Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 1889 Attack Frustrated
The cruelty of war is incomprehensible to ordinary people.

The living beings, like ducks in a slaughterhouse, died in pieces, with limbs flying all over the sky, spurting blood, and soldiers who were holding their stumps and howling in the next second. They were directly killed by stray bullets, and pieces of soldiers who were charging fell down like felled wheat. Even if they turned around and ran away, they could not escape the metal storm formed by the bullets.

In less than half a minute, the machine gun shooter who used burst fire may not have fired a box of ammunition, and the attacking force will be wiped out.

The crowd on the other side of the river lost their voices for a moment.

When the Michigan National Guard just opened fire, huge cheers and applause broke out on the other side of the river. Even though they are Brazilians, Victorians don’t want their homes to be destroyed by war, so it’s best to keep government troops out of Victoria. s Choice.

But at the moment when the gunfire was brilliant, the cheers stopped abruptly, and the onlookers felt as if they had been poured a basin of cold water on their heads, freezing to the bone.

The Michigan National Guard is indeed well-trained. After the gunfire stopped, no one came out to clean up the battlefield. If it wasn't for the messy corpses everywhere, it would be as if nothing just happened.

It wasn't that there were corpses all over the place, there were still people alive. A soldier whose leg was broken didn't die on the spot. He lay on the ground crying and wailing, hoping someone could save him. After the blood stained the ground under his body red, the wounded soldier I began to struggle to crawl towards the beach, crying and crying as I crawled, and the places I crawled were bright and dazzling.

The Michigan National Guard did not fire any shots.

The government army did not send anyone to meet him.

In the eyes of the officers and soldiers on both sides and the tens of thousands of onlookers on the other side of the river, the injuries crawled back bit by bit.

"God—someone save me—you devils—God will punish you—you all deserve hell—"

The cries of the wounded soldiers echoed over the city, their voices became lower and lower, their breaths became weaker and weaker, and finally disappeared.

Looking at the motionless wounded soldiers, the crowd couldn't help worrying even though they loved to watch the excitement.

Is he dead?

Or just comatose?
Whose son is he?

Whose husband is it?

Are his kids waiting for daddy to come home?

This is just a microcosm of countless tragedies.

War is not a dinner party, blood and death are the main theme.

Barreto's heart was as firm as iron, and he didn't care about this level of casualties at all.

After the failure of the first wave of attack, the government army quickly organized a second attack. This time, the number of troops participating in the attack increased to about one battalion, and they attacked in three directions. A company was arranged in the bushes opposite the seaside road After attracting the firepower of the defenders, the other two companies circled and outflanked, and the two destroyers also began to slowly approach the port, trying to approach and shoot to cover the attacking troops.

Sun Meng and his company had already retreated to the second line of defense to hide when the destroyer was preparing to shell. When William retreated, his backpack was so stuffed that the buttons could not be buttoned. William hesitated about the golden cross, and the soldier behind picked it up and handed it to William.

"You will die on this sooner or later—" Sun Meng was angry, it is rare to be so greedy for money.

"We became mercenaries just to get rich!" William was not ashamed, and if he didn't talk about money with the mercenaries, did he talk about feelings?

When passing the "little monster", Sun Meng patted the car body of the little monster, reminding Rex to retreat together.

"We haven't participated in the battle yet, so we just withdrew?" Martha looked enviously at William's backpack.

The lives of the rich are obviously more valuable than their property. Even if they pack up the gold and silver when they escape, it is inevitable that there will be omissions.

The mercenaries are all masters in search and looting. Banditry is like a sieve, and soldiers are like a grate. It is no joke, and they will gain more or less.

Martha has it herself, and he has a cashmere shawl he found in a nearby house under his buttocks, and he is going to take it back to southern Africa as a gift to his wife.

"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up—" Rex didn't hesitate. Although the "light cavalry" has armor, if it is directly hit by naval guns, it will be blown into scrap iron.

By this time the attacking force was ready and the destroyers began shelling.

However, the quality of the Brazilian sailors is obviously problematic. The first test-fired shell landed too close to the advance base on the beach, and almost exploded directly in the troops lined up to attack.

The attacking troops were taken aback. Both officers and soldiers jumped and cursed at the destroyer on the distant sea, and the onlookers on the other side of the river, who were quite serious just now, burst into laughter again.

This Nima is so joyful, no funny show is as good as this one.

With the landing point of the first shot as a reference, the next shelling will accurately land on the predetermined location.

The power of the 155mm naval gun is not bad. No matter how strong the civilian houses are, they are as fragile as paper in front of the naval guns.

This is also normal. The permanent fortifications that can withstand large-caliber naval guns, the thickness of the concrete on the top is one or two meters, and then several layers or even dozens of layers of sandbags are laid to strengthen the defense. The concrete on the top of the fortress of Liege is four meters. Thick, still unable to withstand the bombardment of large-caliber heavy artillery.

The destroyer's bombardment lasted for half an hour, and the shells it carried were almost exhausted before stopping.

After the shelling stopped, the offensive troops began to attack, and the knowledgeable onlookers immediately booed.

Attack after bombardment was the way of fighting when the last world war broke out.

In the middle and late stages of the First World War, the infantry and artillery coordination had reached a considerable height. After the artillery firepower struck, the firepower began to extend. At this time, the infantry began to attack and was still within the cover of the artillery.

The ultimate form of infantry coordination is that the infantry marches forward on the bombing point of the artillery shells. Before the defenders can react, the position has already been captured.

At this time, it would be better if there were tanks involved. The infantry hid behind the tanks and launched an attack, which could minimize casualties.

The Brazilian government army does not have tanks, and the training of infantry and artillery coordination is probably not carried out at ordinary times, especially if this is a coordinated operation between infantry and naval artillery. It is cross-armed. The Southern African National Defense Forces may not dare to play it. The Brazilian government army We can only honestly use this kind of tactical combat 20 years ago.

Compared with the Brazilian government army, the mercenaries of the Umbrella Company have been active in any corner of the world these years. Veterans like Sun Meng and William have participated in countless battles. As soon as the shelling stopped, Sun Meng and William led the troops at the fastest speed. speed back to the position.

At this time, the attacking government troops were still blowing their whistles to organize their formation.

That's right, in Brazil in 1931, the thin red line crowd tactics were still used, and more complicated tactics could not be played, nor would they.

But the human sea tactics are really death in the face of the modern defense system.

As soon as the roundabout attacking troops set off, a lot of grenades hit their heads and faces, and the crowd turned into a mess. Some surviving soldiers even jumped into the Santa Maria River in a panic, and the onlookers were once again eye-opened.

The troops that attracted fire from the front also suffered heavy casualties. I don't know how the Brazilian military government usually trains the troops. The officer who directed the attack probably thought that the bushes could provide the best cover for the attacking troops, so they didn't have to worry about the bullets of the defensive troops.

As a result, a shuttle of bullets swept over, and all kinds of soldiers standing and squatting suffered heavy casualties.

Some soldiers pretended to be clever and hid behind trees, but they still couldn't escape the shooting of rifles. Unless it was a hundred-year-old tree with a diameter of one or two meters, it would not be able to withstand the attack of bullets.

Compared with the previous attack, this attack lasted longer, but it still did not escape the fate of failure.

This made Barreto, who had been using a telescope to observe the battle on the sea in the distance, look livid.

"Order the troops to withdraw. The enemy facing us is a well-trained force, so we need more careful planning, and perhaps more heavy weapons—" Colonel Harrison from the United States looked dignified, Brazil The new combat effectiveness of the National Guard far exceeded Colonel Harrison's previous estimates.

This is mainly a problem with the reference object.

Before launching the offensive, Colonel Harrison used the combat effectiveness of the Brazilian military government troops as a reference to measure the combat effectiveness of the Michigan National Guard.

In Colonel Harrison's opinion, even if the combat effectiveness of the Mi State National Guard trained by the Umbrella Company is a little stronger than that of the Brazilian military government, it will not be much stronger. The full score is 70 points. Guard max [-].
It now appears that the Brazilian military government will definitely fail, with a maximum score of 40 out of [-].

For the Michigan National Guard, the full score of 80 is probably at least [-].
60 and 70 can still fight, but the difference between 40 and 80 is too much. The crushing gap is reflected in the fate of being slaughtered on the battlefield.

"Order the troops to withdraw." Barreto gritted his teeth. The military government's troops have limited landing capabilities, and so far the landing troops are no more than one regiment. Now that they are fighting so badly, the morale of the troops must have been seriously affected, and it is meaningless to continue fighting.

Unless Barreto has the ability to change the situation and win quickly.

Apparently Barreto didn't.

"Colonel, I hope you can come up with a new plan as soon as possible. We must win in the shortest possible time—" Barreto was in a bad mood. The longer the war dragged on, the worse it would be for the military government.

Colonel Harrison frowned. This battle was too suffocating. For the government fleet, the only advantage was the large-caliber naval guns, but they couldn't be used. Colonel Harrison needed time to think about how to make a comeback against the wind. .

Of course, there are ways to do it. Harrison believes that if the US military fights this battle, the situation should be much better.

It's a pity that the U.S. military cannot directly participate in the war, and the quality of the Brazilian government army——

It's really tough.

(End of this chapter)