"Oh, damn, what did these Tingen people do? How did the enemy run around in their homes?" Mentoban was simply speechless. He had never encountered such a situation.
It's like the French army fought in Marseille, and then the enemy penetrated the entire France from the north, and then blocked their retreat.
Isn’t this a fantasy!
"Suspend the attack on Guancheng and order the Salta Division at the rear to attack eastward. No matter who the opponent is, destroy them for me." Mentoban quickly made adjustments.
The destruction of the artillery position made him feel a deep sense of crisis, and he could only suspend the attack on Guancheng.
Sometimes war is like gambling, and you cannot bet blindly.
He has not lost his mind. At any time, his back path is more important than the front attack.
"Quick, take cover, prepare to meet the enemy."
After receiving the news that the enemy was counterattacking, the horse whistle quickly made arrangements.
After switching to breech-loading guns, the Donghua Army completely abandoned line tactics.
There are so many large rocks in this valley that can be used for concealed shooting, so there is no need to dig trenches.
The Donghua Army, which had been attacking just now, switched to defense.
Above Guancheng, Feng Yuan, who was already in despair, led his men to regain control of Guanqiang and defeated the French Foreign Legion who had attacked Guancheng.
After counting the number of people again, there were less than 500 fighting warriors left in Guancheng.
Knowing that he could not fight back, Feng Yuan could only lead his men to seize the time to clean up the corpses on the wall and defend their position.
The enemy's artillery positions outside the city were removed, which made Feng Yuan feel very relieved.
It was those artillerymen that almost caused them to lose the city. I don’t know how many brothers died under enemy artillery fire.
However, there are still a lot of enemies. I wonder how many reinforcements there are and whether they can withstand them?
They crossed over from within the Tingen Federation, and they probably don't have many troops.
If a large number of troops were to pass through the Tingen Federation, there would be no response.
Aren’t they afraid of being dumped by the Tingen Federation’s army?
Feng Yuanliu was right.
The situation in Zhumu and the others is really tense now. If one of them fails, they actually make dumplings for the enemy.
"Send an order to the horse guard that we must resolve the battle within four hours, otherwise we will be outflanked and attacked by Tingen's army." Zhumu didn't know the word making dumplings, but she was also aware of the problem.
The intelligence has been transmitted. The Milani Legion, which was originally heading south to pursue the Mapuche, has begun to rush back and will soon be able to reach the outside of the valley.
Outside the wall, the other two main regiments also rushed over, and their horse posts blocked the Salta Division's counterattack.
The machine guns mounted on the high ground on both sides inflicted huge damage on the opponent. With such a commanding position, the opponent had no place to hide.
The Salta Division, which had suffered heavy losses, was now almost crippled.
However, Meng Toban also saw that the opponent's troops were not large, and it turned out to be a small group of Donghua troops rushing over.
Since the opponent's number is not large, then use the numerical advantage to defeat the opponent.
"Let the Santa Fe Legion press forward."
According to past experience, the opponent's machine gun cannot fire for a long time.
If the attack continues uninterrupted, the opponent's machine guns will not be able to hold up. Can they stop the coalition's attack with infantry alone?
Another group of soldiers rushed up from the opposite side.
"Ula!" The sound was heard endlessly, like a flash flood erupting in the valley.
"Hit me, hit me hard." Ma Shao licked his lips, feeling a little excited and a little nervous.
Such battle scenes make people's blood boil.
The soldiers propped their gun barrels on the rocks and kept shooting forward, almost without aiming.
The machine gunner took out the kettle and added his own drinking water to the cooling cover outside the barrel. The shooting just now had caused the cooling water on the barrel to boil.
The loading hand accidentally touched it and burned the skin off his hand.
"Da da da……"
"Bang bang bang..."
The shouts of killing and shooting echoed in the valley, echoing each other.
The charging coalition soldiers fell like wheat.
"General, we can't charge like this anymore. The Donghua Army's firepower is too fierce." An officer from the Tingen Federation was about to cry.
Feelings: These are not your French soldiers, and they don’t care at all. Officer Tingen thought.
"Then what should we do? We just stay here and wait for the enemy to come and help us make sandwiches?" Montoban was also helpless.
No matter which army is attacking, it will not let its retreat be blocked by the enemy.
The order to stop the attack was not given, so the soldiers could only continue the attack in silence.
But there seems to be a wall of death ahead.
No matter how many soldiers rush there, they will fall.
Soon the path of the charge was filled with the corpses of allied soldiers.
The soldiers even stepped on the corpses of their companions.
"This machine gun is different from the previous rotating machine gun." He leaned forward and looked for a position with a better view.
Montauban held up his telescope and carefully observed the situation on the battlefield.
The other party replaced it with a new machine gun. It also used new gunpowder. The gun could fire automatically without the need for hand cranking.
What kind of gun is this?
Even Montaban, who has been on the battlefield for a long time and knows a lot about weapons, can't figure it out.
It should have been sold to them by the Renaissance Army.
As a senior officer in the army, Montoban knew that the Renaissance Army had invented a lot of new equipment in recent years, and even the smokeless gunpowder used by the Renaissance Army was now noticed by many countries in Europe.
Prussia is already looking to buy its formula.
Britain and France are also stepping up their efforts to develop this smokeless gunpowder.
Britain and France even had their own rotating machine guns, but they found that the failure rate of machine guns using black powder was too high.
Suddenly, he saw a flash of light in his telescope.
This is the reflection of the glass mirror.
Immediately, there was a sharp pain in his chest, and there were gunshots all around. No one knew where the gunshot came from.
The young and famous general of the French army fell to the ground instantly.
The bullet pierced his heart.
"The flower of the famous general fell in the Andes!" A month later, a French newspaper published such a sad tribute.
After the commander died in battle, the commander of the Santa Fe Division took over the command. He withdrew his troops towards the city gate and switched from offense to defense.
However, the machine gun positions set up by the Donghua Army at high altitudes made it impossible for the coalition soldiers hiding behind the rocks to escape.
Their defensive side is constantly being compressed.
Finally, they retreated to the front of the pass, but were attacked by the Donghua Army on the wall behind the pass.
If they followed Montauban's tactics and worked hard, they might still be able to kill them.
From the moment they turned to defense, they were doomed to fail.
Two hours later, the remaining coalition soldiers had to surrender under the leadership of their officers.
They are already in dire straits.
The Donghua Army didn't have many artillery pieces, but they really had a lot of machine guns.
Moreover, they have set up machine gun positions on the original artillery positions on the mountainside.
In this way, the entire wall is within their shooting range.
In addition to the enemy's losses in the previous attack on Guanqiang, in this battle, the Donghua Army annihilated more than 20,000 coalition troops and captured 15,000 enemy troops, including more than 2,000 French Foreign Legion troops.
The Donghua Army and the soldiers guarding the Guanqiang lost a total of about 5,000 people.
The heavy machine gun's bullets consumed more than 300,000 rounds. At this consumption rate, Zhumu can only fight two more battles of the same scale.
The war is not over yet...
There are still 20,000 soldiers in the Milani Legion, and they have arrived in the city of Mendoza at this time.
They did not stop, they were fighting non-stop towards the valley. They were all mounted infantry and were very fast.
Zhumu sent people to bring some food to the soldiers on the wall, ordered 20,000 militiamen to be recruited from the Chili area and gathered at Tongguan, and then led his men back to kill in the direction of the valley mouth.
The reason why Zhumu was unwilling to wait for the enemy at Tongguan was because this would make their battle passive.
She planned to start an encounter with the opponent in the valley, with the support of machine guns.
Fighting in such a narrow valley, the opponent's strength advantage cannot be brought into play, and there is no room for dispersion and detours.
What machine gunners like most is undoubtedly the enemy soldiers who gather together to charge.
After the main force's machine guns have defeated the Tingen Army, let the servants attack.
In the battle just now, a large number of guns were captured, and Zhumu changed the uniforms of all his servants, greatly increasing their combat effectiveness.
But she only has less than 20,000 people.
After defeating the 20,000-strong Milani Army, the Tingen Federation will send more troops.
At that time, Zhumu will join forces with the Mapuche people, so that they will have the strength to fight the final decisive battle with the Tingen Federation.
The matter of cleaning up the battlefield was handed over to the garrison in Guancheng. The horse guard took his own people and headed east again. The continuous fighting made them very tired.
There was no time to rest. In the evening, the two sides encountered each other ten kilometers west of the valley entrance. This time, it was not Mashao's regiment that attacked the front station. Zhumu replaced another regiment.
But she concentrated all her machine guns on the front line.
Use weak troops to confuse the enemy, attract the enemy's attack, and then use super firepower to cause huge damage to the enemy.
Although Zhumu was a woman, she had rich experience in leading troops. She often participated in the military meetings of the Donghua Army and learned a lot about the principles of military use from following those generals.
When fighting a war, you must show your weakness and fight with your truth.
"Hurry up and set up the stand for me, ammo man, put the ammo box behind the stone."
"This shielding stone is too damn small. I need to replace it with a new one. Put some soil on it, otherwise it will all ricochet."
Machine gunner Ding Xing commanded the assistants around him. He came with the machine gun. They were the first batch of new machine gunners.
Originally, he wanted to come here to live a good life and become a master.
Unexpectedly, my mother was sent to the battlefield as soon as she arrived in Donghua. Where was the land and the wife as promised?
Even before the benefits have been realized, the war has begun!
Therefore, Ding Xing felt resentment in his heart, but he had to carry out the order. The resentment in his heart could only be vented on his clumsy assistants and the charging enemies.
"Erkuan, you're in charge this time. Remember to hold down the gun and don't make the muzzle too high." Ding Xing said.
Each machine gun team also has two assistant gunners, both of whom are selected from the military. Not only to help the shooters share the pressure, but also to train more machine gunners as quickly as possible.
What are you guys doing in a daze? Go dig the soil and look for the kind of soil that grows under the meadow. It is bound by grass roots and will not spread easily.
There is a phenomenon of rocky desertification in this valley. It is full of rocks and it is difficult to find any soil.
Mud can only be found where grass grows.
Mud is much better protective against bullets than stone.
There were six or seven people in a machine gun team, and the machine gun positions were quickly arranged.
At this time, the enemy's silhouette can already be seen in the distance.
These Tingen people were riding on tall horses, and all of them were unkempt due to the continuous rapid march. They followed the temporarily recruited militia south to chase the Mapuche people, but the Mapuche people just ran and did not engage in battle at all.
The Tingen people chased Lonely, and each one of them was filled with anger.
As a result, news came from the north that the Donghua Army was coming to kill them. Can they feel better?
It's like you are chasing a ball, but two people are throwing the ball back and forth, making you run in both directions. What you want to do most at this time is to catch one of them and beat him up.
"Kill..." A regiment of soldiers was sent up by Milani. The enemy seemed to be well prepared. General Milani, who didn't know much about the enemy, could only send some of his troops up to test them out first.
"Bang bang bang..." Gunfire rang out on the Donghua Army's position, and the Tingen people who tried to attack were beaten to their knees.
"Squad leader, shall we shoot?" Erkuan asked Ding Xingdao when he saw that the infantry in front had started shooting.
"You big-headed devil, listen to the orders from above and ask me what to do. It's not your first fucking day in the war. Can't you see that the enemy is testing the attack?" Ding Xing cursed. He was in a bad mood. He looked at it.
It doesn't please anyone, so naturally I have nothing nice to say.
Sure enough, none of the machine gun positions were moved, only the soldiers with rifles squatted behind the rocks and fired.
"General, it seems that the opponent's number is not large."
A staff officer said in Milani's ear. The staff officer around Montaban also said this.
Milani himself was also observing the situation on the battlefield.
The Donghua Army only had one regiment of more than 2,000 troops deployed at the front of the battlefield, which was indeed not much.
"Attack with all our strength. Let's go in and join General Montaban. As long as we start attacking here, General Montaban will also attack outwards."
"General, do you want to wait until our artillery arrives before firing?"
No more waiting, the other side did not set up artillery positions.
There are artillery in Qomu, but they are not deployed at the front. This is to give the enemy the illusion that I am weak, come and attack me.
Soon, a large number of Tingen troops began to charge. Such a charge could not be stopped at will.
They were like a torrent pressing towards the thin Donghua Army's defense line.
Sporadic rifle fire started, and some soldiers fell down among the attacking troops, but everyone paid no attention to it, and the casualties were almost negligible.
They believed that they could break through the Donghua Army's position.
Soon the distance between the two sides was reduced to one hundred meters.
Er Kuan's hands holding the handle of the gun had white marks on it, and the muscles in his arms were tense.
He tightened his grip on the machine gun, which seemed to reduce the tension in his heart.
"Shoot, you're so fucking stupid." Er Kuan was hit hard on the head by Ding Xing.
Perhaps because he was too nervous, Er Kuan did not notice that the command flag had been waved.
"Da da da..." The entire battlefield was instantly replaced by the crisp sound of machine guns.
The attacking Tingen army was like hitting a wall. From front to back, they fell to the ground layer by layer.
This is when the battle really begins.
"Oh, my God, what is this? The scythe of death." General Milani was shocked.
He has seen rotating machine guns, but they are definitely not as powerful as this.
The power unleashed by five times the rate of fire is definitely not comparable to the original rotating machine gun.