Chapter 807 Evil
"Kill!"
Wang Qiao showed no fear, picked up the bayonet and fought with the mercenary general. Read
As the bayonets clashed, he felt that the Westerner was stronger than the soldiers of the powerful tribe.
However, the royal army always paid attention to food and training. They were strong and they were equally strong.
The two fought back and forth in the narrow trench for five or six rounds.
Wang Qiao deliberately exposed a flaw, and the mercenary general made an upward move, knocking the rifle in Wang Qiao's hand away.
At this moment, Wang Qiao rushed forward fiercely, threw the mercenary general to the ground, pulled out the dagger from his waist, and hit the mercenary general in the chest several times.
The mercenary general cursed loudly, but Wang Qiao could not understand the other party's bird language at all, and stabbed him hard again, and the other party was dead.
At the same time, the soldiers following him also almost cleared the enemy soldiers in the trench.
He looked at the bodies of the enemy soldiers on the ground and shouted, "Pile the bodies on the corridor."
Under his order, some soldiers threw a few grenades into the corridor first.
Then the soldiers lifted up the enemy soldiers and threw them into the corridor, blocking the corridor in a while.
"Brothers, their attack is weak. If we hold on, we will win." Wang Qiao shouted.
The previous few times, the soldiers who rushed up from the trench behind had red eyes and looked desperate.
But after repeated battles, the morale of the soldiers who rushed up was obviously declining.
The soldiers who rushed over this time were obviously not so determined.
It is obvious that although they did not take the first trench in the morning's battle, they caused much more casualties to the other side than they did.
According to his estimate, their casualty ratio was at least ten to one, or even twenty to one.
That is to say, for every casualty of a Wangfu soldier, there were ten casualties of the other side.
After Wang Qiao occupied the trench, more Wangfu soldiers rushed over from the beach to consolidate the first trench defense line.
At the same time
In the eighth trench on the river bank, Wang Xie and Luther were extremely angry.
Under their noses, the first trench, which was originally impregnable, was occupied by the enemy.
Now, the first trench was not only useless to them, but also provided defense for the Yanzhou soldiers.
Through the first trench, they continued to advance to the second trench.
"Damn it, go and take back the first trench for me." Luther cursed.
Yesterday, his mercenaries were killed and injured for 5,000 people.
This morning's battle, another 3,000 or 4,000 people were lost.
They paid such a high price, but they only persisted for one morning, and the first trench was taken away by the enemy.
For him, this is simply a shame.
But he also vaguely understood in his heart that the enemy's firearms and soldiers were much better than the Shi clan army.
Even their mercenaries were slightly inferior.
Because among the more than 20,000 mercenaries, less than 20% were Westerners, and the rest were native soldiers from the East.
In training, these native soldiers were treated differently from the Westerners.
So they were not as strong as the soldiers of King Yan. In hand-to-hand combat, the Westerners could fight back and forth with the soldiers of King Yan.
They rarely won against the soldiers of King Yan.
Of course, in his opinion, the most important thing was the difference in muskets and artillery.
Although the range of the flintlock was 200 meters, the opponent's musket had a longer range and was often suppressed outside the range.
In addition, the shrapnel thrown by the opponent suppressed them and could not fully exert their power.
"You three, lead the reserve team!" Wang Xie was also anxious.
Hearing this, he gave orders to the three generals around him.
After Luther arrived in Wu, in addition to teaching them some tactics, he also carried out some Westernization reforms on their army.
Leaving a reserve team during the war was one of them.
These reserve teams did not participate in the war, but rested in the rear, recuperated, and were sent immediately when they were in a tight situation.
"Yes, General Wang." After receiving Wang Xie's order.
Each of the three generals led 2,000 men to attack the first trench in three directions: left, right, and center.
The soldiers in different trenches did not hold muskets, but each of them held a long knife.
The battle for the trench was more of a hand-to-hand fight, and it was better to hold a knife than a musket.
There was more than one corridor in the middle of the trench, and they each moved to the first trench from the corridor.
Seeing that the end of the corridor was blocked, they climbed up from the second trench and jumped into the first trench to fight.
But just as they climbed over the trench, the soldiers of the Wangfu on the beach pulled the trigger.
One by one, the soldiers of the powerful tribe were hit and fell in the trench.
There were also soldiers of the powerful tribe who jumped into the first trench, but the soldiers of the Wangfu had been waiting for a long time and immediately stabbed them into a honeycomb.
On the hot air balloon, Lu Chang and the other two saw that the first trench was gradually under control, and immediately threw the message down.
"Let the second batch of soldiers cross the river." Zhao Xu saw what Lu Chang wrote and ordered.
Chang Wei had been waiting for this sentence, and immediately ordered the transport ships to carry the soldiers to the south bank.
Suddenly, the ships in the north of the river headed to the south bank again, covering the entire river surface.
At this moment, the south bank was in a battle with the soldiers of the palace, and was unable to prevent the transport ships from landing.
In less than two quarters of an hour, the second batch of soldiers of the palace landed on the beach.
Compared with the first batch of soldiers, they were more orderly.
Because the first batch of soldiers blocked the enemy's counterattack, they won time to form a team.
The arrival of the second batch of soldiers immediately reversed the number of soldiers on the battlefield.
The soldiers entered their respective positions under the leadership of their respective generals and cooperated with the first batch of soldiers to attack.
However, the situation at Niutou Beach changed just after they landed.
They saw the powerful army and mercenaries in the rear trenches withdrawing continuously.
Just as the soldiers of the palace observed.
Wang Xie and Luther were indeed retreating.
Leaving more than 10,000 soldiers behind, the remaining 80,000 soldiers went to Jinling one after another.
"This is a small local setback, but it does not mean that we have lost." Luther said to Wang Xie, who had a gloomy face.
He was comforting him to prevent these powerful generals from losing confidence.
After a pause, he said: "Our military strength in Jinling City is much stronger than here. The value of this battle is only to consume the enemy's military strength. In the second trench, they will no longer have the support of warships, and we still have a large number of field artillery."
In the battle of Niutou Beach, he realized that he would be bombarded by the enemy's sailing warships, so he left the powerful army's field artillery and their field artillery in the second trench fortifications to avoid being destroyed by the enemy.
Moreover, there is a river about 30 meters wide in front of the second trench, called Yuntai River.
This will effectively block the attack of the King of Yan's army.
Wang Xie nodded. This is only the first battle in the Jiangnan war.
They may have ten or twenty more battles in the future.
They will sooner or later drag down the King of Yan.
"As long as you hold the King of Yan back, the King of Yan will die once our fleet and army from the West arrive." Luther said again, with a sly look in his eyes.
The powerful families can muster the courage to fight the King of Yan, in part because of this promise.
Of course, this promise is a hoax.
If the powerful families really hold on, this promise may come true.
But if they can't hold on, they will only deploy their troops in more important colonies.