Chapter 108: Solving beachhead battles

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The Paraguay river has a wide channel and high water depth. However, compared with the vast sea, the movement space of iron armored ships is extremely limited. The width of more than one hundred meters is not enough to provide space for circuitous cover for Brazilian iron armored ships.
The muzzles of Chaoyang and Dawn turned, sending a round of salvo shells when the Brazilian iron armored ship was blocked by the chaotic allied ships.
Unexpected raids and pre-emptive strikes allowed the Chinese Independent Army to take the lead. At a distance of more than a hundred meters, the Brazilian iron armored ship became a live target for the novice test of the Chinese Independent Army navy, approaching two shells. The target of Zhong, a Brazilian navy soldier operating a warship on the river, heard two explosions in succession, and then fell to the ground under the impact of the fragments triggered by the shells. The two shells hit the turret and deck of the Zhong iron armored ship, and an artillery was The artillery shell overturned and lost its combat effectiveness, while the watchtower was penetrated by a large hole in the shell.
There was a mess on the Brazilian iron armored ship, and more than 20 soldiers were affected by the shells, which caused multiple injuries to the ground.
The surface of the Brazilian iron armoured ship was embarrassing. In fact, the core power system of the warship was not attacked. The entire warship still maintained most of its combat capabilities.
Early combat advantages did not come easily. While the Chaoyang and Dawn volleyed against Brazil's main iron armored ship, seven gunboats and hundreds of sailboats attacked. The Chinese Independent Army soldiers on board stood at the bow of the ship, holding hooks. Always ready for battle on the side.
Side-to-side combat is a typical fighting method in the sailing era. Many Pacific Peace veterans who have fought with the Qing Army along the Yangtze River have experience in side-to-side combat. Originally this type of combat has been eliminated from the battlefield in the West, but on the Paraguay The eliminated way of war has rediscovered its use.
The Paraguay River, which connects the Atlantic Ocean, gives the Brazilian navy the opportunity to enter Paraguay's inland, and also limits the ironclads fighting in the vast sea to the inland river.
The Brazilian armored ship knew that the enemy was heading towards itself, but it was difficult to avoid it effectively. In less than a minute, seven gunboats relying on steam as the first to reach the battlefield.
"Bang" a gunboat hit the Brazilian armored ship. The Chinese soldiers on the gunboat shook for a while, then flicked the hook rope, and climbed along the rope towards the ship.
"Quickly, hurried to the bow of the ship, not let them board the iron armored ship."
The Brazilian navy soldiers who escaped the shell attack quickly ran from the deck to the bow, and the soldiers under the bunker rushed to the deck mountain under the leadership of the officer to resist the attack by the Chinese Independent Army.
Seven gunboats approached the Brazilian armored ship almost at the same time. More than 210 Chinese soldiers landed around the warship respectively. Fierce fighting took place between the two soldiers at close range.
The head of the Brazilian iron armored ship was less than four meters from the surface of the gunboat. The Chinese soldiers and the Brazilian navy approached and fired. Within a few minutes, the number of casualties on both sides exceeded 200.
In order to capture the last ironclad ship of the Brazilian Navy, the first wave of Chinese soldiers attacked by gunboats caused more than half of the casualties. At the same time, the Brazilian navy soldiers suffered no less than the number of casualties. The Brazilian ironclad ship was full of three hundred. More than a dozen people lost their combat effectiveness, and more than a hundred people were killed or wounded in the side-to-side battle. Less than 150 soldiers were able to pick up weapons on the entire warship.
The heavy casualty ratio quickly swallowed the fighting will of the Brazilian soldiers on the iron armored ship. The gunboat surrounded the iron armored ship's attack. The warship sailing on traditional wind arrived a few minutes later. The three sail ships with a displacement of more than 2,000 tons contacted the Brazilian iron armored ship. The decks of the two warships were basically flat, and the Chinese soldiers, who had been prepared, crossed the gap where the warships contacted and rushed to the Brazilian armored ship.
The strength of the enemy and us is too large. Except for more than 30 soldiers who were killed on the Brazilian warship, all the other soldiers surrendered.
The only iron armored ship was the temporary flagship of the Brazilian Navy, the command ship was captured, and other Brazilian ships were out of luck. The Chaoyang and Dawn occupied the center of the Paraguayan riverbank and attacked Brazilian warships with a counterattack capability. Nearly a hundred modified warships approached the attack, and the following transport ships spread out along the river bank to block the breakthrough of the Brazilian ship. The one hundred modified warships formed the first encirclement circle, and the transport fleet blocked the retreat of the leaking fish. Two iron armored ships are on patrol missions, responsible for solving warships that have escaped the siege of the first siege.
The two-layer encirclement and the three sides cooperated with the attack. The Brazilian navy blocked at the riverside base struggled less and less. After an hour and a half, the battle on the river was over. More than 120 Brazilian ships and seven or eight gunboats took advantage of it. He fled when the initial siege was not tight, sinking and wounding more than 30 Brazilian ships, and captured more than 70 Brazilian naval ships, including iron armored ships.
In two water battles, the Chinese Independent Army captured three iron armored ships, fifteen sail ships with a displacement of more than 2,000 tons, and thirty battle ships with a displacement of 1,000 to 2,000 tons.
Twenty large transport ships and seventeen gunboats.
As for small vessels with a displacement of less than 1,000 tons, there are more than 300. These vessels are simple to manufacture and small in size. They are only suitable for transporting personnel in the river region. The combat capability is weak. After the war, wooden ships below 1,000 tons Leaving a part of the performance to join the Navy's offshore patrol fleet, others sell low prices to active soldiers for fishing and merchant ships.
The battle on the river was over, and the Chinese Independent Army defeated the Brazilian garrison on the river bank and occupied the estuary base.
The riparian base is the logistical supply area of ​​the Brazilian army and the river channel leading to the estuary. Occupying the riparian base is equivalent to pinching the Brazilian army's neck and isolating the main force of the Brazilian army from the rear troops.
The riverbank base is very important to the Brazilian army. Garcia will not sit idly by and ignore the base loss. It will not take long for Garcia to send troops to counterattack. There is not much preparation time for the Chinese Independent Army. Li Mingyuan stepped down from the ship and personally commanded the army. Build fortifications.
The artillery placed by the Brazilian army in the camp was pulled out by Chinese soldiers. One artillery was placed on both sides of the line of defense under the command of Li Mingyuan, and Luo Cannon, the artillery brigade commander, could only follow Li Mingyuan and listen to Li Mingyuan. Explain the use of artillery tactics.
"Artillery is mainly used for defensive operations in the mainland. As for field operations, artillery is mostly used as a supplementary function. However, with the improvement of artillery technology, siege heavy artillery and portable field howitzers have more specific functions. The artillery appeared on the battlefield, and the significance of the artillery on the battlefield became more and more important.
Artillery, you remember, artillery is more than auxiliary weapons on the battlefield. When used properly, artillery can play a decisive role on the battlefield. "
Normally, Li Mingyuan also introduced the artillery to the Luo Cannon is of great significance on the battlefield, but rarely gave the artillery such high praise as today.
The artillery had a dominant position in the later large-scale wars. Due to the insufficient performance of the Chinese independent army zhong artillery, the artillery brigade has not reached the status of Li Mingyuan's assumption of zhong and captured the shore base of the Brazilian Navy. The ship also received a number of superior artillery pieces.
Chinese artillery being carried by French soldiers
The 1857 12-pound (544 kg) field gun ~ EbookFREE.me ~ is also known as the "Napoleon gun". This is an artillery named after French Emperor Napoleon III.
Napoleon guns are highly mobile, fierce firepower, and have a maximum attack range of 10 meters. They can effectively kill the enemy at a distance of 1,000 meters, and due to the use of blasting shells, more than ten shells can destroy the enemy ’s offensive battalion. .
During the Second Opium War, the Qing Army suffered a big loss of Napoleon artillery. During the South American War in North America, Napoleon artillery was equally powerful. Now a row of twelve unused Napoleon artillery fell in the hands of the Chinese Independent Army. Li Mingyuan There is reason to believe that the artillery purchased by these Brazilians will surprise them.
It takes a certain time for the 40,000 Chinese troops to land. Before the troops have landed, the mixed position of artillery and machine guns will serve as the main force to block the enemy's counterattack.
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