Chapter 718 The conspiracy is defeated (at the end of the month, ask for the moon
Just when Bayi was relieved that the Guards had driven away the cavalry of the Yin Army.
Mandal came back, and she brought back a wounded cavalryman.
This Jhansi cavalryman named Taler was shot in the chest and the bullet penetrated his lungs.
He was already dying when he was brought back by Mandal.
Fortunately, he has already handed the information to Mandal.
"Queen, the Chinese are arresting our people on a large scale."
The Jhanxi cavalry only knew that the Yin army was arresting people, but they had no idea what they were going to do.
"What are they arresting ordinary people for?" Bayi asked.
Unfortunately, there is no answer in the information.
"Could it be that they are arresting people to work as coolies to carry things for them?" Kaxi on the side speculated.
But it was immediately rejected by Mandal.
"No, the intelligence says that they were arrested along with the old, weak, women and children."
"Then what are they going to do?"
When everyone was confused, Zhang Deshuai made a suggestion, which was to prepare all the white prisoners held in the city.
Then have someone make some crosses and place them on the battlefield.
Finally, a few days later, an army of hundreds of thousands led by Robert appeared in the sight of Jhanxi City.
After the army briefly repaired outside the city, the first round of tentative attack on Nancheng began.
Some servants were driven towards the trenches outside the city.
Their slow steps were like taking a walk.
These servants were dressed in khaki clothes and had turbans on their heads. Most of them had big beards, but they were all skinny.
Among them, you can even see old men in their fifties and sixties and young men of fourteen or fifteen years old.
There is a lack of life in their eyes, like zombies.
Because it was a tentative attack, not many people attacked.
Finally, when the team approached a distance of two hundred meters, the defenders started shooting.
The dense rain of bullets instantly wiped out these attacking servants.
On the hillside behind, in a semi-underground headquarters, General Robert carefully observed the defensive positions of the Jhansi Army.
Bayi placed about ten thousand people on each side of the city wall.
She also has 20,000 mobile troops in her hands.
There are still more than 40,000 temporarily organized militiamen in the city. They are not participating in the fighting yet, but are just doing some work of transporting supplies.
There were also some militiamen who followed the soldiers to help them load ammunition. They squatted in the hidden trench and handed the loaded muzzleloaders to the soldiers.
Some of Bayi's soldiers also used muzzle-loading guns.
Unlike the Holy Army and the Renaissance Army, which share the same clan and species, they can receive priority supplies.
After this assistance from the Renaissance Army, only half of Bayi's troops were equipped with breech-loading guns.
Prior to this, the only cavalry equipment in the Jhanxi Army was lances, which Bayi purchased from the Renaissance Army at a large cost.
Therefore, there is still a certain gap between the equipment of the Zhanxi Army and the Yin Army.
But the tactics they adopted can make up for these shortcomings to a certain extent.
After all, they are the defensive side.
General Robert was also observing the Jhansi Army's position.
When the natives also learned scientific tactics and had weapons comparable to those of the army, their combat effectiveness was also good.
Facts have proved that no nation is born good at fighting, and no nation is born weak.
The so-called strong ones are only more advanced than others in terms of technology, strength and thinking.
The group of natives in front of him were no longer the rough guys who could only charge like spears even if they had muskets.
They hid in deep trenches and fired continuously at the charging troops.
From the look of the trench's configuration, it looked like someone was setting it up for them.
Robert also ordered the army to test the cities to the north and west.
As a result, the outer positions on both sides were more tightly defended.
It is obvious that the soldiers there have higher tactical literacy.
The positions on both sides were the reinforcements originally placed by the Holy Army in the Ganges River Basin.
The combat literacy of these Holy Kingdom soldiers is indeed higher than that of the Jhanxi people.
"It's not easy to fight." Robert put down the telescope and muttered to himself.
"Let the artillery prepare artillery fire on the enemy's positions outside the city and blow up those trenches."
Following Robert's orders.
The more than one hundred artillery pieces brought by the Yin army this time began to roar.
Artillery shells fell on the position like raindrops.
"Boom, boom, boom..." Continuous explosions sounded, and soil flew across the entire position.
Except for a few unlucky ones who ran around in a panic, most of the people hid in the shell-proof caves.
In the observation post with only an observation port on the ground, the hands of the observer holding the telescope were trembling.
Mora, a young Jhansi soldier, shook off the mud on his telescope and was still observing the scene on the battlefield dutifully.
He is the Queen's most loyal warrior, and all warriors in Jhansi City are willing to fight for their Majesty the Queen.
They all want to use their actions to show Her Majesty the Queen that they are a true warrior.
Mora was even able to cut down the black artillery shells as they arced from the air and landed on his own position.
The mounds of soil that had been piled up on the position were blown up and scattered in all directions.
Sometimes these shells would fly into the trenches, sending up a puff of smoke.
However, these shells could not kill many people, because their people had all hid in the shell-proof holes.
Seeing this, Maura couldn't help but sigh that these Chinese people are really smart.
Why didn't they come up with so many ideas when they were fighting in the past?
Suddenly, he saw a group of ragged civilians walking toward the position.
From time to time, artillery shells exploded around them.
What is Ying Jun doing?
Maura was hesitant to let the brothers out of the bomb shelter.
However, the enemy's artillery was still firing.
A strange scene occurred on the battlefield.
On the battlefield south of the city, a group of civilians dressed in rags walked forward like zombies.
Behind them were servants wearing khaki military uniforms and holding guns.
Behind them is a row of Ying Army soldiers holding rifles and wearing red military uniforms.
The guns of these soldiers were equipped with bayonets. They moved forward in an orderly manner, and you could feel the pressure right where they were.
After Maura hesitated briefly, she told her superiors.
At this time, in the command post on top of the city, Queen Bayi also saw the situation on the battlefield through the thick bunker.
Because the battlefield was filled with smoke like mist, what Bayi could see was not very clear.
She turned around and asked Zhang Deshuai on the side: "Zhang, did you see clearly? The enemy seems to be attacking?"
"The smoke is too thick and I can't see clearly." Zhang Deshuai frowned and shook his head.
At this time, the telephone at the headquarters rang. This was a battlefield telephone installed with the help of the staff group sent by the Renaissance Army.
Zhang Deshuai answered the phone. He is a military inspector and belongs to the war zone, so he is qualified to answer the call.
"Yeah, I understand." Zhang Deshuai put down the phone and ordered Cassie who was standing aside: "Tie the people we prepared before to the cross and push them to the front of the position."
Then, he reported to the Queen: "The old country of Yu used civilians as hostages to clear the way in front and attack the position."
Bayi's eyes showed a look of hatred: "These hateful old people of the country, they will never learn to respect others. Fortunately, we are prepared. Thank you so much, Zhang."
Robert smiled in his heart.
Seeing someone appear, the defending troops came out as expected.
Then, under the bombardment of the Yin Army's artillery, he was blown into the air.
Next, his soldiers and servants can rush into the opponent's carefully constructed positions, and then use these positions to fight their way in layer by layer.
The artillery in his hand can also advance forward with the infantry, thereby bombarding the opponent's city wall.
As long as the artillery can bombard the city wall, he believes that the city can be blasted open soon.
Just as he was waiting for his soldiers to follow the captured civilians and rush into the opponent's position.
The expression on his face suddenly froze.
Suddenly a large number of crosses were erected on the enemy's position.
There were people on those crosses.
And they are all white.
As the smoke gradually dissipated, everyone could see clearly that the people tied to these crosses were all white people.
The white people appearing here must undoubtedly be citizens of the Great Empire.
In the wars of the past few years, many white people have fallen into the hands of these rebels.
Damn it, how could I have forgotten this?
Robert blamed himself in his heart.
This time it was really a waste of money.
"Let the attacking troops withdraw." Robert sighed and quickly gave the order.
He was afraid that if he gave the order too late, his men would fight with the other party.
That is to say, both jade and stone will be destroyed.
It doesn't matter how many natives die, even if a civilian dies, no one will hold him accountable.
But the citizens of Daying cannot die.
Now that the attacking soldiers had seen what was happening on the cross, there was no way to hide the matter.
If news spread to the country, it would be said that because he used civilians to open the way, the rebels also responded by massacring the citizens of the Republic of China.
Then Robert will not only bear the blame, but his entire family will be implicated.
Fortunately, the frontline commander who led the attack also saw this scene.
He decisively issued the order to stop the attack.
It was not until Robert gave the order to withdraw that the frontline commander slowly retreated with his men.
However, this was a huge blow to the morale of the Yin army. After all, they wanted to use despicable tricks to launch an attack. However, they were easily defeated.
The result was a slap in the face.
Soon an envoy holding a white flag came out of the position in Jhanxi City.
The man met Robert smoothly.
After all, there are still a large number of prisoners in the hands of the Jhanxi people.
Robert did not dare to abuse the other party's messenger at this time.
This Jhansi man severely criticized Robert as soon as he came up.
This time the Japanese became what the natives called barbarians and war criminals.
What else could Robert say?
After the messenger finished scolding, he started talking about business.
Let’s talk about retreating troops first. Retreating troops is definitely not possible.
In the end, only one consensus was reached, that is, neither side could use civilians on the battlefield.
Robert also proposed to exchange hostages with the Jhanxi army.
Of course the Jhansi side would not agree. The number of white prisoners in their hands was actually not many.
Although the Queen is close to the people, she is not stupid. She will not move these civilians to the city at this time.
Because this means that a large amount of your own food and grass will be consumed.
Not to mention that there may be some spies among these people.
You must know that the Chinese people have a large number of natives who are loyal to them.
If you randomly find a few people mixed in with the crowd, Bayi won't be able to identify them.
This farce can only be regarded as the prelude to the entire battle to defend Jhanxi City.
The truly brutal battle has just begun.
After this incident, General Robert became more determined to capture Jhansi City.
Only victory can cover up the embarrassment he made in the beginning.
A winner's battle report can be written however you want, but as a loser, there will be countless people who want to find fault with you.
On the defense line outside the city, the shrill horn sounded again.
The enemy's shelling began again.
The soldiers hid in the shell-proof caves under the shouts of junior officers.
Mora continued to maintain his observation post.
There are observation posts at regular intervals on the position.
These observation posts are not parallel to the infantry trenches on the side, but are in a prominent position.
Because there is also a machine gun placed in each observation post.
So these observation posts are also machine gun positions.
As a supplementary firepower point, the machine gun position must be able to form cross fire, so the position will generally be protruding.
The enemy's shelling lasted for a long time, and Mora kept trying hard to see clearly through the smoke and the situation in the distance.
Due to staring for a long time and being corroded by the smoke, his eyes became red.
Maura rubbed her eyes.
The smoke in the distance seemed to be stirred up by something, and it surged up inexplicably.
"No, enemy attack!" Mora shouted.
Under the guidance of Mora, the machine gun team next to him fired a wave of continuous fire.
The smoke billowing in the distance became even more intense.
As the machine gun rang out, all the soldiers in the anti-gun holes got out and returned to their positions.
At this time, the enemy's shelling also ended. This also confirmed that the enemy had indeed begun to attack.
This time Robert extended the bombardment not because it could break the enemy's position.
In fact, he has discovered that simple shelling does not cause much damage to such trench positions.
He just wanted to create a lot of smoke on the battlefield and delay the time for the attacking troops to be discovered.
From previous attacks, he knew that these people would hide when they were bombarded.
This increases the time they have to prepare after discovering an enemy attack.
Therefore, he tried to get his soldiers as close to the opponent's position as possible in this way.
"Bang bang bang..." Intensive gunshots rang out on the battlefield.
At the same time, the Yin army hidden in the fog also began to make the final sprint.
The sound of shouting seemed to disperse the fog.
The figures of the servants emerged from the smoke.
They sprinted forward as fast as they could.
At this time, the Zhanxi Army's position was already close at hand.
In the observation bunker, Mora also picked up his gun and started shooting.
The machine gunner next to him was sweating profusely. He cranked the machine gun's handle as fast as possible.
The machine guns were manned by several Renaissance Army soldiers.
The Jhanxi Army originally did not have machine guns here, and these machine guns also came with the Military Staff Group.
Good steel must be used on the blade, and these machine guns are basically placed on the front line.