Chapter 23: The Tragic Resistance of the Peasants

The clansmen all knew about the defection before the battle.

Don't care about being sad and emotional, the revenge of the invaders is just around the corner, and they can only desperately strengthen the fortifications and do it in pieces.

Tonight there were so many torches and so bright that the moonlight was red.

Joseph lived the addiction of a regimental commander and went south overnight with five thousand men.

Their plan was very simple, ten artillery guns bombarded five rounds, and after the shells were fired, the heavy infantry entered the field to clear the limited military strength of the peasants.

Then the light infantry arrested the men, and the women and children were kept separate from the men.

The next thing depends on how you feel.

He wasn't worried that the peasants would fight to the death as they did this morning.

Although the scene under the city shows the bloody nature of the peasants, it is very unlikely to happen at the moment.

At the beginning, the people under the city knew that they were going to die, and they retaliated with a counterattack, which is not difficult to understand, and he would have done the same himself.

But the group of people you will have to face in a moment is different.

According to the past practice, if you do not resist and obey obediently, you will have hope for life, but it is only how much you will suffer.

There is only one end to resistance, and that is death.

The two sides have been entangled for more than ten years, and they know each other very well, and as long as the indigenous people can live, they will not think of sending them to death.

It's just that what they don't know is that this time is different from the past, and this time they are going to go on a killing spree.

The distance is not far, set off at eight o'clock, and at nine o'clock I saw the busy figure of the peasants.

In the light of the torches, it is very vivid.

Of course, the peasants also discovered them.

When Joseph saw this scene in front of him, he was shocked, when did the natives become so backbone?

"Captain, the more rigid they are, the better, so it's fun to kill. ”

"It's just that it looks decent, and I hope it's kind of like this when it starts fighting. ”

The peasant fortifications did not attract the attention of the Semu people, but instead provoked murder.

The Semu people believe in strength.

In their opinion, any bells and whistles packaging is vulnerable in the face of absolute strength.

Besides, how many weapons and armor do they have?

Continuous confiscation, even if there is still a private collection, can it play a role in front of the 5,000 regular army?

"Don't forget the defection this morning. Kane, you're from the First Legion, so you'll take the lead. ”

It's exciting.

Kane wants revenge, Joseph wants to preserve his strength, one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer.

"Yes, thank you, Captain. ”

Kane gave a chest salute and began to regroup.

Chai Rong commanded everyone to enter the fortifications and wait for the enemy's attack.

"Don't show your head without an order, remember, our mission is to hold this place, not fight them. ”

The farmer's strategy is simple: hold out as long as you can with fewer casualties.

Desperately, that's a last resort.

Soon, Chai Yi received the information that the invaders were coming, and he couldn't help but be anxious.

Immediately afterwards, he sent someone to inform the two warships that were cruising.

"Hurry up, don't want anything else, transfer the woman and the child first. ”

Now that the situation is urgent, how can you take care of the things outside your body, it is enough to have two transport ships to transport food, and talent is the foundation of the continuation of the race.

"Adopt an emergency plan. ”

Chai Yi gave an order, and the noisy and chaotic scene suddenly became orderly.

The distance from the tribe to the dock is divided into three unrelated passages by the human wall.

The left side is dedicated to transporting food, in the middle is other than food, and on the right is the sidewalk.

Now that the freight on the left and in the center has been suspended and replaced by a sidewalk, the efficiency of the transfer of the tribe has immediately tripled.

At this moment, a roaring sound of artillery was heard from the northwest, and they attacked.

"Patriarch, although this is much faster, the raft is insufficient, and at the current speed, it will not be able to transfer until tomorrow night......"

Chai Feng hugged his body, his face full of worry.

"Isn't our logging team building rafts, what's wrong?" Chai Yi asked.

He was very remorseful in his heart, knowing that the invaders would attack Jixiang and that his people would be implicated, but he did not hide the ship, otherwise there would be no such troubles.

Nowadays, we can only build some temporary rafts, and string them together as ships, but this carrying capacity is dwarfed.

"The small trees are almost cut down, and the big trees are laborious and time-consuming, and the raft building speed is too slow now. Chai Feng replied.

How is this good?

The two transport ships provided by Jixiang were transporting food and tools, and in Chaiyi's opinion, at least a month's rations for the whole clan had to be prepared.

If the food is stopped and people are gone, no matter how many people in the past die, they will starve to death.

He was entangled.

He understands what Chai Feng means, with only those two huge transport ships, it is not a problem to transport thousands of people at a time, anyway, he can run back and forth in an hour, and it is not a big problem to squeeze more people.

In this way, nearly 100,000 people could be transported to the opposite base in one day and one night.

He also firmly believes that the front line can buy them time for a day and a night.

But in the face of fish and bear's paws, he was really embarrassed.

Seeing that Chai Yi still couldn't make up his mind, Chai Feng was anxious.

"Patriarch, human life is at stake. Didn't the mascot also say that those islands also have some resources, as long as we are willing to endure hardships, aren't birds and animals, aquatic and wild vegetables all food, and those who are close to the mountains and rivers can still starve to death?"

"This ......"

Chai Feng said some truth, but Chai Yi knew that they had been to those islands, but it was because of lack of resources that they did not settle there.

There are only a few places that are suitable for living, and they can't support so many people.

If he really did what Chai Feng did, he was really afraid that there would not be one or two people who would starve to death by then.

"In this way, after the grain on the shore is transported, the people will be transported. Chai Yi finally made a decision.

"In addition, there are several docks available in the south, so that the people behind them should not rush here, and cut down and build ships on the spot, and we will buy time for them. ”

This plan is very reasonable, and it is indeed not easy for a million people to be transshipped at only one wharf.

In this way, several terminals will be transshipped at the same time, which will not only share the pressure here, but also make the action more orderly and efficient.

Even if the invaders attacked, those in the south would still be safe for the time being.

Chai Feng pondered for a long time, and finally nodded in agreement, he also thought that this was the best way in the current situation.

The roaring sound of cannons broke the silence of the night, and although everyone on Shenlong Island was still working, their hearts flew to the south.

After five rounds, the invaders' hoplites entered.

Chai Rong, who was observing the hole, saw this and shouted: "Go to the wall." ”

The makeshift earthen wall is not very high, and due to the pursuit of thickness, it is only three meters.

The total size can only be a wall, not a city.

The people went up to the wall and immediately erected the wooden shields.

Sure enough, a burst of black dots flew after a while, nailed to the wooden board and made a 'du', 'du' sound, and some people were shot by the guns and rolled directly down the wall.

If he hurt his hands and feet, he withdrew and bandaged them.

Despite this, watching the guns flying like raindrops in the sky, Chai Rong still laughed happily.

These are weapons, and the invaders brought them to them.

As Joseph had predicted, the peasants had few weapons left, and the previous wars had already lost seven or eight out of ten, and the rest had been looted by the invaders.

What they pressed hard at the bottom of the box was more than 100 sets of armor and horizontal knives obtained from the auspicious trade, and they were reluctant to use them until the critical moment.

Other things like forks, sticks, and the like are also called weapons, but they can only be used to guard the wall, and they are just showcases in actual combat.

"Collect the throwing guns and send them to the young man, the weapon cannot be thrown away when the person is dead, and the one behind him will pick it up and continue to fight. ”

In just a few dozen breaths, Chai Rong and the others collected nearly a thousand throwing guns.

The peasants were overjoyed.

Even though it's a wooden-handled gun, it can be used to stab people, it's better than a wooden stick.

After three rounds of shooting, the heavy infantry also rushed under the wall, and they began to look for the wall that had been badly damaged by the shelling.

This turn of events came suddenly, and the peasants, who were severely ill by night, did not see that they were holding shovels instead of scimitars until the enemy came to the corner.

"These bed bugs. Chai Rong cursed in his mouth, "Bring up the earthen bombs." ”

The earth bullet in his mouth is made into a basketball-sized mud bullet after soil and water, and is used to attack the enemy instead of stones.

Although there are not many rushes, it is enough for the current emergency.

The stones here are extremely rare and a great curiosity.

As a result, the earthen bullets weighing dozens of catties were packed in bamboo baskets and hung up on the wall.

"Bombs, all aimed and smashed. ”

At the sound of the order, nearly 100 earthen bombs fell one after another, smashing on the backs of the people who were concentrating on digging the foot of the wall, causing a riot at once.

At this time, the enemy's second wave of throwing guns came at the right time, and the peasants fell dozens in an instant.

"Shieldman, what is the shieldman doing, hold the shield!"

Chaotic and noisy, the peasants had not experienced war for a long time, their regular army had long been swept into the dustbin of history by the invaders, and now everyone was only supported by the obsession in their hearts.

Combat experience, that's not there.

Yes, just the experience of hunting.

After a few rounds, the shells ran out, and the peasants had to jump off the wall and engage the enemy's heavy infantry in hand-to-hand combat.

Those who have weapons beckoned to the weak leather armor on the belly and thighs of the enemy.

If you don't have a weapon, you can just use a stick and smash it at the enemy's head.

It is a completely lifeless way of fighting, and the peasants think that if they can exchange one life for one life, even if it is ten lives for one life, they can exchange all the invaders for death.

The ideal is very full, as Joseph said, in the face of absolute strength, everything is a floating cloud.

Although the peasants work hard and work hard, but the stone is the stone, the egg is still the egg, no matter how many eggs there are, the result of the collision is broken eggs.

Watching the clansmen fall one after another, Chai Rong's ruthless heart finally softened.

He ordered to stop the frontal fight with the enemy, and he couldn't bear to see this way of sending him to the death, so he decided to defend the gap after the wall was broken.

In this way, the enemy's point of attack is shifted to the gap, and it will be much easier for them to deal with it.

Half an hour later, the earthen wall in the middle was finally overwhelmed and collapsed with a 'boom' sound.

There was cheering from the invaders' camp, and then the hoplites began to swarm to widen the gap.

In a narrow gap only a few meters wide, the two sides fought to the death.

The enemy rushed into the gap, and was squeezed out alive by the peasants with flesh and blood.

After the gang had been killed, they rushed into the gap again, and then were squeezed out by the peasants with their bodies.

And so on and so forth.

A quarter of an hour, two quarters of an hour...... It wasn't until half an hour later that Kane realized something was wrong and stopped attacking.

At this time, the corpses in the gap had already been piled high, and the heavy infantry could not move their hands and feet, and their movements were inconvenient, and the number of dead and wounded increased.

As long as they fall, the peasants are directly a stick, and if they don't die, they have to be knocked out.

Kane counted the losses, and the heavy infantry actually suffered nearly 100 casualties, which made his angry teeth itch.

Although the other party died more, and the corners of the walls were covered with their corpses, no less than a thousand, but how could the ant-like natives compare with the noble Semu people.

"Captain, Captain Joseph asked how long it would take to get in. ”

How long?

The artillery carried only five rounds of ammunition, and now it is impossible to count on it.

The cavalry didn't bring it at all, they didn't have the habit of cavalry fighting at night, and they couldn't use it here.

The hoplites have already gone into battle, and the results are not ideal.

Forget about the light infantry, you can't afford to consume it.

After calculating the calculations, Kane sadly found that the peasant tribesmen, who had always adhered to the bold style of playing in the field, were helpless once they learned the rogue style of the auspicious turtle shell.

After thinking about it, Kane suddenly realized, only to realize that he had trapped himself, why did he have to be serious with the natives here?

The place is so wide, just go around, wouldn't it be better to copy their lair directly?

Kane, who figured it out, immediately told Joseph what he thought.

After a long attack, Joseph was already irritable in his heart, and Kane's plan came at the right time, so the two hit it off and immediately changed the battle plan.

"The second in charge, they want to bypass us. ”

The actions of thousands of people were difficult to hide, and the invaders did not try to hide their motives.

Either you watched me copy your lair, or there was a kind of field battle, and the peasants chose either one and they didn't suffer.

"Send someone back to inform the patriarch that the second plan is going to be adopted. ”

Perhaps it was providence, or perhaps it was a coincidence, Kane and the others chose to take a detour from the east and head south via the sea.

Because it is impossible to build an earthen wall there, it is surrounded by sand, and even if the earth is brought in, it will not be able to build a wall.

Chai Rong would not let them bypass him and go straight to the lair.

He moved east with part of his people, trying to take advantage of the numerical advantage to fight a wave of ambushes, and he drove the enemy away.

If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter, the entire outer area of the dock is guarded by clansmen, and nearly 100,000 young people are filled with their lives, and they can also keep the invaders out and prevent them from hurting women and children.