Chapter 192: Confrontation in the New World (4)

Qiu Yu'an knew very well that the Lanfang mercenaries could not be replenished with troops, and even ammunition could not be replenished, so he did not plan to put his descendants on the wall as soon as they came up, which would quickly consume his strength and be ineffective in future operations.

Therefore, when arranging the battle, Qiu Yu'an placed the division of the St. Martin Empire that had been following him on the city wall. His two brigades and the two supplementary regiments composed of the logistics troops, as well as the regiment guarding the base, together as a reserve, Qiu Yu'an thought that with so many heavy artillery as fire suppression, the soldiers of the St. Martin Empire could always support it for a while, as long as the opponent's shells were exhausted, there was nothing to fear from his own troops.

Contrary to Qiu Yu'an's expectations, the previous frantic attack had already exhausted all the artillery shells of the Boston Empire's army, and these Boston soldiers not only arrived an hour early, but also had no heavy firepower.

The arriving Boston soldiers launched an attack as soon as they arrived, and when the soldiers with rifles rushed up, the dense rain of bullets and shells tossed them to the ground, and the very tired Boston soldiers quickly retreated.

In the next two attacks, the St. Martin's ** team easily coped with the past, while the overworked Boston soldiers became weaker and weaker in the attack, losing thousands of lives in vain.

Seeing the failure of the three attacks, General Pershing knew that he had no heavy fire support, and the soldiers were very tired after another day of fighting, and this base could not be taken quickly, so he ordered the troops to camp on the spot, rest for one night, and attack again tomorrow.

"Brigade commander, there's a lot of artillery here." A soldier in charge of reconnaissance at the front ran back to the main unit in the dark to report to his brigade commander.

The brigade commander of the first brigade of the Lanfang mercenary army is called Gao Hong, he is Qiu Yu'an's old subordinate, and he is known for his calm combat, so this time the task of destroying the logistics supplies of the Boston Empire Qiu Yu'an was very relieved to hand over to him, and he naturally lived up to expectations and successfully completed the task, not only eliminating the thousands of cavalry guarding the supplies, but also burning all the materials there.

He was about to return to the logistics base of Damoth to rebuild, but when they reached the Traxia Gorge, they found a large number of abandoned artillery.

After receiving the report of the scouts, Gao Hong personally led people to the canyon to reconnoitre, and found that a large number of artillery pieces were left here unguarded, and after his inspection, these cannons were made by several military factories in the Boston Empire.

After a little thought, Gao Hong understood the current situation, this must be the division commander retreating to the logistics base, and the Boston people were destroyed by themselves because of the logistics supply, and there were no shells, so they abandoned these useless cumbersome drags.

Thinking about the situation, Gao Hong smiled, without artillery support, he absolutely believed that his division commander could keep the Bostonians who lacked supplies out of the logistics base, and now he had to think about how to annihilate these Bostonians.

For this problem, he quickly had an idea, since Traxia Canyon is the only way to go to the logistics base, then it is natural to take this road to return to the beach position, as long as he holds the canyon, he can trap the Boston army here. So he immediately ordered his troops not to advance, but to camp on the spot, and when it was dawn to begin digging trenches and building positions.

Admiral Pershing, unaware of the severance of the back road, was concentrating on studying the walls of the logistics base. Although the wall was only made of stone mixed with wood and earth, it was not strong, but it seemed to the Boston soldiers without heavy firepower to become an impenetrable barrier, and it was then that Pershing regretted that he had been so reckless, and had shot all the shells in one go.

Although he regretted it, Pershing did not think it was unthinkable. Although the terrain of the St. Martin's ** team was favorable, but the number was small, and he thought that he could give full play to the advantage of numbers, attack from all sides at the same time, and send people to cut down trees and build ladders, and then use the little gunpowder to make gunpowder packs to blast the earthen wall.

With a plan, the Boston Emperor sent soldiers to cut down trees overnight, build wooden ladders, and at the same time concentrate the excess ammunition, dismantle the gunpowder and put it in some jars or simply wrap it tightly in a cloth, and put it on the fuse to make gunpowder packs, which, although the explosion power is very low, are enough to deal with the walls of the civil structure.

The attack of the Boston soldiers became more and more fierce, they were completely afraid of death to use people to pile up the passage of the attack, under the crazy attack of the Boston people, many city walls were in danger one after another, many ladders were added to the wall, but they were overturned by the tenacious St. Martin's soldiers, each ladder was full of corpses of both sides of the enemy, and the battle was extremely fierce.

The Bostonians even stormed the walls three times, and fierce hand-to-hand combat ensued with bayonets. The soldiers on both sides were red-eyed in the high-intensity battle, and no one had the idea of retreating, only knowing that Lu Dao stabbed his bloody bayonet into the opponent's body, killing every enemy around him, such a battle can only be a lose-lose situation, the two sides frantically fought with bayonets, even if the city was full of corpses, they still fought selflessly, and the two sides did not give in.

The casualty figures of both Boston and St. Martin were rising rapidly, but Qiu Yu'an was unmoved, still sitting in the command room in the center of the town with his eyes closed and not saying a word, without the slightest intention of sending reinforcements.

The sound of a 'boom' explosion was heard, and although the explosion was not loud, it was enough to blow up the earthen wall on the periphery of the logistics base. At the most critical moment, Admiral Pershing finally used a small number of black powder packs.

With the efforts of hundreds of death squads, more than two dozen gunpowder packs were transported to the city, and before the Bostonians could light the fuse, a stray bullet ignited one of the gunpowder bags. Dozens of Boston soldiers, who did not have time to retreat, were buried in the collapsed mound along with the St. Martin's soldiers on the earthen wall.

Originally, Qiu Yu'an did not dig trenches outside the base because he was afraid of the opponent's heavy artillery and the time to deploy troops to dig fortifications. His original intention was to let the St. Martin's army consume the opponent's cannonballs, and after the earthen wall was destroyed by the opponent's heavy artillery, he would lead the elite Lanfang mercenaries to engage in a street battle with the Bostonians to minimize the threat of the opponent's heavy artillery.

But when he found that his side's warehouse had heavy artillery and the opponent's shells had run out, Qiu Yu'an found that he had miscalculated. Although the earthen wall was not strong, it could not withstand the attack of even small-caliber mountain artillery, but he was not afraid of bullets without explosive power, so he was relieved to use only St. Martin's soldiers for defense.

When the earthen wall more than three meters thick was blown down, Qiu Yu'an opened his eyes. He said to Chen Fei, the commander of the second brigade who was already waiting impatiently beside him: "Your brigade attacks and plugs the gap. Second Brigade Commander Chen Fei immediately obeyed.

The elite soldiers of the second brigade are not those novice rookies, they have rich combat experience, under the leadership of the brigade commander Chen Fei, the first regiment rushed forward with bayonets and light machine guns, the soldiers of the Lanfang mercenaries are all experienced in battle, and they are well-trained, their bayonets are quite orderly, they are all two people in pairs, one to attack and one to defend, and the Boston soldiers who rushed to the ground fell in rows.

The bayonet cleared out an open space, and the light machine gunner behind rushed up, the Type 94 light machine gun was very light, and it could be easily used by a single person.

Such a close distance, such a heavy firepower, where have those recruits in Boston ever seen. People are still relatively old tactics, when the city wall opens a gap, they all swarm in, use the advantage of numbers to directly squeeze through the gap, and quickly occupy a piece of the city's territory.

In fact, the tactics of various countries are like this now, but it is a pity that they have encountered the regular army of the Chinese collar armed with new weapons and new ideas, so that when two armies that are one era apart meet, the backward side is doomed to be tragic. I saw that under the continuous strafing of the machine guns, the swarming Boston soldiers fell down continuously as if they had been cut by a harvester, and the corpses quickly raised the breakthrough by more than a meter.

Under such a quick death, the Boston soldiers finally could not bear the high casualties, and were forced to retreat, retaking the gap that had just been occupied by the Lanfang mercenaries, and only a few Boston soldiers were isolated in the city.

By this time, the soldiers of the other two regiments of the 2nd Brigade had also rushed to the earthen wall, and while using mortars, grenades, light machine guns, and rifles to quickly attack the follow-up troops of the Boston Empire, they also directed the soldiers of the St. Martin Empire to gather materials that could be used and prepare to plug the gap.

Under the intensive firepower of Lanfang's mercenaries, the Boston Imperial soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and the follow-up troops quickly retreated, and the Boston soldiers who confronted each other at the gap had already lost all due to the lack of backup.

Chen Fei gave the order, and sandbags, gravel, and wood and broken bricks from the demolition of the houses in the town were filled in, and the gap was quickly blocked again. By the time General Pershing reorganized his troops to attack and seize the gap, the big gap that had been blown up had become a wall again.

An enraged Admiral Pershing immediately ordered another attempt, this time with more gunpowder packets, to try to blow up a bigger gap. However, at this moment, the quartermaster came to report that the ammunition had run out, let alone make gunpowder packs, and even the soldiers were in short supply of ammunition, and in desperation, Admiral Pershing had to order the attack to be stopped, and the troops returned to the barracks to rest.

Fortunately, it was getting late, and Qiu Yu'an did not doubt General Pershing's motives, but thought that they had withdrawn to rest normally and prepared to attack the city tomorrow.