Waking up early in the morning in the house of a tropical plantation on Oahu, Wu Yuansheng heard a slight noise outside. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info He hurriedly put on his clothes, walked out of the door, and saw a column of Tang soldiers, who were assembling.

Not far away, Lin Youde, who was the Tang man he was most familiar with, was standing there, Wu Yuansheng hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Lin Daban, what's going on, so many military masters have gathered, but they want to use troops against the natives on the island?" ”

Lin Youde shook his head with a smile and said: "The Wahu tribe on the island is my ally of the Tang Dynasty, so naturally I will not use troops against them, this time our Tang army is cooperating with the warriors of the Wahu tribe to carry out military operations against several surrounding islands." ”

Wu Yuansheng is not stupid, although Lin Youde said that it was the Tang army cooperating with the Wahu tribe, but in fact it must be dominated by the Tang army. This is also a good opportunity for Wu Yuansheng to observe the Tang army at close range, yesterday came a little late, the Tang army troops have already camped and rested, today to see the Tang army assembled in formation, Wu Yuansheng is still quite shocked.

Wu Yuansheng rebelled and fought with the green battalion of the Qing army, and he also knew what kind of state the green battalion was. The Green Battalion that fought against his rebel army was not elite, and the discipline was quite lax, but it could still easily crush their rebel army composed of a group of landless peasants and desperate small craftsmen, and now Wu Yuansheng saw the Tang army, and almost didn't need to see what enemy they actually fought against, they all knew what kind of combat effectiveness this Tang army had.

The queue composed of soldiers of the Tang Army alone was extremely neat, arranged from high to low, and everyone stood in the line without any superfluous movements. When officers showed up and asked them to inspect and organize their equipment, they followed almost the same set of steps, completing the inspection of their equipment and supplies. Plus the soldiers of the Don Army all wore a set of uniforms. It fits perfectly. It looks extremely powerful.

From the face of every soldier of the Don Army. Wu Yuansheng couldn't see any expression. They were all solemn, and their eyes did not glance elsewhere, neither the hesitation of the battle that was about to break out, nor the ruthlessness required by the ancient army, just simple calmness. But this kind of calmness has made Wu Yuansheng afraid, because each of them is calm, and such a unit does not have its own feelings, so it should be ordered. They are the most direct war machines, destroying all enemies in front of them.

Wu Yuansheng complimented Lin Youde in front of him: "This Tang army is really a division of a hundred battles, which is admirable. ”

Who knew that Lin Youde smiled and said: "This is the men and horses of the second battalion of the Tiger Regiment of the Tang Army, as far as I know, they have only been in the army for eight months, although there are some veterans among them, but on the whole they are still a relatively young unit." ”

"Only eight months old?" Wu Yuansheng almost bit his tongue off, according to his assumption, a unit that can achieve such a military appearance must be an elite that has been established for a long time and has experienced many battle baptisms. But I didn't expect that many of them were recruits.

What he didn't know was that compared to the army of this era. Some units may have been established several times longer than this infantry battalion, but their training time is certainly not as good as that of the Tang Army. As far as the Qing army's green battalions are concerned, there is almost no standard level of training, some of them have four or five drills a month, and some of them have one drill a month, and even many of the green battalions they carry have no formal drills throughout the year, and the subjects of the drills are simple, and most of them deal with things, and the phenomenon of eating empty salaries and exploiting soldiers persists persists, and corruption in the army also seriously affects combat effectiveness. The Eight Banners were still relatively effective in the early Qing Dynasty, and they went downhill in the Kangxi period, and most of the battles in the Qianlong period had to count on the green battalion composed of the Han people, and a small number of the Eight Banners still had a certain combat effectiveness, but relatively speaking, compared with the European troops of the same era, it was already very backward.

The Tang Army is a regularized full-time standing army, and in addition to vacation time, the Tang Army has always maintained a training state, which makes the Tang Army's training volume extremely large, although the logistics will also consume a large amount, but for the Ministry of Defense this consumption is a matter of course. Despite the fact that the current infantry battalion has only been in force for eight months, almost every one of them is able to use his various weapons in numbers and is able to carry out various tactics according to orders. At the same time, in terms of physical strength and endurance, they are also the best among the soldiers of this era.

"Such elite soldiers, as long as the generals are not stupid, and they can pull hundreds of people to Borneo at will, I am afraid that no company can fight against it, not to mention our Chinese company, even the Dutch can only rely on the Tang people." Wu Yuansheng said in his heart.

The Tang army did not move, and Bai Nan pulled out two companies of soldiers, plus a machine gun company from the second battalion of the Tiger Regiment, and took a ferry to Kauai, the first target they had agreed upon. The Vahu chieftain Kaio naturally led his troops to follow, and the strength of the Vahu tribe was relatively strong in the entire Hawaiian Islands, and this was the first battle of the coalition army, so Kaio attached great importance to it, and completely drew out a thousand strong men in the tribe, carrying all kinds of weapons, and formed a joint force with the Tang army. More than sixty percent of the weapons of the Vahu army were iron weapons sold to them by the Tang army, and a few natives even owned SC-2 rifles. Of course, in terms of organization, there can be no imposition on them.

At the pre-battle scheduling meeting, Bai Nan proposed a variety of tactics to Kai O, but Kai Ou thought that Bai Nan's ideas were too careful to show the might and bravery of the coalition forces, so he resorted to the most direct method. Caio sent a messenger to bring news to the Kauai tribe, and he didn't even mention anything like "resistance is war", and said directly: "The Wahu tribe should own Kauai, let's fight." ”

Bai Nan felt very helpless, but most of the natives' behavior was so direct, there was no need to say anything superfluous, just do it.

The other party was also very direct, and when the combined forces of the Tang Army and the Wahu Army appeared outside the village of the lovely tribe, the other party had already organized all the young adults, holding weapons such as wooden sticks, and shouting at the incoming enemy.

Chang Bin's face was a little stinky: "This is still a fart army, those natives don't know what the power of our weapons is, even if they line up like Europeans, they can kill half of this group of natives, and there is no difficulty at all." ”

Bai Nandao: "I am afraid it is unrealistic to rely on the native Hawaiians to hone the abilities of our troops. But at least we can practice things like charge and infantry coordination. ”

Chang Bin complained: "Bet ten yuan, you hit two or three rounds of grenadiers at that group of natives, and the other party will collapse immediately, and the infantry charge or anything can't be called a charge, at most it can be regarded as a pursuit." ”

"I'm not going to make such a bet with you." Bai Nan said with a smile, he still agrees with Chang Bin on this point, the natives can't hold out the stage of infantry and artillery coordination at all, and they can defeat this group of natives without particularly intensive artillery bombardment.

The artillery erected three 60-mm mortars and six grenadiers, which was not particularly luxurious, but it was still slightly overkill against the natives. Bai Nan pessimistically believes that artillery may be the only relatively complete unit that can be practiced in this battle, at least he can test the skill of the artillerymen's operation, the accuracy of fire delivery, and the effectiveness of salvo strikes.

Just as the two gangs of the underworld put on a show, Chief Caio led his men and horses on the battlefield, shouting and shouting on the battlefield, as if to encourage morale, and the chiefs and wizards on the other side were doing the same, with the natives on both sides raising their voices and shouting, as if trying to scare the enemy away in this way.

Chang Bin said depressedly: "Aren't they afraid that they won't be able to fight when they shout?" ”

Bai Nan shook his head and said that he would not comment, rather than observing the customs and customs of the Polynesians here, it was better to finish the work early and call it a day, so Bai Nan did not greet Kaio, and ordered the flag bearer to wave the flag, and the mortar and grenadier were fired at the same time, and the shells accurately fell into the enemy formation that was still boosting his morale.

It's like a boulder smashed into a group of chickens, and the explosion directly lifted dozens of natives, their queue is very dense, which is equivalent to improving the effect of artillery bombardment, although the range and power of 60mm mortars and 50mm grenadiers are quite limited, but for natives who have never seen this attack mode, like the roar of a demon, the splashing fire engulfs the people around them, and the impact makes their limbs fly, even the best samurai are not able to resist such things, It was too late to charge at the enemy and lost his life.

The wizard on the side of the Lovely Tribe exclaimed, "The Wahu have invited the devil, the Wahu have invited the devil, and we are fighting the devil!" ”

Despite the chiefs of the lovely tribe chanting the slogan of cutting off the devil, fear still took hold of the hearts of most of the natives, who could not stay on the battlefield that could be shelled at any time, and the natives did not have an organization to restrain them, so when one began to break down and flee, the others also fled.

Kaio was a little dissatisfied with Bai Nan's attack before they had "gathered momentum", but he said that he was very satisfied with the effect of the Tang army's attack. It's just a slight fly in the ointment, the Tang army's artillery bombardment not only killed and injured the enemy, shocked the enemy, but even many Wahu people who had never seen the Tang army fighting were frightened, they flashed out a large space in an uproar, did not dare to approach their allies, and even more unbearable fled directly from the battle formation, because they felt that when the "devil" eliminated the lovely tribe, it was likely to come back and destroy them.

When most of the Lovely tribe had broken up and the Wahu tribe had fled a few dozen people, Kaio took the lead in launching an attack on the Lovely Tribe, and a large group of native monsters screamed and rushed towards their opponents, many of them holding steel knives and shields made of rattan in the other, still looking very fierce.

Bai Nan could only look at the battle over there helplessly: "There is such a large area of Wuyang, which completely blocks our ballistics, and we can't shoot it, can we fight a battle, that is, put a few shells?" (To be continued.) )