Chapter 1056: The Great Defeat of the British Army (Part II)
The sudden attack of the Chinese Imperial army on the north flank inflicted heavy losses on the British troops led by Campbell. was already ready to retreat at any time, but because the artillery had been set up, he waited for the artillery to fire with a breath of evil breath, and turned defeat into victory with artillery.
Unexpectedly, at this most critical moment, another enemy army rushed out of the ruins of Calcutta, just attacking their own team from the flank.
What annoyed Campbell the most was that the artillery that the artillerymen had set up was aimed at the trenches due west and the enemy forces behind them. However, because of the charge of this group of enemy troops rushing from the north, one of the artillery battalion commanders may have been dazed, and even ordered to turn the direction of the guns and turn to the enemy troops attacking from the north. Turning to the north of the attacking enemy troops, but the other artillery also followed him to turn the muzzle, but halfway through, someone pointed out to the artillery battalion commander that the four columns of the north row were his own British soldiers, and if the artillery opened fire on the rushing enemy troops, it would inevitably hurt their own soldiers in the north. The commander of the artillery battalion, who thought he was clever, ordered the artillery to be turned around again and continue to aim at the enemy forces to the west!
In this way, at this most critical moment, not a single artillery piece was erected in these two artillery battalions, and the 48 9-pounder field guns that should have been erected long ago were delayed because of such a toss.
Campbell was delayed by such pig artillery, and he couldn't even express his anger, but only grief and indignation. Because at this time, he had already discovered that the British soldiers lined up in such a formation made the enemy charge in the north unstoppable. But at this time, changing the formation is a taboo for soldiers, but seeing the people in the north turning on their backs, countless soldiers fell to the ground with every round of gunfire, and Campbell couldn't wait for defeat, so he could only grit his teeth and order, and the last two rows of soldiers retreated, changed the formation to the north, met the enemy troops charging from the north, and blocked their attack!
But at this time, the British army was already panicked, and Campbell somewhat overestimated the strong psychological quality of the British army.
As soon as the soldiers in the back two rows moved, the British soldiers in the front two rows also panicked, and they could no longer strictly abide by military discipline. It is no wonder that even the officers in the front row began to feel weak, they originally fired indiscriminately at the side of the trench, forced themselves to composure, and waited for the artillery to fire as promised, but they did not appear for a long time, and a large number of enemy troops suddenly appeared in the north, and brutally annihilated their own troops in the north, so that these soldiers and officers were also terrified. As soon as the soldiers in the back two rows moved, they thought that the officers had ordered them to retreat, so that no one wanted to be abandoned substitutes, so even the officers began to turn around and retreat to the east, and the soldiers became even more moved.
On the battlefield of tens of thousands of people, what they are most afraid of is change. And the soldiers, no matter when and where they are, have a kind of blind obedience on the battlefield, just like a flock of ducks, a ball of ducks is driven and there is pressure, as long as there are a small number of ducks, even if there is only one duck, go in one direction, and all the other ducks will follow. At this time, such a duck flock effect appeared, and all the British soldiers on the battlefield moved with the soldiers in the two rows behind, and originally, these soldiers only retreated a few dozen meters to the east and then prepared to go north to resist the enemy troops in the north, but in the eyes of the British soldiers who followed the movement, it was to retreat to the east.
As a result, the soldiers in the back two rows, fearing the pursuit of the enemy behind the west, withdrew faster and fled directly to the east. In this way, Campbell's original order to mobilize some troops to support the north became a rout of the entire line to the east!
And at this time, Tabuqi, who was already alarmed by the north, immediately discovered the fighter!
The most military general who survived a hundred battles in the sea of corpses and blood, his sensitive grasp of the battlefield is unparalleled, even in this firearms battlefield.
From the moment Lin Litong launched the charge in the north, he had already understood, and ordered his soldiers to prepare to charge, so that the soldiers would no longer stay away from the trenches, but would shoot while crawling towards the trench defenses, while keeping the sentinels firmly on the battlefield to the east and the battlefield to the north.
And the British artillery has not fired, which makes him even more glad, he knows that he can't drag it out any longer, the British commander must want to wait for the artillery to come forward, in fact, he is not like this!
But at this moment, the abnormal movement of the British army made him ecstatic and found a breakthrough at once. In fact, it was not a breakthrough, but he himself didn't understand why the foreigners were suddenly fleeing east. But at this time, how can they easily escape?
Tabuqi immediately pulled up the war horse that was kneeling on the ground, turned over on the horse cleanly, and shouted with a knife: "The Yingyi army is defeated, flee to the east, and all the soldiers will follow a certain pursuit to kill the enemy!" ”
Suddenly, more than 100 cavalrymen followed him, leading 7,000 infantry, and 2,000 soldiers in the trenches also climbed out of the trenches, shooting eastward while launching a charge.
Campbell was stunned! Seeing the enemy troops swarming from both sides, he was helpless, surrounded by the guards, and quickly got on his horse and fled eastward. Even if he rode on a war horse, he was soulless, his heart was boundless, and he was always unwilling to believe it in his mind: he was defeated like this. It's over, the British army in India is over, the Indian colonies are over!
The British army was not slow to escape, but the pursuers of the Chinese Empire were not slow to do so. In particular, some Japanese soldiers, thinking of gaining military merits in exchange for noble Han status and farm property, pursued very quickly. Many of them were originally in the northeast, but at this moment, they saw the British army fleeing and directly blocked to the south, at this time, there was no longer any formation and combat line, and some were just a melee.
In this melee, as long as the British army was glued, the speed of escape slowed down, causing more melee, and soon, from the original northeast, extended.
Speaking of scuffles, where are the British soldiers, who have no morale and only think about escaping, who are the opponents of the Japanese soldiers with red eyes and their minds full of military exploits? In a mess, they lost their mutual cooperation, and it was simply difficult to change the bullets and ammunition, and it all became a hand-to-hand fight with bayonets.
In terms of force, although the Japanese soldiers are short in stature, they are strong and strong, and the length of the Mauser rear-loading rifled rifle is nearly 20 centimeters longer than the British Enfield rifled rifle, and with a bayonet, it is more than 1.6 meters, although it weighs 6 kilograms, but it is more powerful when used by soldiers who were originally samurai under the Japanese city. Moreover, this Japanese soldier did not regard himself as a human being at all, and was not afraid of death, and his frenzied fighting made the British soldiers frightened, and these gentlemen who were originally from Great Britain suddenly couldn't figure out who was fighting against the odds and who was fleeing for their lives.
Where did they think of it, it was just because these Japanese soldiers were naturally bloodthirsty, and wanted to poke their bayonets in their bodies to prove their military merits. After all, in face-to-face fighting, this military merit is far more tangible than the merit of bullet shooting, and no one can take it away. And the Japanese soldiers looked at the British soldiers, and it was clear that they were not enemy troops, but the glory of the warriors and acres of fertile fields at their fingertips.
The war ended sooner than Tazib had expected.
Under the bloody bayonets of the Chinese Empire's Japanese soldiers who were like demons from hell, the soldiers of the British Empire soon collapsed completely.
In less than two hours, the battle had completely subsided. In addition to the nearly 6,000 soldiers in the south and in the center who fled with the British officers on horseback, the remaining 3,500 or so British troops were killed on the spot by the rising Japanese soldiers, and nearly 5,000 British soldiers surrendered to the Han Manchu soldiers led by Taqib, and among them, there were nearly 1,000 inexplicable British artillerymen.