Chapter 1058: San Francisco (Six)
Rush up!
Kill the enemies who have ruined our homeland!
The coalition of the five Indian tribes could no longer bear it under the shelling.
If they had continued to stand there in formation, they would have been killed by the artillery without the enemy's hands.
Therefore, it is a wise choice to launch a charge at this time, and besides, there is no other way for them not to charge.
In fact, what the five tribal alliances don't know is that the artillery power on the Empire's side is very large, but when the artillery fires six rounds in a row, it will take half an hour of cooldown time to continue to use.
This is also due to the use of inferior iron slag cast guns.
But this is a secret belonging to the empire, except for people with a status like Wang Shan, many middle- and low-level Chinese genetic people do not know the Tao.
Therefore, how could the people of the alliance of the five major Indian tribes know the Tao?
They just felt that the enemy's thunder-emitting weapon would definitely be used non-stop.
In such a situation, they could not sit idly by, but could only take the initiative to launch a charge and fight hard against the enemy.
In front of the five major tribes on the opposite side, the Indian warriors rushed towards their positions with shouts, but because of the distance, there was not much nervousness on the faces of the imperial soldiers.
On the contrary, the vassal Indian troops on both flanks made a commotion.
However, this commotion was quickly suppressed by their leader.
Before the war, the orders brought by the eagle were very clear to them.
And in the first few battles, they still remember what happened to those guys who didn't listen to orders.
Although the governor of the Song Empire is very young, he is not soft at all when it comes to killing people.
Even, even the sacrifice killed a few people.
In front of this killing god, it is better to listen to orders.
Yes. At that time, the plan was disturbed, and it was caused by the relationship between some priests and the so-called oracles issued indiscriminately. For this reason, Wang Shan killed a few sacrifices, which made them realize their strength.
A sacrifice is an absolute need to look up to for an Indian tribe, and their status is very high.
When ordinary Indians saw the sacrifice, they trembled.
Even the priests, in many cases, could challenge the authority of the patriarch.
But all of this is a floating cloud in front of Wang Shan, so he won't care about this.
Guys who dare to kill even sacrifices, how can these Indians not be afraid.
Don't talk about the ordinary Indian warriors. Even some of the patriarchs were terrified.
Therefore, if Wang Shan confessed, they would not dare to disobey.
Besides, they are now eating and drinking well with Wang Shan, and even their families' lives have been greatly improved. Even if they don't have a good brain, they also understand who to follow to have a future.
The priests were originally people of the tribe who possessed medical skills, and the main reason why they were revered was that they could heal diseases. As for the so-called gods or something, this is secondary.
But under Wang Shan's command, they don't have to worry about seeing a doctor at all.
But if there is something uncomfortable. Two pills solved the problem.
The effect of curing the sick is even more effective than that of the sacrifices.
Therefore, the status of the sacrifices has been greatly reduced here in Wang Mountain.
Thus the sacrifices of several tribes were executed. It didn't make much of a splash here.
"Musketeers prepare!"
The combined forces of the five tribes of Indians on the opposite side launched a charge, and the artillery was quickly useless.
Therefore, the artillery team in the rear, under the orders of the commander, began to increase the rate of fire as much as possible. Prepare before the musketeers start fighting. Inflict as many casualties as possible on the enemy.
In the vast white grassland, more than 200,000 troops gathered on both sides.
This is the first time in the history of the Americas that a battle of this magnitude has been held.
That is, in the original history. It was only when the British immigrants rebelled against the Emperor's rule and sought independence that they fought on such a large scale during the Civil War after the founding of the United States.
However, in the early XVII century, in the winter of 1623.
Because of the emergence of the Song Empire, and the extension of the tentacles of the Song Empire to the west coast of the Americas, wars of this scale appeared.
However, if you want to come to a war of this scale, this is the only time.
After this battle, there will never be such a big battle in the Americas again.
Unless it is a civil war between the Song Empire, but this is unlikely.
As long as Zhao Hongyu is alive, then it is impossible for the Song Empire to split.
The flowering bombs continued to explode, knocking the warriors of the five major tribes on the way to the ground, but the warriors behind continued to rush to this side.
Because they all know very well that if they lose this war, they will no longer be able to fight these powerful enemies.
And what will happen next will be the destruction of their tribe by the enemy, and the death of their families by the enemy's sword. Those who survive will become each other's slaves and live in the dark years of the future.
So, no matter what, they are going to continue to rush towards the enemy now.
Rush! Rush! Rush!
As long as they can rush in front of the enemy, then they will use the weapons in their hands to show the enemy their courage and strength.
It is just a matter of rushing in front of the enemy.
Basically, the Indian warriors of the five major tribal alliances all have this idea.
Before the war, their priests and patriarchs told them the same.
There is nothing wrong with the enemy being strong, but the enemy relies mainly on weapons that they have not seen.
This weapon can hit them from a great distance, so if they want to win this battle or even war, they need to rush in front of the enemy.
Come to think of it, the enemy's hand-to-hand combat ability should not be so powerful.
Of course, such an idea was just a conjecture on the part of the top five tribes, who had no idea how powerful the soldiers of the Dao Empire Army were.
Long-range weapons suppress them, not to mention, even if they let them rush closer, they can't take advantage of anything.
A distance of more than a thousand meters. That's enough for the gun to fire four shells.
When the artillery team in the rear fired four shells, the soldiers of the alliance of the five major tribes had already rushed to a place three hundred meters away from the Imperial Army.
At such a distance, it is already very close.
And this distance is exactly the shooting range of the musket.
All of them, ready!
Shoot!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Just when the fighters in the charge were excited, they received a sudden blow.
As they charged, they were already about to rush in front of the enemy. These Native American warriors were convinced that if they were allowed to rush in front of the enemy, they would be able to achieve the ultimate victory.
But. The reality is very cruel, and the truth is very different from their imagination.
Just as they were about to rush in front of the enemy, they aimed a weapon that looked like a wooden stick at them, and then they heard a crackling crack.
Immediately afterward, puffs of cyan smoke rose from the enemy's positions.
Before the soldiers in the front row could react, they felt as if they had been hit hard, and then a sharp pain began to spread, and then they fell to the ground involuntarily.
"Do you know what it looks like to mow the grass?"
As the musketeers began to shoot, the old god of Wang Shan asked the genetic man beside him.
At such a tense moment of battle. Wang Shan actually had the leisure to talk about this issue.
I have to say that his nerves are really a little big.
However, this is not surprising.
In fact, the elite guards around him also didn't have any nervous looks on their faces. On the contrary, they are all very relaxed.
It's as if they weren't going through a battle at all, but on an outing.
This stems from their confidence in the Imperial Army, which they firmly believe in the presence of the Imperial Army. These seemingly powerful and ferocious enemies are definitely no match for one's own side.
There are many sources of this self-confidence, such as confidence in weapons, confidence in the tactics of the Imperial Army. It's more about the rise of empires, the confidence accumulated from battles and victories.
Although the rise of the empire has only been a short period of more than three years, no matter how big or small the war, the empire has never lost.
It also convinced the soldiers of the Imperial Army that they had no rivals in this era.
They can defeat the enemy even when there is a huge difference in strength.
You must know that the weapons in their hands are ahead of this era, which is definitely no joke.
"The first row back, the second row comes forward, shoot!"
Crackle!
Not! Wow!
The enemy rushed towards him like a wave, as if he had encountered a thick wall, and within two hundred meters of the Imperial Army's muskets, this crowd was constantly blocked somewhere, and could no longer be saved.
The defeated warriors didn't have time to get up, they were trampled under their feet by their comrades who rushed up from behind, and some were even trampled to death in this way.
In fact, when there are a lot of people in a fight, as long as you fall, you basically can't get up.
Many times, you will be trampled to death by your own people.
This is a very cruel fact of the era of cold weapons.
Individual prowess is basically of little use in a battle of more than 200,000 men.
Because no matter how strong you are, you can't face an opponent at the same time.
Yes, it only takes an opponent to put you to death.
The soldiers who rushed up from behind didn't know what was going on in front of them.
In front of their eyes, except for the pieces of human heads, the back of the head.
Large-scale battles are like this, as a low-level soldier, you can't control your own destiny at all, you can only follow the big guys with the crowd.
Thirty-four thousand Imperial troops set up a musket array hundreds of meters long.
The whole two teams, ten rows in columns, can definitely give full play to the maximum advantage and power of the musket.
The non-stop firing, the enemy's charge was contained at a distance of two hundred meters, which was enough to show the strength of the Imperial muskets.
The Imperial Army front, located in the center, was under the greatest pressure, and the enemy's onslaught was the hardest.
Obviously, the enemy wants to use the central part as a breakthrough in the hope of crushing his own side in one fell swoop.
This is a very good idea, but what the enemy does not know is that the sharpest part of this army is the team in the central zone.
At this time, the vassal troops on both flanks also began to fight the enemy sporadically.
Because the opponent's main direction of attack is the center of Wang Shan's military formation, the pressure on the two flanks is much smaller than here in the middle.
Opponents armed with stone weapons suddenly became vulnerable when faced with vassal tribal warriors who had upgraded to use iron weapons.
A sharp machete can easily destroy an opponent's weapon, and then slash back at them.
Of course, it is only a small number of people who can be treated like this, because most of them died in the process of impact.
In front of the line of the vassal troops, dense spears had been erected, forming a spear formation like a hedgehog.
These spears were about four or five meters long and were topped with sharp iron tips.
This weapon was made by Wang Shan in consideration of the combat effectiveness of the vassal troops.
Although the Indians were strong in individual combat, their disadvantage was very obvious when fighting in groups.
Their unorganized and undisciplined nature gave Wang Shan a headache.
Faced with such a situation, Wang Shan could only buy a large number of spears and hand them over, and then told them how to form a spear array.
After all, the spear formation doesn't take too long to train, as long as you have the strength to be able to hold the spear.
Anyway, Wang Shan didn't expect them to be able to summon the spear array as well as the Macedonians.
Wang Shan only wanted them to be able to withstand the enemy's charge once.
And just like that, a group of Indian spearmen appeared.
Now, these spearmen are harvesting the lives of their enemies.
With a spear four or five meters long, basically the enemy can't rush at all.
Because they had to face not just one spear, but a dense patch.
The hand that Wang Shan handed over to them, in order to exert the greatest power, he even let these vassal Indians form a four-layer spear array.
That is to say, in front of the enemy, he has to face a dozen spears in four layers, and only after dodging the assassination of these spears can he rush to the front unharmed.
Such behavior is dangerous and difficult.
Basically, very few people are lucky enough to dodge this spear formation.
But even the lucky ones were able to dodge and rush in.
But what awaits them will be Indian warriors armed with axes and machetes.
On the snowy plains, the shouts of killing shook the sky.
Streams of blood spurted out fell on the snow, adding a bit of charm to this snow-capped grassland.
Phew!
As the battle progressed, the vultures in the sky chirped excitedly, knowing full well that they would have a hearty meal when the battle was over...... (To be continued......)