Wild North America 1846

Chapter 354 City of Heroes
The bloody siege of Detroit has lasted to the ninth day. The Northern Corps never expected that the coastal artillery shattered the US military's defensive confidence, but the Detroit steel workers stood up again and became the backbone of the city's defense to the death.

It really is pressing the gourd to float the ladle, how evil!
Detroit has four large steel mills and more than 7.3 small and medium-sized steelmaking workshops, employing more than [-] people, accounting for more than half of the city's GDP. The Detroit United Steel Workers Federation is powerful and strongly xenophobic White groups.

After the city breaks
The Iron Workers Volunteer Militia fought bravely in the streets and alleys of Detroit. They did not receive formal military training, but relied on barricades and strong houses.

And the bloody battle of the iron workers' volunteer militia has inspired the bloodiness of [-] to [-] remaining US troops, actively cooperating with the militia to carry out urban warfare, which has brought great trouble to the Northern Army's offensive.

"Throw the No.17 stormtrooper into me, and charge again, damn it, what the hell." Colonel Fan Pengju gave the order with a livid face.

in front of him

It is a large and solid steel factory building. The walls were bombarded with large and small holes. The surrounding 200 meters is an open field. There are many corpses of attacking white soldiers lying here and there. More than 230 people have been killed or injured. , Still have not been able to win this solid position.

Colonel Fan Pengju was also ruthless, and ordered loudly; "Cover with artillery fire, concentrate your firepower to block the enemy's shooting point for me, and hit me hard."

In a blink of an eye, the sound of artillery and gunfire rang out.

More than 17 white cannon fodder belonging to the 130th Stormtrooper rushed out with their guns in their hands. Some of them were shot down by bullets, and the holes fired by the enemy would attract more bullets.

The blood visible to the naked eye suddenly appeared, and new soldiers appeared behind the enemy's shooting hole, and the counterattack was quite tenacious.

At the cost of almost 40 or 17 casualties, the [-]th Stormtrooper finally rushed to the edge of the factory building. They leaned against the wall full of holes, panting. Bai Yan's grenade was thrown into the hole beside him.

Seeing more than a dozen black grenades being thrown in, the soldiers of the U.S. Northern Army, who were stubbornly resisting, uttered strange screams of despair, and then a series of explosions sounded, and the powerful explosion shock wave sprayed flesh and blood fragments onto the wall. Small and incomplete holes.

"Leave me on..."

see this scene
Colonel Fan Peng waved his hand and led his soldiers to rush in. Then intermittent gunshots rang out, which lasted for about 40 minutes, until all the soldiers of the Northern Army hiding inside were killed without a single prisoner left.

Fighting to the present, both sides are red-eyed.

As soon as the attacking Datang Kingdom army caught any male whites, they immediately incorporated them into the cannon fodder stormtroopers and forced them to charge on the first line with guns.

Generally, such white stormtroopers form a team of 100 to 150 people, and 10 people make up a squad. The squad leader is a veteran white servant soldier, and only they are equipped with street fighting weapons such as grenades. Ordinary stormtrooper soldiers no.

During the battle, the white cannon fodder is in the front, the white squad leader is behind to supervise the battle, and a large number of Chinese soldiers are behind to provide fire support, follow up and expand the results of the battle at any time.

Colonel Fan Pengju's 502nd Division was divided into more than a dozen battalion-level units, and they were scattered all over the city to cooperate with the regular Chinese field divisions to fight. Now I don't know how much they have lost?
He himself had only one regiment of less than 700 people, and he lost more than 270 people just after attacking the strong building of the steel factory, so angry that he really wanted to scold his mother.

More than 440 white militiamen died in the battle just now. This large iron and steel factory building is about 130 meters long and 27 meters wide. There are quite a lot of large-scale iron-making equipment such as various blast furnaces.

Relying on complex factory equipment, these white soldiers hid in the dark and shot. They had to be dug out one by one like mice, and the battle losses would inevitably be greater.

"Reporting to the seat of the master, there is an urgent order from Shangfeng." The herald hurried over and handed over the order letter with both hands.

Colonel Fan Pengju took it over and took a look. Looking up, it was an order from the Second Army Command. The wax badge was intact, so he opened the envelope and unfolded the order inside to read.

Soon, a look of joy appeared on his face.

The 203rd Division captured a large warehouse in Detroit and seized a large amount of food and clothing, according to the confession of the white captive officer;
This is the largest material supply warehouse in Detroit, responsible for more than half of the material supply of the entire city's defenders, and it may be more than that now.

Because some scattered small and medium-sized warehouses lose food very quickly, they can't last a week if they are full.

The Corps Department has obtained this extremely valuable information as if it were a treasure, so it decided;
Except for the continuation of the battle to capture the port facilities, all other siege troops rested on the spot and established an unbreakable line of defense to prevent the US military from counterattacking, ensure that the existing occupied areas are connected into one piece, and implement a strict blockade against the stubborn white militiamen. No grain of grain is allowed to flow into the city.

If they have nothing to eat, let them gnaw on bricks and bark, and in the end there is only a dead end.

After reading Shangfeng's order, Colonel Fan Pengju felt a lot more relaxed from the bottom of his heart.

These Detroit steelworkers who vowed not to surrender are really difficult to deal with, even if they die, they will drag one or two backs, which made Colonel Fan Pengju truly realize the bloodiness of white men.

If the states along the eastern seaboard of the United States of America (northern) were like this, then the war would be impossible to fight.

For the first time, he felt the invisible pressure of the war was almost breathless. The siege battle was so brutal that almost every house and every building had to be fought over and over again, and countless lives were lost before his eyes.

In the 9-day bloody battle, even though a large number of white cannon fodder troops were used, the casualties of the Chinese officers and soldiers of the Northern Legion were more than 2. In addition to the losses in the battle, even if the white cannon fodder casualties were not counted, the Chinese officers and soldiers lost almost 7 people.

This is just a case of Detroit, which is a second-tier industrial city in the United States. What about first-tier New York, Philadelphia, and dozens of second-tier cities in the eastern coastal states?

If you want to capture it, I am afraid that 100 million troops will not be enough to consume, right?
After the order was communicated, the sound of guns that rang through the city of Detroit for 9 days and 9 nights suddenly fell silent, and there was a frightening silence.

Actually

Many white militia teams in downtown Detroit have run out of food. After nine days of bloody battles, the attacking Datang Kingdom army first cut off the supply of materials in the canal and lake area, especially the supply of food.

How long can scattered small and medium warehouses last?
Today, 2/3 of the city of Detroit is still in the hands of white militias. There are still nearly 10 volunteer militiamen of the Northern Army and Iron Workers, and there are 10,000+ elderly, weak, women and children. The food supply of so many people only depends on scattered small and medium-sized Most of the warehouse and household hoarding have already bottomed out.

The northern army's blockade was indeed vicious. After only one day of silence, driven by hunger, the northern army soldiers and white militiamen in the city launched a frenzied counterattack.

They have nothing to eat and drink, so rather than sit and wait to die, they might as well fight hard, maybe they can kill a piece of the sky.

And this kind of behavior is tantamount to suicide in front of the army of the Tang Kingdom who is waiting...

a few days later

The battlefield was full of gunpowder smoke, and the strong smell of blood made people want to vomit. Colonel Fan Pengju looked at the lying corpses in front of him with a stern expression, without showing any expression.

These white militiamen and northern army soldiers rushing out from all directions are like beggars, vainly charging the block tightly sealed off by the army of the Tang Kingdom, and then falling down under the blows of hot bullets one after another. Repeated many times.

after the battle
The soldiers drove the captured white men and women, and threw these bodies directly into the canal, because there were too many enemies killed, and there was no way to deal with them by burning, burying or other methods, only throwing them into the wide Detroit River.

The Detroit river is very fast, and there are a large number of corpses floating on the river, which will eventually enter Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie with the river water, and then become nourishment for fish.

No one knows how many bodies were thrown into the Detroit River. Anyway, in the next 10 years, the city of Detroit will not have the habit of eating fish, and no one wants to eat fish.

The blockade lasted for three weeks, and in the last week, almost no one came out. The whole city exuded a strong stench, and it was as quiet as a dead city.

Only then did Shangfeng lift the blockade order, and the troops were withdrawn from the city one after another to start a comprehensive rest. The clean-up work of the city was taken over by the local government, and some administrative officials had been sent over to take over the still intact industrial city.

Compared with the battered and tattered Chicago, the city of Detroit is mostly intact, but there is always a tragic atmosphere spreading.

Many years later, the United States of America (North) has always referred to Detroit as the "City of Sadness" and strongly urged the international community to investigate what the Tang Empire's troops did in this city.

The generals of the Tang Kingdom's army avoided talking about it, and when asked, they only said lightly; "This is an unquestionable battle of conquest, nothing more."

Many soldiers who had personally participated in the siege of Detroit had a deep memory of this bloody battle. One veteran wrote in his diary; "We smashed the Detroit fortress with amazingly powerful cannons. At that time, everyone Cheering, thinking it would be easy to win. In fact, it was the hardest battle we've ever fought, very bloody, very brutal..."

The bloody battle in Detroit also changed the views of many high-level generals of the Northern Legion. They no longer believed that whites were easy to conquer. The bloody battle that had lasted for four years proved that the Yankees really did not lack the spirit of sacrifice.

(End of this chapter)