Chapter 279: Whale Swallows Four
The jungle full of shelter and cover www.biquge.info is simply a battlefield set up for the "Green Jacket" rifle regiment, and the dense trees cannot allow the cavalry to give full play to the charge advantage and speed advantage, and even the cavalry's movement speed in the woods is not as fast as the running speed of the infantry of the "Green Jacket" rifle regiment!
Of course, the Spanish military would not have brain-dead cavalry to fight in the bushes......
A large number of Spanish militiamen, in this way, lost their biggest weapon against the "Green Jacket" rifle regiment, and endured the hell bullets that flew from time to time!
The huge gap in firing range and combat quality made it impossible for the Spanish militia, which had an advantage in numbers, to confront the "Green Jacket" rifle regiment, and once the Spanish militia launched a bayonet charge, the soldiers of the "Green Jacket" rifle regiment would take advantage of the cover of the jungle and quickly retreat!
When the Spanish militia was too physically exhausted and stopped the pursuit, the soldiers of the "Green Jacket" rifle regiment turned back and began to play a 'bird game'......
The main force of the Han Guards took the "Green Jacket" rifle regiment as the vanguard, specializing in cleaning up the Spanish militia lurking in the jungle, and the effect was surprisingly good!
In one of the most fierce striker encounters, the "Green Jacket" rifle regiment harvested more than 3,000 lives in one day!
And the "Green Jacket" rifle regiment itself died less than ten people!
There can be more wounded, there can be dozens of people, but most of them are not injured by the enemy, but due to various accidents while moving in the jungle, caused by physical trauma......
In the eyes of the soldiers of the "Green Jacket" rifle regiment, the Spanish militia did not do as much damage to them as the tropical jungles of South America......
With such a terrifying battle loss ratio, where can the Spanish militia resist?
A week after encountering the "Green Jacket" rifle regiment, the Spanish military commander had to abandon the idea of blocking the Han Guards in the jungle, which was too casualty and had already caused serious protests from the lower ranks......
They would rather advance against the artillery salvo of the Han Empire than be inexplicably killed in the woods!
Even if it's death, at least you have to know who killed it......
In fact, one of the most important reasons why the "Green Jacket" rifle regiment was able to achieve such great results was that the Spanish colonial army did not have a professional skirmisher unit!
It is true that pulling out a hunter with a good head can act as a skirmisher, but this kind of half-hung skirmish shoots at the professional elite skirmish "Green Jacket" in a hundred battles, isn't it looking for death?
The truly elite stragglers are throwing their heads and spilling their blood on the battlefields of Europe!
The outpost battle of the "Green Jacket" rifle regiment severely suppressed the morale of the Spanish army because of the absolute superiority in troops, but at the same time, many Spaniards were not reconciled, they thought that as long as they were in the open area, those Han stragglers who would only shamelessly sneak attack would completely lose their combat effectiveness!
Even if the Spanish cavalry was very 'amateur', it was enough to chase the stragglers and slaughter them!
In this way, the Spaniards happily decided to have a dignified head-on battle with the Han Guard!
This time, the Spaniards still showed an aggressive offensive, and did not wait for the Han Guards to come, because the Spaniards were afraid that the Han Guards would turn around when they saw that they had too many troops!
In order to block the Han Guards, the Spanish authorities divided the army into three routes, blocking the Han Guards from three directions, as long as the Han Guards did not turn around and run back to Panama in embarrassment, they would inevitably be blocked by their own army!
Then, as long as one army holds the main force of the Han Guards and waits for reinforcements from the other two armies, you can win a big victory!
When firearms dominate the battlefield, the number of people has become an important indicator, the invention of the artillery musket with great lethality, so that a small number of elites become very fragile, even if you are not afraid of death, and then you can fight, a lead bullet into it will immediately lose combat effectiveness!
Even in hand-to-hand combat with bayonets, the Spaniards were confident that they would annihilate each other with a steady stream of people!
If we can't fight one-on-one, can't we fight three or one?
Everyone is a human being, with a nose and two eyes, is it possible that all Han people are martial arts masters?
That's the confidence of the Spaniards!
Even in the Napoleonic campaign in Zhao Dutian's previous life, although Napoleon often won more with less, it was not a situation where the ratio of troops reached more than 2 times!
Napoleon's victory with less is just that the enemy's strength is one or two thousand or even tens of thousands more than his own, let alone 5 times, not even 2 times!
However, at that time, Napoleon's enemy army was a standing army, which was still different from the current Spanish colonial army, which was mostly composed of militias......
If it were a European standing army 5 times larger than himself, even if it was the Han Guard, Zhao Dutian would not let them come to death!
In fact, as long as both sides are standing armies, with more than 10,000 people, and if the ratio of troops exceeds 2 to 1, there will basically be no suspense of victory or defeat in the field......
Provided, of course, that both sides have a similar ratio of artillery to cavalry!
The Spaniards had much more musketeers than the Han Guards, and the cavalry was about the same number as the Han Empire's revolver carbines, and the artillery was less than the elite artillery division of the Han Empire!
Both in number and caliber, it should be less!
The Spaniards had the idea of encircling and suppressing the Han Guard, and the Han Guards naturally wanted to break the Spaniards' huge corps!
Therefore, it is no surprise that the two sides met in a wide plain suitable for battle!
The Spaniards chose this place because their other reinforcements were not far from here, and the Han Guards chose this place because the open area could maximize the power of artillery, didn't they look at the Spanish army front on the opposite side, and there was not even a sheltered high ground?!
The Han Guards placed the artillery divisions of the army on the two wings, and in the middle were the elite line infantry of the Han Guards!
The two-wing artillery can provide the most primitive cross-fire and exert maximum lethality!
And the guards of the two-wing artillery are the Wheel Carbine Cavalry Corps, which is not valued by the Han Guards!
The commander of the Han Guards was more convinced of the impact of the Han soldiers, and was not too optimistic about the cavalry, which was only armed with sabers and strange short-handled guns......
Therefore, the task given to them is only to protect the artillery and pursue the Spanish rout during the victory to expand the victory!
The Han Guards are the standard central main line infantry, with artillery on both sides, cavalry on the outermost periphery, and scattered stragglers standing in front of the line infantry!
The Spaniards, due to the small number of artillery, did not use it intensively, and they didn't want the artillery to be concentrated and served by the superior artillery of the Han Empire......