69novels Chapter 941
Chapter 941
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“Report, our army has captured the East City District and is heading towards the West City District!”
After the general offensive was launched, as Guderian and Model expected, because the German army had opened a gap in advance, the defenders’ determination to resist was not firm.
Many American soldiers on the positions only fired a few symbolic shots after seeing the German army and then retreated. Some American soldiers even worried that they would be left behind by their allies, so they ran away without firing a single shot.
When retreating, the person in charge of covering the rear is the most dangerous, because your enemy is approaching you from all directions, and your allies are leaving you quickly. If you retreat indecisively, fail to keep up with the pace of your allies, and are dragged down by the enemy, then the end will be very tragic!
Therefore, throughout the ages, the number of people who were actually killed on the battlefield is far less than those who were killed in pursuit battles.
When the army is organized, it is very difficult to kill an army on the battlefield, but once the soldiers start to flee and the army loses its organization, killing them is as easy as killing a chicken!
This is why these American The reason why the German soldiers did not resist actively was that they were afraid that fighting with the German army would delay their retreat, and they were even more afraid that their friendly forces would abandon them and not pick them up in order to escape!
Things on the battlefield are directly related to their own lives, and everyone has only one life, so they can’t be careless.
However, in this way, the German army’s combat plan was completely achieved.
After they found that the US military was retreating quickly, they realized that the US military had been fooled, so they began to consciously drive away the US military and let the US military leave from the gaps they deliberately left, and then consider sending armored forces and fast mechanized forces to chase them!
Both sides advanced and retreated very quickly. In less than half a day, the US troops in the city had already run away, and the German army officially took over the city that had almost become a ruin.
At this time, seeing that the US military had all left Houston and ran out of the city, the German army was also ready to implement its next plan-pursuit!
“Something is wrong!”
When Guderian led his troops to pursue, he suddenly realized something.
“What’s wrong?”
Model frowned when he heard Guderian’s words.
The plan seemed to be going smoothly so far, so he didn’t know why Guderian said something was wrong.
At least he didn’t feel anything was wrong!
“Do you think the American troops are retreating too quickly?”
Guderian glanced at several places in the city where thick smoke was billowing and said to Model.
“It was quite fast. Hundreds of thousands of troops were all out of the city in a short time. The efficiency was quite high!”
Model thought about it and had to admit that the speed of the US military was really admirable!
However, he did not really admire the other side. He was just mocking and ridiculing the other side’s cowardice. If their fighting skills were half as good as their running skills, they would never end up like this!
“Humph, of course it’s fast. Not only has the US military’s degree of organization not decreased, it has even increased!”
“What do you mean? What did you see?”
Model frowned when he heard Guderian’s words.
“”No, do you see those places in the city that are emitting black smoke?”
Guderian nodded to Model, who followed his gaze and looked. At first he did not realize anything, but soon his brows began to frown.
“These places seem to be the most important places in the city, one is the oil depot, one is the granary and the other is the power plant. When did the US military destroy these places?”
Model was a little angry. Originally, these places were deliberately avoided during the German bombardment. They did not directly attack these places. The purpose was to preserve these things for their use.
The oil depot in the city is very important to the German army, especially the hundreds of thousands of tons of fuel inside!
The mobilization of the German army requires a lot of fuel, and now most of their fuel comes from local supplies.
Texas has extremely rich local oil reserves, and there are many oil fields and refineries in the area. If their oil depots and refineries can be obtained, the urgent need for fuel shortage of the German army can be alleviated to a large extent.
Granaries are strategic materials, not to mention them. Not only the army needs them, but also civilians.
If a large amount of food in the city can be confiscated after occupying the city , If there is food, not only can the German army solve its own food supply problem, but it can also take out a large amount of food to settle refugees, and use work-for-relief as a way to let the refugees help the German army to restore and rebuild the city of Houston as soon as possible.
The German intelligence personnel had already found out in advance that the grain stored in the granary in Houston was more than 800,000 tons, enough for more than 2 million people to eat for a year!
With this amount of food, the German army does not have to worry about food problems at least in the short term!
As a result, like the oil depot, the granary was also burned!
But what is even more infuriating is that the US military even destroyed the power plant!
Without the power plant, the city’s power supply cannot be restored. Without electricity, a large number of equipment cannot be started, and their recovery and reconstruction work will be even slower!
“A group of people who are only concerned about escaping cannot think of destroying these things while fleeing in a hurry. Even if they really think of these things, do you think it is more important to seize the time to escape, or to take the risk of spending more time to destroy these things?”
Guderian’s question made Model’s face even uglier, because this question is easy to answer. If the other party is really fleeing in a hurry only for their lives, then they definitely don’t have the time and energy to do these things!
The U.S. military not only did it, but also did it very beautifully. Without alerting the German army, they successfully burned down all these key places!
If you say this is not carefully planned, Model will never believe it!
And since the U.S. military can carefully plan to destroy these places, it proves that their retreat is also planned and organized!
“There are no troops of ours within 50 kilometers. If the enemy is just running away, it is not difficult to catch up with them at this distance. However, if they have any evil intentions, it will not be good!”
Guderian obviously thought of something, and the evil intentions he mentioned made Model feel a little nervous!
“So what are you going to do?”
Model knew Guderian. He was not someone who would give up so easily. Now that he was aware of the other party’s intentions, he would definitely have his own ideas!