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"Boom ......!"

With a piercing scream, a large number of shells fell on the positions of both sides, bringing a bloody rain. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The thunderous roar of the cannon could not hide the earth-shattering shouts of killing from the Chinese and American soldiers.

After nearly a month of fighting, all the means available to both sides have basically been used. Any weapon and any tactic are already familiar to the other side, and when they know each other's roots, they can only rely on upright fighting to decide the outcome of the war.

Now, it depends on who holds out longer and who has more perseverance on both sides, and who will be able to win this war.

As the commander of the North Route Army of the Huo Family Army's American Theater Army, Diao Fei knew this very well in his heart, so he knew that he had to grit his teeth and hold on now. Before the command order to retreat arrived, even the last soldier of the Northern Route Army would not allow an American to cross the Erie Line even one step.

Thinking of this, the look on Diao Fei's face became more determined, holding the telescope tightly in his hand, looking at the battlefield in front of him, the lines on his face became cold and stiff.

"Commander, this is the situation of the armament of our front-line troops, especially the loss of artillery, just sent by the Logistics Department!"

Hearing this, Diao Fei put down the binoculars in his hand, took the information from Pang Wanchun's hand, and after looking at it a few times, he couldn't help frowning tightly and asked, "Why is the loss so serious?"

After listening to his words, Pang Wanchun couldn't help but smile bitterly, "Hey." Our fortifications were very badly damaged under the artillery of the Americans. Even fortifications No. 6 and No. 7 largely lost their blocking effect. This left our soldiers largely directly exposed to enemy fire, and the losses of the troops were serious. And without the suppression of fortifications, our suppressed artillery is being destroyed by the opponent's artillery more and more frequently, and the losses are very large!"

After hearing this, Diao Fei nodded, he knew that the actual reason was not just what Pang Wanchun said just now. In fact, it is fundamentally the progress of the Americans in weapons and equipment. In the past, I often heard the young master say that war is a booster for the development of science and technology. He didn't understand it too much before, but now after fighting the Americans here, he really realized the meaning of this sentence.

It's been less than a month. The artillery technology of the Americans has far surpassed that of the original, except that the power caused by the filling of gunpowder is slightly inferior to that of the Huo Jiajun, in terms of range. The Americans' artillery is no longer inferior to Huo Jiajun's! Even in terms of the service life of the barrel. The artillery of the Americans is still faintly exceeding. Of course, this is due to the fact that there are skilled technicians in the United States who far surpass Huo Jiajun.

In addition, in order to destroy the strong fortress built by the Huo family army in Yili, the Americans have made a large-caliber mortar cannon, although the military intelligence bureau did not get the data of this new American artillery, but according to the airship reconnaissance and the power of its explosion, the caliber should be about 340mm, and the range is more than 15 kilometers, if it is not because it is too heavy. And if it takes half an hour to launch once, I'm afraid that Huo Jiajun's Yili Fortress will not be able to hold on to it at all.

"How many more suppression artillery do we have now?" Diao Fei asked after tapping the information in his hand on the table.

"There are 105 more howitzers and cannons of the new 124mm caliber. There are still 54 old howitzers and cannons of the same caliber, 78 new howitzers and cannons of 152 mm caliber, 45 old howitzers and cannons of the same caliber, and 24 heavy guns of 203 mm caliber! In addition, we still have 76 fortress guns of 100 mm caliber or more, of which two old 240 mm guns are also intact!"

The so-called new artillery is the artillery that has adopted the new hydraulic stationing and retreating system, and the old one is naturally a stupid, big and thick erection artillery.

After listening to his words, Diao Fei nodded a little silently, "Is our ammunition still enough?"

"Hmm!" After nodding, Pang Wanchun continued: "We still have 100,000 rounds of ammunition for our heavy artillery, which is enough for us to use for two days. Moreover, I have just received a telegram from the rear that the railroad that was blown up by the American partisans yesterday has been repaired, and new supplies will be delivered this afternoon, so we do not need to worry about supplies. ”

After finishing speaking, Pang Wanchun was silent for a while, and then said in a somewhat solemn tone: "Commander, I am more worried about the loss of our front-line troops than weapons and ammunition. Now, in almost a month, we have suffered more than 100,000 casualties, more than six divisions. Although we have also made the Americans pay the price of more than 600,000 casualties, they still have more than 600,000 elite troops honed from the war, while we are still only a little more than 300,000, which is too far apart. Moreover, now our weapons lead, although it is still there, is not as big as it was at the beginning. Coupled with the destruction of our front-line fortifications, I am afraid that in the next battle, our personnel losses will be even more serious!"

After a pause, Pang Wanchun stared at Diao Fei's eyes with a serious expression, "Commander, the rest of these people are elite veterans who have been tested by war for a long time, they are the wealth of our army and the wealth of our Huo family's army. We cannot make them pay with their lives for a land destined to be abandoned by us. And this is not in line with the strategy that the young master made for us at the beginning!"

"I know, just now I have already sent a telegram to the general headquarters requesting more troops or retreat! I believe there will be news soon!" Diao Fei said.

After being silent for a while, Diao Fei lit a cigarette for himself and smoked it, and then asked again: "Lao Pang, how are the soldiers below?

Pang Wanchun knew what Diao Fei was asking, as the cruelty of the war in Yili became more and more intense, the number of casualties of the Huo family army exceeded 100,000, and more than half of them were black servant troops whose soldier quality and weapons and equipment were inferior to the regular troops of the Huo family army.

In the end, after considering it, after reporting to the headquarters for approval, the establishment of the black servant army of the Northern Route Army was simply canceled, and the remaining elite black soldiers who had been trained by the brutal war were added to the regular army of the Huo family.

"It's not bad, although these black soldiers have different skin colors and appearances from our own soldiers, but after more than two years of training from us, they are basically proficient in Chinese. Coupled with the friendship cultivated by fighting side by side during this time, after the integration of the troops, there was no mutual hostility that we had feared before. ”

After listening to Pang Wanchun's words, Diao Fei also relieved himself, if the combat effectiveness of the troops was affected because of internal discord, it would be contrary to his original intention of reorganizing the troops.

"By the way, Lao Pang! Now the fighting on the front line is very fierce, according to the intelligence of the Military Intelligence Agency, the Americans are still increasing their troops here, it is conceivable that our pressure will be more and more intense, so the war will become more brutal, and this will further test our soldiers. So, in any case, the ideological work of the troops cannot be relaxed. In addition, most of the black soldiers in our troops believe in Christianity, so the political commissars of all units must pay attention to their beliefs when doing ideological work! Do not cause trouble at this juncture and affect the combat effectiveness of the troops!"

Hearing this, Pang Wanchun nodded, and before he could continue to ask, he heard a faint commotion coming from the corridor outside the door, and couldn't help but smile at the moment, "Commander, it seems that those two guys who give people a headache are here again!"

Hearing his words, Diao Fei also nodded helplessly. I think that he himself was the master who was not afraid of heaven and earth, brave and tenacious in battle, and often did the kind of thing that fought more with less and went deep into the tiger's den. It gave Huo Long and Huo Shi a headache for the army bosses of the Huo family, and even when they were studying at the military academy, they were reprimanded by Huo Shan for causing trouble. If it weren't for cherishing his outstanding military command talent, I'm afraid Diao Fei would have been swept to the end by the military department.

However, after the training of several American wars in the past two years, especially after the experience of the Yili war, Diao Fei has become more and more calm.

"Report, report!" At that moment, a loud voice came from outside the door.

"Come in!" Diao Fei replied loudly after a hint of helplessness flashed across his face.

Hearing this, Li Zhenwu and Meng Changgui, who were waiting outside the door, looked happy, and after glancing at each other, they hurriedly pushed the door and strode in, looking at Diao Fei and Pang Wanchun standing in the center of the combat command room, they hurriedly took two steps forward, stood up and saluted, and said loudly: "Commander, chief of staff, the First Cavalry Division (Fourth Cavalry Division) requests to fight!"

Hearing this, Diao Fei and Pang Wanchun glanced at each other, and after the secret path was really like this, Pang Wanchun said: "Didn't you already tell the two of you before! Now we are fighting a defensive war, and what we need is infantry, not cavalry." Moreover, it took us two years of training to train eight cavalry divisions, each of which was a baby bump. As commanders, we can't afford to let you be consumed in a meat grinder-like positional battle, you understand?"

As the commanders of the 1st Cavalry Division and the 4th Cavalry Division, Li Zhenwu and Meng Changgui of course knew that the cavalry was good at field warfare, and was good at fighting thousands of miles and running long distances, but was not good at positional warfare.

Moreover, they, who had already been here several times, did not expect the command to agree to them to go to the Erie front. Although a cavalryman dismounts and is an infantryman, it takes five times as much time and effort to train a cavalryman as an infantryman. Therefore, as long as it is not really at the end of the mountain, no military commander will let the cavalry leave their horses and set foot on the battlefield. (To be continued.) )