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On the 25th, the Xia Di ** team completely surrounded the 2nd Army of the US Army, and the US Army lost the last chance to break through. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The commander of the Xia Empire, who was responsible for the annihilation of the 2nd US Army, was Lieutenant General Kong Xiangwei, chief of staff of the Southern Theater of Operations.

In this battle, the Xia Empire sent a total of 2 divisions of the Praetorian Guard, 2 cavalry divisions and 4 national defense divisions, with a total of 128,000 officers and soldiers, nearly twice the number of the American army; In addition, several divisions of the Wehrmacht were prepared to block U.S. reinforcements on the periphery, mainly along the west bank of the Mississippi River.

One division of the Janissaries, two divisions of the Wehrmacht, and one cavalry division were deployed to the north and south of the U.S. Army.

According to Kong Xiangwei's order, after the troops reach the designated position, do not rush to attack, first build fortifications, do a good job of defense, and prevent the US army from breaking through.

In order to ensure that the US 2nd Army could be completely annihilated cleanly and neatly, and to undermine the Americans' confidence in the struggle, Zhang Wei took an airship and arrived over the battlefield to personally support the troops in battle.

The first to launch was the artillery bombardment, the division headquarters of the Xia Empire Praetorian Guard was equipped with 75 mountain artillery, and the regimental headquarters was directly under the 65 mountain artillery, which was large in number and fast in the rate of fire, and had achieved brilliant results in the process of fighting the Japanese army.

At this time, the common practice in the world was to use 75 mountain artillery or field artillery under the division headquarters as support artillery fire.

The U.S. 2nd Army, on the other hand, has heavy artillery brigades under its command, equipped with 155 heavy howitzers.

The Xia Empire took the lead in shelling the US positions, and the dense shells fell on the US positions, blowing up the barbed wire positions built by the US troops, the mines were also detonated in large numbers, the trenches were also filled in or weakened a lot, and the machine gun fortresses in conspicuous positions were also blown down in several places; However, the bombing of the Xia Empire did not cause substantial damage to the US military.

Seeing this result, the commander of the army, Major General John Pershing, was very satisfied with his decision, first of all, the artillery equipped by the Xia Empire was 75 mountain artillery, and there was no heavy artillery, which was consistent with his own estimates; The second is that the fortifications built under his own auspices play a good role in protecting the troops, and the artillery power of the Xia Empire is too small, and there is basically nothing to be done about these civil fortifications.

John Pershing knew that his divisional artillery was definitely not the opponent of the Xia Empire's divisional artillery, and he never ordered a counterattack, but instructed the heavy artillery brigade to calculate the artillery positions of the Xia Empire, confirm the accurate point, and wait for all the artillery positions of the Xia Empire to be exposed, and then let the heavy artillery brigade counterattack, preparing to completely destroy all the artillery of the Xia Empire, then he could organize the divisional artillery to counterattack, bomb the army of the Xia Empire, and strive to cripple the attacking troops of the Xia Empire, and maybe there is a chance for a counterattack.

Lieutenant General Kong Xiangwei saw that the U.S. artillery did not counterattack, and he would not be foolish to think that the U.S. troops did not have artillery, so he gave an order for the artillery to immediately move their positions; The infantry were all concealed in the fortifications, and no order was given to prohibit any troops from attacking.

Zhang Wei's airship was over the battlefield, and the US army did not react to the start of the Xia Empire's shelling, and Zhang Wei also felt very puzzled, so he quietly watched every move of the US army on the battlefield, looking for loopholes in the US army.

Zhang Wei's airship was hidden 8,000 meters above the battlefield and would not have been detected at all without the use of high-precision telescopes; The U.S. troops on the battlefield were secretly rejoicing, they would never have thought that the Xia Empire had arranged a big killing weapon above their heads.

Kong Xiangwei only ordered the artillery to bombard for 3 minutes before moving the position; By the time John Pershing was ready to order a counterattack, the Xia Empire had stopped shelling, and he estimated that the Xia Empire artillery was likely to shift positions, so he hurriedly ordered the artillery to counterattack, this time counterattacking one of the 105 artillery battalions, 18 howitzers all fired, and the shells exploded on the Xia Empire artillery position.

"Boom, boom, boom"

The huge explosion resounded on the artillery position of the Xia Empire, blowing up several huge craters on the ground, and several mountain guns that had not yet arrived and moved were blown to pieces, and half of the hundreds of artillery and baggage personnel were killed in an instant; The power of the 105 howitzer was much more powerful than that of the 75 mountain gun, and the positions were littered with the blood and mutilated corpses of the officers and soldiers of the Xia Empire.

The sudden counterattack of the US army caught the Xia Empire off guard, but fortunately the chief of staff Kong Xiangwei judged accurately and ordered the artillery to transfer their positions in a timely manner, otherwise the entire artillery battalion would be wiped out by the US army, which would be a joke.

Zhang Wei observed from the air that the US artillery on the ground began to counterattack, and without any hesitation, he immediately threw several incendiary bombs from the system to the US artillery position, accurately hitting the center of the US artillery, and shrouded all these US artillery in huge flames, and a US heavy artillery battalion was completely wiped out.

The flames raised by the explosion of the incendiary bomb were more than ten meters high, affecting the surrounding range of dozens of meters, and all the American troops were stunned, even John Pershing did not react for a while, the Xia Empire's counterattack was too fierce and too accurate.

Zhang Wei sent a telegram to Kong Xiangwei from the airship, asking the artillery to continue the bombardment and cover up the secret of his bomb dropping from the air.

Zhang Wei easily found the remaining artillery positions of the American army from the air, and now the entire American position was within his control, Zhang Wei decided to only use incendiary bombs against the American artillery and strong fortresses, as for the remaining infantry and cavalry, or use less powerful bursting shells.

Kong Xiangwei did not understand what Zhang Wei meant, but the violent incendiary bomb exploded on the US military position and wiped out the US artillery, so he knew that Zhang Wei would assist the troops in the battle, and without any hesitation, he ordered the artillery of the division and regiment to open fire with all their might, shell the US military position, and carry out carpet bombing.

After the ground artillery began to shell, Zhang Wei gradually released incendiary bombs and bursts from the system, and targeted the artillery and fortresses of the American army.

The Xia Empire's fierce counterattack stunned the US troops, this counterattack was too fierce, didn't it just let the heavy artillery fire a few shells, as for such a retaliation.

Soon, the well-concealed US artillery position was hit by an incendiary bomb accurately projected by Zhang Wei from the air, and thousands of artillery soldiers were killed in an instant, and the artillery was burned into a puddle of molten iron, not to mention the officers and soldiers who were in the range of the flames.

The machine gun fortress was pulled out one by one, and the large fortress was not powerful enough for the explosive bombs, so Zhang Wei threw 2 incendiary bombs, which quickly consumed the surrounding oxygen, and the American troops in the fortress would also die of suffocation.

Barbed wire was blown up, mines were detonated by heat and bombardment, trenches were filled with sand from the explosions, huge craters were added to the positions, and all the fortifications were blown up in a mess.

Zhang Wei successively dropped thousands of incendiary bombs, tens of thousands of bursting shells, plus artillery shells, and the entire US military position was only left with the continuous sound of shell explosions, and all the cries, shouts, cries for help and groans were all covered up in the explosion of shells; For the American officers and soldiers on the battlefield, the end of the world is nothing more than that, the huge continuous explosions hit the nerves of the survivors, if they can choose, they are not willing to stay in this kind of place for a second; It's hell, worse than hell, full of corpses, stumps and broken arms, blood, and wounded comrades.

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the United States has not fought a few wars, that is, if there is a war, it is a small local war or a bullying of a declining country like Spain and a country like the Great Qing Dynasty without modern weapons and equipment, and suddenly facing the Xia Imperial Army armed to the teeth, especially the scene of artillery fire in front of them, even in their dreams, they have never encountered it.

The smart and exciting U.S. military was lying in the crater with his head in his hands, trembling and trembling; The timid ones were so frightened that they didn't even have the strength to walk; There are also American troops who have gone crazy, running frantically on the position, and now there is no one to interfere, and most of the officers have already died, that is, they have not sacrificed, and it is difficult to protect themselves in this kind of war situation.

The black cavalry division, after encountering the bombardment, the huge flames rising from the battlefield, and the explosive bombs that exploded in the fence, frightened these horses, and a large part of them had escaped from the fence and ran everywhere, some were killed or injured by the bombs, and some were lucky enough to run to the positions of the Xia Empire; The surviving black cavalry were all lying on the ground now, and the survivors were still praying to God.

The comrades-in-arms who were bombarded by incendiary bombs and lost their lives in an instant are still lucky, at least they don't have to face such a cruel situation again.

In this bombing, more than 60,000 U.S. troops, it is unknown how many thousand people can be left, the entire battlefield is within Zhang Wei's controllable range, no fortification can withstand Zhang Wei's fixed-point strikes, and the survivors are also because of the relatively scattered distribution, Zhang Wei feels that they are not worth a shell money, besides, they have been frightened and lost the ability to resist, which is the only reason why they can survive.

Commander John Pershing and his staff were in a three-tiered fortress, and now they were either suffocated or buried in the fort, as were the commanders and headquarters of several other divisions; There was no U.S. commander on the entire battlefield to direct the remaining troops.

Feeling that there were not many survivors on the entire American position, Zhang Wei stopped the bombing and sent a telegram to Kong Xiangwei on the ground, asking him to stop the shelling and send troops to clean up the battlefield.

Zhang Wei sighed, incendiary bombs are really a good thing, as long as the enemy army is surrounded and they are bombed accurately from the air, any army will only be annihilated, and now they have air supremacy, and no country is afraid, even if the entire Western countries are united, they are not the opponents of the Xia Empire.

Achieving such a huge result in such a short period of time made Zhang Wei's self-confidence swell rapidly. (To be continued.) )