Chapter 174: The Wahu Incident (3)
Seeing that they had been discovered by the other party, those black shadows rushed up suddenly, and the current sentry waved the musket in his hand to block the comer, but was slashed to the ground by the figure running in front of the opposite side, but because of his hindrance, the comer was relieved, and the sentinel behind finally lit the fire rope.
A 'snap' of gunshots, the crisp sound of gunfire was unusually abrupt in this quiet night, and it woke up all the sleeping Vahu soldiers in the barracks. "Something's wrong." There was soon a tumult of inquiries in the barracks, and it was clear that the entire barracks had woken up.
"These idiots." Edward scolded indignantly, he never thought that his men were so bad, and such an easy sneak attack was unsuccessful. Seeing that the sneak attack failed, Edward no longer waited for his subordinates to command, and he personally ran forward to direct everyone to start storming the barracks.
The awakened Vahu soldiers soon began to resist, and those Vahu soldiers who couldn't figure out the outside situation leaned on the barracks, desperately firing ammunition with the few arquebuses in their hands, and the bullets flying everywhere gave the Bostons a lot of damage, but the Wahu people were not prepared after all, and they could not find their respective commanders in the panic, so they could only fight separately and resist stubbornly.
"My lord, the battle in the direction of the barracks is fierce, and it should be the Boston people attacking." Zhang Jun came back to report.
Huang Weihua said with a smile: "Sure enough, it is a group of rabble, the Wahu people's lax guards can't make a successful sneak attack, and they have to attack strongly, it seems that the casualties of the Boston people will not be small." ”
Huang Weihua's prediction was quite accurate, at this time Edward was stubbornly directing everyone to capture one barracks after another, and the panicked Wahu soldiers stretched their muskets out of the window and released their guns indiscriminately. Although their vision was blurred in the darkness, such indiscriminate use of guns also put a lot of pressure on the Bostonians, and many were wounded by stray bullets, which gave Edward a headache.
Seeing that the attack was blocked, Edward was very anxious, he knew very well that he did not have much time, and if the palace guards and the Chinese people had time to prepare, this matter would not be easy to do.
Thinking of this, Edward secretly scolded these people for being amateurs, and they couldn't even handle two guards, so they could only attack, but fortunately, there was no movement among the Chinese people now, and there were many people watching him in the direction of the palace, although the attack was insufficient, the defense was still more than enough.
An hour passed, and at last, under the cover of musket fire, the Bostonians with long knives in their hands stormed the last barracks and hacked the commander of the Wahu and his guards to death in the barracks. Edward breathed a sigh of relief and immediately ordered the battlefield to be cleaned up, mainly to collect the weapons of the Vahu soldiers for his own use.
Although the Vahu soldiers still used arquebuses, it was better than nothing for the Bostonians who lacked firearms, it was better than charging with broadswords, but they didn't gain much, the Vahu soldiers didn't have many arquebuses in the first place, and after the fierce battle just now, they lost a lot, and they only collected more than 200 arquebuses.
Just as they were still trying to continue to rescue the wounded and search for trophies, a dense burst of gunfire rang out near the Chinese station, and anyone who listened to the movement could tell that the Chinese and the 1,000 Bostons who had gone to monitor exchanged fire.
Hearing such a dense gunfire, Edward's face turned pale, and he knew that the Bostonians who were spying on the Chinese were not equipped with muskets, which meant that such a dense gunfire could only be the gunfire of the Chinese. While secretly scolding the Chinese for being cunning and being able to bypass his own surveillance and bring in the guns, he immediately ordered the troops to stop cleaning the battlefield, and the whole army gathered to march in the direction of the palace as fast as possible.
At this moment, Edward knows very well in his heart that now is the time to rush, as long as he controls Queen Wahu first, he can force the Chinese people to retreat, so as to occupy the entire Wahu Kingdom, if he is occupied by the Chinese, he is in danger of being hanged, and for his actions, no one in the Boston Empire will defend him.
Oahu, the main island of the Oahu Kingdom, has no electric lights, and Bostonians still dare not light torches in order to act secretly, so there is no lighting except starlight in the dark night. In the darkness, Edward struggled to make his way, and led the men to run hastily in the direction of the palace, regardless of how bumpy the road was, and he was very worried by the sound of gunfire in the distance, which showed that the thousand Bostons had been killed and wounded.
Just as the main force of more than 2,000 Bostonians was rapidly advancing towards the palace, their vanguard was suddenly knocked down by a dense burst of gunfire. "Oh no, it's Chinese." Hearing the gunshots, Edward's heart sank, and he realized the seriousness of the problem.
"Rush over, all charge me, charge." Edward gritted his teeth and ordered that now he had to break the boat, if the Chinese took control of the palace he would be dead, and he believed that as soon as the 1,000 people besieging the palace got the news, they would come to his aid.
In front of Edward was not Huang Weihua's large army, but a squadron of 100 people in the escort army led by Zhang Jun. When Huang Weihua and the others listened to the gunfire coming from the direction of the Wahu Barracks gradually thinning out, their actions had already begun.
In addition to the battle between the brigade and the Boston surveillance troops, for the sake of insurance, Huang Weihua asked Zhang Jun to lead people to sneak around the battlefield from the rainforest to block the main force of the Boston people and buy time for the large army. In order to relieve the pressure on Zhang Jun, Huang Weihua gave them all ten light machine guns and six mortars.
"Throw torches." Seeing the Bostonians' brigade swarming in, Zhang Jun ordered loudly. A dozen soldiers of the Guard, who were in good shape, lit torches and threw them so hard that the torches flew more than sixty meters and landed on the way of the Bostonians.
The torches thrown by the guards quickly ignited the nearby grass, and although the fire was not large, it illuminated all the Bostonians within a hundred meters, and ten light machine guns opened fire at the same time, and the muzzles of the flames fired a dense number of bullets towards the unsuspecting Bostonians.
The latest Type 94 light machine gun produced by Zhonghua Ling is designed by Fang Xiaoyu himself, it adopts the principle of air conduction, the bolt deflection locking method, and uses the same seven-millimeter caliber as the Type 91 rifle, the bullet uses a 30-round arc magazine or a 100-round drum, which is arranged above the receiver, and the shell is located below the receiver.
Since the magazine was directly above the receiver, the front sight with wings and the bore shutter were mounted on the left side of the barrel, and a flared flame suppressor was installed at the mouth of the barrel. In order to reduce the weight and make it a squad support firepower that can be used by individual soldiers, Fang Xiaoyu also shortened the barrel and air duct of this gun as much as possible, and eliminated the barrel heat sink at the beginning of the design.
This change did reduce a lot of weight, but in this way, the heat dissipation performance of the barrel was reduced, which had a great impact on high-speed firing, so Fang Xiaoyu limited the theoretical rate of fire of this gun to 400 rounds per minute.
In order to strengthen the firepower, the Type 94 light machine gun brought by Zhang Jun this time used 100 rounds of drums. With the continuous fire of these ten machine guns, the Bostonians who charged up fell one after another.
Edward's face turned white when he heard the continuous firing of machine guns, and he knew that he had hit a hard stubble, but fortunately he heard that the number of guns fired in this kind of continuous fire was not very large, and there should not be many people in the way in front of him, so he decided to defeat his opponent with numbers, so he ordered everyone to charge.
Seeing that the other party began to charge frantically, Zhang Jun ordered six mortars to start firing freely. Hearing the characteristic dense sound of the Chinese army's signature mortars, Edward's face turned even paler, and he finally knew who he had encountered.
If it is an ordinary Chinese people's civilian armed force, he is not worried, but it is the regular army of the Chinese Collar that has this kind of mortar. Heavy machine guns have already appeared in the Western Continent, and for the Western Continent, which is full of commercial flavor, as long as there is money, it can be bought on the black market, although the price is ridiculously expensive, so he does not care.
But the mortar is different, this kind of new artillery, which is unique in the world, is a unique weapon of the Chinese collar, and it is not for sale, not to mention the civilian armament, even the regular army of the Lanfang Empire does not have it.
At this time, he already regretted that he was unwilling to spend more money to buy some weapons from the black market in the Western Continent, but was greedy to buy second-hand goods from the army, if he could also be equipped with some heavy machine guns and rear-loading guns, the battle situation would not be so one-sided.
It was useless to regret it, the Bostonians with rudimentary weapons at this time were no match for the opposing convoy, and the heavy fire caused them a large number of casualties on the way of the charge, and when the casualties reached a certain level, the Bostonians finally collapsed, they threw down their weapons and began to flee in all directions.
Edward shot and killed a few deserters, but the people were already in chaos, and no one paid attention to him anymore, and Edward had to join the ranks of the fugitives.
Seeing the Boston people fleeing, Zhang Jun did not order the pursuit, after all, he had few people, and the pursuit in the dark would not play much role, not to mention that this was an island, they couldn't run away if they wanted to, as long as they waited until after dawn, it was not very easy to catch them.
At this time, near the palace of the Oahu, the battle was also nearing its end. Dealing with the Bostonians who were intercepting, the large army of the Chinese did not go to help the blocking force, but rushed straight to the palace of Oahu.
Although the heavy weapons have been fully equipped with the blocking force, but the Chinese people's not slow rate of fire 91 rifles are also a non-negligible advantage of firepower, they inflict heavy casualties on the Bostonians who have no firearms, plus the palace guards beat the arquebus from behind, Lawrence's 1,000 men were attacked on the back, and soon collapsed, Lawrence was killed in the chaos, and most of the other Bostonians were also killed and wounded. asked people to clean up the battlefield, and Huang Weihua immediately brought people into the palace to meet the queen.