Of course, the telegram was photographed without hiding Marshall. Although it was not very nice to spread, General Kim was sure to let Marshall release it. He said in person that he could not defeat the Sal Island regiment level within 48 hours and was dismissed on the spot. How many hours have passed? General Kim thought that he would have to fight at least 5 days, so he rarely said a fair word for the two Army advisors: "The dismissal order is given, but give them a chance to commit crimes and make meritorious service. Anyway, the German army can't escape, so fight slowly..."

This slowdown lasted another 5 days, and the German army was compressed into the core position on the island, and the surroundings were all US troops. However, in this way, the US military's cover artillery and attack aircraft could not be deployed smoothly, because they would hit their own people if they were not careful. They could only rely on the army's own artillery and attack to gradually advance, and launched the most cruel positional war. The German army was completely trapped in a situation of being surrounded. Not only was the ammunition and personnel not replenished, but they were almost used up.

Faced with the last 1,300 people left in the encirclement, Link originally wanted to give up and lead his troops to surrender, but to his surprise, no one agreed with this idea, and everyone gritted their teeth and expressed their intention to go to the end and never surrender. What was even more unexpected was that just when he thought the support of the head of state was finally cut off, Mashar suddenly sent a telegram to the fleet that had advanced towards Cape Verde and expected to arrive in reinforcements within 5 days.

As soon as these two news came out, the morale of the defenders was greatly boosted, and they gritted their teeth and persevered, and their morale seemed to be higher than that of the US military.

The core position of Saar Island is actually a continuous permanent fortification based on a simplified version of the air defense tower. In addition to the buildings on the ground, there is also a semi-underground permanent fortification consisting of 1 main fort and 8 sub-forts. The main fort has heavy machine guns and 88mm anti-tank firepower, and the sub-forts and side-firing forts have light machine guns and 75mm anti-tank firepower. There are two layers of traffic trenches around. The German army has a large number of k98 rifles, g43 rifles, stg43 assault rifles and mg43s. There are also a large number of mortars behind the bunkers. In addition, iron fist rockets used by German infantry, it forms a dense and airtight fire net.

The main fort is divided into three floors, the uppermost layer is a building exposed to the ground and is associated with the base of the air defense tower, which is mainly used for suppressive fire shooting; the second floor is all underground at the beginning, with various covers and ammunition and food warehouses inside; the third floor does not go straight down, but diagonally excavated tunnels to form a basement to become the entire core command center.

The upper part of each fortress is formed by dismantled old rails, arranged in rows and covered with 30mm thick steel plates, and then poured into concrete. The overall thickness is mostly over 70 cm, and the surroundings are covered with soil, which is more than 1 meter thick. The cannons below the 150mm caliber hit directly without any damage. The exposed part is filled with discarded gasoline barrels after a large amount of use, and arranged triple layers of 30mm steel plates are added between the barrels. This civil engineering method is obtained from the Nanyang Island of Japan. It is nothing more than Japan to use local materials and use large logs. Germany does not have so many logs, but there is no shortage of rails (h-shaped steel).

In fact, Cape Verde is not the most tightly defended place in the German army. Some of the fortresses on Azores were directly used with steel plates of main armored battleships dismantled from Italy and Germany. Among them, there are not only some components of the battleships transformed into aircraft carriers, but also steel plates that were pre-cut but not actually used for construction of H-class battleships. These goods were originally intended for use in Atlantic barriers, but Hoffmann's attitude was very clear. Instead of defending the endless coastline of Western Europe, it was better to concentrate materials and labor to defend island defense. Therefore, Cape Verde and Azores obtained a large amount of materials. Now, the construction of Atlantic barriers is wider than in history and has a worse finishing degree.

After this arrangement method, the damage caused by medium and large caliber howitzers were lightly destroyed, whether they were directly destroyed or shocked. During artillery attack, the German army could hide in the protector's land. Once the artillery stopped, spider-web-shaped traffic trenches were everywhere on the fortress to connect to the main positions and quickly deploy troops. There were a large number of foxes around the side of the traffic trenches, and some German soldiers lurked there, ready to use iron fists or grenades to attack the US military at any time.

It is also very difficult to get close to this fortress system. There are 3 barbed wire and 2 deer villages in front of the fortress position, and landmines are everywhere. When you rush in, you have to be prepared to peel off the layers. The German infantry firepower just restrains the US military. Except for the 12.7mm Browning heavy machine gun, the US military is inferior to its opponents in other fields: the light machine gun is not as good as the mg42, which can continuously fire tens of thousands of bullets and maintain stability. At mid-range shooting, the K98's accuracy and power exceed that of the US military's m1 Garland. At about 400 meters, the G43 is not at a disadvantage. With dense firefights within 200 meters, the stg43 completely ate the US Thomson submachine gun. During close combat within 100 meters or even 50 meters, the German army's endless iron fists killed the Americans again.

The US military undoubtedly has advantages in Bazouka and recoilless guns, but those things are too bulky and large, and the targets are very obvious after launch. They cannot suppress the Germans when they are far away, and they are directly killed by German snipers when they are close. The US tanks are not powerful at this time. Not to mention that there is no tank that can afford direct shooting of 88mm guns, even the 75mm anti-tank gun is more than enough to kill the m4m6 tank. The German army cleverly used the last two Tiger tanks as fixed fire points and used the Tiger precise sniper to reimburse many armored targets. When the US military was angrily dragging the 90mm anti-aircraft guns to set fire to the flat fire, it was shocking to find that the German tank was hiding behind the reinforced concrete fortifications that were more than 1 meter thick, which was useless.

What made the US military most desperate was that the entire set of fortresses was associated with air defense towers. Although the damaged air defense towers had lost their combat effectiveness, they still used their strong bodies to protect the fortress defense system. If the air defense tower was completely destroyed, they could not destroy the fortress fortifications at all. The method of artificial blasting was to first solve the fortress defenders, so a deadlock was formed here: if the defenders did not solve the problem, they could not completely solve the problem of the fortress.

It is also a way to trap a opponent. Unfortunately, the US military does not have so much time. The last two US military advisors can only use the most traditional and bloody methods to fill in with human lives, and fight for land inch by inch. However, this kind of playing method is obviously not applicable to the US military. The tactical literacy of the two sides was very different, but the side with high combat level still occupied favorable terrain and solid fortifications, which was simply a hard bone that could not be gnawed. All incendiary bombs and fire-breathing tanks have been tried. The former was very effective, while the latter was directly fired into a fireball by the enemy's anti-tank firepower at a long distance. After several tests, they had no choice but to give up.

If the poisonous gas bomb is easy to use, the Americans will probably use it without hesitation. However, firstly, the troops did not carry this "weapon", and secondly, they are intimidated by Germany's "making achievements" in the field of poisonous gas. The United States will not dare to open this Pandora's box easily if German bombers drop poisonous gas bombs on the east coast. Then, the world will be in a state of chaos.

After so many days, the US military did not achieve nothing after paying more than 3,000 casualties. At least the periphery of the defense line has been cleaned up, and landmines and barbed wire have been cleared. At the same time, it completely sealed the outer positions of the German fortress group in the spare time of bloody battle. In other words, the Germans either died in battle or surrendered, and there was no third way to escape. Last and most importantly, it consumed a large amount of ammunition and supplies of the German army. Now the defenders can only last for 5 days, and supplies can only last for 10 days. Link believes that once the food or ammunition is exhausted, he is determined to lead the troops to surrender the soldiers to do enough for the Third Reich and the Head of State, and he wants to give them a way to survive.
Chapter completed!