Chapter 1053
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The bridge was only a very blurry silhouette in the dark. Engineer Mendez remembered that the bridge was nearly five meters high. For a railway at this time, a five-meter pillar was really not an easy task.
"Lieutenant Colonel, let's wait for a while. Let's do some training during the day. "Major Pershing put forward his opinion.
Although he really wanted to get into action immediately, Engineer Mendez knew that he could not be rash. The river was relatively deep and the current was relatively rapid. There was no way to wade across it like before. Of course, the team could continue north. There was a railway bridge a few miles away. But Engineer Mendez could not think of any engineering problems with that bridge.
Since there was no better way, Lieutenant Colonel Mendez could only say, "Okay, let's wait until the day."
Outside the city of Duluth, north of the American team, the battle did not stop throughout the night. There were quite a lot of marks on the map on Brigadier General Arthur's desk. East, west, south, north, and south. Only the lake outside the port in the east did not have any signs of the presence of Chinese troops. The marks in the other areas almost formed a noose that completely sealed off Duluth.
The brigadier general looked calm, but the staff officer in the command center had an extremely ugly expression. When Brigadier General Arthur raised his head from the map, the staff officer asked in a trembling voice, "Sir, should we break out of the encirclement?"
"Break out of where?" Brigadier General Arthur asked in a dissatisfied tone.
"Break out of the lake. Those ships are still in our hands. We can leave once we get on the ships. "The staff officer mustered up his courage and suggested. After saying this, he added, "Your Excellency, the Chinese are attacking the port fiercely, and if the port cannot be defended, we will be able to defend it. If we can't hold the port, we will have no way out. "
Brigadier General Arthur glared at his subordinate with eyes full of disgust. He said loudly, "What do you mean by no way out? If we can't go east, we can still go west. If we can't go west, we can still go north. What's more, the reinforcements must have already begun to be mobilized. There are definitely not many Chinese troops. Even if we hold on, we can still wait for reinforcements to arrive. "
"How can you be sure that there are not many Chinese troops?" The staff officer looked at the marks on the map. If there were not many Chinese troops, it would be impossible to complete such a tight encirclement.
"Have you never taken a train before? How many people could a train carry? In the intelligence report, there was only this Chinese army rushing over from the south. There was no news of other Chinese troops rushing over. We have also sent troops to blow up bridges, and we are trying to destroy the railway bridges in the vicinity. As long as the Chinese reinforcements can't keep up, we have more than 20,000 soldiers in Duluth. "
The level of railway transport in this era was limited. The Staff Officer could understand Brigadier Arthur's point of view. However, there was a big difference between reality and imagination. China's military strength was not as small as imagined. At the very least, from the looks of the current battle, China's military strength was definitely not in the thousands or tens of thousands. If they really had so few people, it could only be said that the combat power of China's army was too terrifying.
"Maybe the local Swedes are not good at leading the way?" The staff officer was still trying to find an excuse.
Unexpectedly, Brigadier General Arthur flew into a rage. He shouted at the staff officer, "If you were as capable as those Germans, we would have won this war by now!"
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