Chapter 396: Battle of Cannon Fodder

After a slash, the Portuguese artillery stopped for a while and continued to increase the fire bombardment.

Ten minutes later, the smoke and dust slowly cleared, and the gang was organized again, followed by the mercenaries who slashed and killed them.

This time, the enemy approached the camp.

Because even if you fire a slightly larger artillery, you can't stop the impact of these cannon fodder who are not afraid of death.

Each artillery fired more than a dozen shots, from solid bullets to iron sand scattered bullets, but they couldn't stop their charge, and thousands of people rushed together, even the camp of the Huaxia Army had to be taken seriously.

Bows and arrows, javelins, stones, and small platoons of guns and short guns were used, and the enemy was still like a surging river, slapping on the dilapidated camp that had been bombarded by the Portuguese.

At noon, at least a thousand people died in front of the camp before the enemy retreated.

Several camps have been subjected to a frantic saturation attack like a zombie siege, at least three or four thousand enemy cannon fodder troops have been lost, as for the wounded, those who can run back, and the lucky ones can't be counted.

According to statistics, there were hundreds of casualties in the battle in the camp of the Huaxia Army, and if it were not for the cover of the camp, I am afraid that everyone would have been drowned in this crazy impact.

Even the musketeers of the Huaxia Army died dozens of them, some were killed by artillery, some were killed by the enemy's bows and arrows, some were drowned by the enemy, and in the end they did not leave all the corpses, and the camp was dilapidated like a monster with a big mouth open at any time, lying dying on the open ground at the foot of this mountain.

Su Zhengqing's side was even worse, they were killed and wounded by the remnants of the Ming army, almost reaching 600 people, Su Zhengqing's own soldiers were also killed and wounded dozens of people, the people were also killed and wounded 1200, and even the Huaxia army sent to support them was killed or wounded more than a dozen people.

Li Guangdi's side was even worse, they couldn't support it in the first place, they were besieged by the enemy several times yesterday, and there were more than 3,000 troops, and now it can be counted as 1,500 people, and the camp is even more dilapidated.

Taking advantage of this gap, the three camps have strengthened the repair work, the old and the young went into battle, and it took an hour to repair the height that could not prevent the enemy's war horses from rushing over, as for the people, don't think about it, a fish jump, a few corpses can fill the low wall.

As soon as it was repaired, the enemy's attack came again, and it was still the low-level cannon fodder who did not die, plus the remaining mercenaries from before, plus some Xiangyong and Qing soldiers, and it was an attack of several thousand people.

This time, Zhang Qiang did not let the small cannon fire again, but the cannon fired, directly hitting the rear of the enemy two hundred meters, the Portuguese camp, at which point, the cannon fodder was hit, along with the gray cattle of the British, the Indian musketeers, as well as the Japanese ronin and Gurkha mercenaries.

When these low-level cannon fodder approached the camp, the small cannons were not killed, and they were not afraid of bombardment with scattered bombs, and the corpses were piled up around the camp to form a city wall.

The walls of the city in several other directions were not destroyed and the artillery was pulled out to hit the enemy bypassing and passing through the cannon fodder troops.

It was just that they were not allowed to attack Li Guangdi's camp, and the enemy had to bypass and go farther before they could go over and attack Li Guangdi's camp.

The battle lasted for an hour, and despite the help of the Huaxia Army, the soldiers there were constantly decreasing and decreasing, and finally Li Guangdi reported to Zhang Qiang several times with the command banner that he could not resist, and there were only a few hundred troops left.

Zhang Qiang could only order him to abandon the camp and rush towards the camp of the Huaxia army to meet them, and this side would cover them with artillery, and would send cavalry to meet them.

In an hour, after several assaults and several responses, Li Guangdi finally rushed into the Huaxia military camp with less than 500 people and a part of the grain and grass, and after a quick rest, he immediately threw himself into the defense work on the wall of the wall in other directions, replacing the Ming army and the people who were involved, and the Huaxia army's own troops, Zhang Qiang has not been put into use until now, and only a team of soldiers was sent to help in some places, and the situation improved slightly, so he retreated, and even did not use muskets to support.

Because he knew that this was just an appetizer, the main force of the enemy, which had not yet been thrown into battle.

In the afternoon, hundreds of people, all cavalry, rushed over from the big camp and hurriedly threw themselves into the camp on Su Zhengqing's side, which greatly alleviated the dilemma of Su Zhengqing's camp, which was also short of troops, and also helped Su Zhengqing resist the enemy's attack.

And the fire on the side of the big camp was soaring, depending on the situation, it was not Huang Binqing, Li Guangxiong and they themselves set the camp on fire, or the enemy set the camp on fire, in short, the more than ten miles of the Ming army's battalion was completely reduced to ashes.

At this point, the enemy formed a joint encirclement of the Ming army and the Huaxia army from the front and rear, and the front and left were the enemy's cannon fodder and mercenaries.

Although the enemy suffered heavy losses, it really seemed that the dead were outsiders, natives, ronins, homeless, as well as the Ming people, as well as the Qing soldiers.

According to the enemy's method of sending people to death, at least 20,000 more died in this war.

From afar, Feng Quan just observed the battle.

For this way of fighting, he felt very bored, because the Qing army generally did this, the Qing army drove the common people to besiege the castle of the Ming Dynasty, hundreds of people drove tens of thousands of people, until all the soldiers of the Ming army who could fight were exhausted, exhausted, and the morale was all dissipated, and the real Manchurian Jurchen soldiers would be sent to solve the battle.

This battle after battle, in his senses, is a farce, a bloody massacre, and only a stupid court like the Ming Dynasty can be played by the enemy like this.

He squinted at the glamorous Portuguese generals around him, as if this was not a war, but a farce, and he felt that these people had reached the extreme of barbarism, without a trace of human sympathy, without a trace of the so-called civilization that they often talked about.

The outcome of this war, in his opinion, has been decided, the Huaxia army is still the Ming army, defeated.

He felt sorry that the last force that the Ming Dynasty could fight would also perish in this war, and if Zhang Qiang, the leader of the Huaxia Army, died in this battle, then the Huaxia Army would collapse, and the Qing Army would be able to dominate the world earlier.

What makes him even more regrettable is that his credit will not be too great, because all this is done by the Tessie people, these people, even if he writes the music in a mess, his credit will not be great.

The horn sounded "Woo——,", and a new offensive was about to begin.

This time, he saw that the attackers were the most capable of fighting and most like the brave Portuguese coalition of the Qing army, as well as some Tessie tramps, as well as Japanese ronins and Gurkhas, who were no less brave than the Qing army.

The number of people assembled was not less than 20,000.

This is another vicious battle, I don't know if it can be finished after dark, after the fight, the Ming army needless to say, since yesterday's first battle tens of thousands of people were defeated, and then overnight by those mercenaries and cannon fodder troops just now broke the company camp, to this afternoon completely wiped out the Ming army company camp, the Ming army has actually been defeated, and what can resist here is the soldiers of the two camps in this area.

According to the situation, most of these soldiers are the remnants of the Ming army, the defeated generals and some people, and some of them are the personal guards of the leaders of the Huaxia Army, but the main combat force must be the personal guards of the Huaxia Army who have not really participated in the battle.

I don't know how effective the Huaxia Army's personal guards are when they fall to the ground, today, Feng Quan wants to see it, and in the future, when the Huaxia Army is absorbed, he must find such a force as foreign aid outside his imperial court.

Inside the camp, Zhang Qiang looked at the enemy troops assembled again with a gray face, and also felt that the atmosphere was very depressing, and felt that the last moment was coming, this time the Ming army and the people had almost consumed, the enemy still had chips, and he had to let the Huaxia army come out to meet the battle.

This is a real cannon fodder war of attrition, a naval battle against his Huaxia army.

(End of chapter)