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Due to the fact that the Japanese mercenaries of the five brigades were vying to fight and did not give in to each other, Cao Jiachuan had no choice but to make adjustments and ordered all five brigades to fight, leaving one national defense division to guard the Santa Teresa logistics base.

At 5 o'clock in the morning of the 4th, all the officers and men began to set off after a full meal, and in addition to carrying guns and ammunition, each of them carried two days' rations, hoping to complete the occupation of Guathire within two days and completely open the passage from the Fourth Route Army to the Venezuelan capital.

The troops requisitioned some horses from the cavalry division, and all the 65mm mountain guns, 75mm mountain guns, and shells were carried by horses, and all other mortars and ammunition were also carried by horses, which greatly accelerated the marching speed of the troops.

There are 2 airships in the sky that are responsible for detecting the enemy situation and protecting the ground forces, so that the safety of the troops is guaranteed, and 1 airship is responsible for transporting supplies to the front line.

It is about 55 kilometers of mountain travel from Santa Teresa to Guatire, and it is planned to spend 1 day on the road.

Not far from the city of Saint Lucia, the troops moved separately, a national defense division led a brigade of Japanese mercenaries from the path straight into Guathire's back, and another force, including 1 division of Guards and 4 brigades of Japanese mercenaries, advanced in the direction of Caracas, preparing to establish a defensive position between Caracas and Guathire, block reinforcements from Caracase, and ensure that the troops successfully took Guatiere.

Cao Jiachuan and his staff officers deduced several times, feeling that as long as the city of Guatire was successfully captured, the battle to occupy Caracas would be in sight, and there were 2 airships to escort it, which could ensure that the battle was foolproof.

At the same time, the 4th Route Army was also prepared accordingly, dispatching 3 defense divisions and 3 brigades of Japanese mercenaries, and there were more troops behind as reserve troops, and due to the restrictions of the terrain, more officers and soldiers could not be sent to the battlefield.

The campaign was scheduled to start at 6 o'clock in the morning of the 5th, when the sky was just slightly bright, and the Venezuelan officers and soldiers had not yet gotten up.

Guatire, located on a plain between the valleys and surrounded by high mountains, was stationed the Venezuelan Fourth Army, some 53,000 men and men, which had built forts on the hills east and west of the city, and if they had not been captured or destroyed first, they would have been devastating if they had entered the city on either side.

When the Xia Empire conquered Caucagua, they prepared for war and moved all the local inhabitants away, turning the entire city into a military camp.

The 4th Army was reorganized from the former 4th Division of the Presidential Guard, and its loyalty to the president was very high.

The rear is the capital, they have no way to retreat, and all the officers and soldiers swear to live and die with the city.

At 6 o'clock in the morning of the 5th, the battle began with the bombardment of airships.

The huge explosion of "boom, boom, boom....." was heard far away, waking up the Venezuelan defenders throughout the city of Guatire, and by the time they ran out of the barracks to look in the direction from which the explosion came, the entire eastern battery had been reduced to a sea of fire.

The airship first began to bomb the fortress in the mountainous area east of the city of Guatire, and this time the division's 500-kilogram aerial bombs and incendiary bombs were used to blow up a number of batteries in succession in the first round of attacks, and the incendiary bombs dropped instantly enveloped several surrounding batteries, that is, the batteries that were not blown up, and the officers and soldiers inside had no chance of surviving under the fire, and after the fire was extinguished, their cannons were also burned.

"Boom, boom, boom .....", and then there was an even more violent explosion at the fort, and several shells in the fort were detonated under the high temperature of the raging fire, and even the top of the fort was blown to pieces, and the violent explosion made the bones of the artillery officers and men inside gone.

Except for the eastern forts, the artillery bombardment of the 4th Route Army by the batteries could be prevented, while the western batteries were in the same direction as the 4th Route Army, and the 4th Route Army could only be bombed as long as it entered the urban area.

Removing the threat of the eastern batteries, the airships continued to bombard the batteries in the western part of the city, and only by eliminating all the batteries could the army be safe after entering the city.

Before the bombing of the western battery, the officers and soldiers of the fort who saw that things were not good had quietly slipped away, they did not want to be treated like the officers and soldiers of the eastern fort, the bombing of the Xia Empire was too powerful, and the fort they built was not at all able to withstand it.

The bombardment of the airships served as a signal for the attack, and the officers and men of the 4th Route Army immediately began shelling the enemy's forward positions.

After the western batteries were dismantled, the Japanese mercenaries of 1 defense division and 1 brigade sent by the 2nd Route Army penetrated the rear of the 4th Venezuelan Army from the north.

The sudden appearance of the enemy behind the Venezuelan officers and soldiers was shocked, they were completely surrounded, and the commander of the 4th Army heard the news, sat down on his chair and did not slow down for a long time.

The second possibility that they think of is that Caracas is lost?

The commander of the 4th Army immediately ordered the Chief of Staff of the Army to send a telegram to the General Staff with a request for support, they were already surrounded.

It was more than 40 kilometers from Caracas to the city of Guatieré, and it would take half a day to march quickly, and the commander was confident that they would be able to do it after holding out for half a day.

Cao Jiachuan was also afraid of being attacked from the north and south, so he ordered his troops to fight quickly, eliminate the defenders of Guatire as quickly as possible, and then merge one place to support the 4th Janissary Division and other troops responsible for blocking the attack.

The Venezuelan 4th Army had a total of 4 divisions, two of which were arranged in 2 valleys in the south to block the attack of the Xia Imperial Army; 1 division was stationed around Guathire's military headquarters as a reserve; There is also one division stationed in Guarernas, a small town 5 kilometers north of the city of Guatire, to guard the army's retreat.

By this time, the Defence Division had surrounded Guarenas and was shelling the town; The mercenaries crossed the town of Guarenas and prepared to block Venezuelan reinforcements in the south of the town; The aim is for the defense division to deal with this division in Venezuela first.

Since they were in the town, the Venezuelan defenders did not build forts and lived in local houses.

The dense artillery shells of the national defense division are like black locusts, and they are directly attacking the town, how can those simple houses withstand the mortar shell bombardment? Immediately bomb the town into rubble, occasionally causing a burst of fire.

Before the Wehrmacht had entered the town, the Venezuelan officers and soldiers had already suffered heavy casualties, and the structure of the troops had been disrupted.

Even the officers and soldiers who survived the intensive mortar bombardment are also empty-handed, and they have no weapons if they want to fight back. If you slow down, you could be buried under the rubble of your house.

The three-minute bombing is a nightmare for Venezuelan soldiers; Then the Wehrmacht went on the offensive and sent them directly to hell.

The Wehrmacht opened the way with light machine guns, and the platoon was used as an offensive group, and if they entered a no-man's land, they completely occupied the town of Guarenas without encountering any resistance, and the whole process did not exceed half an hour, and all the Venezuelan officers and soldiers they encountered surrendered obediently, otherwise, they would all be beaten into a sieve; The 1 division stationed in the town had less than 4,000 men intact after the bombing, some were seriously wounded, and many more were buried under the rubble.

Leaving a regiment of officers and men to watch over the prisoners and collect their weapons, the remaining men and horses immediately went south to support the mercenaries in the battle.