In addition, Seattle citizens are asked to keep their weapons. Any use of weapons to threaten federal troops and damage to urban public facilities will be regarded as hostile actions. As long as a federal soldier is attacked by local residents in the city, he will be punished.
1-10 US military prisoners will be shot.
At the end of the leaflet, the federal garrison commander also assured the citizens of Seattle that if the U.S. military did not use urban buildings to fight street battles with federal troops, then the federal troops would do their best to protect the safety of downtown Seattle. However, if the U.S. military insists on fighting here,
In the event of street fighting, the federal army advises civilians in the city to evacuate the city overnight, otherwise they will escape death.
In fact, the federal army did not want to occupy this place for a long time, so they issued such placating and threatening leaflets in order to deceive the people here. The main reason for taking this measure is because there are too many Chinese residents in Seattle, accounting for almost
10% ratio, if strategic bombing of urban areas is to be carried out
, will definitely cause a large number of civilian casualties. These leaflets also give a signal to the local US military that the federal army does not intend to have street fighting in downtown Seattle. If the US military insists on defending here, then the federal army will not care about civilian casualties.
, a fire bomb turned the entire city into ruins.
When these leaflets fell into the hands of ordinary people in the urban area, the entire city of Seattle was in chaos. Many people planned to escape overnight because there was going to be a war here. More people who had nowhere to escape found the U.S. military in Seattle. I would like to ask:
Ask whether there will be an offensive and defensive battle in the city.
This issue is actually what General Arnold and his US military generals are worrying about. They have also obtained the leaflets. They also know that the meaning of the leaflets is probably not a threat. According to the situation of the Federal Air Force bombing the airport, as long as those incendiary bombs are
Just throw it into the city casually, and the city will be hopeless.
But the U.S. Army cannot say that it will give way to Seattle because of such a few pieces of paper. This is not only a matter of surrender and cowardice, it is also related to how to deal with such problems in the future. It cannot be said that every time
If you drop some flyers in the city, I will stop defending it and let you occupy the city comfortably.
Arnold discussed with his generals for a long time, but could not come to a feasible conclusion. So he threw the issue directly to the U.S. War Department and their immediate boss, MacArthur, who was meeting with Chief of Staff Marshall in Washington.
When MacArthur received the text of the telegram and leaflet, he did not dare to take the initiative. He could only show it to General Marshall. Marshall hesitated for a long time. Finally, he issued an order. The US military who agreed to the Seattle Defense Line determined that there was no chance of victory.
time. Give up using the city and civilians as cover and engage in street fighting with federal troops.
Afterwards, General Marshall told MacArthur that fighting should be a matter for professional soldiers. If civilians are not involved, then do not involve them. General Robert E. Lee had already set an example for us back then, and we will set an example for future generations again. But
May federal troops also keep their word.
In fact, Marshall promised to hand over Seattle to the federal army if it could not be defended. Is this decision a complete luck, because the federal army was not as murderous as the rumors in the South R War, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers?
One hundred thousand R people were burned alive by them, at least in Wenzhou
In the occupied area of Columbia, the federal army basically did not harass the local people. Except for those members of the resistance organization and the captured spies, the federal occupying army rarely even had contact with the local residents. They did not even have the guns of the local people in Vancouver.
Confiscating them only means that they are no longer allowed to be taken casually on the streets.
Therefore, Marshall adopted the attitude of treating a dead horse as a living horse. When it was obvious that the US military could not hold Seattle, he tried to hand over the city to the federal army basically intact. This not only saved the lives of thousands of American people in the city
, it will not provoke the federal army to massacre, after all, this
It is fighting in the United States. As the aggressor, the federal army has much less scruples. In normal war behavior, neither side will be angry because of failure. However, if it enters the stage of brutal street fighting, there is no guarantee that Liu Bang's air force will not take Seattle.
Treat it like Sasebo Port.
When Marshall's order was conveyed to General Arnold, who was commanding the battle on the front line in Seattle, the Union Army's offensive had already begun. The Union Army's attack method was almost exactly the same as what Arnold and other U.S. military generals thought. First, they bombed from planes, and then the Federal Air Force
The attack aircraft used large batches and small formations to attack everything on the Federal Army's offensive line.
Precision bombings were carried out on suspicious locations, and the radio communication system was used to cooperate very well with the federal armored forces on the ground. Often, before the smoke from the plane bombing had dissipated, the federal tank clusters roared up, and then followed
There are a large number of armored vehicles, self-propelled anti-aircraft guns and self-propelled artillery, and finally there are infantry on motorcycles and large trucks.
Due to the loss of air power, General Arnold knew that the US military could not stop the federal army's attack, but he could not retreat without firing a shot. The defense line must be defended. On this defense line of more than 20 kilometers wide, he had a total of
Five US infantry divisions totaling 110,000 troops were invested and equipped with more than 500 guns
Artillery as support. General Patton led more than 400 light and medium tanks as a general reserve, staying in the woods 20 kilometers behind the defense line. If the defense line was breached, General Patton's tank force would be responsible for holding back the advance of the federal armored forces and covering them.
Most of the U.S. troops on the defense line will have time to withdraw.
The battle officially started at noon on the 22nd. When federal armored vehicles appeared on the north bank of the Snoqual Mill River, the U.S. military's long-range artillery opened fire first. What made the U.S. soldiers very excited was that several federal tanks were hit by large-caliber artillery shells.
Or they were directly destroyed by the near-explosion, and the remaining federal tanks emitted smoke and withdrew from the battle.
However, the U.S. bombardment did not last for a few minutes. Several federal reconnaissance aircraft flying in the sky reported the location coordinates of the artillery positions to the nearby attack aircraft groups while the U.S. artillery fired, and then there were waves of dive bombings.
, at the same time, the federal tanks that had just been withdrawn appeared again in the sight of American soldiers.
After going back and forth like this for several hours, the federal offensive force dropped more than 20 bombed tanks on the north bank of the river, and the US long-range artillery group was basically blown up, and it could no longer be organized decently.
Artillery bombardment. Starting at around 4 o'clock in the afternoon, federal tanks no longer charged, but sent out more than a dozen different tanks. They had the body of a tank, but no gun barrel, and a road roller like one was installed in front of the body.
big iron bucket.
As these strange tanks walked, they used the big iron barrels in front of the vehicles to crush the ground and detonate the US military mines buried there. Seeing this, various mountain artillery and small-caliber cannons on the US defense line began to shoot directly, intending to organize these
Mine clearing tanks work, but they are not very useful. These tanks are basically immune to artillery shells with a caliber of less than 75 mm, and there is a large steel barrel in front of them, so they cannot even hit the tracks. At most, they can only hit the steel drums.
The barrel exploded.
But if they want to blow up these steel barrels, the U.S. military has to pay a lot of money. Now they no longer need reconnaissance aircraft for observation. Federal army artillery observers can use various observation equipment to see the locations of these U.S. firepower points, and then call the rear.
self-propelled artillery bombardment.
The two sides went back and forth for more than 2 hours. It was almost dark, and the federal army's offensive also stopped. Everyone began to recharge their batteries, cook food, eat and sleep, and prepare to continue the next day.
This is a game where I attack and you defend.
At dawn the next day, minesweeper tanks continued to appear on the north bank to clear mines. However, the direct-aimed artillery fire in the US military positions rarely fired. Some of them were blown up, and the other part knew that they could not hit the tanks on the opposite side, so they did not fire.
Go and seduce federal artillery for revenge.
Under the eyes of tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers, these dozen minesweeper tanks leisurely crushed the mines in front of them, opened up three safety belts dozens of meters wide in the minefield, and then retreated while exiting the minefield.
Throwing a white lime bag down from the top cover serves as a boundary mark for the safe passage. (To be continued...)
