0775 Lives for Lives
After shooting a large number of natives, one of the natives finally rushed to the front of the Dutch soldiers, and he slammed his raised wooden stick on the head of a soldier who was loading a musket, knocking the soldier to the ground! The native had just let out a howl of excitement, and before he could finish his shout, he was shot by the Dutch soldiers in the back row!
Although the native is dead, this represents a beginning! Then more natives pounced on the ranks of the Dutch soldiers! The Dutch soldiers also discarded their muskets, drew their swords and began hand-to-hand combat with the natives!
These natives themselves are not skilled in warfare, they are thin and small, and they only hold wooden clubs in their hands, so they are no match for the Dutch soldiers, and they are blocked near the city gate and cannot enter an inch!
At the same time, the fighting on the periphery is even more tragic! Dozens of long ladders were erected by the natives, and the crazy natives climbed up the long ladders! Although they kept being beaten down the ladder like prey, the natives who fell into the frenzy refused to give up!
There are even some natives who clasp the brick joints and climb up along the city wall! As a result, it didn't take long for them to either fall on their own or be shot down!
Liu Pei, who was standing in the rear, saw it clearly, but Liu Pei still asked the soldiers to prepare for battle. In fact, Liu Pei didn't pin the victory of the battle on the natives at all! These natives were born weak-willed and untrained, and fought only on a moment of bloody bravery. If the war doesn't go well, it will soon collapse on its own.
Therefore, Liu Pei had already ordered the soldiers to follow behind the natives and quietly arrange their troops. On the one hand, it is to block the back road of the natives and prevent them from escaping in all directions when they collapse. At the same time, when the natives were not going well in the war, they took over their direct attack.
The first to arrive at the station were 20 artillery pieces. They were within the limit of the two guns at the head of the city, and they stopped here to build a battery. Anyway, at this time, the two small cannons were also busy shooting at the natives, and they didn't care about them at all.
As soon as the gun emplacements were arranged, the gunners began to shoot. The target is the turret where the two cannons are located! Although the first round of shooting did not hit the target, it also splashed the masonry around the two gun emplacements, and injured many gunners!
And the natives discovered
There is artillery behind him, and he is naturally even more crazy! The shouts are even louder, and they are crazy! People have also become more violent! For a time, the two fronts that the Dutch had placed in and out of the city became precarious! The casualties of the Dutch soldiers are also increasing dramatically!
In fact, the fighting power of the natives is not comparable to that of the Dutch soldiers after all. After a long time, the courage brought by the large number was soon extinguished by the repeated blows of the Dutch soldiers! Their offense slowly became weaker.
The battle-hardened Dutch soldiers immediately seized the opportunity to stabilize their position, and brought in a few small cannons from other city walls, and fired into the crowd one after another! The flesh and blood of the natives who were gathered together were flying!
After two rounds of continuous firing, the natives who entered the interior of the castle were discouraged! Begin to be forced back by the Dutch soldiers, and the collapse is just around the corner!
But the battle on the outskirts of the castle has made great progress! After Liu Pei's artillery unit knocked out two gun emplacements with five volleys, they turned their guns to the city wall and began to cover the natives attack!
And Liu Pei made it clear that he didn't have to worry about accidental injury, which made the gunners more handy!
The continuous cannonballs hitting the city walls, and the flying masonry and stone are already very scary and hurtful! Occasionally, a cannonball hits the soldiers at the head of the city with extreme accuracy, and the huge impact force carried by the cannonball will knock people to pieces! This put a lot of psychological pressure on the Dutch soldiers!
And when Liu Pei's soldiers approached the city and fired intensively at the city wall with firearms, the Dutch soldiers' front wavered! After paying considerable casualties, they gave way to the walls and retreated into the passages on both sides, and stubbornly held the passages. The natives were not allowed to rush down the walls, but the walls were occupied by the natives.
Liu Pei's soldiers took the opportunity to climb up and occupy a section of the city wall. And the commander commanded the soldiers to attack the passage twice. At this moment, the natives inside the castle collapsed!
The natives, who had lost their courage, cried and threw away their sticks and other weapons they had picked up, and began to swarm out of the hole in the gates! And they also spread fear.
Those haven't yet
The natives who rushed into the city saw the natives of the city pouring out, and they instinctively felt that something was wrong! The natives, who were still screaming wildly, slowly calmed down and subconsciously stopped. Then he followed the fleeing man and began to run!
Many natives haven't even seen what is going on inside, and they are captured by fear when they see their companions who are as frightened as if they had encountered monsters! Then he dropped his weapons and fled with them, as if an invisible enemy were chasing them!
This is the collapse on the battlefield! No one had the heart to fight, and they only cared about fleeing. And the greatest losses in battle often occur at this time.
In a cold weapon war, in fact, there are really not many losses when the two sides clash! Even if there are losses, the two sides are roughly equal. The real loss is when you are hunted down! Unorganized routs will be slaughtered by their opponents in an organized manner. And those who run away easily exhaust their physical strength in blind running, and finally are easily hunted down!
The same is true of these natives. Even the natives on the city walls, who felt that they had the upper hand, were a little overwhelmed when they saw their companions fleeing. But Liu Pei's troops had already approached, where could these natives escape?
A salvo of 20 artillery pieces was fired, and it immediately set off a monstrous wave of blood among the native crowd! Even the crowd was stopped! Because the large corpses that suddenly screamed and fell in front of them told the people who were still alive that this way was not possible! These natives were suddenly caught in a dilemma, and would only wait for the eyes of fear to gather.
Liu Pei knew that these natives were not needed for the time being, and immediately sent a team of soldiers to occupy the city gate. At the same time, let the soldiers come forward and drive the natives away from the flanks.
The soldiers rushed into the crowd and kicked and beat the natives to drop their weapons. At this time, the natives had long since lost the rage they had just had, and one by one they obediently threw away their weapons and left the battlefield from the flanks under the guidance of the soldiers.
Postage I took a look at it. In these short thirty or forty minutes, only one or two thousand of the more than 5,000 natives remained. It can be seen that the resistance of the Dutch soldiers was fruitful! But their own casualties will be small! After all, the number of these natives is there, and if they exchange their lives for their lives, the Dutch soldiers will also have to pay a considerable price!