The soldiers of the 101st Company, lined up in three rows, pressed forward with a slow but determined pace. The corpses strewn across the ground made their formation a little disheveled, but they quickly regained their order under the angry rebuke of the officers.

Most of the barbarians on the opposite side had lost the courage to confront them, and most of them rushed towards the sea, as if trying to escape in canoes, and a small number of them scattered along the coast in a panic. The dozens of barbarians fleeing back collided head-on with the barbarian team that was landing behind, and the scene was very chaotic for a while.

The soldiers of the 101st Company were unhurried and easily crossed the coconut grove, and then stopped at the edge of the coconut grove. The leader of the barbarians on the coast, having organized a group of archers, was walking briskly in this direction. The humidity of the air in the tropics is high, and the bowstring is not easy to maintain, and this archer army must be their trump card at hand. However, the range of the bow was nowhere near that of the flintlock rifles of the East Coasters, so the barbarians needed to quickly close the distance between the two sides in order to use the high rate of fire of the bow and arrow to deliver long-range strikes at the enemy.

But how could Shou Taoist not know this? Soon, under his orders, the first row of soldiers crouched down again, the last two rows of soldiers staggered in turn, and more than a hundred muskets were all aimed at the rapidly approaching archery unit. This disadvantage in range is destined to make these barbarians pay the price of blood.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! "A large cloud of gunpowder smoke rose over the neatly arranged military formations, but it was quickly dispersed by the sea breeze. The soldiers began to charge and reload mechanically and quickly, while the barbarian archers opposite them were knocked down by more than a dozen people in the first wave of fierce fire, and the remaining dozens of people were a little frightened to see that they could hit themselves at such a distance. However, it was evident that they were an elite army in the hands of the barbarian leader. There is still a sense of bravery. Still rushing forward.

The musketeers of the second platoon also opened fire on the orders of the officers. This time the results were even greater, more than twenty barbarian archers were put down, and the musketeers who had finished shooting did not look at their opponents, and immediately threw themselves into the intense task of reloading.

The enemy was still charging, and the distance had been reduced to fifty or sixty meters, and at this time the third row of musketeers fired, and this time the salvo effect was very good, and Shou Daoist clearly saw it. About thirty or forty barbarian archers were killed. By the time the first round had been fired, more than seventy Barbarian archers had been killed, almost completely destroying their formation.

The remaining twenty or thirty archers had lost the courage to confront them head-on, and after hurriedly shooting the arrows in their hands on the bowstring, they immediately turned and fled in all directions. By this time, the musketeers of the first platoon had already finished reloading one after another, and they completed another salvo under the orders of the officer, knocking out more than a dozen enemies who had given their backs to them.

"Let's go! 121...... "Seeing that the enemy had been dispersed, Shou Daoist raised his command knife in the air, and then led three rows of musketeers at medium speed to the position of the barbarian chief on the beach. There was already chaos at this point, and the leader of the barbarians who had previously routed his melee forces might not have seen clearly. But at this moment, the elite archer troops under his command were actually put down by more than eighty people in an instant, how could this not teach him to be shocked. And then it hurts my heart?

When the musketeers led by Shou Dao approached the beach in a phalanx, the stunned barbarian chieftain had already turned over and boarded the canoe surrounded by his panicked men, and several shirtless barbarians were standing in the knee-deep water, struggling to push the canoe away from the shallow water of the coast.

"Shoot!" Shou Daoist pointed his command knife forward, and immediately there was a burst of gunfire around him, and a dense number of projectiles flew towards these canoes full of barbarians, causing a terrifying casualty in an instant. Some of the savages were so frightened that they jumped out of their boats and into the water to escape. Some of the corpses were also thrown upside down from the boat, staining the sea red.

The musket salvo continued for two or three rounds, until there was not a single living person left on several canoes. At this point, the battle on the shore can basically be declared over. Some of the soldiers, led by the platoon commanders, began to clear the remnants of the enemy, while Shou Daoist raised his binoculars and looked at the sea not far away.

I saw that on the sea ahead, several large ships had already raised their sails and sailed away from the dock for a distance. The small-caliber short-barreled guns on the deck of the ship were still firing explosive shells one after another, and the occasional cannonball exploding in a volley above the barbarian canoe often caused a tragic casualty. Several of the barbarians' canoes have already been sunk, and the sea is full of barbarian sailors who have fallen overboard. It was rare that a few barbarian canoes approached the large ships of the people on the east coast, but they could not get close to the jumping gang under the fierce fire of the rifles, and almost all of them were killed by muskets.

Perhaps the casualties were too great, or perhaps the defeat on the shore was transmitted to the sea, and at this time, the barbarians on the two remaining canoes on the surface of the sea shouted and threw their weapons into the sea, and raised their hands in the air, as if they were about to surrender!

Lieutenant Yu Lian, the captain of the Galician Exocet, who was currently commanding the naval vessels, accepted their surrender and at the same time lowered the transport boat and went to receive the prisoners while rescuing the barbarians who had fallen into the water. The barbarians who surrendered did not resist, and they were obediently escorted to several warships.

At this time, Shi Qinjie had already rushed over with some of the Eight Banner overseers and a hundred temporarily armed slaves, but he suddenly opened his mouth wide when he saw that the battle was over.

Having never had combat experience, he was so anxious that he had even ordered Kyle and Mo Dashan to open the arsenal and give the flintlock pistols stored inside to the slaves. But fortunately, the two of them were still sober in their heads, and hurriedly stopped his reckless behavior of rushing to the doctor when he was sick, and then Mo Dashan went to gather all the Eight Banner overseers, and issued each of them a hard bow and a pot of arrows. Sergeant Kyle selected a hundred reliable slaves, issued each of them a 3-meter spear, and the group hurried to help.

It's just that I didn't expect these barbarians to be so unbeaten, how old is it, the battlefield that was still gunfire just now has calmed down, and there are two or three hundred barbarian corpses on the ground, and the death is terrifying, and it is terrifying to look at.

Those Eight Banner overseers are okay, many of them have been in the battle formation a few times, but those slaves are very unbearable, many people suddenly retched when they saw their heads and chests that were shattered by 19mm lead bullets, and even Shi Qinjie's face was pale, and he endured it so that he didn't vomit. But he didn't dare to stay here for long, so he walked quickly to the dock to see what the situation was going on there.

Seeing that the top boss Shi Qinjie was coming, the deputy company of the 101st Company, Shou Daoist, hurriedly trotted all the way over and began to introduce the battle situation to Shi Qinjie: "...... After a fierce battle, our army has now completely annihilated the invading enemy troops, killing and capturing nearly 400 enemies, and the specific number is still in the accurate follow-up statistics. In addition, the 101st Company of our army lost two people killed and 11 wounded (all wounded by light arrows), and the results of the navy are not clear for the time being, and they need to go ashore to be counted. ”

Shi Qinjie had barely suppressed the nausea that had just come out at this time, and he said with a pale face: "Shou Lian Chief, you did a good job." This time, you led your troops to fight bravely, which is a great achievement! Don't worry, I will write to the military department to commend your merits. ”

"Captain, I've just done my duty." Shou Daoist replied honestly. Indeed, today's battle was easy from the start. These barbarians obviously didn't understand the situation, and hundreds of people dared to come and plunder in canoes, should they be said to be bold or have a problem with their brains? Or maybe they were too poorly informed to recognize how these new opponents were different from their previous tribal rivals. All in all, this battle was a relatively easy offensive and defensive drill for both the army and the navy, nothing more.

While the two were talking, they saw that Li Yi also came back from his ship in a naval transport boat with a relaxed face. When the battle at sea was over, the man immediately grabbed a few army soldiers to steer a captured canoe for him, and then rushed to the warship that was moored at sea.

Li Yi, who climbed onto the deck of the battleship, quickly learned about the casualties of each ship, and the news summed up was relatively optimistic, the total number of casualties on the four ships was only eight people, and none of them even died. On the contrary, they killed no less than 150 barbarians (killed at sea, it is impossible to verify), and at the same time captured 116 people, which can be described as a brilliant victory.

Hearing the introduction of the battle situation of the navy and the army, Shi Qinjie finally put his mind at ease. Nearly 700 enemy soldiers were killed, and only 21 of them were killed, and only two unlucky ghosts were killed, and this battle was a great victory in every way.

By this time, the slave soldiers had already dispersed, and together with some of the musketeers of the 101st Company of the Army, they began to search along the coast for some of the barbarians who had escaped in the battle. And the remaining army soldiers, led by the platoon commander, have begun to clean up the battlefield and clean up the corpses. You must know that this is a tropical maritime climate, and the temperature is 267 degrees, if the corpses of these war dead are not properly disposed of, the whole city will be plagued.

Four hours later, the troops who had gone out to clear the remnants of the enemy also returned. They again killed more than a dozen barbarians and took more than 50 prisoners, bringing the total number of prisoners to 172, plus the 116 prisoners brought ashore by the navy. In this battle, more than 550 enemy soldiers were killed, 172 were also captured, and only 21 of their own casualties were lost, which was an undisputed victory.

PS: Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, I wish you all family reunion! (To be continued......)