Chapter 191: Confrontation in the New World (3)

If you retreat to the beach, the only thing Admiral Pershing can do is to let the troops board the ship again and return to the Boston Empire, this battle will be a complete failure, and he will also be sent to a military tribunal, not to mention that the transport fleet at this time has returned with the battle fleet, whether he can catch the ship is still unknown, but it is certain that as soon as he announces his retreat, the morale of the entire army will immediately collapse.

After weighing the pros and cons, Admiral Pershing gritted his teeth and ordered to continue the attack, knowing that his only chance of success was to break through the defense line of the St. Martin's ** team and occupy the opponent's logistics base to obtain supplies.

The weapons of the Boston Empire and the weapons of the St. Martin Empire are both the standard of the Saar Empire, and even the caliber is the same, so as long as you get the logistics supply of the St. Martin Empire, you will not be in danger of running out of ammunition, and there will be no shortage of food.

Under the strict orders of General Pershing, six infantry divisions began a frantic attack, and the mountain artillery was also pulled down from the mountain, and all the artillery began to fire frantically, even when their own soldiers rushed to the opponent's position.

I thought that the other side would definitely turn around and go back when he learned that his supplies had been destroyed, but I didn't expect the other party's commander to be so resolute that he actually planned to break through his own defense line despite the lack of ammunition. In the face of the frantic attack of the Boston Imperial soldiers, even the well-trained Lanfang mercenaries gradually suffered a lot of casualties.

For such a battle, if it was on the battlefield of the Chinese Territory, even if he fought to the bottom of the battle, Qiu Yu'an would never retreat, but this was in the Saint Martin Empire, he was just a mercenary, and he did not have the consciousness to desperately hold his position.

Therefore, Qiu Yu'an immediately ordered the troops to resist one by one and slowly retreat. Seeing that the opponent was retreating, General Pershing immediately ordered the troops to pursue quickly, and seeing that the opponent's infantry was out of the protection of the artillery and chasing after him, Qiu Yu'an immediately led a regiment of elite troops to turn around and start a counter-charge.

The dense mortar shells accompanied by the rain of light machine gun and rifle bullets caught the Boston soldiers off guard, and these soldiers who lacked combat experience immediately panicked, and after the soldiers of the Lanfang mercenaries neatly threw a row of grenades, the Boston soldiers who were not dead retreated.

The enemy began to retreat, and Qiu Yu'an did not pursue, taking advantage of the other party's panic and powerlessness to pursue, Qiu Yu'an led two brigades of Lanfang mercenaries and the remaining troops of the St. Martin Empire to quickly disengage from the other party and retreat to the logistics base.

After an extremely frantic attack and setback, the physical strength of the Boston Imperial soldiers had been exhausted to the limit, and after Qiu Yu'an retreated with his troops, most of these tired Boston Imperial soldiers were paralyzed on the ground, gasping for breath, and they were unwilling to get up again no matter how the officers reprimanded them.

Originally, Pershing wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue, but seeing that the tired soldiers had to give up this idea and ordered a two-hour rest. The losses of the Boston people who had just desperately attacked were not small, not only did they lose a lot of infantry, but the artillery also ran out of all the shells, and when it was time to prepare again, Admiral Pershing had to order the artillery to abandon all the artillery and move with the synchronizers.

Without the drag of heavy artillery, the Boston army marched much faster, and Admiral Pershing decided to take the remaining nearly 70,000 troops and advance to Damoth, the logistics base of the St. Martin Empire, because it was the best chance for them to get supplies at the moment.

Damot is a small town in the Kingdom of Gota Rica in the Federal Republic of South China that cannot be seen on the map at all, except for a few military maps of certain areas. But it is such an inconspicuous town that is destined to go down in history because of a great war.

Damoth is small, with an area of less than one square kilometer and a population of just over 2,000 people, and now the inhabitants have long since run out. Since the Empire of St. Martin used it as a supply base, the logistics unit expanded the area, built many warehouses, and built a three-meter-high earthen wall with wooden stakes on the perimeter.

Due to its proximity to the front line, in order to facilitate supplies, nearly one-tenth of the supplies were stored here for the attacking St. Martin's ** team, which was so abundant that the food was enough for 100,000 combat troops for a month, and the ammunition was enough to support 100,000 people for a high-intensity campaign.

When Qiu Yu'an came here, he immediately announced that he had taken over the place, except for the protection force of a regiment, there were only some unarmed logistics soldiers, and when they knew that the 100,000 people of the Boston Emperor's ** team were approaching, they immediately chose to obey Qiu Yu'an's orders.

"Open all warehouses and check the condition of the weapons." Qiu Yu'an ordered loudly. Those soldiers of the St. Martin Empire who had been fighting with Qiu Yu'an had long admired the superb command skills of this foreign general, so these people were very willing to obey his orders.

Qiu Yu'an checked the weapon reserves and was very satisfied. Although he can't look at those single-shot rear-loading guns, but the dozens of heavy artillery pieces in the warehouse make his eyes shine, and now what he lacks most is heavy firepower, as long as he has these heavy guns, Qiu Yu'an is confident that he can hold here for a month, of course, this is his own material stock, as for the materials of the Boston Emperor ** team, whether they can hold on to the attack for a month, that is another matter.

Twenty-seven 128-mm howitzers and forty-one 105-mm howitzers, which were left behind the enclosure by Admiral Kaolan because they were too bulky during the attack, were old enough to give the Bostonians some trouble.

All the logistics troops were also armed, but the logistics soldiers of the brigade were sent to transport supplies, and the remaining logistics soldiers here were only more than 2,000 people, barely forming two supplementary regiments.

Qiu Yu'an sighed in his heart when he saw the troops in his hands. Although he was called Qiu Madman, he never fought a war of attrition with the enemy's life to build up victory, but this time it was inevitable.

The best way to do this was to destroy the logistics base, rely on your elite soldiers in the jungle to slow down the Bostonians, and take advantage of their lack of supplies to slowly drag them to death.

However, Qiu Yu'an knew that these St. Martin Imperial soldiers did not have a strong will to fight, if they destroyed this logistics base, not to mention whether the supplies of the front-line soldiers were enough, just the news reached the front line could cause a large rout of the army, if this really happened, even if they eliminated this Boston army, it would be a failure.