Chapter 866 Daming Brand Beggar's Chicken (First update, please subscribe)
The war between Ming Dynasty and Brazil seemed to be doomed from the beginning. While the fighting was taking place in the Mato Grosso region in northern Paraguay, the real battle was taking place in the south, in Uruguay.
After the fall of Florida, the Third Army commanded by Liang Wu finally arrived at the city of Montevideo. From the moment the army arrived at the city, the battle broke out immediately. Fifty thousand Ming troops surrounded the city of Montevideo.
"beep……"
Shrill and soul-stirring heavy artillery shells continued to pierce the sky, the roar like a steam locomotive shook the sky, and the violent explosions brought waves of earthquakes and mountains, accompanied by black smoke clouds hundreds of meters high rising into the sky. This was a 280mm rifled siege cannon transferred by the Ming army. In order to conquer the Brazilian army's defense line, especially several fortresses outside Montevideo, the Third Army obtained 38 heavy siege mortars.
Starting from September 1, these heavy artillery, in coordination with hundreds of field guns and mortars, continuously fired deadly shells outside the city of Montevideo.
In Brazil outside the city of Montevideo, black smoke columns kept exploding, and the sky was dyed black by the smoke. With the roar of heavy artillery, the seemingly solid fortress was razed to the ground, and the once solid fortress was blown into ruins by the artillery attack.
In the violent explosion, many Brazilian soldiers were blown into the sky along with the trenches and fortifications. However, although the trenches were destroyed in the violent explosion, the Ming army did not launch an attack.
"Sir, according to the aerial reconnaissance of the airship, after three days of bombardment, the outer positions of Montevideo have basically been destroyed. It is estimated that the casualties of the defenders caused by the bombardment should exceed 10,000. It is almost time to attack."
Faced with the staff officer's report, Liang Wu, who was standing in front of the map and staring at it, just shook his head casually and said.
"It's not time yet, keep bombarding!"
As he finished speaking, he added.
"Artillery shells are too expensive. Coordinate with the airship troops and use bombs or incendiary bombs. I want to plow the Brazilian defense line at least twice more."
"yes!"
After the staff officer left the office, Lin Wei, the chief of staff of the Third Army, smiled.
"Deren, this kind of tactics will probably cost a lot of money. We have fired more than 100,000 shells in the past few days. Even if we count them by head, the Montevideo defenders have fired two shells per person."
"So what?"
Liang Wu said with a smile.
"There are more than 63,000 Brazilian troops in Montevideo, and we only have 50,000. We need to be steady in the war. Let's bomb them for a few more days until they have only 30,000 left. Then we can attack them. This way, less blood will be shed among our brothers. Of course..."
Liang Wu said in a low voice.
"The most important thing is to have more people die. Among the Brazilian army, there are nearly 50,000 Uruguayans who were conscripted locally. If we kill one more person on the battlefield, there will be one less person here in the future!"
Taking a cigarette out of the cigarette box, Liang Wu raised his eyebrows.
"If the Ming Dynasty wants to gain a foothold here, we must do this. After all, one less Hispanic person will always be good for us Chinese. The fewer people who are not of our race, the better..."
"Sir, these words are just between the two of us, and cannot be told to anyone else. After all, all people in the empire are equal!"
"Haha, those are just what politicians say. We are soldiers, so we just need to do it our own way."
What solution is there? Just bombardment!
Bombardment!
It was not just shelling. While the shelling continued, the Ming Dynasty's airship troops were dispatched.
Dozens of airships took off from the airship field on the banks of the Uruguay River and headed straight for Montevideo. These airships maintained a flight altitude of 1,200 meters as in the past. When the huge group of airships approached Montevideo, the Brazilian officers and soldiers guarding the defense line immediately heard the low roar of the engines.
"Airship...airship..."
People were screaming in fear. Those who were originally guarding in the trenches hid in the bunkers on one side of the trenches. They were naturally afraid of the airships, because many of them had witnessed how the Brazilian fleet was destroyed. If armored battleships could be destroyed, what about them?
While people were hiding in the bunkers, the bomb sight on the airship had already aimed at the target on the ground, and then pressed the bomb release button. Immediately, bombs weighing 100 kilograms in the airship whizzed down.
"God bless……"
While the people in the bunker were praying in fear, the whistling sound of bombs above their heads came closer and closer. After just a few seconds, the bombs exploded, but it was not as violent as imagined. Instead, it suddenly exploded into a ball of fire that was hundreds of meters long. The rising flames spread on the ground like a fire dragon, rushed into the trenches, and ignited the wooden walls on both sides of the trenches. Some bombs fell directly into the trenches, and a fire dragon hundreds of meters long rushed out of the trenches, and the flames instantly engulfed everything.
This is a firebomb!
This type of incendiary bomb is unique to the Ming Dynasty. Some natural rubber is added to gasoline to turn it into napalm. Its power is amazing, both in terms of arson ability and lethality to exposed targets.
Although the Brazilian soldiers hid in the bunkers and the incendiary bombs seemed unable to cause any damage to the bunkers, the napalm bombs burned for up to ten minutes. After the explosion, the napalm that flew everywhere would stick to any object and burn because of its strong adhesion.
All trenches that were set on fire by incendiary bombs were engulfed in flames as high as 1,000 degrees. For the soldiers in the bunkers, the most terrifying thing was not the high temperature, but the air! The burning fire would exhaust the air in the bunker, causing the Brazilian soldiers in the bunker to suffocate. At the same time,
A large amount of smoke poured into the bunker. In the scorching heat and suffocating smoke caused by the thin air, the Brazilian soldiers were all screaming in fear. However, in just a moment, they were covered in sweat and fell down one after another. When some people who were having difficulty breathing tried to escape, the fire outside immediately engulfed their bodies.
There were screams, cries, and more desperate screams. Although the napalm bombs did not destroy the fortifications, the fire claimed many lives.
By the time the fire slowly died down, the wooden boards fixing the trench walls on both sides had been burned away. The fire burned for more than an hour. When the fire died out, the lucky survivors all looked at their surroundings in horror - the bunkers were filled with corpses. Those were soldiers who suffocated to death in the fire. They were either crowded at the entrance of the bunker or in the depths of the bunker. Some of them grabbed their necks in despair, and some of them kept their mouths pressed to the ground until they died, trying to suck some air or cool air from the ground.
There was even a scent of barbecue in the air. Some of the bunkers turned into ovens in the raging fire, and the people in the bunkers were roasted by the high temperature air like pieces of meat.
However, this smell was like a nightmare to the surviving Brazilians. Although many of them loved eating barbecue in the past, they now vomited in the trenches like crazy when they smelled the aroma of barbecue...
(End of this chapter)
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