Although the artillery firepower of the People's Army was far superior to that of the Dutch artillery, due to the concentration of targets and the fact that the duration of the artillery was much shorter, the indigenous people basically had no substantive understanding of modern warfare, and on the contrary, they only felt that the artillery momentum of the People's Army was still worse. Therefore, the indigenous armies on the left and right flanks, having received the order to attack, did not hesitate to attack the KPA positions.

Although the KPA had only one company on the left and right flanks, there were 300 farm guards each, and each of them was armed with rifles and four machine guns, so the firepower was not weak.

However, although the indigenous army is not very proficient in modern warfare, after all, Java has been colonized for hundreds of years, and the natives and colonists have fought countless battles, knowing the power of foreign guns and artillery, they will not play any tricks like the Boxers, and they have also accumulated some experience in fighting firearms, that is, they try their best to fight in the dense forest, which can effectively reduce the advantage of the opponent's weapons.

There were quite a few trees between the positions of the two sides, which could provide sufficient cover for the indigenous army. This is one of the reasons why the indigenous tribes dared to participate in the war, even though they knew that the People's Army had strong firepower. Therefore, the indigenous army also made full use of the cover of the dense forest to advance to the positions of the KPA. And despite the shooting of the KPA, the damage to the indigenous army was not significant.

But within 200 meters of the KPA position, all the trees had been cut down, and there was no cover left to use, so this distance was the only way for the indigenous army to leapfrog.

The indigenous armies on the left and right flanks launched several successive attacks on the KPA positions, but after losing the cover of the trees, they could not penetrate the defense line composed of bullets and bullets alone, and could only leave a pile of corpses in the clearing, and then retreated into the woods to hide in embarrassment. However, indigenous soldiers armed with rifles took advantage of the cover of the trees and fired at KPA positions.

The number of indigenous troops on the left and right flanks is more than 3,000, and the rifles equipped are about 500, and in terms of quantity alone, they are not under the People's Army, but the indigenous troops have just received these rifles from the Dutch colonial government, and they have not yet been trained, and they only know how to shoot, return the shell, load bullets, etc., and they don't know what aiming, horizontal shooting, vertical shooting, semi-squatting shooting, using bunkers, etc., just fired a few shots and went to the battlefield.

Needless to say, the fighters of the People's Army, even if they are members of the farm guards, have gone through more than 10 days of training, and have fired at least 30 rounds of live ammunition, so the two sides are not at all at the same level of firefighting, but the indigenous troops are hiding in the woods to shoot, although they are at an all-round disadvantage in firepower, but the casualties are not large.

However, the KPA has its own way of dealing with the cover of the woods, and rifle fire is not very effective, but there are weapons such as grenadiers and 60 mortars, which are aimed at the woods where the indigenous population is densely populated.

Although most of the shells hit the tree poles, the debris from the explosion still had a lot of lethality, and the blow to the indigenous soldiers suddenly increased greatly, and the casualties of the indigenous army also increased, and the indigenous soldiers realized that hiding in the bushes could not completely guarantee their safety, so they were also constantly beaten back by the people's army.

And just as the battle on both flanks gradually fell into favor of the Horde Alliance, the frontal offensive of the Dutch colonial army was also not going well. Originally, the Dutch colonial army only feinted in the front, so it only arranged the army in the woods and fired at each other with the people's army, because the colonial army was different from the natives, it had received long-term professional training, and it had a certain advantage in numbers, although the people's army had the support of grenadiers and mortars, and could have a certain upper hand, but it could not occupy an absolute advantage, and the two sides temporarily fell into a stalemate.

However, due to the unfavorable situation on both flanks of the Dutch coalition, the colonial army could only strengthen the frontal offensive, of course, Martinez and VanderVuitt judged that the KPA may have deployed more troops on both flanks, so they could try to launch a strong attack from the front. So the colonial army immediately organized a stormtroop of more than 500 people to charge the positions of the People's Army.

However, since most of the Dutch artillery was almost destroyed by this time, although the position of the opponent's fire could be determined, only five guns were left to provide fire support for the charging soldiers. And this time the artillery did not dare to be careless, and after only 5 rounds of shelling, they immediately stopped and immediately shifted their positions. And as soon as the shelling ended, the stormtroopers of the colonial army launched a charge against the KPA line.

It should be said that the Dutch shelling still had a certain effect, and after the shelling ended, the KPA's firepower was also significantly weakened, and the SA also took advantage of this gap to desperately rush towards the KPA defense line with rifles.

Just after the stormtroopers had run a distance of more than 100 meters, the firepower on the KPA position suddenly increased several times, and there was a "click-click" burst of gunfire.

It turned out that the six Maxim machine guns in the KPA position began to fire, forming a network of three crossfires, like the Grim Reaper wielding a sickle, harvesting a large number of lives. And the soldiers of the colonial army fell to the ground in rows like dead grass under the wind.

In less than half a minute, the charge of the colonial army was broken in front of the KPA line, and less than 300 people finally fled back into the dense forest.

And the artillery counterattack of the People's Army also followed, concentrating all the 60 mortars and grenadiers in the position, and carrying out a covering blow to the woods within 200-500 meters of the position, and for a time the entire jungle was shrouded in explosions and gunsmoke. Under the intensive fire of the People's Army, the colonial army could no longer hide in the jungle, so they had to retreat one after another, until they retreated to the place where the attack was launched.

In the rear of the Dutch coalition forces, Martinez and Van Develt, who commanded the battle, were also dumbfounded, and they could of course see that this was a round of intensive shelling, and it was clear that the number of guns of the People's Army was more than 50. To be honest, both of them knew very well in their hearts that the strength of the KPA was far stronger than they had expected, and if they continued to fight like this, it would be impossible for the Dutch coalition forces to break through the KPA defense line, but neither of them could make up their minds to withdraw their troops. Because of this withdrawal, even if the Dutch coalition does not collapse, it is certainly impossible to attack the farm again.

While the two were hesitating, a signal corpsman suddenly came to report that the indigenous army on the left flank had been attacked by the People's Army, and that the whole line had collapsed. After hearing this, the two could not help but be shocked, and they could not imagine that the People's Army would be able to launch a counterattack, and the left wing was defeated so quickly, so why did they not send an urgent cry for help to themselves? And the defeat of the left wing exposed their own flanks, and I am afraid that they would have to retreat if they did not retreat.

But this is a decision for the two of them, and they don't have to worry about it anymore. At this moment, there was a report from the messengers, and the troops in the front KPA position also came out and charged the colonial army.

When Martinez heard this, he did not dare to hesitate any longer and immediately ordered a retreat.

In fact, although Luo Yue is on the farm, he has always been paying attention to the battle situation in all aspects, although this time he did not use drones to monitor the entire battlefield, but there are constantly communication soldiers who give feedback on the situation of the battlefield, and the regimental staff officers mark it on the sand table, so Luo Yue and the regimental personnel are also in control of the entire battle situation.

In fact, the progress of the battle was much smoother than Luo Yue expected, and it can be said that considerable progress has been made on all fronts, so Luo Yue also decided not to hesitate, immediately launched a counterattack against the Dutch coalition army, ended the battle as soon as possible, and then let the soldiers have a good rest, after all, there is still a battle at night.

However, the choice of the counterattack front is a problem, not that it is not a bad choice, but there are too many options, and in fact, all three lines can launch a counterattack. Luo Yue finally chose to launch a counterattack from the right flank. The second battalion, which was on standby on the farm, was immediately ordered to attack and launch a counterattack against the enemy from the right flank, and at the same time ordered mortar units to provide fire support for the counterattack.

At this time, the second battalion was waiting in the farm and was a little tired, Bi Jing was fighting fiercely outside the farm, the gunfire was continuous, but he was waiting in the farm, naturally he was a little eager to try, after receiving the order to attack, everyone was immediately excited, and immediately under the leadership of the battalion commander Li Lixin, came to the right flank, and joined the mortar unit that provided fire support.

After simple consultations, the two sides decided that the second battalion would be responsible for fire suppression within 1,500 meters, 82 mortars would be responsible for fire support within 1,500-3,000 ranges, and 100 mortars would be responsible for fire strikes at 3,000-5,000 distances.

After confirming the tactics of counterattack, Li Lixin immediately ordered to concentrate the 60 mortars and grenadiers of the whole battalion and first clear the fire within a range of 1500 meters. Originally, at this time, the tribal coalition army attacking the right flank had already retreated to 1,000 meters, which was exactly within the strike range of the KPA, so it was forced by artillery fire to continue to retreat, but the KPA's fire attack was a progressive extension, one distance after another.

In the eyes of the tribal coalition army, although they are constantly retreating, but the enemy's artillery bombardment is as if they are chasing themselves, it is simply bombed step by step, not letting go of a single step, no one can withstand such a blow, not to mention that the tribal coalition army is not a well-trained, disciplined army, so at this time it can still withstand there, and when it retreats to more than 3,000 meters, the entire army will collapse, and it is too late to even ask for help from the colonial army in front.

As a result, when the second battalion fought out of its position and launched an attack on the tribal coalition army, it encountered almost no decent resistance at all, and advanced all the way, Jingran has been advancing a distance of more than 5,000 meters, and only encountered some sporadic resistance.