The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 948

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“What? The Seventeenth Army was defeated?”

“So fast?”

“How is this possible!”

Ridgway had just breathed a sigh of relief when he received bad news – the 17th Army, which had volunteered to serve as the vanguard, was defeated by the Germans! It was not shameful to lose to the Germans, but what was shameful was that they lost too quickly!

It had only been a short time, and they had only been sent out for a short time, but they were defeated so quickly!

How was this battle fought?

Ridgway racked his brains to figure out how Sarastro managed to lose the battle in such a short time!

“The Germans did not play by the rules. We were supposed to attack and they were supposed to defend, but we were not ready for battle yet and were still observing the German positions when they charged without saying a word. Their tanks were too fast and we could not deploy our troops. They rushed and attacked us fiercely and we were directly dispersed!”

Sarah���To said with sweat on his forehead and lingering fear, what happened on the battlefield before simply refreshed his three views!

I didn’t expect that fighting could be played like this?

This tactic of the German army is too sharp!

When Ridgway heard what Sarastro said, he was so angry that his face turned green!

The chief of staff next to him seemed to have captured some valuable intelligence, and asked tentatively:”The German army has tanks?”

“Yes, of course they have so many tanks. I only saw tanks rushing over the mountains like a steel torrent, and then I saw our troops being defeated!”

Sarato did not dare to continue speaking, because the fact that he was alive here proved that he also participated in the escape, and even escaped faster than others. If he ran slower, he would have become a corpse by now!

Sarato did not know that the bad news brought by his words made Ridgway, the chief of staff and others feel even worse!

However, worse news is yet to come!

“General, the latest news came from the rear. A German army came out from Houston and is rapidly approaching us along the railway line. According to the speed of the German army, they will catch up with us before noon tomorrow at the latest!”

This news was more shocking than the news that the 17th Army was defeated on the front battlefield, so as soon as the news came out, the US military was immediately in an uproar!

“Huh? The Germans are coming out of Houston?”

“Is this impossible?”

“Yes, didn’t they say that the German army only had 50,000 soldiers in Houston? With 50,000 soldiers, they dared to come and chase us. Aren’t they afraid of losing Houston?”

“Fifty thousand people, even if they catch up with us, they won’t be able to eat?”

“I guess the main force of the German army is not here at all. The previous intelligence was just a false illusion that they deliberately deceived us. Since they were able to send a troop to our front without anyone noticing and block our way, they must have planned to use the method of front and back attack to deal with us, and the German army coming from behind must be the main force of this attack. I guess Model or Guderian must have a clue!”

Someone analyzed seriously, and this analysis scared everyone else!

“No way, if they really do that, wouldn’t that mean they are leaving Florida alone?”

“Yes, Florida is obviously more important than us. Instead of leading their troops back to support us, they chose to fight with us here. Aren’t they afraid that General MacArthur will capture Florida and cut off their retreat?”

“Maybe the German army has some backup plan!”

“I guess the German army must have sent some reinforcements back, but they still left a large number of troops to pursue us!”

Everyone was talking at once, some believed it and some didn’t, but no matter how intense their discussion was, they couldn’t change the established fact!

That is, they were once again attacked from both sides, and even in a desperate situation surrounded by enemies!

“Well, I was wondering why the German army let us go for no reason, without interfering or sending pursuers to chase us. Now I understand that they are waiting for such a perfect opportunity to surround us in such an open area in the wild, leaving us with no defenses and no place to escape. In this way, it will be easier for them to destroy us and the cost will be lower!”

Ridgway was angry. If the German army had not opened a gap before, but chose to attack Houston and annihilate them all in Houston, then Ridgway might not be so angry. After all

, if you can’t beat the enemy on the battlefield, it means you are not as skilled as others, and you deserve to be destroyed!

But the German army opened a gap, letting them escape, letting them leave the advanced, and just got a glimmer of hope, but in the blink of an eye, this hope was completely destroyed. The German army appeared again and surrounded them!

This feeling is like a cat playing with a mouse!

The cat will not eat the mouse immediately after catching it. , but put it on the ground and let the mouse escape. As long as the mouse escapes to a certain distance, the cat will rush up and catch it back. This repeated teasing of the mouse makes the mouse go from despair to hope, and then from hope to despair!

This process is extremely cruel for mice, and even more cruel for humans!

At this moment, the German army used such means to deal with them, so he was so angry!

If Model or Guderian were in front of him at this moment, Ridgway would definitely ask the other party in person: Do you dare not play these dirty tricks, do you dare to duel with me in an upright manner! ?

“Duel? Haha, that’s a nice thought. If we can avoid fighting, we will. It’s so hot here, there’s no village or shop nearby, no water, no food, not even a place to shelter from the sun. If that’s the case, let the US troops bask in the sun here, let them die of thirst little by little, and then get rid of hundreds of thousands of them without any effort. Isn’t that a good idea?”

“Moreover, in this way, we don’t even have to capture prisoners, and you don’t have to worry about food and water problems!”

Guderian said with a smile. In the midst of talking and laughing, he decided the life and death of hundreds of thousands of people, as if in his opinion, it was not hundreds of thousands of lives, but just a simple number. After leading the charge and forcing back the vanguard of the US Army and driving the US Army back, the two German troops in front and behind had surrounded the US Army in a very small area!

This area is located right between the two small towns in the western desert area of Texas. It is extremely desolate, with yellow sand all over the sky and unbearable heat.

Normal people can’t stay here, let alone hundreds of thousands of troops!

In order to travel light, the US military burned a large amount of supplies and only carried a small amount of supplies with them to escape.

According to their plan, it would not take too long for them to arrive in San Antonio, and the enemy would never appear in front of them, so they only needed to run as fast as possible. In this case, the more things they brought and the slower they ran, the less hope they had of surviving when facing pursuers, so they naturally abandoned everything that could be abandoned and set off lightly.

The residents along the way had almost all fled, and they didn’t find much supplies at all. So after being surrounded, the US military’s situation was ten times or a hundred times worse than before!

This can really be said to be in a desperate situation!

It’s only one step away from death!