There is almost no building with an intact roof in the small town of De Orellana.
Even so, coalition artillery is still attacking here continuously.
Relying on the large amount of artillery supported by Britain and France this time, the coalition forces used artillery to clear the way when they encountered an attack.
The enemy's artillery positions are far away from the river. Donghua Army's artillery is installed on transport ships and cannot attack here.
In order to quickly provide support to various battlefields, the Donghua Army put all its artillery on transport ships.
Almost all the infantry positions of the Donghua Army were built along the river.
But the small town of De Orellana is a salient. The situation here is special. If we abandon the small town and just guard the river, it will not be beneficial to the Donghua Army.
"Squad leader, an enemy is coming." A soldier named Yuan Huai reported in a low voice.
When the enemy was shelling just now, Cao Shifu and his squad hid in the basement of a dilapidated house.
The second floor of the house has collapsed, and only half of the wall on the first floor remains.
The streets are the focus of defense for the Third Division. However, among these ruins, the enemy will also use small groups of troops to penetrate.
Cao Shifu's squad was defending a ruined wall next to the street.
During the shelling, they hid in the basement of a residential building, leaving only one soldier at the exit to observe the situation.
Yuan Huai was a new soldier who had just been recruited. In the previous defensive battle on the Putumayo River, Cao Shifu's squad suffered heavy casualties, and later some soldiers were given priority to them.
Yuan Huai was originally just a militiaman who owned more than 100 acres of land. It happened to be the slack season for farming, so his wives could basically take care of things at home.
Yuan Huai had three wives, a Chinese eldest wife, a Yindian second wife and a white third wife. The latter two were both widows, and their husbands were dead.
Now with three wives and more than 100 acres of land, Yuan Huai will soon be able to live a good life and have a lot of children.
After giving birth to babies, the babies can also be allocated land.
How wonderful, the future is infinite!
Therefore, Yuan Huai was afraid of war. He didn't want to die. He had just been assigned the land, and he hadn't had time to live a good life yet.
After his death, his three wives became widows again, and they might marry others.
Besides, I don’t have a baby yet, but if I give birth to a baby, even if I die, my land and property can still be passed on to my baby.
With this mood, Yuan Huai was very careful when he was on guard duty, not giving the enemy a chance to sneak up.
"Let's go back to our positions. Keep your thoughts hidden and keep your voice down."
"Yuan Huai, you fucking told me everything. How many people are here?"
"More than thirty. They all hunkered down and were very cautious."
Although Yuan Huai is timid, he is always cautious in doing things because he is afraid of death!
There were still nine people under Cao Shifu at this time, plus ten of his men. Tofu had been killed in the battle. At this time, Yas served as the deputy squad leader and led an Indian fighting group.
"Yas, take three people and sneak to the left front. There is a room with intact walls. When the enemy passes there, throw the grenade over the broken wall. After throwing it, you will leave there and return to the position.
Come on, do you understand?"
"Yes, squad leader, I understand." Yas took the order and led the people, using the wall next to him as a cover to touch up.
When Yuan Huai discovered the group of coalition soldiers, they were already not far away. After all, they were fighting in the streets of the city, and they couldn't be seen if they were far away.
Cao Shifu also saw those coalition soldiers wearing light blue military uniforms. The color of their clothes was like a faded blue, and they did not look energetic at all.
And their tall hats were dangling in the air, making it very easy to expose themselves.
Yas and his Yin Di'an soldiers are very flexible, and the ruins here are like the rubble that can be seen everywhere in the Andes.
Soon they found the room that was relatively intact and could at least allow them to hide. That place was only a few dozen meters away from Cao Shifu.
Half a minute later, more than thirty crouched coalition soldiers passed by one side of the room.
Yas listened to the sound and threw four grenades at the same time with the soldiers. They threw one round and then threw the second round.
The enemies were knocked down by the grenades, and they hated the grenades.
Grenadiers were once very popular in European armies, but with the improvement of muskets, grenadiers have rarely appeared.
Just as an honorary title, many armies still use the title of grenadier.
However, this small hand grenade has become a commonly equipped weapon in the Chinese army.
Whenever they attacked the front of the Donghua Army's position, a large number of grenades would always fly out of the Donghua Army's position, blowing up all their formations.
At this time, the enemy in front of Cao Shifu, after being blown up by the first round of grenades, was about to counterattack when the second round of grenades flew over. At the same time, Cao Shifu's side also started shooting.
The enemy's infantry platoon of more than 30 people had lost ten people due to grenade bombing and infantry fire.
After the second round of grenades exploded, the coalition soldiers did not know whether the Donghua Army would throw grenades again, so they did not dare to come out of their hiding places and could only temporarily lie down behind the ruins of the wall to hide.
Yas took the opportunity to retreat to his own position with his men.
"Squad leader, why haven't the company's support arrived yet?" Yuan Huai asked.
The explosion just now was a signal to the company headquarters. The company headquarters also has a squad of mobile forces responsible for supporting various positions defended by the company.
However, Cao Shifu felt that he could kill the enemy group on the opposite side without any support from the company headquarters.
"Bang..." A deep voice came over.
"No, hide it." When Cao Shifu spoke, a dark thing flew over in a parabola from the sky.
"Mortar!"
This kind of mortar, which is like a stone mortar, is commonly used here in Amelia. It has a huge caliber and is very powerful, but has a short range. It is generally used to attack cities.
It was not Cao Shifu's first day in the war, so he had naturally seen this thing before. Unexpectedly, all the enemies in a platoon brought this thing.
"Boom..." The artillery shell hit the side, and the rocks hit by the explosion injured two soldiers.
The accuracy of this kind of mortar was very poor, but Cao Shifu couldn't just wait for the enemy to explode.
At this time, the enemy has already established his own position, and if the opponent doesn't show up, he can't hit him.
Are you just going to be beaten passively like this?
That's right, grenade launcher.
"Quickly, set up the grenade and blast it."
Each squad has a fire support team equipped with grenade launchers.
"Bang bang bang..." Two grenade launchers hid behind the low wall and fired three cannonballs in succession.
After the enemy was bombed, they launched another attack. They probably discovered that the Donghua Army had a way to restrain themselves.
The two sides began to shoot at each other among the ruins.
A quarter of an hour later, the regiment's support team circled to the rear of the pair of coalition forces and engaged Cao Shifu's team in a pincer attack, finally wiping out the enemy.
Of course, not every incoming enemy can be discovered and eliminated.
Sometimes the enemy would successfully break in. After determining the route, they would rush in with more troops, and then the Third Division would send people to fight with the enemy repeatedly.
This situation happened repeatedly in defensive battles, and the Third Division also became the unit with the greatest casualties.
During a frontal attack, the coalition forces would always be blocked by Donghua Army's machine gun bunkers, resulting in heavy casualties.
The Donghua Army used the original houses and basements in the city to build some permanent fortifications. The enemy's artillery fire was mostly blocked by the buildings and could not destroy these low-lying solid fortifications at all.
Therefore, the coalition forces could only use small troops to carve out these small passages among the ruins.
Then send troops to break into the city and avoid those fire points.
The big battle was broken up into small battles.
The Donghua Army fought hard, but the coalition forces were even more anxious.
Liu Qingnan's men were moving around fighting in Columbus.
Seeing that the Donghua Army was about to attack its eastern coastal cities.
President Rodriguez quickly transferred people from several other cities to provide support.
However, at this time, the brigade led by Cai Songgui quietly withdrew from Monteria.
He entered central Colombria, the Magdalena River Valley between the Cordillera Mountains and the Andes Mountains.
Some of the most important cities in Columbus are also located on the plateaus on both sides of the river valley.
Among them is Bogota, the capital of Columbus.
Bogo is located in the Andes Mountains in the southeastern part of the valley.
This river valley is also the transportation hub between the north and south of Columbus.
After the Battle of Monteria, the number of troops led by Cai Songgui's brigade had reached more than 10,000.
They cleverly took advantage of the class contradictions existing in Columbus.
Winning those who are usually the most suppressed into the team.
And by leading them to take revenge on their original oppressors, he finally made them obey his command.
According to Columbian law, they all committed capital crimes.
Therefore, they had no choice but to follow Yangtze Security.
There were also some people who had families and homes and wanted to stay in their original cities. These people formed the city's provisional government.
Let cities enter a state of autonomy.
They felt that the Colombian government was coming to an end and the city would be theirs.
Regarding these, Cai Songgui is happy to see the results.
As long as they don't take refuge in the government, that's fine.
Bolivia, Oruro, a city on the north shore of Lake Pópo.
Lake Pobo is the second largest lake in Polivia, after Lake Titicaca.
It is located in the eastern part of Oruro Province on the Bolivian Plateau. The lake is 3,690 meters above sea level. It is 90 kilometers long, 32 kilometers wide, and covers an area of 2,800 square kilometers. It is fed by the Desa Guadero River and the Marques River, which originate from the southeastern corner of Lake Titicaca.
The province of Oruro is controlled by warlord Carlos Gadolin.
He had a local army of 3,000 men in his hands. However, after the Paraguayan army attacked Sucre, he did not send a single soldier to support it.
However, Gadolin did not express any intention to surrender.
On the shore of Bobo Lake, as far as the eye can see, there are war horses everywhere.
Countless horses, cattle and sheep are licking the exposed salt mines by the lake.
Lake Popo is a saltwater lake, and the overflowing water formed the Coipasa Salt Flats in the southwest.
This is an important salt mine producing area.
This place became very famous in later generations.
It has the world's largest lithium metal reserves.
Because of lithium batteries, lithium has become the most important industrial raw material in the 21st century, known as industrial platinum.
This salt marsh west of Bolivia is located in what later became known as the Lithium Triangle.
The concentration of lithium ions in the salt lakes here is high, the quality is good, and the mining cost is low. The salt lakes in the Lithium Triangle are the places where the production cost of lithium carbonate is lowest in the world.
Of course, the current value here is the production of table salt and potassium salt, and it is still a barren land.
War horses, cattle and sheep were eating salt by the lake. Not far from the lake, a large group of people were camping.
You can see from a distance that many of them have their hair tied into braids.
Almost all of these people are Yin Di'an people, with only a small number of Chinese.
"Captain Ma Shao, we can't stay here for too long. We must get them into battle as soon as possible. Their discipline is too poor. If they stay any longer, they will fight among themselves." Lu Cang is Ma Shao's staff officer.
, also a young man in his twenties.
However, Lu Cang graduated from a serious academic class. He was an outstanding graduate of the cavalry department of the sixth batch of Gaoyou Army Academy.
When his classmates were assigned to various military regions, Lu Cang chose to immigrate to Donghua for the simple reason that there are more opportunities to make contributions here.
Lu Cang is a nationalist, and his idol is Huo Qubing. His nickname is "Qubing", and his companions in the army like to call him Lu Qubing.
"Qubing, I know that there are still a few tribesmen who haven't arrived. We will set off when everyone is here."
"Wait a minute, I will talk to the leaders of each department about this matter. Try to restrain them." Mashao was also helpless. He grew up in Donghua City, received education from Chinese instructors, and was already a member of the Renaissance Army ideologically.
That set.
However, as a Yin Di'an, he can also understand these people.
They have always been under the oppression of the white people, and those who can save their tribe are tough people. Later, after Donghua defeated Perivia, he forced Perivia to introduce a bill to protect the Yin Di'an people.
After these Yin Di'an people regained their freedom, they inevitably became a little more indulgent.
This is a bit like the return of the wild. Of course, Donghua must be able to control this force. If he can control it well, these people will become a sharp sword for Zhumu and Dong Shutong to conquer South Amelia.
"Hmm..." Ma Xiao whistled. He was called Ma Xiao because he was good at whistling.
The horse whistle whistled so loudly that tens of thousands of people in the entire camp could hear it.
Soon a group of leaders dressed in decent Yin Di'an clothing gathered at the camp where the horse whistle was located.
A group of people started quarreling for several miles in Yintian dialect.
After they redistributed the land, conflicts arose between the various ministries.
"Shut up, everyone, look at how you are arguing over a small amount of land. Your land was allotted to you by the Queen. If the Queen hadn't defeated the white government, you would still be in the mountains!"
The horse whistle looked very fierce at this time. He knew that he wanted to be fierce towards these people, and they were all determined to take the hard and not the soft.
"I said that the Queen will share most of the land captured from the Paraguayans this time with you. It doesn't matter how many alpacas you want to graze at that time, as long as you have the manpower to take care of it."
"Go back and restrain your own people and take good care of your weapons. During the battle, if you retreat and run away, not only will you not get the land, but the land originally allocated to you by the queen will also be taken back. Everyone is watching.
Who steps back?"
"Captain Ma, we will not retreat."
"Only cowards retreat."
"We all attack those who retreat."
"right!"
…
Everyone agreed in unison.
Lu Cang looked at the appearance of these Yin Di'an people and felt funny in his heart. These people were actually easy to manage. The warriors of the tribe cared about honor very much, even more than their lives.
When the horse whistle inspires the generals, their morale rises.
He looked at Ma Shao, who was a little thin. He looked small, but Ma Shao was very smart.
Ma Shao's figure is not what Yin Di'an people think of a warrior, but these people were able to obey him in a short period of time, which shows that he has political wisdom. After all, he has been cultivated by those in power.