Chapter 208: Promotion in the Line of Fire
The next morning, the rested Philippine troops finally arrived in Phoenix, and under the puzzled gaze of the American troops stationed there, they happily entered the position. www.biquge.infoColonel Johnson, who was ordered to lead them to the handover, didn't know where to start explaining this, after all, last night's battle was too weird.
But it doesn't matter, if someone can take them over and face the damn demon, the American soldiers are still very welcome, they use the fastest speed to complete the handover of the position, and then assemble as soon as possible, and immediately take the city that left a psychological shadow on them.
Then, naturally, Colonel Johnson, who led the team, became the commander of the entire Phoenix Line, and he was the same captain who organized the soldiers to fight back last night.
After the Pentagon obtained the war report, it held an overnight meeting to react to the matter, and they agreed that such an exciting victory at such a critical time was still worth mentioning, and that Captain Johnson, as the only outstanding American officer in the entire battle, had to be promoted as an iconic figure. So, as soon as he got up the next morning, Captain Johnson was stunned to learn that he had been promoted to colonel in a row, and the entire Philippine Legion was also assigned to his name, and he led them to fight bravely in Phoenix. Of course, morning programs all over the United States also reported on the matter, and Colonel Johnson's portrait immediately swept the whole United States, and the news unscrupulously declared that under his leadership, a foreign legion that had just arrived in the United States dealt a head-on blow to the invading demon army, and achieved a lot of results, as for the name of the Philippines was only passed by, the United States was confident that they would not mind.
Looking at the group of Filipino soldiers who immediately entered the bunker to chat and fart after the arming, Colonel Johnson couldn't help but show a worried look.
"Sir, you don't look very confident, do you?" Johnson's adjutant couldn't help but come up and ask with concern, he also appeared in last night's battle, but he was stupid by the demon the whole time, and he just unconsciously made ah, ah sounds in his mouth, so he didn't appear in the morning news in the United States, after all, the Pentagon still has some face.
"Hey." Johnson sighed and shook his head without answering, as a commander in the line of fire upgrade, the resume of graduating from West Point Military Academy is already quite good-looking, but his family knows his own family affairs, and he has always studied logistics support at West Point, otherwise how could he become a logistics officer at the base, even if he has passed those compulsory commands or something, but that is not his specialty after all, and now he is being driven by ducks to command a large army of 50,000 people, and he is facing a murderous demon. The problem is that he still commands a third-rate army from Southeast Asia.
Looking at the chubby clown-like Philippine military representative in the headquarters, he almost wanted to shoot himself, what did he do last night.
But fortunately, the base commander did not let Johnson come alone for the sake of earning a lot of face for himself, and still sent him a lot of combat staff officers and junior officers, although this still did not increase the colonel's confidence, but at least he would not perform the scene of swallowing a gun and committing suicide on the spot.
Turning back to the defense map, Johnson asked in a deep voice: "Can anyone help me briefly explain the current situation?" ”
A staff officer who stayed behind immediately pointed to the map and began to describe, "At present, our army's defense line has retreated to the line from Litchfield Park to Carnival, due to the serious shortage of troops before, the main defense is the three bridges across the Aguafriya River, as for the large area east of the river has all fallen, due to the demon's keen various perceptions, we have not sent a search team after losing a few reconnaissance teams, so the situation inside is not very clear, and the demons are also hiding in the buildings, Satellite photos also don't have much information to give us. ”
Johnson looked down at the map, summoning all his memories, thinking back to the classic battles he had studied at the military academy to see if he could apply them here.
First of all, the battlefield must be expanded, originally only 5,000 garrison troops, defending the three cross-river bridges is a last resort, now he has ten times the number of troops at hand, and it is too bloated to huddle in this area, although he knows that his subordinates may not be able to fight another battle like last night, but it is also necessary to expand the war zone to give himself a buffer room.
Johnson stared at the map tightly, trying to find a position to assault, it would certainly not be possible to break through the city, the powerful demons of his own country would eat the human army in this concrete jungle, and in the same way, the urban street fighting would make it impossible for the most superior air power on the human side to exert it at all.
Just when Johnson was staring at the map with a frown, the fat Philippine team leader walked to the map and looked down curiously, he was really bored, the Americans didn't believe in his command ability at all, and keeping him was just symbolic, but as a co-commander, he had to stay in the command.
Seeing a protruding belly on the map, Johnson looked up in disgust to warn the stupid pig not to disturb his thoughts, but at the sight of the chubby general's dark skin, there seemed to be a lightning bolt in his head.
Looking down at the map again to confirm, Johnson spoke: "General Estrada?!" ”
The chubby general didn't react for a moment, he thought he was just a mascot and it was impossible for anyone to talk to him, although it was also true.
"General Estrada!" The U.S. military staff officer next to him touched him, so that he finally reacted, he put on a smile on his face, saluted and nodded, "What's the matter, Colonel Johnson?" ”
Since it is going to be used by others, of course it is not good to keep a straight face, Johnson also squeezed out a smile and asked: "General Estrada, I would like to ask, is your army good at jungle warfare and river warfare?" ”
"Of course, this is our specialty, and I dare say that our Philippine army is the best in the world in these two types of warfare." The general proudly said that the water network and jungles all over the country in the Philippines made him feel confident, but only he himself felt this way, at least everyone in the US military officers in the entire command agreed with this, no wonder, even the army that has not been able to exterminate the domestic bandits still dares to say that the world is the best, probably their domestic bandits are stronger than their combat effectiveness.
However, Johnson didn't break this point, the short man pulled the general, just a few cards in his hand, or let them play the maximum effect, he nodded amicably and agreed with the other party's point of view, and then pointed to the map and said to him: "General, you see, the 50,000 army stationed in this narrow area is very uncontrollable, which is very unfavorable to the whole battle situation, which gives me a headache." And we don't know anything about the demon army in the city now, and we don't dare to attack casually. Look, here, there is a Nanshan Forest Park in the south of the Salado River in the south of the city, from which you can overlook the entire Phoenix City, I wonder if you can send some assault troops to move here to reconnoiter the entire city, or even launch an attack directly from here to test the enemy, what do you think? ”