The fort defense line that the U.S. military had painstakingly built along the coastline was half destroyed by the planes of the Huaxing Army in less than an hour.After the air force of the Huaxing Army reported the specific coordinates, the main naval guns of the Huaxing Army began to fire a dense salvo again.More than 300 warships gathered along the coastline of Mobile, as if a great wall of steel came from the sea.After the Air Force reported the coordinates, all the main guns of the 300 warships were fired at once, and the 500-pound shells were smashed out.This is not a small bomb mounted on an airplane, and a single shell will directly leave a deep trench more than 20 meters wide.After only one round of bombardment by gunboats at sea, the US coastal defense line was completely smashed to slag.The tens of thousands of officers and men stationed in the fort were killed and wounded, and they retreated to the second line of defense.The second line of defense was set up on high ground not far from the beach and the port, and was constructed entirely of machine guns, barbed wire, and pillboxes.After the fort defense line was completely destroyed, the naval ships of the Huaxing Army directly raised the angle of the gun barrel according to the coordinates provided by the air force.Under the commander's order, all the main guns opened fire again, and the second line of defense aimed at the American army bombarded it.It was a bombardment without ammunition, and the entire coastline was constantly billowing into the sky with the sound of intense bombardment, like an earthquake.There was nothing else to be seen on the beach, and there was bomb-blown dust and smoke everywhere.The U.S. military desperately insisted, and more than 100,000 people guarded the place.In the sound of explosions, there were constantly residual broken arms flying out of the defensive positions.But at this time, no one flinched, and they knew that if they lost Mobile, the Huaxing army would stab them in the back.Alabama has no room to let go, and can only let the Huaxing Army crisscross this land.Mobile is located in the middle of Mississippi and Alabama, and the Huaxing Army can directly prevent the U.S. military from Mississippi from sending reinforcements to Alabama.The U.S. commander had already judged that the Huaxing Army would come to attack here, but he didn't expect the Huaxing Army to dispatch so many ships.Now that the Huaxing Army's army is attacking Montgomery with all its might, the American army is incapable of supporting Mobile at all.More than 100,000 soldiers and horses are stationed in the mobile coastal defense line, and there are more than 500,000 militia troops in the third line of urban defense.Under the fierce bombardment of the Huaxing Army, the US commander hurriedly telegraphed the city, pulled all the militia units to the front line, and sent a telegram to the US troops in Mississippi, requesting the US troops in Mississippi to support.To their surprise, the Huaxing Army did not take a landing action, but only used artillery to continuously carpet bombard the shore.The bombardment lasted for three or four hours, and tens of thousands of artillery shells exploded on the positions of the US troops.Among them was the air force of the Huaxing Army, which flew over US positions several times to bomb them.While constantly providing coordinates for the navy, they were also all loaded with ammunition and threw them at the US positions.The U.S. military spent the night in fear, and the next day the ships of the Huaxing Army arrived again, and after the carpet bombing by the air force, the navy carried out carpet bombing again.The U.S. troops on the second front are going crazy, and this intensive bombing is over.All the fortifications they built, whether they were bright forts or dark forts, would be blown to pieces.On the third day, the air force and navy of the Huaxing Army gathered again as if they were going to the appointment.In this landing operation, the navy did not have to worry about the support of the US military.Because the army broke through from the middle of Alabama, and everywhere was scorched by the fighting, where would anyone support this port city.The U.S. military in Mississippi was even more unlikely, and if they were to support, it would undoubtedly give the blacks of Texas a chance to attack.Although the blacks are now only thinking about escaping, they still have a strong fighting ability.As soon as they see an opportunity, they will surely retaliate on a large scale.So, Mobile is already an abandoned city.The actual situation was exactly the same as the judgment of the Huaxing army, and the American troops defending here sent several telegrams, but no other brother troops responded.Such continuous bombing by the Huaxing Army has long since completely dispersed the will of the US military to resist.By the time of the third day, the navy was no longer an empty warship.All the cargo ships in Mexico were also pulled over, and more than 200,000 troops loaded with Huaxing troops launched an attack.As soon as the Air Force passed, the Navy again carpet bombed.One section of the second line of defense built by the U.S. military has been almost blown to the ground, and it is completely in a state of complete five-man defense.The Huaxing army launched an assault from this area, and after the army landed, it did not encounter an effective resistance force from you.In the end, hundreds of ironclad combat vehicles and hundreds of semi-automatic artillery pieces landed, and the opportunity for American resistance was completely lost.The Huaxing Army quickly seized the beachhead, almost stepping on the corpses of American troops.It only took half a day's effort, and half of the Huaxing army landed smoothly.The US commander saw that the general situation had turned, and one section of the defense line was broken, and the other defense lines became a situation where the enemy was attacked on both sides, and it could not be called a defense line at all.Everyone immediately fled towards Mobile's urban defense line, and the Huaxing army did not pursue, still expanding their positions on the beachhead and transporting strategic materials to the coast.The city of Mobile was only a dozen miles away from the coastline, and after the commander of the U.S. army returned to the city's defense line with the remnants of the defeated army, he quickly convened a meeting to discuss countermeasures.In the past three days, the regular army has lost 50,000 or 60,000 casualties, and the militia forces have also suffered tens of thousands of casualties.They all insisted on the shore, and they did not retreat even in the face of the artillery attack of the Huaxing army.As a result, without even seeing the face of the Huaxing Army, nearly 100,000 people were killed and wounded, and everyone was shocked and speechless.At present, there are three roads in front of them, one is to evacuate to Mississippi, and the Huaxing army cannot fight there for the time being.One is to evacuate to Montgomery, the capital of the north, but the army of the Huaxing army is storming there, and there can only be a bloody battle with the Huaxing army.The last one is to defend Mobile, so that it can temporarily resist the footsteps of the Huaxing army's march and prevent Montgomery's American army from being stabbed in the back by the Huaxing army.The generals have any opinions, and most of them mean these three articles.Before the war began, the people of the city fled and walked.In addition to the more than 500,000 militiamen, there are now more than 100,000 old, weak, women and children.The commander thought twice and finally sent more than 100,000 militiamen to escort the old and weak women and children to Mississippi, and then the rest of the men held the city defense.At the moment, it can only be arranged like this, and everyone knows that this battle is not easy to fight.But for the sake of the life and death of the United States, no one cares too much about their life and death at this time.After the US commander arranged for the order, more than 100,000 militiamen escorted the civilians out of the city that night.All other armed forces are waiting in the defense line outside the city, ready to fight to the death with the Huaxing army here
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