The 4th Army of the South American Theater sent the deputy commander to Cauca to command the battle to occupy the city of Guatiere, but he did not expect the war to go so smoothly, the commander of the 4th Army of Venezuela shot himself, and the army surrendered to the Xia Empire under the leadership of the chief of staff. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Bringing together the surrendered and captured Venezuelan officers and soldiers, the original force of more than 50,000 people, no more than half of them are intact.

The airship was first ordered to go to the northern front to aid the 2nd Praetorian Guard Division and mercenaries who were blocking enemy reinforcements.

The officers and men of the 4th Route Army and the Wehrmacht and mercenaries of the 3rd Route outflanking the enemy's rear began to eat and rest, and the reserve troops of the former 4th Route Army carried out different divisions of labor under the arrangement of the deputy commander.

Some units took over enemy positions, others screened prisoners of war, physically able, and were sent to clear the roads, while others were prepared to aid the 3rd Route Army.

When Juan Royce, Chief of the General Staff of Venezuela, received a telegram that the Fourth Army had been besieged, he immediately sent a message to the Minister of War, Marco Ozil, to meet him at the presidential palace and meet President Gómez.

After reading the telegram from the Chief of the General Staff, the President and the Minister of War Marco Ozil's first reaction was to send troops to support him.

The geographical location of Guatire City is too important, if it is occupied by the enemy, the Xia Empire's army will drive straight in, and it is difficult to stop the Xia Empire's attack with that narrow mountain road alone, and after capturing Guatire City, it will greatly reduce the Xia Empire's logistics supply line.

The president was also in ruins at this time, and if the city of Guadire could not be defended, the capital would be even more difficult to defend, so he sent the only one in his hands, the most loyal Venezuelan 1st Army and 5th Army.

The 2nd Army was stationed on the western defensive line and was responsible for supervising the battle, and the 3rd Army was stationed in the city of Lostex, which was also the most important position; The 4th Army is currently under siege and must be relieved.

The Chief of the General Staff and the Minister of War were very supportive of the President's order, and if the city of Guatire could not be defended, it would be useless to keep the troops.

And the president ordered his attendant military attaché, General Carrido Márquez, who studied at the Berlin Military Academy in Germany, completed three stages of study, was a qualified joint staff officer, and is now the dean of the Venezuelan Military Academy and the deputy chief of the General Staff.

Neither the Chief of the General Staff nor the Minister of the Army had any objection to Carrido's appointment, believing that he was fully capable of the job.

The 1st and 5th armies were ready for battle at all times, and as soon as the order was received, Admiral Carrido immediately ordered one division each, led by Major General Andrés, deputy commander of the 1st Army, to march quickly to support the city of Guatire.

Leaving his assistant, Major General Antonio, in charge of coordinating logistics.

At 8:10, Carrido led the 1st officers and men to set off immediately, which cannot but be said to be very fast, which shows that the military quality of the 1st Army and the 5th Army is indeed excellent.

Less than 9 o'clock, Admiral Carrido received a telegram from the Chief of the General Staff, Juan Royce, that the city of Guatiré had been lost, that the commander of the 4th Army had committed suicide, that the remaining troops had surrendered on the orders of the commander, and that President Gómez and the General Staff had asked him to retake the city.

At this time, the 1st Division of the 1st Venezuelan Army and the 17th Division of the 5th Army had already engaged the Japanese mercenaries of the 2nd Division of the Praetorian Guard in the South American Theater of the Xia Empire and 4 brigades.

From the very beginning, Major General Andres mobilized the strength of 1 regiment to launch an attack on the enemy's improvised defensive line.

The airship fired first, but not at the attacking regiment, but on a large scale to bomb the two enemies who had just entered its bombing range, because the height of the airship was too high, his bombing range did not dare to be too close to his own defense line, otherwise it would not be good to bomb his own people due to the influence of the wind.

The bombing caused a lot of damage to the Venezuelan officers and soldiers, and now Andres knew why the commander of the 4th Army would commit suicide in despair, this kind of bombing was not something they could compete with.

However, he soon found that the airships did not dare to bomb the regiment that was going to attack, because it was too close to their own army, and they were afraid of bombing their own people.

Andres's order was supported by the two division commanders, and after Andres's explanation, they also discovered this characteristic of the airship, as long as the distance with the enemy was shortened, the airship would not dare to bomb.

The officers and soldiers at the bottom also realized that instead of being killed by the bombing of the airship and not being able to fight back, it was better to rush forward and fight the enemy, perhaps this was the only chance to survive.

As the two divisions pressed together, the war began to heat up.

In order to stop the enemy's advance, the airship quickly dropped incendiary bombs downward, which made the Venezuelan officers and soldiers charge forward even more desperately.

The Xia Imperial army fought cautiously, because they didn't know how long this blocking battle would take and how many troops the enemy would send, so they didn't dare to press the army at one time, but only sent 2 brigades of Japanese mercenaries and 2 regiments of Praetorian Guards to the field, and the rest of the personnel immediately rested and ate, and prepared to go to the battlefield in shifts.

However, the intensity of firepower and the number of officers and soldiers far exceeded that of the Venezuelan army, and they were on the defensive side, mountain artillery and mortars were fired continuously, and heavy machine guns and light machine guns were fired at the same time, and the two divisions of Venezuela 2 were embarrassed and suffered heavy losses, so that they could not get close to the improvised defense line built by the Xia Imperial army.

At 9 o'clock, the commander of the 2nd Army received a telegram from the deputy commander of the 4th Army, claiming that the 4th Venezuelan Army had surrendered and that reinforcements would arrive as soon as the obstacles on the road were cleared.

This made the commander of the 2nd Army very excited, and he urgently ordered his troops to return fire violently, not only to resolutely block the enemy's support, but also to attack Caracas, and the current positional warfare was only an opportunity to deplete the living forces of the Venezuelan army.

Knowing that the enemy's 4th Army had surrendered, the morale of the officers and men of the Praetorian Guard and mercenaries was high.

Especially the mercenaries are very happy, when they encounter so many rookie troops with clumsy tactics, they simply use this place as a shooting range, giving full play to the advantages of their accurate marksmanship, guns and guns, bullets and meat,

The commander of the 2nd Army was under great pressure in private, and his heart was not as calm and happy as he appeared, so he hurriedly sent a telegram to the deputy commander of the 4th Army, ordering them to send troops to reinforce lightly, otherwise they would not be able to withstand more and more enemies.

There is a distance of more than 10 kilometers from the city of Guatire to the battlefield, and it will take more than one hour for the troops to set off immediately and advance lightly, not to mention the road conditions.

The heavy fire of the soldiers of the Xia Empire dealt a devastating blow to the Venezuelan army, and by 9:30 a.m., the officers and men of the enemy's two divisions had suffered heavy losses, but the Venezuelan 1st Army had entered the battlefield range, which made the enemy rekindle the morale of the charge.