Chapter 237: The Battle of the Beach
When Sun Dahai's Marine Brigade came to Ramsar, the Persian fleet was withdrawing south to Charus. Liaison officer Zargar came aboard the ship to negotiate with the captain, and they stopped the retreat south.
Sun Dahai ordered the Marine Brigade to board the ship immediately.
The ships of the Persian Kingdom are far less large than the Xiangyang-class warships of the Huaxia Kingdom, and the largest can carry 200 people, and this fleet has 300 ships of all sizes, and it is not a problem to transport marines.
Sun Dahai boarded the command ship with Zargar, and the captain was a bearded man named Jalali, about forty years old, and wearing national costumes.
Zargar introduced Sun Dahai and Jalali to each other in the two Chinese, and after the introduction, Jalali led them to the cockpit, and Jalari walked and said something to Zargar, Sun Dahai did not understand.
Later, after Zalgarh's translation, Sun Dahai understood that Jalali also asked to join the war. Sun Dahai told Jalali that after his fleet had completed the transport, it would have to go back and deliver the ammunition again, because the logistics convoy would arrive in Ramsar within two days.
The fleet sailed at sea for seven days before approaching Lenkoran, because the ships did not sail in a straight line, and in order to avoid the enemy, they first sailed fifty nautical miles in the direction of the deep sea, and then slowly approached Lenkoran, so it took only seven days.
The fleet was discovered before it could land, and the marines were forced to land on the beach three miles away from Lian Kelan, and Sun Dahai ordered Li Feixiong's battalion, which was armed with a brand new Type 48 Mini gun, to land first.
At this time, it was the time of low tide, and the Persian fleet could not get too close to the shore to avoid bottoming out. The soldiers of the Marine Brigade plunged into waist-deep water and rushed towards the shore.
Sun Dahai was in the bow of the boat, watching the charging warriors, who were holding Minnie guns one by one, moving forward at the fastest speed.
Right on the shore, there was already an assembly of Ottoman cavalry, which had rushed out of the castle of Lenkoran after discovering the ship, with the obvious purpose of preventing the Marine Brigade from coming ashore.
Sun Dahai observed these cavalry with a telescope, although it was a heavy cavalry, he saw that the weapons they carried were still cold weapons, and most of the weapons they used were swords and crossbows, and there were a small number of flintlock muskets, which had to be dismounted before they could be fired.
Sure enough, when Li Feixiong's battalion rushed to the firing distance of the Type 48 Mini gun, they started shooting at the shore one after another without waiting for an order, and the sound of the Mini gun became more and more intense, and the black smoke rose up, blocking Sun Dahai's line of sight.
If he could get to the coast earlier, he would be able to crush the Ottoman cavalry earlier, and Sun Dahai certainly understood this truth, so he ordered a regiment in the second echelon to join the battle for the beachhead.
But after the second wave of warriors jumped into the water, the liaison officer Zargar led the captain of the ship, Jalali, to find Sun Dahai.
Zargar said: "General Sun, our warships can fire guns on the shore, but the gunboats must move forward to the coast. ”
Sun Dahai heard the dense gunfire of Minnie and judged that Li Feixiong's battalion was close to the coast, so he said: "Thank you for your support, but there is no need to use your artillery at this time, our vanguard has already reached the shore." ”
After Sun Dahai finished speaking, he handed the telescope to Jalali.
Jalali took the binoculars and understood what he meant without asking, so he raised the binoculars and observed the battle of the Landing Brigade attack.
Zalgarh looked at Jalali anxiously, and he also wanted to know how the current battle was going.
Gradually, Zargarh saw the stern face of Jalari glow, and it was not difficult to see from his expression that the tide of battle was turning in his favor.
Zargar couldn't wait to get the telescope from Jalaari's hand, and the gunfire was getting more and more intense, and the Marine Brigade was already starting to land, and Zargar couldn't see anything but billowing black smoke.
"I can't see anything clearly, what's the battle going on?" Zargar was even more anxious.
Sun Dahai smiled lightly: "Don't look at it. Listening to the gunshots, I can conclude that our soldiers have landed on the coast. ”
Jalaari told Zargar that he couldn't see anything but black smoke, and that he was smiling because he felt it.
It is an indisputable fact that Li Feixiong's battalion attacked the coast first.
Because the weapons of the two armies are not on the same level, and the Marine Brigade is trained for a long time, skilled in marksmanship, and fast in rate of fire, Li Feixiong ordered that he could shoot as long as he approached the enemy, so the initiative on the battlefield was inclined to the Marine Brigade, although they were in the water, and the enemy was on the shore.
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The Ottoman army was tasked with stopping the enemy from the sea, the Spark cavalry regiment, all of them were metal cuirass, helmets, gloves and shin armor, and even their horses were covered with armor, if it was the age of cold weapons, this was a super defensive heavy cavalry, they held shields, brandished sabers, and some were armed with bows and arrows, and killed from Lenkoran.
In command of this cavalry regiment was Major Akmund, a heavily armored man with a round, pointed helmet with a ring of armor covering his face and neck, revealing only a pair of eagle-like eyes.
In his hand flew a sword of Parjus, a broad-edged sword with which he had slain countless enemies on the battlefield, and today, he wielded this sword to make a new contribution to the Ottoman Empire.
However, today, today he met the elite of Huaxia Kingdom, but when he raised this sword, he was never able to cut off his sword again, because his raised arm was hit by a sudden bullet, and the Parjus sword fell to the ground, and he also fell heavily to the ground.
The adjutant jumped off his horse and galloped forward and shouted, "Major! Major! ”
However, the sound of the lieutenant's voice was drowned out by the thumping of the soldiers' gunshots, and Major Akmund heard nothing but saw the lieutenant opening his mouth.
He struggled to his feet and said, "Fight back!" Counterattack! ”
Again, no one could hear what he was saying, and he raised his sword in his left hand and signaled to charge, and the knights rushed to the beach with their sabers.
Another bullet hit the pointed helmet, and the spinning bullet pierced through the helmet, stopping its movement when it first touched Major Akmund's scalp, and Major Akmund only felt a burning sensation on his forehead, and then fainted.
The bullet did not kill him, and Major Akmund was only stunned, and the adjutant took his command and ordered the flintlock men to dismount and fight back.
The dense bullets knocked the knights who rushed forward off their horses, and the adjutant reorganized the waves of charges, believing that as long as he had enough speed, he would be able to crush the yellow people who could only shoot.
However, no matter how much he persisted, the platoon that rushed forward was always crushed, and the yellow people were getting closer and closer to the coast.
"The enemy is already attacking, run!" I don't know who shouted, the adjutant wanted to stop it, but it was too late, and he was also swept into the torrent of retreat.