Chapter 509: Killing someone with a knife

"General, the French are starting to attack." Ketmara rushed into the anti-aircraft shelter and reported to Yoon.

"What? Let's get into the position quickly. You must resist the attack of the French." Yoon ordered in a hurry. He had only been the commander of the city defense of St. Paul for a day, and he didn't want to be driven out as soon as he took office.

Under Eun's order, the US team rushed out of the anti-aircraft artillery hole in a mess, picked up their weapons and walked up the city wall, and began to counter the French team's attack. In this process, the French artillery was given a great opportunity to strike. The shells continued to explode among the US soldiers, and the scattered shrapnel were reaping life unscrupulously. The broken limbs were everywhere, and the sound of gunfire, cannons and the painful screams of American soldiers formed a hell on earth.

Seeing his soldiers constantly being killed by the French artillery fire, Yoon's eyes were red. These were his old foundation. Without them, his power could not be guaranteed at all. At the same time, he was extremely resentful to the French team.

"Damn Ketmara, order the artillery to pull out the cannons and launch a counterattack." Yoon ordered like crazy. Now he was almost losing his mind, and the blood of the soldiers gradually submerged his mind.

"But General, the gap between our artillery and the French artillery is really too big. Now we are in an artillery battle with the French, and we are simply seeking death." Ketmala hesitated for a moment and suggested.

"I know what to do, you don't need to teach me. You just need to execute the command." Yoon stared at Ketmala with red eyes, making his heart shudder.

"Okay, general, I'll go and pass the order immediately." Ketmala said tremblingly. He knew that Yoon was in a state of rage and did nothing at all. If he angered Yoon, it would be considered unlucky.

Yoon's infantry division has only two artillery battalions, one of which is a light artillery battalion equipped with only 60 75mm field artillery, and the other is a heavy artillery battalion equipped with 15 105mm howitzers and 5 122mm howitzers. The entire division has only 80 cannons. Whether in terms of number or caliber, Yoon's infantry division is far from the opponent of the 2nd Iberian Infantry Division.

Under Yoon's order, his two ** artillery battalions pulled all the cannons into the artillery position. After 10 minutes of preparation, the artillery began. At the beginning, the 2nd Division of the 2nd Iberian Army did not find that the US artillery had entered the position, so unexpectedly, they were bombarded by the US artillery, and several artillery pieces were lost. Dozens of artillery were also killed by the bombardment.

However, after the French artillery had spent the first panic, the good luck of the US military ended. The French artillery observation airship immediately reported the location of the US artillery positions. After receiving the data sent back by the airship, the French heavy artillery battalion immediately adjusted. The target of the artillery was turned to the US artillery positions. The artillery regiment continued to provide cover for the infantry's attack.

As soon as the French heavy artillery battalion showed its power, the US artillery was silent after a few rounds of artillery bombardment. Under the bombardment of the French heavy artillery battalion, Yoon's artillery suffered heavy losses. In just over ten minutes, more than 20 cannons were blown up, and hundreds of artillery casualties were killed and killed. Seeing this situation, Yoon didn't care about revenge and quickly ordered the artillery to pull the cannons out of the artillery position again and hide it. He had only such a few cannons in total. If he had lost it now, how would he fight in the future?

Compared with the French artillery, the US artillery is inherently insufficient. Not only is the number and power of artillery not comparable to that of the French artillery, but the accuracy of artillery can not be compared with that of the French artillery. The airships stranded in the sky will pass the detailed data of the US artillery to the French artillery, allowing them to adjust with these data to improve the accuracy of the artillery. In this case, it is basically impossible for the US artillery to compete with the French artillery.

The walls of Sao Paulo are very tall. It is basically impossible for the 1st Division of the 2nd Iberian Army of France to break through the US military's city defense in a short period of time. Fortunately, only one regiment was sent to conduct a tentative attack this time, and after encountering some resistance, it immediately retreated. The entire regiment suffered not much loss in this attack, and only lost about 100 people. However, Sao Paulo's city defense strength has been known by the French army, and the artillery also took this opportunity to attack the US artillery and infantry, which can be regarded as exceeding the task.

After the attack stopped, the commander of the 1st Division of the 2nd Iberian Army immediately gathered all the commanders of the regiments to discuss ways to break through the city defense of Sao Paulo.

There is actually no other way to deal with a strong city like Saint Paul. Fortunately, the French team has encountered too many such battles in decades of war. Although the walls of Saint Paul are very strong, this is generally the case. The French army still has many ways to break Saint Paul's walls. Among them, the stupidest way is to mobilize all heavy artillery and bombard a certain section of the city walls of Saint Paul at any cost. If this continues, even if the walls of Saint Paul are reinforced, they will always be

Another method is to have combat engineers blast the city of Sao Paulo. This is also the most effective and simplest way. However, the US military will definitely try hard to stop it at that time. In that case, the French combat engineers will definitely suffer heavy losses. The entire 1st Infantry Division of the 2nd Iberian Army also has only one combat engineer battalion. It is usually very reluctant to use it. If it is consumed here, it will not be heartbroken by the commander of the 1st Infantry Division.

To this end, after discussion, the senior officers of the 1st Infantry Division of the 2nd Iberian Army decided to try the first method first. If the first method does not work, then send combat engineers to blast.

After the meeting, everyone immediately prepared separately. Because the first method must consume a large amount of shells, they must transport all the shells from the rear baggage troops to the front line as soon as possible. This process will take at least half a day. Therefore, even if they attack Sao Paulo again, they will have to wait until tomorrow, that is, the 12th.

When the 1st Infantry Division of the 2nd Iberian Army was discussing how to break through Sao Paulo, Yoon was also discussing. However, the only one who was discussing with him was his confidant Ketmara. The discussion was not about how to resist the French attack on Sao Paulo, but how to reduce the damage of his infantry division.

"Ketmala, have our losses counted?" Yoon asked with a gloomy face.

"General, it has been counted." Ketmala replied.

"How much is our loss?" Yoon asked.

Ketmara knew that Yoon was only asking about the losses of the army. As for the casualties of the Marines and sailors, he would not care! "General, in the morning's battle, we killed a total of 1,405 people, 654 people seriously injured, and 1,323 people slightly injured. Among them, the minor injured can continue to fight after treatment. Eighty percent of the soldiers we killed and seriously injured were caused by the fierce artillery fire of the French army." Ketmara reported.

Although he had expected that his army would suffer heavy casualties, Yoon still did not expect that this number would be so huge. He had lost nearly a regiment of troops in just one morning. He really couldn't imagine how his troops would resist such a war if it happened a few more times.

"Why were the casualties of Marines and sailors?" Yoon asked.

"After verification, the casualties of the Marine Corps and the sailors totaled less than 100 people," said Ketmala.

"What? Less than a hundred people. Damn, I lost a group, and they lost less than a hundred people?" Yoon looked in disbelief.

"This is true, General. From the beginning of the battle, the Marines and the Sailors all hid. When guarding St. Paul, we were all fighting our soldiers, so our losses were so great, and the losses of the Marines and the Sailors were so small." Ketmara explained.

"Damn it, those cowards. They were hiding and dared not participate in the battle. They were not worthy of being Americans at all, I must punish them." Yoon roared angrily. He seemed to have forgotten that when the battle was at its most intense, he himself was also hiding in the strongest anti-cannon hole.

"General, but now is the time for war. If we punish the Marines and sailors now, will it cause a mutiny? In that case, we will be in trouble." Ketmara said.

After hearing Ketmara's words, Yoon bowed his head and said nothing. Yes! Punishing those Marines and Sailors who are afraid of war will only cause their resistance. If a mutiny breaks out in some serious situations, it will only make the French cheaper. However, not long after, Yoon came up with a wonderful idea.
Chapter completed!