The war between the Ming Dynasty and Brazil seemed to be destined to end from the beginning. While the battle was going on in the Mato Grosso region in northern Paraguay, the real battle was in the south, in Uruguay.
After the fall of Florida City, the Third Army commanded by Liang Wu finally arrived at the city of Montevideo. From the moment the troops arrived at the city, the battle broke out immediately. Fifty thousand Ming troops surrounded the city of Montevideo.
Got up.
"beep……"
The shrill and soul-stirring heavy artillery shells continued to pierce the sky, the roar like a steam locomotive shook the sky, and the violent explosions caused waves of earth shaking and mountain shaking, accompanied by black smoke clouds hundreds of meters high in the sky.
This is a 280mm rifled siege gun transferred by the Ming Dynasty army. In order to conquer the Brazilian army's defense line, especially several fortresses outside Montevideo, the Third Army obtained 38 heavy siege mortars.
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Since September 1st, these heavy artillery, in conjunction with hundreds of field guns and mortars, have been firing deadly shells outside Montevideo.
On Brazil outside Montevideo, black smoke pillars continued to explode, and the sky was dyed black with gunpowder smoke. With the roar of heavy artillery, the seemingly solid fortress was razed to the ground. The once solid fortress was razed to the ground.
The fortress was bombarded and reduced to rubble.
In the violent explosion, many Brazilian soldiers were blown into the sky along with the trenches and fortifications. However, although the trenches were destroyed in the violent explosion, the Ming army did not launch an attack.
"Sir, according to the airship's aerial reconnaissance, after three days of shelling, Montevideo's outer positions have been basically destroyed. It is estimated that the casualties caused by the shelling to the defenders should exceed 10,000. It is almost time to attack.
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Facing the staff report, Liang Wu, who was standing in front of the map and staring at the map, just shook his head casually and said.
"It's not time yet, continue the bombardment!"
When he finished speaking, he added.
"Artillery shells are too expensive. Coordinate the airship troops, use bombs or incendiary bombs. I will plow the Brazilian defense line at least twice."
"yes!"
After the staff officer exited the office, Lin Wei, the chief of staff of the Third Army, smiled.
"Deren, I'm afraid this type of attack will cost a lot of money. We have fired hundreds of thousands of artillery shells in the past few days. Even on a per-capita basis, the Montevideo defenders have fired two artillery shells per capita.
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"So what?"
Liang Wu said with a smile.
"There are more than 63,000 Brazilian troops in Montevideo. We only have 50,000. We need to be stable in fighting. We will continue to bomb for a few more days. When they only have 30,000 left, we will fight again, so that the blood of our brothers can be shed less.
Some, of course..."
Liang Wu lowered his voice and said.
"The most important thing is to kill more people. There are nearly 50,000 locally recruited Uruguayans in the Brazilian army. If one more person is killed on the battlefield, in the future... there will be one less person here!"
Liang Wu took out a cigarette from the cigarette case and raised his eyebrows.
"Changing the cage for a bird. I, Ming Dynasty, have to do this if we want to gain a foothold here. After all, it is always good for us Chinese to lose one Hispanic. For non-my race, the fewer the better..."
"Sir, these words are what the two of us talk about in private, but we cannot say them to the outside world. After all, all people in the empire are equal!"
"Haha, those are just what politicians say. We are soldiers, we just have to do it in our own way."
The only solution is to use shelling!
Shelling!
It wasn't just the bombardment. As the bombardment continued, the Ming Dynasty's airship troops were dispatched.
Dozens of airships took off from the airship field on the Uruguay River and went straight to Montevideo. These airships maintained a flying altitude of 1,200 meters as in the past. When the huge group of airships approached Montevideo, the Brazilian officers and soldiers guarding the defense line immediately
The low roar of the engine was heard.
"Airship...airship..."
People screamed in horror, and the people who were originally guarding the trenches hid in the bunkers on one side of the trenches. They were naturally afraid of the airships, because many of them had witnessed with their own eyes how the Brazilian fleet was destroyed.
Even the armored battleships can be destroyed, let alone them?
While people were hiding in the bunker, the bombsighter on the airship had already aimed at the target on the ground, and then pressed the bomb release button. The bombs weighing 100 kilograms in the airship immediately roared down.
"God bless……"
While the people in the bunker were praying in fear, the whistling sound of the bomb above their heads came closer and closer. Just a few seconds later, the bomb exploded directly. However, there was no violent explosion as imagined, but a sudden explosion.
A ball of flames that was a hundred meters long spread across the ground like a fire dragon, jumping into the trenches and igniting the wooden walls on both sides of the trenches. Some bombs fell directly into the trenches and jumped out of the trenches.
A fire dragon hundreds of meters long, the flames swallowed up everything in an instant.
This is an incendiary bomb!
This kind of incendiary bomb is unique to the Ming Dynasty. Some natural rubber is added to gasoline to turn it into napalm. Its power is amazing, both in terms of arson ability and lethality against exposed targets.
Although the Brazilian soldiers hid in the bunker, the incendiary bombs seemed to be unable to cause any damage to the bunker, but the napalm incendiary bomb burned for up to ten minutes. After the explosion, the napalm splashed around because of its strong adhesion.
Will stick to any object and burn.
Any trench that was ignited by incendiary bombs was engulfed in a thousand-degree fire. For the soldiers in the bunker, the most terrifying thing was not the high temperature, but the air! When the fire burned, it would deplete the air in the bunker, leaving
The Brazilian soldiers in the bunker were suffocating, while
There was also a large amount of smoke pouring into the bunker. Amidst the suffocating smoke caused by the high temperature and the thin air, the Brazilian soldiers all screamed in terror. However, it only took a moment for them to be covered in sweat.
Some people fell down, and when some people who couldn't breathe tried to escape, the fire outside immediately devoured their bodies.
There were screams, cries, and even more desperate screams. Although the napalm bombs did not destroy the fortifications, the fire claimed many lives.
When the fire slowly extinguished, the wooden planks on both sides of the trench walls had been burned away. The fire burned for more than an hour. When the fire was extinguished, the lucky ones who survived all looked at them in horror.
All around - in each bunker, there are piles of corpses. They are all soldiers who suffocated to death in the fire. They are either crowded at the entrance of the bunker or deep inside the bunker. Some of them are desperate.
Grabbing their own necks, some people still stick their mouths to the ground until they die, trying to suck some air or cool air from the ground.
There was even a smell of barbecue in the air, and some bunkers turned into ovens in the blazing fire. The people in the bunkers were like pieces of meat, cooked by the high-temperature air.
It's just that this smell is like a nightmare to the surviving Brazilians. Although many of them liked eating barbecue in the past, now they smell the tangy barbecue smell and lie down like crazy.