18th century total war

Chapter 426 Fleeing from the Enemy is for Shangyong

"Brothers, cheer up, behind us is the revival of the United States of America, the nation and family we defend, there are 20 fighters like you and me, defending Washington together!

Long live America! "

Lieutenant Nikola also learned what he learned and sold it now, telling the soldiers under him verbatim the slogans he heard from those 'leaders' a few days ago.

It must be said that the number of more than 20 is still very inspiring to the lower-level soldiers, especially when these soldiers have never fought against the army of the Europa Empire.

After Lieutenant Nikola finished shouting the slogan, he immediately focused on the street entrance ahead.

However, before he could see the enemy infantry, he heard a strange whistling sound.

Lieutenant Nikola's face changed slightly, and he shouted at the top of his lungs: "Shell attack! Get down!"

Before the words were finished, Lieutenant Nikola had already pouted his buttocks and assumed a gun defense posture.

As a professionally trained 'veteran', Lieutenant Nikolai naturally understood how to avoid shelling.

Prevent yourself from being injured by the air wave of the shell explosion.

After all, in addition to various shrapnel, the most lethal force produced by the shell explosion is the air wave produced by the explosion.

It is easy to cause irreparable injuries to fragile human organs, after all, human internal organs are too fragile.

On the battlefield that has been bombarded, it is often seen that there are not many wounds on the surface of the body, but the corpses are bleeding from the seven orifices. In fact, they were shocked to death by the blast waves.

However, Lieutenant Nikola understood that the group of recruits and militiamen under his command didn't know how to defend against artillery.

After all, the United States of America simply does not have the ability to produce the standard grenades of the Europa Empire.

Some soldiers were lying on the ground wholeheartedly, and some soldiers reacted a little slower, still staying behind the barricade sandbags, holding single-shot breech-loading rifles, aiming at the empty street intersection.

The last part is to look around with a face full of bewilderment, or just stay in a daze!

In the next moment, grenades that were more than what could not be fired from the grenades fell around the barricade.

Lieutenant Nikola, who had the correct posture to protect himself from the artillery fire, was not unlucky enough to be hit in the front by the artillery shell, nor was he scratched by the shrapnel. He was just covered with a layer of harmless dust, and he got up after shaking it off.

However, when Lieutenant Nikola stood up, the look of joy on his face froze. More than two-thirds of the soldiers in the entire team lay on the ground, and nearly half of them couldn't even utter a cry!

Before even seeing the enemy, the combat strength of his troops has been reduced by more than half. How can he still fight?
Lieutenant Nikola couldn't even confirm the location where the other party fired!

While Lieutenant Nikola's face was full of horror, on the roof of a residential building in the distance, a gunner stopped his grenadier soldiers from continuing to fire.

"The barricade opposite has been destroyed. Save some shells and leave the rest to the unlucky guys from the punishment camp."

One of the subordinates asked with a puzzled look: "Sir, if we fire another round of volley, the barricade will be completely destroyed.

Those American puppet soldiers were obviously new recruits without much combat experience. They didn't even know how to defend against artillery. Letting the infantry charge at this time would cause more casualties. "

The gunner glanced sideways at the opponent and found that he was an unfamiliar face. He emphasized in a serious manner: "The punishment battalion is responsible for the attack. We don't need to waste too many artillery shells to clear the obstacles for them!"

This is an order! "

Amidst the rough slogans, Alexei tightened his military cap, and led his little friends to charge forward with Charles III rifles.

While bending forward, Alexei cursed in his heart: "Damn it, one more round of shelling will tear down the barricade, but we have to rush up and deal with the enemy.

Artillery shells are worth more than human lives in the punishment camp! "

This is not the first time Alexei has complained. As a veteran of the Punishment Camp with a long lifespan, Alexey clearly feels that as the Arigado Empire is getting closer to collapse, his superiors are using the Punishment Battalion. Getting less and less human.

In the beginning, the punishment battalion could receive the same artillery support as other troops. Although it was at the forefront when attacking, it still had other friendly troops to cooperate.

However, as the Arigado Empire collapsed at an avalanche speed, the fighting quality of the American puppet troops on the battlefield became worse and worse. Armed citizens who did not even have military uniforms were pushed to the front line, and the "charge treatment" of the punishment battalion also deteriorated. plummeted.

Until the Washington offensive and defensive battle, which was the final battle, the infantry of the punishment battalion had to discount even the artillery support they received!
It completely violated the principle of infantry coordination of the advance legion!

The Europa Empire has no shortage of small grenade grenades. According to normal tactical procedures, grenade grenades must first crush the enemy so that they cannot lift their heads before infantry will charge.

If you encounter the American puppet army recruits with little experience in avoiding artillery, the infantry charge is basically a formality.

Where, as now, only a single salvo is fired to save shells!
That's a grenade, not the cannon field gun in the rear!
What makes Alexei even more angry is that he has experienced countless battles in the punishment camp and has accumulated enough military merits. However, the superiors did not give her a chance to leave the punishment camp and only promoted him in the punishment camp. Positions range from soldier to squad leader, and from squad leader to platoon leader.

After arriving in Washington, all the familiar faces from when Alexey first entered the punishment camp were gone, and he was already the company commander!

Of course, this is what Alexei deserves. If he hadn't served as the company commander in the punishment battalion, Alexei would definitely return home in good clothes.

But now, as the company commander, Alexei feels as if his life is coming to an end...

No one knows better than the lucky guy, Alexei, the way the upper echelon completely punishes the punishment camp to death!

Even Alexei's old battalion commander had accumulated enough military merits to leave, but none of the personal guards promoted by the old battalion commander were forgiven, and all of them died one after another in the following battles...

What chilled Alexei the most was that as the situation in the advance corps became better and better, the number of deserters and disciplinary soldiers in the advance corps became less and less, which naturally meant that the supply of soldiers for the punishment battalion became less and less. extremely difficult.

Originally there were several regiment-sized punishment battalions, but now they have shrunk to a real battalion-level organization. Alexei has become one of the top three 'big bosses' in the punishment battalion!
Of course, there is only one battalion commander of the punishment battalion, and this battalion commander is also the only normal officer who did not make a mistake and came to 'golden'.

Entering a punishment battalion is a way for middle and low-level officers in other teams to quickly increase in value. Company commanders and even senior platoon leaders of other troops, after entering a punishment battalion, start out as battalion commanders.

However, as the punishment battalion had problems with its troop supply and battle losses increased, this wartime temporary establishment only had one gold-plated position left - the battalion commander.

Naturally, this battalion commander would never go to the front line in person, and the front line leaders were all grassroots officers like Alexei who had been promoted from the status of "criminal soldiers".

Alexey glanced at the soldiers under his command. The first company of the punishment battalion originally had more than 100 people. Due to the lack of criminal soldiers and high-intensity war consumption, there are now only more than 50 people left.

Alexei had a premonition that the boss who gave birth to a son without an asshole would let him lead these 50 people from the north to the south of Washington...

Because Alexei knew very well that after the Battle of Washington, the strategic situation of the thirteen states in North America was established, and the remaining American guerrillas were nothing to worry about.

By that time, the punishment battalion will probably be dead and can be disbanded.

In the absence of large-scale warfare, the punishment battalion does not need to exist.

According to the military law of the Europa Empire, soldiers in the punishment camp who have not completed atonement need to go to a military court to calculate their merits and sins and offset each other.

However, Alexei, who felt targeted, thought that his boss didn't seem to intend to let the criminal soldiers of the punishment battalion have a chance to go to court-martial!

It was obvious that the Battle of Washington, which ended with intensive firepower, was able to cover the end, but it made the advance army fight an infantry assault.

Except for the necessary small grenadier artillery team, almost all infantry assault missions were undertaken by the punishment battalion!

On the opposite side, the combat power of the puppet army of the United States is no different from that of the militia, which also makes the artillery support received by the punishment battalion weaker and weaker...

Alexei, who had fought all the way from Washington's outer defenses, was well aware of the level of Washington's defenders, a group of militiamen who were full of enthusiasm for the restoration of the country, but had not experienced the tempering of war.

No matter how strong the morale is before the war begins, it will be terrible to see the morale drop during the war...

Patriotic sentiment and nationalist ideology are not things that can be inspired by shouting slogans for a few days before the war, let alone a group of militiamen who can shoot.
Lieutenant Nikola, who was wearing a blue military uniform, breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the enemy troops appearing at the entrance of the street. He grabbed his rifle and ordered loudly: "The enemy is coming, everyone is ready to fight!"

"what?
The enemy is coming?
Run now! "

"The powerful shelling just now is the enemy we are facing. We can't defeat it at all. Let's run away quickly..."

"Yes, yes, yes, I don't want to die here, whether the United States is restored or not has nothing to do with me.

I'm not married yet! "

"Oh my God, this is not the war I imagined, this is a massacre, I want to go home!"

Lieutenant Nikola turned around with a stiff face. The soldiers who were not injured in the shelling dropped their rifles in a tacit understanding and ran away in different directions, screaming in panic as they ran.

Lieutenant Nikola never expected that he would abandon him just like that after he had led nearly a decade of soldiers!

With a bang, Lieutenant Nikola glanced around at the wounded soldiers who were wailing everywhere, at the enemy on the opposite side who bent down to touch them, and at the black dragon flag that was moving in the wind. He threw away the rifle in his hand and followed him. The footsteps of fleeing soldiers.

"Wait for me~"

The remaining reason made Lieutenant Nikola throw away all the weapons and ammunition on his body, because he knew that after the invaders occupied Washington, they would definitely search the whole city. At that time, having a gun in his hand was not a reason to fight the invaders to the end. The younger generation is a fool with a brain...

There is an unwritten rule on the battlefield. Anyone who is not wearing one's military uniform and has a weapon in his hand, regardless of man, woman, age or child, is an enemy. No need to ask questions, just shoot is the best option!

These are lessons learned from bloody experience.

Therefore, except for those deserters who still want to return to the army or join the guerrillas to continue to resist, the wise choice when escaping is to throw away their weapons.

Of course, there is no conflict between joining the guerrillas and becoming a bandit. Who says that becoming a bandit cannot be done in the name of serving the country and the people?

Alexei looked at the backs of the American puppet soldiers who had run away, and he was already used to it.

If it weren't for the rubbish of the American puppet troops left behind by Washington, how could the superiors be so stingy with grenade shells?

Alexey came to this barricade that was [-]% intact with a relaxed expression. Listening to the wailing and begging for mercy from the wounded American and puppet soldiers on the ground, he ordered with an indifferent expression: "Send them a way."

After saying that, he took out his revolver, pointed it at the forehead of a wounded soldier on the ground with blood on his face, and pulled the trigger.

The soldiers under Alexei skillfully picked up the single-shot breech-loading rifles discarded by the American puppet army, and used these different types of enemy rifles to shoot at the wounded soldiers lying everywhere.

The scenes in film and television dramas where wounded soldiers can pull the enemy's back before dying are very extreme and are not common on the battlefield.

First of all, few people can muster the strength to fight back under severe pain.

Second, people have a desire to survive, and the weaker they are, the stronger their desire to survive. Compared with martyrs who died with the enemy, most wounded soldiers hope to be forgiven by the enemy.

Why are martyrs so respected?
Because there are too few martyrs!

Ancient and modern, both at home and abroad, follow the principle that rare things are valuable.

The society promotes positive energy and good moral character because this is something that is lacking in society.

During the war, the country promoted heroes and martyrs because most soldiers did not have that consciousness...

If every soldier is like Li Wei's imperial guards, the country doesn't need to promote it at all, so why waste that resource?
The rarer something is, the more it needs to set an example and encourage others to follow suit!
After all, the majority of human beings are greedy for life and afraid of death.

Alexei looked at the soldiers under his hands clearing the battlefield, and muttered to himself: "There are fewer and fewer American puppet troops who dare to run into the enemy. The more than 20 Washington defenders are like balloons. It breaks when poked.

I don’t know how my bosses who gave birth to sons without buttholes would deal with people like me if I survived the Battle of Washington.

Alas, the best outcome for me is probably to stay in North America. "

Alexey, who has experienced too many life and death, ups and downs in life, and has experienced the strong malice of his boss, finally understands.

He probably won't be able to return to his hometown in his life.

He can probably think of the reason.

As a low-level soldier, what can the bosses be afraid of?

It was nothing more than the great victory of the North American Expeditionary Force that used more than 2 friendly troops as bait to annihilate the White Tiger Army of the Arigado Empire!

(End of this chapter)