Chapter Seventy-Two: A Fierce Counterattack
The Alaska fleet refused to come to Portland's aid. But the vanguard of the U.S. Army arrived in Portland with a big surprise, because Portland was deserted.
Many people crowded the streets to welcome the U.S. troops, seemingly welcoming, but that was because Portland had been out of food for weeks. After the floods, some citizens planted crops on the silt of the main street in an attempt to alleviate the famine.
The arrival of the US military gave citizens hope to have their stomachs fed. However, the fact is that the U.S. military was prepared to get the supplies needed for enough troops after taking Portland. Will the situation in Portland be able to resupply the U.S. military? This is not the most terrible, the terrible thing is that the follow-up people are still pouring in.
Without supplies, the U.S. military had to go up the river to Salem. Smooth, very smooth. But Salem is worse than Portland, and there are still no supplies.
The vanguard was also very hungry and took the initiative to go out of the city to attack the towns. It's still going well. But there was no food.
Not only was there no food, but at night sporadic troops in the townships were attacked. The small force was completely annihilated, slightly outnumbered, and the Indians fled after being covered by fire. I couldn't live all night.
Pendleton to Portland, the middle of the river valley is steep. From the very beginning, the US military wanted to seize some high ground. At night, however, these heights become places of death. The Indians were like the devils of the night, who were only discovered until they were discovered, and often disappeared one after another without a trace.
In the beginning, there were searchlights, barbed wire and power grids on these positions, and the situation was not so serious. But then there was no diesel, and without diesel there was no electricity. There is no electricity. The U.S. military was blind and defenseless.
Fortunately, the Indians had no idea of occupying a place. They often retreat quickly after succeeding. All that was left for the U.S. military was a corpse.
Their guns have no sound and prefer to use cold weapons. Advance and retreat in the dark. But the U.S. military can't. The U.S. forces could only take advantage of their numerical superiority to occupy the high ground during the day. Let transport vehicles pass quickly. At night, the U.S. military shrank to camp at the foot of the mountain.
All along, this has formed a tacit understanding. Both sides seem to have acquiesced in such a mode of combat.
But this is exactly the illusion that Su Yu created and the opportunity he was waiting for.
Portland and Salem have poured in a million people, a terrifying number, and these two cities have been cleared. In the forest, there was enough force in the ambush to make sure that the robbery squad was cleared enough, so it was very difficult for the million people to get food.
"Pinch it."
Su Yu's eyes shone with a startling light: "Pendleton and Kennewick." No usable items are to be left behind. Advance towards Yakima, attack. ”
This was the first all-out attack of more than 10,000 people, followed by 100,000 civilians.
Still took a sneak attack. The lights that weren't there were many went out.
Some armored unit camps and airfields were in flames. But the battlefield was silent. There was no persuasion, no shouting, and even the screams were short. More than five thousand warriors and rangers served as the vanguard. Kill through Pendleton and sweep through. Not a single live mouth was left. The common people in the back moved all the useful things away.
Thousands of people have been killed in the forests of Mount Rainier. The same fate befell Kennewick. Most of the more than 30,000 U.S. soldiers died in their sleep. And thousands of boats on the river silently crossed the river in the dark night. They swept across the plains of Colombia, and everywhere they went, it was bloody.
The U.S. military garrison in Yakima is about 10,000 people. This time, however, more than thirty helicopters rained artillery fire on the town. The scattered American troops were met head-on with more than 10,000 murderous soldiers, and they were completely annihilated without any resistance.
Twelve hours. At dawn, some supply convoys did not see people in both cities mending bridges. Because every day, these bridges over the river are blown up and then repaired again. But not now.
Some soldiers waded into the city. Found that the inside was clean and anomalous. Not even a single piece of iron could be found, no wires, no motors, no vehicles, no fuel, nothing but blood and corpses. Some of the soldiers were in the room with more than a dozen people, and none of them reacted, and the blood pooled into a small river on the ground.
"The devil, this is the devil."
A lot of American soldiers collapsed.
More than 60,000 people, all killed overnight. The Indians were not incapable of fighting back, and this was clearly a conspiracy. The target is the people of Portland.
The Indians' counterattack was sharp. In the plains north of Kennewick, there were harvesting Indians. They swaggered to harvest their crops. No one resisted, for those who resisted died.
More than thirty helicopters attacked Wernavona. Gooding and Pocatello were similarly devastated by the Indians. More than 30,000 people were killed, large quantities of supplies were looted, and planes and tanks were bombed.
On 10 May, the two armies swept over almost the same place again. More than 20,000 people were killed.
The number of deaths is not too large compared to the millions of people. But the problem is that there are no signs of being able to resist effectively. Sneak attack, in the past, there were searchlights and other means to defend against. But not anymore, the night belongs to the Indians.
The most important thing is provisions. Millions of people in Portland and Salem are starving. They had the intention to fight, but after leaving the city, they were no opponents at all, so they could only die in vain.
And these two cities are too far away, and they have to cross the vast forest. And the forest is now a forbidden area for transport planes, even if there is a desire to airdrop, there is no chance.
On many hills, the Indians quite clearly picked up stationary radar stations, and they were already not afraid of the attack of the Air Force.
However, intermittent radio shows in both cities that the Indians did not attack them. All this time, they did not occupy either city. But Ontario is different from Boise. There are also more than three million people here.
But at the same time, it was harassed day and night.
Unlike the Yakima generation. It was the regular army that attacked Ontario, which had reached one army, a regular army of more than 30,000 men. They were very scattered, with divisions or regiments as units, and specialized in attacking the surrounding small towns, and a large number of Indians grabbed grain. Once successful, they quickly disappeared into the wilderness.
Desperately hungry U.S. troops are also rushing to harvest food. But they couldn't keep the food.
Either snatched by a raid or burned. The Indians were determined not to give the Americans any food.
Sierra Nevada, with a few more rangers. Tao Jing's manor became a very important camp. Jiang Yili needs to prepare some basic supplies for the forest rangers, although these people have a forest that is their home. However, although the vegetation in the Sierra Nevada is dense, it is cut down and planted on a large scale, and most of it is fast-growing species, and there are very few non-planted forests. It was once a timber production area for the shipbuilding industry.
In fact, the food in this forest is very poor, and the forest rangers are simply not enough to survive, and the necessary supplies are necessary.
However, more and more special regiments entered the territory of the Great Salt Lake, and a lot of loot was imported into various gathering points in the mountains. The estate is now to establish an ammunition dismantling station and a scrap steel refurnace smelter.
Tao Jing grinned and escorted the more than twenty dejected white workers, this was the result of an attack, and the Acelyn Arsenal was not an arsenal before, but an ordinary mechanical factory. It was converted into an arsenal because of the war. The Ethelines were a small family with a copper and iron mine, but they were large landowners in the area. The Iseline Arsenal is inside the Etheline Manor, a castle guarded by more than a thousand militias.
Since Ethelyn is located on a key road, it is also a distribution center for supplies.
The defeat of Etheline Castle was the result of the union of three Darkmoon's teams and more than three hundred rangers. However, because Etheline Castle is located on a key road, there is no way to defend it. So give up.
There are more than 5,000 inhabitants of Ethelyn Castle, but this attack is because of the sufficient preparation time and the organization, according to Jiang Yili, it is to be safe, to be the safest.
But the premise of safety also includes blood. It's safest to take out the enemy without giving them time to react. The attacked arsenal was rarely alive, and the civilians, who were separated by a wall from it, were hardly disturbed.
During this period, Tao Jing and Ling Xuehong touched the house where the Ethelyn family lived, and after killing a circle of guards, they still didn't notice it in the manor. If it weren't for Jiang Yili's order, the task was completed and the troops were collected. The two of them may be going to wipe out the Athelyn family. (To be continued......)