Compared with the powerful naval equipment, the army equipment of the Mu Empire's civilization is a little insufficient.

The Ram battleship's artillery is extraordinary, but there is no matching musket, which is the biggest weakness of the night army at the moment, but fortunately, they also have a black technology armor - the Ram armor.

Like the Ram battleship, this armor is the crystallization of the civilization and technology of the Mu Empire, and it is also silver-white, with amazing defense, and to a certain extent, it can resist the attack of the flintlock pistol.

That's pretty impressive!

The only regret is that the number of Ram armors is scarce, and the raw materials for manufacturing are currently only available in the Mu Continent, and the output is limited, otherwise, the Night Empire will really be invincible in the world.

The combination of Ram warships and Ram warframes, in today's game world, determines that the Night Empire can control the seas, but it is unable to expedition to other continents, and it is a strategic defensive empire.

Fortunately, the territory of the Mu continent is vast, and Keisuke Honda does not have much ambition for expansion.

Their strategic goal is to carry out ocean-going trade with the Mu Continent as the core and the sea power as the basis, and gradually expand the influence of the Dark Night Empire.

This is in conflict with the maritime strategy of Great Xia.

…………

Of the 150,000 night troops who landed on Oahu, 50,000 were slave troops, not only had nothing to do with the Ram armor, but only wore simple leather armor, which was a real cannon fodder unit.

After landing, the slave army was forced to charge forward in order to consume enemy ammunition.

"Fire!"

On the outskirts of Honolulu, Cao Di arranged his troops and temporarily built an artillery position, condescendingly, seeing the enemy rushing up, Cao Di did not hesitate and directly ordered the artillery to be fired.

The artillery was left over from the Pacific Fleet, and Hawaii County itself had no industrial base.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

The slave army that charged ahead, under the bombardment of dense artillery, blood and flesh flew everywhere, and the severed limbs and wreckage splashed wantonly in the air, like hell on earth.

"The next wave!"

Unmoved, the commander of the Night Army sent batch after batch of cannon fodder to the battlefield.

At the same time, an elite unit wearing Ram armor was making a final rest in the rear, and as soon as the enemy artillery stopped, they immediately rushed forward and seized the enemy's artillery position.

The Great Xia artillery has been improved several times, and today, it has gotten rid of the backward and inefficient smoothbore front-loading gun, but a more advanced rifled gun, and at the same time the gun bolt has been improved, and the artillery has been rear-loaded, and the firing speed has been significantly improved.

Supplemented by an anti-recoil device to realize the elastic gun mount, the force acting on the gun mount is greatly reduced, the weight of the gun is reduced, the gun is not displaced when firing, and the firing speed is increased again.

The shells fired by the artillery also evolved from the original solid bullets and scattered bullets to the more lethal grenades.

The latest grenade developed by Daxia uses fierce explosives and composite fuses to increase the weight of the projectile and improve the fragmentation lethality of the grenade. Supplemented by tools such as circumferential sights, goniometers, and fuze mounters, the lethality of the artillery on the battlefield is enhanced.

Artillery, officially on the stage of war.

A few days ago, Daxia has prepared to build an imperial artillery academy outside the framework of the Imperial Army University, so that artillery will become a standing branch of the army in Daxia.

The professors hired by the Artillery Academy are basically inhumans, and they are all experts in reality.

In the eighth year of Gaia, with the unlocking of the Second Industrial Revolution Technology Tree, Great Xia will conduct research in subdivided fields on the basis of existing artillery, such as mortars, anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft guns.

The role of artillery will only become more and more important, and it will become the anchor of the sea on the battlefield.

In the face of such an artillery position, the slave army of the Night Empire can imagine its fate, no matter how many are sent, they will be mercilessly bombarded into slag.

The name of cannon fodder lives up to its name.

When the commander of the Dark Night Army saw this, his expression was solemn, and in just one hour of shelling, more than 6,000 slave troops were killed. Worst of all, he did not seem to feel the weakening of the fire of the enemy positions.

"Stop fighting, retreat ten miles, and set up camp!"

The commander was resolute, he realized that the enemy's firepower was much stronger than expected, and the purpose of the test had been achieved. If you want to take the enemy's position, you have to ask the imperial court to send artillery from afar.

Only artillery can fight against artillery.

…………

For the next few days, there was no major battle on Oahu.

After a little temptation every day, the army of the night withdrew, and was not ready for a general attack. They were waiting, waiting for the artillery to arrive before the war began.

Cao Di was not idle, taking the opportunity to strengthen the artillery positions, and even mobilized the engineering troops to build one small fortress after another to house the musketeers and form a dense network of firepower.

Before the hand-to-hand engagement, the two sides will engage in a contest of thermal weapons.

On January 20, when the battlefield in Hawaii was at a stalemate, the battlefield in Java, which had not been very conspicuous, ushered in a decisive victory.

At about 11 o'clock in the morning, the commander of the First Army of the Southern Xinjiang Army, Niu Da, the former champion of martial arts, led his troops to conquer the Java Palace, announcing the battle of Java Island and officially ending.

As predicted before the war, the Javanese Forbidden Army, which was poorly equipped and lacked actual combat, was completely vulnerable in front of the Great Xia Army, and they were neither able to fight a decisive battle in the field, nor able to defend the city baptized by artillery fire.

Defeat and retreat!

In less than two weeks, the island of Java was declared to have fallen.

In this battle, the Southern Xinjiang Army and the Heluo Army of Great Xia only paid less than 20,000 casualties, killed nearly 200,000 enemies, and captured more than 800,000 prisoners of war, setting the most brilliant record in the history of the Great Xia Army.

This also marks the official withdrawal of the army of pure cold weapons from the stage of history.

The Battle of Java Island was thus written into the history of the game.

This battle also once again proved the necessity of the disarmament and military reform of the Great Xia, and proved that after the reduction of the troops, the overall combat strength of the Great Xia Army did not decrease but increased, and became more terrifying.

The disarmament of Great Xia was finally unimpeded, and there was no trace of opposition.

…………

City of Cusco, Indian Empire.

After the news of the battle for Java was revealed, it caused a storm of hot weapons around the world.

The European and American dynasties have paid attention to the research and development of firearms, and their strength is comparable to that of Great Xia, but they are just a little surprised, and Great Xia, as a traditional Eastern dynasty, is also at the forefront of industrialization.

The hardest of all was the Indian Empire.

This American dynasty that adheres to the Indian tradition has had a hard time lately, and it has been a little powerless in the face of the Spanish dynasty and the Brasilia dynasty.

Juarez's conviction also began to waver.

The emperor realized that in today's booming thermal weapons, if the empire sticks to the tradition, he is afraid that in the end, he can only hold on to the tradition and be buried together.

"Empire, change must be made!"

At present, the industrial base of the Indian Empire is almost zero, and it is impossible to produce artillery and muskets in a short period of time.

The only way to do this is to procure arms from abroad.

Looking at the world, the only one who has this strength and is willing to trade with the Indian Empire is Great Xia.

What gave Juarez a headache was that in the seventh year of Gaia, Great Xia had taken the initiative to mention that he was willing to assist the Indian Empire in establishing an industrial system, but Juarez refused.

Now I don't know how much effort it will take to get up again.

"Even if you give up your face, this matter must be negotiated, and it's a big deal to cede some benefits."

Juarez already has the consciousness of cutting meat.

…………

On January 22, after conquering Java Island, the Heluo Army was ordered to go north and land on Sumatra Island to encircle and suppress Padang City.

In this way, the already crumbling army of Padang City made matters worse.

Unlike the Wangcheng Forbidden Army, the army in the territory of Badong City is still an elite army, and it is also equipped with a certain amount of artillery and muskets, but compared with the Great Xia Army, the gap is still very obvious.

Under the siege of the three-way army, even with the support of the Inhumans, Padang City still failed to hold out in the end.

On the 27th, at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, after three days and three nights of fierce fighting, the city of Padang was conquered by the Great Xia army, which meant that the battle of Java officially came to an end.

The Nanyang Theater fulfilled the order of the imperial court and conquered Java before the Spring Festival.

This battle was indeed fought beautifully.

After the conquest of Java, the entire southern Xinjiang was unified and placed under the rule of Bactria .