The sun never sets in America

Chapter 112
In mid-July 1840, in Torreon, a city in central Mexico, a war concerning the fate of China and Mexico was slowly unfolding...

This game will also establish a new hegemon in western North America. If any party wins, the prestige of its country will be unimaginably improved, and its international status will also be improved again.

Once this war is lost, it can be said to be a disaster for the Han State or the Republic of Mexico.

Therefore, for both countries, no one has any retreat from this war.

This is even more true for the newly established country of Han. The victory of this war is the ladder for Han to become a powerful country. Once it fails, although it will not return to the Liujiapu period, it basically represents In the next few years, or even for a long time, Han will be unable to expand outward, and may even be threatened by Mexico, and most likely, the United States.

After all, although the Han Dynasty is now in northern Mexico, it only occupies marginal areas such as Arizona and Nevada. For New Mexico and other places, it delivers captured Mexican weapons to the local Indians to let them resist the white colonists.

But this does not mean that after the victory of this war, the Han army will not appear in this area. Therefore, not only Britain and France outside the region are paying attention to this war, but even the United States is also paying close attention to it.

The future national strategic policy can be determined at any time based on the situation of the war.

Even South American countries are paying attention to this war. This war has transcended the scope of the two countries and is an unprecedented event in the Americas! !
"Quick, adjust the muzzle..." On a high ground to the west of Torreon, the artillery regiment under the Yingyang Brigade was setting up an artillery position.

According to the earliest reorganization plan, the artillery regiment affiliated to a main brigade had a total of 81 artillery pieces of various types, but only one artillery battalion with 27 artillery pieces remained on this position.

Due to the limitations of the battlefield, most of the artillery of an artillery regiment must be placed on the front line as close artillery support. As for the artillery positions on this highland, they mainly take advantage of the high terrain and can shoot down. Enemy troops in the rear.

This can be regarded as the advantage of occupying the home court. Otherwise, why would the Mexican army be so anxious to capture Torreon before the Han army? This is actually the reason.

"Send all the artillery shells up." The artillery battalion commander directed the heavy soldiers carrying the artillery shells from below and put the artillery shells into the holes prepared in advance.

These holes are not far from the muzzle of the artillery. In addition to making it easier to obtain them nearby, the most important thing is to prevent enemy shells from hitting them and causing explosions, which will eventually cause losses to the Han artillery.

"How is the data measurement??" the artillery battalion commander asked an artilleryman who was doing calculations with a pen and paper.

"Report to the battalion commander, everything is normal, but if it were in a war, it might not be as good a position as it is now." The young artillery sergeant who was making calculations put down his pen and looked at the artillery battalion commander with his fists in his hands and replied.

"You, boy, are the best in mathematics in our battalion. You have already said so. What else can I say?" The artillery battalion commander said with some satisfaction as he looked at the dense mathematical formulas and geometric patterns drawn in the hands of the young noncommissioned officer.

The young sergeant smiled shyly, but he was already very happy.

Artillery is a complex branch of arms. A qualified artilleryman is by no means as simple as imagined. It is as simple as setting up a gun and loading it.

Whether it is the adjustment of shooting accuracy, the shooting angle, or even the judgment of shooting direction, it is crucial.

The above also involves measurement subjects such as mathematics and geometry. Especially in this era without precision ranging instruments, the accuracy of a cannon basically depends on the personal quality and experience of the artilleryman.

So in this era, the artilleryman is the real artilleryman. After all, in an era that requires physical sight and mental arithmetic, the accuracy of artillery fire depends entirely on the ability of the artillery.

Among all the arms of the Han Dynasty, the artillery had the highest technical content. Even the cavalry, which was the most difficult to train, was ranked behind the artillery.

Among the Han Army Schools, the artillery department has the longest semester and the most training.

Artillerymen who performed well in the assessment often received higher military ranks and were promoted at a much higher rate than infantry and cavalry after joining the army. From this, we can also see how high the pay for Han artillerymen was.

When the Han army goes to war, the first priority is artillery and formations. The requirement for artillery is to be fast, accurate and ruthless! !

It requires fast reloading and accurate shelling.

The infantry is the queue, which requires the queue to be arranged in order and to enforce orders and prohibitions to ensure that orders issued by superiors can be carried out more quickly and resolutely during wartime.

In addition, it is the bayonet, which requires the bayonet to see red, stab fiercely, and move forward bravely.

It can be said that the Han Army's fighting style is actually very simple, which is artillery bombardment, gun battle duel, and the final bayonet finish.

It is absolutely correct to say that it is a three-axe.

But just such a three-blade axe, the Mexican army was beaten and scurried away like a bereaved dog.

In war, those seemingly complicated and gorgeous tactics are actually of no use. In a real war, whoever’s tactics are more concise and the people below can execute them more resolutely will win. This is different from the ingenious tactics in novels. , it has nothing to do with it.

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In a hilly area in Torreon, an army of ten thousand people, flying the Mexican flag, was marching in an orderly manner.

But if you look carefully, you will find that this army looks orderly, but in fact it is very chaotic inside, with troops under different flags mixed together.

There was even a scene of two troops from different places marching together.

I don’t know what kind of problems will arise if a war breaks out at this time.

In the center of this team is a group of officers on horseback, headed by Percival, the commander of this army called the First Legion.

Posifa graduated from the Mexican Army School and has served in the Mexican Army for more than 20 years. He can be said to be one of the most prestigious generals in the Mexican Army.

Because of this, the main offensive task fell on him.

At this time, he was surrounded by more than a dozen officers, who were praising him. Although Posifah smiled on the surface, he was actually very worried in his heart.

After all, can a group of troops pulled here and there from all over Mexico and not fully integrated yet really be able to defeat the wolf-like and tiger-like pagans of the Han country? ?
Posifa did not have any confidence to defeat the Han army.

But he couldn't express any of these thoughts, he could only hide them deeply in his heart.

After all, the so-called commander and supreme commander of the First Army cannot say in front of all the soldiers that we cannot win this battle, so we should go back as soon as possible.

So even if he was scared in his heart, on the surface, Posifa had to adopt an attitude that he was not afraid of the Han army and was sure to defeat the Han army.

In other places, there are also several Mexican troops marching.

The entire Mexican army of 1 was divided into four formations. Except for Commander Morant's [-]-strong Central Army, there were armies of [-] in the other three directions.

And they all have a common direction, which is to fight a decisive battle between Torreon and the Han army. In order to prevent the Han army from avoiding the battle and escaping, the Mexicans did not even prepare reserves in the rear.

It immediately surrounded Torreon on three sides.

The entire front line, even at the longest point, is more than ten kilometers long, which shows the scale of this war.

The tense atmosphere of the war has passed like this for a few days. The reason why no war broke out within these few days is because both sides are still mainly testing, hoping to control the war situation and go to their own advantage. Caught in a war with no idea of ​​time or even how to deal with it.

But such a temptation was a temporary status after all. With the harassment of cavalry from the Han Kingdom, this war inevitably broke out.

The war broke out at two o'clock in the afternoon, a time when the sun was shining brightly.

A war broke out due to a simple confrontation between a regiment under the Iron Guards Brigade and a brigade of the Mexican Army.

There are only about 2000 people in a Mexican brigade, which is about the same strength as a regiment under the Han Dynasty's main brigade.

Boom...boom...

Scattered artillery shells hit the center of the confrontation between the two armies. The two sides continued to set off bursts of artillery fire and smoke rising in the middle distance.

Both sides came and went, and soon the area in the middle was plowed over and over again by shells coming back and forth. The ground was bare, and even the grass was blown into ashes.

And all this is just to show the other party how powerful one's side is.

"Move forward..." The officer standing on one side of the team was directing the military formation on the side to move forward.

tread... tread...

The sound of dense footsteps was not loud in this area, but it was a battlefield full of smoke. "Move forward..." The Mexican officer on the opposite side also issued the same instruction.

"Stop..."

When the distance between the two sides was about 100 meters, the Han army officer shouted loudly, and in an instant, orders and prohibitions were issued. The military formation of thousands of people looked like one person.

The Mexican soldiers on the opposite side did not have such military discipline. Most of them continued to advance when the Mexican officer gave the order to stop. It was not until the frustrated Mexican officer shouted a few more times that the team stopped.

The Han army on the opposite side had already raised its guns and was ready to shoot.

"Fire..." The Han officer pulled out the saber from his waist, pointed to the opposite side, and gave the order to fire.

bang... bang...

A series of gunshots rang out, and the Mexican soldiers who were still forming a team on the opposite side fell to the ground.

When the Mexicans finally reacted to look at the guns, in just ten seconds, the Han soldiers on the opposite side had fired almost four rows of guns. The speed of shooting and changing rows was so fast that the Mexican officers observing on the opposite side were secretly stunned. .

Comparing Mexico's own army with the Han army opposite, there is absolutely no comparison. The quality of both sides is like the difference between the regular army and the guerrillas...

bang... bang...

The Mexicans fought back. Although not as dense as the opposite Han army, due to the tactic of lining up to kill, even so, they still knocked down one-third of the Han infantry in the front row.

But soon, the Han army adjusted. The remaining soldiers in the first row immediately squatted down, and the soldiers in the rear immediately pulled the triggers on the Mexicans.

bang... bang...

boom……

There were several more rounds of shooting, and among them, there was also intensive artillery sound. On such a battlefield, what is most important is not tactics, but twenty courage.

Especially at the end of the fight, the Han army and the Mexican army on the opposite side have entered a typical brave game.

In this game, death is inevitable, and whoever can maintain casualties until the end is the winner.

There is no doubt that the Mexican army on the opposite side is not as good as the Han army in terms of durability in a tough battle.

Row it...

"what……"

"I won't fight..."

As the Mexican soldiers in the rear began to drop their weapons and flee in all directions, the outcome of this encounter was already determined.

boom……

"Load bayonets!!" When the Mexican army was completely defeated, the Han officer who had been directing the shooting immediately gave the order to load bayonets.

swoosh...

In an instant, a series of bayonets sounded, like a rhythmic music full of death.

"kill……"

"Kill the ink thief..."

Following the order, Han soldiers were everywhere on the battlefield, chasing the Mexican army with bayonets drawn.

stab...

A snow-white shining bayonet was inserted into the back of the fleeing Mexican soldier, stabbing him to the point of death.

Although some Mexican soldiers took up arms to resist, they were soon told by a group of three Han soldiers with bayonets who was the real master of this battlefield.

This battle lasted intermittently for an hour and a half because of the pursuit of deserters. The final result was that the Han Infantry Regiment annihilated more than 400 Mexican brigade-level troops at the cost of [-] casualties.

Of course, most of the so-called annihilations were actually prisoners. After all, if more than 2000 people were killed, it would be impossible for the Han army to lose only more than 400 people.

After all, I'm not a fool, just standing there and being killed.

When the victory report came back to the rear, Liu Peng immediately ordered people to start a huge propaganda machine, focusing on the discussion that Mexican soldiers were inferior to Han soldiers, and with the same number of troops, the Mexicans were no match for the Han people.

Liu Peng was quite good. In the hands of those who spread rumors, he even changed the battle into a Han infantry battalion defeating a Mexican brigade to show the strength of the Han army. A few hundred people Can defeat a Mexican brigade of 2000 men.

Although it is a bit exaggerated, the record is there. Because this encounter happened so suddenly, even the Mexicans themselves did not understand the true nature of the matter.

And those Mexican soldiers who ran back naturally wanted to brag when they mentioned the Han army, to show that the failure of this war was not because they did not work hard or sacrifice their lives, but because they really could not defeat it... …

There were even some deserters who made extremely panic remarks that the Han army was invincible if it was less than [-] soldiers.

It caused great panic among the Mexican coalition forces.

Some Mexican troops from remote areas even directly refused to participate in the war, euphemistically saying that they would lose if they fought, so it was better not to fight.

"What a bullshit fight...it has disgraced the Mexicans!!" In the Mexican rear headquarters, the commander of the Mexican coalition forces, Morant, was scolding the officers in the headquarters.

It was really frustrating to be beaten this time. An army of the same size was wiped out so easily, and only so many people came back. This is not a shame, what is this? ?

The Mexican officers around them lowered their heads tacitly, as if it was none of their business.

"It seems we can't drag it on like this any longer." Morant scolded for a while, calmed down, and then said with a complicated expression.

"We shouldn't continue to test like this, otherwise we will be cut off for a while and a brigade will be wiped out by the other side. After a while, how many troops will we have available?" Morant is very clear about the current situation. If we test each other as we are now, Momojiji's fighting style is tantamount to falling into the trap of those Han pagans.

Allowing them to calmly organize superior forces and eliminate Mexican armies one after another. This is undoubtedly detrimental to Mexico, which hopes to win the final victory! !

"From today on, you are not allowed to cancel the fight with the other party. You only need to send scouts to investigate." Morant thought for a while, and then issued an order to strictly observe. After all, if he continues to mess around like this, sooner or later the entire army will be defeated. morale is completely lost.

"In three days, assemble the army..." Morant continued to issue military orders to all Mexican officers present to assemble the army.

"Fight these damn Han infidels to the death!!" Morant ordered with a crazy expression.

"Yes, Commander!!"

Although the other Mexican officers around were uneasy and a little afraid of going to war with the Han army, at this time, they had no choice but to agree.

"Hey..." Looking at the officers on the field with different thoughts, Morant certainly understood what they were thinking. They were simply afraid of going to war with the Han army. After all, these heretics were really capable of fighting.

If we say that when the rebellion in California was successful, the Mexicans thought it was just a momentary negligence and that they could be wiped out as long as they organized a large army. But after the establishment of the Han Dynasty, when the Mexicans learned the news, they only felt a sense of humiliation and a sense of being abandoned. The feeling of humiliation from the pagans who were weaker than themselves and even looked down upon.

But when the Han Dynasty raided Mexico, captured Arizona, Nevada, and even invaded the Mexican mainland, the Mexicans' view of the Han Dynasty changed.

From looking down upon it, it has become an evil country that makes Mexicans a little afraid when they mention Han.

These are the reactions of the people. For the Mexican army, the Han country, or the Han army, is completely their nightmare.

Because they had lost too many times at the hands of the Han army. If they lost too much, they would naturally lose confidence. What's more, they had just lost a brigade, which once again hit the Mexicans' self-confidence.

(End of this chapter)