Chapter 520: The Tiger Falls to Pingyang
With the duke bomb, the morale of the Russian army immediately skyrocketed, and the next landing battle could be called crushing, the battleship bombarded wildly, and then the infantry landed, erected army artillery in the naval gun protection circle, and poured countless mustard gas shells on the heads of the Colombian and Venezuelan coalition forces, like a duck to disperse the resistance of these warriors defending their homeland, and then a steady stream of Russian troops re-set foot on Colombian soil.
The grief-stricken Colombian and Venezuelan soldiers, who could only watch from afar as these criminal colonizers ravaged their country, brave and fearless, and well-armed, were meaningless in the face of raging poison gas, even if they were equipped with gas masks, and the power of mustard gas was infinitely magnified in the hot Colombian rainforest.
Unless they also have duke bombs, but there is no place to buy this thing now, except for a few European powers, there are still China and the United States that can produce it, the United States is not counting on it, it is still blocked, and even a pistol cannot be sold out, let alone this thing, as for China, it is the initiator of the Beijing Convention, and compared with the reputation of Emperor Yang, they will not bother to deal with this little businessman.
There is no way to defend their homeland that the Colombian and Venezuelan coalition forces can think of, that is, to play guerrilla warfare, but fortunately they still have a very good advantage, since the Russian army left the landing site and moved south, the Colombian and Venezuelan soldiers hidden in the dense forest have been attacking them non-stop, although they cannot prevent the Russian army from reoccupying the plantations in Antioquia, but they have suffered a lot of casualties every day. Enraged, the Russians immediately launched a bloody revenge, and after recapturing Medellín, the Russian army did not stop advancing, but went directly south to attack the heart of Colombia, and even killed the capital Bogotá, where the brutality of a colonizer was fully demonstrated, leaving countless burning villages and dead bodies everywhere for Colombians.
Their actions have cornered the Colombian government, and at this very moment. The Germans in Haiti approached them and told the Colombians that once they joined the Central Powers, not only would the Argentine Navy go north to help them, but they would also be able to send Colombia a batch of poison gas bombs stored in Haiti, and because the German army in Haiti was still in the Caribbean Alliance's operational sequence, they could also buy a steady stream of gas bombs from China, which meant that they could supply Colombia in a steady stream.
In addition, the German concession in Barranquilla could be reverted to Colombia.
In this situation, Colombia has no other choice, and the brutality of the Russians has also raised the hatred of these neo-colonizers among the common people of their country to the extreme. Soon the Colombian government declared war on Russia and joined the Allied bloc, and although Venezuela did not declare war, the Venezuelan army in Colombia still fought side by side with the Colombian army in the form of volunteers.
This news did not cause any surprises, starting with the increase of the Russian army in Colombia, which was already a doomed result, but after Colombia declared war on Russia, because of Russia's demands. British and French troops stationed in the Caribbean also had to join the operation against Colombia. At this time, the British had another division in the Caribbean, mainly stationed in Guyana and Jamaica, and the French actually had only one battalion in French Guiana, but these two countries still had some populations in the colonies. Now is the time to pin the hopes of victory in Europe on Nikolai, and naturally do not dare to refute his face. Two divisions were conscripted, and one division was transferred from Canada, and three divisions were made. Coupled with the fact that the Russian army is already close to 150,000, it is still very easy to raze Colombia with such a large force.
However, just as the first British and French reinforcements arrived and arrived in Bogotá with the Russian army, an accident happened.
"Poison. Gas! "In the Russian-British coalition army that was attacking the outer defense line of Bogotá, a cloud of yellow smoke suddenly rose, and the soldiers who were charging were stupid, and they didn't even react to what it was for a while, but then the smell of choking into their nostrils instantly woke them up, and they immediately let out heart-rending screams.
Knowing that the Colombians did not have gas bombs in their hands, these invaders were not in the habit of wearing gas masks, after all, since they were useless, it was a burden to carry, and the hot environment here also made those soldiers hate any burden other than combat, and they were all dumbfounded. In a very short period of time, a large number of Russian and British soldiers were so smoked that they curled up on the ground and coughed desperately, and then those who collapsed without hesitation, especially the Russian troops who were poisoned all the way, ran extremely simply without any hesitation, and even did not hesitate to step on those comrades who fell to the ground after being poisoned, they knew too well the tragic situation of being burned by this thing.
However, the well-trained British troops still wanted to maintain order, and as a result, the British losses in this battle even exceeded the number of Russian troops several times their number.
Bogotá, which was in danger, was immediately saved, but the Colombians still did not have the ability to launch a counteroffensive, after all, they had suffered too heavy losses under the Russian army's air bombs, and the two sides began to stalemate, and at this time, the Argentine navy, as an ally, went north. This news immediately made the Russian and British sides nervous, and this is what they are most afraid of, although the navies of the two countries have a total of six diesel-engine battleships in the Caribbean Sea, but they are all old-fashioned designs with a displacement of a little more than 10,000, and even the two heavy cruisers of the Argentines are stronger than them in terms of combat effectiveness, not to mention two perfect battleships.
Although compared with the British and Russian navies, the Argentine Navy is not in the flow at all, but on the sea of the Americas, it is enough to abuse them, and the only way to deal with it is to transfer a few battleships from Europe, but the problem is that the capital ships of the British Navy must stay at home and watch the German High Seas Fleet, the Russian Baltic Fleet is blocked in the Baltic Sea and cannot get out, and the Black Sea Fleet is also unable to get out because the neutral Ottoman Empire forbade its passage through the Bosphorus, For a time, the world's first and fourth naval powers were dumbfounded by such a small fleet.
It was impossible to transfer troops from Europe, although Canada had a few warships, but they were insignificant, and if they came, they would be sent to death, and at this time the British remembered that they still had a helper in South America who could try.
Compared with the South American countries on the Atlantic coast, the Chileans did not have any pressure on this war, they were too far away from them, and neither the new colonists nor the old colonists had anything to do with them, so they lacked interest in the next British lobbying for them to join the Entente to declare war on Argentina. The territory they disputed with Argentina was not inhabitable at all, it was the southernmost tip of the South American continent, and there was no point in expanding the fishing grounds and catching more krill.
If it is in the case that the victory of the Entente is decided, Chile will of course be happy to give the British a little advantage, but at this time it is obvious that it is very dangerous to do so, and if nothing else, the war in Europe should have a result in half a year at most, and once the Allies win the war, Chile will not be burned, and it is smart to see first!
After Chile's lobbying was fruitless, the British ran to lobby Brazil, hoping that Brazil could help them intercept Argentina at sea, but at this time Brazil was worried about Russia's return to South America.
In fact, at this time, except for those who are really not worried about pressure because of the distance, the remaining South American countries are supporting Colombia behind the scenes, and now the volunteers who help them on the battlefield are not only Venezuelans, including Guatemala and Peru and even Brazilians have joined in a small amount, the key is that the reputation of the Russians is too stinky, if it is Britain and France, these countries will not react so strongly, but if the Russians want to set foot in South America again and destroy Colombia, The next thing these aggressive guys are going to do is to attack the neighbors around Colombia, and the best way to avoid this is to cut them off from the idea of being beautiful.
In this way, the Argentine navy began to approach day by day along the coast of the Americas, and the British, who were forced to helpless, had to transfer their two old diesel battleships that were originally in the Mediterranean, because of the addition of those two battle cruisers and the French fleet, although the Allies did not completely regain the sea supremacy in the Mediterranean, but also compressed the Aushi navy back to the area of the Otranto Strait. These old battleships did not help the situation much there, but they also needed to worry about being sent to the Americas by those two high-speed battleships one day, bringing the number of old battleships here to eight, and purely in terms of firepower, they were no longer inferior to the two battleships and two heavy cruisers of the Argentine Navy.
Argentina's two Kunlun-class battleships have twenty-four 280 main guns, two heavy cruisers have eighteen 240 main guns, and the old British and Russian battleships are usually four 3051 main guns and four 240 rapid-fire second-class main guns, eight together are enough for a war, although the tonnage of these battleships is small, but the armor thickness is not much worse than that of the Kunlun class, of course, the quality gap is relatively large. In addition, they also have two heavy cruisers, although the tonnage is smaller, but they also use 240 rapid-fire main guns, so it should already occupy the superior speed, as for the huge gap in speed, this does not need to be too concerned in a simple interception operation.
In this way, Britain and Russia also put together a bunch of miscellaneous warships waiting to meet the Argentine. (To be continued......)