Chapter 1045 Desperate Wesley

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"What!"

Wesley ignored the shock brought by the machine gun and looked at the beach.

Sure enough, a vanguard of about 5,000 people was heading towards their coastal trench fortifications.

"Stop the charge and transfer the troops to the flanks." Wesley said hurriedly.

The officer's face changed immediately after hearing this, and he reminded, "Admiral, they will be bombarded again."

"Yes, they are indeed bombarded and suffer heavy casualties, but if we lose the flank, we will all die here. Now go and execute my orders." Wesley shouted.

He felt like he was going crazy.

In the past, no matter how fierce the battle was, he could always adopt appropriate tactics on the battlefield.

But now, he felt that everything he did was wrong, but he had to do it.

Just like the charge now.

Once given up, the soldiers who charged would die in vain, and the soldiers who were still fighting against the Dasong army in the trenches would also lose support.

They were abandoned.

But under his order, the officers still carried out the order.

Many coalition soldiers were required to enter the coastal fortifications that were bombed by the Dasong fleet.

Some rifled field guns and howitzers were also transferred there.

When the coalition changed its deployment, it was just as Wesley expected.

The coalition soldiers who rushed into the Dasong trenches continued to die due to the loss of support.

Half an hour later, the trenches were quiet.

The Qinglong soldiers counted more than 2,000 bodies, if the soldiers who died on the charge were counted.

Wesley's order killed more than 4,000 coalition soldiers.

In just half a day, the coalition died more than 10,000 people due to the shelling and the casualties of the charge.

The battle on the front battlefield ended, and both the coalition and the Dasong army focused their attention on the flank battlefield.

However, compared with the nervousness of the coalition officers, Qin Shan and Guan Tong seemed to be at ease.

"I want to see how you choose." Qin Shan stood with his hands behind his back, watching the vanguard of the Suzaku Army.

A flank attack is definitely a killer move for the Western Land Coalition.

If they defend, they will contact the fleet and continue to bombard.

If they don't defend, the flank fortifications will fall into the hands of the Suzaku Army, and they will attack from the flank trenches.

So, no matter what decision the other side makes this time, it will be wrong.

At the same time, he is also ready to make things worse for the coalition.

Just now, they charged, and it is their turn for the Qinglong Army to charge on the front battlefield.

However, it is not the time to charge now. He will wait until the Suzaku Army launches an attack before ordering a charge, so that the coalition cannot take care of both.

After deciding this, he will watch the actions of the Suzaku Army with peace of mind.

At this time.

The 5,000 soldiers of the Suzaku Army were only 500 meters away from the flank trench fortifications in a scattered line.

At a position of 500 meters, the 5,000 soldiers stopped again.

After a while, a thousand soldiers continued to advance in a three-three formation, while the soldiers behind continued to wait.

As the distance increased from 500 meters to 400 meters, and then to 300 meters.

At this time, the coalition trenches suddenly fired, and rifled guns and howitzers fired together.

Solid bullets and shrapnel shells fell on the beach one after another.

At the same time, the coalition soldiers in the trenches also pulled the trigger.

The soldiers of the Suzaku Army remained vigilant, and when they saw any unusual movement, they all lay down.

Because the beach was a slope from bottom to top, the bullets did not fall on them, but flew over their heads.

However, the coalition's shrapnel shells still caused some casualties to the soldiers of the Suzaku Army.

The thousand soldiers were originally intended to test the defense of the coalition's coastal fortifications.

Seeing that the coalition had deployed a large number of soldiers and artillery, the soldiers of the Suzaku Army began to crawl back and evacuate.

Guan Tong had been paying attention to the soldiers' actions.

Frowning, he ordered the messenger to stand on the seashore and signal the warship with a flag, requesting artillery support.

"If we take the flank, we will win. Support the Suzaku Army." Zhao Xu noticed the flag signal from the flag signaler.

Zhou Yi nodded and passed down the order.

Not long after, there was a roar, and the warships seemed to be shaking. More than 2,000 shells flew to the coast again.

Suddenly, the coastal fortifications of the Western Turkish coalition were covered by artillery fire again.

After ten rounds of bombardment, the warships stopped firing.

When the sound of artillery stopped, the coastal fortifications of the entire coalition were basically in a mess.

The entire fortification was covered with dense craters, and many trenches collapsed directly.

The Western Turkish coalition hiding in the trenches was even more so.

The artillery and soldiers were destroyed at the same time, and there were only the screams of the wounded on the entire position.

"General, will you continue to send troops to garrison?" The officer asked Wesley with difficulty from the inside of the fortification.

Wesley did not speak, he hesitated.

More than 10,000 coalition soldiers had been killed, and it is estimated that another 3,000 to 4,000 people died in this bombardment.

If they continue to send soldiers over, their casualties will reach more than 20,000 in just one day.

The coalition forces on the north side, the indigenous army and them, are no more than 120,000.

In this way, they can't even hold out for six days.

Thinking of this, he felt unprecedented despair.

"We can't stay here any longer, retreat to the second trench fortification." Wesley suddenly said.

They built two fortifications in total, and the two fortifications were 20 miles apart.

This second fortification was used to protect the army's evacuation in the worst case of war.

So this fortification is near the port on the north side of the Strait of Malacca.

Originally, they thought that their reinforcements would arrive without this fortification.

But they found out that they were totally wrong.

The Dasong army is really no longer a simple indigenous army, but a professional army that is stronger than theirs.

Only by retreating to the second trench, relying on the firepower support of their warships, can they continue to resist for a while.

Moreover, the second trench fortification is far away from the east coast and will not be bombarded by the Dasong fleet.

Moreover, if the war situation continues to deteriorate, they can only evacuate Malacca.

After all, Malacca is important.

But if the main force of the coalition forces is lost for Malacca, who will protect Tianzhu?

Retreating to Tianzhu, relying on Tianzhu's rich resources and vast territory, and cooperating with Tianzhu's indigenous army, they may be able to persist for a while.

Once they can hold on until the reinforcements arrive, they may be able to turn the tables.

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