Chapter 196: New World Confrontation (8)

"Speed up, we want to take the whole city as soon as possible." Admiral Pershing commanded loudly as he ran among the soldiers.

They had already given the order, and the commanders took control of their troops to pass through the half-closed gate in turn, and went to the various strategic points in the city.

Admiral Pershing personally led a division to the barracks east of the city. The garrison of St. Martin, having received the news, immediately came with weapons towards the captured south gate, and the two sides met in the streets.

The two sides, who had no experience in street fighting, met in a narrow way, and the soldiers on both sides, who were full of fear, picked up their rifles and shot desperately, even forgetting to lie down or dodge.

It was a close-range rifle fire that resembled hand-to-hand combat, and in the dense flow of bullets, soldiers on both sides were shot and fell to the ground, the blood of the soldiers slowly flowed, the corpses gradually piled up into bunkers, and some officers and soldiers who had spent the initial tension began to climb the houses on both sides of the street, intending to kill and injure the enemy from a high position.

Neither side is a fool, one side wants it, the other side naturally wants it, so the battle began to spread to the rooftops, both sides began to fill the battle line with human lives, little by little to fight for the space on the street, and the battle here entered a stalemate for a while.

Qiu Yu'an, who was marching rapidly, heard the dense gunfire in the distance, and his heart sank. Looking at this direction, it is very obvious that the other side is attacking the city of Bhandaya, and his own side is still more than ten kilometers away.

The battle for Bandaya continued, and both sides were gritting their teeth despite suffering heavy casualties, and their commanders knew very well that whoever retreated first in such a close and bloody battle would face a slaughter-like pursuit.

After all, the garrison of the Saint-Martin Empire was small in number, and it was in a hurry, and it did not have time to push the artillery over, and it gradually became a little overwhelmed in the bloody battle in the streets.

Having already occupied the arsenal, the 7th Division of the 3rd Army in Boston was replenished with enough ammunition, leaving one battalion to continue to guard the arsenal, while the others rushed in from the rear in the direction of the fierce battle.

The attack from behind was the last straw that broke the camel's back, and the defenders of St. Martin, who had been attacked from behind, finally collapsed, and they no longer heeded the shouts of the officers, and fled in all directions, or surrendered on their knees.

After defeating the garrison, Admiral Pershing immediately ordered the gates to be closed, the city to be defended with a large force, some of them to adjust the captured artillery, and sent a division to disperse throughout the city to suppress the scattered resistance.

Two hours later, Qiu Yu'an's troops finally arrived at the city of Bandaya, but they were greeted by a rapid artillery bombardment.

Looking at the Boston soldiers who had already stood at the head of the city, Qiu Yu'an secretly scolded the people of St. Martin for being vulnerable, and they were occupied by others so easily.

Although Qiu Yu'an now only has more than 15,000 people in his hands, he is very confident that he can wipe out the remaining 40,000 Boston soldiers in the city in the field battle, and if he is fully equipped, he can easily occupy this place by relying on his divisional artillery.

But now his troops only have mortars, and those heavy artillery pieces have been left in Damoth because of the inconvenience of transportation, and all he can do is besiege it.

In order to prevent the Boston troops from escaping, Qiu Yu'an asked the troops to start civil engineering operations, slowly surrounding the city with trench nets, and on the other hand, asking for help from the St. Martin garrison through liaison officers.

The St. Martin's military also attached great importance to this Boston army, which penetrated deep into their own territory, and they quickly mobilized heavy troops to surround the city of Bandaya together with Qiu Yu'an.

General Pershing, who had been surrounded, didn't want to escape at all, he was quite afraid of Qiu Yu'an's terrifying combat power of the Lanfang mercenary army, he knew very well that even if his own ammunition was sufficient, it was impossible to defeat the other party in the field, it was better to sit in the fortified city and wait for domestic reinforcements or the end of the war.

Looking at the city wall in the distance, Qiu Yu'an spit out the grass roots in his mouth to the ground and hummed softly: "Hmph, do you think I can't do anything about guarding the city?" Bully me for not having artillery? ”

After saying that, he looked at the liaison officer who was hurrying in the distance and asked, "How is it?" Did they promise? ”

The liaison officer shook his head and said: "I'm very sorry Mr. Qiu, my ** side does not agree to hand over the 200,000 troops besieging this city to you for unified command, the military top brass hopes that you and your troops will hold the south, as long as we trap them and wait for the results of the front line, there is no need to take any more risks." ”

After listening to the liaison officer's words, Qiu Yu'an smiled contemptuously and said, "A group of corpse vegetarian guys who don't want to make progress, can't I attack without you?" ”

The battle of wits between the two sides for some time has made Qiu Yu'an have some interest in Pershing, an opponent he has never met, and the arrogance of the soldiers makes him unable to tolerate such inaction, so he decides to give them a little taste, and also let them know the combat effectiveness of his subordinates.

After receiving Qiu Yu'an's order, the accompanying St. Martin's Imperial Division and Qiu Yu'an's Lanfang mercenaries began civil engineering operations together. They dug a large number of longitudinal communication trenches in the trenches, and after advancing a hundred meters, they dug horizontal trenches, and little by little they approached the city wall.

Hearing the news that the other party's trenches were beginning to approach the city wall, General Pershing was startled, and he knew very well that when the other side dug the trenches under the city wall, it was time for them to blow up the city wall and enter the city, so Pershing relied on ordering a large number of soldiers to go up the city wall and shoot at the soldiers in the trenches.

It's a pity that Pershing's actions have long been in Qiu Yu'an's calculations, the Lanfang mercenaries are all veterans, and the Chinese leaders never spare ammunition in training, so the troops are full of a large number of sharpshooters, many of whom were brushed down by the Kaute Combat Army, although they were not admitted, they have been trained in special warfare for a period of time, especially sniper training.

Led by these semi-professionals, the sharpshooters of the Lanfang mercenaries went out in all directions, usually hiding in the trenches and shooting whenever someone on the city wall came up.

At the beginning, the hairy boys of the Boston army still fought against the Lanfang mercenaries with their blood, but when their death toll exceeded 1,000, no one dared to take the lead, which made Pershing at a loss.

Then he ordered the artillery to shoot outside the city, but with the protection of the trenches, the results of the artillery bombardment were quite limited, Qiu Yu'an even used the curved ballistic curve of the mortar, so that the shells bypassed the city wall, bombarding the opponent's soldiers and artillery, and the Boston army turned on their backs, and the trenches of the Lanfang mercenaries quickly advanced under the city wall.

The St. Martin Empire and the Boston Empire were in a mess, and Fang Xiaoyu enjoyed a rare leisure leisurely, and achieved a good effect on the intimidation of the Japanese State.

Now that the Saar Empire and other powers of the Western Continent are staring at the war situation in the New World, who has the heart to pay attention to the weak little brother of the Wa Kingdom. In addition to the approach of the Chinese Navy, the feud of the Japanese State Ezo people is also ready to move.

Losing the support of the navy and the support of the countries of the western continent, the Japanese government had no choice but to give in. We must not allow people to destroy the little industrial facilities that have just been built on their shoreline.

Therefore, the Japanese government sent troops to destroy the headquarters of the Black Wolf Society, and quickly arrested Ryuichi Kato and Arisaka Seiraki, handed these two people over to the Chinese Collar for disposal, and also paid Fang Xiaoyu 10 million Lan Fang coins for medical expenses. The Japanese government's move caused an uproar in the country, and many radicals began to secretly unite with the intention of overthrowing the existing weak government.

Ryuichi Kato, who was escorted back, was executed after Fang Xiaoyu's public trial, while Arisaka Seichi, who thought he was going to die, was inexplicably sent by Fang Xiaoyu to the Academy of Sciences' Light Weapons Research Institute.

Arisaka was originally just a nerd character who loved gun design, and he didn't have any good feelings about other things, especially politics. When he came to the best small arms research institute in the world, he was finally intoxicated by the dazzling array of weapons here.

Arisaka Chengzhang, who only loves firearm design, did not show any hostility to the Chinese leader, not to mention that the Chinese leader took care of his family members, and he had no worries.

Temporarily solving the threat around him, Fang Xiaoyu's eyes were once again aimed at the New World, and he began to plan whether to send new mercenary troops to exert pressure on the Boston Empire with Qiu Yu'an, or to give the Boston Empire a fatal blow from the land, at least to consume some of the Boston Empire's land strength. Fang Xiaoyu even began to ask the staff to formulate a plan to encircle and annihilate Pershing's troops, and at this moment, an unexpected thing happened. In August 895, a widespread food shortage began to spread throughout the world.

As early as the first half of 895, large-scale locust plagues appeared in various parts of the Eastern and Central Continents, and this locust plague first appeared in the territory of the Monte Empire and the Chhanxi Kingdom.

Fang Xiaoyu learned the news of this locust plague very early, although all kinds of crops in the Chinese territory have strong insect resistance, but they can't resist such a large-scale locust, so Fang Xiaoyu immediately got busy in the chemical plant.

After nearly a month of experiments, the first pesticide in the world was finally born. Due to the technical limitations of the current situation, Fang Xiaoyu, a variety of low-toxicity pesticides in later generations, could not be manufactured, so he was forced to manufacture an early pesticide hexachlorocyclohexane, because the chemical formula of this pesticide is C6H6CL6, so this pesticide is also called hexachlorocyclohexane.

666 pesticides are inexpensive, effective and can eliminate a large number of pests. However, they have good stability, can exist in the environment for a long time, and continue to accumulate in animals, plants and humans, causing harm to the body.