The decisive battle between the Taiping army and the Siamese army was at Nakhon Sawan. This is the central part of Siam, where the Binh, Wang, Yong and Nan rivers converge and form Thailand's most important waterway, the Chao Phraya River. It is the confluence of the Nanhe and Bin rivers. It is also the farthest point in the northwest direction of the Siam Domestic Railway.

Nakhon Sawan is located in the northern and lower northern regions of Siam, between the northern and central regions. It is known as the "Gate of the North" and is the transportation center of the Lower North. This is not because the city is connected by rail, but because Nakhon Sawan is located on the banks of the Chao Phraya River, one of Siam's most important waterways and canals, and is the lifeblood of south-central Siam. This place is less than five hundred miles from Bangkok!

In this war, Shi Dakai really went to the battlefield in person. The Taiping army gathered nearly 30,000 people, which can be said to be the main force of the Taiping army. As for the Siamese army, it was still the original configuration - Chulalongkorn stayed far away in Bangkok, the commander-in-chief Prince Lolonapale also stayed in Bangkok, and the actual commanders were the defeated Germans Keitel and Phibun. Songkan, plus the so-called mercenary from India - Charles, the colonel of the British Army.

This was the first foreign mercenary force in the history of the Siamese Bangkok dynasty, with four thousand people. The Anglo-Indian colonial army of Yishui included 1,000 British, 500 Gurkhas, and 500 Sikhs, and the remaining half were Indians with relatively low combat effectiveness.

There is no way, the perception that the Indians gave to Britain is the perception of India's neighboring countries. The Gurkhas' combat power is absolutely overwhelming in India, and the Sikhs are also braver and better at fighting than the Hindu Indians, not to mention the British Red Shrimp soldiers.

This is a team with a lot of combat effectiveness, Charles has more than thirty heavy machine guns. A similar number of mortars, and two artillery batteries formed an artillery battalion. They were troops sent by the British at Chulalongkorn's request. After entering Siam. All military salaries and military expenses were borne by the Bangkok dynasty.

Such a mercenary army of 4,000 men, and a Siamese army of up to 50,000 men. It is the opponent of the Taiping Army in this battle!

The Siamese army arranged its positions along the river and the favorable terrain, but the protruding position at the forefront was the mercenary army. The arrogant Charles didn't take the Taiping Army seriously at all, "It's a rotten and backward army, they are very brave, but that's all." The Zulus are brave too, aren't they? ”

Charles defiantly said to Keitel, "Not all Chinese can fight." The Taiping Army is not a Chinese defense force. To be feared by a group of hypocrites of God would be a disgrace to God. ”

This was the beginning of the war. The Siamese army set the table, and Shi Dakai didn't dare to eat. After two months of fighting. Shi Dakai was well aware of the combat effectiveness of the Siamese army and was full of confidence in the victory of the entire war.

And the current battle of this scale is exactly what he has dreamed of for a long time. The big battle is good, the results are many, and one battle can top ten battles!

However, although epoch-making innovations have taken place in the weapons of war, there will be no fundamental change in the way war is waged -- the first point is to know the enemy and to reconnoitre.

In the future, when technology continues to develop, reconnaissance will be carried out by aircraft and radar, and now this is still cavalry on both sides, as well as observation balloons. At this point, whether it is the British GI or the Taiping Army under the Wehrmacht. Nothing was created that was fundamentally different.

Before the war, the fast horses on both sides were all coming and going, and they had to collide with each other from time to time. When the two sides clashed, they both raised observation balloons and operated binoculars.

Both sides were preparing for artillery fire, and both were trying to observe the other side's artillery positions. The artillery strength of the British army was not weak. The 4,000-strong army had two artillery batteries of six guns and more than thirty mortars, not to mention the Taiping army. The main force of 30,000 people is equipped with more than 50 guns, and all of them are the latest breech guns!

The hydraulic tube withdrawal gun has already taken shape. The elastic gun mount is still being used, but it is still a long way from being finalized. However, the main and secondary guns of China's newly built warships have been left vacant. So now the artillery of the Wehrmacht began to rigidly mount!

The artillery on both sides rumbled after a round of bombardment. The infantry offensive finally began.

The Taiping Army is no longer the Taiping Army of the past, and Shi Dakai has been nesting in the triangle for more than ten years. After several rectifications, the Taiping Army in front of us is a real modern army with the National Defense Force as an example.

The Wehrmacht is now internationally known as the strongest infantry in the East, an army that can compete with the Germans.

Europeans want face. At the beginning of Liu Xian's successive victories against the Russian army, the Chinese army was regarded as the 'strongest army in the world', but by the end of the war, the previous momentum had gone down, and the media in Europe and the United States praised the German army again. Anyway, if China doesn't have a relationship with Germany and learn how powerful a German goose is, this topic will be unsolvable.

However, the evaluation of the foreign media cannot really lower the combat effectiveness of the National Defense Force, nor can it weaken the combat effectiveness of the Taiping Army. Now the Taiping Army, which was established on the example of the Wehrmacht, will have to fight with the British one step ahead of the Wehrmacht.

Perhaps in terms of equipment and supplies, the Taiping Army could not compete with the Wehrmacht, but their training was also very strict and hard.

A motivated army is never something that a 'poor' can stop. No matter how poor and difficult the environment is, such a unit can make maximum use of current technology, make maximum use of the weapons it has mastered, and then give full play to their role to the greatest extent.

The Taiping Army has always been a self-motivated army. As early as forty years ago, they destroyed the walls of one city after another and occupied the territory of one city after another by digging tunnels and filling coffins. The current Taiping Army is more equipped with weapons than its own martyrs, but its spirit has not decreased.

The battle began. The Taiping Army rushed out of the previously excavated extended tunnels, the troop charge queue was scattered with regularity, and the Pacific Ocean was based on squad units as combat units, and the soldiers in each squad may stand in a messy manner, but the distance and position between the squad as a whole are all triangulation.

Charles couldn't see the way at first glance. He only felt that the Taiping army's charging procession was so scattered, just like the Siamese army when it fled. He ordered the artillery bombardment to be slowed down, preparing to shoot the Taiping troops with bullets after they got closer.

The first losses of the battle were made in such a temptation. Charles put the Taiping army closer to fight is a temptation, and it is also a temptation for the Taiping army to attack first.

After all, even in the era of cold weapons, the vanguard troops are elite troops, and the Taiping army's queue may be average, but the combat effectiveness should not be as loose as their queue. Previously, the British field observation team also affirmed the strength of the Taiping Army in terms of combat effectiveness, which was really not something that the Siamese army could resist.

Unless we build layer after layer of permanent defense on the outer edge of Bangkok, desperate for human lives and attrition, and crush the Taiping army!

The British rifles and heavy machine guns began to fire, and one by one the Taiping soldiers fell on the road of the charge, and a group of Taiping soldiers fell on the ground, picked up their rifles and began to fire back. Light machine guns opened fire, and British mortars followed suit. The number of casualties on both sides is increasing dramatically.

The Taiping Army was armed with Type 08 rifles. This rifle has a loading capacity of 10 rounds, a high rate of fire, and accurate ballistics, which is quite suitable for the style of bravery, and loves to fight the rushing Taiping army. But today the Taiping army suffered a big loss. The Lee-Metford magazine rifle in the hands of the British had similar characteristics to the Chinese Type 08, with a large loading capacity, with the initial model reaching 8 rounds and the improved version being a 10-round double-row magazine. Such a double-row magazine has historically become the standard equipment of Lee rifles.

And then there was their heavy machine gun, the Maxim heavy machine gun. The United Kingdom was one of the first countries on the European continent to buy such a patent from the United States. The bullets fired from a heavy machine gun were like raindrops that had been poured down on the head and face.

The charging Taiping army did not have heavy machine guns or support, they had light machine guns. The 7.92mm caliber universal [rifle cartridge] magazine feed light machine gun can use Type 08 rifle bullets, the rate of fire can reach about 500 rounds a minute, and the initial velocity is more than 800 meters, and the performance is roughly equivalent to that of the Czech light machine gun.

In this era, such a weapon is absolutely super-advanced. The Wehrmacht will not sell such fist equipment, but the price is not much lower than a heavy machine gun. Although in terms of firepower and persistence, light machine guns are not at all comparable to heavy machine guns. But you can't stop him from being light and nimble, and in the mountains, in beachhead landings, in rainforest areas, such weapons are much better than bulky heavy machine guns.

"Soldiers, get on the bayonets! Bravely rush forward and kill these small big, smoke, and ghosts! "The front-line commander of the British army took out the tried-and-true bayonet charge.

In the wars of the present era, bayonet warfare is still a means of warfare that is listed by every country on the list of important training subjects. This era is not World War II 50 years later, and even the armies of the most advanced and developed European regions are always preparing for bayonet battles. The battle of the original time and space, the hand-to-hand combat, is a good illustration.

The British army tried this time and again in the recent Burma War. The current 'mercenaries' crawled out of the trenches with bayonets and rushed towards the Taipings, hoping to continue their former glory and kill their enemies in hand-to-hand combat.

The distance was getting closer, the muzzles of the guns were fired almost face to face, and the soldiers on both sides were like the executed prisoners, and the flesh and blood of the muzzles were scattered by the close guns. The style of the Taiping Army is like being brave, and some are brave in one go. Seeing that the British were in front of him, he rushed forward despite the casualties.

The soldiers on both sides hula stirred together and became inseparable.

Hand-to-hand combat seems to be chaotic. Bullets and bayonets flew everywhere here, and no one dared to guarantee that if they defended themselves against the bayonets in front of them, they would not be killed by a sudden bullet.

Therefore, to win hand-to-hand combat, there is no need for fear and fear, only courage and decisiveness. Rush, rush, rush-

Once the enemy's positions are broken through, then everything is possible. Commander, you don't need to reserve reserves, all you have to do is make a hammer deal. Heaven decides whether it will be right or wrong! (To be continued......)