After helping Brazil recover São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the navy leased to Brazil by the Xia Empire was temporarily stationed in Rio de Janeiro for recuperation, and no longer participated in the war between Brazil and the United States, but only helped Brazil defend the coastal areas of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

There is a big gap between the Brazilian Navy and the US Navy in terms of equipment and the quality of its officers and men, and the US Navy battleship fleet has not been wiped out, and its combat effectiveness is still very strong, but the Xia Empire's more powerful navy is stationed in Rio de Janeiro, so that the US Navy has no counteroffensive, but the Brazilian Navy does not dare to attack the US naval fleet, so Brazil can only wage a fierce battle with the US military on land, in an attempt to gradually compress the scope of US occupation to the coastal areas and gradually reduce their space for activities.

The states of Bahia and Tocantins became the focus of contention between the two countries.

Arthur MacArthur, commander-in-chief of the U.S. front, appointed Lieutenant General Peyton March and Lieutenant General Tasker Howard Bliss as chief of staff of the two state armies, respectively, to command the armies of the two states to fight the Brazilian army. The U.S. military stationed six corps in each of the two states and equipped with a large number of artillery, and two-thirds of the U.S. artillery was concentrated in these two states.

The navy has no advantage, Brazil does not dare to attack from the coastal areas, and further north is the military buffer zone set up by the Xia Empire, the United States and Brazil have withdrawn their troops inside, and no one wants to cause the Xia Empire this big trouble, so Bahia and Tocantins became the focus of the war, and due to the obstruction of the Gérardigos Mountains, the two states have become two relatively independent battlefields.

Lieutenant General Peyton March and Lt. Gen. Tasker Howard Bliss both graduated from West Point and were skilled in the use of artillery; Brazil has just purchased a large number of new artillery from the Han Kingdom, replaced the old British, French and German artillery, and transported all the new artillery to the front line to join the war, which made the artillery battle between the two sides particularly fierce, and the war in Bahia was more intense.

Lieutenant General Peyton March had been Adjutant to General Arthur MacArthur since 1900, and the two had worked together for many years and had won the trust of Arthur MacArthur.

Because there were only more than 100,000 troops in the army before the US military expansion, and after the large-scale military expansion, there was a lack of a large number of middle and high-level army commanders, and Commander-in-Chief Arthur MacArthur could only actively promote outstanding young officers according to their performance on the battlefield. Now they have become division commanders by virtue of their military exploits, especially Patton, who is known for his bravery and tenacity in battle, and is deeply loved by the soldiers, becoming the youngest division commander in the US army.

The army arranged by Brazil in Ilia is the volunteer army of several states such as Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, which have the strongest combat effectiveness, with a total size of 14 corps, and the commander is Erich von Ludendorff, who was secretly sent to Brazil by the German General Staff, which was trained by the Chief of the General Staff Moltke and Kaiser Wilhelm II.

One of the reasons why Germany did not stop its assistance to Brazil and continued to fight against the US military after signing the alliance treaty with the United States, and the scale of the war continued to expand, was to train the command ability of Germany's middle and low-level commanders, so that they could have actual combat experience, and train a group of soldiers with actual combat experience, and when the war between Brazil and the United States ended, these German soldiers could respond to Germany's call to return to China to join the army; The second is to weaken the strength of the United States, not to allow the United States to affect the position of the Germans, and to force the Americans to speed up the withdrawal to Africa, and the Americans to contain the military strength of Britain, France, and other countries in Africa will greatly reduce Germany's military pressure in Europe.

Brazil and the United States, which have invested more than half of their military forces in the two theaters, and there are also troops that have been transferred to the front line, especially the United States, which has now reached the point where there is no way to retreat, and must hold on to buy time for the relocation to Africa.

The western part of Bahia is bordered by the Gérardígos Mountains, to the east by the Espinhasu Mountains, where the San Francisco River runs from north to south, and the Diamantina hills in the north. After the initial defeat, the American army quickly mobilized heavy forces in the rear, built forts and batteries, and arranged heavy defensive forces to resolutely resist the attack of the Brazilian army.

In Bahia, Lieutenant General Peyton March was responsible for the construction of three fortifications from the coast to the interior, the three main nodes of the forefront, Carinhaña, which was a necessary route along the San Francisco River north; Brumadou, the first dangerous city encountered by the Brazilian army along the railway line north; Vitoria, the first fortress encountered by the Brazilian army along the road north; The U.S. military stuck these three key roads, and it will be difficult for the Brazilian army to move north.

Ludendorff arranged the strength of 2 corps on each front.

The first to attack was the city of Victoria, far south, where the American army had already built numerous forts and batteries, dug numerous trenches, laid out a tight barbed wire fence, and the Brazilian army launched a divisional charge, but was blocked by American artillery fire, and suffered heavy casualties and could not advance.

The Brazilian howitzer is more advanced than the howitzer of the US army, and the firing range is longer, but the US army occupies a geographical advantage, and the position of the battery is relatively high and condescending, so that the Brazilian artillery battle is not dominant.

The Americans learned from the Xia Empire the advantage of fierce artillery fire, so they arranged dense artillery on the positions and built numerous heavy machine gun forts; The Germans paid more attention to learning the tactics of the Xia Empire, especially the sneak attack warfare, blitzkrieg, and roundabout warfare that the Xia Empire was good at were all studied very thoroughly by the Germans.

Neither side was able to deal with the other's artillery, the battle reached a stalemate, the Brazilian army was unable to attack, and the American army did not dare to counterattack, and the daily artillery battle became a routine for both sides, and could not cause much casualties to the other side.

The impasse was very beneficial to the Americans, who, as long as they bought enough time, were able to emigrate to Africa and actively negotiate with the Xia Empire; Brazil, on the other hand, hoped to end the war with the Americans as soon as possible and gathered forces to deal with the military pressure of the Xia Empire.

After pondering with the German staff officers, Ludendorff put forward a series of battle plans for the current war situation, which were rejected one by one; Due to the complex terrain in the local area and the blockage of the main communication routes, neither a sneak attack nor a detour can be suitable for the actions of large troops, and sending a small force may be surrounded and annihilated, and it will not play a decisive role in the overall battle situation.

Ludendorff had no choice but to turn to the German General Staff for help.