17 Verse 12 drop from Taiwan
At this time, a scene that stunned the Dutch appeared.
It all happened almost in the blink of an eye, and rows of soldiers fell to the ground, large holes in their bodies (the shafts of the crossbow were twisted so that only the wounds could be seen), but the sound of enemy musket fire and cannon roar was never heard.
Major General Billy and Major Matthew watched in amazement, as the formation of horizontal firing was suddenly broken, and the soldiers threw away their muskets and ran backwards.
It wasn't until they came to their senses and picked up their binoculars and looked into the sky that they found that there were short arrows flying in the sky as dense as mosquitoes in the autumn fields, but how did such dense crossbow arrows appear in such a wilderness?
The enemy's chariots were still waddling on the not very flat field. Undeterred by the dense musket fire and the incessant sound of artillery, they still staggered but forcefully towards their positions, and one by one they broke through, crashed, and crushed by them.
They could not understand how these vehicles could move freely without being pulled by horses or pushed by men, and that such a large group of vehicles gave the impression of being overwhelmed by Mount Tai, and that people could not resist at all.
"Major General Bi Li...... We...... Let's surrender! It's not something we can deal with. ”
Bi Li glanced at Major Matthew on the side with some pain, the young officer did not have a panicked look on his face, he must have thought about it when he said such a thing.
However, this decision made Bi Li, who had never lost a battle, feel painful, and he could not give this order easily, his pale lips trembled, and his teeth clenched together.
Major Matthew clenched his teeth, and his face burst into flesh, and he could tell that Major General Bili would definitely not be able to give this order. Major Matthew's brown eyes grew cold, and he looked back at the battlefield, first the strata that were still firing collapsed, and now even the stratobytes behind them began to break down, and those who resisted fell to the ground in their dying struggles as the chariots approached.
"Major General......" Major Matthew roared, he couldn't watch these excellent young soldiers being slaughtered like animals, this was not a battle at all, because the battle would change because of bravery, but in such a battle the heroism only seemed so ridiculous.
Bi Li still couldn't give this order, but waved his hand dumbfoundedly. Major Matthew didn't quite understand what he meant, whether to retreat or surrender or fight to the end. He turned his head to look at the battlefield, where the soldiers were still suffering heavy casualties. Gritting his teeth, he felt he couldn't wait any longer and yelled loudly to convey the order.
"Order, Fly the White Flag, Surrender ......"
Soon the soldiers on the battlefield began to fly white flags, and some ripped off their shirts and tied them to their muskets, rocking back and forth.
In a burst of rallying horns and heralds, groups of Dutch soldiers automatically gathered together. They dropped their weapons, then raised their hands in the air and began to form a line.
The soldiers of the Shenzhou Army did not get out of the car to clear the field, they were not only a little puzzled but also a little confused. It's just started, why did it fall? Although it has to be admitted that their ability to use firearms is much better than that of the Qing army, it is much more accurate and intensive, and their artillery and infantry are quite well coordinated. But their courage! It's far worse than the Qing soldiers.
"Your Excellency, we ...... We ...... "Major Matthew is still dutifully waiting by the side of Major General Bili."
Major-General Bili stood on top of the hill and glanced at the city of Geranza again. The Buddha seemed to him to see that the Governor looked over from there, and there was great hope in his eyes.
"Is that how I treat his trust?" Major General Bili seemed to be talking to himself, and quickly raised the short-barreled musket at his waist to his head.
Seeing that Major General Bili was suicidal, Matthew jumped from his horse and threw Major General Bili under the horse. He fell on the body of the major general and shouted: "Major General, Major General, Your Excellency, stop, stop...... Are you crazy, don't you understand, for us the war is over...... It's over! ”
Bi Li didn't answer him, but struggled to raise his head, his eyes still looking in the direction of the city of Geranza, his lips trembling as if he was answering the question from the other side.
He was indeed looking this way with a telescope and kept watching. The city of Geranza was quite far from the battlefield, and although the monoculars had been stretched to the maximum, there was still nothing to be seen.
Listening to the sound of cannons that seemed to come from the sky, my heart was so frightened that I felt a lot in my heart. At first, when the first few explosions were heard in close proximity, he ordered the signalmen to question them by signal.
In such a clear sky, the signal from the signal hand on the watchtower of the fortress could make the lookout hand in the red bamboo city six or seven kilometers away see clearly, but it was incomprehensible to the defenders on the other side that they simply ignored it.
Kuichi was torn between sending reinforcements and not sending them. For the safety of the city, if more reinforcements were sent, it would be more than a thousand at most, and if the other side could easily besiege or even destroy the 3,000 marines, then another 1,000 soldiers would still not be able to win, and if these 1,000 men remained in the city, the castle would be much more likely to be defended.
On the battlefield, not only has the fighting completely stopped at this moment, but the battlefield has also been cleaned up. Not a single of the 3,000 Dutch marines ran away, 500 killed and about 1,000 wounded. On the side of the Marines of the Shenzhou Army, one person was killed and more than a dozen people were wounded, and they were all crossbowmen on the crossbow towers on each vehicle. During the enemy's dense musket fire, very occasionally, lead pellets pierced through the holes in the turrets to manipulate the crossbows, and one of the people killed was killed by direct shots in the eye.
Matthew, as the highest-ranking commander among the captives, was ordered to lead his men to repair the bridge. To Matthew's embarrassment, those green-clad soldiers were very vicious. It didn't matter if they were officers or not, they were required to work like ordinary soldiers.
Matthew led five hundred of his strong-bodied men to the river. Only here did he see a large black figure on the opposite riverbank, but they were more than a hundred meters apart, and he couldn't completely distinguish the faces of those people with the naked eye. And the bridge was so badly damaged that it simply could not be repaired immediately.
In this regard, he had a little bit of schadenfreude in his heart, there were no bridges and no ships, and it was almost unimaginable to quickly cross such a hundred-meter river, and if these green-clothed and green-armored troops wanted to repair bridges and find ships, it would take at least half a month. With this time, the city of Geranza may not fall, and perhaps the merchant ships will find out about the situation here, as long as the warships sent by the South Seas .......