Later, frontline engineers were asked to temporarily design a flamethrower so that soldiers could carry fuel and spit fire. This device was very useful in this kind of offensive and solid battle, but it was very dangerous when used. If the flamethrower accidentally breathed himself
It will turn into coke...
In battle, the traditional rifle barrel was too long and inconvenient to use. They simply borrowed the cavalry's lance. The cavalry's lance had a shorter barrel. Some countries also called it a carbine!
Later, the army also acquired the automatic pistols developed by the military specifically for tank soldiers and pilots. After adding a grip bracket, it could be used as a submachine pistol. This directly prompted the domestic development of specialized submachine guns, and in a very short period of time
Within a short period of time, several designs of submachine guns were completed. These submachine guns were urgently produced in small quantities and then flown directly over to the frontline troops for testing.
After all, only the soldiers on the front line have a say in whether it works or not.
Front-line commanders also began to think about more suitable infantry tactics and began to advocate heavy firepower infantry units.
This battle for the Western Highlands of Whale Harbor City lasted for more than twenty days!
In more than twenty days, the army and navy of the Daheng Empire fired countless artillery shells, and even many artillery pieces were stripped of their rifling and scrapped on the spot. More than 300 tanks and thousands of other types of armored vehicles were lost.
There were more than 30,000 casualties, of which at least 8,000 were killed!
but!
The soldiers of the Daheng Empire Army still planted the peony flag on the western highlands of Whale Harbor City!
With the loss of the high ground to the west of the city, the Krul defenders in Whale Harbor felt desperate when they saw a large number of warships from the Daheng Empire Navy appearing out of sight.
There are thirteen battleships outside Whale Harbor alone, as well as more than forty cruisers and destroyers, covering almost the entire sea outside Whale Harbor!
Although they wanted to continue to resist at first, as shells with a caliber of more than 300 mm fell on the port and the city, they raised the white flag just one day later.
The power of large-caliber naval guns is simply not something that ordinary construction works in urban areas, let alone human power, can resist.
On October 27, the 150,000 defenders in Whale Harbor City announced their surrender!
The 150,000 garrison in Whale Harbor announced their surrender, which was expected.
The winner of the Battle of Whale Harbor was actually decided at the end of the Battle of the Highlands west of the city.
Even though both sides still have a large number of troops fighting in the urban area, in fact both sides know that the focus of the battle is not in the urban area, because the Daheng Empire army troops, relying solely on their own firepower, are actually very difficult to eliminate opponents in urban areas with complex terrain. Even if they can
, and will also pay a huge price.
But once the high ground to the west of the city is taken, with the arrival of naval gun support firepower, the city will turn into ruins, and the defenders will be unable to stop it.
In addition, this is also related to the defenders being trapped in the isolated city!
The defenders in the city also knew that their navy had been defeated. Not to mention Whale Harbor, the entire Dongji Island had become an isolated island, and it was impossible for them to obtain any supplies from the mainland.
Although there are a lot of weapons and ammunition in the Whale Harbor, the food reserves are not enough. After all, almost all the Kruls have never imagined that one day their navy will be defeated in a decisive battle and will be unable to maintain the sea supply line.
There are so many people in Whale Harbor that the food consumption is huge.
There were originally more than 100,000 civilians in the city, and there were even more troops stationed there, totaling more than 200,000 people. The food consumed by these people every day was a huge number.
Even if the Daheng people don't take the initiative to attack, their food supply will not last for half a year.
Although the ammunition reserve is large, it cannot withstand the fierce attack of the Daheng people!
The Daheng people attacked fiercely and fired out a lot of ammunition. As the defenders, the Kruls also had to fire out a lot of ammunition if they wanted to block the Daheng people's attack.
You can't stop the Daheng people's attack with a fire stick!
Without the barrages and the intensive shelling, those Hengbarbarians would have rushed forward!
In such a high-intensity battle, their ammunition reserves are depleted very quickly.
The situation was already very bad. After the high ground in the west of the city was lost, the morale in the city instantly dropped a lot, and then when a large number of Daheng warships began to bombard the city indiscriminately.
The dozen or so mid-level and senior generals in the city's garrison finally couldn't bear the pressure of sitting back and watching a large number of soldiers and civilians in the city die from naval gunfire, and finally announced their surrender!
If they don't surrender, according to the Daheng Empire Navy's bombardment plan, they are prepared to fight here for half a month!
There are the Fourth Mobile Fleet and the Sixth Mobile Fleet taking turns to execute, and one fleet fights for seven days!
The indiscriminate bombing that lasted for half a month turned Whale Harbor into ruins!
Anyway, what the Daheng people want is not this city, not even the equipment in the port. What the Daheng people want is just the natural harbor in the Whale Harbor... until it dies, it will be a piece of flat land in the port area.
It doesn't matter if all the others are smashed.
Even if the defenders in the city don't surrender, they can't hold on and survive in this tiny place.
The final result may be that more than 300,000 soldiers and civilians will be wiped out...
Now that they have chosen to surrender, the attacking Daheng Army breathed a sigh of relief.
The look in the eyes towards the navy was a little better. This time, the navy thugs finally did some personnel work and did not waste so much military expenditure every year.
Speaking of military expenditures, many senior army generals on Dongji Island have been thinking about coming up with many so-called new weapons research and development equipment plans. Regardless of whether these new equipment plans are easy to use, they must first make a plan to get the funds.
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After all, if the army doesn't spend it, the navy will spend it all.
Speaking of which, the Daheng Army has actually had very strong opinions on the Navy in recent years.
When Daheng was unified, the navy did nothing...
However, after reunification, the navy's military expenditures have increased year by year. Now, the navy's military expenditures have exceeded those of the army.
This made the Army very unhappy!
In the past few years, the Army has actually been looking for a sense of presence. In the previous Heng'ao War, the Army held its breath and through a clean war, it greatly relieved the Orissa Empire.
But, with the end of the Heng'ao War and the collapse of the Orissa Empire, the empire once again turned its strategic focus to the navy...
There is nothing we can do about it. Although the enemies of the Daheng Empire are all overseas, the navy is not strong enough to even get out.
Although many generals in the army have opinions, it's hard to say anything.
This time in the attack on Dongji Island, the army's top brass was determined to fight beautifully and not let the navy take the lead.
In particular, the navy fought so beautifully in the Great Battle of Dongji Island, which put the army generals under tremendous pressure.
Therefore, during the Battle of Whale Harbor on Dongji Island, the Army seemed to be fighting to the death, but in fact it mobilized a large number of army elites to find ways to improve while fighting, so that it was able to capture Whale Harbor in just a few months.
Although tens of thousands of people were killed or injured, this is already very rare.
If it were another army, they might not be able to capture Whale Harbor with hundreds of thousands of casualties.
Don't think that the Krul's Whale Harbor Fortress is just a toy.
These days, except for the Daheng Empire Army, no one can capture this fortress in a few months.
Because there is no other country that can, like the Daheng Empire, specifically and have the ability to build an artificial port for landing in order to attack Whale Harbor, and then urgently reconstruct the West Wei Port on the west side of Whale Harbor.
In just half a month, Xiwei Port, a dilapidated small port without almost any modern port equipment, was transformed into a large modern port that can provide rapid loading and unloading operations for large cargo ships.
Thousands of ships of various types travel between the mainland, the East China Sea, and Dongji Island.
In this way, there were hundreds of thousands of troops, thousands of artillery pieces, a large number of heavy artillery, and thousands of tanks of various types.
Except for the Daheng Empire, no other country can organize such a large-scale offensive on Dongji Island.