Chapter 490 Vegetable Goods

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The dense shells smashed into the Indian infantry ranks and Argentine artillery positions, and after hitting the ground, they exploded into balls of fire, accompanied by stumps and broken arms and mud and grass clippings flying into the sky, and the fragments of shells splashed everywhere knocked the entire Indian soldiers to the ground, and blood spilled out.

Almost every bombing point that landed near the Argentine infantry queue had to knock out a dozen soldiers and empty a considerable area of territory on the left and right.

The shells landed on the artillery positions, and immediately blew the Napoleonic cannon of the Argentines into parts, and the whistling shrapnel emptied the artillery on the left and exploded a bloody alley.

With such power, watching the white Argentine commander's eyelids twitch fiercely a few times, and then shouted with a panicked expression; "Oh God...... Stop the Indians from fleeing in all directions, and the officers go to gather their forces, it is a disaster. ”

Just a few rounds later

The packed Indian Line infantry was in disarray, and the Indian soldiers, frightened by the death and explosions, shouted and fled in all directions, disrupting the entire array.

Many soldiers threw down their rifles and fled, causing even more confusion.

See this scenario

The commander, Lieutenant General Lei Juekun, stopped the follow-up artillery bombardment in time, and then ordered the line infantry to pursue with a wave of his hand.

The neatly lined line infantry trotted with their guns in hand, and in the process of running, they also took care to avoid scattering their formations and covering up the past.

Not for a while

The line troops of the Tang Empire approached to a distance of four or five hundred meters, and at this time, the fleeing Indian infantry and the cavalry in the rear were mixed into a mess, and some Argentine white officers brandished shiny sabers and led the overseers to stop the deserters.

Seeing that the situation had just improved, the line infantry of the Tang Empire that was pursuing behind him had approached to a distance of five hundred meters.

At this time, a group of white cavalry came out from the left side of the Argentine camp, brandishing their shining sabers and speeding up, quickly entering the front of the two armies, like a gust of wind blowing on the flat ground.

The nerve-numbing horn sounded in the rear, and the infantry commanders of the Tang Empire raised their shiny command knives one after another, ordering the line infantry in small pursuit to stop and keep the platoon in order.

Then the rifles were raised, and the 1st platoon of line infantry crouched on the spot, and the 2nd and 3rd platoon line infantry staggered each other, the muzzles of the black holes pointed straight ahead.

At this time

The Argentine cavalry, which was rushing on the left, quickly shortened the distance between the two, and in only two or three minutes, it had already reached a distance of more than 100 meters.

These Argentine cavalrymen brandished their swords and shouted wildly, and rushed up with hideous faces, trying to buy more time for the infantry units to adjust, and disrupt the battle rhythm of the line infantry of the Tang Empire with cavalry charges.

"Gun raised, first row...... Fire! The infantry commander swung his sword down and gave the order to fire.

"Bang bang bang...... Bang bang bang ......"

The dense volley of guns and bullets resounded, and the ferocious Argentine cavalry seemed to hit the wall of air head-on, and were punched out of countless blood holes in the dense rain of locusts, and the blood flew and fell to the ground.

Hundreds of horses and cavalry rolled under the huge forward inertia, kicking up billowing smoke and dust.

"Gun raised, second row...... Fire! ”

"Bang bang bang...... Bang bang bang ......"

"Gun raised, second row...... Fire! ”

"Bang bang bang...... Bang bang bang ......"

"Bang bang bang...... Bang bang bang ......"

……

"Stop shooting, stop shooting ...... whole army"

After more than ten consecutive rounds of volleys of guns, the infantry commander standing at the front of the queue rushed to the front, holding a shiny command knife and waving it left and right, ordering the high-hit infantry to stop firing, and it would be a waste of bullets to continue fighting.

The corpses of Argentine cavalry and war horses were stacked up to half a man high, stopping more than 70 meters in front of the infantry line.

On the battlefield in front of them, about 3,000 white Argentine cavalrymen were buried here under the fierce and deadly platoon shots, and the corpses were scattered on the battlefield in a radius of four or five hundred meters, and the scene was extremely miserable.

The Indian soldiers, who had been restrained by the white commander and the overseer, were also shot down by a dense volley of bullets because they were within the limit of the King's rifle.

This time, it is even more explosive......

They ran all over the mountains without heeding the call, and there were even many Indian soldiers who jumped into the river in a panic and were swept downstream, and the scene was chaotic.

At this time, the Argentine army was gone.

In the imperial camp, two cavalry were killed on the left and right, they were the volunteer militia divisions that had been ambushed for a long time, and now they took advantage of the situation to cover up the past, chasing the Argentines all the way to slash and kill, and soon broke through the wooden fence and chased all the way down.

What a bunch of vegetable goods!

Lieutenant General Lei Juekun, the commander, shook his head with a wry smile, then took out a gold pocket watch inlaid with diamonds and looked at the time.

Among them, the line infantry of the Tang Empire approached more than 2 kilometers, which took about half an hour, and the artillery preparation took more than 10 minutes.

Other words

Under the double blow of artillery bombardment and platoon guns, the Argentines could not even hold on for about 20 minutes, and they were completely defeated.

Lieutenant General Lei Juekun led his troops to the Crimea in 1853 to participate in the bloody battle for Sevastopol, and as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Northern Army, he was promoted to lieutenant general of the Royal Army at the same time as Major General George Rabiot in late 1861.

Compared to the brutal wars that have been experienced, the battle of the Bunit Valley is particularly lighthearted.

It's not surprising to think about

White Argentines are mainly made up of descendants of Italian, Portuguese and Spanish immigrants, with a large proportion of mixed race. These southern Europeans were not good at fighting in the first place, or had lost the brave and warlike bloodline of the Age of Discovery, and became comfortable.

No more than 3% of Argentina's population is of English or Irish descent, but these Anglo-Argentines control more than 30% of the society's wealth, and are the white haciendas and capitalists in the province of Buenos Aires who can influence the political situation.

Most of the cavalry in the Argentine army came from the white militia of the United Provinces, many of whom had started as manor or cowboy a month earlier and had not undergone full military training.

It's okay to ride a horse and hold a gun to bully the indigenous Indians, but it's more than a little bit of fun to be part of a large army and participate in the battle.

Let's just say that the commander of the Argentine cavalry who rushed out from the left flank killed the entire cavalry unit because of his recklessness.

Therefore, it is useless to be brave with blood.

In the cavalry regulations of the Tang Empire, this kind of cavalry suicide in the face of line infantry charges is strictly prohibited, and even if they are lucky enough to escape their lives, the commander must be retroactively responsible and executed after the war.

From this alone, the low quality of the Argentine commanders is exposed.

Half of this rather decent Argentine army was beaten and fled by the Chinese armed militias, and the warriors of the indigenous Indian tribes, who were already frightened birds, were collected by the Argentines and trained as cannon fodder.

As a matter of fact

In the eyes of these indigenous Indians, the brave and warlike Chinese armed militia is tantamount to the devil's army, even more terrible than the devil, and fear is deeply rooted in the heart, and it is already frightened before fighting.

It's not a strange thing to be crushed in a battle.

Until evening

The cavalrymen of the volunteer militia division who were chasing everywhere happily escorted the prisoners and the bloody big bag of ears back, a fair-skinned left ear is worth 200 Tang Yuan, a dark-skinned left ear is worth 50 Tang Yuan, the right ear is worthless, this sack is full of money!

Battle of the Binonite Valley

At a small cost of 43 casualties, the Tang Imperial army achieved the brilliant results of destroying more than 14,000 enemies and capturing more than 22,000 enemies.

Among them

The 23,000 Indian infantry were all wiped out, the 19,000 white cavalry only escaped more than 6,000 people, and the rest were either killed or captured.

Early the next morning

Seven volunteer militia divisions began to split up and swept through the two northern provinces of Colombia del Estero and Santa Fe like wildfires, plunging countless white estates and towns into the flames.

No one expected that the Argentine army would collapse so quickly, and the cavalry of the Tang Empire swept across the fields and efficiently harvested villages and farms, bringing a catastrophe to the local white people.

In some white villages, towns and estates, the swept Chinese volunteer cavalry division would only divide a small group of men and horses to harvest the wealth, and the large cavalry would "rumble" past and continue to advance.

In just one week

The two northern provinces of Colombia del Estero and Santa Fe have completely fallen under the control of the cavalry of the Tang Empire, and they are full of flames.

Motorcade after convoy of horses heading north, long as far as the eye could see. Horse-drawn carriages carried large and small bags of supplies, driving cattle, sheep and horses southward.

Tear-stained white women and children sat in the carriages, and behind them were the smoky settlements, which hobbled south under the escort of the Chinese cavalry, becoming the trophies of the glory of the conquest of the volunteer militia division.

According to incomplete statistics in Argentina after the war;

The cavalry of the Tang Empire swept through the two northern provinces of Colombia del Estero and Santa Fe, leaving almost ten rooms empty and the Argentines in 10 years of colonial achievements in flames.

Between 38,000 and 40,000 white women and children were taken captive, and countless others died in the sudden disaster......

This unfounded speculation has been proved by the rigorous historical facts of the Tang Empire, and it is complete nonsense.

In the post-war period

Indeed, some of the white women and children who had lost their homes in the war were willing to follow the Imperial soldiers to live in the South, they needed a peaceful and peaceful living environment, and they were completely tired of the distractions of war.

This part of the population is not large, about 2,000 people.

The figure was 2,337, including 1,671 women, 622 children, 44 oppressed white men, and some cattle and sheep.

Decades later

The history of the Tang Empire is widely accepted by the international community, and in Colombia del Estero and Santa Fe and other northern provinces, immigrants mainly Chinese live happily and happily in this fertile land, and no one cares about the past.