Chapter 335: The Nanhua Army is the Devil (Third update, please subscribe)
This should be the most violent bombardment in human history!
The shelling was not just one round, but a ten-minute artillery preparation!
For this artillery preparation, the combat staff carefully planned the amount of artillery shells to be used, with a specific rate of fire of two rounds per minute for field artillery, six rounds per minute for 120mm mortars, and three rounds per minute for 150mm mortars. As for the Type 64 and Type 68 mortars, it was one round every three minutes.
In just ten minutes, nearly hundreds of tons of steel explosives fell inside and outside the designated Afghan fortress.
The so-called field fortress was like a piece of paper and could withstand no attack in the face of such fierce artillery fire.
"boom……"
Thousands of artillery shells fell on the fortress, easily destroying the field fortress that had taken tens of thousands of Argentines nearly a month to build. The violent explosion flattened the trenches and the artillery positions into ruins. Dust and smoke accompanied by steel fragments raged on the ground. The whistling steel fragments reaped lives nearby. The shock waves generated by the explosion shattered the internal organs of many people, who still appeared intact when they died.
These poor people even died silently like this.
The air was filled with the pungent smell of gunpowder and thick smoke, and the people alive in the trenches were choked and coughed loudly.
These Argentines, whether they were Spanish, Italian, or German, had long been frightened by the fierce bombardment that they had never seen before. The frightened people huddled in the trenches with their heads in their hands.
They cried, trembled, coughed, and many of them howled in despair. They had never imagined that war would be so cruel. Perhaps they had imagined that on the battlefield, they would line up and shoot with rifles again and again, either hitting the enemy or being hit, but what about now?
They were blown up into the sky before they even saw the enemy. There were broken limbs everywhere around them. People they once knew were blown up while they were talking. They had never experienced such a mental blow before. Everyone was shrouded in unprecedented fear. Such a war was hopeless. The reason they were hopeless was that each of them knew very well that their flesh and blood could not resist the artillery fire. At this time, they seemed to understand what cannon fodder was.
Of course, if there is such a term in Spanish.
Amid the desperate screams of the people, the earth was shaking violently. The dust and blood raised by the broken limbs from the sky turned into bloody rain. The red blood drops fell on the faces and bodies of the soldiers, along with the broken limbs, smelly internal organs and intestines, which only intensified their fear and made them scream in despair and terror.
At this moment, these white people who once thought they were superior were left with only boundless fear. Despair took over their entire bodies and minds.
"Oh my God!"
General Adolf Alsina was not awakened from his sleep, he had not slept at all. I don't know if it was his military intuition that made him go deep into the South China Army and launch an attack in the next few days.
After several days of anxiety, General Adolf Alsina breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the explosion from the front line, but at the same time he felt another kind of fear!
It's fear!
Even though he was several kilometers away, he could see the huge columns of smoke. Even the twilight could not block those huge clouds of smoke.
"General, General, did you see it? That's it, that's it, the witch's scream, the devil's scream..."
Colonel Marino, who was awakened from his sleep, pointed to the distance and shouted excitedly.
"I told you, I told you, they have a secret weapon that can destroy everything..."
Marino is a Chilean officer who has personally experienced the near-devastating impact of heavy mortars in Chillán. Even now, he sometimes dreams of witches' screams followed by devastating explosions in his nightmares.
And now, the nightmare appeared before his eyes again, even more terrifying and frightening than the last time.
"I see, Colonel. What then? Will they keep bombarding like this?"
General Adolfo Alsina asked.
Although he looked very calm on the surface, he was also full of fear in his heart. What he feared was not the gunfire, but the change in the way of war.
"No, General."
Marino said, shaking his head.
"It's just the beginning. After a while, they will rush over like devils from hell. They will shout, blow whistles, and blow bugles. At the same time, they will continue to fire and bombard us with cannons. God, they are simply a group of devils. Only devils would do this..."
Marino screamed a little excitedly. For them, this way of war was undoubtedly unfamiliar.
They must be unfamiliar with it. After all, this is the way of fighting in World War I.
To put it simply, it means artillery bombardment and infantry attack!
Europeans did not start trying this trick until the Franco-Prussian War, did not make it to the forefront until the late 19th century, and did not complete it until World War I.
Now faced with such a dimensionality reduction attack, no matter whether it is the generals or the soldiers, they are all a little confused and have no idea what kind of fighting style this is.
Suddenly the heavy bombardment stopped.
In an instant, the world seemed to have returned to peace again.
The carefully constructed defense system on the west side of Trent Lauken has been completely destroyed!
The collapsed trenches were filled with people's desperate, terrified screams and the heart-wrenching cries of the wounded, echoing in the trenches, artillery batteries and bunkers of the fortress.
Now it was no longer a fortress, but a bloody hell filled with death. The field fortress defense works that the engineers had painstakingly built were destroyed under the devastating artillery fire, and it was completely changed - bomb craters several meters deep, soil overturned by shells, collapsed trenches, burning logs. In addition, there were weapons, ammunition boxes, and blown-up barbed wire scattered around, and in this hell, there were only corpses and death everywhere.
Among the broken weapons, body fragments can be seen everywhere, and broken limbs and arms are scattered everywhere. There are not many complete bodies at all. After the nearly devastating bombardment, the dead people only left a few charred limbs or bloody pieces of flesh. Many people did not even leave anything behind. They disappeared completely under the destructive artillery fire.
In this hell, it seemed that only some smelly internal organs were left! The artillery fire turned the entire earth into the surface of the moon, and the mud and water oozing out of the huge crater mixed with the body fragments turned red.
destroy!
After the nearly devastating artillery fire, the seemingly complete fortress or defense line had completely disappeared. No complete trenches could be found, nor could any bunkers, artillery batteries or the like. All of these had been destroyed.
"Run! It's all over..."
Those who survived were screaming and crying. No one wanted to stay in such hell. But when they tried to escape, they encountered officers coming from the rear. They were driven back to the battlefield by the officers.
"Damn cowards, cowards, the South Chinamen are coming, pick up your rifles, load your bayonets, and go kill those damn yellow people..."
The officers' words were still full of contempt for the yellow race. In their eyes, the Chinese and the Indians were just as vulnerable. Their sense of superiority made them unwilling to face failure like this. Although they were afraid, they still drove those poor people to the battlefield like crazy.
Driven by the officers, the escapees returned to the battlefield once again, but what was waiting for them?
It's death!
It's just death!
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