Chapter nine hundred and fiftieth battle of wits and courage
There was a scream immediately on the river, drowning, burning, burning, and sank when the water leaked on the amphibious boat, and there was a chaotic call for help.
But no one could save them because no one could put out the sea of fire burning on the water. The American soldiers on both sides could only watch their comrades struggle and wail in the sea of fire.
Only a few of them were lucky enough to swim to the shore. American soldiers rushed up to extinguish the flames for them, but even so, they were half a life away and they could not survive... In fact, for both the enemy and us, such injured people were more beneficial to the German army, because they not only could not provide combat effectiveness but also needed more care and supplies, such as medicines.
There was a lot of cheers from the German soldiers, although most of them didn't know what was going on at this time... They thought it was just an accident in the US military during transportation and some even thought it was a mistaken bombing by the US artillery, because the German soldiers knew that their artillery was almost nowhere to be left to provide such firepower, and more importantly, there was no movement of their shells firing.
But the soldiers organized by Colonel Becker, who directly handled the "wooden pile shells", quickly spread the news one by one:
"That was done by our people. They used the water to flow shells onto the enemy's transport section, and then this 'bombing'!"
"A good way to use the used shells!"
"Who thought of this method?"
"God, is this still necessary?"
"You mean 'Legendary'?"
"Of course! No one except him would come up with such a solution!"
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So another cheer came from the German camp.
This is a very strange phenomenon, because no matter who came up with this method, there is actually no difference. The result is that it will strike the US amphibious landing ship troops and block the river channel and cut off the US military's transportation lines.
But this method is even more exciting to the trainees and soldiers if Qin Chuan thinks it out.
Qin Chuan didn't know how to explain this phenomenon. This may be a star effect, or perhaps it was that Qin Chuan did not disappoint the expectations of the trainee soldiers. What's more, the trainee soldiers believed that no matter what difficulties they encountered in the future, the "Legendary Sergeant" could find simple and practical methods to deal with it.
So, under this mentality, they have the mentality of winning.
War is sometimes strange. If everyone believes that they will eventually win this battle, then the battle will really have a little more hope of victory.
On the contrary, if everyone does not think that this battle will be victorious, it will be very difficult to win.
The baker also had this mentality when reporting to Qin Chuan on the phone.
"They stopped attacking, Lieutenant Colonel!" said the baker, "I knew you would think of a solution, and they believed it!"
What the bakers didn't say is... because they firmly believe in this, they were not discouraged when they were isolated and helpless. On the contrary, they could fight hard against enemies who were several times stronger.
Otherwise, the island of Xiangbier would have been captured by the US armored forces at this time.
The news soon reached the 3rd Army Command.
"General!" The staff officer hurriedly handed the phone to Patton and said, "Our transportation troops were killed and injured under the enemy's bombing!"
"Bomb?" Patton, who bent down and looked at the map, replied without raising his head: "They will not have any bombing. Our artillery and planes have been waiting for them for a long time! Tell them that they can transport with confidence. As long as the German artillery fires one shell, we will give them ten more!"
"But the general..." said the staff officer: "We can't repay it!"
"I can't do it any more?" Patton looked up at the staff officer. The first thing he thought of was that these guys must be telling some jokes, or that today was that stupid April Fool's Day.
"General!" replied the staff officer: "Their shells were not fired by artillery, but were drifting down the river from the upstream!"
When Patton heard this, he was stunned: "Dropping down?"
"Yes!" the consultant replied: "They tied the shells to wooden stakes and threw them into the river... I believe they installed the shells with a delay fuse, which caused them to explode automatically when they floated to our landing site! We lost thirty amphibious landing ships as a result!"
Patton's face changed, and then immediately found the river channel on the map, wandered up the river channel, pointed at a point, and said, "Little Solsey?"
"Yes, little Solsey!"
"These bastards!" Patton couldn't help but curse.
"Col. Nathan reported that they did not have enough ammunition to launch an attack on Shanbier Island!" the staff officer continued.
"Let the transport team continue to transport!" said Patton.
The staff officer immediately conveyed the order, but soon the staff officer replied: "Col. Torres refused to execute this order, and he believed that it would only cause meaningless casualties!"
"Tell him that this is my order and must be executed!" Patton almost yelled at the table.
Patton's order seemed understandable because he knew what it would mean if the supply could not be transported... More than 100 tanks and an infantry regiment landed on the east bank of the Moselle River were not only unable to complete the designated mission to capture the island of Shanbier, but would instead be surrounded by the Germans because of insufficient supply.
More importantly, all this was caused by Patton.
The order was passed to Colonel Torres and he was in trouble.
After thinking about it, Colonel Torres ordered: "A batch of ten amphibious landing ships will pass when the upstream is safe!"
"Yes, Colonel!"
Torres's method is also very simple. He asked several soldiers to equip Walking Telephones upstream to reconnaise. When he saw that there were no wooden stakes flowing down the river, he passed the information down. Then ten amphibious landing ships took the gap and quickly passed through it.
Although this greatly reduces transportation volume, it ensures the safety of amphibious landing ships.
But the situation was not as simple as Colonel Torres thought.
Wooden stakes are constantly floating down above, some will explode and some will not. Reconnaissance will not work at all...
There is no need for Qin Chuan to remind you about this. It was a spontaneous method that German soldiers came up with, targeting the tactic of US military reconnaissance and then passing quickly.
Simply put, German soldiers almost kept throwing wooden stakes into the river.
Of course some are fake and some are real... The fake ones are not tied with shells, and there are really shells tied with shells.
But no one can tell it clearly when thrown in the water, and it looks almost the same on the surface.
This perfectly interprets the saying "The Tao is one step higher than the demon is one step higher than the demon is one step higher than the one step higher".
The enemy and us started a battle of wits and courage on the battlefield, but it was obvious that the German army had the upper hand in this regard.
Chapter completed!