops would be affected. By tomorrow day, the entire army would be listless and would still be unable to cope with the German attack!
In short, this was a dilemma, and no matter which one was chosen, it would not solve the problem!
“Humph, in that case, don’t choose either of them. Tell the artillery to aim at the German positions and bombard them. Since they won’t let us sleep, they can’t rest either. Let’s just endure it together and see who can stand it better!”