208 Unveiled
Of course, when entering the outskirts of the city, the motorized army of the Vientiane Kingdom also got off one after another, and under the cover of various tanks and armored vehicles, accompanied by the absolute fire suppression of large-caliber artillery in the rear, they easily cleared the field positions set up by Annan in the suburbs outside the city.
The wealth of the Vientiane Kingdom is reflected here, in the Annan Army, the artillery of more than 100 mm is the bottom of the box, but the Vientiane Kingdom is equipped with this caliber of artillery to the formation below the regiment!
Attacking a city, the Vientiane Kingdom easily gathered hundreds of artillery pieces of different calibers to fight against the indiscriminate bombardment of the Annan Army.
This is what a rich country with a developed economy is all about.
In the case of Annam, this bombing can hollow out the artillery shells possessed by hundreds of thousands of troops in Annam......
However, when the artillery extended into the city, the army of the Vientiane Kingdom was intimidated.
Because it is a densely populated area, there are definitely more people in the Vientiane Kingdom who died in one shot than the soldiers of the Annam Kingdom!
This way of coercing civilians to fight is all too common in this era.
After all, the firepower advantage of this era is too great, as long as you have money, it is completely possible to turn a city into flat land.
Even if it's hidden in the basement, it's useless, dig into the bomb to find out......
Therefore, the army of Annam, which had been aroused by national enthusiasm, could only retreat to cities and large towns to garrison.
Who called the firepower of the two sides is not at the same level, Annan has no air supremacy, if it is a field encounter, it is estimated that it will soon be taken away by the air raid + fire preparation + tank assault package of the Vientiane Kingdom......
The army of the Vientiane Kingdom, which did not dare to carpet bomb its own city, was not discouraged, which was a very glorious thing and represented the glorious image of the Vientiane Kingdom.
If a national power does not even care about the life and death of its own people, how many people's hearts can be united?
However, the infantry of the Vientiane Kingdom, under the cover of a large number of tanks and armored vehicles, stepped into the city with great vigour, and were immediately stunned by the intricate street battles.
For the first time, the soldiers of the Vientiane Kingdom, who had not experienced much war, knew that the battle could still be fought like this!
Every window, door, roof, wall, corner, and even sewer in a city can shoot deadly bullets or throw homemade grenades.
Homemade grenades are the name given to the soldiers of the Vientiane Kingdom, and the soldiers of the Annam Kingdom don't think so, even if the grenades they make themselves are really rubbish......
Grenade garbage is fine, as long as it can kill people, it's a good thing!
The soldiers of Annam even made a lot of Molotov cocktails themselves, causing huge casualties to the tanks of the Vientiane Kingdom that penetrated deep into the city!
The elusive RPG bazooka also makes the tank soldiers of the Vientiane Kingdom feel like ghosts.
Fortunately, Annan's logistics have been bombed by the British Air Force and the Vientiane Kingdom Air Force, coupled with the poverty of Annan itself, there are not many weapons that soldiers can't make DIY weapons.
Otherwise, the Vientiane Kingdom would not be able to fight street battles at all.
The brutal street fighting caused the soldiers of the Vientiane Kingdom to emerge from the depths of their hearts with infinite despair.
After being driven out of the street fighting on the first day, hundreds or thousands of deserters appeared that night!
It even deteriorated to the point that an entire company was involved in a vicious case of desertion.
The large number of desertion incidents further lowered the morale of the Vientiane Kingdom, but the army commanders of the Vientiane Kingdom, who were full of superiority, did not take it seriously, and still did not change the established battle plan, sending batches of armored troops and infantry of the Vientiane Kingdom into the devil's cave of street fighting.
Then, after several days of street fighting, after the desertion scandal broke out, the army of the Vientiane Kingdom set another record.
An entire armored corps, with dozens of tanks and armored vehicles, surrendered to the Annam Army, which did not even have many bazookas, because they were surrounded by a group of infantry with bazookas and Molotov cocktails in street fighting......
It wasn't this armored corps that coaxed, they also resisted, and surrendered only after more than 10% of the casualties!
This is not the first case of the surrender of the Vientiane Kingdom Army, but this kind of organized surrender has set a precedent and nailed the Vientiane Kingdom Army firmly to the pillar of shame.
Subsequently, the Annan Army also released video interviews with officers of the surrendered armored corps through war correspondents and a well-developed network.
The officers of the armored corps inside didn't know if it was the reason for the coercion (they were not coerced in the video), and they were ashamed to say that this was a wrong war, saying that the real monarch system of the Vientiane Kingdom was a symbol of the backward times, and that the Vientiane Kingdom should establish a democratic, equal, and harmonious ...... of the Republic!
This was not the reason that the surrendered officer came up with on the fly, the political faction that outlawed the royal privileges had always had a market among the people of the Vientiane Kingdom, and of course, they were illegal organizations in the Vientiane Kingdom......
The lack of morale in the Vientiane Kingdom's army has a lot to do with the reluctance of most soldiers to die for the royal family.
Even if the propaganda department of the Vientiane Kingdom 'cleverly' grafted war onto the concept of home and country, and did not mention any backward words such as for the glory of the kingdom, the soldiers of the Vientiane Kingdom had a very high level of education, which was completely contrary to the general illiteracy in Annam, how could they not hear the deep meaning contained in it?
Why is the concept of the state united with the power of the royal family?
It's not that you haven't read history, who doesn't know that the kingdom is, to put it bluntly, the wealth of the royal family?
Therefore, this propaganda may seem very clever, but in the eyes of a group of intellectuals, it is nothing more than a play on words.
In peacetime, naturally no one pays attention to this, and intellectuals are more concerned about how to make money, but now that they are on the battlefield, facing a group of strong enemies who do not follow the routines of war, dissatisfaction will naturally explode completely.
Fortunately, the Warlords and Gendarmerie of the Vientiane Kingdom were powerful, and this sentiment did not spread among the army.
The concept of anti-war and anti-royal family is well known to intellectuals, and naturally it will not be revealed.
I don't dare to spread it in private.
However, the captured Vientiane Kingdom officer had no scruples, or he did not dare to have any scruples, and told the war correspondents all the political evils of the Vientiane Kingdom, and spread it to the world.
After all, the Vientiane Kingdom is only a small country, and public opinion can be suppressed at home.
Except for the British Empire, an ally that entered the war, other countries broadcast this news for the sake of traffic eyeballs, especially those democratic republics, which are called excessive......
After all, the mainstream of this era is a political situation in which everyone is equal, and even a monarchy under the guise of a hypocrisy still cannot avoid the voice of republican democratic reform in the country.