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Seeing the heavy casualties of his soldiers being bombarded by the sudden large-scale shelling by the Chinese, Johnston, who had been paying attention to his own offensive standing in the rear, suddenly widened his eyes, and then his cheeks flushed, and he almost vomited blood.

"Bastard, give me the order to have our artillery return fire at once!" said Chief of Staff Brock Cena.

After listening to his words, Joseph Johnston did not stop, although he knew that the accuracy of his artillery against shelling beyond visual range had dropped to an unbearable level, but his counterattack was good even if it could harass the intensity of the Chinese shelling.

"Commander, do you want to withdraw the troops, in the face of such a large-scale shelling by the Chinese troops, our soldiers have suffered too many casualties, and they are also extremely demoralizing!" Johnston's deputy, Howard Hughes, deputy commander of the Northern Front Theater, couldn't help but say worriedly.

Hearing this, although he was extremely reluctant in his heart, Johnston also knew that it was obviously unrealistic to brave the enemy's large-scale artillery fire at this time, "Okay, you go and give the order." But now the 80,000 soldiers of the first offensive echelon have been overwhelmed by the vitality of the Chinese, and they cannot withdraw at all, so let's wait for the artillery to stop and then withdraw!"

Hearing this, Howard nodded seriously. He knew that at this time, it was much safer to let the soldiers lie on the ground than to let them withdraw.

Watching Howard go out, Johnston didn't use a telescope, just looked at the battlefield in the distance that was already filled with gunsmoke, and a hint of deep thought flashed in his eyes.

After fighting with the Chinese for more than a month, he basically knew the enemy's methods. In the past, although the Chinese did have a lot of artillery, and most of them hit accurately, they bombed more at their own fire points. It is mainly the artillery and machine guns that destroy the own army, and it is rare to kill or injure their own armed personnel at such a high cost of ammunition.

This kind of transformation made the American team, which was already basically familiar with the defensive routine of the middle team, extremely uncomfortable, and it is conceivable that the casualties of this attack will definitely not be small.

"Send a telegram to the War Department immediately and ask the intelligence department to find out what is wrong with the squadron!"

Listen to him. Bullock Senna couldn't help but ask, "Commander, have you discovered anything?"

"It's hard to say yet!" Johnston said, staring at the Chinese position opposite, with a serious expression.

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"Haha, this time I blew up the Americans!" Looking at the shells that fell on the battlefield in front of him like a storm, as well as the stumps and broken arms that flew up from time to time, Huo Linsheng, who was holding the telescope in his hand, couldn't help but laugh out loud with joy.

"yes, we were given a limited number of shells before. It's always used sparingly, which is like this time, it's open to fight!" Lai Jun, the chief of staff, also responded with a smile.

"Well, that's what I'm saying, this time our new artillery has a fast rate of fire and the advantage of being vigorous and vigorous has finally come into play! On average, three times as many shells are fired per minute as the Americans. Especially those 75mm caliber field guns, which are simply water pipes, and our most skilled gunners can shoot 30 shells per minute, if there are no two new arsenals in the Americas to produce shells. I'm afraid I can't afford it. Liu Lijun, political commissar of the artillery division, said with a smile at this time.

"Hehe, you guys are cool, but the logistics department is about to scold my mother, a 75 field artillery shell is 20 silver dollars, a 105 howitzer shell is 42 yuan, a 152 caliber howitzer shell is 85 yuan, and a 203 caliber heavy artillery shell is 145 yuan, do you calculate how much money you have drawn in the past ten minutes?"

"Commander, Commander!"

After returning a military salute, Diao Fei waved his hand and motioned for everyone to relax, "How is it, have you figured it out?"

Hearing this, the embarrassed look on Huo Linsheng's face flashed, but he quickly replied: "Report to the commander, I didn't calculate it, but our artillery is here to spend money on wars!" After finishing speaking, Huo Linsheng glanced at Diao Fei and couldn't help but continue in a low voice, "Didn't you say that you would rather spend more money and try to save the lives of the soldiers?"

After a pause, Diao Fei continued: "I said such a thing at the beginning, but you forgot the task I gave you at the beginning, and now that the Americans have begun to retreat, why don't you let the artillerymen stop! Do you think we have a lot of shells? Or do you think that our shells don't cost anything to shoot?"

In the face of Diao Fei's questioning, Huo Linsheng and the senior officers of the artillery division couldn't help but blush, of course they remembered that the task their artillery division had received was to block the attack of the Americans with powerful artillery firepower and buy time for the retreat of the rear troops.

However, because of the lack of ammunition, the artillery division has not been open to fight as it is now, so in a moment of excitement, it only cares about enjoying the Americans trembling under their artillery, but forgets the orders of the original headquarters.

"I understand, Commander! I'm going to make them hot!" said Lai Jun, chief of staff of the artillery division, with a guilty face.

"Let's go!" Diao Fei said with a wave of his hand.

Watching Lai Jun leave quickly, Diao Fei's eyes were focused on Huo Linsheng and Liu Lijun again, looking at the guilt on their faces, Diao Fei's originally tense face also relaxed, "Forget it this time, if there is a next time, you will go to the military justice department to receive punishment yourself!"

"Yes, Commander! We promise that there will be no next time!" Huo Linsheng and Liu Lijun and other high-ranking officers of the Independent Artillery Division secretly breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts. also hurriedly opened his mouth to reassure.

"Don't take it as an example!"

"Yes, Commander!"

"Alright, sit down!" Diao Fei waved his hand.

After seeing everyone sitting down around, Diao Fei said again: "This time the task of your artillery division is very heavy. Although the Americans were temporarily repelled this time, they had been fighting us for more than a month, and they would not rest on their laurels, and their commander, Joseph Johnston, was an experienced old fritter, and if it dragged on, his plan of action would probably be seen through by him. ”

"So, in these two days, you must be cautious, especially to strengthen the intensity of patrols at night, the intensity and duration of the attacks of the Americans at night will be greater than during the day. ”

"We got it. Don't worry, Commander!"

"Well, this time, you only need to hold for two days, and your mission will be completed! Then you can retreat with artillery!" Diao Fei said.

"Commander, don't we have three days to retreat this time? It stands to reason that we should guard for three days before we can evacuate?"

Facing Liu Lijun's question, Diao Fei said: "The artillery of your artillery division is all big guys weighing tons, if you really have to hold out until the third day." Do you still have time to leave safely?" paused, "Don't worry, the rest of the battle will be taken over by cavalry units, and we have enough means to stop the pursuit of the US Army!"

Hearing this, although Huo Linsheng wanted to know what the means were, they understood that this involved military secrets. Since Diao Fei didn't plan to explain, they didn't ask again.

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As the empty shells piled up on the artillery positions of the Huo family army became higher and higher, most of the Huo family army artillery had turned from the initial excitement to numbness.

In one day, they repelled six tentative attacks by the Americans. Both mentally and physically exhausted to the extreme. If it weren't for the years of high-intensity military training and brutal warfare that tempered their will, I am afraid that they would have collapsed long ago if they had been replaced by ordinary people.

As night fell, Huo Jiajun's position began to become brightly lit. Diao Fei sat on a stool in the combat command room and listened to the staff officer's report.

"Is the political commissar still arranging the retreat of the troops at the train station?" Diao Fei asked.

"Yes, Commander!"

"How many troops have been withdrawn now?"

Listening to the commander's words, Chen Guanghua hurriedly replied: "Now the 48th, 52nd, 55th, 58th, and 60th divisions have retreated one after another, but our trains have run out, and the second batch of pedaling troops will be able to set off after 8 hours!"

After listening to the words of the staff officer. Diao Fei nodded, he knew that even with the help of the train, eight hours from Erie City to Gary City, Indiana, was already the fastest time to travel thousands of kilometers back and forth!

"What time is it?" Diao Fei asked.

Hearing this, the young staff officer raised his hand and looked at his watch, and immediately replied: "Commander, it's already 9 o'clock in the evening!"

"It's 9 o'clock!?" After repeating in a low voice, he secretly said in his heart: "Four hours have passed, and the Americans on the opposite side have not launched a decent offensive." It's so abnormal!"

Thinking of this, Diao Fei walked to the window, looked at the dark night sky outside, and thought a lot in his heart, "Joseph Johnston, what else are you thinking?"

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"Commander, according to your orders, I have sent fifty reconnaissance teams, and I am confident that they will be able to bring us satisfactory information!" Brock Senna, after hurriedly burrowing into the headquarters, clutched the document in his hand and reported loudly.

After listening to his words, Johnston nodded, turned and paced back and forth in the headquarters, and after walking a few laps, stopped in front of the large topographic map of the military confrontation between the two sides of the Erie Front hanging from the wall.

Johnston first looked at the map on the wall, and the look on his face suddenly became determined.

"Bullock, fifty scout teams is still too little, you immediately give the order, and then draw the most elite fighters from each unit to form a hundred scout teams, and send them all out. ”

Hearing this, Bullock looked stunned, but he still chose to carry out Johnston's order unconditionally, after all, the prestige of the old general who came from the Civil War on the opposite side was too high, and it was thanks to his excellent command skills for more than a month that the almost untrained US Army recruits still maintained pressure on the Chinese when their weapons were not superior.

"By the way, this time the reconnaissance team, don't go over from the front, let them go to the southern hills. After a pause, "I also picked some water-based ones and passed over from Lake Erie." ”

"Yes, I see, Commander!"