Chapter 106: Battle of Kanshan Valley (2)

Facing the onslaught of more than 20,000 tribal soldiers, Ouyang Yu did not hesitate to issue an order to return fire to the five detachments: "As long as the enemy enters a distance of thirty meters, don't have any worries, all the firepower will be fired!" ”

More than 20,000 tribal soldiers finally rushed into the 30-meter line of life and death in front of the Huaxia Army's position, and as three red signal flares rose into the sky, the Huaxia Army's hand grenades, rifles, light and heavy machine guns, recoilless guns, mortars, infantry guns, and mountain artillery immediately poured out their ammunition in a frenzy.

In an instant, the entire area of a few hundred meters in front of the Huaxia Army's position turned into a hellish Shura field, and the sound of gunfire, artillery, explosions, and screams was mixed together, and people's ears could not accept this huge shock at all. As far as the naked eye could see, I saw the smoke of gunpowder, human flesh and earth rising into the sky, and then connected into a large cover covering the perimeter of the Huaxia Army's position.

Seeing the sudden burst of powerful firepower, all the people watching the battle on the side of the tribe were stunned, either with their mouths wide open or their eyes wide, and they couldn't do anything.

"Why? Why? How could there be such a powerful weapon on the barbaric island of Kalimantan? Fidesin was so shocked that he almost went limp, and he couldn't believe that there could be no weapon more powerful than the European powers in this land.

"By the way, it must be a powerful weapon that these barbarians bought from Europe using gold!"

No matter how Fei Dexin guessed the source of the Huaxia Army's weapons, in just a few minutes ahead, the sound of gunfire explosions on the Huaxia Army's position stopped, and the breeze blew away the gunsmoke, only to see red blood flowing everywhere, broken corpses everywhere and some wounded people who were still struggling to move.

The tribal soldiers who were not shot only hated for missing two legs at the moment, and were desperately fleeing backwards, and many of them threw all the weapons in their hands and everything they could throw away on their bodies to the ground, so as to reduce their burden and quickly escape from the range of fire of the Huaxia army.

The chieftains and leaders who participated in this wave of onslaught were running faster than ordinary soldiers at the moment.

The more Fei Dexin saw that something was wrong, he ordered the attack to be suspended, and he wanted to run to the top of a small hill to observe the Huaxia army's position and see what devilish weapons the other side had.

Fidesin was followed by more than sixty white Dutch officers and soldiers, as well as more than seventy young tribal aristocratic officers.

These tribal nobles were in fact the sons or heirs of the chiefs or elders of the tribes, and the Dutch intended to take these people hostage to the tribes, but the tribal chiefs willingly gave their offspring to the Dutch, thinking that they might henceforth be on the Dutch boat, and that there would be hope for the life of the tribes.

Soon, Fei Dexin appeared on the top of a hill with a team of hundreds of people from an excellent observation position, condescending to overlook and observe the position of the Chinese army.

A young tribal retinue asked a white officer in a whisper, a little trembling, "Is it safe here?" Will the Chinese shoot here? ”

The white officer was dismissive of this: "Safe? How can it be unsafe? The indigenous Chinese people don't have such a cannon that can hit here accurately! No one in the whole world can do it except for white Europeans with such precise technology! ”

In fact, Fidesin went to the top of that hill, judging from his point of view, it was safe, because at this time it was difficult for European artillery to have such a range and be able to accurately cover this place. Moreover, before the large-scale and accurate shelling, the Huaxia Army had to test-fire one or two shells as a benchmark shell measurement before it could carry out large-scale shelling, and during the period from test firing to large-scale shelling, Fei Dexin thought that he had enough time to dodge, and he could escape the shelling as long as he hid in the anti-slope of the mountaintop.

In the final analysis, Fei Dexin, a proud white European, held colored glasses and contempt for Asians from the bottom of his bones, and did not take the Huaxia Army in his eyes at all.

In addition, he, like ordinary white officers, did not believe that the Chinese would have such a long-range cannon, and even if there were such a long-range cannon, he believed that the Chinese-Chinese would not have the technology to hit accurately.

The arrogance of Fidesin and the white officers led to a miscalculation that decided their fate.

You're looking at others, and they're looking at you.

In the team of 100 Fidesin, in addition to the white officers, there were also the descendants of the tribal nobles, a total of forty or fifty telescopes, binoculars and monoculars, which were laid out in a large area, reflecting the sunlight and making the small hilltop shine brightly.

This immediately attracted the attention of the lookout sentries of the Huaxia Army.

Someone immediately suggested to Ouyang Yu: "Use our artillery to cover that hilltop, so that none of them can come down!" ”

Hearing this, Ouyang Yu raised his hand and looked at it for a while, and asked the staff officers beside him: "Commander He, where are they now?" ”

"Report, just now Commander He telegraphed that they have entered the predetermined position, just waiting for our telegram here to join the battle at any time to cut off the retreat of the tribal forces!"

Ouyang Yu nodded and said, "Okay, the person on the top of the mountain opposite must be the leader of the Dutch and tribal forces, and the artillery opened fire to destroy them!" ”

A few days ago, according to Hu Zhen's drill for building positions, as soon as the Huaxia Army entered this place, the artillery unit measured the area within all the firing ranges of the positional artillery, and all the data had been turned into shooting elements, which were clearly and clearly written in the firing table. Hearing Ouyang Yu's order to open fire, the twelve 75-mm mountain guns of the artillery battalion directly under the detachment quickly adjusted the gun position and muzzle height according to the firing Zhuyuan, and immediately loaded and fired.

"Ten Rapid Fire!" The artillery battalion commander ordered each artillery to fire ten shells in a row within one minute at the top of the hill where Fidshin was standing.

Hordes of shells quickly unloaded and landed on the hill where Fidesin stood.

"Oh my God! These indigenous people ......"

Hearing the whistling of a swarm of shells overhead, Fidesin had time to say half a sentence when the earth-shattering explosion of shells drowned out everything.

Within a minute, 96 shells smashed into the hill where Major General Fidesin and more than 100 others were standing, and the explosion of the shells uprooted human bodies, wild grass, bushes, and dirt and threw them into the air, and then sprinkled them in all directions.

From the outside, the position where Fei Dexin and more than 100 others were standing was covered by the smoke of the shell explosion in the sky.

Fidesin didn't have time to let out a scream and went straight to his God.

Of the more than 100 people who followed Fidesin, the lucky one was torn apart by the explosion of the shell without saying a word, and the unlucky one, after being wounded, let out a terrible wail and scream in pain, and rolled around on the ground.

"Another eight-shot rapid fire!"

The commander of the artillery battalion, fearing that he would not be able to complete the task, again ordered the shelling.

This time, the hill was finally cleared, and when the smoke cleared, there were only piles of red corpse fragments left except for the desolate loess, and there was not a single object that could crawl on its own.

The chiefs and elders of the tribe watched this scene dumbfounded, in their minds, it was safe to follow the white Europeans, and they gave their heirs or dearest children to Fidesin, hoping to gild and dip some relations with the Dutch, but they didn't think that they would give the Huaxia army a pot!

The artillery bombardment ordered by Ouyang Yu decided the outcome of the Battle of the Kanshan Valley, and also the fate of the vast region of eastern Borneo for hundreds of years to come. (Everybody, I ask for collection, I ask for recommendation, thank you!) )