1031 Never-ending sneak attacks
A good commander is undoubtedly not a thoughtful person, and today's sneak attack on the Bo army is also carefully calculated, and it is definitely not a decision made by Tietoutuo with a pat on his head.
From midnight, the sneak attack was pressed up wave after wave like a tide, starting from the south, the 800 Taiping Army commandos ignited the flames of war, and then the strength of a battalion in the north also continued to attack, followed by the east, west, southwest, and southeast...... The Chinese soldiers carried out non-stop assaults, completely messing up the Bovian army.
Each assault of the Taiping army will not exceed 1,000 people, more is the harassment of five or six hundred people, if the Bo army is unprepared, then rush up and slash and set a fire, if the enemy is in full array, then put a random gun away from a distance and then turn around and leave.
Anyone who has ever lived in the wild knows that it is difficult for people around a campfire to see the darkness around them, while people in the darkness around them can see what is happening around the fire from a distance.
This is the case in the current Oasis of Osaka, the whole camp is as bright as day, but the endless desert around it is extremely dark, and people can still see the figure of the brown army shaking at a distance of twenty or thirty meters from the darkness, but once they are out of a distance of thirty meters, they can't even see the figure.
The exhausted Bo army ran back and forth in the camp, until finally the more than 20,000 troops were all in a mess, and under the order of the commander, a circular defensive position was formed, and the surrounding area was actively defended without dead ends.
There were strange noises and figures in any direction, not to mention a fire of muskets, they did not seek to kill the enemy, only to disperse these demonic Chinese, or to disperse to the direction of other troops, anyway, don't hit me.
In the distance, Tietoutuo stood on the sand dunes and watched the enemy's movements with a telescope, and the corners of his mouth brought a contemptuous sneer: "Sure enough, there is no blood, they are all fighting like this, they don't even dare to counterattack, does an army of this quality still want to fight? Let's rest our boys......"
When the defensive position of the Bo army was formed, Tie Toutuo instead let his brothers start to rest, and then the infiltration team began to crawl towards the Bo army.
When soldiers in groups of three or five crawled to a distance of forty or fifty meters from the enemy, firecrackers and tin buckets, the sharp weapons of harassment warfare, came in handy.
The ignited firecrackers were thrown into the tin bucket, crackling and crackling, and the frightened bird-like Bojun could tell the difference between the sound and the gunshots, and subconsciously pulled the trigger, and the bullets flew over the heads of the infiltration team with a whizzing rain.
Time passed minute by minute, Tietoutuo looked at his pocket watch and found that it was only more than three o'clock in the morning, and the harassment was not enough, far from enough. With his order, three or four kilometers away from the Bo army camp, pieces of torches and bonfires suddenly lit up.
"It's the main force of the Brown Army! God, they're going to launch a general attack...... Artillery fires! Shoot ......"
Boom, boom, the field artillery desperately poured fire on the distant command office, exploding clouds of smoke and dust in the desert.
When the battle came to this point, Weng Derong and Chen Yonglu were completely relieved, but the Bo army still did not have the courage to counterattack, and this group of armed farmers would never be able to become real soldiers.
After the war, Tietoutuo wrote in his final report to Xiao Letian, "This is a land with no concept of a state, and our victory is not so much due to our bravery and tactical correctness as to the fact that the enemy is really too bad......"
"When I landed at the port of Antofagasta, I always felt that something was wrong, it was a port that Chile had just conquered, but the people's expressions were as calm as if there was no war......
"Antofagasta has always been Peruvian territory, and when the Chilean army captured it, why did the original citizens feel nothing? They didn't have the slightest hatred, let alone the slightest discomfort, they lived as they wanted, and everything didn't change in the slightest......"
"Slowly I got to know the land, the people here have been colonized for four or five hundred years, Spanish has become their mother tongue, and the culture of the Spanish colonizers has been accepted by them. In addition, before they met the Spaniards, they all belonged to the ancient Inca cultural circle, and their Inca language and Inca culture were also of the same origin......"
"The same Inca culture, plus the same Spanish colonial culture, and then the same language, makes all the people, without any concept of state......"
"These Incas can cross the border at will without any interrogation, they can go to any country to work and earn money and marry at will, and this war actually has nothing to do with them!"
"It is those white rulers who really want to fight, the descendants of European immigrants who occupy the most resources of the country, and the interests of saltpeter and struvite mines, which only those people can eat, so their desire to war is the strongest!"
"This social phenomenon is projected in this war, which is manifested in the extreme fanaticism of the officers and the extreme numbness of the soldiers, how can a group of soldiers without a goal give their lives? They regard being a soldier as a kind of work, and being able to put a few rows of guns at a distance is enough for them......"
"But we are different, all the veterans of the Heavenly Kingdom are fighting for survival, they know that although this world is big, there is no way out, either die in this desert, or die to open up a new world, there is no other way!"
Tietoutuo's analysis was not wrong at all, when four or five rounds of shelling passed, the commanders of the Bo army also woke up, they knew that these harassments were the conspiracy of the Chinese, if they continued to be beaten so passively, I am afraid that the ammunition would be exhausted before dawn.
There was a commotion in the barracks, and Chen Yonglu jumped up vigilantly, "Look, the Boli army is encouraging before the battle! They are going to select the commando team......
"Oh, it's four o'clock, and we've been harassing us for more than four hours, and now we're organizing a commando to fight back? Isn't this nonsense? Morale has almost been drained, and you still want to fight back?" Tietoutuo actually sat down on the sand dune easily and poured himself a cup of strong tea.
"Let Ma Zijian and Luo Gouzi get on it, these commandos will eat clean for me, don't keep any of them!"
Ma Zijian, Luo Gou, Ma Jun...... These veterans, who had rioted in Nanyang and killed the indigenous monkeys, once again grabbed their weapons, and now they have become officers at the level of company and platoon commanders, and the harassment just now did not let them go, and now is a good time for them to take action.
"The three companies followed, crawling forward...... The enemy was attacking from the southwest, and it appeared that there was a battalion of troops...... The third company lurked in the sand and waited to get close to hand-to-hand combat, and the second company retreated three hundred meters and crawled ready to shoot...... Let's go!"
More than 200 soldiers crawled forward like lizards in the desert, and the darkness provided them with the best camouflage.