69novels Chapter 939
Chapter 939
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Just when Model and Guderian felt the pain, Ridgway in Houston felt the coldness of ice all over his body, and his hands and feet were cold!
The German artillery fire was already very fierce, and then there came this batch of more terrible artillery fire!
Although dozens of rockets are ridiculously expensive, the effect of these rockets is surprisingly good!
The American soldiers in the area covered by the rockets were either dead or injured, and they were all fatal injuries that were difficult to treat!
The high temperature generated by the explosion of the rockets was as high as more than 1,600 degrees. A large range and a large number of rockets exploded together, immediately expanding this high-temperature area to a very wide area. Almost all the areas hit by the rockets formed such a high-temperature environment!
In this high-temperature environment, even if the soldiers hid in the trenches and were not affected by the explosion, they would still be burned alive, even if they hid in the bunkers and underground fortifications, they would not be spared! The last time the US military encountered such a situation was when they were attacked by the German thermobaric bombs.
However, unlike thermobaric bombs, the explosion of thermobaric bombs will consume all the oxygen in the air, causing the soldiers in the explosion range to suffocate and die due to lack of oxygen!
But rockets are not that complicated, they are simpler and more brutal!
As long as they are detonated, the soldiers in the explosion area will be burned alive. There is no way, the temperature is too high, and the instantaneous high temperature makes it impossible for people to hide, and they can’t hide!
This temperature is much higher than any napalm bomb, and the lethality is obviously greater!
Although dozens of rockets cannot completely cover the entire Houston, the appearance of this weapon of the German army still caused panic among the US military!
They don’t know how many such weapons the German army is equipped with, so they don’t know if they will continue to be attacked by such weapons in the future!
But there is one thing they are very clear about, that is, once they are attacked by such weapons, they will definitely die!
This horrible end makes the US soldiers in the city feel insecure. If they are not trapped in the isolated city of Houston, then facing such an enemy, they can also use retreat or roundabout methods to avoid the enemy’s firepower and save themselves!
However, the German army has surrounded them now. Unless the German army shows mercy and lets them live, or they can break out of the siege by force, they have no way to break out of the encirclement!
And the inability to break out of the encirclement means that they have no power to fight back when they are bombed by the German army, especially when their artillery units have been killed by the German army. Not to mention the German rockets, even the ordinary artillery of the German army, they can’t counter, just move and get beaten!
The taste of passive beating is too uncomfortable, especially when you have such a weapon that will leave no grass and no way out as long as it is used!
They passively get beaten, that is waiting to die!
Therefore, the morale of the US military, which had already been high, quickly fell to the bottom after being hit by the German rockets!
Even, many American soldiers who were under too much mental pressure simply raised their guns and gave themselves a quick and painful end, so as not to continue to endure this inhuman torture!
This kind of thing happened more and more, which brought greater pressure to other soldiers and made them more frustrated!
And these problems were finally placed in front of Li Qiwei, and he had to make a decision!
“General, there is no other way to go now except to break out!”
“Yes, General, we have successfully delayed the main force of the German army for a long time, creating an excellent opportunity for General MacArthur and his men to take action. Now that General MacArthur and his men are quickly moving south, our mission has been accomplished, and there is no need to stay here and make unnecessary sacrifices!”
Everyone’s opinions were very consistent. Under the current circumstances, no one wanted to stay here and passively be beaten, especially when the German army was equipped with such a powerful weapon. If they continued to stay, no one knew whether their position would be covered by the German army’s terrible weapon!
If by chance they were unlucky and were hit by the German army before breaking out, then they would be dead here!
Although there is no such thing as nobility in the Eagle Sauce itself, those who can become middle and upper-level officers in the army are actually military nobility. Of course, they don’t want their future and lives to be explained here! As long as the green mountains remain, there will be no worries about firewood. Even if they lose the battle this time and escape in a mess, as long as they can save their lives, there will be other opportunities!
But if they die here, then everything they have now will come to nothing!
“Breakout? How to breakout, where to breakout?”
Li Qiwei couldn’t help but sighed when he heard what everyone said.
He also wanted to breakout. The morale of the US military was already so low. If they didn’t breakout, they would definitely not be able to stop the German attack. At that time, what awaited them was either to die on the battlefield for their country, or to be captured by the enemy and live the rest of their lives in humiliation!
The lessons of the British Empire and Gaul were in front of them. After the defeat of those countries, the fate of their generals who were captured on the battlefield was not too good. It was said that many former nobles of the British Empire were even sent to farms by the German army to do some farm work that only the lower-class civilians would do, in order to humiliate them!
Such things made the US military very frightened. Since the German army could treat the British Empire in this way, of course they could treat them in this way, so they naturally didn’t want to be captured!
But, How to break out?
The German army surrounded them tightly, and they had no troops outside to support them. According to the previous plan, the main force of the US military had already gone south to attack the German army’s lair, so there was no other military force in the southwest except them!
Without other military forces, they wanted to break out by themselves under the heavy siege of the German army, and the probability of success was probably not much higher than buying a lottery ticket!
Thinking of this, Ridgway couldn’t help but regret it. If he had asked the headquarters to send troops to support him, then they would also have the opportunity to outflank the German army and surround the German army in Texas. As long as they could eat up this German army, they could actually achieve their goal!