Chapter 058: Escape
On August 15, MacArthur was immersed in water, extremely miserable, his soldiers were burned to death by the fire, and the artificial rain can be said to have succeeded, but the rescue failed.
The Chinese Air Force increased the dropping of bombs to make the fire spread instantly, and the water molecules in the air condensed under the action of dry ice, but the smoke generated by the fire spread into the air and caused the water molecules to condense on these dusts, and the air suddenly heated up, and the water vapor did not condense and evaporate again or attach to the dust and continue to drift away and the train sank, in short, it would not form clouds.
The little rain that formed was evaporated into soda by the fire before it even fell to the ground.
If it weren't for the US military towel and other things hiding on the edge of the stream to cover their noses with water, these people might have been killed or injured due to inhaling a large amount of dust or toxic gases.
The three-day fire turned the originally clear sky into a smoky and gray patch, and MacArthur, Chennault, and Stilwell soaked in the water and walked to the rocks on the shore and sat down.
"It's finally burned out here, and it almost burned to death."
"I don't know how many of those 200,000 people will come out alive."
"Alas, this time we suffered a big loss, I didn't expect the Chinese to come such a hand, let alone our artificial rainfall actually failed."
The three of them complained about the situation word by word, but they were more worried about their future fate, it is no exaggeration to say that if tens of thousands of people survived in the fire, they would feel a lot more at ease, but in fact, they didn't dare to think so, thinking about the original Alaska army of 400,000 people, there was not much loss in the war, and they lost more than 100,000 when they started to escape, and now they have been burned so much by the fire, even if the law does not punish them, they will be happy in their hearts.
In Anchorage, Wang Hanzhang and Chen Cheng were drinking a little wine, they flew here two days ago, and this place will serve as the headquarters of the expeditionary force for a long time.
Now the plane has not been dispatched, not because it does not want to be dispatched, but it cannot be dispatched, and now thousands of kilometers are filled with smoke because of the fire, and the plane is very prone to accidents in the air, and even if it is lifted into the air, it cannot be bombed to the ground, and indiscriminate bombing is simply a waste of bombs.
Wang Hanzhang believes that those US troops are estimated to have not many survivors, and they will no longer pose a threat to the squadron.
"Han Zhang, I didn't expect to easily kill three or four hundred thousand American troops, which I couldn't have imagined before."
Wang Hanzhang said: "Lao Chen, what is there to dare to think about, in fact, the Soviet army is much more powerful than the American army, the Americans seem to be very powerful, in fact, they just rely on good weapons and equipment, think about it, if the Soviet army is defending Alaska today, will they withdraw to the south of the Alaska Mountains when there are more than 300,000 troops, will they withdraw the whole army when the retreat is cut off, obviously not, the Soviet army will definitely defend to the death, the Japanese will also defend to the death, we will also defend to the death, only the Americans will not, so to deal with the Americans in addition to playing with him, We also need to knock out the source of his confidence, and only in this way can we defeat the United States more quickly. ”
Chen Cheng nodded and said, "Well said, I didn't expect that my old Chen would also have this opportunity to conquer the world." ”
"Hehe, Lao Chen, although the Americans are scattered, but their strength is not weak, this time they failed because they do not understand our tactics, strategy, and do not understand our scientific and technological level.
"Well, that's not the most important thing, I don't know who they'll send to command the U.S. forces to resist us."
Wang Hanzhang said: "It's really hard to say, but I think it's probably one of Eisenhower and Patton, and if MacArthur is still alive, it is not ruled out that he will continue to serve as commander." ”
"Marshall, a five-star general, is one of the formulators of the United States' national strategy for World War II, but he has never personally commanded a war on the battlefield, but every major battle is related to this person, a great strategic expert, but he will not come to the front line to command operations."
"Eisenhower, a four-star general, is broad-minded, thoughtful, good at coordinating the relations between all countries and militaries, has always served as the highest field commander of the Allied forces in North Africa and Europe, and now that the United States has lost Alaska, we have entered Canada, and it is not ruled out that the United States will not transfer him back to guard Canada."
"Patton, a four-star general, a general, a West Point elite, is known for his bravery in battle, strict management of the army, love for soldiers like sons, and makes full use of the advantages of tank armor, a great tactician, if Eisenhower cannot leave Europe, then the possibility of sending Patton is very great."
"As for MacArthur if he is alive, after all, he knows us best, and there are no other very powerful generals in the United States at the moment, it is estimated that North America is so dangerous at this time, and he is very likely to be reused."
"It makes sense, it looks like Eisenhower is the most suitable to send back, we are doing the thing of drawing salaries from the bottom of the kettle, I think no matter how important Europe is, it is not as important as the United States, not to mention that as long as the Americans hold on, there will be a nuclear ejection, and then they will not be afraid of anyone, with this kind of big killer weapon as a support, it will definitely make them more confident, and they will definitely insist."
"Then the war will become more and more fierce."
On August 15th, the Chinese Navy set off, although they can train better, but they don't have time, as long as such a large aircraft carrier can start, and then do a good job of defense, the rest is not very important, and they still have ten days to get familiar with it on the road,
Three days later, a week after the Alaska fires, it finally rained heavily, and some of the trees and some of the fires that were still burning were finally extinguished.
MacArthur looked up to the sky and sighed, it finally rained, they waited for this more than a week, during this time, they ate all the loaches, small fish, small shrimp, and crabs in the stream as long as they could eat, of course, the food was still far from enough, so most of the time they could only fill their hunger with water,
It's only been a week, and the U.S. military has already gone around and can't eat enough to eat one meal a day, and they are already hungry and have no strength.
"Boys, it's time for us to go."
"Ouch...... Ouch...... "The American troops are hungry and screaming, they are really powerless and have been drenched in rain,
MacArthur said: "Young men, if you don't want to be bombed, you should get up immediately, the sky is so bright, if you stay here and wait for the Chinese planes to blow you into hell." ”
Chennault also said: "Yes, young men, you did not die on the battlefield, you did not die in the fire for a week, and it would be too unjust if you were killed by the bombing when you could live now." ”
"Hurry up, hurry up...... Hurry up......" MacArthur had a heavy heart and a pretended impassioned look to encourage the soldiers who followed him, who numbered only about 2,000 men.
Maybe MacArthur's words worked, or maybe the U.S. military thought the same way, and soon the U.S. military began to move in a southeasterly direction,
"Soldiers, if you don't want to wait for the squadron to come and bomb you, then please throw away unnecessary things on your bodies and smear your bodies with ashes."
Although the American officers and soldiers stopped saying this, they were aggrieved, but they still did what MacArthur wanted.
And the Chinese Air Force began to patrol these places after the rain stopped, but they have not found anything so far.
"Lean, damn Chinese, they are all like this and still don't let us go."
"You think the Chinese are stupid, crawl and don't move."
The U.S. military saw the Chinese Air Force coming from afar, coupled with a huge roar, they lay on the ground early, and at the same time smeared the ashes mixed with the rain on their bodies, the plane was too fast, and they couldn't look at these visions carefully, and the Americans were lucky to escape,
"Sir, what now." An American soldier lying next to MacArthur asked motionlessly and in a low voice,
"Don't talk nonsense, lie down well, do you want to be discovered by the Chinese's plane." Where MacArthur knows how long to lie down, this is not something he can decide, it mainly depends on when it is dark, when the Chinese plane flies away, and then they can leave,
"Okay." The soldier whispered, and then lay motionless,
Soon the Chinese Air Force turned around a few times and found nothing, and threw a few bombs indiscriminately and left, but none of them could blow up the US military.
As soon as the squadron left, MacArthur shouted: "Hurry up, we should go, the speed is ......"
The U.S. troops immediately got up, and now they couldn't care about being hungry, so they immediately got up and ran wildly.
After two hours of frantic running, they rested in a col that was not easily spotted by the Chinese Air Force, and MacArthur had people try to contact the U.S. headquarters or the Canadian military by radio.
MacArthur didn't know about this week, it was not easy for them to save a radio station in such a difficult situation, before their radio station was broken, it took five or six days to repair, and now he had to let the US military airdrop food to them, otherwise they would really starve to death, and he also needed to get the cover of the air force to get out more safely,
Of course, the most important thing is that MacArthur believes that there must be more American troops surviving, and they may not have radio stations, so there is a US air force to search for them, and then drop food to these people after finding them, then they can get out of this mountain of less.
The communication was very smooth, and the Canadian side soon received a telegram, which was a blessing in misfortune for the Allied side, MacArthur and other senior generals were still alive, and there were still some American troops, and there were more American troops surviving, but now they lacked food and radio stations to contact, so they needed help,
Of course, there is no problem with this, the U.S. military on the Canadian side directly supports their suffering Alaska Corps,