All of them are 150mm heavy artillery, and in today's North American battlefield, 105mm artillery has withdrawn from the ranks of heavy artillery, and only artillery with a caliber of more than 120mm can be called heavy artillery in land warfare. And the train guns of the Americans, known as the Statue of Liberty, are all of 260mm or more in caliber. At this moment, more than 400 150 heavy guns and four Liberty-class train guns are constantly pounding the defense line of the expeditionary force with cannonballs!

The loud roar shook my ears numb, and I couldn't even hear myself clearly.

Huge columns of smoke simply disappeared into the position. In particular, the Liberty train cannon, a high-explosive shell weighs 240 kilograms, and an armor-piercing shell weighs nearly 400 kilograms, and the range is far beyond all the equipment artillery of the expeditionary force.

"Boom ......"

The wind and sand swept away, and large pieces of broken concrete were swept away by the storm like confetti in the wind. The one-foot-thick reinforced concrete building is as fragile as a castle made of sand in front of the Liberty class cannons.

In the early morning of March 27, 1896, the U.S. army's counterattack came. Because of the cloudy weather and rain, the airship troops on both sides did not dare to dispatch easily, and the battle suddenly resumed from three-dimensional combat to two-dimensional ground warfare.

Already three American divisions have suffered heavy casualties in the offensive. The commander of the US Army, N.A. Myers, could no longer suppress the anger in his chest, and severely reprimanded the front-line commander, Lieutenant General W. Shaft of the 5th Army of the US Army, "Why can't such a powerful heavy artillery group suppress the weak artillery fire of the Chinese?" How did you command the artillery? How many heroic soldiers have fallen under Chinese fire? This is a crime against the United States, a crime against the American people! ”

Lieutenant General W. Schaffert was so ashamed that he could only apologize to N.A. Myers. Guarantee to eliminate the artillery fire of the Chinese positions as soon as possible.

But the offensive was thwarted, and it was only four hours. Three U.S. divisions suffered heavy casualties and had to withdraw from the fighting. This casts a shadow over the prospects of the counterattack strategy of Admiral N.A. Myers.

Now, accompanied by a large number of staff officers, N.A. Myers went to a pillbox just 2.5 kilometers from the front line and observed the battlefield with a telescope. The vast wilderness was shrouded in smoke and fire, and it was impossible to see clearly. The artillery positions violently spat out artillery fire at the Chinese positions, and every shot of the four Liberty-class train guns made N.A. Myers's heart tremble once, and he felt the power of the heavy artillery.

After a full hour, the counterattack fire of the expeditionary force's positions had been dumbfounded. In the telescope, a large number of American soldiers have filled the wilderness. But there were still bombing points in the American army, and every shell took the life of the soldiers, and N.A. Myers couldn't help but curse again.

"Your Excellency, Commander!" Deputy Chief of Staff Samuel. Major General Young came to Miles' side. "Fifteen minutes ago, the Second and Sixth Armies had already launched an offensive on the Eastern Front."

"Good." Miles nodded, "Let Lieutenant General Mezeth act according to the plan." "The Americans have ample forces in their hands, and the big counteroffensive they planned this time is not one or two points of attack.

"Let Lieutenant General Mezes keep you informed of the progress of the northern front." Myers added.

As the commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army, Miles needs to think about more than just the battlefield in front of him. The entire front winds more than 500 kilometers from north to southeast, and five front-line headquarters alone have been established.

"Your Excellency, Commander!" A lieutenant colonel staff officer ran to him. "Our troops in the fifth [southeast] theater were suppressed by heavy artillery by the Chinese. Adna. Major General Chaffee was killed in battle, and the attacking troops suffered heavy casualties. General MacArthur asked for Liberty train artillery support to suppress the Chinese artillery ......"

"Bastard!" Miles scolded hatefully.

"Inform that idiot at once! Tomorrow after 10 a.m. I'll take at least two train guns. Miles felt he needed to put more pressure on Shaffert. So that Shafft can feel the urgency of the pressure, so that the war can be fought more beautifully and quickly.

The artillery power of the American army has already surpassed that of the Chinese. Xiang Fa understands this very well, from the second half of last year to the present. His strongest feeling was that the Yankees, who had been rubbed by the expeditionary force, had changed. Turned into a piercing hedgehog and turned into a sharp thistle. And now the counteroffensive of the Americans. They turned them into tigers, and they showed their fangs. Whether it's in the sky, the sea, or land, they have the fighting spirit and the means to fight back. As long as the Americans can succeed in this counterattack, they will truly complete their self-transformation.

The 20th Division of the Sixth Army is an elite unit of the U.S. Army, a heroic unit. Beginning at four o'clock in the afternoon, as the U.S. troops in the southeast theater opened a gap in the defensive line in front of the expeditionary force, they boldly advanced in depth, and the troops began to suffer casualties, and the artillery deployed in the depth of Yuanjiang Prefecture quickly intensified and severely attacked the 108th Regiment in its forward.

A regiment of 2,000 men was killed in the dense artillery fire. The 20th Division, with a full strength of 17,000 people, was left with only 4,000 men when it retreated from the battlefield. The whole army is going to be rebuilt.

"Could it be that the heavy artillery of the Chinese is concentrated in the southeast?" The staff officers in the bunker muttered.

More than 1,000 heavy artillery shells of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Heavy Artillery Regiments of the Expeditionary Force on the southeast defense line fired more than 1,000 rounds of heavy ammunition within half an hour, and together with artillery fire from other positions, not only completely wiped out the 108th Regiment, but also disabled the 20th Division of the US Army. The bombing killed the commander of his major general's division.

The positions here belong to the US Army's Third Theater of Operations, located to the northeast. The rain is finally falling.

The road behind the line of the expeditionary force was full of soldiers of different arms, which was easily discernible from their uniforms, some sections of the road had been damaged by shells, the sappers were filling in the loess, the cars were barely passable, and the cannons were dragged without stopping. There are also some sappers who are burying explosives in the ground, and naturally they want to wait for the troops to withdraw before the road is completely destroyed.

"Why are there still wounded people who haven't left?" A truck stopped on the road, jumped out of a lieutenant officer, and asked the sappers on the side. On a small road not far from the road, at least a hundred wounded soldiers were carried by paramedics and soldiers due north, umbrellas and raincoats to shield the wounded soldiers from the rain.

"Report sir, this is the latest batch of wounded. The ambulance has not returned. ”

Retreat is the time when the success of an army is most tested, and the Wehrmacht's various fronts are already in a stalemate with the US army, unable to obtain local material support, and greatly backward in all aspects. This is evident from the horse-drawn carriages that fill the army. The logistics and transportation of Lao Mei have been completely mechanized.

The transport capacity of the expeditionary force was seriously insufficient.

At this moment, in the command headquarters, Lin Shen, deputy chief of the general staff of the expeditionary force, was introducing Xiang Fa and said: "Now the situation is generally clear. ”

"The U.S. military is not focusing on the attack, they have a lot of troops, they are spreading one or two million troops on five large blocks, at least for now. Their purpose is not to completely annihilate our army, but only to break our army back from the front line in Washington. If any of the five theaters had made a breakthrough, with the massive reserve forces of the US military and convenient transportation conditions, they would certainly have quickly thrown in heavy groups around the breakthrough point and launched a fierce attack. "In the final analysis, this big counteroffensive of Lao Mei is relying on its own strong foundation to oppress the expeditionary force with its strength.

Both sides of the grappling are two years younger. It's not that they can't look down on the commanders of the old United States, but that the Americans are really incompetent in the battle formation. There was still a reason to make excuses in the first place, were they not prepared? But after the expeditionary force crossed the Mississippi River, the command of the Americans was still in disarray.

This has a lot to do with the strong local state power of the Americans, but it also makes Xiang Fa even more despised. What kind of cooking civilization is this, it's just nonsense. The military only needs a voice to speak, what is the status of the local state government in the United States? Why didn't you see the governor and the legislators charging into battle when we were fighting? In many battles and battles, the destructive role they played was simply the greatest help for the expeditionary force to win victory.

However, the war has been going on for almost two years, and the Americans have not yet been unified and united, and the United States as a whole is absolutely indistinguishable and absolutely infeasible in the eyes of Xiang Fa.

Just like this US counteroffensive, the war intent was prematurely exposed, and although it interrupted the expeditionary force's attack on Washington, it also gave the expeditionary force enough time to complete and consolidate the defensive front. Even their newspapers can see the information from time to time.

If this is put in China, it will immediately be accused of espionage or leaking secrets, arrested by the police, and closed down by newspapers and offices.

"Unfortunately, we don't have a support point on the east coast of North America. Otherwise, releasing dozens of submarines will be enough for foreigners to suffer. ”

A colonel's staff officer stared at the long coastline of North America, his brow furrowed tightly. In the first half of last year, the Wehrmacht Navy sent surface ships to patrol the entrances and exits of the Strait of Magellan and Cape Horn. From time to time, a few mines will be released. As for the half-crippled Anglo-American combined fleet, the damaged warships could not be repaired at all in South America, where the industrial base was weak, and with the withdrawal of the British, the few remaining American warships did not even dare to leave the port. Chinese submarines are waiting outside all the time. Many U.S. Navy members have returned to the United States by land.

But the Americans have the whole Europa behind them, and there is no shortage of food, materials, and all kinds of food. Moreover, the number of European volunteers participating in the United States has reached 500,000. That's half a million elite troops. The concept of combat in their minds may be backward, but people will definitely not be afraid to fight and escape, greedy for life and afraid of death. The strength of the U.S. military has gradually become stronger in recent days, and it is inseparable from these European volunteers.

Of course, the number of Americans who have fled to Europe in the past year or two is even higher. So many ships came to the United States from Europe, and most of them were full of people when they returned.

The population of more than 70 million before the war between Laos and the United States is still in the hands of the United States of America is at least 50 million, but the population in the areas occupied by the expeditionary force is less than 15 million. In addition to those who joined the army and died in battle and became prisoners, more people left the United States by ship and returned to Europe...... (To be continued......)