Between the criss-crossed trenches, bullets flew and flesh and blood were splattered.

The Croatian National Autonomous Army and the Ottoman Imperial Army fought selflessly, and the Turkish soldiers armed with Ottoman scimitars and the Croats with miscellaneous cold weapons and bayonet rifles stabbed each other like good friends in previous years, it was just a white knife in and a red knife out......

"Long live Croatia!!"

There was a loud bang, and a hot-blooded young Croatian who was being beaten dragged the Turks, who were several times his size, to meet God......

The Croatian National Autonomous Army, which did not have an advantage in numbers, combat quality, and artillery equipment, relied on this group of national fanatics who were fooled into 'stupidity' to support the integrity of the position.

Tie a string of homemade bombs or captured grenades to your waist and pull one of the fuses open, which is a long-distance explosion, for the Turkish soldiers in hand-to-hand combat, the lethality is secondary, and the most important thing is the blow to the morale of the Turkish soldiers!

Sure enough, in a series of self-explosions, the Ottoman Turkish infantry retreated like a tidal wave, and even though they had the advantage in numbers, they were hopelessly repulsed by the crazy Croatian fanatical youth.

The commander of the Croatian National Autonomous Army in this position couldn't help but feel sad when he looked at the corpses scattered all over the place.

The adjutant who followed next to him was far less advanced than this commander, and pointed to the compatriots who were cleaning up the wreckage everywhere and asked the chief officer with a puzzled expression: "We have repelled thirteen attacks by the Ottoman Turks and killed thousands of brothers, how long will we have to fight before it is over!"

The Ottoman Turks had more than 100,000 troops on the border, and with our men, we could not win......

I don't understand, why should we block the Ottoman attack for those yellow-skinned Han Chinese! ”

Obviously, the person who can become an adjutant in the first army knows far more information than the brainwashed soldiers at the bottom, and it is precisely because he knows more that his thoughts become impure, and compared with the group of Croatian soldiers below who are blatantly going to death, such people are more entangled in their hearts.

"Colonel! Watch your words! We are not fighting for the Han people, but for our own nation and country!

Whether it is the Austrians, the Hungarians, the Han Chinese, or the Turks, they are all in the name of conquering and enslaving us Croats, Croatia has finally obtained the opportunity to establish its own country, and has also received the weapon support of the Han people, how can we give up!

The Han Chinese have given all the autonomy and statehood rights to our Croatian nation, so we are now fighting for our own country! ”

"However, the Ottoman Turks only want to cross Croatia and attack the Han Chinese hinterland, so why can't we give them way? Do you have to die so many people and Ottoman hard shells?!"

"Huh, give way? Can you guarantee that hundreds of thousands of Ottoman Turks will not occupy the magpie's nest after they set foot on Croatian soil? Do you think the Ottoman Turks will hand over the logistical supply lines to us Croats?

The Ottoman Turks and Austrians, like the Han Chinese, will never believe in us, they will only think about conquering us and then let us kneel and labor for them for free!

Putting up a position and taking advantage of the trench positions handed over to us by the Han Chinese, the Croatian National Republic can still fight with the Ottoman Turkish army, if we let them jump over the defensive line, with our Croatian national strength, we will be disarmed by the Ottoman Turkish army in minutes!

Looking at the miserable situation of the Balkan peoples under the rule of the Turks, would you like to be a slave of the Turks?

I'd rather die here than surrender to the Turks! ”

After hearing this, the adjutant's surging heart suddenly became depressed, and he muttered to himself: "Our Croatia and the Ottoman Turks cannot compete at all, can we win this war?" ”

"Hmph, Croatia can't beat the Ottoman Turks, but they don't just fight with us, the Banats, the Transylvanians, and the terrifying Han army are all fighting against the Ottoman Turkish Empire, what are we afraid of?

What's more, the various nationalities of the Balkan Peninsula have long been dissatisfied with the oppression of the Ottoman Turks, and to tell you the truth, the Serbs have secretly communicated with our Croatian government to discuss the independent revolution, and it will not be long before the Ottoman Turks will taste the pain of putting the main force in front of our eyes!

Let the brethren persevere, and soon new reinforcements will arrive, and we have only such a deep trench position in Croatia, and if the Ottoman Turks break through, we will be doomed!

The Croatian nation must not take a step back! ”

The adjutant was in good shape, raised his arms and shouted: "Long live Croatia!! ”

Ten minutes later, under the deliberate proclamation of the commander, the Croatian National Autonomous Army, which had suffered heavy losses on the position, resounded with a tsunami-like shout of 'Long live Croatia', which made the Ottoman Turkish troops on the opposite side feel helpless......

In fact, the reason why the Ottoman Turkish Empire's troops on the border felt powerless about the various ethnic republics that were peacefully independent from the Han army was that although the number of these armies was large, they were completely composed of conscripted militias of various nationalities, and only the key artillery units were controlled by Turkish artillery......

It can be said that compared with the autonomous armies of the various national republics opposite, individual weapons are really the eldest brother not to laugh at the second brother, and the backward not to be unwanted......

It's not even as high as the firearms of the Manchu Imperial Army on the other side of the world!

Don't look at the breech guns of the Manchu Empire in this period, all rely on imports, the number is very small, and the weapons are backward, but the proportion of muskets that can be produced by the shotguns is very high, and even the green battalion soldiers who have been reduced to the security brigade can almost have a shotgun in their hands, of course, most of their shotguns are obsolete weapons, and how many can be fired without exploding is unknown......

It's just that the Manchu Empire in this period has completely marginalized the green battalion after the two opium wars, and the green battalion soldiers are no longer considered a field army, and such a security team can use firearms, let alone a field army?

The Huai army system under the leadership of Li Hongzhang, not to mention the morale of the army, at least a high-quality rifle can still be done, and the Westernization movement of the Manchu Empire, even if it is corrupt, is not fruitless.

In terms of military strength alone, the Manchu Empire was not much weaker than the second- and third-rate countries of continental Europe.