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"Commander, the enemy is coming!" Seeing through the telescope a large number of US ** teams walking towards the Huo Jiajun position, Wang Huaicheng couldn't help but say with excitement in his tone. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Well, I saw it! However, there is only one division of the American troops attacking us this time, and it seems that the American commander on the opposite side is very cautious and does not rely on the superiority in strength to rush forward, so it is a bit troublesome!"

Compared with the US army, in addition to the advantages of soldier quality and strategy and tactics, the biggest advantage of Huo Jiajun is in weapons and equipment, whether it is light machine guns, heavy machine guns, or even mortars and grenades, which the enemy has never seen and is defenseless!

If you want to use these new weapons to inflict maximum damage on the enemy, then you must inflict heavy damage on the enemy in the first round of formal attacks of the US ** team, otherwise once these weapons of great destruction are exposed, it will probably be difficult to rely on them to achieve major results! After all, the US ** team is not a fool, knowing that they are invincible, they may not rush hard!

"Commander, what should we do? If something happens here, I'm afraid it will also affect the other battle plans in the future!" Wang Huaicheng said with a worried expression.

For this operation, the Fourth Army drew almost all of its artillery, as well as a large number of machine guns, and almost half of the ammunition reserves of the entire American theater from other fraternal units in the rear; if this war did not achieve the expected results, I am afraid that before the arrival of the next batch of reinforcements from the Huo Jiajun, the American Military Region would no longer be able to pose much of a threat to the Americans! More importantly, it had these American ** teams as support. I am afraid that the rear of the Huo Jiajun, especially the Great Lakes region, will never be calm again! The swarming resistance movement will once again slow down the Huo Jiajun's robbery plan. This is absolutely not allowed by the entire Huo family army!

After listening to his words, Wu Guangzong nodded intently, Wang Huaicheng's worry was exactly what he was worried about, only by destroying all these American ** teams here could he deal a heavy blow to the Americans' confidence in resistance!

"Order that the front-line troops are not allowed to use artillery, machine guns, and other heavy weapons, and that rifles and grenades must be used to repel this tentative attack of the enemy!" Wu Guangzong said in a deep voice.

As a colony of the once British, the Americans inherited too much from their own cousins. Both the language and living habits are almost the same as those of the British, and even the establishment of the troops is the same, with the divisional troops adopting a two-brigade and four-regiment system. Coupled with the direct subordinate units of several battalions such as the Chasseur Battalion, the Cavalry Battalion, and the Baggage Battalion, the number of each American division-level unit is about 15,000 people!

However, because these units in the United States have been established for a relatively short time and have limited experience, special units such as hunters and odd soldiers have not been established!

So. Based on the advantage that Huo Jiajun occupies in rifles. It's not too difficult to block the tentative attack of the American ** team!

In this era, the performance of weapons was limited, and the distance between the two sides was very short, so the US First Division stopped when it was two kilometers away from the Huojia Army's defense line! Because this distance was the maximum range of 75 mm caliber artillery, although the firing range of other large-caliber army heavy artillery had reached more than 5,000 meters, these were a few tons. Even a big guy of more than a dozen tons is really not suitable for a large-scale mobile combat with the troops! Therefore, the distance of 2,000 meters is also the distance for the warring parties to sort out their respective formations and then prepare for battle!

However, the Huo Jiajun, who did not play cards according to common sense, obviously disrupted the offensive steps of the Americans!

Just like Ropat Smith, commander of the 1st Division of the U.S. Army, who is now holding up a telescope to observe the position of the Huo Jiajun. Frowning tightly, his heart was at a loss! Whether it was the original Virginia Military Academy or the later thirty years of military career, he had never seen such a strange defensive formation of the Chinese!

In his impression, when two countries are at war, they should be like warriors, soldier to soldier, general to general, and then the two sides use three-stage shooting, 'bang bang bang' to divide the victory and defeat! Of course, this is also the most popular way of military engagement in the entire Western society, so in the course of this engagement, the density of the projectile and the performance of the rifle will have such a great impact on the outcome of the war! This is also an important reason why the Germans were able to win the war with less and win the war again and again! The rear-loading Mauser rifle is much better than the front-loading gun in terms of rate of fire and shooting accuracy!

"Division commander, will we continue to attack?" Nick, as the deputy division commander, faced the defense of the Huo Jiajun, and also felt that the rats had nowhere to put their mouths!

Hearing his words, Smith couldn't help but nodded, it was certain that he would continue to attack, this was a task given to him by the commander, and it must be carried out no matter what!

"Continue to advance 500 meters, then set up artillery and carry out exploratory shelling!" In the early eighties of the 19th century, in the armies of Western countries, artillery was only an auxiliary weapon because of the limitations of its own performance, and even Russia and Germany, two countries that are very fond of artillery, did not have a regular artillery system! Moreover, the biggest role of artillery at this time was to kill and injure the enemy, not to attack fortifications! Robert Smith, who had no choice but to pull out the 'God of War' in his own hands, had to try!

"Division commander, the artillery is ready!" The distance of 500 meters is very short, and there are only a few small calibers such as 37mm and 57mm, and the number is only about 20 guns, and it is not troublesome to concentrate them!

"Order, artillery aim at enemy positions and fire freely for five minutes!" Smith said in a deep breath and in a calm tone.

The actions of the U.S. ** team, Huo Jiajun, who was 1,500 meters away from them, naturally saw it in his eyes!

"Regiment commander, the Americans are preparing for shelling!"

"Well, yes!" Listening to the staff officer's report, Lin Chengjun nodded and said.

"But the headquarters doesn't allow us to use heavy weapons such as machine guns and artillery, otherwise we would have made all of them suddenly attack these Americans!"

"Yes, the firing range of our light and heavy machine guns is more than two thousand meters, and a crossfire network composed of a hundred heavy machine guns and nearly three hundred light machine guns, how can an American division be enough!"

"And that's not even counting the mortars and infantry guns in our hands!"

Listening to the excited discussions of the combat staff officers around him, Lin Chengjun, who was the commander of the Second Regiment of the Fourth Marine Division, also had a faint smile on his face! Originally, he had always been worried that the pressure of the Americans' more than 200,000 troops would put an unimaginable heavy pressure on the soldiers of the Fourth Division, which had only 20,000 men, but now it seems that the situation is much better than he imagined!

"Okay, don't talk about it, the Americans are about to start shelling, order the troops, except for the necessary observers to stay, all the other soldiers into the defensive artillery holes!"

After nearly three years of development and construction, all units of the Huojia Army have been taught by Huo Shan's words and deeds, and they are no longer much worse than during World War II in terms of civil engineering operations and fortifications!

With the order of the division and regiment headquarters, the soldiers of the Huo family army who were originally lying on the position with their rifles all hidden!

After a while, the deafening roar of artillery, the fire and smoke of the shells began to appear on the position of the Huo Jiajun 30 kilometers east of Pittsburgh, which also indicated that the war between the Huojia army and the American ** team officially began!

Five minutes passed very quickly, and the twenty or so army guns that were thrown in the use of black powder posed little threat to the position of the Huo family's army, and these artillery, which was not even the power of the Huo family's 60 mortars, was not even injured by a single Huo family soldier!

When the smoke cleared, whether it was the first division of the US Army that was attacking, the large US troops in the rear, and the observers of other countries' troops between the warring forces on both sides, they all frowned, because from the binoculars they could clearly see that the Chinese soldiers who were lying on the positions were now all gone! Of course, they would not think that these few artillery pieces could destroy the Chinese and a reorganized division!

Putting down the telescope in his hand, Smith sighed secretly in his heart, the United States, which has experienced an economic crisis, has a military invasion by the Chinese, and the United States is not as rich as the European countries that have started the colonial era for hundreds of years! Therefore, after purchasing a large number of rifles and small-caliber artillery for the newly formed hundreds of thousands of US ** teams, the US Government has done its best to do its best, and as for large-caliber heavy artillery, the US Government, which is already extremely poor, really cannot afford it!

It is said that rifles, artillery, and even large-caliber heavy artillery can be cast by the United States itself, but because the Huo Jiajun is advancing too fast and has neglected the building of military strength for many years, it has caused the dilemma of a lack of large arsenals in the United States! In less than three months, hundreds of thousands of newly built troops need a large amount of weapons and equipment, and the Americans have no time to produce them, and most of them can only rely on external purchases!

The hope that the Chinese could be forced into a head-on battle with artillery failed, and Smith, who was already exhausted, had only one way left to attack!

With the waving of the military flag, Jun Le remembered that a large number of American ** teams began to stand in three long rows in a row of units, and more than 10,000 soldiers walked with neat steps, thinking about the position of the Huo family's army!

"Order the front-line troops, wait for the enemy to get closer to a hundred meters before fighting!" Wu Guangzong looked at the US ** team that was getting closer and closer, and immediately ordered. Huo Jiajun's new rifle is much more advanced in terms of range and design accuracy than the use of rear-loading guns with a caliber of more than 10mm, and at a distance of 100 meters, Huo Jiajun's troops, who have been training for many years, can basically hit an enemy with two shots, or even higher!

"Yes, Commander!" (To be continued.) )