Chapter 509 Borrowing a Knife to Kill

"General, the French are starting to attack." Ketemara hurriedly rushed into the artillery hole and reported to You Enhui.

"What? Hurry up and let people enter the position. We must resist the attack of the French." You En ordered in a hurry. He has only been the commander of the city defense of Sao Paulo for one day, and he doesn't want to be kicked out as soon as he takes office.

Under You En's order, the American army rushed out of the artillery hole in a mess, took up weapons and walked up to the city wall, and began to counterattack the French army's attack. In this process, it happened to give the French artillery an excellent opportunity to strike. Shells continued to explode among American soldiers, and the scattered shrapnel reaped lives unscrupulously. Severed limbs and broken arms are everywhere. The sound of gunshots, cannons and the painful screams of American soldiers constitute a **** on earth.

Watching his soldiers being continuously killed by the French artillery fire, You En's eyes were red. These are all his old background. Without them, his power would not be guaranteed at all. At the same time, he was extremely resentful towards the French army.

"Damn it. Ketemara, order the artillerymen to pull out the cannons and fight back." Youn ordered like crazy. Now he was in a state of losing his sanity, and the blood of the soldiers gradually drowned his sanity.

"But general, the gap between our artillery and the French's artillery is too great. Now we are fighting the French, and we are looking for death." Ketemara hesitated for a moment, but still suggested.

"I know what to do, I don't need you to teach me. You just need to follow the order." You En stared at Ketemara with red eyes, making his heart shudder.

"Okay, General, I'll send the order immediately." Ketemara said tremblingly. He knew that Yuen was in a rage now, and he did things completely without thinking. If he offended Yuen, it would be bad luck for him.

Ewing's infantry division has only two independent artillery battalions, one of which is a light artillery battalion equipped with only 60 75mm field guns, and the other is a heavy artillery battalion equipped with 15 105mm howitzers and five 122mm howitzers , There are only 80 cannons in the entire division. Regardless of the number or the caliber of the cannons, Youn's infantry division is far from the opponent of the 1st Infantry Division of the Iberian Second Bastion.

Under Youn's order, his two independent artillery battalions pulled all the cannons into the artillery positions, and after 10 minutes of preparation, the shelling began. At the beginning, the 2nd Division of the 2nd Iberian Army did not find that the American artillery had entered the position, so it was caught off guard and was bombarded by the American artillery. Several cannons were lost, and the artillery was also killed. Dozens of people.

However, after the initial panic of the French artillery, the good luck of the American army was over. The artillery observation airship of the French army immediately reported the position of the American artillery positions. After receiving the data from the airship, the heavy artillery battalion of the French army immediately adjusted. The target of the bombardment was turned to the US artillery position. The artillery regiment continued to provide cover for the infantry attack.

As soon as the heavy artillery battalion of the French army showed its power, the American artillery fell silent after a few rounds of shelling. Under the bombardment of the French heavy artillery battalion, Youn's artillery suffered heavy losses. In just ten minutes, more than 20 cannons were blown up, causing hundreds of artillery casualties. Seeing this situation, You En didn't care about revenge, and quickly ordered the artillery to pull the cannon out of the artillery position again and hide it. He only has so many cannons in total. If he loses it now, how will he fight in future battles?

Compared with the French artillery, the American artillery is inherently insufficient. Not only can it not keep up with the French artillery in terms of the number and power of the cannons, but it cannot even compare with the French artillery in terms of the accuracy of the artillery. The airship stranded in the sky will pass the detailed data of the American artillery to the French artillery, so that they can make adjustments based on these data, thereby improving the accuracy of the artillery. Under such circumstances, it is basically impossible for the US artillery to compete with the French artillery.

The city walls of Sao Paulo are very tall, and it is basically impossible for the 1st Division of the French Iberian Second Army to break through the US military's defenses in a short period of time. Fortunately, only one regiment was sent out for a tentative attack this time, and they withdrew immediately after encountering some resistance. The entire regiment did not suffer much in this attack, and only lost about 100 people. However, the strength of St. Paul's city defense has been known by the French army, and the artillery also took advantage of this opportunity to severely hit the artillery and infantry of the US army, which can be regarded as overfulfilling the task.

After the offensive stopped, the commander of the 1st Division of the Iberian 2nd Army immediately gathered all the heads of the regiments together to discuss ways to break through the city defense of St. Paul.

There is actually no other way to deal with a fortified city like Sao Paulo. Fortunately, the French army has encountered too many such battles in decades of battles. While the walls of St. Paul's are very strong, that's in general. There are still many ways for the French army to break through the city walls of St. Paul. Among them, the most stupid way is to mobilize all heavy artillery to bombard a certain section of the city wall of St. Paul regardless of the cost. If this continues, even if St. Paul's city wall is strengthened, it will always be breached. Another method is to have combat engineers blast the city of St. Paul. This is also the most effective and easiest way. It's just that the U.S. military will definitely try to stop it at that time. In that case, the combat engineers of the French army will definitely suffer heavy losses. The entire 1st Infantry Division of the 2nd Iberian Army also has only 1 combat engineer battalion. Usually, I am very reluctant to use it. If it is all consumed here, then the commander of the 1st Infantry Division will be so distressed to death.

For this reason, after discussion, the senior officers of the 1st Infantry Division of the Iberian 2nd Army decided to try the first method first. If the first method does not work, they will send combat engineers to blast.

Immediately after the meeting was over, everyone split up and got ready. Because the first method will definitely consume a lot of shells, they must move all the shells from the rear logistics troops to the front line as soon as possible. This process will take at least half a day. So, even if they attack Sao Paulo again, it will have to wait until tomorrow, the 12th.

While the 1st Infantry Division of the Iberian 2nd Army was discussing how to break through Sao Paulo, Eun was also discussing. It's just that the only one who discussed with him was his confidant Ketemara. The content of the discussion was not how to resist the French attack on St. Paul, but how to reduce the damage of his infantry division.

"Ketemara, have we counted our losses?" You En asked sullenly.

"General, the statistics have been calculated." Ketemara replied.

"How big is our loss?" You En asked.

Ketemara knew that Eun was only asking about the loss of the army, and he didn't care about the casualties of those marines and sailors! "General, in the morning's battle, we killed 1,405 people, seriously injured 654, and slightly injured 1,323. Among them, the slightly injured were able to continue fighting after treatment. Eighty percent of our soldiers who were killed or seriously injured were both It was caused by heavy French artillery fire," reported Ketemara.

Although he had predicted that the army that lost his own would suffer heavy casualties, Youn still did not expect that the number would be so huge. In just one morning, nearly a regiment of troops had been lost. He really couldn't imagine how his troops would resist if there were more such wars.

"Are those the casualties of the marines and sailors?" Youn asked.

"After verification, the combined casualties of the Marine Corps and sailors were less than 100," Ketemara said.

"What? Less than a hundred people. Damn it, I lost a regiment, but they only lost less than a hundred people?" You En's face was full of disbelief.

"It's true, General. From the beginning of the battle, the marines and sailors were all in hiding. When guarding St. Paul, it was our soldiers who fought~lightnovelpub.net~So our The loss is so great and the loss of Marines and sailors is so small," Ketemara explained.

"Damn it, those cowards. They hide and dare not participate in the battle. They are not worthy of being American soldiers at all. I must punish them." You En roared angrily. He seemed to have forgotten that when the battle was at its most intense, he himself was also hiding in the strongest anti-gun hole.

"General, but now is the time when the battle is fierce. If we punish the marines and sailors now, will it cause mutiny? In that case, we will be in trouble." Ketemara said.

After listening to Ketemara's words, Youn bowed his head and remained silent. yes! Now punishing those marines and sailors who are afraid of war will only arouse their resistance. If a serious mutiny breaks out, it will only make the French cheaper. However, it didn't take long before Eun came up with a brilliant idea.

"Ketemara, go and announce an order right away. From now on, if anyone in the Marine Corps or sailors dares to disobey the order and avoid the battle, he will be shot on the spot. And, a gendarmerie will be established to specialize Be responsible for this aspect. In addition, in future battles, the marines and sailors must be required to resist at the forefront, while our infantry divisions should try their best to preserve their strength." You En said with a sinister smile on his face.