Chapter 1285 Unification of Southern Border

Compared with the powerful naval equipment, the army equipment of the Mu Empire civilization is not enough.

The guns of the Ram battleship are powerful, but there is no matching musket. This is the biggest weakness of the night army at the moment. Fortunately, they still have a piece of black-tech armor-the Ram battle armor.

Like the Ram battleship, this battle armor is the crystallization of the civilization and technology of the Mu Empire. It is also silver-white and has amazing defense. To a certain extent, it can resist the attack of the flintlock.

This is very powerful!

The only regret is that the number of Lamu battle armor is scarce, and the raw materials for manufacturing are currently only available in the mainland of Mu, and the output is limited. Otherwise, the Dark Night Empire will really be invincible in the world.

The combination of the Ram battleship and the Ram battle armor, in today's game world, determines that the Dark Night Empire can control the ocean, but is unable to conquer other continents. It is a strategic defensive empire.

Fortunately, the continent of Mu has a vast territory, and Keisuke Honda and the others don't have much ambition to expand.

Their strategic goal is to carry out ocean-going trade with the Mu continent as the core, relying on sea dominance, and gradually expand the influence of the Dark Night Empire.

This is in conflict with Daxia's ocean strategy.

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Of the 150,000 night army that landed on Oahu, 50,000 were slaves. Not only did they not have anything to do with the Ram armor, but they only wore simple leather armor. They were real cannon fodder troops.

After landing, the slave army was forced to charge forward to consume the enemy's ammunition.

"fire!"

On the outskirts of Honolulu, Cao GUI arranged troops and temporarily built an artillery position, condescending, seeing the enemy rushing up, Cao GUI did not hesitate, and directly ordered to fire.

The artillery is left by the Pacific Fleet, and Hawaii County itself has no industrial base.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Under the bombardment of the intensive artillery, the slave army charging forward, the flesh and blood flew, and the broken limbs splashed wantonly in the air, like a hell on earth.

"Next wave!"

The commander of the dark night army remained unmoved, and sent batch after batch of cannon fodder to the battlefield.

At the same time, an elite troop wearing Ram battle armor was making the final rest in the rear. As soon as the enemy's artillery stopped, they would rush up and seize the enemy's artillery position.

The Daxia artillery has been improved several times. Today, it has got rid of the backward and inefficient smoothbore front-loading gun, but a more advanced rifled gun. At the same time, the breech block has been improved, the artillery has been rear-loaded, and the firing speed has been significantly increased.

The anti-recoil device is assisted to realize the elastic gun mount, the force acting on the gun mount is greatly reduced, the weight of the gun is reduced, the gun will not shift when firing, and the firing speed is increased again.

The shells fired by the artillery have also evolved from the original solid bullets and shotguns to more lethal grenades.

Daxia's latest grenade uses heavy explosives and composite fuzes to increase the weight of the projectile and improve the fragmentation lethality of the grenade. Supplemented with tools such as a peripheral sight, goniometer, and fuze setting machine, the lethality of the artillery on the battlefield can be increased explosively.

Artillery, officially on the stage of war.

A few days ago, Daxia has already prepared to build the Imperial Artillery Academy independently of the framework of the Imperial Army University, so that the artillery can become a standing arm in the Daxia Army.

The professors hired by the Artillery Academy are basically strangers, and they are all experts in reality.

In the eight years of Gaia, with the unlocking of the second industrial revolution technology tree, Daxia will conduct research in subdivided fields based on the existing artillery, such as mortars, flat-fire guns, and anti-aircraft guns.

The role of artillery will only become more and more important, and it will become the pinnacle of stability on the battlefield.

Facing such an artillery position, the slave army of the Dark Night Empire would have a predictable fate. No matter how many they sent, they would all be mercilessly blasted to pieces.

The name of cannon fodder is worthy of the name.

The commander of the Dark Night Army saw him with a dignified expression. In just one hour of shelling, more than 6,000 slave soldiers were killed. Worst of all, he seemed unaware of the diminished firepower of the enemy positions.

"Stop fighting, retreat ten miles, and set up camp!"

The commander was very decisive. He realized that the enemy's firepower was much stronger than expected, and the purpose of the test had been achieved. If you want to take down the enemy's position, you have to ask the court to send artillery from afar.

Only artillery can fight against artillery.

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In the next few days, no major battle broke out on Oahu.

The dark night army tried a little every day, and then withdrew, without making any plans for a general attack. They are waiting, waiting for the imperial court to deliver the artillery, and then go to war.

Cao GUI was not idle either, taking the opportunity to strengthen the artillery positions, and even mobilized engineers to build small forts one after another to house the musketeers, forming a dense firepower network.

Before the hand-to-hand combat, the two sides will start a contest of hot weapons.

On January 20, when the Hawaii battlefield was in a stalemate, the Java battlefield, which had not been very eye-catching, ushered in a decisive victory.

At about 11 o'clock in the morning, Niu Da, the head of the First Army Corps of the Southern Border Army and former military champion, led his troops to capture the Java Palace, announcing the official end of the Battle of Java Island.

As predicted before the war, the Javanese imperial army, with backward equipment and lack of actual combat, was completely vulnerable to the Great Xia army. They could neither fight in the wild nor defend the city that had been baptized by artillery fire.

Back and forth!

In less than two weeks, the island of Java fell.

In this battle, the Great Xia Southern Border Army and the Heluo Army only suffered less than 20,000 casualties, killed nearly 200,000 enemies, and captured more than 800,000 prisoners of war, creating the most brilliant record in the history of the Great Xia Army.

This also marks that the pure cold weapon army has officially withdrawn from the stage of history.

The Battle of Java Island was written into the history of the game.

This battle has once again proved the necessity of the Great Xia's disarmament and military reform, and proved that after the Great Xia Army's disarmament, the overall combat power has risen instead of falling, and it has become even more terrifying.

Great Xia's disarmament was finally unimpeded, and there was no more voice of opposition.

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Indian Empire, Cusco City.

After the news of the Battle of Java Island was disclosed, it triggered a storm of hot weapons around the world.

The European and American dynasties have always paid attention to the research and development of firearms, and their strength is comparable to that of Daxia. They are just a little surprised. As a traditional oriental dynasty, Daxia is also at the forefront of industrialization.

The hardest one is the Indian Empire.

This American dynasty, which adheres to Indian traditions, has had a hard time recently. Facing the attack from the Spanish dynasty and the Brasilia dynasty, it has seemed a little powerless.

Juarez's faith also began to waver.

The emperor realized that with the vigorous development of hot weapons today, if the empire sticks to tradition, it is afraid that it will have to embrace tradition and be buried together in the end.

"Empire, changes must be made!"

The current Indian Empire has almost zero industrial base. It is impossible to manufacture artillery and muskets in a short period of time.

The only way is to purchase arms from outside.

Looking at the world, only Daxia has this strength and is willing to trade with the Indian Empire.

What gave Juarez a headache was that during the seven years of Gaia, Daxia offered to assist the Indian Empire in establishing an industrial system, but Juarez refused.

Putting it together now, I don't know how much effort it will take.

"Even if you give up your face, this matter must be negotiated, and at worst you will cede some benefits."

Juarez already has the consciousness of cutting flesh.

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On January 22, after conquering Java Island, the Heluo Army was ordered to go north, land on Sumatra Island, and encircle and suppress Padang City.

In this way, the already crumbling Badong City army was made worse.

Unlike the Forbidden Army in the Royal City, the Badong City Territorial Army is still an elite force, equipped with certain artillery and muskets, but compared with the Great Xia Army, the gap is still very obvious.

Under the siege of the three-way army, even with the support of other people, Badong City still failed to hold on.

On the 27th, at around 3 pm, after three days and three nights of fierce fighting, Padang City was captured by the Great Xia Army, which meant that the Battle of Java had officially come to an end.

The Nanyang Theater has fulfilled the order of the imperial court and conquered Java before the Spring Festival.

This battle was indeed well fought.

After conquering Java, the entire southern border was unified and placed under the rule of Daxia.