"Major Barros doesn't seem to be competent at all as a battalion commander!"

"Yes, the general should promote a conscientious and courageous officer to the post of commander of the sixth battalion."

A group of soldiers were so happy to joke about Major Barros's scandal, and in the midst of laughter, the joyful, relaxed atmosphere was ruined by bad news.

"The general has issued an order that the 4th Regiment, the 6th Regiment, the Artillery Regiment, and the Cavalry Company will launch an all-out attack on the Biarrika position before 8 o'clock this evening! Our company is also attacking the troop sequence. ””

"What? Didn't the general just order us to fix it in place? Why did the command change suddenly? ”

"It was General Rodriguez who gave the order directly to the general, and the general did not dare to disobey General Rodriguez's order!"

"That's bad news!"

After hearing the order to attack, the faces of a group of soldiers who had just been talking leisurely changed drastically, and many of them had scolding voices with accents from all over the world, and they vented their pre-war nervousness and fear in the form of loud cursing.

At 7:45 p.m., the Brazilian troops, who had received the order to attack, reluctantly left the camp at the urging of middle-level officers. Set off in the direction of the Biarrica position.

The neighing of horses and the clamor continued, and when the Brazilian troops reached within range of the forward positions in Villarica, they were greeted by a rain of rifle bullets and artillery shells.

"Not good! The battalion commander was hit! ”

A Brazilian soldier shouted loudly, and then the other soldiers saw an officer standing at the back of the attacking line, unlucky enough to be hit directly by a shell.

"It's over, the battalion commander must be dead."

"Yes, if you are hit directly by a shell, you will definitely not survive."

Seeing that the battalion commander was killed by a shell, several soldiers who were lying behind the bushes to hide were both scared and rejoicing.

"Bastard! Go on the offensive! Bancroft, Grete, Barcelomu, you three rush out first! Notify us when you find a hidden attack location! ”

The battalion commander was killed in battle, and another veteran captain quickly took over the command of his unit, and then ordered several soldiers who were sluggish!

"Bastard! Why us again? Why don't you hand over the task to someone else? Are you just the acting battalion commander! ”

"And say we're bastards! You are so brave, why don't you rush up yourself!

What does that mean! You bastard! What qualifies you to be a captain? “

The three Bancrofts cursed in a low voice, but they honestly obeyed the orders of the acting battalion commander and cautiously crawled forward.

"Grete, Barsaromu, you see, in front of us on the right is the enemy's shooting corner, there is a big tree there, it is safer for us to hide under the big tree!"

Bancroft leaned over and whispered.

"However, the order of the acting battalion commander was to approach the enemy's forward position, and the position of the big tree was nearly 70 meters away from our offensive line, and although we were safe under the big tree, we also violated the order of the acting battalion commander."

"His order is to send us to death! If you want to lie in the churchyard, just obey that bastard's orders! ”

"No, I don't want to die! The bronzes we have hidden in the city of Mauricio have not been taken out yet! It's not worth dying now! ”

"Yes, we can't die in vain! To hell with that bastard's orders! It's important to save your life first, and wait until this battle is over to think about the rest! ”

Several soldiers discussed in a low voice, quickly reaching an agreement on the issue of avoiding the dangers of the battlefield, and then, taking advantage of the cover of night, the three slowly deviated from the central area of the battlefield and turned towards the position of the big tree on the other side of the battlefield.

Bullets and shells weave back and forth on the battlefield, and the sound of violent shell explosions can be heard far or near in the surrounding area, and the bright light from the explosion divides the battle area into a slaughterhouse where night and day are intertwined.

The lives of individual soldiers are clearly fragile and insignificant throughout the battlefield. Rows and rows of Brazilian soldiers, deterred by the guns of the gendarmes, nervously rushed to the forward positions, and then under heavy fire, rows fell.

The battle lasted until 8:46 p.m., and the corpses of Brazilian soldiers were piled up layer after layer in the range of the forward attack of the various positions in Biarrica, and in just over half an hour, the Brazilian army suffered more than 500 casualties in the continuous attack.

He had no scruples about plundering ordinary Paraguayans, and when Lieutenant General Rodriguez gave the order to attack again, Major General Geturio had no choice but to use all the main forces of the 9th Division to devote himself to an offensive operation that was very costly.

The war was scorching, with the advantage of troops, the Brazilian army was still holding on to the Mbo Cayadi position after paying more than 500 casualties, and in the forward combat area, after personally experiencing the powerful lethality of the new Han rifles, heavy machine guns and other weapons, ordinary Brazilian soldiers did not have the courage to continue the attack, and some of the Brazilian soldiers who were frightened by the tragic death of their own soldiers were no matter how the gendarmes and the warlords threatened. But he is no longer willing to take a step forward.

The 4th Battalion advances! Advance! Front--in--"

A mid-ranking Brazilian officer raised his pistol and gave several orders in quick succession, but there was no movement from the soldiers behind him, all the soldiers hesitated, and no one wanted to be thrown into a futile attack and lose their lives in vain.

The atmosphere of the battlefield freezes instantly! Seeing that all the soldiers did not obey their orders, the Brazilian officer angrily scolded: "What are you bastards doing? Didn't hear my orders? Why don't you rush forward! ”

"The enemy's heavy machine gun fire is too fierce, and without artillery suppression, we can't rush at all!"

"Excuses! It's all an excuse for cowardice, and the sanitary soldiers of the third battalion of the 4th Regiment dare to pick up guns and attack! The health soldiers are not afraid! What are you afraid of? ”

"The three battalions of the fourth regiment have artillery support, we don't."

One soldier muttered quietly.

"Enough! You cowards! Don't make any more excuses for your cowardice! Attack now! ”

The Brazilian officer was furious and shouted a threat.

"Sir, someone is sneaking up!"

In the faint light of the fire, several blurred figures suddenly appeared in the sight of the Brazilian soldiers.

"Enemy attack, hidden!"

Hear the reminder from your soldiers. The officer, who was still full of anger just now, seemed to have changed a person in an instant, and decisively fell to the ground on all fours.

"It's Lieutenant Olg of the 6th Regiment."

The distance closed, and a soldier spoke.

"Where is your commander?"

"I'm here!" The Brazilian officer quickly stood up from the ground, and said with an embarrassed expression on his face.

"General Geturio ordered the fourth battalion to return to the camp for two hours, and to have Major Englet's troops take over your offensive mission."

"Okay, when Major Englet's troops arrive, I'll lead the troops back to the camp to recuperate." …………

"According to the estimates of the fighting situation in the forward positions, the Brazilian army has placed the main attack in the small town of Mbocayadei, and it is roughly estimated that the enemy has committed about 7,000 troops in the direction of the Mbokayadi line."

At Villarrica Station, Zhang Wenlian, commander of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Mixed Brigade, stood in the temporary headquarters and said: "Our army has nearly 2,000 defensive troops in the direction of Mbokayadi, and the Brazilian army has an absolute advantage in terms of numbers in terms of the strength of the frontal defensive position. ”

"It is likely that the Brazilian army ignored the Tvicuari direction and focused only on frontal positions."

Zhou Liying, commander of the 75-mm artillery battalion, pondered: "If this is possible, then it makes no sense for the advance troops to divide their troops into two routes and deploy the fifth battalion, the engineer battalion and other troops in the direction of Tvikuari. ”

"According to the intensity of the Brazilian army's attack, the commander of the Brazilian army on the opposite side should have been under pressure from the military order of the upper command organization, so he hastily gathered the main forces and launched a large-scale attack at night."

"The Brazilians are racing against us, and they want to use their strength advantage to regain control of the Biarrical station from us."

Li Jitai, commander of the brigade's reconnaissance battalion, agreed: "The Brazilian army has formed an absolute superiority in the strength of our army in the direction of Mbocadiadi, and if we defend the Mbocadia position with our current strength, although there is a high probability that we will be able to repel the enemy's offensive, it may also cost more than 500 troops."

Therefore, I think that in the case of idle troops in the direction of Twiquiri, it is better to transfer some troops back to the direction of Mbocayadi, and then cooperate with the relatively abundant forces, use the night as a cover, launch a counter-charge against the attacking enemy forces in front of them, disrupt the offensive deployment of the Brazilian army, and try to buy more time for the arrival of follow-up reinforcements. ”

"The total number of Brazilian vanguard attacking troops is about 10,000, and the number of enemy troops currently appearing within the range of our army's front-line forward positions is about 7,000 people, based on the speed of the Brazilian army's march, if they move to the direction of Tvicuari and attack from the flank, it will take about 3 hours, and 3 hours is enough for the Brazilian army to complete the military change of the direction of the main attack, but within the 3-hour time frame, it is difficult for our army to accurately grasp the change in the direction of the Brazilian army's attack."

Zhang Wenlian still insisted on his own proposition: "The purpose of our army is to ensure the safety of the Biarrika station, and the troops in the direction of Twiquari cannot be easily mobilized, but a simple passive defense is not in line with our army's operational policy.

According to the suggestion just put forward by Battalion Commander Zhou and Battalion Commander Li, we took advantage of the darkness of night as a cover and took advantage of the interlude when the Brazilian army's offensive stopped, on the one hand, to send troops to launch a counterattack against the enemy forces in the front line in order to achieve the goal of disrupting the enemy's combat plan, and on the other hand, to send several capable assault detachments to break through to the enemy's defense line and reconnoiter the specific position of the Brazilian army's artillery, so as to create favorable conditions for our army's artillery cluster to destroy the enemy's artillery. ”

Zhang Wenlian's counterattack plan, which synthesized the suggestions made by several major commanders, although the overall strategy tended to be conservative, but in terms of specific tactical counterattacks, it still had the offensive nature that was common to the Han army.

Three hours later, at 11:08 p.m., after a round of artillery fire, some 600 soldiers poured out of several forward positions in the direction of Mbocayadi's forward positions, pointing directly at the Brazilian troops on the other side of the front line.

With the raging artillery fire, machine gun spraying, and the firepower superiority of the new rifles, in the case of a sudden blow, the Brazilian soldiers, who were already in a state of high mental tension, even with absolute superiority in strength, quickly collapsed and fled in fear.

The counterattack was a rout, and more than 600 soldiers took advantage of the night to chase after more than 7,000 Brazilian soldiers, until 12:17 a.m., when the offensive momentum of the counterattack force declined, and the Brazilian army was able to stabilize its position when it took the initiative to break away from contact with the Brazilian army.

At 7:10 a.m. the next morning, after the fright of the previous night, the Brazilian army had just breathed a sigh of relief, and then it was hit by the precision of the Han artillery group, and the artillery offensive lasted about 21 minutes, and after 21 minutes, most of the 24 medium guns of the entire artillery regiment of the Brazilian army under the command of Geturio were destroyed, and only seven guns were left that had not suffered from artillery fire at all.

The artillery regiment, which was the supporting fire unit, suffered a heavy blow, and the headquarters of the 9th Brazilian Division lost the firepower to contain the artillery attack of the Han defenders, so that between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. on September 16, the four attacks launched by the Brazilian army were all failed because of the powerful blows of the Han defenders. …………

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