Chapter 301: Miscellaneous Army of All Nations
Thirty field guns of various calibers let out earth-shattering roars, and several of them fired primitive incendiary bombs, that is, iron bullets were heated until they were red before being fired.
It was originally used to burn enemy ships in naval battles, but now it is used here by Ye Kai, because most of the houses of the occupants in the city are wooden, and in this tropical weather, even the most primitive incendiary bombs will cause great damage.
Sure enough, after less than ten minutes of shelling, the entire city of Khanh Hoa was full of wails, and the wooden houses in the northern area of the city were instantly set on fire, and the fire and smoke made this small Vietnamese-style castle look like hell on earth.
A white-clothed Cham envoy came down from the head of Qinghe City, waving a white flag and howling fiercely.
With a wave of Ye Kai's right hand, a hussar from Poland jumped out and brought the envoy to Ye Kai in a short time.
"Taishang Jungong! We are willing to surrender, please see that the king of Nguyen Van Zhao Zhen is loyal to Quang Nam, spare me and wait! The messenger fell to his knees with a puff and wailed.
The full name of the king of the town is the king of the town of Shun, and the Nguyen Van Zhao who has this title is actually not Vietnamese but a Champa person.
In 1697, after Nguyen Youjing conquered the Champa state, the entire Champa regime did not die, and after continuous resistance, they avoided the fate of becoming slaves to a certain extent, and the leader of the Champa people accepted the canonization of Nam Nguyen, and the title was the king of Shun Thanh.
After that, the Champa state was basically destroyed, but the nobles of Champa still had a certain strength.
In the war of the Tay Son Dynasty against Southern Nguyen, the Zhanren, who had the title of King of Zhen, had always been on Nguyen Phuc Anh's side, and Nguyen Van Zhao was the leader of it.
However, after the occupation of Thuan Town by the Tay Son Dynasty in 1786, Nguyen Van Zhao, who ran south to Siam, lost his strength greatly, and he had changed from a semi-independent vassal king to a symbol of the Liuguan Zhangqi.
"Bang!" A child of the Ye clan who was selected to join the cavalry team kicked the messenger over, and then took the horse whip in his hand and whipped it randomly, and the straight whip of the messenger rolled all over the ground.
"What is your? Dare to look directly at the chief too? ”
The reason why the envoy was beaten was simply that he raised his head and looked directly at Ye Kai.
Ye Kai waved his hand to stop the beating, and he looked at the messenger who was enduring the severe pain with an expressionless face, eager to bury his head in the soil.
"Ruan Wenzhao is a Brahmin, you newcomers have nothing to do with him, and besides, there is no town king now, only Ruan Zhangqi.
Go back and tell Lamoti. Sumat, let him prepare for battle, Lord Shiva will not forgive you converted sinners, and the Ruan family will not accept you new returnees who refuse to even change their surnames, after the city is broken, there will be no chickens and dogs! ”
The latter eight words were said by Ye Kai to the soldiers around him, looking at the messenger who was crying and running back, Ye Kai looked indifferent.
He did this on purpose, in order to arouse the determination of the occupants in Qinghe City to resist, and for these black monkeys who believed in the Heavenly Liberation Sect, he only needed the young women among them to reward the soldiers, and he didn't need adult or even underage men.
Of course, more importantly, he wants to use this battle to test whether the new combat method suggested by Ye Adi is feasible?
And the combat effectiveness of the Cham people is not good in the first place, if they are not forced to the point where they have to fight hard, how can their combat effectiveness be improved?
A strange squeak sounded, and a dense crowd poured out of Qinghe City, where the city gate was wide open.
A small number of them were dressed in various leather armors, and most of them were dressed in colorful clothes, and they simply held crude machetes and arquebuses in their hands, and they rushed out with no one in command, and they roared or wailed.
Originally, there were only about seven or eight thousand people in the entire Qinghe City, but because of the war, the current Qinghe City is full of almost 20,000 people, so there are still quite a lot of people who can be mobilized, almost about 10,000 people.
Artillery Major Austrian Wells. With a wave of his right hand, the herald beside him waved the red flag in his hand, and the field gun with the adjusted firing angle fired.
The bouncing cannonballs instantly ploughed a bloody path through the dense crowd of Cham people, and for a time the battlefield was full of severed arms and limbs, and the wails were even louder than the roar of the charge.
"Light infantry! Sortie! "Jacques, who has been promoted to colonel. Yves quickly broke away from the line with his light infantry, dressed in blue and white uniforms.
"Guards! Sortie! Li Fu Li Ah Shui raised his right hand and led his Guards brothers to attack as well.
These idealistic and educated young guards are all masters of guns, and they have been consciously gathered together by Ye Kai since five years ago.
They live together, they study together, they train together, and they treat each other like brothers.
In the last battle of Fenshui Liang, Ye Kai did not let Li Ashui go to the front line, but after returning to Beifu, Li Ashui knelt outside the ancestral house for a whole day, so this time Ye Kai fulfilled his wish and let him go to the front line as a squad leader.
The battle continued, first with shelling, then with rifled guns to snipe accurately from a distance, and then to line up to shoot, and before they could even finish practicing the project of bayonet white-knuckle warfare, the charge of the Cham people was completely disintegrated.
Collapsed, they were driven directly by five hundred and fifty cavalry in a cat-and-mouse manner, and then the assembled Cham people were again bombarded with heavy artillery.
In desperation, they launched a final desperate counterattack, but it was in vain, and after a round of guns, they were completely drowned in a sea of white-knuckle combat.
Ye Kai stood at the top and looked at all this expressionlessly, although the combat effectiveness of the people who occupied the city was not too good, even if he knew that as long as they were waiting for them to be slaughtered, the combat effectiveness was still not too high, but it was still relatively standard, and let him practice the new army establishment and tactics routine.
As it turned out, Ye Adi's proposed method of mixing musketeers with and without bayonets, and splitting the grenadiers into line infantry ranks, was very suitable for striking at armies that were lagging behind in their own equipment.
Because this kind of army is often on the verge of collapse when it rushes to a hand-to-hand combat distance, it is easy to resist their attack with a forest of spears composed of bayonets.
At the same time, with the grenadiers on both flanks providing strong fire support, they could not easily rush to a distance where they could fight hand-to-hand, which greatly compensated for the lack of firepower of the line infantry.
At the same time, the appearance of the Baker flintlock pistol directly increased the damage of the light infantry by two grades, and finally had five hundred winged cavalry and Cossacks, giving Ye Kai the ability to squeeze the space of the opponent's infantry on the battlefield.
By oppressing, dividing, and intimidating, the panicked infantry gathered together, which made it more convenient for the artillery to bombard the infantry positions, and after defeating the opponent, the five hundred cavalry could quickly expand the results of the battle.
Everything was perfect, but Ye Kai looked at the soldiers under him and felt like he couldn't cry or laugh.
The artillery is mainly Austrian, the infantry is half French and Chinese, the navy is dominated by the British, the cavalry is Polish and Russian, and there are even some Baba and natives who have been mixed for several generations, the whole hodgepodge of 10,000 countries!