Chapter 221: New Leader
Ibrahim's eyes were blood-red, it was so miserable that the Bugis were basically in a state of passive beating on the entire battlefield.
In particular, the left flank of Pahang and Selangor, because of the several rounds of shelling, fell into chaos early, except for some people who were still resisting, most of them were chased and cut down by the Tang people!
He glanced back, and the more than 2,000 people behind him, although their eyes were less determined, still maintained a complete formation, and all of them meticulously carried flintlock pistols on their shoulders.
This was the true core elite of the Ibrahim Sultan, and the Tiger-worshipping Bugis named the Tigers.
More than 2,000 people, even the Dutch instructors who were invited were amazed, believing that they already possessed the will to fight close to the second-rate army in Europe.
Of course, it is only the will that is not the combat effectiveness, and the second-rate army in Europe is complete in infantry, cavalry, and artillery, which is not comparable to thousands of line infantry.
These people were all selected by him from the families of the Bugis nobles, not ordinary Bugis, their families are all big nobles from all over the country, and their ancestors all followed Dumbolini and others to the Malay Peninsula from Suwai Rasi and other places, and they are the biggest beneficiaries of the Bugis after conquering the Malay Peninsula.
If this battle is lost, ordinary Bugis people may still have a way to live, but they must be finished, the cake is so big, the Tang people eat it, they don't have to eat it.
So Ibrahim Sultan has nothing to mobilize for, because everyone knows what this defeat means.
The short drum sounded, and more than 2,400 soldiers of the Heavenly Tiger Army stepped on the drum and walked forward, with bayonets inserted, and the cold and shining flintlock pistols were still held diagonally in their hands, and they were not raised prematurely.
At this time, the situation on the battlefield was already in a mess, and the Johor Bugis people in front were cut into a group.
The Chinese, who were slightly smaller than them, were surrounding them, slashing with guns and knives, repeatedly peeling onions, peeling the Bugis thinner and thinner.
The Sultan Ibrahim can still command, that is, the more than 2,000 people of the Celestial Tiger Army, and the others, although they are superior in numbers, will not be defeated immediately, but if the battle situation does not change much, sooner or later they will not be able to escape the fate of destruction.
The short sound of drums and neat footsteps, as if they had magical power, immediately attracted the Ye family soldiers who were fighting together.
At the shouts of the officers, they began to line up one after another, just like a beast that had begun to enjoy a good meal, smelling the scent of other beasts around it.
Looking at the two tiger flags flying high in the Heavenly Tiger Army, many Bugis soldiers who had lost their organization also began to assemble behind their queues, and they actually had some rules!
Because they were on the battlefield, they didn't go far, and the Heavenly Tiger Army and the Ye family soldiers who had regrouped on the opposite side walked into the effective range of the smoothbore guns in their hands, and the most tragic battles in the entire eighteenth century in Nanyang and even East Asia began.
The Bugis people put out two horizontal formations, and the Ye family basically formed two horizontal formations, as for how many people are in a horizontal formation, sorry, the commanders on both sides don't know, they only know that there are constantly people adding to their horizontal formations, and the queue seems to be lined up to the edge of the sky.
It was the Bugis who fired first, and almost seven hundred flintlock muskets were fired, and the Ye family fell down in a row, losing at least sixty or seventy people at once.
Against the Bugis were the 1st Battalion of the 1st Regiment of the South Seas, which Gaston personally conserved, and the 3rd Battalion of Chen Wenqi.
The two officers with a lot of combat experience howled loudly, preventing their soldiers from firing.
Thanks to good training, under the roar of the officers, only a dozen shots were fired from the Ye family's side, and most of them still walked towards the Bugis people firmly.
After putting down the guns, the spirit of the Heavenly Tiger Army was shocked, and they looked at the dozens of people who fell like wheat from the Ye family on the opposite side, and their confidence suddenly increased.
However, at this time, the front row finished putting down their guns and should have continued to move forward, but when they saw that they could already hit the Tang people, they simply stopped and began to load ammunition, even if the officer roared loudly, he did not continue to walk, after all, all kinds of sixty or seventy meters of shooting, and walking in front of them, are definitely two experiences.
At this time, the soldiers of the Heavenly Tiger Army in the back row, who heard the cheers of the other Bugis warriors, couldn't help but want to come forward and bombard the round, and the scene suddenly became a little chaotic.
In fact, this is also the consequence of Ibrahim's too anxious procession, such as this queue for the first time to shoot, must have a mix of new and old soldiers, so that it is easy to move in unison on the battlefield full of smoke and shrill roars.
According to the arrangement of the Dutch, when they are really desperate with the Ye family, there will be Dutch soldiers and officers who will act together.
But the arrogant and inferior Sultan Ibrahim, having been insulted, did not wait for the Dutch to arrive before starting the war.
"Boom!" The second shot was still fired by the Bugis, but this time the salvo was much less, probably less than five hundred.
But because the soldiers of the first and third battalions had already walked almost 30 meters, the hit rate was still very alarming, and almost 40 people screamed and fell to the ground.
"Raise your gun!"
'Whoa! The sound of neatness sounded, and the Bugis, who were busy loading and obscured by the smoke, only then did they realize that the soldiers of the Tang people had already walked in front of them, and they could even see the faces of the Tang people on the other side, and the muzzles of the black holes were aimed at them, at least more than a thousand shots.
"Put!"
'Boom! 'The ears of all the people were numb with a great wave of sound, and more than a thousand flintlock muskets were fired!
The Bugis line shook like an earthquake, and at least more than 300 people fell to the ground screaming, and the first row of horizontal formations was suddenly shattered.
But this also has a benefit, in the chaos, the soldiers of the Heavenly Tiger Army in the back row, who have not been in the front row, finally see the enemy.
The dense smoke and loud sound concealed the tragic situation of their own side, which was also the characteristic of the era of hot weapons, and in the era of cold weapons, if more than 300 people were lost from three or four thousand people, the troops would probably collapse directly.
In the era of hot weapons, because it happened in an instant, the line of sight was not good, so the ability to bear casualties was greater.
However, the soldiers of the Heavenly Tiger Army in the back row did not collapse, they had just received an earth-shattering 1,000 platoon guns, and the soldiers in the first row who were lucky enough not to die basically collapsed!
The strong-willed howls are reloading quickly, and the only left-minded that is not strong-willed is basically crying, and there are even some who have been frightened to the point of mental breakdown, slumped on the ground like wood.
"Boom!" The Bugis fired another volley, but not many people came up from behind, and the front was not fully loaded, so only about two hundred guns were fired.
More than twenty of the Ye family soldiers fell, there was no way, they were too close, and they could hit people even if they didn't aim.
However, the end of the Bugis people has also come, and more than a thousand flintlock pistols have been raised on the Ye family's side!
Sonic boom! This time the lethality was even more terrifying, nearly 400 Bugis were killed and wounded.
Finally, the soldiers of the Heavenly Tiger Army in the front and back rows were dealt a fatal blow, and despair began to spread among them, and many people gave up their reloads and started charging directly under the leadership of some officers!
The soldiers of the Ye family are not ready to put a platoon of guns, because although they have not lost much, there are only more than a hundred people, but they can't bear it!
"White Blade Battle!" Chen Wenqi howled loudly with tears in his eyes, letting the soldiers around him start to charge, but he still couldn't get rid of the habit of liking tears when he was excited.
Because it's really miserable! In just ten minutes, he lost seventeen Chen family blood relatives and more than forty Ye family relatives, this is not a war, this is harvesting life!
This time the queue was shot, and the Bugis fired four volleys, bringing down one hundred and forty or fifty people from the Ye family, while the Ye family fired two more neat volleys, knocking over more than seven hundred Bugis.
In contrast, the strength and weakness are immediately apparent, and the salvo can't be beaten, let alone a white-knuckle battle.
The soldiers on both sides howled and stabbed each other, but the soldiers of the Ye family had practiced the pla bayonet technique brought by Ye Kai, and the two or three people cooperated with each other with great power, while the French mercenaries had a natural advantage against the small Bugis because of their tall stature.
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