In the early morning of June 28, 1793, before the sky turned white, several black drones quietly rose into the sky tens of meters high from a sugar cane forest on the east side of Bacheng, heading straight towards the VOC coalition forces two kilometers away.
The defense line flew past.
At the same time, various troops, including the five servant military camps, the Hoi An camp, and the Marine Battalion, had taken advantage of the darkness to hide in various sugar cane forests less than 500 meters away from the VOC and the Banten Sultanate coalition forces.
Ready to attack.
In two open spaces inside the first-line fortifications of the North Navy, four armored vehicles painted in grass green were starting up. As streams of gray-white smoke spewed out from the exhaust pipe on the right side of the vehicle, the vehicle made a roar.
The driver, gunner, commander and accompanying maintenance team are all in place. They were all brought here from Beihai Town by Zhao Xin.
Twenty minutes later, the long-range strike force consisting of forty 75mm guns and twenty 122 howitzers all took off their camouflage made of fishing nets and entered the shooting position. Among these artillery, the 75mm guns were responsible for attacking.
Various field fortifications and artillery positions along the enemy's defense line, while howitzers are responsible for attacking camps and material warehouses behind the enemy's defense line.
"Report! All artillery positions have been prepared!"
In the frontline headquarters of Fort Noordwijk, a staff officer responsible for artillery liaison reported to Zhao Xin. Zhao Xin then nodded and said calmly to the staff officer: "Order each benchmark gun to test-fire."
"yes!"
The reason why Zhao Xin launched a ground attack on the day after the victory in the Thousand Islands Battle was because Zheng Wenxian sent another telegram shortly after sending the good news; the content above said that the Dutch flagship "William IV"
"Before surrendering, two pigeons flew out from above. This news made Zhao Xin anxious. Without hesitation, he immediately ordered all troops to prepare for an attack after dark.
Fortunately, I made a week's preparation beforehand, otherwise all departments would definitely be in a hurry and accidents would occur frequently.
You must know that since pigeons were brought back to Europe from the Middle East by the Crusaders, Westerners have spent hundreds of years establishing a very mature communication network. Today, the busiest air communication route in Europe starts from London and crosses England.
Channel, to France, the Holy Roman Empire and Amsterdam.
The Dutch have long used carrier pigeons to deliver trade intelligence, obtain information accurately and timely, and thus gain a head start in business. After VOC colonized Southeast Asia, they quickly established their own carrier pigeon communication network, initially based in Bacheng.
The center radiated to various castles in Ceylon, Malacca, Java, the Banda Islands and the Lone Islands, as well as various vassal sultanates with personnel stationed there. When the city of Ba was lost, they transferred the communication center to the city of Malacca
.
Zhao Xin has never raised pigeons, but because he lived in a bungalow, his neighbor raised a lot of pigeons, and he often visited them, so he still had some understanding of this animal.
A homing pigeon hatches out of its shell and can be released after a hundred days. Then it can be trained from a short distance of 5 kilometers to different long distances. Basically, it can be used as a homing pigeon when it reaches 200 kilometers. Generally, it can be used as a homing pigeon.
The flying speed of homing pigeons is about 100 kilometers per hour, and some good varieties can reach more than 150 kilometers per hour. If you follow this speed, whether it is the Dutch in Banten or Malacca, they can receive the message in as fast as two hours.
Although the victory of the Thousand Islands Naval Battle means that the VOC has lost more than half of its maritime power and can no longer block the waters north of Bacheng. But if the news alarmed the coalition forces of the Dutch and the Banten Sultanate, causing them to retreat to various places in advance
Strongholds and battlefield annihilation battles turn into siege battles; not to mention that the battle time will be delayed, and the supply lines of the troops will also be stretched very long.
When Zhao Xin's order was issued, the four benchmark guns on the artillery position fired one test shot at each of the north and south wings of the enemy's defense line according to the predetermined targets.
Boom! With the violent vibration of the gun body and the momentum of the recoil, the dust and weeds on the ground were rolled up, mixed with the smoke emitted from the gun muzzle, and filled the surroundings of the gun position.
Based on the footage fed back by the drone, the command headquarters slightly adjusted the coordinates, and after some calculations, quickly notified the artillery positions. In less than a minute, there were roars from various artillery positions of the North Navy, and the planned enemy troops
At the breakthrough points on the north and south wings of the defense line, the fortifications built with wood and earth suddenly jumped up.
European field fortifications in these days... well, they were basically composed of winding parapets. In addition to being built with compacted soil, they were also wrapped with entangled walls on the inside and outside.
Reinforced with wooden sticks or bundles of firewood, the thickness can reach 2 to 3 meters, which can effectively resist the shooting of solid bullets.
Under the fierce artillery fire, the first parapet fortification set up by the coalition forces was like paper. The fragments generated by the explosion swept groups of lives into the steel storm, while the roaring air waves stirred up large areas of soil debris.
Stones and wood blocks, mixed with flesh and blood, were constantly splashed around.
Although Zhao Xin only brought out 60 cannons, it was earth-shattering for the Dutch and Banten Sultanate coalition forces three kilometers away; even for those who had participated in the "Seven Years' War" and the "Fourth Anglo-Dutch War"
For the Prussian mercenaries and officers who had "war", this was also the first time they had seen it in their lives.
Some brave soldiers hid in the bomb crater and observed for a while, and found that there were no soldiers attacking at all on the other side, and the other side's shelling had been going on for 10 minutes and was still going on.
Thousands of people on the north and south wings of the defense line immediately collapsed under the sudden blow. The Sultanate officers on the front line quickly joined the fleeing army. They just wanted to escape from this bloody hell and completely ignored the orders of the VOC officers.
As for the VOC mercenaries, it's not that they don't dare to fight. The Prussians earn the money from their hard work, but they are not used to such a battle.
I didn’t say anything, retreat quickly! Gather in the rear, set up a formation, and wait for the enemy’s attack. However, because they fled too hastily, many Prussian mercenaries wore underwear...
Well, this is the tactical law of these days. Due to the impressive fire rate and shooting distance of the flintlock gun, a European soldier from recruit training to the next company only receives shooting training, rather than individual soldier aiming and shooting training.
In addition, because gunpowder is very expensive, no country has enough money to train its soldiers in marksmanship.
All the training received by the battle infantry is to suppress the individual's active thinking and performance. The firepower of the troops is only somewhat lethal when it is fired at close range and fired at a large group of soldiers. Therefore, whether it is an officer or a soldier, except for
Outside strongholds such as villages and woodlands, no one understands how to conduct skirmishing operations in plain areas. Even fighting in dispersed formations is looked down upon by others, thinking it is just the result of a lack of discipline and lack of training.
common practice.
However, when the VOC coalition forces retreated to the west of a village 800 meters away from the front line, and then began to assemble under the command of an officer's horse whip, they were shocked to find that the enemy's artillery fire was actually chasing them. So after a bombardment, the coalition forces stayed behind
After leaving corpses all over the ground, they began a hasty retreat again. Until they ran two kilometers away in one breath, they found that the rumble of cannons behind them finally stopped, and they collapsed on the ground.
At this time, on the attack position of the Northern Navy, a red signal flare rose into the air, and then a sharp whistle sounded in the sugar cane forest. Five battalions of Sendai clan servants rushed out of the sugar cane forest with excitement on their faces.
They formed a group of five people, formed a dispersed formation, and attacked the dilapidated fortifications of the VOC coalition like a black tide.
Speaking of these servants in Beihai Town, since they were issued front-loading rifles, they still used line infantry tactics. However, what the Beihai Navy used was based on the teachings of Wang Yuanfang and others after captured Tsarist Russian officers.
Above, we also refer to the historical works on infantry tactics after the Napoleonic Wars, making the formation and combat mode of the troops more flexible and more inclined to a skirmishing formation.
The most basic infantry organization unit in this tactic is the "corps". Each platoon is composed of twenty "corps". During combat, both shooting and formation changes are based on this unit.
When recruits receive queue training, they must first learn to stand, and then learn to walk in slow and fast steps. The stride length of each step must be maintained at 0.7 meters, the slow step is 75 steps per minute, and the fast step is 110 steps per minute.
Different from the 90-degree turn of marching columns in later generations, soldiers under line tactics not only need to learn to move straight forward, but also learn to use diagonal marching. That is, each soldier must turn left or right
45 degrees, move forward in a straight line for a certain distance and then turn 45 degrees to restore the original orientation.
After the queue training is over, they will receive gun training. After the individual training has made sufficient progress, they will form into small teams and learn how to load and shoot in a dense queue. At the same time, they will get used to shooting forward or to the left in units of units.
Shoot diagonally to the right.
After completing the shooting training, the recruits also need to learn to march in formation with guns. They must practice not only moving straight forward, but also practicing diagonally using two methods. They must learn to stay level, turn in platoons and march in units.
After completing this series of training, the recruits will go to camp. The training elements in the camp are still the same as the recruit training, but the focus is on training the loading steps to the point of being able to shoot at least 3 times per minute. Each platoon must
Receive training in platoon volley shooting, column volley shooting, and group shooting.
To put it bluntly, in the era of line battles, individual soldiers are useless, and individual soldiers with super strong combat capabilities are even more useless. Such people are either sent to be light infantry or to be hunters.
Soldiers will never appear in battle infantry.
The command's requirement for the attacking troops was speed. They had to complete the penetration in one morning and at the same time divide and surround the enemy. Therefore, whether it was soldiers or medical soldiers, everyone turned a blind eye to the injured and moaning enemy troops.
At this time, the sky was getting brighter. A servant soldier suddenly saw something shining on the chest of a wailing guy in front. He quickly turned his head and looked behind him. He felt that no one was paying attention to him, so he slowed down.
, intending to grab a handful. Unexpectedly, as soon as he stretched out his hand, before he could touch the thing, someone kicked him hard on his butt, and he was immediately thrown into the mud.
Quan Baocai, who served as the platoon leader, grabbed a Beihai Navy standard rifle with one hand and cursed viciously: "Asshole! Who told you to stop! Get up and keep running!"
When the servant soldier saw that he was his platoon leader, he was so frightened that he hurriedly got up on his hands and knees, grabbed the fallen rifle, and ran away without even daring to look back.
"waste!"
Quan Bao cursed in anger. He glanced at the guy lying on the ground. His intestines were exposed and still stained with mud. It was obvious that he was hopeless. So he picked up the rifle and swung it hard without hesitation.
Then he plunged the sharp bayonet into the wounded man's chest and sent him away.
After he took the shiny chain in his hand, he discovered that there was a golden and heavy round box attached to it. When he took it and opened it, he saw two black hands on it and two black hands on the inside of the lid.
There is a picture of a blonde woman.
"It would be nice to take this thing back to Abin as a gift, right?" Quan Bao thought so and put it into his jacket pocket.
After Li Ji was fired from the Intelligence Bureau because he brought the villagers from Niudu Village to Beihai Town and caused a big stir, he took his wife to Heilongjiang City and became a top soldier again. Last year, he wanted to recruit a servant army.
Because Quan Baocai was a naturalized citizen of the island country and had served in the army in Beihai Town for many years, the Ministry of Military Affairs transferred him from the Heilongjiang City garrison camp to the Servant Army Training Brigade. When the Servant Army completed its training in Ganlian'ao
By then, Quan Baocai naturally became a platoon leader in charge of 80 people.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Speaking of which, the servant army is different from the Aoba Battalion. The Aoba Battalion is a mercenary army, and the officers will naturally use Sendai Domain feudal lords, and its scale
There are only 500 people; and the servant army is to be stationed in Southeast Asia for a long time and must not make a big move, so the officers above the platoon leader are all the North Navy's own people.
At 11 a.m. on June 28, after six hours of intermittent pursuit, Quan Baocai's battalion and two other platoons of friendly forces, with the cooperation of an armored vehicle, blocked more than 500 Württemberg mercenaries.
In a town 17 kilometers southeast of Langkas Betong.
For obvious reasons, the VOC mercenaries were unable to form a formation and could only fight as skirmishers. They hid behind trees, fences, ditches and buildings in the town, preparing for a last-ditch battle.
As soon as the Beihai Navy came up, they sent out four five-person teams to conduct reconnaissance. After finally confirming where the enemy troops were hiding, they sent two platoons to launch a tentative attack. The two sides soon started shooting at each other in the town.
After fighting for a while, the Prussian mercenaries discovered that the "flintlocks" used by these short enemies were obviously different from their own weapons; not only was the range much greater, but the enemy soldiers' shooting accuracy was also very high.
There is no advantage in shooting; that is to say, when shooting with shotgun from a two-pounder, it can still cause some damage.
The problem was that due to their hasty escape, the Prussian mercenaries hiding in the town only brought out two two-pound cannons, and they were short of ammunition. After firing seven or eight cannons, one of the two-pound cannons ran out of gunpowder. However,
The mercenaries who have experienced hundreds of battles are far stronger than the servants who have only been trained for more than half a year. The opponent often beats the butts of several five-man squads with a bayonet charge.
In order not to waste time and turn the annihilation war into a war of attrition, the battalion commander where Quan Baocai was located found the commander of the armored vehicle. After some communication, the armored vehicle drove into the town aggressively. After a bombardment that sounded like lightning and thunder, the people in the town
Several of the strongest buildings were reduced to rubble, and the Prussians, who suffered heavy casualties, immediately waved white flags and surrendered.
Although money is a good thing, you have to earn it with a life, right?