"Surrender?" This question made Minister Alger very entangled. To be honest, he knew that surrender should be the best choice at this time, but he, a minister of war, a group army commander, and three division commanders surrendered to the enemy together, and it was
Surrendering to the yellow race would be a shame not just for the United States, but for the entire white world. Even if the United States does not care much about surrender, it is completely different from a war between white people.
But if you don't surrender...
After all, he is also the Minister of War. Although the Minister of War is not a general, but just a civilian official, he also has a certain military acumen. If he cannot escape without surrendering, he can only go east into the Hamilton Mountains. That mountainous area is on the map.
The straight line is 40 kilometers wide. Even if the wounded are abandoned and the remaining 40,000 American troops want to go out, I am afraid it will take three days. Of course, they must leave all the artillery and all other baggage, including all ammunition that cannot be taken away, and then each soldier must bring some
Cans and the necessary bullets to drill into the ravine.
It was impossible for the Chinese to let them out and then escape. There were tens of thousands of people waiting outside the mountain, and their own soldiers were loaded with hundreds of bullets each. They had no artillery support, not even a heavy machine gun.
In the face of the opponent's powerful firepower, it is simply a matter of death. In the end, it is estimated that surrender will be the only way to go.
Of course, you can also fight guerrillas in the mountains and wait for reinforcements. Forty thousand U.S. troops without food are in this mountainous area with reinforcements coming from the east coast. By the time they arrive after a long journey of more than 3,000 kilometers, they will probably eat all the rats in the mountains.
Mummy from hunger.
"Is there really no hope? Maybe we can wait until Kate brings someone back." He asked expectantly.
General Norton pointed to the north, where the sky could clearly be seen a little red.
"Do you think Kate can bring people back under such a level of bombardment?" He said calmly.
Of course, Brigadier General Kate cannot bring anyone back. At this time, he is hiding in a ravine with less than 20,000 remaining American troops. The Japanese, black, and Mexican coalition forces outside are killing Livermore overnight. The overseas Chinese who were originally serving as second-line support
Division, took over their positions. Tomorrow these two troops will block their hiding place from the east and west. At that time, they will have no other choice but to continue south through the mountains and meet with General Norton. But the problem is
They had discarded their supplies even more thoroughly than General Norton's men. They didn't even have anything to eat, and each one of them was suffering from hunger in the cold night.
He didn't dare think about how to cross more than 40 kilometers of continuous mountains under such circumstances.
"General, maybe we should go out and surrender. We have no food and will starve to death if we continue like this. We are fully qualified to surrender." An officer next to him said tentatively. In fact, this was almost the unanimous voice of all US troops.
"Yes, General, it is the Chinese outside now, not the Japanese and the niggas. We surrender to them without damaging our honor." Another officer came over and said.
General Kate gritted his teeth and hesitated, but at this moment, a loudspeaker shouted from outside: "Brothers in the American military, you have no way out, put down your weapons and surrender. I am Chen Fang, former Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
, maybe some of you have heard of my name, of course you may not have heard of it, but here I guarantee you with my honor. Come out and surrender, and you will get treatment that matches your status.
As for General Norton, don't count on it. His current situation is worse than yours. Because the US military led by him has been surrounded by three of our divisions, including two Chinese Army divisions, in Gilroy. If he doesn't
Surrender, and by this time tomorrow, I will probably be able to tell you his fate."
Chen Fang's shouting made Brigadier General Kate and his men stunned. Although they didn't know whether the news was true or false, since the Chinese dared to divide their forces to occupy Livermore, it meant that they no longer considered the safety of San Jose at all.
, because the overseas Chinese division currently guarding the outside is also preparing to support the first division. Considering this situation, I am afraid that the former prime minister of Hawaii outside is not lying.
"General, shall we surrender?" Almost all the surrounding officers came over, and even many soldiers gathered around, staring at Brigadier General Kate with wide eyes.
Brigadier General Kate gritted his teeth and finally nodded. Soon an American military officer came out of the mountain holding a white flag, then walked to the position of the overseas Chinese army, and came to contact the surrender on behalf of Brigadier General Kate.
"So simple?" Lin Chaodong didn't react for a moment when he learned that 19,000 American soldiers had surrendered to him. Although he expected that most of the American soldiers would choose to surrender, he did not expect that they would surrender so quickly.
"That Kate is from Mississippi. He has long been informed by the Mississippi Congress that Mississippi chose neutrality in the war and asked him to withdraw from the federal army. However, the U.S. War Department issued an order. Who dares to leave without approval?
He is regarded as a deserter and arrested, so he has to continue serving. Now that he has such an opportunity, he is naturally eager to follow the trend." Chen Fang said with a smile.
"Let me tell you, although this American army is quite bad, it is not to this extent. Since he is a Mississippian, we naturally have to give him treatment worthy of his status. Don't treat this general and his soldiers badly.
Don't go hungry, we are civilized people now and don't want to deal with monkeys in concentration camps, that is what the barbaric Russians did." Lin Chaodong then said to the secretary next to him.
The news of the surrender of Brigadier General Kate and the US troops led by him was broadcast to the US troops trapped in the valley through loudspeakers on the front line early the next morning. Brigadier General Kate's recording was even played. Now Alger and
Norton's last insistence was gone. At noon, under the clamor of reporters and some southern officers, he finally chose to surrender. At this point, the Battle of San Francisco was completely over. The U.S. California Army Group was captured and surrendered with 21,000 dead.
Seventy-nine thousand people, including the wounded, were wiped out.
Then a brigade of the Chinese Army took a landing ship and went north along the canal to occupy Sacramento. In addition, a team composed entirely of black men was separated from the cannon fodder army and went south again to occupy Los Angeles. So far, the only part of California that was still under the control of the United States was the United States.
The southernmost area of San Diego is left. Of course, San Diego at this time was just an inconspicuous small town. There was only one regiment of US troops, and it was still there just because no one paid attention to it.
This terrible news spread quickly throughout the United States and even the entire world like the shock wave of an earthquake. The Americans who had been waiting with great expectations for the news of victory were severely stepped on in the face. One hundred thousand American troops were wiped out. The Secretary of War
Surrender to the enemy, damn, even if you lose, you don’t have to lose so vividly, right? This is not just a shame that can be described, it is simply...
The Americans really couldn't find words to describe this fiasco. At this moment, an unknown small newspaper suddenly revealed the root cause of this fiasco. Brigadier General Kate, who was the first to surrender, was a Mississippian, and General Norton was finally forced to surrender.
Those who surrendered were all officers from the former Confederate states. The reason why we lost so miserably was not because our army was not good, nor because the Chinese were too powerful. Of course, they were indeed very powerful, but they were definitely not so powerful.
, it’s completely because our army has been mixed with sand. Those Southerners are probably looking forward to the Union’s defeat now! How could they try their best on the battlefield, including the battlefields of Florida and Mobile? Which defeat was not related to the Southerners’ mischief?
?Just like in Mobile, without the Mississippi and Alabama National Guards to restrain him, would General Merritt have fought so badly?
People are most easily deceived when they are in a panic. Fueled by some people with ulterior motives, this saying immediately spread in the United States. Those Americans who were suffering from one failure after another suddenly understood and found the best solution for failure.
The reasonable explanation is not that the enemy is too powerful, nor that our soldiers are not brave, but that there are cancerous tumors in our army, and those cancerous tumors are the abominable Southerners, the remnants of those slave owners in those days.
That bastard Sherman, why didn't he kill all these guys back then? If he had killed all the Southerners, we wouldn't be like this now.
This argument was widely pursued in the states of the former Confederacy, and the rift between the North and the South was getting wider and wider. Under such circumstances, the War Department issued another order to intensify this separation, agreeing to the agreement between the original Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi
Retirement applications filed by officers and soldiers from the three states allowed them to withdraw from the federal military.
If the War Department had allowed these officers and soldiers to retire before, they would naturally have wished for it, but to allow them to withdraw from the army under such circumstances would be tantamount to a humiliation.
Of course, these are just trivial matters. The question directly before President Arison is, what should we do with California? Should we send troops to continue the fight? Logically, we should continue to increase troops. An increase of 200,000 troops is enough. No matter how powerful the Chinese are, they will not be defeated.
Ten U.S. divisions cannot defeat two of their divisions, but the problem is that they have no troops to send. Mobile has deployed 200,000 U.S. troops, but they still cannot capture the port. The Spanish in Florida are increasing their troops one by one, and they have already
The number has increased to 200,000. In order to block them, a total of 600,000 US troops are now in a stalemate with them. Another batch has just been sent over. There are still less than 100,000 troops left in the north. Even in this season, the coalition forces
It's impossible to go north, but you can't transfer everyone out and leave no one behind, right?
The only way is to expand the army, but those capitalists will never agree. (To be continued...)