Chapter 457 How could the "English square meter flag" lose? (Please order, please vote)
Looking down from the heights of Banzhang Mountain, Army Lieutenant Colonel John Mitchell, the commander of the "English Union Flag", saw what a great situation it was!
It turns out that Luo Yaoguo, who "stole" the "illegal colony" of Macau from the Portuguese under the banner of the Crusade, was just a layman in the war. Look, he didn't even care about his own way out. At the foot of Banzhang Mountain
, all the way to the shore of the Qianshan Waterway, it’s all green.
In the rice fields, there is no trace of the Crusaders' defense line at all. This is good. As long as the British and Qing troops on Banzhang Mountain rush down together, they can defeat the Crusaders who have their formation on the northwest with their backs to the Qianshan Waterway.
The way back is completely cut off, just like cutting off a noodle!
On the battlefield west of Banzhang Mountain and north of Qianshan Waterway, the Qing army's artillery fire has stopped. The infantry and cavalry are pressing forward like a tide. The shouts are like waves, coming one after another.
.As soon as he heard this movement, he knew that the morale of those Qing soldiers was so high that they were about to rush
Breaking the sky! Lieutenant Colonel Michel turned his head and glanced at the battlefield where the shouts came from. My dear, I saw countless Qing soldiers, infantry and cavalry wearing blue cloth turbans or red tassel hats, forming square formations, and the surging tide.
Same, rushing towards the place where the cross flag is flying.
But, where is the Crusaders' front? Where is it? Lieutenant Colonel Michel looked left and right several times, but he didn't see the Crusaders' front. He muttered in his heart: "Those wearing Crusaders' uniforms
Could it be that the Chinese people had already greased their soles and ran away? Oh my, they are so courageless, now the Crusaders have lost their face to China!"
With this thought in mind, Lieutenant Colonel Michel turned his attention to the rice fields and villages at the foot of the mountain. With a wave of his hand, his momentum seemed to be able to command thousands of troops: "The Qing army is in front, the British army is behind, all of us, move forward!
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At the foot of Banzhang Mountain, there is Zhangmuwei Village. If Lieutenant Colonel Michel could get closer and take a closer look, he would be surprised. I don’t know when something will happen around this small Chinese village that looks ordinary and harmless.
A circle of shallow trenches and a circle of low earth walls emerged. More than two thousand Crusaders with oriental faces were holding their
The M1851 rifled gun squatted in the trench like a little quail, staring intently at the Qing troops rushing down from the mountain and the British and Indian troops disguised as Eight Banners soldiers.
Although this group of Qing troops and British and Indian troops were quite large, with a total of 3,500 people, they were a large black mass, like dark clouds. But the Crusaders squatting in the trench were calm at all.
There was no fear. No one fired blindly. They were all waiting there quietly for orders from their immediate superior, Li Shoucheng, commander of the First Division of the Taiping Rebellion Army.
In order to severely attack the Qing army that might come over Banzhang Mountain, Luo Yaoguo spent a lot of money this time. All the trump cards he sent were real trump cards, and there were two of them in one shot. In addition to Li Shoucheng, there were also others who had defected to the Roman Catholic Church.
Suarez, the leader of Zong's Macau Portuguese soldiers. His regiment of Macau Portuguese soldiers is now lurking in Zhangmuwei Village. Just waiting for Li Shoucheng's order, they will shout "God bless" and launch a bayonet charge!
These are 1,780 "real foreigners"! They look more "foreign" than the British-Indian Army in Hong Kong, and they are absolutely high-end and upscale! If those Indian Asan in the British-Indian Army in Hong Kong were beaten by them
He was stabbed to death with a bayonet. He would probably laugh so loudly that he would jump out of the coffin. When he saw Lord Shiva, he would be able to brag: "I was stabbed to death by a Western white man with a bayonet. Isn't that awesome!"
On the turret of a square building in Zhangmuwei Village, Li Shoucheng held a telescope and watched the Qing army divided into three formations, front, middle and rear, slowly advancing. Suddenly, he heard a burst of
There was a thunderous roar. Wu Dingcai, a soldier under Li Shoucheng, stepped forward and whispered: "His Royal Highness King Wu has started the artillery bombardment!"
Li Shoucheng nodded: "As expected of King Wu, the timing is just right! The Qingyao here have already gone down the mountain, and they can't see the situation on the northwest battlefield at all now!" He paused and then said.
: "Go and notify Chen Kunshu to put the enemy within twenty steps before firing!"
"yes!"
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On the battlefield north of Qianshan Waterway, among the dense formations of the Qing army, suddenly clouds of smoke rose up like fireworks! When Luo Yaoguo's artillery fired, what a surprise, it turned out to be explosive shells! And they still used twenty
pound mortar and thirty-six pounder
The large-caliber shells blasted out by mortars. The landing point of the shells is also particular. It is not the Qing army's front formation, but their center formation. On the battlefield north of Qianshan Waterway, the Qing army's formation is the first formation of the regiment training
, the green camp is the second formation, and the Eight Banners soldiers are the third formation.
At this moment, the first group of regiment trainers had already rushed to a place less than thirty steps away from the Crusaders' position. If they took a few more steps forward, they would encounter the two rows of riflemen. Right here.
At this critical moment, a dozen mortars placed in the fort behind the trench guarded by the Crusaders' infantry suddenly "opened", creating large gaps in the formation of the Green Battalion soldiers behind the Guangdong regiment.
The green battalion soldiers who were advancing arrogantly and valiantly were unexpectedly hit by this artillery bomb. This was not an ordinary artillery shell, it was a 24-pound or 36-pound explosive shell! And these artillery shells contained
The charge is called a fierce one. The black powder is added with saltpeter produced on-site in the Macau Castle. When it explodes, it explodes into a large piece, like a goddess scattering flowers. However, this "flower" is not a beautiful flower, but a large one.
Deadly shrapnel.
An artillery shell exploded in the crowd, and a large hole appeared in the Qing army's infantry square. The artillery shells crackled down like raindrops, and shrapnel flew everywhere. Every explosion caused a bloody mess.
Those Green Camp soldiers who had just had their fill of opium and were feeling dizzy and ecstatic were greeted by such fierce artillery fire. They felt as if they had had a basin of cold water poured on their pockets. The smoke even "awoke" them, and they were suddenly in chaos.
It became a pot of porridge.
However, the Guangdong regiment training officers who were walking in front of them did not know the miserable state of these green camp soldiers. At this moment, the morale of the Guangdong regiment training soldiers was still very high, as if they were all pumped up.
Because there are obviously not many Crusaders behind the low wall in front. Now they only need to push down the anti-horse guns about ten steps away, and they will have completed their mission.
But looking at this situation, the horse team of the Eight Banners did not need to charge, and they could do it by themselves.
From Sichuan, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was surrendered after being captured in the second Changsha battle last time. Bao Chao, who is now the chief of the battalion, found his head out of the short soil piles at this time.
The Guangdong group has been trained in front of the first row of the first row. His Majesty's hundreds of rifles have been put on the ground with Bao Chao and the muzzle trembling slightly.
The crowd, but there is no fire.
Everyone is waiting for his command of his chief!
Now, the enemy is in less than 20 steps!
Bao Chao finally raised the order: "Rifle -shooting!"
Almost at the same time, after Li Shoucheng's Highlight Chen Kunshu scolded "Lost Mother Thunder", he also made a loud order: "Rifle -shooting!"
Yu Yin of his password was still echoing. On the frontier of Changmu Wai Village, a row of large and small fires flashed in a row of fire!
One of the bullets that hit countless shot, like suddenly being split by the lightning, shake a large area, the screams rang unsatisfactory, and there were people who were planted everywhere.
In the green camp, the group practiced immediately collapsed. Where did they see such a killing? Twenty steps to open the dense firepower of the wiring rifle in the twenties.
Falling on the ground, screaming, exclaiming sounded! Those who were not dead or injured were not done, all screamed and shouted and turned to run, all like the trend, only hate father and mother to give birth to two legs!
And India, who was behind them, was dumbfounded. What is the situation? Why did it suddenly smoke the backdoor in front of the mound? Is anyone still lying there to fire? How to install bullets on your stomach?
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The rapid sound of drums suddenly sounded. This was the British adult that urged them to launch a bayonet charge immediately!
Those black -faced "Singh" have been familiar with the White Master. When they hear the sound of the drums, they subconsciously pulled out the bayonet and inserted it on the muzzle, and then shouted the slogan "God bless the Queen", and to the "lying" cross
Army rushes.
The response of the Crusaders was to throw out hundreds of butt smoke, and the nitrate grenade!
These grenades are similar to their eyes, either falling on these "third brothers" heads, or falling around them. God blessed Luo Yao's "five sisters", Queen Victoria, not their India Aisan. So those who are those.
The nitrate grenade rotated more than half of the eyes, and the unlucky India Aisan was killed and injured enough!
"Damn! Damn the devil." Lieutenant Colonel Michelle's eyes in the back of the war was red, his fist was tightly held, his face was incredible, and he could not accept it. The Yingyin Jinjin brigade he tuned in one hand could not be lost like this!
"Charging drum!" Michelle shouted hysterically like a losing gambler.
There is no mistake, every song is published and every content is read one by one!
He wants to use the remaining approximately 1,000 Indian lives as a bet and make a last ditch effort!
But before the drummer beside him started playing the charge drum, a sharp and harsh sound that he would never forget suddenly came from the surrounding village ahead.
"Didi-dip-dip-dip-dip-dip."
Then he heard a cry in Portuguese: "God bless us!"
The Indian Asans under him also saw a scene that made them completely desperate. A large group of "foreign Crusaders" were holding rifles with bayonets and fighting out of the besieged villages in front, shouting slogans in Portuguese.
, launched a charge towards their flank!
In front of them, there were already fast-moving Crusaders who had loaded their bullets and raised their guns to shoot again!
With accurate shooting on one side and "foreign masters" charging with bayonets on the other, the Indian Asan, who had suffered heavy casualties, collapsed in an instant, turned around and ran away.
Michelle and Li Taitai, who witnessed the collapse of their own side, were both stunned and just murmured: "How is it possible? How could the British army lose?"
Chapter completed!