Chapter 770: The Flames of War Spread

Houston's station is in a hurry. Countless Americans with their families gathered in the waiting hall, waiting for the door to open the platform with anxious and expectant faces; Occasionally, when the heavy iron gate is slowly moved to both sides under the heavy police guard, the waiting hall will be in a sudden and prosperous hustle and bustle, and the bin is like a rolling torrent of spring tide. Thousands of people scrambled to the train platform, rolling up a trampled vortex of death in the midst of each other; If you are not careful, you will be swept up by the crowd like a shot put into the sea, and the skin and flesh will be shattered in an instant, and you will die on the spot. However, the people around them turned a blind eye to this and continued to run forward with the current, and there was only one thought in their hearts, and that was to get in the car and escape from here.

The main forces of the 6th Army, which had gathered all the essence, were completely annihilated by the enemy in Cuba, and what force could withstand the German attack in southern Texas? The United States, which has lasted for more than 150 years, has been like a stormy edifice, and will soon completely collapse under the destruction of external forces! It is rumored that the Germans burned, killed, and plundered in the occupied areas, and their ferocity was as vicious as a jackal and a scorpion snake; These American residents living in Texas and neighboring states are about to face war and ruin, and fleeing deep into their homeland is the only option they can avoid this apocalyptic flood for the time being!

The crowd was rolling, the whirlpool was raging, and the number of people who rushed through the iron gate quickly lost control. The policeman's angry scolding could not slow down the flood for half a minute, and they immediately began to fire into the sky, and activated the hydraulic mechanism to close the gate again; This time, however, the situation is very different. Due to the rumors about the high advance of the German army, the panicked American people could no longer endure the long wait; I don't know who made a call to the death. The surging waves of people rushed forward with the momentum of the long river; The steel gate held out for a moment before collapsing. Countless people cheered and poured onto the platform. Squeezing this small area to the brim. After the flow of people, the corpses in the waiting hall were pillowed, the flesh and blood were blurred, and the shoes, bags and other sundries that had been squeezed out were scattered all over the ground, like a hellish garbage dump; There were faint moans of weakness from the seriously wounded and dying survivors, but there was no one left to save their lives.

The flow of people pouring onto the platform doesn't care where the train in front of them goes, they get on as long as they can leave the southern theater of operations. The carriage was packed with people like canned sardines, and there was not the slightest space left. However, this limited capacity could not meet the needs of the large number of American refugees, and the subsequent crowds began to climb to the sides and tops of the train, and eventually all the places that could stand were full. When the train started, the crowd outside the ant car fell into a large area, and the sound of exclamation and screaming was endless; A few unlucky men who had struggled to cling to the front of the car let go of their feet and fell involuntarily on the railroad tracks, and before they could react, the rumbling steel wheels stirred up the terrifying scarlet flesh!

The out-of-town highways to the east and north are also chaotic and congested. A large number of private cars were blocked in the middle of the road along the way, which stretched for more than a dozen kilometers. There are constantly angry car owners who struggle to press their horns, but the convoy in front of them like snakes does not even move a step. Despite experiencing a catastrophic economic crisis. At present, there are still a large number of families in the United States who own cars, and when they drive their cars out to flee and relocate, they will lead to a traffic jam. Countless bicycles, rickshaws, strollers and other tiny individuals shuttle through the convoy like mercury, which adds to the difficulty of their passage. Even the oncoming army, which was ready to rush to the battlefield, lost its momentum under the impact of this refugee influx; The two sides staggered each other on the road field, completely disrupting their respective schedules.

Corresponding to this disastrous exodus for both the people and the army was the collapse of the local social order. Criminals armed with guns looted everywhere, shops, banks, houses, warehouses, etc. were destroyed and looted, and shootouts erupted in the streets from time to time. Since it is legal to possess firearms in the United States, this makes the proliferation of hot weapons among the people far greater than that of any other large country; Once the country is in a dangerous situation, its disadvantages are vividly highlighted. The mafia, which grew stronger as a result of the prohibition of the 20s, and the green, black uncle, mixed into American society, are potentially unstable factors, which makes the situation even more difficult to control.

Ever since the German offensive began on the American mainland, this scene has continued to play out in its southern states. Although the local government also wanted to resolutely control the current turmoil, the successive defeats on the front-line battlefield made them focus all their energy on how to stop the further advance of the German army, and it was difficult to take into account the chaos of the lower society. In just one week, the German armored forces drove nearly 4oo kilometers forward, and the troops advanced to Houston, an important city in the southern United States. As the fourth largest city in the United States, Houston is not only an important base for the oil and aviation industries in the United States, but also the core of the United States' premier port. If it is captured by the Germans, not only will the war potential of the United States be severely damaged, but the supplies of the German army will also be transported directly to the front line by guò ship, which will make the war situation facing the United States even more out of control!

However, the Americans were powerless to defend the city. The democratic parliamentary system they have pursued for many years has left the government without the necessary confidence in front of the people; From the very beginning, the work of requisitioning citizens to build fortifications and fortify the city was regarded by the American political class as the most unfeasible strategy, and there has been no substantial progress until the enemy is at the head. In fact, the government of Texas has been openly urging people to evacuate the frontline war zone to avoid needless accidental injuries; At the urging of the state government, nearly a million of the 140,000 Houston citizens have fled by road or by train sent by the government. At this time, the total number of citizens left in the city was less than 30% of the original, which made the US military. [,! The amount of labor available to strengthen the city's defenses has been greatly reduced. And even the 4o million citizens who stayed behind were mostly stationed in the cloud of passion and the fog of fantasy. Nearly a century has passed since the Revolutionary War, which killed millions, and a significant number of Americans who have long forgotten the past are curious about war: they are impulsive to stay in their homeland and see what war is all about.

Soon, the curiosity of these American citizens was satisfied. The German armored forces kicked up a cloud of smoke and dust, surging towards Houston like yellow sand sweeping across the earth; A tentative attack by the close coordination of armored troops, artillery, infantry, and aviation directly defeated the civic city defense team that had just touched the gun for a few days. The dense bullets and thunderous explosions were not something that the untrained senses could withstand, and the flesh and blood splashed in the explosion broke their last psychological defense. The American people who witnessed this qiē either trembled or screamed and fled, only hating themselves for choosing to stay in the war zone so cheaply. Although the situation of the US 6th Army was slightly better, they still had no fighting spirit after the crushing defeat in Cuba, believing that resistance could only be a pointless death.

When the main German infantry arrived at the outskirts of Houston, the American troops in the city sent representatives to the Germans to offer the conditions of surrender, and the process was so smooth that the German military top brass felt unexpected. The tricolor Iron Cross replaced the Star-Spangled Banner and flew on the flagpole of the city hall building, and the city's port shipping was revitalized by German efforts. As the shipwrecks and mines on the periphery of the port were cleared by the Germans, the transports laden with supplies were immediately unloaded with the giant hoisting machinery on the Guò pier; It was far more efficient than any other process since the Germans entered the Americas. In less than three hours, 1 6ooo ton merchant ship completed the unloading of all the cargo, and this is already the total use of a group army for two whole days!

"Our convoys finally don't have to trek through the terrible roads of Mexico. The Americans' infrastructure is even better than that of the empire itself, and its access to coastal ports such as Guò Houston is sufficient to ensure that the front-line combat units have no logistical worries." After receiving the battle report from the front, Admiral Cai, who was in charge of commanding the troops of the 6th Army in the US theater, couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief. Due to logistical constraints, he only invested 15 divisions in the early offensive, and the remaining main forces were in a state of immobility; And from now on, all the troops under his command can show their strong demeanor on the North American Big 6.

However, the might of the 6th Army alone was by no means an ideal means of forcing the United States to surrender. Although the Navy's convoy of convoys has formed a long line in the Atlantic, the Sixth Army is still not able to devote the entire force of the whole country as it did in Europe, and the United States is more than 1o times the size of Germany itself, and it is still extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive to defeat the United States through military occupation." Cai set his eyes on his colleague Kesselring, and continued, "Therefore, the air force should also launch a large-scale bombing air attack on the enemy, so as to break the opponent's will to fight."

Kesselring smiled slightly and said, "The 7th Air Fleet has been assembled at Havana Airport. Unlike previous units, this air force consisted almost entirely of ME-264 heavy bombers, and its core mission was to destroy the industrial base of the American mainland. Starting tomorrow, the Air Force's strategic bombing intensity will reach a whole new height." (To be continued!)

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