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After a bombardment, at least five hundred of these recruits and thirty or forty mercenary veterans who took care of these recruits were cleared out by artillery fire, and the strength of the position was suddenly reduced by a large amount.

Luo Zuo calmly held the binoculars in a daze in the small town without making any adjustments.

In the face of great strength, no matter how he struggles, it will be an end. If he loses, the only thing he can do is to calm down and look for opportunities for the enemy to make mistakes.

Yes, after being hit hard by the enemy twice in a row, Luo Zuo saw clearly his own strength, and his own expedition, the [-]-kilometer supply line, the volatile climate, and the soldiers who were not acclimatized to the environment were almost his hometown. How powerful the mobilization and combat capabilities of the Spaniards and British who fought in the native land, and the old and strong stamina of these old European colonial empires.

With the combat effectiveness declining and the total force being only one-third of the enemy's, he could only stop in silence, waiting for the [-] reinforcements to come up from behind, with the wounded and the military depots left behind by the third battalion of the fourth mercenary regiment and the military depot behind. The arrival of the regiment composed of veterans, as well as the arrival of reinforcements and artillery battalions from the mercenary regiments of the two regiments that Zhuang Lin sent to him last time.

However, it is very difficult to pass through the Andes Mountains even in summer. The Spanish colonists only plundered and did not build. They have countless minerals in the mountains, but most of them use indigenous manpower, never using machinery and laying roads, so that the troops march in the mountains. The weather in this early autumn is even more difficult to act. It is estimated that the arrival of reinforcements, even the latest batch, will take a week later, and there is only one regiment.

Just as he was thinking, the British had already launched a second charge. Three thousand Indians and several hundred colonial troops rushed to the hillside under the cover of artillery fire. The ridge, the Mexicans and Indians on the ridge kept shooting They all used sudden fire guns and lacked training, but in the face of the enemy's dense formation, it was easy to kill a lot of enemy troops, but this time the British seemed to have decided to take it down, and their teams lined up The neat queue moved up little by little under the encouragement of the drums. A large number of cavalry on both sides pressed the formation, driving the retreating Indians and colonial troops. At the same time, more colonial troops rushed up from several directions.

The loss of a large number of Indians and Mexicans meant that the mercenary battalion had to go into battle to intercept the enemy by itself, and used three-pound guns, fired shotguns, and assaulted the enemy. A large number of Indians and colonial troops were killed and injured, but it also allowed the British army behind to approach The artillery here suffered heavy losses, and the Indians and Mexicans standing outside fled one after another. This time, even the guards of the Han officers could not stop them, and the mercenary battalion suffered huge casualties.

At the critical moment, the diverted artillery fire, the artillery fire of the Luozuo Army came over, and after several twelve-pounder shells were covered, the elite 5000 British lineup was immediately torn as if eaten by a dog, and then the British had no choice. If the troops were not withdrawn, nearly 1000 people went up, and only less than 1000 people retreated. About [-] wounded people fell on the ground and screamed, and more than [-] people died.

The cavalry companies that came after that surrounded the Indians and Mexicans who had fled to the rear. They would definitely not be able to go to the battlefield like that, so they could only be driven to the rear. A company of Mexicans was transferred from the Han regiment to reinforce it.

The other two battlefields are similar, but the loss is not as great as that one, but it also exhausted the baggage regiment in Luo Zuo's hands, the Indians and Mexicans in his hands. Judging from the losses ahead, the two charges of this day , Consumed all the Indians and Mexican recruits in his hands, and the third regiment of the mercenary regiment was almost exhausted, leaving only the backbone of less than one battalion.

Ordered a Han battalion to take over the logistics and logistics regiment, responsible for transporting and protecting the logistics, and at the same time guarding the Indians who were frightened by enemy artillery fire, Mexican recruits, and organizing the rest of the Indians who were sober and more experienced after entering the battle. After the Mexican recruits formed a half-company auxiliary force to help the Han battalion, all the remaining Indians, Mexicans, and mercenary foreigners were dispatched to block the eye and defend the positions, and each position sent a company of Han companies to supervise the battle and Increase the strength of the Han officers commanded there, or else when it collapses, the foreign mercenaries, Indians and Mexicans cannot be suppressed, then this position will completely collapse and will be taken by the enemy soon.

However, such an arrangement is obviously redundant, because after a day's attack, the Han regiment lost a battalion of troops, the cavalry company lost one and a half platoons, and the directly subordinate regiments lost one and a half platoons except for the artillery, most of the others were either dead or injured. It became the wounded, the logistics regiment became the wounded regiment, and the Han Chinese battalion was transferred to one and a half companies plus the battalion headquarters to reinforce the front line. That is to say, when it was dark, they lost more than 4000 people and added more than 2000 wounded. Half of them were seriously wounded, and all the remaining troops capable of fighting were only two Han Chinese regiments. The regiment was directly under Luozuo's personal guard battalion, and the artillery company had less than [-] troops.

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More than 2000 wounded, more than a few hundred were consumed. After experiencing the most tragic artillery fire and the most tragic fighting, the only remaining mercenary regiment [-] and Indian and Mexican soldiers who were very tired retreated in an orderly manner by night, and then Replaced with the strength of one and a half regiments of the Han regiment.

On the other side, the Spaniards and the British suffered heavy losses. They lost more than 4000 and 5000 troops on the opposite side in one day, and they lost 1 troops, mainly Indians and colonial soldiers on both sides. Nine hundred regular army soldiers, three hundred Spanish regular army soldiers, one hundred colonial army soldiers, and more than 100 cavalry, the total losses of the two families were more than twice that of the other side.

A chilling battle.

This battle caused the cannon fodder of both sides to be completely lost. Perhaps the British still had hundreds of Indian tribe fighters and two thousand colonial troops, and the Spaniards had no Indian fighters. Their biggest sacrifice was The Indians, otherwise they would not be able to attack the positions of the two battalion leaders of the third mercenary regiment, which are all armed with firearms.

Spain still retains 800 colonial regular troops, 700 regular troops, 1000 artillery, and 500 cavalry.The British also had [-] regular troops, [-] sailor colonial troops, [-] well-known militia troops, [-] artillerymen, and [-] cavalry troops.

It was dawn, and there were a few snowflakes floating in the sky. The cold air made people feel like a knife cut their breath. The military uniforms on their bodies were tightened. Soldiers quickly lined up and ran out of the barracks, and quickly entered the trenches outside the town. Everyone knows In the case of a huge gap in the strength of the enemy and us, especially when more than half of the army here was wiped out yesterday, and most of the personnel were killed and injured, the enemy's current strength is still three times theirs, or even a little more. People's hearts are as heavy as today's weather.

"Let the Han battalion take over all the wounded and prisoners, let all the active Indians and Mexicans regroup and go to the position to assist in the defense, and issue them with firearms, add two six-pound guns to each position, and ten cavalry. I will block the enemy's attack and ensure that the three front positions are not lost." Luo Zuo said to the soldiers around him.

As the guards rushed out of the camp, and the sound of horseshoes resounded through the gravel road in the town, the Spaniards and British on the opposite side also moved.

The artillery put on the pack horses and pulled the cannons to only one mile away from the enemy's high ground. The colonial army and the remaining Indians, Mexicans, and cavalry all over the mountains and plains slowly advanced, and the troops lined up neatly. Advance towards the high ground, and reach the 50 meters in front of the artillery. The troops dispersed and looked for their targets. The British were still on the hillside behind the woods on the ridge of the Andes, while the Spaniards were on the high ground about a mile and a half in front of the town, and The snow-water lake next to the open land over there, a sapphire-like small lake on the slopes of the Andes Mountains.

At 500:200 a.m. South American time, a violent storm of artillery fire swept through three positions blocking the enemy one and a half miles away from the entire town. The three hillside positions less than 45 meters long and [-] meters wide suffered nearly [-] large and small The violent bombardment of the artillery dropped an average of at least three shells per square meter during the two-hour bombardment. The soil in the entire position was turned upside down and turned into soft field soil. If you want to plant crops on it, you need to put the seeds Sow it down, circle it around, water it once, and wait a month for weeding.

When the artillery fire gradually thinned out and was still firing at a rate of one round every 3 minutes, the Spanish colonial army and the British colonial army, as well as the remaining Indians and cavalry speeded up and ran towards the enemy's position three miles away.

While running, the formation gradually spread out. Although they still lined up in a three-row formation, compared to yesterday, or even before their combat formation, the gap is already quite large, with a width of three meters, which looks a bit like a hashline formation .

The Spanish colonial soldiers with firearms and arquebuses ran desperately, and the Spanish regular army behind them marched in line with muskets similar to the Chinese Type 05 rifles, about a mile apart.

Behind the position a mile and a half outside the town, behind the New Qin Empire, there are a total of eighteen twelve-pound guns, three eighteen-pound guns, and the muzzle is too high to 45 degrees, starting from the hillside one mile outside the town Bombards running enemies.

The shells flew over one's own position, crossed a distance of about three miles, and soon fell into the queues of the Spanish regular army and the British regular army, which surprised both of them. The artillery shells charged about 15 kg About 30 kilograms in total, but the power of the explosion made the Spaniards and the British very toothache. One shot went down, and it took away the lives of at least eleven Spanish soldiers, spreading around [-] meters. This was still inside the queue, and the explosion outside was more powerful, and the scattered shrapnel left them nowhere to hide within [-] meters.

It was just 3 minutes of rapid shelling. Before they could react, 1000 Spanish regular soldiers died and 700 were injured. The most was their cavalry, which was covered while they were still running slowly. The cavalry of the two families was reduced from more than 400 to more than [-]. The horses ran away, so the two regular army units had to retreat to rest and order the artillery Bombard enemy artillery positions.

But during this time delay, the artillerymen of the New Qin Empire had already turned their artillery fire back to shelling the colonial army charging the enemy for more than a minute. Fleeing, the enemy continued to shell during the escape, but the careful British found that the artillery shelling was rapidly decreasing. When they passed the order to the artillery shelling the enemy's high ground, the enemy's shelling stopped.

Without taking into account the count of casualties, the cavalry attacked to intercept the fleeing colonial army and ordered them to continue to attack. Then the artillery fired in the direction of the enemy's shelling. The artillery fired violently, concentrating twice as many artillery as the enemy, but only saw the enemy's rear. There was no smoke from the enemy's ammunition, and there was no sound of the explosion of the enemy's ammunition. At this time, they had no time to distinguish, because the infantry on both sides collided again.

The two sides fought on the hillside. The soldiers of the Han regiment hiding in the trenches fired with the 20 rifles standard of the New Qin Empire. The rapid shooting and fierce vitality made the colonial army with firearms and the Indians with arquebus one after another. Knocked down on the ground, 100 meters in front of the position is a death penalty zone. After coming down in the morning, nearly [-] colonial troops fell, but they did not break through the enemy's defense line and rushed to the enemy's position.

One battalion of Han regiments, plus the remaining battalion of Indian and Mexican soldiers from yesterday's battle, plus some mercenary veterans, the total strength is more than half that of yesterday, but it has more results than yesterday.

In the morning's attack, the Spaniards lost 200 regular troops, the British lost 100 regular troops, the Spaniards lost 600 Indians, 300 Mexicans, 380 cavalry, 33 colonial troops, and the British Lost [-] colonial troops, [-] Indians, [-] mercenaries, [-] cavalry, artillery lost one three-pounder, nine artillerymen, four six-pounders damaged, Spaniards three three-pounders Pound guns, damaged a twelve-pound gun, an eighteen-pound gun, and [-] artillerymen, but still failed to take down the enemy's position.

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At noon, the fighting eased a little. Except for the occasional artillery fire from both sides, the troops on both sides took the initiative to retreat. They were nervously transporting the wounded, supplying supplies, digging positions, and deploying new defensive and offensive strategies. At the same time, most people began to eat. What are you doing, there is nothing wrong with eating enough. This is not a Spanish or British gentleman. Gentleman is a ghost. Praise a bunch of robbers and thieves. The offspring of rapists are gentlemen. That person must have lost his mind. The reason is that they are also tired, the loss is too great, and they can't fight anymore.

Luo Zuo, who suffered a lot of losses here, transferred back to a company of the Han battalion fifty miles away, and reorganized the cavalry company, which was divided into two squadrons of about 100 people. The battle in the morning was a battle between infantry and artillery. , but in the gap between the two sides of the high ground in the middle, on the flat terrain with a width of about one mile each, in order to prevent the enemy's cavalry raid, the only [-] reorganized cavalry in the cavalry battalion paid more than [-] cavalry to contain the enemy's cavalry. Sneak attack.

After dispatching one and a half battalions of the Han regiment to supplement the strength of the front position, his camp gathered more than 500 wounded, more than 300 wounded from the Han regiment, and more than 200 Indians and Mexicans. One regiment in the position was almost beaten Disabled, there are only 3000 of the 800 people left, and one and a half battalions have been supplemented, but more than 2000 people, some lightly wounded have not yet come down, and continue to prepare for battle.

Luo Zuo rubbed his eyebrows, he couldn't fight and consume like this anymore, and if he continued to consume like this, he would die. There are only more than 3000 troops left here, but the enemy still has more than 1 troops. How can we defeat the enemy without Let yourself lose too much here.

He turned his attention to the outstanding artillery battalion. This artillery battalion has a total of eighteen twelve-pounder guns, three eighteen-pounder guns, nine three-pounder guns, and six six-pounder guns. The field guns developed are not the solid bullet-pound guns of Europe and the West. The reason why the name of the pound is used is actually because these artillery pieces of the Chinese Empire have been influenced by European Portugal since the Ming Dynasty. When the Allied Forces fought in Guangdong, enough were captured, and most of the artillery made at that time continued to use their names until now.

In fact, the three-pound gun field gun is not much improved compared with the previous three-pound gun. The range is 100 meters higher than that of the solid bullet, which can hit about one mile. The six-pound gun can hit two miles, which is about 1000 meters. The cannon can hit about five miles, or about three miles to be precise, and the eighteen-pound cannon can hit about ten miles, but the effective range is actually only about 4000 meters, which is seven or eight miles.

The three-pound gun and the six-pound gun can hold shotguns. The three-pound gun is okay. It is not a problem to shoot 150 meters. The six-pound gun is a waste. It is only about 200 meters. The improvement is not big, but it is better than nothing. In China The Army and the New Qin Army are nothing more than companies and battalion-level support artillery for positional warfare. Generally, the company has three three-pound guns and one six-pound gun as support. This is the New Qin Army, and each squad of the Huaxia Army has one. Two three-pound guns were used in support.

The company-level support artillery of the Huaxia Empire is nine six-pound guns, with a dedicated firepower platoon.

Due to the disadvantages of population and military strength, the New Qin Empire could only use a small regiment of 2000 people, which was only 600 people more than the local garrison regiment of the Chinese Empire's garrison after disarmament.

A regiment of the New Qin Imperial Army had a squad of eleven people, a platoon of 35 people, and a company of 120 five people. The company headquarters had a squad directly under the squad, as well as several officers, deputy company commanders, and company commanders.

One battalion and three companies, 370 five people plus a direct subordinate platoon, a firepower platoon, a logistics squad, several battalion-level officers, and several personal guards, with a total strength of about 450 people.

A regiment has three battalions, with a total strength of 350 people, plus an artillery company belonging to the regiment, a supply company belonging to the regiment, and a cavalry platoon. In wartime, a cavalry company and a regimental guard platoon are added, which means almost 300 troops. Perhaps a little more people should be added, such as adding a cavalry company, a supply company, adding some prisoners to form a supply battalion, and drawing cavalry from ordinary companies to form a cavalry battalion, etc. The total strength will not exceed [-] people.

And there are so many people in a full garrison regiment in the Huaxia Empire, and it must be a large regiment of 3000 people, not to mention the field army regiment in wartime, which has more than 5000 people.

Therefore, the New Qin Army is in no way comparable to the Huaxia Army, which has a large population and can waste three or four billion at will.

The artillery battalion is also what Luo Zuo tried his best to come, otherwise he would not be able to command a complete battalion-level artillery battalion, although the level of these artillery battalions is comparable to that of the British, or other continental countries, the French, and the Spaniards The specialized battalions and regiments are relatively small, and the weapons and equipment are much inferior, but they are the limit of the command he can lead the regiment.

However, against the current colonial army, such opponents are similar. Compared with these colonial armies, they are also considered strong opponents.

In the afternoon, as the weather became slightly clearer at three o'clock, the Spaniards and the British couldn't wait to start the artillery attack, and dispatched about 7000 colonial troops to attack. This time they did not send their own regular army. There are also 7000 troops in total, but the loss was not small before, and now the two combined are only a little over 5000, so they can only use the colonial army.

The artillery of both sides opened fire violently, suppressing the infantry of the other side, but when the artillery of both sides fired, no one thought that the artillery of the new Qin army was very few, almost the rhythm of coping, about ten artillery were firing, then the others What about eight guns and three eighteen-pounders?

"distance,"

"900 meters,"

"direction,"

"150 meters to the side of the opposite ridge, half slope of a small hill,"

"Shot Angle,"

"45-degree firing angle, ten secret positions to the left."