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"Damn, the power of these 600 artillery salvos is really amazing! I knew that I should have applied for the artillery academy when I joined the army!" Listening to the deafening sound of artillery and looking at the messy battlefield in front of him, Gao Zhongyang couldn't help but say with envy. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Hehe, yes! We fought for nearly 20 minutes, and the damage to the US ** team is probably not as good as the results achieved by the artillery units in the past five minutes! Alas, there is no way, who calls people to control the 'god of war'!" Mu Yun, political commissar of the Fourth Marine Division, said with a smile.

"Okay, let's not envy people here! Let's pay more attention to the battlefield, I'm afraid that after these rounds of artillery strikes, the Americans will not be able to hold on, and then it will be our turn to attack and fight a final battle of annihilation!" Lin Chengjun interrupted the chat between the two partners, picked up the binoculars in his hand, and then the fire ignited by the shells, paying attention to the movements of the Americans in the front position!

After listening to his words, the eyes of the two suddenly became sharp, and their faces couldn't help but show a strong look of anticipation! Charging into battle and serving the battlefield is undoubtedly the thing that every soldier is most looking forward to!

"The Chinese have won this war!" Kurt Kissinger said with a sigh as he looked at the battlefield in the distance.

"Yes, general! The Chinese have surpassed their enemies too much in terms of weapons and equipment! Coupled with the unpreparedness of the calculations, the Americans may suffer heavy losses this time! If one is not handled well, I am afraid that the end of the entire army will be destroyed!" Helmut Erhard had a serious look on his face, although he had already guessed that the Chinese had a secret weapon. The Americans will not be allowed to attack. But the machine gun fire that erupted at that moment just now, and the current large-scale artillery fire, greatly exceeded his expectations. This one graduated from the Berlin Military Academy. The senior officer who joined the Wehrmacht to serve in this moment strengthened his idea of studying at the middle school after the end of this war!

"It's a pity that the Americans misanticipated tonight's situation, and the consequences of not paying attention to intelligence building for a long time also led to the leakage of their order to 'launch an attack tonight'! Otherwise, if their rear artillery had been transported to the front to participate in the battle, I am afraid that their losses tonight would not have been so great!"

"Yes. But even if the Americans can keep most of their troops tonight, I am afraid that they will not be able to achieve any victory in the next battle! Because they have been discouraged by the sharp guns of the Chinese! And as a new country of immigrants. Americans do not have their own heritage and culture, and the soldiers' will to fight is simply not comparable to that of the Chinese!" Helmut said.

"Yes, in our German army, all soldiers are loyal to their country. For the honor of being a soldier. Therefore, no matter what situation they encounter on the battlefield, they will faithfully carry out their orders, even if they sacrifice their own lives! Unfortunately, I do not see this kind of spirit of dedication to the country in American soldiers! They are not an excellent army!"

"Look, General! The Americans' army has begun to retreat!"

Hearing his words, Kurt Kissinger also hurriedly looked towards the battlefield, because there was a fire that ignited after the shells exploded, so the wide battlefield was as bright as day, through the telescope in his hand. He could see very clearly that the American soldiers who were at the end had begun to flee frantically towards their way like the ebbing tide of the water! And the guards, who were the overseers, could not suppress this rout of more than ten kilometers alone!

"Hey, the Chinese's tactics are so strange!" looked at the large number of Chinese soldiers. Armed with rifles and other weapons, the trenches chased the Americans' buttocks at the beginning of the month, and strangely enough, their formations were very scattered, and they did not form a thick and dense formation like the armies of European countries. In addition, at a distance of 500 meters in front of them, a large amount of artillery fire was lined up into a long line of fire, and with the speed of the Chinese soldiers' forward pursuit, this 10-kilometer-long line of fire was also constantly extending forward! A large number of American soldiers were blown up in the artillery fire, and those who were lucky enough to escape the artillery fire basically became prisoners of the squadron!

Helmut was very sure that he had never seen such a strange offensive tactic in his more than ten years as a soldier. Obviously, this is the original creation of the Chinese! However, with the military vision he has cultivated for a long time, Helmut still immediately discovered the benefits of this tactic after observing it for a few minutes! This can't help but make his army fanatic can't help but itch in his heart, and his eyes show a strong curiosity! Now, he is more and more concerned about this squadron!

'Skirmish line tactics,' 'infantry and artillery coordination,' and 'triangular tactics' -- these three are the offensive tactics that Huo Shan handed over to Huo Jiajun on the first day of their establishment; although they are not too many, they are all the most quintessential tactics in the past half century! Although after the invention of tanks and airplanes, they seem to be somewhat insufficient! However, in the eighties of the 19th century, machine guns had just begun to be applied, and artillery was still in an auxiliary position in the army, but it was incomparably advanced!

Of course, in the eyes of Huo Jiajun, it can be regarded as their glory, because the Dutch and Portuguese did not let them use these big moves at all, and they were all knocked down after just a few charges!

"How's the situation at the front?" asked Gratt Wood, who hurriedly walked over and grabbed his arm, as he looked at the communications soldier who was running in with a body covered in gunsmoke.

"Commander, it's over! Our troops are all finished! The Chinese concentrated hundreds of artillery pieces to launch a large-scale artillery bombardment on our army, and the various units suffered heavy losses without preparation, and in just five minutes, all the troops collapsed, and now the squadron has launched a counterattack against our rout!" After the communication soldier finished speaking intermittently, he collapsed on the ground, looking a little sluggish! Looking at his pale face and the filth remaining at the corners of his mouth, it was obvious that he had vomited out everything he had eaten in his stomach before!

"It's over, it's all over!" muttered Grant Wood with a grim expression. Although when he heard the incomparably dense gunfire in between, he already realized that the Chinese had already made preparations and the sneak attack had failed! But before he could figure out the situation on the front line and transfer the artillery left in the rear to support the operation, the artillery fire in the sky completely drowned out almost all the soldiers on the front line! Even if he didn't have to ask, he knew that it must be a heavy loss, but Gratt still held on to the last glimmer of hope, but the words of the communications soldier completely broke his illusion!

Looking at the headquarters that fell into chaos after hearing this extremely bad news, Pershing couldn't help frowning, although his mood was not very good at the moment, but he understood that the current US ** team has reached the most dangerous point, if they can't make the right choice in time, I am afraid that their 250,000, the westward advance troops that had spent nearly 40 million US dollars to form would be completely wiped out under the blows of the Chinese!

"Commander, now is not the time for us to grieve, the Chinese are launching a siege on us, and now we are thinking about how to safely withdraw the retreating army to the rear as soon as possible! Otherwise, we will really be completely annihilated!" Pershing strode to Grat's side, grabbed his arm and shook it gently.

"Yes, you are right! Retreat, give the order to retreat immediately, retreat all our troops to the east, and then blow up the bridge before the Chinese chase after you!"

After listening to his words, Pershing couldn't help frowning, in fact, the safest way for him to retreat now should be to turn south immediately, instead of returning along the same road, because in the reconnaissance a few days ago, they had learned that the Chinese had an unknown number of river fleets in Ohio, although they also set up artillery on both sides of the rear railway bridge in order to prevent their rear roads from being cut off, but Pershing still faintly felt a little uneasy! However, looking at the many officers and soldiers of the American troops who had already poured out of the headquarters in a mess and began to prepare to retreat, they opened their mouths, but in the end they didn't say anything!

"Iron Dragon" was originally an offshore freighter off the southern coast of the United States, with a tonnage of only more than 1,000 tons, using two kinds of power, steam engines and sails, and this is also the standard configuration of passenger and cargo ships in this era, after all, civilian ships are not the ultimate warships, and even if they are warships, they are also such configurations before the first year, after all, the power and reliability of marine steam engines in this era are really difficult to reassure!

However, now the American freighter has become the river heavy cavalry and the flagship of the river Seventh Fleet after installing a 105mm gun, plus four 75mm field guns and ten heavy machine guns!

"Is there any news from the front?" Yang Baohang stood on the deck of the Iron Dragon, holding on to the wooden rail pole that made him extremely painful, and asked the communication soldier beside him.

"Report to the Commander, not yet!"

"Okay, Lao Yang! Now that the people of the 'Sea Lion' have pulled out the nails on the bridge, and the machine guns and artillery of the Fourth Division have begun to wield, I believe that the time for the Americans to retreat has come, as long as we wait here, we will always wait for them to collide with themselves!" Yu Wenqi patted him on the shoulder and smiled.

"Commander, there's a signal on the shore!" Before Yang Baohang could answer, a sharp-eyed soldier had already spotted three fires emerging from the woods on the shore!

"Great, I've been waiting for most of the day, and they're finally here!" he turned around with excitement, "Pass my order, the ships are scattered in a line, and all the machine guns and guns are aimed at me!" )