It is not difficult to find a pilot. There are many in Mobile who run this route. A local manager of the Yang Group came forward and quickly found them an experienced old captain. This sailor who survived the Battle of Mobile was very good.
were willing to serve these invaders. In fact, the entire population of Mobile generally showed a friendly side after discovering that these invaders landed and did not repeat the atrocities committed in the north.
This is not surprising, because the newly launched Voice of Liberty radio station in Texas has been advocating that the South should re-establish the Confederacy. In particular, it has exaggerated the atrocities of the Northern Army in the past, which has successfully aroused public sentiment in the southern states.
Painful memories, as Mobile was the most important naval battle battlefield in that war, such memories are naturally particularly profound. So after the initial fear, the resistance of the residents of this city disappeared immediately. Thinking about what they were doing
Many elderly people even came to warmly pat the shoulders of the Spanish boys to express their welcome to what the North did. Besides, most of the residents here are Hispanic, and many of them even speak Spanish. It is easy for the two sides to communicate with each other.
Find the topic.
The captain was named Morel. After understanding the draft depth of these behemoths in front of him, he immediately told Manuel clearly that they would have no problem even if they wanted to enter the Tombigbee River upstream. In this case, there was nothing to worry about.
Well, a brigade of Spanish troops was divided into ten landing ships and moved slowly along the winding channel of the Mobile River, directly to the rear of the US military. Wang Shizhen volunteered to follow the fleet because he was the proposer of this plan.
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Just after they left, the remaining main Spanish army also began to attack north.
The U.S. military's defense line is based on a small tributary of the Mobile River. It extends westward from the shallow water of this tributary to the railway coming from the northwest. Behind it is a small station, which is just outside the maximum range of naval guns.
, to hold this line of defense, it only takes one or two days to block the Spanish army. The nearest reinforcements can arrive. The US commander Brigadier General Black is still very confident about this. As a veteran who participated in the Cuban battlefield last time, he knows
He fully knows the power of machine guns and trench barbed wire. Although his machine guns are not many, they are the best Bofors machine guns, and there are also six Bofors 75 guns and six 82 mortars. It can be said that
The strength was sufficient, but the only thing that worried him was the Alabama National Guard.
The militiamen in these places are in a very bad mood right now. To be honest, he thinks it's mainly Sherman's fault. It's not that Sherman killed too many Southerners, but that he killed too few. He killed all the anarchists.
Then let the northerners take over their land. Now you don't have to be so worried. You know that the defenders of Fort Conde were almost forced out by them with bayonets. Aren't they just afraid of blowing up your houses? Why am I in Philadelphia?
If your home is bombed, you should remain intact?
"When the fight breaks out later, keep an eye on those Southerners, don't let them trick us." Brigadier General Black said to the adjutant beside him with a gloomy face. As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the enemy who was far away from here.
There seemed to be something reflecting light in the direction of the Mobile River, but it quickly disappeared behind the towering trees. He frowned and was slightly confused.
"Report to the general, the Spanish are coming!" At this time, a scout hurriedly ran over and jumped off his horse and said.
"Get ready to fight!" Brigadier General Black quickly put aside the doubts in his heart and shouted to the soldiers behind him. However, at this moment, a strange buzzing sound suddenly came from the sky. He raised his head and looked at the sky in shock.
A striking red biplane seaplane was slowly flying over. This sight immediately attracted the attention of the American soldiers who had seen the plane for the first time. These guys stood up in the trenches one by one and looked at this strange machine in conversation. They
But I don't know what it means when this thing comes flying.
Behind a small forest out of sight of the Americans, thirty-six Bofors 75 guns have been set up in a circular gun emplacement, with the muzzles raised high pointing to the sky. Several Spanish officers are correcting the map.
coordinates, following the order of one of the officers, one of the artillery was loaded immediately, and then the gunner pulled the gun rope, and a long flame instantly spurted out from the muzzle.
The sudden sound of breaking through the air made the US military who were watching the plane stunned for a moment, but then chaotic screams rang out: "Artillery fire, take cover quickly!"
With a bang, a ball of fire exploded a few hundred meters in front of the US military position. Then the aircraft in the sky sent back the coordinates of the landing point to the Chinese naval warship in the port. The communications troops on the warship then used flags to inform the Spanish on the shore.
The people quickly notified the artillery by phone. After getting the coordinates of the impact point, the Spanish artillery immediately readjusted. Then thirty-six cannons roared at the same time, and the explosion of fire immediately flooded the US defense line.
The expensive Bofors shells are as expensive as artillery. If it weren't for Yang Feng's loan restriction, he could only buy his arms. The Spanish government would never equip such luxury goods anyway, but luxury goods have the effect of luxury goods.
, even the 75-year-old cannon, the explosive power frightened those National Guardsmen who had never seen this thing before. The antimony and antimony charges were not comparable to nitrocellulose. As for picric acid, although it was more powerful, the explosive content in the shells
The paraffin isolation layer severely limits the amount of charge. In terms of power, this kind of artillery shell can be said to have reached the pinnacle of this era, not to mention that it is also mixed with aluminum powder.
The Alabama National Guardsmen lying in the trench were frightened by the huge explosion and screamed. The stirred up soil, gravel, and broken limbs kept falling. In less than ten minutes, these were just
The farmers, workers, and clerks who took up arms couldn't stand it any more. They rushed out of the trenches screaming one by one, dropped their weapons and fled from their posts like crazy.
"You bastards, you cowards, come back quickly!" Brigadier General Blake rushed out of the command post regardless of the shells constantly falling above his head, and shouted angrily while firing into the air.
No one paid attention to him at this time. These militiamen had no fighting will to begin with. When they first went to the battlefield, they were afraid that the enemy would destroy their homes just like they did in the north. As a result, they still haven’t seen Mobile fire, and they didn’t even see fire outside.
We didn’t even see the refugees fleeing, so we naturally knew that the coalition forces would not be as good in the south as they were in the north. In this case, who would be interested in fighting for their lives! Even the Alabama government was wavering during this time, not to mention these militiamen, Spanish
The human shelling had lasted just over twenty minutes, and the militiamen were almost gone.
Looking at the defeated militiamen, Brigadier General Black was filled with grief and anger. Unfortunately, there was nothing he could do. He knew that these militiamen could not deal with the federal army. One or two could try to suppress them and flee in large areas. If he dared to stop them, these people were really serious.
Those who dare to shoot at themselves don't expect them anyway. More than 10,000 soldiers under their own troops are enough. Amidst the explosion of artillery shells, a regiment of American troops quickly went over to fill the vacancies left by the militiamen, and then stood ready to wait.
Let the enemy troops come to your door.
Unfortunately, what they didn't know was that at this moment, another Spanish army arrived behind them first.
In the dense cotton fields, Wang Shizhen and four thousand Spanish soldiers crept forward cautiously. In front of them was the US artillery position. A battalion of artillerymen was idly looking at their own position that was flooded by artillery fire. It was not them.
They don't want to fight, but they don't know the location of the Spanish artillery at all. They don't have planes to observe them. Those cannons placed in the ring emplacement dug out seven kilometers away can only see a faint smoke from them.
It was impossible to aim at this point, so these artillerymen were waiting for the Spaniards to appear, and then shelled their infantry. Of course, they had no idea that there were a large number of Spaniards hiding in the cotton fields only a few hundred meters away from them.
The artillery position was defended by only about a battalion of infantry, two Bofors water-cooled machine guns, and four light machine guns. However, these people were lying behind the bunkers piled with sandbags and staring ahead, without noticing at all.
The enemy is approaching from behind.
Wang Shizhen, who has gained the trust of the Spanish army commander Brigadier General Franco, whispered: "Let your soldiers aim at the same target in groups of four, and the light machine gunners are also grouped into five light machine guns against one machine gun position. At the same time, all soldiers prepare
Good grenades. After the first round of shooting, everyone immediately rushes to the bombing distance as quickly as possible, and at the same time throws the grenade forward. The machine gunner should not move, continue to provide fire suppression, and do not let any enemy get close to those machine gun positions."
Franco nodded and motioned to the messenger next to him to go down and deliver the message.
The ordering soldier hesitated for a moment. Thousands of people were lying in the gaps between the cotton bushes. It was not easy to convey such a complicated order.
Wang Shizhen immediately understood his difficulty and pointed to the notebook in his hand.
The ordering soldier suddenly woke up and quickly copied dozens of orders with several surrounding staff officers. Then he crawled to the back and began to distribute them in the gaps, and then passed them forward.
Almost ten minutes later, the messenger came back to report that the order had been delivered. Wang Shizhen then knelt down on one knee with a rifle, poked his head out of the cotton bush, aimed the crosshair at the back of an American soldier, and then took a deep breath and exhaled.
He was so angry that he pulled the trigger. Just as the gunshot rang out, he yelled in Spanish: "Fire!"
Immediately afterwards, thousands of rifles opened fire at the same time, and dozens of light machine guns mounted on a mound behind also aimed at their own targets and sprayed out flames.
"Charge!" Wang Shizhen and Franco next to him issued the order at the same time, not even looking at the casualties of the American troops in front.
Thousands of Spanish soldiers jumped up at once, holding rifles and grenades in one hand, and ran forward wildly.
At this time, the U.S. military in front was stunned. The sudden and dense bullets from behind caused more than half of the soldiers to fall to their posts in an instant. Only one of the six machine gun positions was alive. Fortunately, they were well trained and the remaining soldiers were still alive.
The US military reacted as quickly as possible and turned around with screams. However, before they could see the enemy clearly, countless grenades were thrown down. (To be continued...)