Chapter 928: 'Crushing' War
The Wehrmacht's shelling was clean and clean. By the end of the thirty-minute bombardment, the hundreds of guns of the Spanish colonial army had been damaged, and the artillery positions they had carefully built were in disarray, and there were probably not even half of the artillery that could continue to fire, and the Spanish gunners who were still alive were all gone.
Santiago's face turned ugly, and he finally realized that something was wrong. The Chinese army has had its own unexpected changes, and their weapons are now completely buggy like rockets.
In front of him lay several cylindrical shells of various sizes, the appearance of which was beyond the horizon of his brain. Moreover, the enemy's artillery group was far from their artillery positions, and the Spaniards also carried hot air balloons, from which their observers could clearly see the artillery positions placed by the Chinese in the retreat of the defensive line.
But it was such a distant artillery position, the enemy could not only hit their artillery position, but the accuracy was really high.
Santiago would not be foolish enough to think that the Chinese artillery had been blessed by God, so it was so far and so accurate, which was clearly the invention of new weapons by the Chinese. Just like the previous rockets, they invented a new cannon.
And now Santiago is worried about what the Chinese are going to do?
Are they going to annihilate themselves?
Obviously with such a powerful new weapon, but step by step put themselves in the northwest of the Salton Basin, and now their position is at least two hundred kilometers from the southern border, Santiago reflexively realized that the Chinese must have a big plan to do so. And the total annihilation of other units is obviously very, very large.
The Spaniards, who had been beaten by the hexagonal cannon, realized that the form was not good for them.
Without artillery, the Spanish colonial army would have no sharp teeth. Rockets are weapons that can only be used at a distance of 500 meters, and without the cover of cannons, the balladeers [rifled guns] on the front line can make the rocketeers hate on the spot. And with only firepower and rockets in the hands of the infantry, will it be able to block the counterattack of the Chinese army?
The Chinese even made such strange shells, and who dares to say that they have no other weapons?
Santiago was an experienced soldier, and looking at the shells with his eyes, he could roughly determine that the new artillery on the other side was a full-fledged rifled gun.
This kind of artillery is not to mention the Spaniards, many, many countries in Europe have fought its idea, but unfortunately none of them succeeded. So now, have the Chinese succeeded?
In fact, the Chinese side has not been able to create a mature front-loading rifled gun according to the current technology, and the internal boring of the hexagonal gun is hexagonal, which is a clever skill. The front-loading rifled gun of Chen Han's military system experiment has the same problems encountered by European counterparts, the rifling is not easy to pull, the life is super short, and it is very easy to wear.
Santiago's heart was full of worry, the powerful artillery group in the opponent's hand had too great an impact on the war.
IDF then launched an offensive. The artillery shifted its guns and aimed at the infantry positions of the Spaniards. The Chinese army began to organize one small assault force after another.
At the same time, the smoothbore and mortar guns also took the opportunity to move forward and began to fire heavily at the enemy at a distance of 700 meters from the positions of the Spanish colonial troops. The engineer units are also seizing the time to dig the trenches, and when the trenches are properly dug, the rockets filled with black powder and the mortars that fire flowering shells will surely hit the Spanish positions like meteor showers.
A large number of snipers and scouts, with Minnie rifles, protruding from the line, also began to shoot at the Spaniards. Their lethality should not be underestimated.
Fighting the Wehrmacht on this battlefield was the greatest sorrow of the Spaniards in Santiago. The Spaniards, whose long-range strike force was uprooted, fell into an absolute disadvantage at the first moment of the offensive and defensive battles.
When evening twilight fell, the Wehrmacht offensive was suspended. But the Spaniards were not having a good time. They found an incredible number of rifled guns from the Chinese opposite, and under the cover of the latter, the Chinese rockets had fired hundreds of rounds at the Spanish infantry positions. Their artillery was still firing, and under the cover of the darkening night, small units of the Wehrmacht began to harass them. They shot guns, threw grenades, and set off firecrackers in iron barrels.
The latter, of course, was discovered only after the Spaniards had been captured.
For the duration of the night, as soon as the cannon was fired, the harassment was suspended. As soon as the gunfire stopped, the harassment continued. In each round of Wehrmacht attacks, Spanish soldiers were killed and wounded. Although there were not many, the screams of the wounded were especially loud in the silence of the night.
So the Spaniards subconsciously shrank back, and no one was willing to be nailed to death.
All night, the Spaniards didn't even have time to sleep for a while. They were already on the march, and the Wehrmacht had only a few reconnaissance troops running non-stop, and the rest of the troops were waiting for work. The physical strength of the Spanish colonial army has been greatly consumed, not to mention being beaten by people during the day, and being attacked again all night at night, the Chinese keep tossing, whether it is the roar of cannons or the crispness of gunfire, so that all of them can not really relax and rest.
When the sun rose the next morning, the Spanish soldiers and officers had swollen eyes like peaches, and when the sun shone on them, they felt that their eyes were sore, and tears could not help but flow out.
Santiago knew very well that the bad situation of his troops was not only because of the disturbance from the outside world, but also because of the fear in their hearts.
The Chinese have a powerful new artillery, a large number of their own artillery has been destroyed and completely suppressed, and everyone understands how troublesome the future war will be. If it's not good, they're all likely to be here.
It's at least 200 kilometers from the border.
At this moment, a dull sound sounded.
A super-heavy rocket was fired by the Wehrmacht at the first line of the Spaniards. In the early morning sun, the rockets emitting red fire and white smoke flew into the Spanish positions in a curve.
In order to enhance the power of the explosion of today's rockets, the part of the gunpowder is replaced by white silk - the silk is wrapped in silk to form a propellant bag, which can increase the power of the explosion, but the cost is also much higher. Silk is an absolute 'foreign product' to the Americas, unlike gunpowder, which can be produced on its own, and before the development of silkworm farming in the Americas, this cost could not be low.
Now the world's large and small 'modern' countries have unified their understanding - silk is not only a high-end textile fabric, but also a military product. After the cannon's propellant is wrapped in silk, the effect is obvious. Especially for large-caliber shore defense guns.
Rockets, a powerful and simple weapon, have been used by many countries to deal with the fortifications under the surface. Even in order to make the explosive power of rockets more powerful, some countries will apply silk to the explosive part of rockets at any cost. It's just that the flaws of the rocket are obvious, as an extra-large flowering projectile, it cannot destroy strong defenses, and even semi-permanent fortifications can sometimes seem inadequate. However, it was impossible for the Spaniards to build semi-permanent fortifications on the battlefield at hand, and the Spanish colonial troops hiding in the deep trench they had worked so hard to dig could effectively resist the explosive power of the rockets.
Every violent explosion will set off the earth and sand in the sky, or a bloody rain, the Spanish colonial officers and soldiers at the center of the explosion are unlucky to directly turn into a mixture of flesh and bones and a puff of blood mist, and some people are directly pushed to the ground by heavy waves and impacts, and there are even seven bleeding people, or just a small amount of bleeding in the corners of the mouth and nostrils, such people's internal organs will have some shock injuries, and those who fall to the ground motionless, it is not impossible that the internal organs are completely cracked. There are also those who have been injured and knocked down by various fragments of high-speed flight.
Wei Baocheng surveyed the battlefield with a telescope on a high ground in the distance. The scenes on the positions of the Spanish colonial army are clearly visible through the telescope. Wei Baocheng didn't feel any stomach contractions, some were just dripping with pleasure. Although the distance was far enough that Wei Baocheng couldn't hear the screams, and he couldn't see the expressions on the faces of the Spanish colonial soldiers clearly in the smoke, he could fully imagine their panic at this time when he saw them burying their bodies deep in the trenches as shrunken turtles or wolves rushing to the hogs.
The overall quality of the Spanish colonial army in front of them has indeed improved compared to the previous war, but the composition of their members determines the ceiling of this army, which is a comparison between the thin man and the short man, and the strength is limited.
Wei Baocheng led the main force of the First Army, and the First Army in the early 20,000s was the strength of an integrated division, and Wei Baocheng brought a reorganized division before coming to the Americas.
What he needs to think about now is not how to defeat the Spaniards in front of him, but how to completely stick to the Spaniards. Don't let Santiago give Bobtail a chance to survive.
Don't think that foreigners are stupid, when necessary, short-tailed survival is the instinctive reaction of any general.
Shells and rockets bombarded non-stop. From early morning to noon, more than 20 cars were emptied by the shells of the hexagonal cannon alone. And the establishment and organization of the Spaniards, under such a fierce offensive, were already somewhat disorganized.
The main thing, of course, is that their fighting spirit has been shaken.
The artillery of the Spaniards went to God completely. Without artillery, they were completely inferior to the rockets, and they were already pessimistic about the prospects of war.
Wei Baocheng ordered his troops to launch a direct skirmish attack on the disorganized Spaniards at dusk, and the cruelty of this charge can be imagined. The Spaniards were not wooden men, and they had muskets, bayonets, and rockets in their hands, although on the whole they suffered from the fact that their confidence was shaken, and they were constantly deprived of good rest, which greatly regressed their physical fitness. But this is like a frightened old hen, but it will struggle with all its might, at most 'it' is struggling without the essentials.
On the other side, the Wehrmacht, where every soldier was well-rested and, more importantly, their morale was high. On the battlefields of Europe, the soldiers of the French Revolutionary Guards, whose morale was high, dared to charge against the rockets.
The Wehrmacht fighters who were now attacking were not soft on the Spaniards, and although their attack was cautious at first, and they were countered by raining rockets, they were not at all afraid. When night falls, and at night, it's much more open and the attacks are much stronger. At night, however, the resistance of the Spaniards, whose faith had been shaken, was even weaker.
The old hen's physical strength is limited, and the frantic struggle ahead will surely consume their physical strength. If Santiago hadn't had the ability to build defensive positions in the back from a vantage point during the daytime when the Wehrmacht was firing artillery, resisting and defending layer by layer, maybe the Spanish colonial army would have collapsed in this night. But even so, the Spanish colonial army was a little bit of 'lightening the burden of self-burden'.
The Spanish colonial forces that were left to fight and block collapsed one after another, but the Wehrmacht's trick was very simple, that is, to contain the attack head-on and outflank it from the side. But the Spaniards seemed to be unable to react, and were beaten to pieces by this simple tactic again and again.
Any Spanish soldier who did not surrender or hesitated in the battle was bound to be destroyed.
Wei Baocheng didn't have any thoughts of 'pity'. Although the Wehrmacht was now qualified to provide humanitarian charity to Spanish prisoners of war, Wei Baocheng felt that the dead Spaniards and their supporters were good Spaniards and their supporters.
The contradiction between the latter and Chen Han is irreparable. The war between the two is an absolute war to the death, so that the Spanish colonial army in front of them, the Spaniards in front of them, and their supporters in the Americas in front of them will have inextricable contradictions.
Now that you let them go, they may turn around and ask for the lives of Chen Han's soldiers in the future.
There is nothing in the world that does not come without a price. If the Spaniards want to keep the Americas, keep the colonies, and keep their interests, they have to pay the price. Wei Baocheng has no woman's kindness for the big duck in his heart.
In the blink of an eye, as the trumpet sounded sharply, and another dawn was about to arrive, the black-pressed Wehrmacht soldiers launched a final attack.
Just as the main force of the First Army was attacking the Santiago Division, Dong Wei led a reinforced regiment of 4,000 men to the desolate Salton Basin. The guards brought a full pot of water from the water source, and Dong Wei raised his neck and dried half a pot in one go.
He had 4,000 people on hand, Wei Baocheng mobilized most of the army of the first legion, and Chen Qi had a little police force in his hand, and there were only 4,000 people left for Dong Wei.
"Vice-seater, where are we going?" Dong Wei is now one of the two deputy commanders of the First Legion, part-time, and the other is Wei Baocheng, who leads the main force of the First Legion, just like Gao Pingshan is leading the main commander of the First Legion, and he also holds the position of the deputy marshal of the American garrison.
Jiang Kui never thought that the big board duck would be easy to fight. They had all passed through the entire Salton Basin, and the Spaniards had not yet been seen, and the Scouts had reported that there were Spaniard cavalry operating in the southern part of Salton, and the activity was still frequent.
How could he have known that the Spanish colonial army at the southern tip of Salton was now in fear. Their connection with the main forces in front of them has been severed. Chinese scouts and snipers cut off the Santiago division from the rear. The big duck himself panicked, and relaxed his reconnaissance at the southern end of the Salton Basin.
Jiang Kui is also an old man in the army, but he suffers losses in his own cultural classes, so he is still only a regimental leader.
Dong Wei thought for a moment and said, "Let's go to areas 7, 8 and 9." Cut off the Spaniards in the Salton Basin from the Spanish colonial forces near the border. ”
Jiang Kui opened his mouth wide, "Running so far?" What should I do if I am found on the road? ”
"When it was discovered, it hit whoever hit whom, and the target was determined to be Area 7. We're afraid they won't make ......."
Dong Wei is full of confidence in this war, with hexagonal cannons and new muskets, the main body of this war is to crush. Completely crushed!