Four hundred and fiftieth eight chapters Villarrica next
"Major Barrows seems incompetent as a battalion commander!"
"Yes, the general should promote a dedicated and brave officer to the position of commander of the Sixth Battalion."
A group of soldiers happily joked about Major Burroughs' scandal. Amidst the laughter, the happy and relaxed atmosphere was ruined by a piece of bad news.
"The general issued an order. The Fourth Regiment, Sixth Regiment, Artillery Regiment, and Cavalry Company are to launch a full-scale attack on the Villarrica position before eight o'clock this evening! Our company is also in the offensive troop sequence."
"What? Didn't the general just order us to repair where we are? Why did he suddenly change the order?"
"General Rodriguez gave the order directly to the general. The general does not dare to disobey General Rodriguez's order!"
"What terrible news!"
A group of soldiers who had been chatting leisurely just now changed their expressions after hearing the order to attack. Many of them cursed with accents from various places in their mouths, venting their nervousness and fear before the war by swearing loudly.
At 7:45 in the evening, the Brazilian troops who received the order to attack reluctantly left the camp and set off in the direction of the Villarrica position under the urging of middle-level officers.
Men neighed, horses roared, and the noise continued. When the Brazilian army arrived within the attack range of Villarrica's forward position, they were greeted by a heavy rain of rifle bullets and artillery shells.
"Not good! The battalion commander was hit!"
A Brazilian soldier shouted loudly, and then other soldiers saw an officer standing behind the attacking formation, who was unlucky enough to be directly hit by a shell.
"It's over, the battalion commander must be dead."
"Yes, if you are directly hit by a cannonball, you will definitely not survive."
Seeing the battalion commander being killed by an artillery shell, several soldiers who were lying behind bushes to take shelter were both frightened and thankful.
"Asshole! Keep attacking! Bancroft, Grit, and Bartholomew, you three rush out first! Notify us after you find a hidden attack position!"
The battalion commander died in battle, and another veteran captain quickly took over the command of his unit, and then ordered a few stagnant soldiers!
"Asshole! Why us again? Why don't you hand over the task to others? Is this how you become the acting battalion commander!"
"You also called us bastards! You are so brave, why don't you rush up yourself!
What does this mean! You bastard! What qualifications do you have to be the captain?"
The three Bancrofts cursed in a low voice while obeying the orders of the acting battalion commander honestly and crawling forward cautiously.
"Grit, Bartholomew, look, our front right is a blind spot for the enemy. There is a big tree there. It is safer for us to hide under the big tree!"
Bancroft leaned forward and whispered.
"But the acting battalion commander's order was to approach the enemy's forward position. The location of the big tree was nearly 70 meters away from our attack route. Although we were safe under the big tree, we also violated the acting battalion commander's order.
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"His orders are for us to die! If you want to lie in the churchyard, just obey that bastard's orders!"
"No, I don't want to die! The bronzes we hid in Mauricio City haven't been taken out yet! It's not worth dying now!"
"Yes, we can't die in vain! Let that bastard's order go to hell! It's important to save our lives first, and we can consider other things after this battle is over!"
Several soldiers discussed in low voices and quickly reached an agreement on how to avoid dangers on the battlefield. Then, the three of them took advantage of the cover of night to slowly deviate from the firefighting area in the center of the battlefield and turned towards the big tree on the other side of the battlefield.
Bullets and artillery shells were constantly flying back and forth on the battlefield. The violent explosions of artillery shells sounded far or near in the surrounding area, and the bright light produced by the explosion divided the combat area into a slaughterhouse where night and day intertwined.
The life of a single soldier is obviously fragile and insignificant in the entire battlefield. Row after row of Brazilian soldiers, threatened by the muzzle of the military police, rushed nervously to the forward position, and then fell down row after row under fierce fire.
Down.
The battle lasted until 8:46 in the evening. Within the forward attack range of various positions in Villarrica, the corpses of Brazilian soldiers were piled up layer after layer. Only more than half an hour had passed, and the Brazilian army continued to attack.
During the attack, more than 500 troops were killed or injured.
He had no scruples when plundering ordinary Paraguayan people, but when Lieutenant General Rodriguez's attack order was issued again, Major General Getulio had to use all the main forces of the 9th Division to consume for the sake of his political future.
Go on a huge offensive battle.
The war was intense. With its superior strength, the Brazilian army, after suffering more than 500 casualties, still persisted in launching an attack on the Mbokayadi position. In the forward fighting area, they personally experienced the new Han rifles.
After being overwhelmed by the powerful lethality of machine guns and other weapons, ordinary Brazilian soldiers lost the courage to continue the attack. Some Brazilian soldiers who were frightened by the tragic deaths of their own soldiers were no longer willing to do so despite the threats from the military police and the supervisory team.
Take a step forward.
The fourth battalion goes forward! Forward! Forward--forward--"
A mid-level Brazilian officer raised his pistol and issued several orders one after another. However, no movement was seen from the soldiers behind him. All the soldiers were hesitant. No one was willing to engage in a futile attack and lost their lives in vain.
The atmosphere on the battlefield instantly solidified! Seeing that all the soldiers did not obey his orders, the Brazilian officer cursed angrily: "What are you bastards doing? Didn't you hear my order? Why didn't you charge forward!"
"The enemy's heavy machine gun firepower is too fierce. Without artillery suppression, we can't rush forward at all!"
"Excuses! They are all cowardly excuses. The medical soldiers from the third battalion of the Fourth Regiment dare to pick up their guns and attack! The medical soldiers are not afraid! What are you afraid of?"
"The Fourth Regiment and the Third Battalion have artillery support, but we don't."
A soldier muttered softly.
"That's enough! You cowards! Stop making any excuses for your cowardice! Attack immediately!"
The Brazilian officer became angry and threatened loudly.
"Sir, there is a sneak attack!"
In the looming firelight, several vague figures suddenly appeared in the sight of the Brazilian soldiers.
"Enemy attack, take cover!"
Hearing the reminder from his soldiers, the officer who was still full of anger just now seemed to have changed into a different person in an instant, decisively getting down on all fours and lying on the ground.
"It's Lieutenant Orger of the Sixth Regiment."
The distance got closer and a soldier spoke out.
"Where is your commander?"
"I'm here!" the Brazilian officer quickly stood up from the ground and said with an awkward expression on his face.
"General Getulio ordered that the fourth battalion return to the camp to repair for two hours, and Major Engrit's troops will take over your offensive mission."
"Okay, after Major Engrit's troops arrive, I will lead the troops back to the camp for repairs."......
"Based on the fighting situation in the forward positions, the Brazilian army has put its main attack direction in the small town of Mbokayadi. It is roughly estimated that the enemy has invested about 7,000 troops in the front line of Mbokayadi."
At the Villarica Station, Zhang Wenlian, commander of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Mixed Brigade, stood in the temporary headquarters and said: "Our army has nearly 2,000 troops defending in the direction of Mbokayadi. In terms of the strength comparison of the frontal defensive positions, the Brazilian army
It has an absolute advantage in terms of quantity.”
"The Brazilian army probably ignored the direction of Twiquari and only focused on the frontal position."
Zhou Liying, commander of the 75mm Artillery Battalion, pondered: "If this is possible, then it would be meaningless to divide the advance troops into two groups and deploy the fifth battalion, engineer battalion and other troops in the direction of Twikwari."
"Based on the intensity of the Brazilian army's attack, it is speculated that the commander of the Brazilian army on the opposite side should have been under the pressure of military orders from the upper-level command organization, so he hastily assembled the main forces and launched a large-scale attack at night."
"The Brazilians are competing with us for time. They want to take advantage of their military strength to regain control of the Biarica Station from us."
Li Jitai, commander of the brigade reconnaissance battalion, agreed: "The Brazilian army has formed an absolute strength advantage over our army in the direction of Mbocadia. If our army defends the Mbocadia position with its current strength, although there is a high probability
It can repel the enemy's offensive, but it may also cost more than 500 troops.
Therefore, I think that when the troops in the direction of Twikwari are idle, it is better to mobilize some troops to support the direction of Mbokayadi, and then cooperate with the relatively abundant troops to use the night as a cover to launch a direct attack on the enemy.
Countercharge, disrupt the offensive deployment of the Brazilian army, and try to buy as much time as possible for the arrival of follow-up reinforcements."
"The total number of Brazilian advance offensive troops is about 10,000, and the number of enemy troops currently appearing within the front-line forward positions of our army is about 7,000. Calculated based on the marching speed of the Brazilian army, if they move to the direction of Tewiquari, compare from the flanks
The attack on Yarica takes about 3 hours. 3 hours is enough for the Brazilian army to complete the military change of the main attack direction. However, within the 3-hour time frame, it is difficult for our army to accurately grasp the changes in the Brazilian army's attack direction.
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Zhang Wenlian still insisted on his opinion: "The purpose of our army is to ensure the safety of Biari truck station. The troops in the direction of Twikwari cannot be easily mobilized. However, pure passive defense is not in line with our army's combat policy."
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According to the suggestions made by Battalion Commanders Zhou and Li just now, we used the darkness as a cover and took advantage of the pause in the Brazilian army's offensive to dispatch troops to launch a counterattack against the enemy at the front in order to disrupt the enemy's combat plan.
On the other hand, several capable assault teams were dispatched to break through the enemy's defense lines to detect the specific location of the Brazilian army's artillery, so as to create favorable conditions for our army's artillery cluster to destroy the enemy's artillery."
Zhang Wenlian's counterattack plan combined the suggestions put forward by several major commanders. Although the overall strategy was conservative, in terms of specific tactical counterattacks, it still had the common offensive nature of the Han army.
The counterattack plan formulated based on the changes in battlefield conditions was unanimously approved by several major military officers. Three hours later, at 11:08 in the evening, after a round of artillery attack, about 600 soldiers were attacked by Mbokayadi's forward position.
The soldiers poured out from several forward positions and pointed directly at the Brazilian army on the other side of the front line.
Raging artillery fire, machine gun spray, and the firepower advantage of new rifles, the Brazilian soldiers who were already in a state of high mental stress when they suffered a sudden blow, even with an absolute advantage in strength, were still in a state of fear.
Break down and run away.
The counterattack turned into a rout. More than 600 soldiers took advantage of the darkness to chase more than 7,000 Brazilian soldiers until 12:17 midnight, when the offensive momentum of the counterattack troops declined and they took the initiative to break away from contact with the Brazilian army.
, the Brazilian army was able to stabilize its position.
At 7:10 the next morning, after experiencing the shock of the night last night, the Brazilian army had just breathed a sigh of relief. Then it was hit by a precise attack from the Han artillery group. The artillery offensive lasted for about 21 minutes. Twenty-one
Minutes later, most of the 24 medium-sized artillery pieces of the entire artillery regiment of the Brazilian army under the command of Getulio were destroyed, leaving only seven pieces of artillery that had not been hit by artillery fire at all.
The artillery regiment that supported the firepower unit suffered a heavy blow, and the Brazilian 9th Division lost the firepower to contain the artillery strikes of the Han defenders. Therefore, between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. on September 16, the Brazilian army forcefully supported
The four attacks launched by the Han Dynasty all failed due to powerful blows from the Han defenders.
