Chapter 893

Everyone knows the importance of intelligence. The commander-in-chief of the Marine Corps is Major General Li Ming. At this time, we can see the tragedy of the ground forces in the navy. The commander-in-chief is Major General, and the commander of the Marine Warfare is also Major General. This matter is not clear. In terms of military rank, when it reaches the level of a general, the army will be at the end of the navy. Who made you affordable?

The Navy's intelligence department bribed several locals as spies, and the main force of the coalition forces went south could not be hidden. When Li Ming learned about the news, his first reaction was to sneer and order to explore again. In the following two days, the news was continuous, and a large number of coalition forces came to Valencia, and the nearest forward was only fifty kilometers away.

This situation was finally confirmed, and Li Ming was also a little surprised. He originally came with a so-called mentality, but he didn't expect to be the protagonist for a while. This guy was bad enough. He ordered the blockade of the news and no one was allowed to tell the army. Then he asked the troops to shrink the defense line, and the defense area that originally extended about 30 kilometers to around, narrowed to about ten kilometers.

After the contraction was completed, the Marine Corps began to dig trenches and pull barbed wire. The wealthy navy had never lacked supplies. It was originally used to land in Valencia to defend, but now it has been directly built into a hedgehog formation. In order to avoid scaring away the coalition forces, the troops were absolutely not allowed to fire. The artillery did not order the coalition forces to fire, and they played volleyball guns with the coalition forces, and machine guns were not allowed to be used.

This move is really unethical. Yin Jie is still advancing steadily, with a maximum of 20 kilometers a day, and being invincible is a prerequisite. Even the military plan is to arrive in Madrid within a month and force the European Union to fight to the decisive battle. To be honest, the army does not want to go faster. The Spanish roads are much worse than those in the Ming Dynasty, and even the colonial roads are not as stressful as those in the logistics supply. The army carrying a large number of artillery can't get up even if it's fast, so they can only slowly grind forward.

Li Ming waited until the coalition vanguard approached 30 kilometers from Valencia. Then he sent someone to notify the army. He proposed a new combat plan, allowing the army to detour behind the enemy and encircle and annihilate the main force of the coalition. After receiving the information, Yin Jie was so angry that he fell three times of enamel tea tanks. The first thing he did was to complain to his superiors. On the ground battlefield in Europe, he was the commander-in-chief of the front enemy. Li Ming's approach was to interfere with the affairs.

It is definitely a long time to fight a lawsuit, and the most urgent task is to develop the situation. Yin Jie is very clear about the basics of the Marine Corps. He knows that these guys have hidden a lot of private goods. The three Marine Divisions on the books were all organized by the army before the restructuring, and even a lot larger. The current army is in the three-three system, and the former army was organized by the eight battalions of the Fourth Regiment of the Two Brigades. The Marine Corps is quite tricky. They are tampering with the first-level units of the company, and they are all strengthening the company.

The Navy relies on its wealth and favor, and has done a lot of dissatisfaction with the Army. However, now is not the time to settle accounts. As the commander-in-chief, Yin Jie can only adjust his tactics according to the changes in the battle situation. He sent someone to send a message to Li Ming, asking him to hold the enemy. How to hold it? Hahaha, you must pretend to be a grandson for me, so that the coalition forces can see the hope of victory. They cannot beat everyone down and scare them away.

Kong Dai, the commander-in-chief of the coalition, had never seen the power of the Ming army. Although he liked the Ming army very much, it did not mean that he understood the equipment of the Ming army now, let alone the equipment of the rich like the Marine Corps.

The Marine Corps is the only ground force that has been replaced with new rifles. At this time, the army far away in the Americas is still playing the single-player rifle of Deselli. Even the most cutting-edge European Expeditionary Forces, only half of the troops have completed the replacement. It’s not that they don’t want to change it, but that the production of rifles is only so much, and they are still in the process of expanding production capacity. They have not yet begun to explode.

"Where is the nearest unit?" Yin Jie asked patiently. It took at least three days from the news that it reached here. At this progress, Valencia's fight had already started. Li Ming clearly wanted to eat alone, and he must not succeed.

"The problem now is not to encircle and annihilate the enemy. It is Mount Morena that is blocking us." With a word from the Chief of Staff, Yin Jie's heart was completely cold. There is no way, the terrain of Spain is like this, and the obstacle in front of the army is Mount Morena. It is also the barrier for the current Spanish army to block the expeditionary force, and it is also the basis for Conde to dare to attack Valencia first.

"The terrain in central Spain is not suitable for large-scale corps combat at all. It seems that the combat plan we formulated before has serious problems." Yin Jie began to think of bad ideas. He really didn't expect that the coalition forces were brain-related and went to Valencia with no need for the natural defense line of Mount Morena in front of him. His previous judgment on the enemy was also based on this point, that Spain would defend the line on this line, consume the expeditionary force's troops and ammunition, and then look for an opportunity to fight. Unexpectedly, he probably still had to defend the battle, which was a bargain for the grandsons of the Marine Corps.

A group of combat staff were also scolding. Yin Jie heard this and shouted: "Shut up, complaining that it will not solve any problem, hurry up and come up with a strategy to deal with it. The Spaniards thought Mount Morena could block us, so they gave them some color."

The adjustment made by the Army was to speed up and enter Madrid before the Marines solved the main force of the coalition. In this way, the biggest obstacle in front of them was Mount Morena.

"The main force continued to go north along the road, concentrated artillery troops to bombard several nearby mountain passes. Send a side division to the east and pass through Wangzixin Town. If you are lucky, you may be able to block the main force of the coalition." The Chief of Staff's suggestion was a dead horse as a living horse. Yin Jie could only nod and said, "That's it, issue an order to change the previous combat plan. The artillery bombed me hard, and the large-caliber artillery shot out all the ammunition, and then you can go back. The remaining troops, lightly advance, 75-caliber artillery, can be dismantled and carried by horses. All animals are given to equipment and supplies. Each soldier must carry seven days of combat rations. Don't talk nonsense to the people along the way. Grab the food first, you can throw money, but you can't delay. Any resistance is not to be aware of."

This command sounds simple, but it is actually full of blood. This is fighting in a foreign country. It is not understandable. Many times it is impossible to explain it clearly. If you want food, the people will definitely not do it. The result is a force to grab it. Even if the money is left, people will not understand it at the beginning. Besides, this is all mountainous areas, and Huayuan may not be as effective as the coastal areas. Perhaps it is a piece of paper in the eyes of the people.

"Take two divisions to the east, one in front and one in back, to take care of each other." The Chief of Staff added a little, but he was still a little unwilling to accept it.

"In this way, we only have six divisions in our hands. Could it be that the troops on the east and west wings will be taken back?" Yin Jie did not agree very much, but did not object, but just questioned. The Chief of Staff smiled and said, "Is six divisions not enough? There are only a few regular troops in Spain. We are fighting big cities along the road, not to occupy Spain. After fighting Mount Morena, I think there is no big battle to fight in the short term. The troops should carry as much ammunition as possible, and other supplies should be solved on the spot."

This strategy is even more ruthless! Yin Jie gritted his teeth and said, "That's it. Take the individual soldiers' rations for three days, and rob the rest."

Military orders are like mountains. They seem to be some words, but they are actually to be executed. In history, they may be a passage of words with dozens of words, but the details cannot be explained in detail. But this is a war. Military orders must be implemented after being issued. There are only a few people in Spain and only a few residents in Mount Morena. How can they afford the supply of so many troops? There is no reason to say here, you have already entered someone's house.

The reason why ci is not in charge of soldiers is not only reflected in the casualties of soldiers, but also in the harm caused to civilians due to war. However, from the perspective of the European Expeditionary Force, these injuries must be counted on the head of the Spanish royal family. From the perspective of the people, this is the army of the Ming Empire invading, robbing, and killing.

After receiving the order, the Independent Artillery Regiment had no other choice. Any way would affect the marching speed due to the bulkiness of the 150 guns, so the shells had to be fired out. This time, the Spanish garrisons at various passes on Mount Morena were in trouble. They didn't know any backscene surfaces, and they didn't even dig much trenches. The Spanish army, which was completely stuck in another era, encountered the Ming army that was already much higher.

Under the fierce artillery fire, the Spanish garrisons at various mountain passes suffered heavy losses. Carlos II deployed the elite Spanish troops in this area, with a population of about 30,000. I hope to stop the Ming army here for more than a month. The solid fortresses in the past were decorations in this era. Unless it was a pervert like the Liege Fortress in Belgium, the ordinary fortress was in front of 150 artillery, and there were only one and collapsed with a bang. Of course, some fortresses were also very strong, but the number was not large. Just one or two fortresses could not stop the army from advancing.

The Expeditionary Force launched a fierce attack from three directions and a dozen mountain passes, and achieved a comprehensive breakthrough in just one day. The 30,000 Spanish defenders did carry out tenacious resistance, but this resistance was similar to the battle that took place in Baliqiao in history. The Spanish army holding back weapons collapsed. Three thousand defenders were killed in battle, more than 15,000 were injured, and the rest fled in all directions, leaving behind everything they could be left behind and fleeing to the north.

The noble officers rode on horseback, while ordinary soldiers ran on two legs. The expeditionary army took three days to cross Morena Mountain. At this time, Valencia had been fighting for five days. It can be seen how unethical Li Ming was.

On the first day of the battle, Kong Dai put the elite German troops into the battle, carrying the smoothbore guns bought by the French at high prices, lined up in an orderly manner, and followed the drum beats. The French artillery kept firing at the positions ahead, and the soldiers hidden in the trenches had no casualties at all. Six-pound cannons and twelve-pound cannons, these things were left over from the Ming army.

The troops deployed in frontier positions were not many, only two regiments, and they didn't even pull the wire. They just hid in the trenches and waited for the opponent to approach, and a row of guns fired violently. In just one day, the tenacious German Legion paid the price of three thousand casualties to seize the position of the Ming Marine Corps. It occupied a small town about ten kilometers away from Valencia. Then the two sides fought fiercely in several nearby villages. The Marines hid in the village fought with the enemy with only rifles, and fought for another day, and then threw away these villages one after another.

In terms of the results of the battle, Kong Dai could still be satisfied. The only thing that was not satisfied was that the enemy's body was not caught, so let alone the prisoners of war were captured. The Ming army fought during the day and evacuated voluntarily at night, which meant that their troops were not large. Kong Dai ordered the entire army to accelerate its advancement and must seize Valencia as soon as possible and drive the enemy out of the sea.

However, before the third day of the battle, the commander of the Holy Roman Empire stopped working. After two days of fighting, his troops were fighting, and other troops were assisting in the attack. The 30,000 elite casualties were nearly one-fifth. Who can bear this?

Kong Dai had no choice but to make adjustments, let the Swedish army and the French army fight together and advance head-on. The army of the Holy Roman Empire was used as a reserve, and the Spanish army and the Portuguese army went to the flanks to restrain the Ming Empire's defensive energy. As a result, the adjustment was in vain. This time, the Ming Empire army retreated more resolutely and retreated directly to an area less than three kilometers around the city of Valencia. When the armies of various countries carefully occupied the enemy's positions, they found that the opponent had run away. On these positions, a large number of Valencia were found desperately. After careful inquiries, they realized that the Ming army retreated, and these people were driven out of the city and did not take them with them when they left.

The coalition cheered, as if victory was within reach. Even if Kong Dai wanted to retreat at this time, other troops would not agree. The Ming Empire had a lot of good things in its hands. It might be possible to make a fortune by invading Valencia. As for the casualties of civilians in the previous fierce artillery fire, it had nothing to do with them. The French army even used the excuse of checking whether there were spies to search for these civilians, and found a large number of Huayuan from them. This made the French soldiers very excited. Huayuan was very good in France. Dafa Bank had branches in major cities in France. As a result, after the two countries had a feud, Louis XIV ordered the sealing of these banks. Confiscated nearly five million Huayuan and made a fierce payment. Of course, this action completely angered some nobles. Their money was all stored in the bank. Louis XIV did not care whether you had a passbook or not. (~^~)
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