446 Counterattack of several hundred
The slave soldiers did the same, and within a minute of the gunshots, there was no one standing in the charging path, and as a result, the effect of the meat shield instantly failed......
Then, the Ottoman servant officers and soldiers who followed closely behind were dumbfounded, they were equivalent to facing the fire of the Taiping army!
The end was doomed, the Ottoman servant army once again endured the same firepower slaughter, as if in a cycle, and only advanced more than 200 meters before the whole army was scattered!
The only difference from the first charge was that after being killed and a group of officers to lead the charge, the Ottoman servants held out longer, so they left more corpses......
With more than 2,000 corpses, there is no place to settle on the assault field.
Instead, these corpses became a natural obstacle in front of the Taiping army's position......
The first day of the assault ended with heavy losses on the Ottoman army, and the slave soldiers fled, died, and pretended to be dead......
The people who pretended to be dead took advantage of the darkness to crawl out of the pile of corpses and escaped in the dark, only a few unlucky people went in the wrong direction because it was too dark, and crashed into the Taiping army position or the Ottoman camp, and the outcome can be imagined......
The chicken that was caught by the Ottomans and naturally became an example to the chickens and monkeys, and those who entered the Taiping army's position would also be killed and buried by the Taiping army, who did not have many supplies and were ready to be trapped for a long time.
When the night gradually darkened, although the Ottoman army did not attack again, it was still busy until late at night, the Taiping army in addition to the guard post, the beautiful sleep, the Taiping army is few, must ensure that most people have enough rest, unlike the Ottoman army, the crowd is crowded, even if half of the people stay up late and work overtime, it will not affect the next day's battle......
The next day, the Ottoman army first dragged the hapless slave soldiers to the front of the servant army, and then issued an eleventh killing order, if this time it collapsed without meeting the Taiping army, no one would want to escape!
The Ottomans also saw that the courage of the servant army did not lie in the officers, but in the soldiers themselves, so they no longer simply took out anger on the officers.
This time, instead of rushing forward with a tiger as they had done on the first day, the servant army took out rows of large wooden shields made of thick logs more than one person high, and several soldiers pushed one of them forward, followed by the other servant army.
The large wooden shield was covered with a thick iron sheet, and the Ottomans seemed to expect this equipment that could even defend against bed crossbows in the era of cold weapons to block bullets?
The Ottoman servant army pushed hundreds of large wooden shields forward slowly, and after entering the effective range, the Taiping army rarely did not fire a salvo, because the Taiping army found that the Ottoman servant army pushing these thick wooden shields was advancing very slowly!
In that case, let's get closer!
The Taipings did not open fire, which greatly increased the confidence of the Ottoman servants, and they soon advanced to within 300 meters, and then the familiar bursts of bullets like bursting beans and the characteristic firing sound of the Maxim heavy machine gun!
The bullet easily penetrated the large iron wooden shield that could be called the protective power of the cold weapon era, and the sawdust caused secondary damage to the servant soldiers behind, making the killing surface larger!
The large wooden shield was strafed into pieces of wood by the Maxim heavy machine gun, and became a part of the earth along with the human body behind it, and the Ottoman servants, under the deterrence of the eleventh smash order, still launched a charge after the failure of the large wooden shield, and successfully advanced to a range of 100 meters before collapsing!
However, although the Ottoman servant army collapsed, the Ottoman army leaders saw an opportunity and let the old army under their command follow closely behind, and used the cover of the rout to rush forward with the scattered crowd, and successfully entered the effective range of the 100-meter flintlock musket!
The soldiers of the old Ottoman army who opened fire while charging finally let the Taiping army have its first casualties, and the old army has been recuperating, without losses, and with high morale, they are killed in front of the Taiping army's position with a Makqin heavy machine gun!
Just as the old Ottoman army was frantically shouting jihadist slogans and was about to rush forward in hand-to-hand combat, pieces of smoking grenades were suddenly thrown from the Taiping army's position.
While the soldiers of the old Ottoman army were still thinking about what this was, a series of explosions blew up the old Ottoman army that rushed up into the sky and returned to the arms of Allah!
As a result, the old Ottoman army also collapsed, or the whole army was defeated!
The Taiping army even pursued a certain distance, killing and wounding a large number of old Ottoman troops and servant troops before returning to their positions.
After all, tens of thousands of Ottomans can't all rush up, there are still a lot of reserves, and the personal soldiers of the Ottoman army leaders are not on the field!
It was these pro-soldiers who were the backbone of the core that blocked the counter-charge of the Taiping army, otherwise, there would really be a classic example of hundreds of people defeating tens of thousands of people!
It's just that although the Ottoman army did not break up, it suffered great losses, the servant army almost escaped cleanly, and the old army also took advantage of the chaos to escape many soldiers......
Obviously, the servants were frightened by the eleventh kill order, and they all fled from this dangerous place while the Taiping army counterattacked, and never fought for the Ottomans again!
This is completely different from their war of helping the Ottomans fight the indigenous armies of the Balkans!
Follow the Ottomans to fight the Balkan natives, win more and lose less, but fight with the Taiping army, it is pure slaughter, and you are still in the position of being slaughtered!
The servants were only trying to get a pension for a meal, and no one wanted to accompany the Ottomans to meet them Allah......
Only the Ottoman army, which had only tens of thousands of people, did not dare to encircle the Taiping army of several hundred people, and after joining forces, the senior military leaders began to argue about the meeting, and the next day passed like this......
On the third day, when the command of tens of thousands of Ottoman troops was deciding where to stay, the scouts of the Ottoman army spotted a regiment of the main force of the Taiping army rushing here!
Therefore, there is no need to continue to argue about whether to stay or not, tens of thousands of Ottoman troops directly pulled out their camps and prepared to run away, but the Taiping army of several hundred people did not want them to leave!
The tens of thousands of Ottoman troops attracted here, but all the Ottoman troops in this area, the annihilation will greatly save the time consumption of the Taiping army to clean up.
Ironically, the Taiping army of several hundred people lined up in a row of guns, and did not even set up a Makqin heavy machine gun, but only bombarded with platoon guns and grenades, plus a bayonet charge, and collapsed tens of thousands of old Ottoman troops who had no fighting heart!
In fact, when the Taiping army attacked, tens of thousands of Ottoman troops had already begun to disperse, and no one wanted to be behind!
In the end, only those military leaders and personal soldiers with horses escaped the pursuit of the Taiping army.