At 12 o'clock, the enemy's offensive was already getting weaker, and the commander of the 2nd Army ordered the troops to rest in 3 groups in turn, each for 20 minutes. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Some soldiers fought fiercely all morning, some soldiers ran all morning, and as soon as they arrived at the battlefield, they went into battle, and finally had 20 minutes of precious rest time, and the soldiers hurriedly drank water and ate, and even urinated and defecated, even some people were disgusted by the smell of human flesh and were difficult to swallow, and they had to force themselves to eat food and replenish their strength, but they were all veterans, and this phenomenon rarely happened.

After the personal problem was solved, the soldiers immediately lined up to replenish the ammunition, and now there is no limit to the amount of ammunition that the soldier can receive, as long as he can fight, he can take it personally.

At the beginning, the war horses of the cavalry division were requisitioned, and a lot of baggage was transported, which was enough to fight a large-scale battle. What's more, the city of Guatiere has been occupied, the passage to the seaport has been opened, and the logistical baggage is quickly replenished, even if the road is blocked, the airship can transport hundreds of tons of supplies in more than an hour, which is very convenient.

At 12:40, mercenaries of another defense division and a brigade arrived one after another, and instead of immediately throwing them into battle, they were ordered to rest for a while.

The commander of the 2nd Army felt that the best time for a counterattack had come, so he called a meeting of several division commanders and brigade commanders.

The commander of the 2nd Army shouted: "The enemy is at the end of their crossbows, and their officers and men are almost exhausted in the charge, I have decided to launch a counterattack at 1:30 and attack the enemy's capital city of Caracas in one go, what do you think?" “

All the military commanders understand the shape of the battlefield, and the enemy army is indeed as the commander said, there is not much resistance left, and it should take advantage of the situation to counterattack.

As a result, division commanders and brigade commanders scrambled to apply for an attack.

Considering that the mercenaries of the two brigades and the two regiments of the Praetorian Guards, who were responsible for the battle on the western flank, had been fighting from the morning to the present, the commander of the 2nd Army ordered this group of troops to stay behind to protect the logistical baggage and retreat, and all the remaining officers and men attacked together, all pressed, and the mercenaries of one brigade and one division of Wehrmacht who had just arrived were the main force of the counterattack.

This made the commanders of the two armies who had just arrived in this scene very excited, and they had just joined the battlefield and caught a piece of fat, and if they couldn't eat it, they wouldn't be able to bear their brothers.

The two mercenaries on the western flank position also feel that they have enjoyed fighting today, and they have made a lot of achievements, and they should give some combat merits to the brother troops, so as to facilitate the relationship with the brother troops, and the two brigade commanders readily accepted the order of the army commander, besides, they are too tired, and they have only rested for less than half an hour since the morning, even the robots can't stand it.

For the Praetorian Guard, it is the duty of a soldier to obey orders, and they will carry out what the commander commands.

Seeing that everyone accepted his opinion, the commander of the 2nd Army immediately sent a telegram to the deputy commander of the 4th Army in need of reinforcements and logistical supplies, asking him to hurry up and support; He also sent a telegram to Lieutenant General Cao Jiachuan, the commander-in-chief of the campaign, for instructions on the plan to launch a counteroffensive.

Cao Gangchuan received a telegram of great joy, in the morning he destroyed the enemy's main force of the 4th Army, and now he has disabled the enemy's main force of the 1st Army and the 5th Army, and there is at most a second-line army in Caracas, whose combat level and experience are the opponents of the officers and soldiers of the Xia Empire? A Praetorian Guard will be able to clean them up.

What's more, the South American Theater has already sent most of the Japanese mercenaries who are most eager for war exploits to the 2nd Army, and if the 2nd Army can't get rich results, it will be too sorry for those Japanese mercenaries who are known as war maniacs.

Even the combat effectiveness of these mercenaries is stronger than that of the enemy's main forces, so Cao Jiachuan is not afraid that the 2nd Army may fail.

So they immediately sent a telegram to the commander of the 2nd Army, approving their counteroffensive plan, and telegraphing them that 1 defense division and 2 brigades of mixed mercenaries had been sent to them this morning with a large number of restarts, and it was estimated that they would arrive tomorrow morning.

At the same time, Cao Jiachuan urgently ordered the only airship in his hand to violently bombard the city of Los Stex to contain the enemy's main force, the 3rd Army, so that it could not return to Caracas. Cao Jiachuan directly ignored a second-line army stationed in the outer harbor of Caracas and the coastal batteries, and even if they returned to defense, it would be useless, so they just wiped them out and successfully occupied the outer harbor of Caracas, saving the trouble of attacking.

The commander of the 2nd Army was overjoyed after receiving Cao Jiachuan's telegram and immediately issued an operational order in accordance with the plan he had just assembled.

Now he has 1 Guards Division, 2 Defense Divisions, and 8 brigades of Japanese mercenaries in his hands, with a total strength of nearly 130,000 troops, which is very sufficient, while the enemy's two armies are now less than 30,000 when they are fully armed.

Therefore, 2 defense divisions, each leading 3 brigades of mercenaries, were ordered to launch a counteroffensive from the front and flanks respectively, completely destroying the remnants of the enemy's 1st and 5th armies.

Each unit has an airship that assists.

Commanders at all levels immediately returned to their units to give operational orders, and half an hour later, the counteroffensive began at 1:30 a.m.

At 1:20, two airships took the lead and began to bomb the two enemy troops, releasing 250 kg bombs, which blew up the enemy and howled wolf, reducing pressure and clearing obstacles for the troops.

At 1:30, the sound of a loud charge horn sounded on the battlefield, and this was the order to attack.

Commanders at all levels carried out the established orders, soldiers shouted and jumped out of the trenches, and in regiments and battalions, launched a counteroffensive against the enemy; The troops did not charge in disorder, but in waves, with the light machine gunners in the front line and the riflemen covering the back and flanks; This was followed by mortars, providing fire support to their comrades in front at any time; Finally, there were the artillery units, which followed far behind the large forces in case of emergency.

The units also cooperate with each other, with a brigade or division responsible for the main attack, a brigade on each side responsible for flanking security and flanking outflanking, and finally a combat unit as a reserve to protect the rear roads of the troops and provide supplies.

And the Venezuelan officers and soldiers have been charging continuously since they joined the battlefield, never thought of digging trenches and building bunkers, and seeing the officers and soldiers of the Xia Empire rushing in black, many commanders were stunned, which one is this? Directly caught them off guard.

After charging for a morning, no results were achieved, but the officers and men of the unit suffered heavy casualties; Having just been heavily bombed by airships, and now being charged by the enemy, the Venezuelan soldiers have completely lost the confidence to continue fighting.

Some Venezuelan soldiers threw away their guns and crouched on the ground, raising their hands in a gesture of surrender; Some soldiers threw away their guns and ran to the rear.

Surrender and flight on the battlefield are contagious, and once this situation occurs in the troops, the commander will not be able to stop it in any case, and there will be a tendency to get worse, which is the so-called defeat of the army.

Seeing the dense enemy army rushing towards them, they had no place to hide, and since there were surrenderers in front, more officers and soldiers began to surrender or flee after them.

The officers and soldiers in the front of the Xia Empire were only responsible for taking advantage of the situation, and there was a regiment of Praetorian Guard officers and soldiers in the rear of each army who were responsible for receiving prisoners of war and collecting weapons.