Chapter 21 The Murder of the Beast
Xiao Lin asked James to take five people to continue to monitor the movements of the lobster soldiers in place of Sai Qunxiong, and then returned to the camp with the others. The camp was in disarray, and all the civilians except for the three hundred soldiers had lost their square feet in fear. Xiao Lin has not yet bought the hearts of the people to make the white people forget the threat of the lobster soldiers, so many people have already begun to waver, but they are reluctant to give Xiao Lin the good life provided, and no one has offered to surrender.
Fortunately, the Eagle Tribe was under Xiao Lin's command, and he didn't have to worry that his soldiers would not have the slightest fighting spirit. A battalion of three hundred warriors, of which two hundred and fifty-two were Indians, and only forty-eight were white. Moreover, these white people are very combative fighters. The warriors of the Eagle Tribe did not say anything, the Eagle Patriarch said the hatred of his tribe and the whites, it was impossible to surrender to the whites, and he would only fight to the death. Just in case, Xiao Lin also asked a group of Eagle Tribal warriors to keep an eye on these white people, and once there was a state of retreat and surrender, they would be killed directly.
Although they were outnumbered, Sholin was much more powerful than Babu's men. It was only at this time that the British army began to be equipped with brown bass muskets, which originated from an arms development contract signed by the Royal Ordnance Office on September 15, 1714, which consisted of soliciting design opinions from private ordnance dealers on preferential terms, which were then approved for production by the Ordnance Department authorities. At this time, it was impossible for the colonists to replace their guns with new guns, unless their commanders had their hands and eyes.
Babu was clearly not such a person, so his soldiers could only use outdated muskets. And this kind of musket, there is no bright spot in history that is enough to be remembered (it is really impossible to find it, helpless). At this time, the equipment of the British army was not even comparable to that of the French. Even the three three-pounder field guns were old in the 17th century, with low accuracy and low power, and they couldn't even compare with the earliest gun grenades.
And on Shoren's side, three hundred Snyder-Enfield rifles. Although only 200 men had mastered the basic shooting ability, the firepower was enough to be worth 400 musket lobster soldiers. There are also a hundred archers, all of whom are archers with compound bows with an effective range of one hundred and fifty paces, and when it comes to melee combat, they can also use steel knives to fight. The combat skills honed in the jungle for more than ten years, coupled with Xiao Lin's modern combat training, their combat effectiveness is very strong.
The most important thing is that in order to strengthen his firepower, Xiao Lin specially arranged five fast and slow machines, that is, the sharp weapons of soldiers without machine guns and submachine guns, box guns, which will appear in every Anti-Japanese War drama.
The Mauser Military Pistol is also known as a barge gun and box gun in China, and it is often called the Mauser C96 in Europe. The Mauser factory was patented on December 11, 1895, and production began the following year. Because the holster is a wooden box, it is also called a box gun in China, and if it is equipped with a 20-round magazine, it is called a pot-bellied box. The body of the gun is wide, so it is also called the large mirror. With a fully automatic function, also known as a fast and slow machine, the Mauser pistol is a pistol made by the Mauser Arsenal in Germany. It was one of the first automatic pistols to appear in the world.
This pistol, with the addition of a butt, can even be turned into a primitive semi-automatic rifle or semi-automatic submachine gun. A fast and slow machine, with firepower comparable to that of twenty seventeenth-century muskets. Xiao Lin used two by himself, and each of the three company commanders had one. In addition to this, there were three hundred grenades. This kind of grenade is thrown after igniting the fuse. It's not that you can't forge that kind of string grenade, it's that kind of thing is too sensitive to do.
This batch of grenades first made an ellipsoidal shell, and then filled the flame and placed the lead by itself. All of this work was done on the American continent. However, this kind of grenade can also be said to be the most advanced grenade except for the string grenade, and the explosion radius is also two meters, which is extremely lethal. With so much capital, Xiao Lin was not worried that he would not be able to win against the seven hundred lobster soldiers, what he wanted was to minimize casualties and get a little more loot.
While the lobster soldiers were camping and repairing, Xiao Lin and the soldiers found a good place for an ambush. Shoren couldn't help but thank the Indians who died at the hands of the whites, who raised these colonial warriors with their lives, and despised the Indians to the extreme, and never made them official. This is also one of the reasons why the whites in the later period were defeated by the Indians, who were given advanced smoothbore guns. If they were to fight the same white troops, they would never be so careless, even if they did not attack immediately, they would have explored the surrounding environment, and they would not choose this hidden but very dangerous road.
The trail is mostly surrounded by hills and rocks, and although it is not high, there are still many slopes of about 50 meters. The place chosen by Xiao Lin is a slope of more than 40 meters, at an angle of 45 degrees, lying on the top, and all the conditions on the road can be seen clearly. Three hundred fighters entered the position overnight, dug trenches and slept until the early hours of the morning. At ten o'clock in the morning, James and the others, who were staring at the lobster soldiers, came over, and the lobster soldiers set off.
They didn't get angry soon, and spent a lot of time dragging out the wagons and artillery that were still stuck in the mud. It's already good to set off at this time. Xiao Lin asked everyone to get ready, and with the help of the walkie-talkie, he could relay his orders to every platoon commander. Slowly, the figure of the lobster soldier appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
At the head, it was the infantry who used smoothbore guns. These people are both the main force and cannon fodder, Xiao Lin did not rush to do it, he had to pack up the three field guns first. When the infantry had to get out of the ambush circle, the artillery appeared, and they walked in the middle, one by one, and at the end were fifty cavalrymen, for the rear of the palace. Sholin first aimed at a lobster soldier riding on a horse dragging a cannon, and when he was sure that he could kill him, he opened fire.
"Bang!"
A shot rang out through the valley, and when this shot was heard, Sholin's musketeers and archers attacked at the same time. The musketeers stood in the trenches, and the archers had to show half of their bodies. Suddenly, the seven hundred lobster soldiers under Babu were directly in chaos. With the help of Sholin and a few fighters with good marksmanship, all the lobster soldiers next to the artillery were quickly cleared. Moreover, anyone who approached the artillery, was shot.
Babu was well hidden, and was always among the infantry, and he didn't have to go on a tall horse, which was the way to die. As soon as he was attacked, he hid behind the carriage and began to organize the disorganized soldiers.