Wild North America 1846

Chapter 354 City of Heroes

The bloody battle for the siege of Detroit has continued into the ninth day. The Northern Corps never expected that the coastal artillery shattered the U.S. military's defensive confidence, but Detroit steel workers stood up again and became the backbone of the city's defense.

It is really evil to press the gourd and the ladle will float up!

Detroit has four large steel plants and more than 20 small and medium-sized steel-making workshops, employing more than 73,000 people, accounting for more than half of the city's GDP. The Detroit Steel Workers Federation is powerful and strongly xenophobic.

White group.

After the city was broken

The Steel Workers Volunteer Militia fought bravely and bloody battles in the streets and alleys of Detroit. They did not receive formal military training, but relied on barricades and solid houses as support. They fought flexibly and tenaciously, but it was quite troublesome to fight.

The steel workers' volunteer militia's bloody battle to the death inspired the bloody spirit of the remaining 60,000 to 70,000 U.S. troops, who actively cooperated with the militia to launch urban operations, causing great trouble for the Northern Army's offensive.

"Throw the 17th Stormtroopers in and charge again. Damn it, it's really a ghost." Colonel Fan Pengju gave the order with a livid face.

in front of him

It is a large and solid steel factory. The walls were blasted with large and small holes by artillery fire. The nearby one or two hundred meters is an open field. Many corpses of the attacking white soldiers are lying here and there. There are already more than 230 dead and injured.

, but still failed to capture this solid position.

Colonel Fan Pengju also became fierce and ordered loudly: "Cover with artillery fire, concentrate your firepower on me to block the enemy's firing point, and hit me hard."

In the blink of an eye, the sound of cannons and gunshots rang out.

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

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

After paying the price of almost thirty or forty casualties, the 17th Stormtroopers finally rushed to the edge of the factory. Panting, they leaned against the wall full of large and small holes. Many soldiers took out wooden handle grenades and pulled away the fuses, and then put the risk

A grenade with white smoke was thrown into the hole next to him.

Seeing more than a dozen black grenades thrown in, the soldiers of the U.S. Northern Army who were stubbornly resisting let out strange screams of despair, and then a series of explosions sounded. The powerful explosion shock wave sprayed flesh and blood debris out of the wall.

Small and large incomplete holes.

"Let me go up..."

See this scene

Fan Peng raised his colonel's hand and led his soldiers to rush in. Then intermittent gunshots rang out, which lasted for more than 40 minutes, until all the Northern Army soldiers hiding inside were killed, and no prisoners were left.

Up to this point in the battle, both sides are red-eyed.

As soon as the attacking troops of the Tang Dynasty caught any white male, they were immediately organized into cannon fodder stormtroopers and forced to charge at the front line with guns.

Generally, such white stormtroopers consist of a team of 100 to 150 people and a squad of 10 people. The squad leader is a veteran white servant division soldier. Only they can be equipped with grenades, a killer weapon for street fighting. Ordinary stormtrooper soldiers

There is none.

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

The 502nd Division in the hands of Colonel Fan Pengju was divided into more than a dozen battalion-level units, scattered throughout the city to cooperate with the Chinese regular field divisions. Now we don’t know how much has been lost?

He himself had only one regiment with less than 1,700 people, and he had just attacked the strong building of the steel factory and lost more than 270 people. He was so angry that he wanted to curse his mother.

On this solid position that we just conquered, more than 440 white militiamen died in the battle. This large steel factory is about 130 meters long and 278 meters wide. It has a lot of various blast furnaces and other large iron-making equipment.

These white soldiers relied on complex factory equipment to hide in the dark and shoot. They had to be dug out one by one like mice. The battle losses would inevitably be greater.

"Reporter's seat, urgent order from the summit." The herald hurried over and handed over the order letter with both hands.

Colonel Fan Pengju took it and looked at it. When he looked up, he saw the order issued by the Second Army Headquarters. The paint badge was intact, so he opened the envelope, unfolded the order inside and read it.

Soon, a happy look appeared on his face.

The 203rd Division captured a large warehouse in Detroit and seized a large amount of food, clothing and other supplies. 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 for the entire city's garrison, and it may still be more than that now.

Because some scattered small and medium-sized warehouses lose food very quickly, even if they are full, they will not be able to last for a week.

The Corps Headquarters felt like a treasure after receiving this extremely valuable information, so they decided;

In addition to the ongoing battle to seize the port facilities, other siege troops will rest and recuperate on the spot, and establish an unbreakable line of defense to prevent US military counterattacks, ensure that the existing occupied areas are connected, and implement a strict blockade against the stubborn white militias.

No grain of food is allowed to flow into the city.

If they run out of food and let them chew bricks or tree bark, they will end up dead.

After reading the order to the summit, Colonel Fan Pengju felt a lot more relaxed.

These Detroit steel workers who vowed not to surrender were really difficult to deal with. Even if they died, they would drag one or two backers with them. This made Colonel Fan Pengju truly realize the bloody nature of white men.

If this were the case in the eastern coastal states of the (Northern) United States of America, then the war would be impossible to fight.

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

In these nine days of bloody battles, even though a large number of white cannon fodder troops were used, the Chinese officers and soldiers of the Northern Army suffered casualties of more than 20,000. Including the losses in the battle, even if white cannon fodder casualties were not included, the Chinese officers and soldiers lost almost more than 70,000 people.

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

If we want to capture it, I'm afraid 1 million troops won't be enough, right?

After the order was conveyed, the sound of gunfire that echoed through Detroit for nine days and nine nights suddenly fell silent, and there was a terrifying silence.

actually

Many white militia teams in the Detroit city had run out of food. After nine days of bloody fighting, the attacking Datang Kingdom army first cut off the supply of materials, especially food supplies, to the canal and lake areas.

How long can scattered small and medium-sized warehouses last?

Today, two-thirds of the urban area of ​​Detroit is still in the hands of white militias. The combined number of the Northern Army and steelworker volunteer militias is still nearly 100,000, and there are hundreds of thousands of old, weak, women and children. So many people only rely on scattered food supplies.

Most of the hoarding in small and medium-sized warehouses and households has 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 frantic counterattack.

They had nothing to eat and drink, so instead of sitting back and waiting for death, they might as well fight hard, maybe they could fight their way out.

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

a few days later

The battlefield was filled with smoke, and the strong smell of blood was nauseating. Colonel Fan Pengju looked at the layers of corpses lying in front of him with a stern expression, without showing any expression.

These white militiamen and Northern Army soldiers who rushed out from all directions were like beggars, rushing in vain to block the blocks tightly sealed by the Tang Dynasty army, and then fell under the blows of row after row of hot bullets. This tragic situation has already

Repeated many times.

after the battle

The soldiers drove the captured white men and women to throw the corpses directly into the canal. Because too many enemies were killed, there was no way to dispose of them by burning, burying or other methods. They had to throw them into the wide Detroit River.

The Detroit River is very fast, and there are a lot of corpses floating on the river. They will eventually enter Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie with the river water, and then become food for fish.

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

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

Only then did Shangfeng lift the blockade order, and gradually withdrew the troops outside the city to begin comprehensive rest and recuperation. The city's cleanup work was taken over by the local government, and some administrative officials were sent over to take over this still intact industrial city.

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

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

The military generals of the Tang Kingdom avoided talking about it. When asked, they only said lightly: "This is a battle of conquest without a doubt, nothing more."

Many soldiers who had personally participated in the siege of Detroit had deep memories of this bloody battle. One veteran wrote in his diary: "We smashed the Detroit Fortress with amazingly powerful cannons. At that time, everyone was

We were cheering, thinking we could win easily. In fact, it was the most difficult battle we fought, very bloody and cruel..."

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

(End of chapter)