In June of the 21st year of Huaxia Yuanxian, in the lowlands of Europa, which belonged to the Holy Roman Empire, outside a small town, two troops were silently facing each other more than ten miles apart. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The troops to the west held high the golden dragon banner, and were the Chinese army and the servant army, including 22,000 Chinese troops, 4,000 British troops, and 12,000 allied troops of the Europa princes who had defected to China, with a total of 38,000, and in the rear, 6,000 Chinese troops served as reserves.

To the east, the forces of the two empires of Europa and the princes were allied, and they were very numerous under the gathering of the cross flags. The Holy Roman Emperor Frederick concentrated all his forces and gathered 75,000 soldiers, and Wan Yanliang also sent 59,000 soldiers in the face of Yang Zaixing's strong harassment, plus 44,000 troops of the princes' alliance, the total number was as high as 178,000. Of these, 150,000 came to the battlefield, and the other 28,000 served as reserves.

To be able to piece together such a number of troops, it was already the best of the Holy Roman Empire and the Jin Kingdom, firstly, because the plague did not last long and the population was greatly lost, and secondly, because with Europa's craftsmanship at this time, it was already the extreme to be able to make so many muskets and cannons.

So much so that at this time, a priest lamented in his diary: In order to defeat the pagans from China, we melted down all the bronze bells in the church to cast cannons!

In terms of numbers, the Huaxia Army is an absolute disadvantage, but in terms of equipment, the Huaxia Army is an absolute advantage: the ratio of the number of various artillery pieces is 500 to 300, and the Huaxia Army is more than two generations ahead of the musket, and the Huaxia Army also uses 16 airships, while the Europa coalition can only use hot air balloons.

If you talk about superiority, in addition to the number of people, the coalition side is cavalry. The coalition army had about 60,000 cavalry troops, while the Huaxia army could only collect war horses from Britain and other client countries because of the difficult distance, and the number of cavalry troops was 11,000.

The two sides fought a fierce outpost battle around the town. Of course, this "fierceness" is from the perspective of the coalition forces, who killed and wounded more than 6,000 people in order to seize the town, and the Huaxia army, after paying the price of more than 100 casualties, felt that it had achieved its goal, so they gave up the town.

This was an important reason why the two sides were able to confront each other, the coalition forces relied on the town to build fortifications, and although the simple fortress could not fully resist the artillery bombardment, it was enough to temporarily discourage the Chinese army.

Yue Fei carefully observed the situation of the fortress through the telescope, and then snorted: "The golden man has grown a little. ”

Zhou Yu nodded: "Beaten tens of thousands of miles away, if you still don't know how to build a fortress, then the Jin people are too stupid, and it is not worth our expedition." ”

"But they were wrong." Yue Fei said lightly.

It is indeed wrong, in recent years, even during the economic crisis, Zhou Quan has not given up the development of new weapons, especially the airship has developed to the third generation, which not only has a larger load capacity and is safer to fly, but also equipped with special air-dropped bombs.

This kind of simple fortress can defend against ordinary artillery shells, but it may not be useful for air-dropped bombs that weigh 100 catties or more from the sky.

More than 20 years since the founding of China, under the full promotion of Zhou Quan, it has stood in the second technological revolution, while Jin is only in the first industrial revolution, and even the first industrial revolution in the countries of Europa has just begun. So even if it is thousands of miles away, the Huaxia army can still crush the other party in all directions.

"The enemy cavalry has already begun to move, and their target is our artillery positions." The correspondent came with the latest news from the front.

Yue Fei's face was still indifferent, and Zhou Yu had a hint of ridicule.

This is the second advantage of the Huaxia Army, because of the cable telegraph, on the front that is more than 20 miles long, the news will reach the destination in a very short time, unlike the enemy, which needs to send cavalry to convey the message, or use the flag language.

"Order the 15th, 16th, and 17th regiments of the 19th Army to begin moving to the predetermined positions, ambush the opposing cavalry, order the 19th and 20th regiments to attack the enemy's left flank, and the Germans' troops should put enough pressure on them!" Yue Fei calmly and clearly gave the order, and immediately a correspondent recorded it, and then sent it to the various ministries by telegram.

Zhou Yu was a little puzzled: "Uncle, why is this?" ”

Although he is Yue Fei's deputy, he still calls Yue Fei as an uncle rather than a knighthood or official title, which has its own subtlety. The title of uncle is obviously closer than the official position, and on the issue of the heir to the empire, the tendency of Yue Fei and Han Shizhong, two generals with great military achievements, is very important.

"Germany and Jin are too strong for the rest of the princes of Europa, and if they are not completely destroyed in this war, the war will only be protracted. Although China could afford to spend it, the sooner it ended, more of the war would be spent on roads, water conservancy, and education. Yue Fei said.

He said it to the point, but before he said anything, Zhou Yu also heard it. Not many of the Europa nobles dared to resist Germany and Jin, but if the main forces of Germany and Jin could be destroyed in this battle, then the princes under their rule would have much greater courage and willingness to resist.

If this is the case, the greatest purpose of this expedition has been achieved: Zhou Quan did not want to occupy Europa in the hands of his own generation, he just wanted to keep bleeding Europa, so that their manpower and financial resources were consumed in internal strife.

In this way, in a few decades, when Zhou Yu's generation is in charge of China, the fruit of Europa will be ripe and ready to be picked.

In order to prevent the opponent's cavalry from escaping, the artillery position is a bait to lure the other side into the main force of cavalry.

As Yue Fei expected, artillery was the current king of land warfare, so there was a chance to destroy the artillery of the Huaxia army, and Frederick did not hesitate to use all the cavalry in his hands.

Not only that, but he also sent someone to inform Wan Yan Liang of his plan, and asked Wan Yan Liang to attack the artillery position of the Huaxia Army from the other side. Even if this flanking attack does no harm, as long as it can disperse part of the forces of the Huaxia Army, it can also achieve his goal.

It's just that when his cavalry flocked to the artillery positions of the Huaxia Army, what awaited him was all water-cooled machine guns.

The Huaxia Army, which had long realized rear-loading rifles, was already equipped with water-cooled machine guns. This weapon was a disaster for the cavalry, although the number of equipment in the Huaxia army was not large, only thirty, but it was enough for the German cavalry troops to be reduced to severed limbs.

Yue Yun felt bored.

His sixteenth regiment was in front of the enemy's cavalry charge, but not a single enemy could rush in front of him. The artillery first knocked down one piece, then the machine gun swept down one piece, and then the rifle killed the remaining enemy one by one.

Originally, the charge launched by 20,000 or 30,000 cavalry seemed to be extremely powerful, but after just half an hour, there was only a sea of blood in front of them.

"It's a pity, these are strong laborers." Liu Huai was beside him, his eyes rolling.

Yue Yun smiled dumbly, knowing that this kid's family was also preparing to build a rubber plantation in Chengzhou, and was short of funds and labor, he patted Liu Huai on the back: "You, it's a pity that our generation of soldiers can't get a tough battle like my father and them, but you are worried about not having labor...... How can there be no labor, our era is an era of great profits, can't get the labor of Europa, and don't you still have the labor of Kunlunzhou! ”

Both of them laughed, indeed, after experiencing an economic crisis, China entered a period of rapid development, and the opening of the global shipping route, the end of the great plague, let the merchants of China pave the trade routes all over the world.

As long as they want to, there are opportunities to make money.

"Wait a minute, look over there!" While laughing, Liu Huai suddenly grabbed Yue Yun.

Yue Yun looked intently, only to see that on the opposite side of the battlefield, an enemy cavalry of about 600 people appeared.

This was the remnants of the German cavalry, and Leopold was the commander of this force. He had already been wounded by a stray bullet and his forehead was stained with blood, but he still held the German flag high and stubbornly looked ahead.

The six hundred horsemen beside him were the last troops in his hands.

"For Germany, for Rome!" Raising the German flag high, Leopold pointed towards the position of the Chinese army.

He knew that instead of destroying the artillery positions of the Huaxia Army, the cavalry was surrounded by an ambush. And the destruction of the main cavalry force means that there is no need to fight this battle.

What made him extremely sad and desperate was that they had not even been able to inflict any effective casualties on the Huaxia army. They also have artillery and muskets, but whether it is power, range or rate of fire, these key characteristics are far from those of the Huaxia Army.

Victory has become a luxury, and since this is the case, let yourself show the courage and glory of the nobles, and fight to the death in the charge with your subordinates!

"Rush!" Leopold rushed his horse forward, and with his last cavalry, he rushed to the battlefield of certain death.

It's tragic, but it's useless.

Even though Liu Huai recorded this scene in his memoirs and praised them as one of the few bright spots of the German army in this battle, at the end, Liu Huai did not forget to add this sentence: "Their charge and death mean the end of the cavalry, and it also means the end of this battle." Although they are heroic, they have neither awakened their nation nor saved their country, they are only moving against history, and therefore they are destined to be eliminated by history! ”

Two minutes after the charge, there was not a single German cavalry on the battlefield that could stand, and even Leopold himself was facing the sky with his back to the sky, looking at the sky of Europa with a vacant gaze.

In his last sight, several airships pierced through the sky and began to fly towards the base camp of the coalition forces, the fortress-built town called Waterloo.

It's over.