Chapter 261: Scuffle in West Africa (5)
The vast region of West Africa is full of crises, but also opportunities and wealth, and the coalition forces of several Nordic countries are unscrupulously supporting the tribes they control, so that these puppets continue to raise butcher knives against their comrades, destroying tribes one by one. Gradually, obvious riots began to occur in the German-controlled and Spanish-controlled areas, and there was also a large-scale captivity of black slaves in the interior of the Kingdom of Congo and the Dalon Empire.
The Kingdom of Kongo and the Talon Empire, which thought that they were already ready for World War I, soon began to act, and both sides began to fight back against the war of plundering black slaves. King Pedro II of the Kingdom of Congo sent more than 100,000 troops to begin to march to the hard-hit areas of the captive blacks, and after the training of the Ming officers, the army initially had a certain ability to modern warfare, and the puppets supported by the Nordic coalition army had absolute combat effectiveness, and soon these puppets were defeated to the ground, and the captive areas began to appear stable, and the situation gradually stabilized. The Talon Empire also sent more than 50,000 soldiers to stabilize the form of their border areas, and the German and Spanish explorers also organized the places under their control and began to counterattack, and it became difficult to capture black slaves, but this is only a superficial phenomenon, the real war with the Nordic coalition has not yet begun, and the Nordic coalition forces are still waiting for an opportunity to let their cannon fodder tribes slowly wear out.
Gradually, the king of the Kingdom of Kongo, Pedro II, became a little proud, and took the initiative to march forward, intending to completely drive these invaders out of the West African continent and completely subjugate the lost land, the army of the Talon Empire also saw this situation, and they also sent more troops to the front line, ready to fight for more benefits for themselves, the war became more and more favorable to them, but they did not see the crisis, as they continued to move forward, their logistical supplies began to become fragile, The supported puppet tribes began to move behind them, and the information on their routes, troop allocation, and combat effectiveness was constantly grasped by the Nordic coalition forces, and a huge battle plan was being carried out against them.
In the middle of what became Angola, it was a vast plateau where the Nordic coalition army had set up a huge pocket, and where the commander of the coalition army, Duke William of England, was waiting for the arrival of the coalition forces of the Kingdom of Kongo. As the commander of the coalition forces, this guy is as cunning as a fox, he knows the advantages and disadvantages of Pedro II, and he also knows that Pedro II has defeated tens of thousands of Spanish troops, so he forcibly suppressed the desire of the armies of other countries of the coalition to attack, but patiently waited for the Congolese army to make mistakes, he was not worried at all that the Congolese army would not make mistakes, for a country that had just been armed, they would definitely be carried away by victory, even if it was a shrewd Pedro II, that feeling of victory was very proud, and at this time it will be their chance to fight back, and a decisive victory in the war will come.
Finally, when the decisive moment came, the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Kingdom of Kongo were carried away by the victory, and they rushed headlong into the huge encirclement of the Nordic coalition army, but they had not yet discovered this conspiracy, even the Germans and Spaniards did not notice, and the rear of the army of the Kingdom of Kongo began to become a little chaotic.
Under a small hill, a Kongo army of nearly 10,000 men was chasing the puppet tribesmen in front of them, who were escorting more than 1,000 black slaves on the march back. However, the Congolese soldiers did not find that these black slaves were a little different from the usual, and usually those black people who were taken captive would have fierce resistance after discovering that they had rescued their troops, but these people were very obedient to these people's orders, and there was no obvious resistance, but no one would observe this phenomenon, and they all thought that it was enough to free these people.
I don't know that this is a trap, this is a trap set by Commander William, this pair of blacks who seem to have been captured are actually tribal puppet soldiers in disguise, their task is to bring the more than 10,000 Congo Kingdom troops into the ambush circle, start the prelude to this decisive battle, have a good start to the war, that is very motivating the morale of the soldiers, relatively speaking, on the losing side, it will leave a shadow, and the morale is a lot low. An ambush circle about fifteen miles long is enough to surround the more than 10,000 troops of the Kingdom of Kongo, and this is an elite division-level force.
Seeing that the rescued black comrades were about to be caught up, it was less than half a mile away from the end of this hill. At this time, a burst of artillery sounded from the waist of the hill, and the flying shells then fell, and those comrades they wanted to rescue took out their weapons, turned over and began to attack them with the enemy, which surprised the captain of the team, and quickly commanded the troops to start resisting, but there was artillery bombardment above, and thousands of people attacked below, and soon the forward troops were beaten in a mess, and the troops were defeated.
The same scene appeared in the fifteen-mile-long encirclement, more than 100,000 people surrounded more than 10,000 people, the strength of this battle is extremely asymmetrical, the training is not as good as the other side, and it is surrounded by absolutely superior forces, it is conceivable that the end of this team must be very miserable. The whole process of fighting was carried out very quickly, from the beginning to the end of the battle, it took less than half an hour, not that the weapons of the army of the Kingdom of the Congo were not good, but neither the number nor the quality of the soldiers could be compared with the Nordic coalition army.
The destruction of the forward troops really caused a great demoralization of the armies of the Congo Kingdom and the Talon Empire, and what was more dangerous was that the supply lines in the rear began to have problems, and there were constant attacks on the tribal forces transporting food, weapons and ammunition, and many military supplies began to be in short supply, especially the important material of food, so that there began to be a shortage of food, and soldiers would soon flee.
Correspondingly, the commander of the Nordic coalition forces, William, began to command his troops to counterattack, and kept eating the Congolese coalition troops one bite at a time, fortunately, these soldiers were all indigenous blacks, and the level of fighting was not very high, but the ability to escape for their lives was still there, most of the soldiers were scattered, and the troops suffered great losses.
Seeing that the soldiers of the Congo Kingdom army were so vulnerable, even Zhu Changrun, who trained them, felt ashamed, and at this time, Pedro II also found Zhu Changrun again to ask for help, he couldn't have imagined that a fierce guard like Zhu Changrun, the trained soldiers were so unbearable, in fact, this is the reason why the soldiers have no culture, not only have a poor understanding of the intention of the battle, but also do not have a firm will to fight, coupled with poor intelligence analysis, there is no good combat commander, the mainstay of the soldiers- The existence of this class of non-commissioned officers, so this situation is unavoidable, and the army of the Kingdom of the Congo has not been trained for a long time, and has not undergone the baptism of real war, that is, in a word, the war experience is insufficient, and it needs to go through a long period of combat.
Zhu Changrun and Chen Liang couldn't afford to lose this person, in order to save the impact, Zhu Changrun added his own guards plus Chen Liang's guards of several hundred people, with a group of five as the smallest unit, and re-dispersed to join the army of the Kingdom of Congo, and Zhu Changrun's guard captain became the chief adviser of the operational command of the Kingdom of Congo and the Dalon Empire, re-established the joint combat command, commanded the army that was reorganized again, and began to block the attack of the Nordic coalition army, so that the one-sided form on the battlefield gradually changed.
At the same time as the whole army and stabilizing the war situation, Zhu Changrun sent people to contact more than 30,000 troops from Germany and Spain here, so that they could also start to join the war, at least they still knew these old opponents better, with these experienced soldiers to join, even if the army morale of the Congo Kingdom and the Darong Empire was completely stabilized, these soldiers of Xinyingtian, the Daimyo Kingdom, Germany and Spain were equivalent to non-commissioned officers in the army of later generations, and they played a very big role, both as the main force of the assault when attacking, It can also lead the black soldiers to act together in understanding the commander's combat intentions, and the war has entered a phase of stalemate.
When the front line entered a stable stage, Zhu Changrun and Chen Liang asked Pedro II to contact the local tribal leaders, give them some obsolete weapons for free, and promised them some favorable conditions, let them help stabilize the transportation routes of their war materials, and also buy the grain in their hands at a high price, so as to ensure that the soldiers on the front line can eat well, so as not to be unstable.
The two-pronged approach has gradually made the form beneficial to the Kingdom of Congo, but this can only stabilize the front-line situation of the war, it is still impossible to counterattack, the combat ability of these black soldiers still needs to be improved, there is no other shortcut, only to learn the skills of combat in the battle, and slowly improve the fighting quality of the soldiers, only when the overall combat quality of the soldiers reaches the same level as the Nordic coalition army, can the war be carried out a major counteroffensive, otherwise it will fail.