Chapter 934: The Decisive Battle of Panama (9)
However, their fate was as miserable as that of the allied soldiers in Panama City who also tried to stop the Ming army's attack and protect the artillery.
"Da da da-----" The machine guns of the Ming army swept away, and a group of Spanish soldiers who had just formed a three-stage attack array were shot and killed in pieces, and the three-stage attack array was broken up at once, and the surviving Spanish soldiers instantly collapsed with pale faces.
The Ming army's offensive could not be stopped, and the Marquis of Yaretolaika's eyes were red and angry, but no matter how angry he was, there was nothing he could do.
Even at this time, a dense artillery fire was heard from the eastern direction.
"Boom! Rumble! Boom -----"
Artillery shells continued to explode at the positions of the five-nation coalition forces in three directions, southeast and north.
The earth was swept away, and one after another soldiers of the Five Nations Alliance Army were killed and wounded, and their bodies were thrown into the sky along with the dirt.
It turned out that the artillery battalion relocated by the Ming army opened fire again.
The Ming artillery camp was located in the east outside the city, and after moving 500 meters, although it was impossible to hit the west, the positions of the five-nation coalition forces on the southeast, north and south sides could not be spared, and almost all of them were covered by the Ming artillery camp.
The field artillery of the Ming army used firing shells, like bullets, and the shells could be fired when they were loaded, which was many times more advanced than the backward pound guns of the Five Nations Alliance Army, and the firing speed was not much faster.
If the power of 300 Ming army field cannons is really to be calculated, it will never be less than the more than 2,000 pound cannons of the Five Nations Alliance Army.
Under such intensive bombardment by the artillery battalions of the Ming army, the allied troops of the Five Nations on the southeast, north and south sides suffered heavy casualties, and the morale and will of the soldiers collapsed even faster, and it seemed that the rout of the whole army was inevitable.
Despair enveloped Duke William and others, especially the Marquis of Jarebreca, the commander of the Spanish army, who was the most unwilling and equally intolerant of the defeat of this decisive battle.
After all, all the colonies of their Spanish Empire are on the American continent, Britain, the Netherlands, France and Portugal still have many colonies in Africa, only after they Spain lost their Asian colonies, there will be only American colonies left, once this decisive battle is lost to the Ming army, they will no longer be able to stop the offensive of the Ming army, the Ming army to capture the entire Americas is only a matter of time, when the time comes, all the Americas will be captured by the Ming army, their Spanish Empire's colonies will be all over, how will the Spanish Empire rise, Restore the invincible power of the past.
Marquis Yaretolaika's eyes were red, staring at the direction where the Ming army's artillery camp was located, extremely angry.
Even if this decisive battle inevitably fails, even if they can't stop the Ming army from destroying their artillery and defeat them, but before that, he will first destroy the Ming army's artillery camp.
He didn't believe it, most of the Ming army had attacked Panama City, and how much defense strength did the Ming army's artillery battalion have, and it would definitely be able to be destroyed by them.
"Attack!" The Marquis of Yaretoleka was the first commander of the coalition forces to order his soldiers to abandon the attack of the Ming army attacking from all sides in Panama City, and to draw some soldiers to attack the Ming artillery camp.
About 30,000 Spanish soldiers killed the location of the Ming army's artillery camp, they were too aggrieved by the Ming army, and at least they should destroy the Ming army's artillery and take revenge on the Ming army.
Seeing the movements of the Spanish army, the generals of the other five allied armies also began to order their own soldiers to kill the Ming army's artillery camp, including the British commander Duke William.
Unlike the Marquis de Aretoleca, the commander of the Spanish army, who thought of pure revenge, the British commander Marquis William wanted to break through the Ming army's artillery camp and capture some Ming soldiers, even if they still couldn't beat the Ming army, they could also threaten the Ming army, so that they had the opportunity to escape and save the soldiers, and Duke William had already thought that the Ming army would leave all the war horses in the artillery camp, and only by destroying the Ming army's artillery camp, killing the Ming army's war horses, and even riding the Ming army's war horses, they could escape after defeat.
That's right, it's for the war horses of the Ming army!
Duke William sent his guards to quickly inform the commanders of the other four countries what he wanted.
Marquis Orlang and other commanders of the four countries were stunned when they knew the news, and they immediately woke up, it is true that the Ming army has a lot of cavalry, not to mention the artillery battalion that destroyed the Ming army to retaliate against the Ming army, if they don't kill the Ming army's war horses, after they are defeated by the Ming army, none of them want to run!
"That's right! It is necessary to break through the artillery camp of the Ming army, destroy the artillery of the Ming army, and kill the war horses of the Ming army! ”
For this goal, the commanders of the five countries of the Five Nations Alliance Army were crazy, except for leaving the necessary soldiers to continue to resist the Ming army attacking from all sides of Panama City, all the remaining soldiers were frantically rushed towards the Ming army artillery camp.
The dense soldiers of the Five Nations Alliance rushed to the location of the Ming artillery camp like waves, and soon they appeared in the realization of the soldiers of the Ming artillery battalion.
Although they had already seen the soldiers of the Five Nations Alliance Army rushing in densely, the gunners of the Ming Army who were controlling the cannons did not panic at all, but instead adjusted the muzzles of the guns with a sneer and aimed at them.
The Ming soldiers guarding around the artillery camp were even more unflustered, with machine guns on the ground, machine gunners pulling bolts and muzzle aiming.
Even Yan Yingyuan, the commander of the Ming army in the artillery camp, was full of indifference, and the corners of his mouth hooked up with a sneer of disdain.
In addition to its own defense, the artillery battalion also left thousands of soldiers down, and under the defense of thousands of soldiers, the position of the Ming artillery battalion was like an iron bucket.
If the Ming army takes the initiative to attack, and the soldiers of the Five Nations Alliance Army still have the opportunity to kill and injure some Ming soldiers, then if the Ming Army is purely defensive, even if the Ming Army has only a few thousand people, and the soldiers of the Five Nations Alliance Army are a hundred times that of the Ming Army, it is impossible to break through the Ming Army's firepower network.
That's not it!
The machine gunner of the Ming army on the perimeter defense of the "da------" hooked the trigger of the machine gun, and the machine gun instantly spewed out a fire snake.
"Smack! Syllable! "---The rifles of the Ming army also began to fire intensively.
A dense network of fire from rifles and rifles, plus a bombardment from the artillery battalion artillery after adjusting the muzzle.
A powerful and devastating blow.
"Poof! Burst! Poof---- "Blood splattered from where the bullet had been drilled.
"Ah---" Hordes of soldiers of the Five Nations Alliance Army were shot.
Under the attack of such a powerful firepower network of the Ming army, the soldiers of the Five Nations Alliance, who attacked the artillery camp position of the Ming army, were like they were sent to the door to be slaughtered by the Ming army.
Almost in a short instant, thousands of soldiers of the Five Nations Alliance Army were killed by the fire net defended by the Ming army's artillery battalion, and the corpses were piled up on a line two or three hundred meters away, filled with blood and horror.
The soldiers of the Five Nations Alliance Army behind did not know the situation, and they were still frantically rushing forward, which made it difficult for the soldiers of the Five Nations Alliance Army in front of them to break back and flee under the powerful firepower of the Ming army.
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