Chapter 309: Lucky Pete (Part II)
"There was also only one regiment of Germans in Carvasonne!"
Black Iron's words surprised Pete: "How do you know? ”
"I just interrogated that [***] officer, Mark An." Hei Tie said lightly: "The Germans used their main forces to attack Paris, whether in Pegeson or Carvazon, their defensive forces are very weak. In fact, it is also very important that there are not many supplies in Carvalson, and the Germans are already very scarce. ”
Pete was a little surprised.
Not surprised by the weakness of Carvalson's defenses, but shocked by the incompetence of his own intelligence system.
Carvazon obviously doesn't have many strategic supplies anymore, but what are those who do intelligence doing there? Did those staff officers hang their heads on their ass, too?
For this inexplicable battle order, he lost many soldiers, even Colonel Danny was killed!
Damn it!
"Go back, go back!" Pete said, shaking his fist.
"Can't go back." Black Iron said suddenly.
Pete was a little surprised: "Why, it's not worth destroying there!" ”
Black Iron smiled coldly: "Yes, it is not worth destroying there, but this is an order from above, you are the 'impassable Pete', not Pete who does not carry out the order." And capturing the Carvazon will add a little more luster to your honor. ”
Pete got it, he got it completely.
Go and occupy Carvazon and add a more "glorious" touch to your "glorious" combat career.
Fuck the staff, fuck the combat orders
With the Peqison Line being opened, the 11th and 17th Brigades under Pitt's command were left with nothing to hinder.
The soldiers didn't know what was going on, but Pete knew it all too well.
Fighting a regiment of the Germans with two fully equipped brigades may be difficult, but victory is conceivable.
Just as Pete thought, when the two brigades of American troops arrived at Carvazon, the German soldiers, who were far inferior in numbers, still showed their tenacious fighting ability.
They stubbornly defended against the enemy's attack in their humble positions. Every time the U.S. military takes a step forward, it has to pay a great price. The determination of the Germans to resist was completely unimaginable to the Americans.
The American soldiers shouted and screamed, and the scene looked a little chaotic.
Malone's avant-garde even killed almost half of them, and even his arm was grazed by bullets, which made Malone, who appeared in front of Pete, look very embarrassed.
"Colonel, damn the Germans, my soldiers are running out!"
"But you're not dead yet, Second Lieutenant Marlon, go on your duty!"
Marlon had never seen Pete lose his temper so much, so he stayed there for a moment and quickly ran out.
The damned Germans were so accurate in their marksmanship that the slightest hint of an American soldier's head would result in a bullet piercing their skull, or any other vital part of their body.
The corpses that have already lay on the ground, the vast majority of which are Americans.
Those soldiers who thought they had fought only now knew what was the most brutal war and what was the horror of death.
Death flies around the battlefield swinging his scythe, harvesting the life of anyone he fancies, anytime and anywhere.
For the first time, American soldiers found themselves so helpless and insignificant on the battlefield. If the Germans had enough ammunition, they could have killed all two entire brigades of American GIs here.
A wounded American soldier wails in anguish, and two companions try to come to the rescue, but instead become targets for the Germans.
The bullet pierced their hearts, the wounded American did not die, and his companions were the first to leave the world.
This cruel battlefield, this terrible battlefield.
The situation on the battlefield is so funny, the US army is far superior to the German army in terms of numbers and weapons and ammunition, but it is the US army that is completely suppressed.
Black Iron tugged at the bolt and kept spraying bullets out of the chamber, and he was numb and indifferent.
He had only come to the United States before, and he had tried his best to make these American soldiers real soldiers, but later, he had to give up such efforts.
Only the most brutal battlefield can make them understand the rules of survival on the battlefield.
He saw a couple of Germans tiptoeing towards him, he took out two grenades, pulled the fuse, and threw them with all his might.
"Boom, boom" two explosions rang out, knocking down the German soldiers.
And this soon attracted the shooting of the Germans in retaliation.
A dense burst of bullets came, and Black Iron hid behind a big tree, and when he showed his head slightly, another rapid rain of bullets flew in, almost hitting him.
At this time, the gunfire also rang out on his left flank, helping him to suppress the German bullets, and Black Iron took the opportunity to rush out of this dangerous place.
It's Pete.
"Iron!" Pete shouted, "Hell, we have to rush over!" ”
"Machine guns, get all the machine guns together!" Black Iron roared angrily: "We have the advantage in weapons, machine guns, hurry up and concentrate the machine guns and suppress the Germans!" ”
Pete wakes up from a dream.
Almost all the machine guns that could be found were grouped together, and then at the sound of an order, a dense rain of bullets flew towards the Germans.
This trick really worked, and the German position, which was still noisy, soon lost its right to speak on the battlefield under the intensive rain of bullets from the Americans.
The Americans, who had been suppressed, suddenly became excited, and all their guns opened fire at the same time, desperately venting their excitement and anger towards the German positions.
Grenades were thrown one after the other, and the "boom" of explosions drowned out everything.
Confidence is the most ethereal, the most uncertain, but also the most effective thing on the battlefield. And now, the mood of the Americans has been thoroughly mobilized.
They shouted and screamed, taking advantage of the suppression advantage of the machine guns, and forcibly tore a big hole in the originally tight defense line of the German army.
"For the sake of the United States, rush!"
"God bless America!"
One by one, voices rang out, and all the American soldiers emerged from their hiding places and rushed forward in dense formations.
Up to this point, the Germans showed their tenacity!
The German army, which was far inferior in numbers to the opposing side, fought a white-knuckle battle with the American army without fear.
The battlefield, in a blink of an eye, has returned to the era of cold weapons.
It was an unfair duel.
In the memoirs of Pitt, commander of the 11th Brigade of the US Army, it is written:
“…… Both we and the Germans showed extraordinary courage, and many of our soldiers, for the first time, engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, many of whom did not even know how to use their bayonets, but they still rushed forward to the enemy...... I saw with my own eyes a black guy in the United States, who stoned a German to death, but soon a damn bayonet pierced his body, and he struggled to get up, but soon more bayonets fell on him, and his body had countless transparent holes, and blood flowed everywhere around him, and he died...... The Germans' performance is also respectable. They are at an absolute disadvantage in numbers, but this does not affect their determination to fight to the end. I must be honest and say that if there is not much difference in numbers, then the victors of this battle are far better than us on the battlefield because of the enemies who are supposed to belong to us...... God forbid the Americans, the Germans had no reinforcements, and although they showed a good side, they were getting smaller and smaller in number, until we completely controlled the battlefield, and only after our repeated requests and persuasions did they lay down their arms and finally chose to surrender...... They can leave here with their heads held high and arrogant, in their eyes, they are the winners, relying on the advantage of numbers to achieve victory, and they are not worthy of respect. I think maybe that's the case, we look a little small in front of the German soldiers...... It has been said that by 1918 the German soldiers had completely lost their confidence and courage to continue fighting, but I think this is complete nonsense. The Germans showed their fortitude and tenacity on the battlefield, and they would never surrender until the last moment......"
Pete and his American soldiers were victorious.
At Carvasonne, they killed more than 300 Germans, and at the same time captured a large number of German soldiers, and they captured Carvalasson according to the "battle plan" formulated by the bastards in the staff department, and completely annihilated the defenders here.
The U.S. Expeditionary Force Command has never disclosed to the public how much strategic material the Germans stored in Carvasson, and they have only repeatedly preached the "great significance" of capturing Carvasson's defense to the entire battlefield, and it seems that it was precisely because of the capture of Carvaasson that the German offensive was crushed.
Pitt was awarded a medal, and Danny and the American soldiers who died were also honored, and their "heroic deeds" were widely publicized in Europe and the United States.
Only Pete knew best what was going on inside, and when he reported what had happened to Pershing, the commander-in-chief of the American Expeditionary Force said after a long silence:
"No, there is a lot of supplies for the Germans, and the Germans have suffered defeat because of our bravery, at least we have won, Colonel Pete, is it not like that?"
Pete didn't know what to say.
I am so lucky, I have succeeded again and again, and I have shrouded myself with too much aura, but what about those who died? Who is to blame for them, and who is to blame for that?
There will never be anyone who can answer Pete's question!
Forever!
(To be continued)