The 2nd Route Army was fiercely blocked by Venezuela, and Chief of General Staff Chen Yifeng made readjustments according to the enemy's troop deployment, and urged the navy to cooperate with the 4th Route Army to occupy the cities on both sides of the Olinoco River as soon as possible and narrow the encirclement of Venezuela. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Due to the insufficient number of warships in the Navy, Lu Chuanya, commander of the Atlantic Fleet, urgently dispatched some warships to support the Fourth Army.

On November 18, with all preparations ready, a regiment of Wehrmacht and a regiment of Japanese mercenaries, under the protection of naval warships, set out from the port of Georgetown.

At the same time, one flew to the city of Guyana for reconnaissance and bombardment in preparation for the arrival of naval warships and the landing of infantry.

The city of Guyana, formerly known as Santome de Guyana, is located southeast of the confluence of the Caroni and Orinoco rivers and serves as a port for local logging and timber processing.

As a result of a bombardment by airship, the local population has fled, leaving only one battalion of troops stationed; A battalion of troops was stationed in the city of San Felix on the north bank of the river, but had already fled to Tenbrador under the bombardment of airships, and rearranged the line of defense by means of the barricades of rivers and marshes.

The Venezuelan troops in the city of Guiana on the south bank did not dare to escape by boat, and if their boat was sunk by airship in the river, they would have to feed the crocodiles; They could only take a small boat to the upper reaches of the Caroni River, leaving an empty town for the Xia Empire.

Since they did not destroy the town, the airships did not pursue and bomb them, allowing the Venezuelan soldiers to escape.

Receiving the report from the airship, the naval warships and transports sped up and arrived in the city of Guyana, leaving a battalion of the Defence Force here to establish a logistics base to welcome the arrival of the large forces behind; A destroyer and two fast torpedo boats were left here to patrol the river.

The remaining troops were to go with the navy to Ciudad Bolívar, which was the focus of the campaign.

Ciudad Bolivar is the capital of the state of Bolivar, located on the south bank of the Orinoco River, the commercial center of the eastern plain of the United States of Venezuela and the Guiana Plateau, the main port of the Orinoco River and the shipping terminus.

Due to its convenient water transportation conditions, Ciudad Bolivar is extremely prosperous, and it is the most important city in southern Venezuela; Venezuela has a total of one army stationed here, supported by numerous local militias.

They had already received a telegram from the Guyana garrison that the airships and warships of the Xia Imperial Army had entered the Orinoco River, and that the local garrison had made full preparations to move all the inhabitants of the city to the south, and that the troops had withdrawn beyond the range of naval guns in the south, and that they had begun to dig trenches, build forts, and prepare to evacuate south to the Guyana plateau.

These Venezuelan soldiers did not flee, which made the commander of this battle, Ma Yongheng, the commander of the National Defense Division, very excited, how could he make more achievements this time.

Ma Yongheng then ordered the airships to go around to the southern part of the Venezuelan Army positions to cut off their escape routes, and then ordered the guns of the heavy and light cruisers to bombard the enemy positions.

The main guns on both cruisers were new howitzers that far exceeded the technology of the time, and the firing range was more than 20 kilometers, which exceeded the conventional understanding of the range of naval guns.

The sudden opening of the warship caught the Venezuelan army by surprise, this is not the mountainous area of San Cristobal, the terrain is very flat, and the fortifications they have just built cannot withstand the bombardment of naval guns.

The main guns of the Taiwan Island-class heavy cruisers were three three-pack 203mm guns, and the main guns of the Hainan Island-class light cruisers were five three-pack 152mm guns, with a fast rate of fire and a long firing range, and the fierce artillery fire quickly covered the enemy's positions.

According to the convention, the firing range of naval guns in this era was about 10 kilometers, their positions were set at a position of about 12 kilometers, and the military headquarters was set at a position of about 16 kilometers.

Dense artillery shells fell on the position, "boom, boom, .......boom" explosions were endless, the power of the naval artillery was much more powerful than the army's mountain artillery and howitzers, every shell fell, it would blow up a large crater more than 10 meters deep on the ground, shrapnel splashed everywhere, even if it was not buried in the trench, it would also be injured or killed by the splashing shrapnel, and the soldiers close to the landing point were directly torn apart by the shock wave, and the internal organs and stumps were shaken off everywhere.

Under the guidance of the airship, as long as the outcropping artillery will be accurately hit by the naval guns at the first time; The powerful naval guns are all 3 in combination, and the coverage is very large, but they can't hit directly, as long as they are not far away, they will also shock their mountain artillery into parts, and their artillery will also suffer huge casualties.

In this poor and backward country, it is rare to even run in the mountains, how could it have been bombarded by such powerful artillery? Even the army commander was blown up, not to mention the minions below.

The fierce bombardment made the Venezuelan army flee in all directions like a frightened flock, and no matter how the officers shouted, they could not stop the soldiers from fleeing frantically, and no one wanted to stay stupid and be bombed.

The army commander kept cursing that the Xia Empire was too inhuman, and actually hit the army with such fierce artillery fire; He had no choice but to order the army to withdraw south, and the military headquarters also withdrew south.

The wounded officers and soldiers who could not move could only lie in place and resign themselves to their fate, and their helpless groans could not arouse any pity, and no one cared to help them.

The commander on the airship saw that the enemy was in a tendency to retreat southward, and immediately ordered the road to be bombed, and 500-kilogram aerial bombs were constantly dropped, which were more powerful than the shells of the naval guns, and several huge craters more than 20 meters deep were blown up on the road, blocking the passage of the Venezuelan army's southward retreat.

The bones of the soldiers who were close to the bombing point were directly blown up, which made these officers and soldiers who were eager to flee tremble, and after a short period of calm, they fell into a chaotic situation of scattering and fleeing.

In the unsheltered wilderness, and the fact that most of the officers and men were standing, the lethality of the bomb was multiplied.

Evacuation to the south is death, and charging to the north is faster death; In desperation, many officers and soldiers sought a place to take refuge and no longer fled.

Knowing that the enemy would not carry anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns in his desperate escape, the commander of the airship boldly ordered the airship to descend at an altitude of about 3,000 meters, and as long as it found a dense crowd of fleeing, it immediately aimed at the crowd and dropped giant aerial bombs or incendiary bombs to prevent the enemy from fleeing on a large scale.

Soon, some shrewd officers and soldiers found that as long as they did not run around, they would not be bombed, even if they did not hide well, they were not bombed; As for those who fled in large numbers, many of them had no bones left or their flesh and blood were blurred by the explosion, and occasionally some of them were burned to charcoal, and some officers and soldiers who had incendiary bombs and splashes stuck to their bodies endured the pain that life was worse than death.

The staff officer reported the news to the army commander, who, in order to reduce casualties, ordered all the officers and men not to run and to stay put, and sure enough, the airship stopped bombing them.

The Wehrmacht and mercenaries took the opportunity to land under the cover of destroyers and fast torpedo boats and set up preliminary defensive positions.

Feeling that the bombing was almost over, it had already had a deterrent effect on the enemy, so the commander of the division sent a clear telegram, demanding that the Venezuelan army surrender immediately, otherwise they would be bombarded more fiercely and would be completely annihilated; At the same time, the situation here was reported to the military headquarters of the 4th Army, and the military headquarters was asked to contact the intelligence personnel and cooperate with their efforts to persuade them to surrender.