The military order was issued suddenly!
Immediately after receiving the order, Si Dongjie's Sixth Infantry Regiment crossed the trench. The engineers had already built a simple wooden bridge over the trench. Both infantry and carriages could easily cross the trench.
Cross the trench.
The troops crossed the trench very smoothly and encountered no resistance at all.
"Everyone speed up and try to reach Trent Lawn tomorrow. The ghost guy is waiting for us there!"
Trent Lawken is their target. According to the plan, they will arrive at their destination within two days and join forces with other troops.
It was not just the Sixth Regiment that crossed the trench. There were 20 infantry regiments in total. The troops were divided into three lines and pointed directly at Trent Lawken. If you look at it from the air, you can clearly see that the three lines of troops are like three sharp arrows.
Generally speaking, it refers directly to the fortress-like town.
Along the way, Si Dongjie and his comrades saw many vacant settlements. Those Argentines had either fled their homes or accepted conscription to join the army.
"Platoon leader, I heard that general mobilization has been carried out in Buenos Aires."
"so what?"
Si Dongjie snorted.
He had just been promoted to platoon leader, and he had an officer's unique leather satchel hanging around his waist. Although the platoon leader was not an officer, becoming a platoon leader meant that he had the opportunity to become deputy company commander. By that time, he would be an officer!
Ancestors bless you!
"It's just a few more shots."
As he spoke, he patted the Type 70 rifle on his shoulder.
"It's just a bunch of ghosts, no big deal."
Just a ghost!
"That's right, ghost guys are also human beings, they will die just like being shot, and ghost guys are still afraid of death!"
"The more ghosts mobilize, the more enemies we destroy, and the more military achievements we achieve! When the time comes, we will also get a bronze medal to hang on our chests."
"Then what kind of bronze medal is that? It's a military medal!"
"Yes, it's a military medal, let's get one too!"
There was a burst of laughter for a while, and amid the laughter, they continued to move forward.
The next morning, the vanguard arrived at Trent Lawn. What appeared in front of their sight was a fortress surrounded by barbed wire and trenches.
Barbed wire, trenches, artillery forts, bunkers.
Rifles, Gatling guns and mortars...
Whatever the South China Army has, the Argentine Army also has it. During the Civil War, South China may have made huge profits through arms smuggling, but it also caused an outflow of technology, from centrally fired copper shells to the Type 62 Spencer
Rifles, from grenades to mortars, from Gatling guns to live door rifles.
These weapons were continuously shipped to the Confederate States of America, that is, the Confederacy of the South. After the Northern Confederacy seized these weapons, they directly imitated them. After the war, both the North and the South chose to sell wars to foreign countries.
Surplus supplies and millions of light and heavy weapons used by infantry were sold to various countries. Because Argentina and Brazil were at war with Uruguay, they imported a large number of weapons. This directly led to the fact that the Argentine army faced by South China was actually a
An army equipped with a large number of Nanhua weapons.
Even as soon as the leading troops arrived at the front line and before they started digging fortifications, they were bombarded. Although the bombardment was generally accurate, Li Changchuan was startled by this audacious attack. With his steady personality, he immediately ordered the troops to attack Troon.
Fortifications were built and trenches were dug two kilometers west of Trentlauken. By the afternoon of that day, three armies had gathered in Trentlauken and surrounded the city from three sides.
"boom!"
Once again, the explosion of hundreds of pounds of artillery shells shook the earth, and also raised huge plumes of smoke near the trenches of the South China Army.
"It's the Dahlgren gun!"
Standing in the observation post, Li Changchuan said.
"Sir Sun, today's Argentine army is no better than in the past. In the past few years, they have purchased more than 300 Dahlgren guns from the United States. At least one-third of them are heavy guns between nine and ten inches, and they are all equipped with
After getting on the iron land gun mount, there were at least sixty such heavy guns in front of us, and their artillery fire was quite fierce..."
When mentioning the land battle gun mount, Li Changchuan's expression was a little complicated. The gun mount was obviously an invention of Nanhua - specifically sold to the Taiping Army. The Taiping Army needed to use the nine-inch Dahlgren gun to attack the city, so Nanhua's arsenal
That kind of heavy field gun mount was just designed.
I never thought that in just a few years, that kind of artillery mount would spread to other countries. During the Paraguay War, the Argentine and Brazilian armies used nine-inch or ten-inch field heavy artillery to bombard the Paraguayan army's defense lines many times.
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Well now, retribution fell on their side - the Argentines greeted the arrival of the South Chinese army with a bunch of cannons.
This is how things are in the world, and this may be called retaliation.
"When it comes to artillery, no one can match us!"
Sun Hu smiled.
"We are no longer interested in things like the Dahlgren gun. If it weren't for selling to Shaggy to make some money, the arsenal would probably not bother to produce that kind of front-loading cannon. They have cannons, and so do we, the ten-inch grenade
The cannon... is much more powerful than theirs!"
The ten-inch Krug gun is still the flagship product of Nanhua Arsenal!
Ten-inch Krug guns can be seen from warships to fortresses, and even armored trains are equipped with this powerful cannon. This cannon not only has a long range, but is also extremely powerful, with shells weighing 300 kilograms.
Above! Even the strongest fortress is vulnerable to it, but its use is also subject to great restrictions - railway!
The ten-inch Krupp gun was too heavy to be used in field battles. The only way was to install it on an armored train and use it as a train gun, and Nanhua did exactly that.
But the problem is, railways... are not available everywhere!
"The railway hasn't been built yet!"
When mentioning the ten-inch Krupp cannon, Li Changchuan naturally thought of the few armored trains in Nanhua. The armored trains were equipped with ten-inch Krupp cannons. But the railway had not yet been built to the front line, so how could the cannon reach the front line?
“It doesn’t have to be the railway!”
Sun Hu waved his hand and said.
"The 10-inch Krug gun has too many restrictions, and it can't be used without railways. But don't forget, we used the Type 64 mortar when we were in Shanxi. That thing is so powerful!"
Sun Hu sneered as he stared at the Argentinian defense line through the telescope.
"The purpose of this battle is to annihilate all the 40,000 Afghan troops here! The reason why we have delayed it until now is to allow them to mobilize as many troops as possible, and then annihilate them as much as possible! Only when the white ghosts die, can we
Okay white ghost!"
This chapter has been completed!