The officers of the Southeast Asian Indigenous Servant Army hiding in the trenches were indeed frightened and stunned, and the shells that kept falling destroyed some of the trenches, killing many soldiers who were probing their brains, causing panic among the other soldiers in his team, and many people began to throw away their guns and turn around and crawl out of the trenches to flee behind.

The officer who reacted killed two fleeing soldiers with a double-barreled single and an arquebus in succession, and then drew his waist knife and cut down several equally wavering guards in succession, stabilizing his own guards, before rushing forward with the guards, cutting down those fleeing soldiers, stabilizing his own position, and forcing those indigenous soldiers to open fire.

At this time, the enemy had rushed to a distance of fifty meters, bows and arrows were shot in like splashing water, and many soldiers hurriedly dropped their guns to cover their wounds and wailed.

However, in any case, there were always people who opened fire, and the enemy could not move forward unscrupulously, and people kept falling, at which time the artillery in the rear began to fire directly at the enemy with scattered shells, and the fire was fired by some three-pounder guns arranged in the artillery pits slightly further back.

Heavy losses, heavy losses on both sides, a garrison regiment of the native Southeast Asian officers who commanded here were directly killed and wounded, and the remaining half continued to resist stubbornly, but this time it was different from the past, the enemy did not retreat, and the second wave of the enemy rushed up, directly squeezing the first wave of the enemy into the trench, and the two sides used cold weapons in the trench to fight hand-to-hand.

This is true throughout the line of defense.

Fifty meters behind the defensive line, artillery positions began to fire incessantly, suppressing the enemy charge in the rear, these were soldiers of the native of Nanyang.

But they were covered by more enemy artillery, and each point was hit by three or four solid shells, some destroyed, some still firing.

Thirty thousand of the 50,000 men on the first line were caught in hand-to-hand combat, and the enemy's third wave of troops rushed up, and the enemy's artillery was still fiercely bombarding the artillery positions and cantonments in the rear.

Those cantons were guarded by Japanese soldiers, where there were nine-pounder guns, they could bombard farther, even reaching the positions of three-pounder guns and six-pounder guns in front of the enemy, the artillery of both sides suppressed each other, and the cantonment was high, so the enemy's artillery, especially the small guns below the nine-pounder guns, suffered heavy losses.

In less than an hour, the Japanese lost 200 3-pounder guns, 100 6-pounder guns, 50 9-pounder guns, and a few 10-pounder guns.

On the side of Shikokufu, the losses were also not small, the three-pounder guns were basically destroyed, the six-pounder guns were still holding on, and some had already fallen into the siege of the enemy's fourth wave of charging infantry, and the two sides fired at each other with bows and arrows and muskets.

When the fifth wave of the enemy braved sporadic artillery fire to run in front of the trenches, some jumped down to help the first wave clear the trenches, some went directly over to attack the three-pounder gun craters, the rest charged directly and besieged the positions of the six-pounder guns, and some went directly to help the third wave of charging men to besiege the cantonment fifty meters behind and mingle with their compatriots, many of whom fell in the third hour of the battle.

The sixth wave came up and rushed directly to the second line of defense in the rear.

On this line of defense, they were fiercely returned fire by the guards of their compatriots.

A lot of people have fallen on the second line of defense.

When the first line of defense was completely breached and the battlefield began to be cleaned up, the seventh, eighth, and ninth waves of soldiers rushed over to attack the second line, and on this line they fell more and more people.

This is not a garrison for the natives of Southeast Asia and the South Seas, but the people here have the same determination and quality as they are, and they are not afraid of death.

The seventh wave was basically wiped out, the eighth wave approached the position, continued to charge, and when it was at a close distance of fifty meters and inflicted some casualties on the enemy, it was also basically eliminated, and the ninth wave basically rushed to the edge of the trench and caused certain losses to the soldiers in the trench, and the tenth wave also came.

After the tenth wave came, the Japanese militia and servant army of Shikoku Prefecture in the trenches were quickly eliminated, and the first five waves of personnel on the original first line of positions were organized and rushed up again, which was more than 30,000 people, and the second line of defense was suddenly in danger.

When the enemy's artillery and regular army soldiers rushed up with 40,000 troops, the second line of defense was supported by the rear reserves, and 20,000 regular troops under the command of the Han militia came to support the second line of defense, and the two sides fought in full swing on the second line of defense.

Daho Sake looked at the time, and it was almost past one o'clock in the evening, and he had the remaining 1,100 heavy guns transferred to the county seat of Kochi.

For two hours, his side had not yet taken the enemy's second line of defense, and the artillery on that side opened fire, with the 500 artillery pieces left there, a total of 1,600 artillery pieces fired, and then nearly 200,000 cannon fodder began to charge, and 100,000 regular soldiers slowly lined up in a neat queue and walked to the front of the enemy's position.

The commander here is Kazuya Kyoyama, a general of the Shimazu Yamashita family.

When he heard that the enemy had taken the first line of defense and annihilated the enemy's 50,000 servants, he felt that the time had come, and let the artillery launch a pre-shelling of the enemy's position without waiting for the heavy artillery from that side to arrive.

The first line was guarded by the natives of Southeast Asia and the South Seas, who were deployed as cannon fodder on the front line, and the artillery was mastered by the Japanese servant army who were smarter and obedienter than them, and the first line was equipped with 100,000 troops.

The enemy's 500 artillery shelling did not disperse the indigenous servant army trained by the Huaxia army himself, and the indigenous servant army was more effective than the servant army there that was all trained and commanded by the troops of the third prince, and the servant army composed of Japanese prisoners left behind by the second prince.

At least there were few deserters, the battle line was not shaken, and after three hours of shelling, the losses were not very large, and only a thousand unlucky ghosts were killed and wounded, which is a drop in the bucket for a twenty-kilometer front guarded by 100,000 people.

When the enemy attacked in full force and mobilized 1,600 artillery bombardments, the artillery on this side also began to counterattack, although the twelve-pounder cannon was not as long as the enemy's range, but the range of destroying some of the enemy was not as good as theirs, and the small artillery close to the position was still very easy.

The fierce bombardment soon suppressed the enemy's original 500 cannons, directly destroyed more than 100 small cannons and more than 30 twelve-pounder guns, so that the enemy's artillery suppression weakened, and the military spirit of the defensive line was stabilized.

However, the enemy's forces were too strong, 200,000 people stormed the defensive line, an average of 10,000 men per kilometer, and this side was equipped with only 3,000 men per kilometer, and behind were 2,000 transports and artillery artillery.

"Fire, fire," the commander in the trench ordered a volley of guns, and there were not a few arquebuses in the enemy's ranks, so all they were given blows.

Someone keeps falling, someone keeps rushing up.

After all, the number of enemies is there.

After two hours of fighting, the enemy suffered 70,000 or 80,000 casualties, 20,000 or 30,000 on this side, the enemy was still charging, the arquebus team of the regular army was approaching the trenches, there was a problem with the supply of ammunition on this side, and there was a problem with the physical strength and accuracy of the soldiers.

After another hour of fighting, the enemy's regular army had suppressed the soldiers in the trenches with fire, and people kept jumping into the trenches for hand-to-hand combat.

Casualties inevitably increased, and in some places they had collapsed, and the enemy soldiers rushed over the trenches to the three-pounder gun position, which was no more than ten meters away, and the artillery positions were arranged in the form of points, each point guarding five artillery and five soldiers.

While bombarding the enemy, he also exposed himself to the enemy's bows and arquebuses, and soon the three-pounder guns were wiped out after destroying about 10,000 enemies.

The enemy rushed to the rear fifty-meter six-pounder gun position to besiege the points where thirty men guarded one point at a time. More enemies rushed over and laid siege to the fort, which was guarded by fifty or a hundred soldiers.

Fighting until dawn, Kyoyama Kazuya still did not see any hope of breaking through the enemy's position, his troop losses were constantly reported, 1220,000 young men died, 30,000 were seriously wounded, only 50,000 were entangled with the enemy's 100,000 men, and the 50,000 regular troops behind them were also tied to the first front, and there were many soldiers on the enemy's first front relying on this trench to defend to the death.

His artillery was destroyed more than 500 guns under 12 pounder and was advancing, over there, Dabao Liquor Industry conquered the enemy's second position, but the remaining troops were not many, the regular army suffered 15,000 dead and wounded, and the small artillery carried by the army lost 300 guns, and the enemy's regular army was sent to the rear of the second line of defense to defend according to the terrain, although it was only 5,000 regular army soldiers and 5,000 servants, but it also blocked the attack of his remaining 50,000 troops, and his cannon fodder soldiers were almost dead and wounded, only 8,000 people.

He didn't have many troops in his hands, there were still 50,000 troops of the second prince, 20,000 of his own troops, he gritted his teeth and sent all his troops to the front line, and he must take the enemy's first line of positions, so that the battle line can be pushed to the border of Kochi County.

Immediately, after reporting to the soldiers sent by Shimazu Yamashita, he advanced with a large army, and recruited Japanese civilians along the road to be cannon fodder.

Gathered 100,000 troops.

When the sky was light, he arrived at the front line with his troops, and by this time they had left the county seat of Denios Island for fifty miles, and the troops of Dabao Liquor Industry had also left one hundred and fifty miles.

In the distance, in the county seat of Denios, after the second prince learned of the situation, he said to the little prince: "You go and attack the camp at the foot of Shimazu Mountain, capture him alive, and I will control the county seat and the dock." When our battle begins, send someone to inform our troops on the front line to defect and annihilate the enemy. Remember to have your front-line troops wear identification signs and wrap white towels around their heads. Otherwise, the Huaxia army will destroy them, and they don't want us. ”

After watching the roar of artillery fire in the distance and the sound of gunfire in the palace all night, Zhang Qiang said to Zhao Hui: "It's time, let's lead someone to fight back." ”

Zhao Hui saluted, and then went down to mobilize the troops.

An hour later, with 10,000 troops, 10 million fronts were fast.

At this time, the second prince had already launched an attack on the docks and the county seat.

The 20,000 Han troops took control of the county seat with lightning speed, drove all the Japanese people back to their homes, surrounded the Japanese camp, launched an attack, and spent half an hour destroying the enemy's troops in the city, about 2,000 troops, and suppressed the 10,000 Japanese mob who tried to resist, and quickly divided 5,000 troops to attack the dock.

The little prince had been besieging the camp at the foot of Mt. Shimazu for an hour, killing 3,000 soldiers, killing 10,000 cannon fodder, blasting the enemy camp with artillery, and then slaughtering the enemy's rear camp with 3,000 troops.

The ten-mile Japanese rear camp was in full flames.

(End of chapter)