August 25, 6 a.m., inside the city of Yobosa.

The soldiers of the quick-gun regiment directly under the 1st Division of the National Army are being assembled, and the officers are making final mobilization and preparations.

Major Woodley's 1 battalion was in the position of the first sequence of the battle. The major hadn't closed his eyes last night, and when the big war came, only those natural optimists would sleep well. Most people are in an inexplicable state of euphoria.

When he saw that Lieutenant Daniel of the 2nd Battalion also had a pair of dark circles under his eyes, he couldn't help but smile.

At 6:30 a.m., a large number of officers such as Sean, Wells, Perosa, and Grant stood at the head of the city, watching the troops drive out of the city.

The movement of the Europa attracted the attention of the Bilisian alert forces outside the city, and they were also rapidly assembling.

The Bilisians were out of range of the city's artillery fire, and they wished that their opponents would come to the wilderness to engage them, and the Bilisians had always been very confident in field warfare, so they left their opponents plenty of time. For them, if the opponents in the city poured out, it was exactly what they wanted.

With the advance of the fast-gun regiment, the artillery also began to move forward.

Unlike other troops, the Nationalist Army was armed with many iron cannons, and although the barrel of this cast-iron gun was heavier, the range and power were not inferior to those of bronze guns of the same caliber, but the cost was lower.

The Iron Cannon was able to do exactly what the Bronze Cannon could do against the enemy, and the latter had the advantage of firing without a high-pitched sound that could even cause serious damage to the gunner's eardrums.

The essence is that it is still a front-loading smoothbore gun, and there is no essential progress in technology, which is actually due to the lack of copper ore in Genoa.

In Sean's plan, he wanted to develop a steel breech-loading rifled gun in one step, but for various reasons, there was still no great progress.

Genoa has iron ore mines and steel companies that specialize in smelting. This allows the national army and civilians to quickly equip a large number of cast iron artillery, the regiment has a directly subordinate artillery battalion, the division has a directly subordinate artillery regiment, and the corps has a directly subordinate artillery brigade.

As some military strategists say, war can only be waged by artillery.

To the sound of the drums of the attack, the quick-gun regiment moved forward, their ranks very loose. At the same time, the 2nd Division on the left flank and the 3rd Division on the right flank also began to assemble, and they were thirty minutes behind in launching the attack.

The artillery of the Bilisians opened fire, and the solid shells fell in front of the quick-gun regiment, and then jumped up and rushed into the ranks, and casualties inevitably began.

Not to be outdone, the artillery of the Nationalist Army took advantage of the time difference to quickly deploy to the left and right flanks of the quick-gun regiment and immediately launched a counterattack.

Because the artillery of the Nationalist Army is equipped with an elastic anti-recoil device, the overall weight of the artillery and its bottom seat is lighter than that of ordinary bronze guns, and the gun will not be greatly displaced when fired, thus improving the rate of fire and the accuracy of shooting.

The artillery of the National Army preferred to use flowering shells, which, due to the use of yellow powder, exploded with more fragments and thus greater lethality.

Intensive training allowed the Nationalist artillery to show its prowess, and the Nationalist artillery clearly had the upper hand, so that the Bilisian could not switch their artillery against the infantry to long-range fire.

The soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the Quick-Gun Regiment, led by Major Woodley, suddenly ran forward, stopped at a distance of 150 from the Bilisians, and then lay on the ground and crawled forward.

"What are they doing?"

The Bilisians lined up were stunned.

"Lying on the ground, how do they load ammunition?"

Every Bilisi thinks so.

Major Woodley, half-kneeling to the right of his men, raised his rifle and turned to the soldiers next to him and shouted, "Shoot!"

Bang, after a burst of gunfire, the Bilisians who were watching fell in large swath, and they couldn't even see the smoke that would normally rise from the direction of their opponents.

A small number of people began to return fire spontaneously, and their rifles either did not have enough range or were difficult to hit because the National Army soldiers were lying on the ground and scattered.

The smoke from the Bilisi's shots made it impossible to see even where the enemy was in front of them.

However, the soldiers of the 1 battalion did not stop firing.

They didn't need to reload their rifles in a tedious and rigorous order, nor did they need to stand up and pull out the strip and stab down at the muzzle of the gun to compact the buckshot.

A skilled soldier can complete a shot in 5 seconds. In just 30 seconds, the 500 officers and men of the 1st Battalion of the Quick Gun fired nearly 2,000 rounds of ammunition, with an average of 4 rounds per person.

The Bilisians, who stood in the way of the 1st Battalion of Quick Guns, were completely blindsided.

"Stop shooting!"

Not to mention the soldiers, Major Woodley himself was a little blind, and the mood of the first time on the battlefield put everyone in a state of euphoria, and everyone was oblivious to shoot at the opposite side, regardless of whether there was anyone in front of him.

The officers and men of the 1st Battalion of the Quick Gun stood up and continued to advance. When the Bilisians finally managed to see the enemy through the smoke, another wave of bullets rained down.

The Bilisians fell in pieces, still concentrating their fire in tight queues, as they used to do, at a heavy cost.

After 10 minutes, the soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the Quick Gun could no longer see the living enemy in front of them.

Behind the 1st Rapid Gun Battalion, the 2nd and 3rd Rapid Gun Battalions followed, and these 3 battalions attacked in turn, and everywhere they went, they made full use of their absolute superiority in range, firepower, and rate of fire, and turned the people killed by the Bilisians on their backs.

Even a unit of the 1st Regiment of the Quick Gun succeeded in annihilating the artillery placed in front of the Bilisians, capturing twenty artillery pieces, which not so long ago belonged to the Western Front.

The artillery regiments of the divisional divisions of the National Army moved forward boldly, and they were extremely effective in suppressing the large forces of the Bilisians. The artillery and infantry coordinated with each other, and although it was the first time they were put into real combat, they withstood the test.

Standing at the head of Jobosa, Sean saw through his binoculars that the Nationalist offensive was one-sided, and that the Bilisians were completely blinded by the new weapons and new tactics.

The Bilisians organized several group cavalry counter-charges, and cavalry has always been the pride of the Bilisians, known as the horseback people.

The Nationalists immediately formed a tight matrix, and the dense firepower and almost uninterrupted firing became a nightmare for the cavalry.

The different forms of warfare made the cavalry a living target, and the Bilisians were often killed before they could get close, and the damage done to the national army was very limited.

At this time, the artillery of the Nationalist Army advanced almost to the level of the quick-gun regiment, and the fierce artillery fire continued to roar.

"It's like loading a cannon with a bayonet!"

The excitement of General Grant and the others was beyond words.

The Bilisians looked vulnerable. If the war is fought like this, what opponent is invincible, which is a shock to Grant and others in the non-national army system.

However, this is both reasonable and unexpected for Sean.

Although it was known that revolutionary advances in weapons would lead to victory, it was unknown to what extent such advances would offset the soldiers' will to fight and the officers' lack of command experience.

But now, Sean has more confidence, and he must get a decisive result as soon as possible, while his opponent is still confused.

The fierce attack of the 1st Division attracted the attention of almost all the Belisians on the battlefield, and the Belisians concentrated at least 50,000 men to encircle and suppress the somewhat aggressive 1st Division, and within half an hour, the Bilisians lost more than 2,000 men.

That's exactly what Sean expected. The 1st Division, with the exception of the quick-fledged rifle regiments, was still mostly armed with flintlock muskets, and these units suffered considerable losses in the face of the frantic counterattacks of the Bilisians.

However, Sean had two other divisions armed with new rifles.

The 2nd and 3rd Divisions routed the enemy in front of them, including the left and right flanks, and surrounded the enemy, who was almost twice as large as them.

The Bilisians reacted, and at about 10 o'clock in the morning most of them retreated northward, losing more troops than they could believe.

"General Grant!" Sean called, "are your troops ready?"

"Yes, Commander. Grant replied excitedly.

"According to the plan we have drawn up in advance, your troops will be interspersed in a large area and move to the rear of the enemy army. "I don't need prisoners, I don't need you to occupy towns, as long as you have a breath of air, move as much as you can, attack the enemy's living forces, and attack the enemy's supply lines to the maximum." ”

"Yes!"

General Grant gave a solemn military salute and turned to walk towards his troops.

In the town of Tudra, General Simon Darhau has been holding out for 3 days, the ammunition is almost exhausted, and the officers under his command have changed several batches.

There is plenty of food.

General Dalhouan was like a taut rope, strangling himself to make the besieging Bilisians feel the fear of suffocation.

However, on the afternoon of the 24th, Darhaw's men noticed an anomaly in the enemy, and by the evening they heard distant gunfire.

"Reinforcements are coming!" cheered the officers and soldiers.

The Nationalists looked unstoppable, and although in reality the various divisions were still flawed in their coordination, they succeeded in exerting their absolute superiority in firepower, forcing the Bilisians to retreat in great strides.

From 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., the Nationalist Army had been fighting for 12 hours, and the physical strength of the officers and men had been greatly tested.

When night fell, the Nationalist Army stopped.

"Commander, the good news is that Tudela is still in the hands of our troops. The bad news is that the Bilisians have amassed about 50,000 troops ten kilometers north of Tudra. Wells reported.

"The Belisians lost a lot today, and they wanted to recover their losses. If they want to fight our army head-on, that's exactly what I expect. ”

At this point, Sean's nervous mood has been slightly relieved.

"Commander, what are the instructions now?" Wells asked.

"I just want to get some sleep right now. ”