Section 490 The front is critical
Although the natives are inferior, they also have masters in fighting with soldiers, and their first charge used old and weak soldiers, which consumed the gunpowder, guns, ammunition, and physical strength of the Southeast Army, so that their attention decreased, and the loading speed slowed down, and now the elite troops were used in the second charge.
They are swift and agile, fast runners, more powerful, more combative, and better equipped, generally equipped with shields.
Knowing that the firearms of the Southeast Army are powerful, the shields are deliberately thickened and become stronger, so as to resist the erosion of bullets, there is still some effect, and the black powder gun often cannot break the defense.
At the same time, concentrate more troops to specialize in the Imperial Allied Army!
The Imperial Association Army is a weak link, Zhang Shouyun had long expected it, and deliberately put more artillery troops where they were, but he didn't expect it.
He immediately ordered the herald to ride on fast horses and rush to the position of the Second Regiment of the Imperial Army, and ordered: "The brigade commander has an order, those who kill the enemy will be rewarded, and those who are killed in battle and severely disabled will enter the southeast mansion, and those who dare to retreat will be beheaded, and the proceeds will be recovered and returned by the local government!" ”
The heralds rushed to the rear position of the Second Regiment of the Imperial Allied Army and howled wildly, using Chinese, Japanese language, Annam, and Korean, which was the last language that the Imperial Allied Army wanted to hear.
According to the military system, the Imperial Association Army uses Chinese as the lingua franca, and everything is used in Chinese in peacetime, and speaking other languages is punished!
Now the use of foreign Chinese indicates that the battle has reached the most critical juncture.
All the Imperial Allies were in their hearts, even if they were reluctant, they didn't have any ideas, only two words: Fight to the death!
In order to reward the killing of the enemy, Zhang Shouyun, according to his authority, enabled the system of the Imperial Allied Army to enter the southeast mansion when the dead and severely disabled were killed in the enemy.
Boss Yan of Southeast Mansion respects life, life is the most precious, as long as he works hard for him, no matter who it is, he will be rewarded!
Those Imperial Cooperative Army members of the Southeast Army are all innocent, and they have families, detailed addresses and contacts, and they can be recourse!
Once they escape, not only will they be beheaded, but even their families in their hometown will be unlucky and return to the pre-liberation period overnight.
Military law is harsh, this is true for the Imperial Army, and the same is true for the Southeast Army, if any officer and soldier escapes from the battle, they will all be executed, although the income will not be recovered, but the honorary title will be stripped away, and those who have public office in their immediate relatives will be dismissed, and the three generations of children and grandchildren will not be allowed to enter public office and join the army!
In the politics of the first army in the southeast province, the most beautiful people in society are the military and government officials, and this kind of punishment can be said to be serious.
And the head of the regiment, Kigami Tojiro, was even more annoyed, once he was defeated, or escaped, he was executed, not to mention, he finally used the southeast mansion to get the naturalization of I don't know how many lives was also canceled!
He didn't dare to complain about Brigade Commander Zhang of the Southeast Mansion, he only hated why the horse basketball man was so unbehaved.
There was nothing to say, he immediately organized a counter-charge: "Form a formation, stab the enemy with guns outside, and shoot guns inside!" ”
"Don't retreat, everyone will die on the battlefield!"
"Protect the cannon!"
He put all the reserves to use, the officer himself took the lead, and he himself went into battle with a shotgun.
The two sides fought fiercely, the front line scuffled into a ball, hand-to-hand combat face to face, and the Imperial Allied Army in the back pulled the musket machine at close range at the enemy, not caring whether it would hurt its own people.
In battle, there are often behaviors that injure or even kill one's own people, and they all kill red eyes!
"Boom!" A gunner of the Southeast Army, the technical arms must be Chinese, like the warship crew only two types of people one is Chinese and the other is Hongmaofan, the enemy hit him, his brothers in the artillery squad are all dead, he ignored the tragic white-knuckle battle around him, straight to reload the shells, and then ignited the artillery charge, when he saw the Kankan detonation, he shouted: "Squat!" ”
Under the close-range bombardment, the eight Imperial Allied troops in front were all killed, and no one fled for their lives, and the battlefield was too noisy to hear.
And the natives died even more, and the natives fell to the ground, and the natives who were swarming in front of the battle suddenly slowed down.
Immediately, eight more Imperial Allied troops were guarding in front of that artilleryman, so that he could continue to reload!
The Imperial Allied Army gritted its teeth and fought, but the number of natives rushing in was too many, and the formation was extremely dense, even if they didn't know how many shots they fired, it seemed that the natives were endless.
Kigami Tojiro used all his reserves to replenish the defensive line, and became precarious again under the continuous attacks of the natives.
At the critical moment, the reinforcements sent by Zhang Shouyun arrived.
He also had a regimental general reserve in his hands, and instead of using them, he sent all the reserve artillery in his hands, a total of eighteen six-pounder field guns, there.
This kind of artillery was made by Sun Yuanhua, relatively lightweight, the gun body was placed on a two-wheeled gun carriage, and each gun had a front car for the ammunition box, which was also two-wheeled. When transporting, the gun carriage and the front car are connected together to form a four-wheeled carriage, which is convenient for towing, and the gun carriage and the front car weigh about 1 ton, and it can be seen that eight donkeys are used to drag the southeast military donkeys.
Each cannon had a seven-man artillery squad waiting, and another 500 men were sent to protect it, and of these 500 people, only 100 were regular soldiers, and 400 were armed military workers, equipped with muskets.
All the people in the Southeast Army are soldiers, even primary school students can use muskets, and adults playing with muskets are even more pediatric!
When I arrived at the rear of the Second Regiment of the Emperor's Allied Army, I saw the chaotic scene of a mess, there was me among the enemy, and there was an enemy among us, and the artillerymen frowned.
But the artillery commander was very calm, he carried out the instructions of the brigade commander Zhang Shouyun, raised the muzzle, aimed at the front line of the main position 100 meters to carry out blocking shooting, isolated the indigenous follow-up troops, so that the indigenous could not reinforce!
Ready, the eighteen guns opened fire violently, and the deafening sound of the artillery made the eardrums of the officers and men of the artillery squad buzz with the sound of the cannonball, and the field guns sprayed shells, slammed into their seats, and plowed the ground into a deep ravine.
The artillery had not completely stopped its pace, and the artillery swarmed up, resisted it, immediately reset and reloaded.
Shotguns were fired all over the sky, and the dead wind swept over the heads of the warring parties, and the cannons even exploded against them!
After hitting a hundred meters, a wave of blood was immediately set off, and the flesh and blood flew sideways, and some of the indigenous bodies that were hit were blasted into a sieve, and blood spurted out wildly!
Some people were killed by a clean blow-up, which was lucky, and some people had big gaps in their bodies, and colorful internal organs flowed out along with blood.
Every time a cannon was fired, it swept down a piece, and taking advantage of the fact that the other party did not slow down, the artillery officer of the Southeast Army sat on a tall horse, ordered to adjust the shooting of Zhu Yuan, slightly lower the muzzle, and when the artillery was fired again, this time the attack was fifty meters behind the line of fire, and a large number of people died, and even many people in the Imperial Allied Army were hit by the shotguns fired by their own artillery!
Rapid shooting, the training of the artillery unit was not in vain, the firepower was intensive, the aborigines were blown up with flesh and blood, the corpses were piled up, and the blood was soaring!