Chapter 30: The Advance of the Europeans
Badis didn't have a worried look on his face, and said with a smile: "Those Indian natives, it's really naΓ―ve to think that this can block the way of our cavalry. As long as we send a musket team of 300 men to attack the natives who are hiding from afar, it will be easy to drive them away, and then let the natives who come with us move the barricades. β
Siegel was extremely burly, and his curly blonde hair made him look like a noble warrior, and he also smiled at this time: "Exactly, although the arquebus is two hundred meters away, it is almost difficult to hit people, but a few hundred people go over, and they shoot a few shots casually, and they don't scare those turtles to death." β
Nelson frowned and said, "Count Badis, Count Siegel, let's not underestimate these Indian natives, especially this grizzly tribe, are extremely fierce, and a hundred elite warriors in our settlement were killed by them. β
Bardis laughed, "Mr. Nelson, of course we won't be careless. However, the indigenous Indians are only good at jungle assassination, and they are no match for us. We're not going to give them a chance to jungle war, we didn't attack them before, aren't we going to lock them up in the Buffalo Valley? β
He paused for a moment, and then said, "Let's wait to divide the wealth of the grizzly tribe, I hope that the gold vein is really as rich as Mr. Nelson said, and we have sent so many people here this time, and it will cost a lot!" β
Nelson said: "Surely I will not disappoint Count Badis and Count Siegel. β
The three of them glanced at each other, and suddenly laughed at the same time, and then Bardis's face changed suddenly, and he said coldly: "Start attacking!" β
The jungle attack tactics of the Indians were very powerful, and people like Badis, who had a formal military education, naturally knew how to prevent it.
To be honest, these attack tactics are very difficult to use in large-scale battles.
More than a thousand Europeans were divided into ten squadrons, less than fifty meters apart, fanning around the entrance to the Bison Valley. On the grass by the riverbed, there are cavalry used by the Europeans to respond, and the Indians who have been bought by the Europeans are scattered everywhere, even if they are attacked by the Grizzly Tribe, they can quickly mobilize troops and surround and kill the enemy lurking in the shadows.
This is also the reason why the people of the Grizzly Bear tribe gathered in the Bison Valley and did not disperse to harass the Europeans, and at the beginning of this, dozens of soldiers were lost, and the Europeans suffered four or five casualties, and it was impossible for the Grizzly Bear tribe to fight with each other.
Although the mountain road in the Bison Valley is narrow, it is also thirty or forty meters wide, and with the advanced level of science and technology, it is not unrealistic to completely block such a wide mountain road with obstacles in a short time, and Ye Feiyu's armored truck still has to pass through here, and the grizzly tribe blocking the road is just pretending to attract Europeans over.
Many potholes have been excavated on the cliff slope at the end of the mountain road, and behind the cliff crevices and raised rocks, more than fifty riflemen, another fifty riflemen and hundreds of grizzly bear warriors armed with bows and arrows and machetes, are parked in the rear, ready to support the battle.
In Ye Feiyu's calculations, on this mountain road, which is only two hundred meters long, at least five hundred European soldiers will be eliminated.
More than 1,100 European soldiers, with the support of the settlements, were mostly armed with arquebuses, but many were inferior, and only about 300 arquebuses were really fine.
At this time, the Europeans' tactics were very monotonous, and under the command of Badis, three hundred musketeers walked towards the Bison Valley with uneven steps and fierce expressions, looking really fierce.
Everyone knows that even if their arquebuses are far superior to the bows and arrows and spears of the natives, but in such a strong attack on the Bison Valley, there must be casualties, and the commanders of the three countries are unwilling to suffer, these three hundred troops are very tacitly dispatched according to their respective proportions, and the French soldiers are the most.
Of course, once the grizzly tribe was defeated, the French also got the most share of the spoils.
The first musket team to storm the Bison Valley, with a lookout who was responsible for investigating the environment, observed the movements on both sides of the mountain road with a rough lens barrel, and sure enough, there were many excavation marks hundreds of meters away, and there were many people shaking inside, hiding many Indians inside.
However, the lookout did not give a hint, at a distance of five or six hundred meters, the arquebus could not hit there, let alone the bows and arrows and spears of the Indians, but he sneered in his heart, these Indian natives are too ridiculous, do you think that this can stop the footsteps of the musket team?
The contempt for the Indians, from the most ordinary European soldiers, to the commanders of the coalition forces, was the same.
Until the mouth of the valley, the musketeers did not encounter an attack from the Indians, which surprised Badis and others.
This is the best place for the Indians to defend, once the Europeans enter the mountain road, take advantage of the terrain to stand still, and shoot at the grizzly tribe warriors, the remaining European soldiers can enter the mountain road one after another, and the grizzly tribe with poor long-range weapons has only one way to retreat. When the mountain road is occupied by the Europeans, clear the barricades and let the cavalry enter, the initiative is in the hands of the Europeans, and they can attack the station of the grizzly tribe at any time.
Nelson's face was a little strange, and he couldn't help but say, "What's the matter?" Wouldn't the people of the grizzly tribe not understand this simple truth? Let us enter the mountain road? β
Siegel smiled, "I guess they're scared of our musketeers." In the face of absolute superiority, any stratagem is useless! Keep them going! β
The order soon reached the assault musket team. More than a dozen thick logs blocked the Taniguchi Mountain Road, which could only slightly block the footsteps of the war horses, which was of little use to people. The musketeers saw that there were no grizzly warriors nearby, and the grizzly warriors hiding behind the potholes and rocks were three or four hundred meters away from them, so they naturally would not be afraid, and many musketeers also laughed and climbed over the big tree barricade with a diameter of nearly one meter, and officially entered the Bison Valley mountain road.
Less than thirty meters past the trail, dozens of thick logs and huge rocks blocked the way, and with the same Grizzly Horde warriors lurking nearby, the musketeers easily overcame the second obstacle.
There are many steep cliffs on both sides of the mountain road, and there is a rushing river on one side, which cannot hide people, and under the observation of the lookout, it is impossible for the people of the grizzly tribe to lurk nearby on a large scale, so the musket team rushes quickly and smoothly.
The attacking team needs to advance in a step-by-step pattern, forming a continuous network of firepower, so as not to give the enemy a chance to disrupt their own formation.
The first musketeers had already entered the valley more than 100 meters, a distance so short that if the Indians had charged at any cost, it would only take a minute to cross all the obstacles and face the Europeans head-on.
During this time, the musketeers could only fire one round of shots, and even if all the three hundred lead bullets hit, they could only kill and injure three hundred grizzly warriors, so the three hundred musketeers of the second echelon were also under the command of Badis and others, and immediately entered the Bison Valley mountain road, which was only less than a hundred meters away from the troops in front.
The tactics adopted by the Europeans were undoubtedly correct. Therefore, the three musket teams, a full 900 European soldiers, except for the 200 cavalry troops, have all entered the mountain road that is only more than 200 meters long.
The Indian warriors attached to the European flag also stepped forward, followed behind the musket team, and began to clear the barricades with ropes, crowbars, etc., so as to facilitate the cavalry troops to launch an attack.
300 meters...... Two hundred and fifty meters...... 200 meters......
The musketeers and grizzly tribal warriors are getting closer.
The first group of musketeers had reached the end of the mountain trail, only two hundred meters away from the pit dug by the grizzly tribe, and the enemy was officially within range of the arquebus.
At such a distance, the arquebus has no more than a 1 percent chance of hitting the enemy, but the European soldiers have stopped, under the command of the detachment leader, organize the queue, line up, unify the ammunition, aiming, just wait for the order, the arquebus in the hand will make a loud noise, spraying the grizzly tribesmen hidden in the shadows with amazing buckshot.
They didn't dare to move on, no matter how short the distance was, the people of the Grizzly Tribes would be able to charge, and there were more than a dozen roadblocks behind them, making it difficult to retreat, even if the musket team behind them attacked, the three hundred of them would have to drown in the sea of Grizzly Tribal warriors, and I don't know how many would survive.
Even if they attack from a distance of 200 meters, the Europeans believe that the Indian turtles will definitely flee in fright, and if they try their luck to kill a few Indians, it will be even more beautiful, and no matter how strong a warrior is, it is impossible to hold out in such a situation where they can only be beaten and cannot fight back.
"Bang bang bang" There were a few muffled sounds, it sounded like the sound of an arquebus attacking, but the squad leader in charge of commanding the musket team was stunned for a moment, he hadn't given the order to attack yet, why did someone start shooting?
The sound of popping beans kept ringing, until a musketeer next to the detachment leader, bang, the Tianling cover was suddenly lifted, and Bai Huahua's brain splashed on the side of the detachment leader, and he was shocked to realize that the gunshot of popping beans was actually sent by a grizzly tribe warrior two hundred meters away.
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