Chapter 960: Final Battle!

"It's just suicide!"

When the prisoners rushed towards the Marines' positions in a scattered line, Pan Chang couldn't help shaking his head. Read

"They were already serious criminals, and it would be in vain if they died. This charge is a sure win." Zhao Xu smiled.

Pan Chang nodded, "In that case, let's do them a favor and execute these prisoners."

Then he ordered the generals to be on guard, and ordered the artillery to clear the enemy's field guns hidden in the fortifications.

The enemy's field guns were not many in number, and they seemed sparse on the vast battlefield.

But occasionally a solid bullet flew over, which could still cause considerable casualties to the soldiers.

The soldiers in charge of the naval guns would also be threatened.

After all, their naval gun positions were only 500 meters away from the enemy's trenches.

This distance was within the attack range of the enemy's field guns.

However, it would be fine if these field guns were not exposed.

But as long as they were exposed, they were doomed to be destroyed.

On the naval gun position, an artilleryman holding a telescope quickly locked the position of a field gun.

Given the direction and distance, the artillerymen adjusted the muzzle.

Then, a conical shell flew out and exploded thirty meters away from the field gun.

The huge explosion frightened the artilleryman in charge of the field gun and he immediately fell to the ground.

"Northeast direction, error of about thirty meters, readjust." The last one was just a test shot to calibrate the position.

The naval gunner fine-tuned the muzzle again, and another shell flew out.

This shell exploded five meters away from the field gun, and the artilleryman in charge of the field gun was not as lucky as the last time.

The flying shrapnel and powerful shock wave immediately harvested their lives.

This was not over yet, the naval gunner fired two more shells, and they did not stop until one shell hit the position of the field gun.

At the same time, the bombardment against the British field guns was launched on the entire battlefield.

In less than a quarter of an hour, all 36 field guns of the other side were shut down.

Some field guns were even bombarded by ten naval guns.

"Bang, bang, bang..."

While the guns were firing at each other, the British prisoners kept approaching.

It didn't take long for them to enter the 200 meters in front of the Marines.

At this time, the prisoners suddenly accelerated and rushed towards the Marines, shouting continuously.

The Marines had been on high alert and pulled the trigger one after another.

On the flat grass, the accuracy of the Qin-style rifle.

These charging prisoners were undoubtedly like targets.

Suddenly, the prisoners kept falling on the way to charge.

And in tension, they could only shoot randomly with flintlock rifles.

After firing a bullet, they had to stand in place and take out the bullets to load clumsily.

This time, loading took about 20 seconds.

Obviously, a motionless target is the best shooting target.

Prisoners who were loading bullets were often shot into sieves before they finished loading a bullet.

The gunshots lasted for half an hour, and more than 10,000 prisoners were killed by 70%.

The remaining 30% of the prisoners finally did not dare to charge any more, but chose to flee back to the trenches.

It was naturally very tempting to forgive his crime, but it was better to be guilty than dead, and some of them had settled the score.

Those who had not settled the score were all dead.

"Boom boom boom..." Although the gunfire stopped, the shelling continued.

The shelling lasted from noon to dusk, and then it stopped.

During this period, the Marines did not charge the trenches, but always guarded their own front line.

The soldiers of the reserve team even squinted and rested on the battlefield.

Because it was their turn to work at night.

Night fell, and darkness enveloped the earth.

At this time, boxes of flares were delivered to the battlefield.

The reason they did not charge during the day was to catch the other side off guard at night and consume another wave of their soldiers.

"The soldiers in Queensland have never seen flares, and they certainly haven't seen flares either. After the bombardment during the day, they have suffered heavy casualties. This sneak attack at night should be able to defeat their main force." Gong Ying was tempted to use flares.

Because they had experience in using them, the task of this sneak attack was given to the Marines led by him.

"This is the best, but don't force it. If you can't take it at night, continue the bombardment tomorrow." Zhao Xu told Gong Ying.

After answering yes, Gong Ying happily led the flares away.

Half an hour later, it seemed that all their soldiers had touched the edge of the trench fortifications.

At this time, a flare flew into the sky.

Like a falling sun, it illuminated the earth.

At this moment, Oliver and Joseph, like the Queensland officer Habby, determined that the Dasong army would not launch a night attack.

The sudden light stunned him and the British in the trench.

However, at this moment, they were covered by grenades and bullets, and were caught off guard.

Amid the gunshots and explosions, Oliver was like seeing a ghost.

Joseph finally couldn't keep calm anymore.

"Governor, we lost this war." Joseph said this, and all the strength in his body seemed to disappear.

Oliver nodded woodenly, and at this time he had no energy at all.

In one day, more than 800 of his 3,000 British regular troops were killed.

More than 2,000 militiamen equipped with rifles were killed, and this did not include the townspeople and prisoners.

At this rate, if the Dasong army continued to bombard for a few more days, they would be finished.

And now, what kind of weird situation is this?

No one could answer his question.

And he could only watch the trenches in chaos and could do nothing.

"Tell everyone that even if they die, they must take someone with them." Oliver suddenly shouted, his eyes crazy.

Joseph nodded and passed on Oliver's order.

Although he knew that this order had no effect.

Because they could not effectively fight back against the other side.

"Swish, swish, swish..." After a ball of light, more balls of light flew on the battlefield, and the trenches were always as bright as day.

At this time, the Marines who touched the edge of the trench began to formally attack the trench after the sneak attack.

The entire trench fortification was full of gunfire and grenade explosions.

However, the attack lasted only an hour, and the Marines chose to retreat.

Because the battlefield was much larger than Queensland, their flares were not enough to support it for a long time.

When the Marines retreated, Oliver and Joseph immediately counted the troops, and they felt sad again.

There were only more than 1,000 regular troops left, and 8,000 militiamen.

Fearing another surprise attack, the British soldiers in the trenches endured another night of hardship.

The next morning, when they were extremely sleepy, a huge roar sounded again.

The Dasong army launched another artillery attack.

For the next three days, although there were no sneak attacks at night, they were replaced by artillery attacks.

After three days of continuous artillery attacks, the British regular army and militia suffered serious losses and could hardly support a decent battle. The morale of the townspeople and prisoners was also extremely low, and many people almost went crazy because of despair.

In this situation, after another hour of artillery attacks on the morning of the fourth day.

The Marines launched a charge from all directions.

"Kill!"

Waves of roars resounded through the sky, and the Marines rushed to the trenches like a tide.

They were greeted only by sporadic rifled gunfire.

Some soldiers were injured and fell, but this could not stop them from moving forward.

They crossed the battlefield, jumped into the trenches, pointed their guns at the enemy, raised their bayonets and fought the British.

Faced with the full-scale attack of the Marines, the British finally collapsed completely, and many people climbed out of the trenches and fled to New South Wales.

The Marines chased them closely.

They were like a shrinking pocket, and by the evening, they completely occupied and controlled the city of New South Wales.