"Kill all the hateful Orientals, retake our Tumaco, retake our lost homeland, kill ......," the white Colombians who rushed to the front shouted with hideous faces, rushing from all directions.

Tens of thousands of Colombian rebels emerged from the jungle and flooded into the city of Tumaco, where the fighting broke out at about 9:00 a.m.

The thick sound of artillery and the dense volley of gunfire emptied the rows of the disorderly attacking thugs, and the bullets whistled sharply overhead, occasionally hitting the defending soldiers.

The blood bloomed, and the body fell to the ground in a daze. Lieutenant Colonel Hu Zhengguo stood on the defensive belt at the edge of the town with a cold expression, holding a telescope in his hand to observe carefully, and only put it down after a long time.

The current situation was quite bad, and the aggressive thugs were bound to win, gathering about 17,800 people to besiege the city of Tumaco.

Among them, about 6500~7000 people are well-equipped regular troops, using a unified French Xia Saibo rifle, which is a kind of rifle The technical performance of the Colt bolt-action rifle used by the soldiers of the Tang Empire is very close.

The only difference is that the Colt bolt-action rifle uses an all-metal bottom shell firing round, while the French Chasebo rifle uses a paper pack of fixed ammunition.

In the French army, the Chasepol rifles equipped with which they were armed had switched to brass metal bullets, and in the field of small arms, the gap with the world's leading infantry weapons was erased.

The regular army soldiers, of about 7,000 people, dressed in a variety of costumes, mixed with the thugs to storm the position.

The bullets fired are quite lethal and are also a key target. Thousands of other Colombian resistances, armed with a variety of old-fashioned smoothbore muskets, these jungle-hiding rats converge to be the most fervent in battle.

All that remained were some local peasants who had been bewitched or coerced, and some white manor owners could be seen, all of whom joined the ranks of the mob and stormed the city in turn.

The port of Tumaco is a southern port city bordering the Pacific Ocean, located in a large coastal plain, with a long history of development, dense population, and many villages and towns.

Although the population of the port city is just over 86,000, the total population of the villages and towns around Tumako and the vast rural areas is more than 400,000.

The entire Cali region has a population of more than 1.1 million people. Although the devastation of the war has decreased, it is not difficult to gather tens of thousands of rioters.

As an experienced mid-level military commander, Lieutenant Colonel Hu Zhengguo was not worried about the more than 17,000 thugs in front of him, but worried that they would have a back-up move.

The main force of the three regiments, together with the servant army, was basically huddled in the city and the port area, with a total strength of about 4,500 people, and more than 1,300 servant soldiers were all on the first line, and behind them were the guns of the black hole overseers.

In addition to these military forces, there are more than 1,000 armed civilians of Chinese descent in the city to help them fight, and they can also be supported by some of the ship's sailors, and their strength is not weak.

The fierce gunfire soon died down, and the frantically besieging thugs left behind large corpses and retreated in disarray.

It won't be long before they launch a new offensive. If you look closely, you will find that the mob with rudimentary weapons is the most numerous among the corpses lying at the front of the position, and they are often rushing to the front without knowing whether they are alive or dead.

Greet their ...... It's deadly platoon bullets and shells that explode in pieces. In this attack alone, the rioters left nearly a thousand corpses behind, and also caused dozens of casualties on the defenders.

Lieutenant Colonel Hu Zhengguo, who heard the report, did not look good, most of these casualties were hit by advanced French-made Xia Sebo rifles, otherwise there would not have been such a large number of casualties.

In the several large-scale battles for the conquest of Colombia, there were no such a large number of advanced French rifles, which made Lieutenant Colonel Wu Zhengguo feel faintly uneasy in his heart.

Needless to say, the relationship between France and Spain is that the Spanish throne is now vacant, and the most likely to ascend to the throne is Prince Felipe of the Spanish Bourbon dynasty, who is trying to be restored.

The Spanish Bourbon dynasty was a branch of the French Bourbon dynasty, and although France had entered the Third Republican era, the traditional Bourbon family still had great influence.

Peru and Ecuador, former Spanish colonies, received military assistance from France, possibly including but not limited to firearms, ammunition, and military command.

Fierce fighting lasted until 3:00 p.m., and the 3rd Regiment of the Royal Messi Musketeers repelled four successive frenzied attacks by the mob, and the bodies of the dead stained the streams and rivers outside the city, causing them to lose momentum.

Just when the officers and men of the 3rd Regiment thought they could take a breath, they heard a tidal wave of cheers from the enemy camp, and it turned out that the enemy's reinforcements had arrived.

In the distance, at the end of the southeastern horizon, a tidal wave of people could be seen coming, trampling on green wheat seedlings that were only calf high, spreading along the wheat fields.

Seeing such a big momentum, the faces of the soldiers who had been fighting for most of the day changed. Oh, my God...... How many people do you have to have?

The worst feared thing finally happened, Lieutenant Colonel Hu Zhengguo slammed his fist on the window edge, and the color became iron-blue.

The leaders of these hateful thugs first forced the three regiments to retreat to the city with great force, and then sent people to mobilize the villagers village by village and town by town, and even did not rule out the use of coercion...... More and more mobs gathered, including many gray-haired old people and underage children, who were encouraged by the leaders of the mob to pour out of their nests and become cannon fodder in the war.

Such a scheming trick does not look at all like the handiwork of Colombian thugs. Lieutenant Colonel Hu Zhengguo knew that the Third Regiment was in big trouble, and he had to lead the existing forces to hold out for more than two days and two nights before he could get reinforcements from the divisional headquarters.

Today has passed more than half a day, and the most dangerous night has not yet come, and the officers and men who have been tired for a day will almost have to hold on for a day or two nights.

In today's era, the two sides of a night war will consciously disengage from each other, because the line of sight in the night battle is unclear, it is difficult to distinguish between friend and foe, and it is very easy to cause accidental injury.

With the evil and spicy behavior shown by the enemy commander, he will not fail to see that the night battle is beneficial to himself. These Colombian peasants, who had gathered from all directions, had no discipline at all, and had little fighting qualities, and were more suited to a big brawl.

Not long after the break, the enemy quickly launched another even larger attack, and crowds of people from all sides laid siege to the town from all directions, and the battle quickly broke out.

The bloody battle continued intermittently until night, and at about ten o'clock in the night, the defensive line in the southeast corner of the city of Tumaco was finally broken by the mob.

The flood of enemies soon brought up the soldiers in hand-to-hand combat, and the casualties increased dramatically. At the critical moment, Lieutenant Colonel Hu Zhengguo led the remaining reserve force of more than 600 people to arrive in time, blocked the gap broken by the enemy, and then used a dense platoon of guns to knock down all the faint figures in the night.

The efficient harvesting of human lives finally frightened the thugs, who retreated screaming, leaving behind a mess of corpses.

Major Liao Changyuan, the chief of staff of the regiment who was in charge of commanding the operation in Dongcheng District, gasped for breath tiredly, exuding a strong smell of blood and gunsmoke, and leaned against the wall and said;

"Report to the sir, the 450 servant officers and men assigned to me in the eastern city have almost lost all casualties, the Chinese militia has lost hundreds of men, and my brothers have also lost a lot. The officers and men fought all day and in the middle of the night, and there was not much ammunition left, and they were so tired that they would not be able to hold their guns unless they were playing with their lives. If this continues, I am afraid that it will be difficult to resist the enemy's ferocious attack, and there are too many of them. ”