133 Rush to the island
At this time, a wise man cautiously said: "Colonel Dennison, I heard from the sentries who ran back that the people of the Huaxia Empire suddenly emerged from under the water..."
Denison frowned and said angrily: "Nonsense, how can a person suddenly emerge from under the water? β
This think tank thought for a while and said, "I heard that there are magicians in the Huaxia Empire, and they can ...... magic."
"Bastard... What kind of mess is this..."Denison scolded, the thinker lowered his head and stopped talking, then another thinker came over and said: "Colonel Denison, now is not the time to think about these things, let's think about ways to block the Huaxia Imperial army." β
Denison took a deep breath, calmed down, turned his head and asked the thinkers, "What can be done now?" β
The thinkers had sad faces, no one spoke, so angry that Denison slapped the table and scolded: "Don't you usually have a way? Why are they all dumb now? β
The thinkers lowered their heads, not daring to come out, and Denison said: "Order the first and second battalions of the garrison to rush to the landing site of the Chinese Imperial troops, and stop them from landing at any cost..."
A think tank ran out and gave the order, and the 1st and 2nd battalions immediately rushed to the sea, but they did not build fortifications on the seashore, so they could only barely hide in the woods and grass and shoot at the sea.
When the two battalions of 1,000 Spanish soldiers arrived in the woods, the seventh battalion had arrived at a place more than 500 meters away from the shore under the leadership of the battalion commander Wei Zelong.
Shaking branches and leaves tell sΓΉ Wei Zelong...... The enemy was in the woods, and he took off his rifle and shouted: "Trumpeter, blow the trumpet, give the order to open fire." β
Wei Zelong fired first, shooting bullets into the woods, and the other soldiers on the arrow warship also began to shoot, but they were all unable to shoot with high precision, because the distance was 500 meters, and it was impossible to see people at this distance, and Lin Fei's troops were not equipped with telescopic scopes at this time, because it was extremely difficult to fire optical glass, especially the optical glass used in this small telescope.
Although Lin Fei's troops could not see anyone, they still shot into the woods, suppressing and deterring the enemy troops, and at the same time, the captured Spanish warships began to exert their might.
The transfer machine guns equipped on the Spanish warships were very similar to those on the Zhiyuan ship, so Lin Fei asked Sun Yong, the gunner on the original Zhiyuan ship, to operate this type of transfer machine gun on the warship, and Sun Yong also trained Tang Yinchun and others to make them more accurate.
Sun Yong manipulated the machine gun, and hit wherever the woods moved, and he put the rate of fire neither fast nor slow, which could not only cause damage to the enemy troops in the woods, but also not damage the barrel too much because of the high rate of fire, and the woods were full of broken branches for a while, and many Spaniards were also hit, and the corpses fell down one by one.
The caliber of the machine gun is 47 mm, and the cannonball of this caliber plus the cavity effect hits a person with a big hole, which can even be stuffed into the palm of a hand, and the big hole exposes the white bones and flesh of the forest, and the vast majority of the Spanish soldiers in the woods have only bullied the honest Chinese, and they have never seen this kind of scene at all, and many people vomited after seeing the corpses of their comrades.
Some Spanish soldiers deserted and sneaked away, so the Spanish defenses were partially reduced, and after ten minutes, the arrow ships approached more than 200 meters from the coast, and the officers of the Spanish army, who had a great sense of honor, shouted: "The Chinese pigs are coming... Shoot..."
At the instigation of the officers, the soldiers fired at the ship, and the bullets "whizzed" towards the ship, but the ships were equipped with hardwood guards, which were battle-tested and extremely defensive, and the Muslims and Spaniards fought several times, and the Spanish bullets could not penetrate them.
The Spaniards' bullets hit the hardwood guards with a "thump" sound, and most of the fighters in the ship were unscathed, and some bullets flew in through the gaps in the guards and hit the fighters, and the death of their comrades inspired the others to fight, and they roared and fired at the Spaniards.
In the confrontational shooting, the shortcomings of the poor combat quality of the Spanish soldiers were once again exposed, they would not look for suitable cover in the battle, many people even used the bushes as cover, how could the sparse bushes block the bullets? So many Spaniards were shot and killed.
After a fierce shootout, the arrow warship came to a position 100 meters away from the sea, the water here is already quite shallow, and it can only pass people's calves, Wei Zelong knew that the oars were useless at this time, he turned his head and said to the trumpeter beside him: "Blow the trumpet, get off the boat and charge..."
After the battle of Mindanao, the Spaniards are already very familiar with the charge horn of the Chinese Empire, they all know that after this kind of trumpet sounds, the Chinese Empire soldiers will rush out, they do not shout or scream, silently, like a group of ghosts crawling out of the cemetery, as long as you are looked at by them, the bullet will take your life...
The Spaniards regarded the charging horn of Lin Fei's troops as the devil's summons, and were afraid of this sound, and when they heard this sound, another group of people were so frightened that they threw down their guns and fled frantically, and the Spanish army shot several deserters in a row, and the momentum of escape stopped.
Wei Zelong led the soldiers of the army to jump into the water and rushed to the shore, the distance at this time was 100 meters, with the body of the soldiers of Lin Fei's troops, it took 20 seconds to rush through the 100 meters of sand, and these 20 seconds were the most dangerous, because at this time the soldiers were completely exposed to the enemy's guns.
Lin Fei had already prepared for this, and he had already practiced a set of tactics to help his subordinates survive the most dangerous 20 seconds... This tactic is that when the infantry charges, the grenadiers of each squad stay behind and shoot the grenades at the enemy position as fast as possible, without considering accuracy or aiming, as long as the most grenades are thrown out in the shortest time.
Wei Zelong charged with the second and third companies, two companies had 18 squads, each squad had 5 grenadiers, and 90 grenadiers could throw more than 200 grenades at the Spanish positions in 20 seconds ...
The grenadiers acted together, and the grenades rained down in the woods, because of the branches in the woods, so the grenades rarely landed directly and exploded, they all stumbled in the woods, and finally exploded in mid-air, and the scattered shrapnel fell on the Spanish soldiers with the broken branches, leaving not even a dead end.
The Spanish army, frightened by the machine guns and the sound of the charge horn, was like a camel about to be crushed, and the last rain of grenades was the last straw that broke the camel's back, and many officers began to turn and flee, and the Spanish army finally collapsed completely.
Wei Zelong led his troops into the woods, the Spaniards had fled without a trace, Wei Zelong did not pursue immediately according to Lin Fei's order, but sent troops to guard the mountain path and the nearby high slopes to consolidate the landing field, and then sent out five green signal flares.
Lin Fei, who was commanding on the high mountain, saw five green signal flares rising into the air, and immediately ordered the first regiment: "Cross the sea and attack..."
The three battalions of the first regiment no longer crossed the sea in batches, but assembled to cross the sea, because the No. 1 landing point was only about three kilometers away from the plantation on Cebu Island, and the troops could launch a strike on the plantation after they landed, and Lin Fei wanted to gather heavy troops and take the plantation with a thunderous blow.
The telephone line of Lin Fei's communication company could not cross the sea, so Lin Fei followed the first regiment to cross the sea in person, commanding the battle, and when Lin Fei led his subordinates to cross the sea by boat, Denison on the opposite side was thundering in the plantation on Cebu Island.
Denison pointed to the nose of the commander of the first battalion who fled back and scolded: "Bastard, didn't I ask you to drive the Chinese pig into the sea? Why did the Chinese pigs drive you back? β
The commander of the first battalion said helplessly: "Colonel, you can't blame me, the Chinese pigs first used our machine guns, and then used the charge, and there were things that would explode, and our soldiers were frightened, so they couldn't stop them." β
Denison gritted his teeth loudly, but Lin Fei's troops had already landed on the island, and there was no way for him to regain his anger, so Denison had no choice but to say: "Forget it, let's not talk about the failure, you immediately gather the remnants of the army and hold the plantation, our plantation can't be taken away by the Chinese pigs anyway." β
The commander of the first battalion agreed to come down and gather his subordinates to prepare for defense, the west, south and north sides of the plantation on Cebu Island were full of strange rocky mountains, and the mountains were lush forests, and the woods were full of vines hanging from high places, and there was no road at all, and if a person wanted to walk in it, he had to open the road with a machete, and he could not walk 200 meters in an hour, so it was impossible to use it for marching.
The only suitable place to march was to the east of the plantation, where there was an open field about 1,000 meters wide, which was the only way for Lin Fei to attack the plantation, and the Spaniards dug deep trenches here in order to defend against the Chinese Empire.
At this time, Denison had already calmed down from the anger of defeat, he took a deep breath, called an attendant, and said: "I have prepared a poisonous plan for the Chinese pigs of the Chinese Empire, you go and do it......"
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