Chapter 72: The Decisive Battle of Rag Town (2)
That night, most of the Jacques troops, except for the necessary sentry posts, fell asleep soon after a tiring day's work.
But the Huaxia Army will not let go of the perfect opportunity for a sneak attack under the cover of night.
In the darkness of the night, dozens of figures quietly crawled out of the position of Lag Town, touched a junction sentry of the Jacques army, and aimed at several sentry figures and a burst of gunfire, knocking down the sentry of the Jacques army.
The dark post of the Jacques Army immediately jumped out and fired fiercely at the position where the Huaxia Army was firing.
Who knows, the Huaxia Army changed places with one shot, and the counterattack of the Jacques Army's dark post had no effect at all, but exposed its position due to blind shooting, and was shrouded by the bullets of the Huaxia Army. After a while, the dark posts of the Jacques Army were all overturned by the Huaxia Army.
When the open and dark posts were all destroyed, the Jacques army gathered and hurried to arrive.
However, the sneak attackers of the Huaxia Army fired another fierce shot at the men and horses of the Jacques Army Brigade that rushed out, and after knocking over dozens of people, they slowly retreated in the night.
The Jacques pursued in the darkness for a while, but they had nothing to gain except a large number of casualties, so they had to retreat back to the camp.
This kind of situation of the Chinese army's sneak attack on the Jacques army began in the first half of the night and occurred in several places at the same time.
The Chinese army in the town of Lag kept sending small teams of men and horses to harass the Jacques army repeatedly.
When the Jacques army wanted to concentrate on a large scale to counterattack, the harassment of the Huaxia army immediately disappeared. But as soon as the Jacques army stopped, the squad harassment of the Huaxia army came again. All night, the noise was non-stop, so that the tens of thousands of horses and horses of the Jacques army could not rest and became exhausted.
Many times, when people are exhausted, they are more likely to get angry.
Sure enough, by dawn, not only was the Jacques army angry, but even the ordinary soldiers hated the Huaxia army in Lag Town.
The flames and plumes of smoke that burned at the Lage Steel Works were still as they had been yesterday, completely dismissive of the wrath of the Jacques.
How could the Jacques army, which had succeeded or failed in the hinterland of Borneo, swallow this breath? After the sun rose, the Jacques army dispatched tens of thousands of men to launch a massive general attack on the town of Lag from several directions at the same time before their heavy weapons arrived.
The defensive positions of the town of Lag were designed to resist a general attack of the enemy from several directions, and the Chinese army and militia entered the trenches and earthen bunkers from the communication trenches to attack the charging Jacques.
The Jacques' continuous charge was all repulsed, except for a sharp increase in casualties.
It was only then that Dagaan realized that he did not have heavy weapons to participate in the battle, and it was impossible to hurt a single hair of the defensive positions in the town of Rag.
Due to the rapid pace of the Yaks' movements, the heavy weapons were still far behind, and after the attack failed, additional men were sent back to pick up the transport.
By the afternoon, half of the Jacques' heavy weapons had finally arrived.
"Artillery, bed crossbows, stone throwers, hmph, this is the heavy weapon of the Jacques!"
Every move of the Jacques Army fell into the eyes of the Huaxia Army, Hu Zhen used the telescope to look at the large number of big guys brought in by the ant-colony crowd for a long time, and finally figured out the composition of the heavy weapons of the Jacques Army.
"What are we going to do? Do you want to strike now and destroy Jacques's heavy weapon? Chen Qishan, the commander of the four detachments, was a little nervous about the heavy weapons of the Jacques army.
"Don't worry, our positions are designed to be shell-proof, just in time for testing! It will not be so easy for the Jacques to crush our position! Besides, our artillery has not yet been used, and if necessary, we can use our artillery to annihilate the heavy weapons of the Jacques. ”
Hu Zhen has full confidence in this.
Sure enough, Chen Qishan found in the next battle that although there were hundreds of huge artillery, stone throwers, and bed crossbows in the Yak army, all of them were solid bullets, and the accuracy was very poor. Those stone throwers and bed crossbows not only have a short range, but also have unreliable accuracy.
As soon as the heavy weapons arrived, the Jacques army immediately became active. However, unlike the previous scattered multi-channel attacks, this time Dagaan ordered to concentrate and break through a point of the Huaxia army.
The scene of hundreds of heavy weapons firing violently was very spectacular, and countless solid shells, stones, and crossbow arrows the size of spears smashed into the Huaxia army's position like a torrential rain.
However, this kind of bombardment method at the end of the cold weapon era was almost negligible to the threat to the Huaxia army in the trenches.
The Jacques army fought for a long time, and when they saw the mud and dust rising from the opposite side, they dispatched thousands of people to launch a wave of fierce attacks, but found that the firepower of the Huaxia army showed no signs of weakening.
Seeing this, Dagaan had no choice but to order a quick retreat, he had to wait for all the heavy weapons, violently bombard the Huaxia army's position a little, and then concentrate the whole army to tear this point apart.
That night, the Huaxia Army, as always, carried out small sorties to harass the Yak Army, which annoyed the Yak Army.
However, the Jacques knew that it was just innocuous harassment, so they didn't pay much attention to it.
But tonight, Hu Zhen is going to have a big game with Jacques Jun.
In the deep night, countless figures crawled out of the Huaxia Army position and touched the Jacques Army position.
When the guards of the Jacques Army found out that something was wrong, thousands of people of the Huaxia Army lit torches in the dark and charged, dispersing the guards of the Jacques Army's heavy weapons, and wanted to set fire to the heavy weapons of the Jacques Army.
The Jacques army knew the importance of heavy weapons, and without Dagaan's order, they launched a desperate counterattack.
During the contention between the two sides, one-third of the heavy weapons of the Jacques army were lit up with a raging fire, and some ** placed on the position were ignited, causing a violent explosion, and the red fire lit up half of the sky.
Dagaan was woken up and personally led the elite to join the battle.
However, under the command of Hu Zhen, after the Huaxia army that came out to sneak attack for a while, they extinguished their torches, turned their butts and retreated to their positions.
"Tomorrow, tomorrow, we must capture the entire town of Lag and kill all the Huaxia people in it!" Looking at the burned heavy weapon, Dagaan was so angry that he smoked and caught fire, and stomped out a large pit of dirt in the ground with one foot.
But Dagaan knew that this heavy weapon was not enough, so he sent 5,000 men overnight to quickly bring in the larger heavy weapons of the other half who were still on the road, and participated in the general attack on the town of Laga tomorrow.
After this major attack, in addition to continuing to send a small team of men and horses to harass the Jacques army in a suitable place at night, Hu Zhen ordered all the Huaxia army and militia to seize the time to rest and maintain enough physical strength to meet tomorrow's decisive battle.
However, after carrying out a major attack on the heavy weapons of the Jacques army, the Jacques army was on sufficient alert and lit up the surroundings with torches, and the effect of the next sneak attack of the Huaxia army was greatly weakened.
Seeing this, Hu Zhen simply ordered all the personnel of the sneak attack to be withdrawn, concentrate on resting, and prepare for tomorrow's fierce battle with sufficient physical strength.