Lord of Ming Dynasty

Facing the 50 cavalry of the French, the 200 cavalry of the British, and the 500 cavalry of the tribe that followed them, these [-] cavalry are simply lifeless. They can only stay outside the battlefield and sneak around Spying on the enemy's intelligence, it will definitely be a huge, heart-wrenching and regrettable loss once you get out.

Unable to stop Wen Ruxin's arbitrariness, De Silva Badmont had no choice but to go downstairs to his cavalry team, lead the cavalry out, and then quickly found a place where the horses would not attract the attention of the enemy. hid.

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The enemy was still three miles away, and the British had fought many battles, and they knew how to dodge the artillery fire. Although the distance of three miles was not enough to completely avoid the artillery fire, it was still not easy for ordinary artillery to hit them.

Wen Ruxin did not use the new cannons they brought at the beginning, but used some old bronze cannons, and captured some old cannons handed over to them by the French and Li Ya. About fifteen solid bullets flew over three miles. The land smashed on the grass, and in the woods, countless shallow ravines were drawn, but no British people were injured or injured.

Seeing this situation, the British and French were satisfied, and they beat the drums of attack one after another. The soldiers opened up the gap and walked slowly towards the town in a formation of guns.

Followed by military bands, cavalry, and generals' guards, the artillery began to move forward. When they reached [-] miles, the artillery stopped one after another. Braving the town's artillery fire, they began to load and fix the artillery. The cannons began to look up, and then the front chamber was loaded. The front-mounted bronze cannons were also used here, but these cannons were a bit big.

There were also small cannons, unfired, as the combat troops ambled forward, the artillerymen pushing the cannons, followed by the cavalry.

After adjusting the amount of charge and the shooting angle, white smoke rose from the artillery turrets in the town. The white smoke instantly enveloped the gun positions and gave the enemy artillery a target to locate the gun positions.

After firing four rounds of shells, the enemy came one mile away. The enemy's artillery fired the first round of shells, which were also solid shells. However, the enemy was obviously better than the artillery here, with high accuracy. The four rounds of artillery here did not Hit an enemy, even if there are a lot of enemies, although the formation is opened, it still occupies a lot of open space outside, but just like this, the British did not suffer any damage.

On the other side, the French artillery blasted the town with smoke and dust, and even killed two homeless soldiers standing on the fence wall, and opened a big hole in the fence wall, which was big enough for a person to get in. The flying sawdust swept away five or six of the homeless mercenaries around, and five or six of them were spinning around on the ground holding their wounds in pain.

The British artillery shells raged on the land of the town in this way, and many people in the front were unlucky. With the increase of the British artillery, seven or eight, fifteen, 22, solid ammunition, flowering ammunition, together I'm calling.

Taking advantage of the timing of the artillery shells to suppress the enemy, the British and French approached the town 300 meters away. Some people in the town who were not psychologically qualified began to shoot, causing bursts of salvos, and the gunfire sounded like fried beans. It's getting denser.

The British and the French continued to march forward in formation. Although they had entered the age of firearms, and although the Chinese Empire no longer needed to line up and shoot formations, they still used this formation and only fired when they were infinitely close to the enemy.

This led to the fact that although the training and quality of the mercenary corps were not as good as theirs, some members of the vagrant corps still used matchlock guns, but they could still hit a few people.

Someone in the British team began to fall, one, two, three, ten, fifteen, thirty, forty... .

Some people in the French team also began to fall, three, five, eight, ten, approaching 200 meters, the French also started to shoot, although they couldn't hit anything, because the homeless were protected by a fence wall.

Approaching 150 meters, the teams of both sides stopped and used volleyball guns to suppress the homeless squadron on the wall. The entire battlefield where the two sides fought was confused. At this time, the French artillery pushed closer and began to use flowering ammunition and solid The bombs bombed in turn, nearly twenty artillery bombarded the homeless squadron suffered heavy casualties, and many fence walls were destroyed.

At this time, Wen Ruxin was still using the only fifteen captured old-style artillery to fire, and used solid bullets to suppress the enemy. The person who fired the artillery used his own people, and the person who carried the shells used prisoners. A soldier guarding captives.

Of course, it is impossible to fight without loss. Soon the enemy's artillery fire increased, and they came and destroyed three artillery pieces and gunners, killing and wounding more than a dozen prisoners.

The enemy's bombardment and volley of guns caused heavy losses to the homeless squadron. After fighting for less than an hour, one team of the homeless squadron was completely killed and wounded, and one team was injured. Badmond, who was under temporary command, took prisoners to the back for treatment. .

Wen Ruxin sent a Romanian team to replace these people, and then captured some people from the captives to deliver ammunition and carry the wounded to these people, regardless of whether these people were dead or injured.

"Destroy the enemy's artillery." Wen Ruxin ordered the new type of artillery to fire, and the new type of artillery started to fire on the forts in some places behind. The violent bursting bullets caused casualties to the enemy's artillery. The French artillery was reimbursed for five years. The artillerymen lost 30 gunners, and the tribal soldiers who suffered indirectly were more than [-] killed.

The British lost two of their furthest guns, wounded the other gunners, and lost four or fifty men.

At this time, the British sent tribal soldiers to charge.The Rangers Squadron began to concentrate on dealing with the cold weapon assault troops, so their casualties inevitably expanded, because many people were suppressed because they couldn't care about shooting against the British.

Another team from Romania was sent up, the Russian team was sent up, and the Spanish team was transferred.

The artillery on the steam engine ship on the sea opened fire. After five miles, the shells smashed into the ranks of the British and French, and even the regular British troops and the French generals' guards behind were inevitably hit.

The Han Chinese team came out to line up behind the three teams, and used mortars to lob the British assault team outside.

The losses of the British and the French began to increase, but the two expanded their strike area. All the places outside the town were their attack points, and the mercenary regiment with insufficient troops could not guard all the points.

Wen Ruxin pulled out all the captive tribesmen and urged them to advance in a volley formation, killing the enemy and fighting with the enemy. At this time, the homeless team on the wall was still shooting at the enemy outside. He had already rushed in through the damaged gap, and was shot and shot by the Romanian team, the Spanish team, and the Russian two teams, and fell to death in the gap.

There were also people rushing in from places that were not well defended, shooting the turret and the defending squad inside from the side, or rushing over to fight melee.

The British regular army and the French regular army were still shooting and firing outside, and the 50 meters around the inner wall became a killing field for hand-to-hand combat. Except for the first team, the Romanian team was sent to the wall to defend, and the second team was still sent to the wall after suffering heavy losses. The wall is defending, and the gap is blocked by the Spanish team. The Spaniards have deployed another team to enter the battlefield here. Together with the two Russian teams and the previous two Spanish teams, they are blocking the enemy. The Chinese team keeps bombarding the enemy with mortars. enemy.

The surrounding cavalry squads continued to attack, killing the enemies within 200 meters of the small town.

In the afternoon, when the enemy attacked for five hours, the British lost 22 artillery pieces, the French lost 32 pieces, and the artillery here lost [-] pieces, but they still rely on the battleship artillery on the steam engine ship at sea for long-range strikes. The enemy, relying on the mortars of the Han Chinese team behind the house to attack the enemies rushing in and the enemies close to the city wall.

There were dead people everywhere, the captives had 500 casualties, and almost all of the homeless squadrons had turned into wounded and dead bodies. The Romanian squad barely made up a squad and was still on the wall. In hand-to-hand combat, the Russian team blocked the gap and fought with the enemy, while the Spanish team chased and killed the enemies who rushed in.

The cavalry squad of 80 people firmly guarded the line of defense of the camp's civilian houses. In front of them, all the way to the city wall, there were nearly a thousand corpses lying there.

But the situation of the war did not end with the victory of the mercenary regiment, but the enemy did not completely capture the town, but there were still nearly a thousand British regular troops, more than 100 French regular troops, and nearly a few hundred tribal fighters, which means that they died in the early stage Those were tribal warriors brought by their two families, and Newfoundland soldiers who served as the British servant army.

The battle did not end or stop. The British and French captured the dilapidated city wall an hour later and continued to advance towards the interior of the town. What they had to face next was the two Han Chinese teams that remained basically intact. There was a half-mutilated Chinese squad that had been wounded earlier, and there was only one full Spaniard squad left, two half-disabled Spaniard squads, and a cavalry squad of about twenty cavalrymen, whether they were Spanish or Chinese.

The remaining ten soldiers and officers of the Romanian squadron, which was almost exhausted, were also the same for the Russian squadron, with a little more, about twenty people, all of whom were wounded.

Almost all of the nearly 600 members of the homeless squadron died or were seriously injured and were sent to the wounded battalion a little behind. The wounded battalion now has no less than 500 wounded.

Using the farms and warehouses in the small town, as well as the houses of several farms on the other side of the warehouses as shelters, these teams that had suffered heavy casualties hid in the houses or in the temporary bunkers built outside to fight the enemy.

The warehouse was also shelled by the enemy many times, and Wen Ruxin did not dare to stand on the roof, and the watchtower on the roof was also bombed and collapsed.

He stayed in the warehouse, a Han Chinese team disabled team guarded downstairs, he and the guards guarded upstairs, and a dozen gunners operated a British artillery.

"Grovsky, Grovsky, take your people, kill all the prisoners, and don't let the enemy rescue those prisoners." Wen Ruxin looked at the second man on the other side of the warehouse with a ferocious expression on his face. The soldiers of the ten Russian squadrons shouted.

"Okay, Chief Wen," Grovsky, who was very bulky and only knew how to obey orders, immediately left his post and ran towards the prisoner camp not far away with twenty Russian mercenaries.

"Let the remaining troops of the homeless team go to help them, and kill the British, British immigrants, and tribal captives we captured, and those who refuse to surrender." Wen Ruxin said to a guard beside him. .

"Yes," the guard said, and immediately put away his guns and prepared to go down, "Wait, take the rest of the cavalry squad and supervise them. If they don't follow through, you kill them first, then go to complete the mission, and... ...kill those wounded who cannot be transferred to the ship. Bring down two squads of sailors and reinforce us."

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Behind the British team, on a small hill one mile away, English Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Evan wore a white wig and a red open-front military uniform. There is a red, yellow and blue colored ribbon on the front, white trousers with yellow edges on the lower body, bearskin high-waisted leather boots, and a long sword decorated with cat's-eye emeralds hanging on the waist.

He was looking down at the topographic map of the surrounding town that the staff had temporarily drawn for him, as well as the town's fortifications, artillery positions, and troop deployment.

"Report sir, flames are rising in the northwest of the town. According to intelligence, where the captives are held, we expect the enemy to slaughter the captives." A British cavalry reported.

Lieutenant Colonel Thomas got on his horse, raised his binoculars, looked inside the town, and said to the people around him: "The enemy can't resist anymore, and they are slaughtering our people and captured soldiers. Riley, gather the cavalry and charge in. We must Annihilate the enemy and save the prisoners."

"Major Bard, let your infantry attack quickly, advance to 100 meters away from the enemy and fire a volley of guns, defeat and eat the enemy infantry bit by bit."

"Captain Hawkins, let your artillery fire on the steamship in the enemy sea and sink it for me."

"Sergeant, go ask the French, when will their warships arrive, and why haven't they arrived now? Do you want the warriors of the empire to be ravaged by the enemy's naval guns here?"

"Yes, sir." Several officers who were named saluted immediately, then got on their horses and galloped away.

"Larry, how many people do we have?" Thomas asked the adjutant beside him.

"We still have eight hundred of our British soldiers, one hundred artillery, two hundred cavalry. The cavalry has just been sent out, and the artillery has also been pushed up. In addition, if you ask Major Bard to gather the infantry to attack, he will transfer at least two hundred from us. Infantry, that is to say, we still have [-] infantry not to attack. But we have to send [-] infantry to protect you, and [-] infantry to guard supplies and protect the wounded, which means we still have [-] infantry that can be dispatched."

"Where are the French?"

asked Thomas.