Chapter 323: The Battle of North America is over
Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info This group of diapers wrapped around their heads, oh no, I mean the Indian Asan, who were majestic, rushed into the meat grinder in the middle with bayonets like a guard of honor, and then ......
The fart was abused by a bloody beating!
The reason why the British commanders never committed to the Indian infantry regiment was mainly because of their distrust of their combat effectiveness!
These Indian soldiers were just ordinary regular soldiers of the colony, not those Gurkha mercenaries with high morale!
Even those Sikh mercenaries and Punjabi mercenaries are slightly inferior!
It's not that the British government doesn't want to mobilize the elite indigenous mercenaries of the Indian colonies, but these small but elite Indian indigenous mercenaries are the foundation of the British to maintain Indian rule, and the British garrison in India together is less than 10,000 people, and the British garrison here includes all European races!
If it were a pure British native army, the number in India would be less than two thousand......
Naturally, such a small army could not meet the growing Indian colonies, and the British, while crushing the resistance of the indigenous princes of India with a 'one-to-hundred' military inferiority, used money to recruit those Indian soldiers who could fight and consolidate their newly acquired territory!
After France's power in India declined, the British fought with the indigenous princes of India!
Without the containment of the French, the British Empire, which has become the empire on which the sun never sets, how can it let go of this big fat meat?
Not to mention the hundreds of millions of people and rich agricultural resources, the wealth plundered from the rich royal palaces of India alone is enough for the English Empire to survive!
The gold and silver treasures looted from the royal palaces of Bengal alone are worth £15 million!
The purchasing power of 1 pound in this period is probably equal to more than 10,000 yuan in Zhao Dutian's previous life!
However, the army of the indigenous princes of India is too weak, and the British can easily defeat tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of Indian princely troops with hundreds of regular troops and thousands of indigenous Indian mercenaries!
Compared to the great war in the Americas, the British government did not care at all what the situation was going in India!
It's just that although the army of the Indian prince is weak, many Indians are not too satisfied with the British colonial rule, so a large number of capable Indian mercenaries have stayed in the newly occupied territory, and it can be said that the maintenance forces required to occupy India are much more than the need to defeat the Indian prince!
These Indian servant troops, which were finally put into the battlefield by the British commander, belong to the kind of role similar to miscellaneous logistics, doing inferior chores, and naturally will not draw Indian elite mercenaries who are not rich!
However, the British commander, who was anxious to get out of the predicament of the war, did not care so much, and threw all the reserves into it!
Then, these Indian Asans did not unexpectedly turn the tide of the battle in the slightest......
After several hours of fierce fighting, most of the front-loading smoothbore guns had already stopped due to overheating of the breeches, but the line infantry, who was engaged in hand-to-hand combat, were still fighting selflessly!
The ground was already covered with corpses, and the Indian Ah San, who had been temporarily pulled up, had already retreated from the army, and almost left a big gap in the entire front, if it weren't for the British commander to fill in the last guards of himself and other generals, I am afraid that he would face a big collapse!
The British commander had already had the idea of retreating at this time, but the emperor of the Han State seemed to be determined to divide the victory and defeat, and he was stubbornly entangled, and he didn't care that the lives of the elite soldiers of the Han State would be consumed like this!
The bayonet hand-to-hand combat is hand-to-hand combat, but when it comes to fighting, there are a lot of sporadic shots from flintlock pistols, and the soldiers who are not involved in the melee battle behind will often see the opportunity to shoot coldly, which undoubtedly causes greater losses to the enemy, and of course, the opposite side will do the same......
Finally, after several hours of fierce fighting, the Red Shirts and several European elite mercenary regiments of capable soldiers died out in a large way, so that the British front was pressed little by little, and the Han cavalry, which was defeated by the Scottish Highland infantry and lost more than half of it, had already been regrouped, intending to pursue and expand the results of the battle after the victory and defeat were divided in the main battlefield!
The Han cavalry, who had suffered a lot, would no longer rush the infantry line of the British, and they also understood the essential difference between the elite of Europe and the Spanish colonial army!
These Han cavalry are almost the sum of all the cavalry of the entire Han Empire!
The British were completely at a disadvantage, and their morale inevitably fell further, and the British commander had to make a heartbreaking drama of losing his car to protect the commander, and a group of British generals retreated with a few crippled elites......
As for the artillery that the British could not take away, they were all destroyed, and the gunpowder and expensive grenades were treated as cheap fireworks, and the one that blew up was called a bright ......
And Zhao Dutian could only watch the retreat of the British, because the reserves of the Han Guards had already been thrown into battle......
The remaining hundreds of guards will not be able to storm the retreating queue of the British!
The Han cavalry naturally launched a pursuit charge, and then was unsurprisingly intercepted by the Scottish Highland infantry behind the palace and some other scrambled line infantry!
However, this time, due to the withdrawal of the British generals, the morale of the British army was completely beaten into a trough, and it only supported less than half a point, and the infantry grinding ground in the middle was all broken through, and the Scottish Highland infantry who suffered heavy casualties seemed to have been pulled out of their backbone and gave up resistance......
The British soldiers knew that the battle had been lost, and there was nothing to say about the commander fleeing with the remaining elite......
As for the colonial militia that was arranged on the two outer wings, they naturally began to retreat a long time ago, and the battlefield in the middle had already been defeated, and they only went to add a pile of corpses and prisoners!
Zhao Dutian suffered such a huge loss, how could he easily let go of the retreating British?
The Han cavalry was given a death order and must crush the retreating British!
It's a pity that in the retreat, the British commander used the remnants of the elite to fight a counterattack against the thousands of Han cavalry who were pursuing!
The pursuit of the Han cavalry had to retreat for several miles!
In the end, under the repeated pursuit of the Han cavalry, less than 20,000 people returned to the colony of New France!
More than 100,000 British offensive main forces, in the end, only such a few people remained, which can be called a rare defeat!
Of course, not all of the losses were killed and captured, and many colonial militias were separated from the large army in the follow-up pursuit of the Han cavalry and disappeared into uninhabited Louisiana!