Chapter 725

In the stone bear's previous life, there was a border wall of more than 1100 kilometers between the United States and Mexico, which separated the border between the United States and Mexico in an artificial way.

But in this time and space, no matter from Tijuana to El Paso, or on the Bank of the Rio Grande, there is no border wall, so the two and a half divisions of the bear army easily pushed into the new Spanish viceroy.

Four star general bonspear led the second division southward along the flat area of the west coast to the west of the West Madre mountains. Kuaima, commander in chief of the army, led the first division and the eighth division of the five regiments to March southward from the east of the West Madre mountains and became the East Route Army.

On the fifth day after entering the territory of Mexico, the eastern route army moved to the city of Chihuahua.

Chihuahua is the capital of Chihuahua, the largest state in Mexico. This former Indian tribe was transformed into an important city by the Spanish in the early 18th century.

It used to be the trade center between the new Spanish Viceroy and the Yanhuang tribe, but now it has become the first obstacle for the East Route Army.

In fact, it's a bit exaggerated to say that the city, which is formed by two fortresses as the center, is far from comparable in scale with later generations. Now the population of this city is only more than 10000 people, most of them are from domestic traders in Spain.

However, because the city is a major trading town in the northern part of the new Spanish viceroy, there are about 1200 Spanish army troops stationed in the city.

The two fortresses in Chihuahua are about 1.5km apart from each other and are built on two hills. These two fortresses are also the garrisons of the Spanish army.

Between the two fortresses were markets established by ordinary residents and Spanish merchants. The main fortress in the north is called Colonel de Carroll fortress, which is built on a hill with a relative height of more than 200 meters.

When the East Route Army came here, more than 1200 Spanish soldiers were trapped in the fort.

Compared with the South sub fort, the height of Colonel de Carroll's fort is higher, the terrain is more dangerous, and the defense effect here is better. Therefore, Chihuahua's garrison, under the command of its commander, decisively abandoned the South sub fortress and concentrated all its forces in the main fortress.

If the East Route Army does not have powerful artillery, it will be a big problem to win the fortress which is located on a hill more than 200 meters high. But now, the Spaniard's practice of guarding against danger looks more like a battle of trapped animals in the eyes of Kuaima.

For such a situation, the experienced fast horse has a hundred ways to deal with it.

So without hesitation, he ordered the artillery regiments of the first division and the eighth division to set up artillery positions.

In the face of such a precipitous fortress, Kuaima would not be foolish enough to fill it with his own life. To deal with such a fortress, powerful artillery and mortars with extremely high trajectory arc are the best.

Before the founding of the people's Republic of China, the weapons and equipment of the stormy bear army were once again upgraded. In particular, the artillery units of the stormy bear army have been greatly improved.

In the past, the division artillery regiment of the baoxiong army mainly used 105mm and 76mm guns, but now, with the formation of 122mm howitzers, this kind of heavy artillery with an effective range of more than 12km is the main artillery of the division artillery regiment of the baoxiong army.

According to the later standards for distinguishing the caliber of artillery, 122mm can be regarded as a real heavy artillery.

At present, the artillery regiment of the division of the storm bear army is no longer equipped with 76mm artillery. This kind of artillery is now the main artillery of the artillery battalion directly under each regiment. The main gun caliber of division level is 105mm and 122mm.

Moreover, compared with the number of artillery of the former division regiments, the number of artillery of each division regiment has also increased after this promotion.

Now, the proportion of artillery in a division artillery regiment is like this: the number of 122mm heavy artillery is 12, and the number of 105mm plus howitzer is 18! There are thirty guns in a division artillery regiment!

Soon, about seven kilometers from Chihuahua's main fortress, sixty artillery units of the first and eighth divisions were set up. At the same time, the hot-air balloon used to guide and revise the artillery was also launched rapidly. This hot-air balloon is the eye of the artillery group.

On July 21, 1788, the first battle between the Eastern Route Army and the Spanish garrison in the southern expedition to the new Spanish Viceroy began, which was known as the "Chihuahua war of annihilation".

Yes, this battle was defined by later historians and military experts as a war of annihilation, not an offensive and defensive war.

In fact, the process of this battle is too one-sided. It's not qualified to describe the battle that lasted less than 10 minutes by rolling

A 122mm howitzer and a 105mm howitzer took the lead in firing two shells.

When the two shells exploded more than 200 meters away from the main fort of Chihuahua, the observer on the hot air balloon immediately sent the message to the artillery position below. At the next moment, according to the data and coordinates provided by the observer, each artillery crew began to adjust their own artillery pitch angle.

Half a minute later, the first round of salvo began, accompanied by an earth shaking sound of fire, a total of 60 shells flew in the air, about 14 to 5 seconds later, accurately enveloped the whole Chihuahua main plug.

Most of the 60 shells landed near the fortress. About 10 shells hit the fortress accurately, including four 122mm high explosive grenades

Compared with the charge of 105mm shell, the charge of 122mm high explosive grenade is close to 4kg, and the weight of a shell is more than 22kg.

Such a shell landed in the fortress, the lethality is extremely terrible.

When four 122mm high explosive grenades and six 105mm high explosive grenades exploded in the fortress at the same time, the inside of the fortress, which is not very big, was in a mess immediately.

Moreover, it was not only the 10 shells that hit the fortress, but also about 67 shells that directly knocked down the wall of the fortress. The fortress wall, which was originally very strong, became as fragile as a piece of white paper in the face of the terrible explosive force of 122mm high explosive bomb.

The wall on this side of the artillery position collapsed about 20 meters at once.

The most terrifying thing is that in the next five minutes, an average of 180 artillery shells fell inside and outside the fortress, and at least 20 of them fell inside the fortress. The fortress became hell in a very short time