Qiu Yu'an knew very well that Lan Fang's mercenaries could not be replenished, and even ammunition could not be replenished. Therefore, he did not plan to put his own troops on the wall as soon as he came up, as it would quickly consume his strength and for the future.
Ineffective combat.
Therefore, when arranging the battle, Qiu Yu'an placed the division of his St. Martin Empire on the city wall. His two brigades and two supplementary regiments formed by his own two brigades and logistics soldiers, as well as the regiment guarding the base, as well as the regiment who guarded the base, as well as the reserve team.
Qiu Yu'an believed that with so many heavy artillery as firepower suppression, the soldiers of the St. Martin Empire could always support them for a period of time. As long as they consumed all the other party's shells, there would be nothing scary about their own troops.
To Qiu Yu'an's expectations, the previous crazy attack had already consumed all the shells of the Boston Imperial Army. These Boston soldiers not only arrived an hour earlier, but also had no heavy firepower.
The arrival of Boston soldiers launched an attack as soon as they arrived. When the soldiers carrying rifles rushed up, dense rain of bullets and artillery shells mixed with them overturned them to the ground. These very tired Boston soldiers quickly retreated.
Go down.
The St. Martin Empire army easily dealt with the next two attacks, while the overworked Boston soldiers became weaker and weaker in the attack, losing thousands of lives in vain.
Seeing three defeats in the offensive, General Pershing knew that he had no heavy firepower support, and the soldiers fought another day of war and were very tired. The base could not be captured quickly. Therefore, he ordered the troops to camp on the spot and rest for one night. Tomorrow
Attack again.
"Brig Commander, there are a lot of artillery here." A soldier in charge of reconnaissance in front ran back to the large army to report to his brigade commander.
The commander of the brigade of the First Brigade of Lan Fang's Mercenary was Gao Hong. He was Qiu Yu'an's old subordinate and was known for his calm combat. Therefore, Qiu Yu'an handed over the task of destroying the logistics supplies of the Boston Empire to him with great confidence. Naturally, he lived up to expectations.
The task was successfully completed, not only did the thousands of cavalry guarding the materials, but also burned all the materials there.
At this moment, he was about to return to the logistics base, Damot, to return to the building, but when they walked to Trash Canyon, they found a large number of abandoned artillery.
After receiving a report from the scouts, Gao Hong personally led his men to the canyon to investigate and found that a large number of artillery were indeed left here and were left unattended. After his inspection, these artillery were manufactured by several military factories of the Boston Empire.
After thinking about it for a moment, Gao Hong understood the current situation. This must be the division commander retreating to the logistics base. The Bostonians abandoned these useless heavy drags because of their logistics supplies and no shells.
Gao Hong smiled after thinking about the situation. Without the support of artillery, he absolutely believed that his division commander could block the Bostonians who lacked supplies from the logistics base. Now what he had to consider was how to wipe out these Bostonians.
He quickly had an idea about this question. Since Traxa Canyon is the only way to go to the logistics base, he naturally has to take this road when he returns to the beach position. As long as he guards the canyon, he can trap the Boston army to death
Here, he immediately ordered the troops to stop advancing and camp on the spot, and began to dig trenches and build positions until dawn.
Admiral Pershing, who was unaware of the break of the rear, was concentrating on studying the wall of the logistics base. Although this wall was only constructed with stone mixed wood and soil and was not strong, it was seen by the Boston soldiers who had no heavy firepower.
It became an insurmountable barrier. Only then did Per Xing regret that he was so reckless and had all the shells burned out at one time.
Although he regretted it, Pershing did not think it was unimaginable. Although the terrain of the St. Martin Empire army was favorable, the number of people was small. He believed that he could use the advantage of the number of people and attack at the same time from all sides. In addition, he sent people to cut down trees and build ladders.
Using a small amount of gunpowder to make gunpowder packs should be successful in blasting the earth wall.
With a decisive plan, the Boston Empire army sent soldiers to cut down trees overnight and build wooden ladders. At the same time, they concentrated the excess ammunition, disassembled the gunpowder and put it in some jars or simply wrapped it tightly with cloth, and put it on a fuse to make the gunpowder.
Bags, although these gunpowder bags have very low explosive power, they are enough to deal with the walls of civil structures.
The Boston soldiers' attacks became more and more fierce. They were completely using people to build attack channels without fear of death. Under the crazy attack of the Bostonians, many city walls were in a row, and many ladders were added to the walls, but they were tenacious.
The St. Martin soldiers overthrew, and each ladder was filled with corpses from both sides of the enemy and us, and the battle was extremely tragic.
The Bostonians even attacked the city wall three times, and both sides launched a fierce hand-to-hand combat with bayonets. The soldiers on both sides were red in the high-intensity battle, and no one had the idea of retreating, and only knew how to shine with blood.
The bayonet stabbed into the opponent's body and killed every enemy around him. Such a battle would only be a loss-win situation. Both sides fought wildly with bayonets. Even if the city was full of corpses, they still fought for themselves, and both sides did not give in.
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The casualties between the Bostonians and St. Martins were rising rapidly, but Qiu Yu'an was unmoved and still sat in the command room in the center of the town with his eyes closed and did not speak. He had no intention of sending reinforcements at all, only from that
Only by holding hands tightly with white joints can you see how much pressure Qiu Yu'an is under.
The explosion sounded like a 'boom'. Although the explosion was not too loud, it was enough to blow up the earth walls outside the logistics base. At the most critical moment, General Pershing finally used a small number of black gunpowders.
Bag.
With the efforts of hundreds of suicide squads, more than 20 gunpowder bags were transported to the city. Before the Bostonians could ignite the fuse, a stray bullet ignited one of the gunpowder bags. Dozens of Bostons who had no time to retreat were too late.
The soldiers and the St. Martin soldiers on the earth wall were buried in the collapsed mound.
Originally, Qiu Yu'an did not dig trenches outside the base because he was worried about the opponent's heavy artillery and had too little time to deploy troops to excavate fortifications. His original intention was to let the St. Martin's army consume the opponent's shells and wait until the earthen wall was slaughtered by the opponent's
After the heavy artillery collapsed, he would lead the elite Lan Fang mercenaries to engage in a street battle with the Bostonians to minimize the threat of heavy artillery on the other side.
However, when he found that there were heavy artillery and the other party's shells in his warehouse, Qiu Yu'an found that he had miscalculated. Although the earth wall was not strong, it could not withstand the attack of even small-caliber mountain cannons, but he was not afraid of bullets without explosion power.
, so he was relieved to use only St. Martin soldiers to defend.
When the earth wall more than three meters thick was knocked down, Qiu Yu'an opened his eyes. He said to Chen Fei, the commander of the second brigade, who had been impatient by his side, "You brigade attack and block the gap." Chen Fei, the commander of the second brigade, said:
He immediately went to the office.
The elite soldiers of the Second Brigade are not those novice rookies. They have rich combat experience. Under the leadership of the brigade commander Chen Fei, the first regiment rushed up with bayonets and light machine guns. Lan Fang's mercenary soldiers have experienced a long time.
The battle formation was well-trained, and their bayonets were quite well organized. They were both two people, one attacked and one defended, and the Boston soldiers who rushed through the raid fell in rows.
The bayonet cleared out an open space, and the light machine gunner behind rushed up. The Type 94 light machine gun was very light and could be easily used by a single person. I saw light machine gunners mounted the gun on their shoulders and put their hands flat.
The machine gun is just a sweep.
Such a close distance and such fierce firepower, no Boston recruits have ever seen. People are still relatively old tactics. When the city walls opened the gap, they all flocked in and squeezed through the gap with the advantage of the number of people.
Quickly occupy a piece of the city.
In fact, the tactics of all countries are like this now. Unfortunately, they encountered the regular Chinese army armed with new weapons and new ideas. Such two armies that are one era apart meet, and the backward side is destined to be a tragedy. The machine guns are constantly in succession.
Under the strafing, the Boston soldiers who flocked to it seemed as if they were cut by a harvester and fell down continuously. The body quickly raised the breakthrough point by more than a meter.
With such a rapid death, the Boston soldiers were finally unable to withstand the high casualties and were forced to retreat and seized the mercenaries who had just occupied the gap and were robbed back by Lan Fang's mercenaries. Only a few Boston soldiers were isolated in the city.
At this time, the soldiers of the other two regiments of the Second Brigade had also rushed to the earth wall. While using mortars, grenades, light machine guns and rifles, they were quickly attacking the follow-up troops of the Boston Empire, while commanding the soldiers of the St. Martin Empire to collect materials that can be used.
, ready to block the gap.
Under the dense firepower of Lan Fang's mercenaries, the Boston Empire soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and the follow-up troops quickly retreated, and the Boston soldiers who were confronting at the gap had already lost all due to lack of support.
Chen Fei gave the order, the sandbags, gravel and the wood and broken bricks obtained from demolishing the houses in the town were filled with, and the gap was soon blocked again. When General Pershing reorganized the troops to attack and seize the gap, he
, the big gap that was blown up has become a wall again.
The angry General Pershing immediately ordered another order to use more gunpowder packs this time to blow up a larger gap. But at this time, the quarantine officer came to report that the ammunition had been exhausted, let alone making gunpowder packs,
Even the soldiers had shortage of bullets. In desperation, General Pershing had to order the attack to stop and the troops returned to the barracks to rest.
Fortunately, it was getting late, and Qiu Yu'an did not doubt General Pan Xing's motives, but believed that they were withdrawing their rest normally and preparing to attack the city tomorrow.