Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 846 God of Plague
The military envoy of the Heluo New Army once again came to the city of Chikan with a white flag and two things.When the Dutch soldiers on the wall saw him, they frowned and shouted, "That plague god is here again! That plague god is here again!"

This military envoy is really an out-and-out plague god.Last time, he sent the heads of Colonel Duncan and Governor Fernan, and brought the bad news of the annihilation of the United Fleet and the Spanish Infantry Corps. This guy came over again with a fake smile like a wolf grandma visiting Little Red Riding Hood. What kind of medicine is sold in the gourd? Anyway, when they saw him, the Dutch army, from officers to soldiers, felt uneasy, for fear that this plague god would bring them another What terrible news... Now that the Dutch army is helpless and weak, it can't bear a bigger blow.

The Great Plague God stopped outside the city gate and shouted loudly: "Listen, Hongyi in the city, our Lord Marquis has a big gift for you, should I send it in for you, or come down and get it yourself?"

After hearing the translation, the Dutch soldiers on the city wall shouted in unison: "You plague-stricken mourner, what tricks do you want to play?"

The military envoy said with satisfaction: "It doesn't matter what I think, the key is what our Lord Hou thinks! To tell you the truth, the troops you sent to support Taiwan City have been wiped out by our army, and there is not even a scum left." Come down!"

The second regiment was wiped out by the Ming army! ?
A thunderbolt fell from the blue, shocking all the Dutch soldiers pale and stunned.The Second Regiment is the most elite unit in Chixian City. It has a glorious history and brilliant records. It once fought under Prince Maurice and defeated the Spaniards many times. The army was wiped out! ?A few soldiers yelled out: "You are lying! It is impossible for you to defeat the Second Regiment who has been awarded by Prince Maurice many times! You are lying!"

Prince Maurice will always be the God of War in the minds of the Dutch. The troops who can receive his award must be invincible and invincible. Because of this, they cannot accept the fact that the second regiment was defeated in such a short period of time. The fact of being wiped out!

In fact, the Second Regiment didn't believe that they would be defeated in such a short period of time, and they were defeated so badly!
After eating a simple battle meal, they formed a phalanx regardless of their unrecovered physical strength.The defenders of Taiwan City have been isolated by the Ming army. It is impossible to expect them to fight out of the city to cooperate with us. It is impossible to pinch the Ming army back and forth. Lieutenant Colonel Feidnan can only fight hard, hoping to rely on the strong combat effectiveness of the second regiment to kill them. Open a bloody road and rush into Taiwan City.He is still very confident about this. On the one hand, the Second Regiment is indeed extremely powerful and rarely loses; Still full of firearms, not a single spear!Whether it is the Spanish infantry phalanx or the Morris infantry phalanx, they are actually inclined to defense, using fierce artillery fire and musket shooting and hedgehog-like spears to wear down the opponent. The spearmen and musketeers cooperate with each other. In the past, we tried our best to bleed the opponent and attack the morale of the opponent at the same time, while the spearmen provided cover for the musketeers, forming complementary advantages between the arms. , without the cover of the spearmen, if they are pulled out alone, even if the opponent is just a group of tribal soldiers with relatively primitive equipment, they will die quite ugly!The Ming army doesn't even want a spearman, isn't that courting death!

The second is that the current European infantry is quite dependent on field fortifications. Good field fortifications can help them weaken the enemy's advantage and resist the enemy's most violent attack. When the enemy loses too much blood and their morale is low, the main force will launch again. Counterattack, destroy the opponent in one fell swoop, this is what the bastion does.However, there are none of these Ming troops, only a parapet made of sandbags!
Then what is there to be polite, press on, tear down the parapet, and use a spear to pierce them into skewers!

The phalanx was quickly formed. Lieutenant Colonel Feidnan drew his sword and walked in the front of the team. The whole regiment followed the officer with spears and muskets in their hands. squint.As expected of an elite army, as soon as it was launched, some recruits from the Heluo New Army felt short of breath and their heartbeat accelerated, as if they saw a mountain pressing towards them!But the artillery of the Ming army opened fire immediately. The 85mm howitzers had to be used to bombard the city walls, and the shells were limited and could not be wasted. The main ones used to deal with these Dutch infantry were thunderbolts.Eight 90mm Thunderbolt Cannons fired calmly, and the shells screamed out. Groups of flames rushed one after another in the Dutch infantry phalanx, one after another, and large groups of flesh and blood splashed in all directions with the expanding fireball. In the middle of the crowd, a large cloud of blood rained, and even the gunpowder smoke was dyed dark red!Looking over from the side of the Ming army, one could clearly see broken spears and split limbs flying in the blast like tree branches. The Dutch infantry phalanx was blasted into bloody ring-shaped blank areas, but soon, These empty circles were filled with surging crowds.

The Dutch infantry endured fierce shelling, ignoring the flying broken spears and flesh and blood, and strode forward!

Li Yan's complexion changed slightly, and he exclaimed in a low voice: "What a strict military discipline! What a tenacious will!"

Catherine's complexion changed drastically, and she exclaimed in horror: "What a terrible shelling..."

Boom boom boom!

A series of four shells smashed into the middle of the Dutch infantry phalanx, immediately blowing up dozens of people.The current Dutch infantry phalanx is inevitably a bit chaotic. The ability of the modern army to endure casualties is indeed much stronger than that of the feudal army, but it is not without limits. It has been passively enduring rounds of enemy artillery fire Killing, completely unable to fight back, even the iron-clad army can't stand it!Lieutenant Colonel Feidnan roared: "Boys in the Netherlands, hold on! We are only more than 100 yards away from them! As long as they rush through this 100 yards, what awaits them will be a massacre!"

The lieutenant colonel's roar restored the soldiers' courage, and they roared again and again, speeding up.Now the distance between the two armies is less than 100 meters. No matter how heavy the casualties are, they can only grit their teeth and rush over. If they choose to turn around and flee at this juncture, what awaits them is a terrible massacre. This makes sense Even a recruit would not fail to understand!
So, fight them!
Xu Meng narrowed his eyes, staring at the Dutch army rolling over like a mountain, and licked his lips excitedly.To be honest, he doesn't like the combat mode of the Heluo New Army after a complete change of clothes. They shoot at each other tens of meters or hundreds of meters away, shoot the opponent down, and then rush up to fight the bayonet. This mode is chic. He is chic, but a general like him who was born as a heavy infantry feels that he has no sense of existence. He has completely lost the joy of wearing heavy armor, holding a giant axe, and killing the enemy to his heart's content, and the pride of being the cornerstone of the entire army formation.Yes, after the Heluo New Army marched towards full firearms, the heavy infantry, a once brilliant unit, disappeared from their establishment and was replaced by all cheap musketeers. Those heavy infantry said Not disappointed, it was definitely deceiving.However, seeing that the Dutch army could endure the huge casualties brought about by the continuous bombardment and advance resolutely, Xu Meng suddenly became excited. Such an opponent is enough to fight!He yelled: "Get ready to shoot! Pay attention to shooting discipline, whoever dares to disrupt the army will die!"

Compared with the Dutch army, the formation of the Heluo New Army is too simple, a parapet and three rows of musketeers, all in one!By the way, there is a relatively shallow trench behind the three rows of musketeers. A large number of civilians hid in the trench with spare rifled flintlocks. As soon as I hand it over, I can immediately take over the loaded musket and continue to fire.On average, a musketeer has at least two rifled flintlocks as spares, plus three bursts of fire, so there is no need to consider any gaps in firepower, there can be no gaps in firepower!

The poor Dutchman didn't know anything about it yet. Due to the close distance, the thunderbolt cannons of the Heluo New Army were forced to stop firing --- if they fired again, they would smash the shells among their own people. This was undoubtedly more exciting. The morale of the Dutch, they seem to see the hope of victory.

Seeing that the hope of victory is just their illusion, the grinning grin of the god of death couldn't be more real.

"Kill that commander!" Xu Meng pointed to Lieutenant Colonel Feidnan, and issued an order that would definitely cause public outrage in Europe.

After entering modern times, Europeans have always had an unwritten agreement in war, that is, they cannot shoot black guns at enemy commanders, because these commanders are all nobles, and most European countries are related by marriage. The officer in front of the line is the king's nephew, and he can be paid for by shooting him? But Xu Meng doesn't like this. In his opinion, Lieutenant Colonel Feidnan simply thinks his life is too long. Wow, walking at the front of the line wearing such eye-catching costumes is like yelling "shoot me" at him. It's hard not to justify not rewarding him with a few peanuts!

Bang bang bang!

The four sharpshooters pulled the trigger at the same time, Lieutenant Colonel Feidnan clearly heard the terrible sound of his breastplate being pierced by bullets, and the powerful impact made him retreat seven or eight steps in a row, staring at the blood spurting wildly, bloody and bloody With a mushy chest, an expression of disbelief and astonishment on his face, he wriggled his mouth and wanted to say something, a large stream of blood spurted out of his throat first, he fell down suddenly, twitched twice and then stopped moving.

His commander was killed immediately, and the Dutch soldiers were all dumbfounded, staring at Feidnan's body in a daze, forgetting what they were supposed to do.They forgot, but Xu Meng did not. With an order, more than 500 rifled flintlock guns fired at the same time. The smoke and flames from the muzzles formed a raging fire dragon, and the 500-meter-long parapet became a wall of fire.While the lead bullets whistled, the sound of "puff puff puff" in the Dutch infantry phalanx was endless. The thick breastplate was no different from a piece of paper in front of the pointed lead bullets. The tendon was split, the bone was smashed, and once it penetrated to the end, a large fountain of plasma was gouged out. The gunshots rang out, and the Dutch soldiers fell down in rows and clumps like cutting wheat.After firing a salvo, the soldiers in the first row retreated immediately, handed the empty guns to the civilian husband, took over the muskets that had already been loaded, and waited for the order to shoot again.Soldiers in the second platoon immediately filled up, took aim, and fired. Amidst the thunderous gunshots, the entire Dutch infantry phalanx was like a wheat field blown by the wind. The scorching lead bullets swept away piles of Dutch soldiers, and the screams rang through the sky. !

The Dutch officer shouted in horror: "Shoot! Shoot! Suppress their firepower!"

What responded to them was the third volley of fire from the Heluo New Army. The Dutch musketeers who stepped forward to prop the brackets on the ground and set up their muskets to shoot fell down in large numbers.The spearmen wearing breastplates were knocked down with one shot, but the musketeers without armor could be imagined. The lead bullets hit them, and the pieces of flesh flew everywhere, which was terrible.The Dutch soldiers were scared crazy. They had never seen such ferocious firepower, let alone such terrifying muskets!The Heluo New Army didn't talk to them about tactics at all, nor did they compete with them in combat skills. They just shot, changed guns, shot again, and changed guns again, just like a killing assembly line!The firepower was so fierce, one volley after another without any gaps, and they had no fortifications and nowhere to hide, so they could only be beaten passively!Suppress the firepower of the Ming army? Stop making trouble. The muskets on the opposite side are N times theirs. How to suppress them!

Wait to die!
The plague-like envoy opened the box in front of the Dutch soldiers, took out two things from it, put them into the basket, and asked them to hang them up.

There was a desperate cry from the top of the city, and many Dutch soldiers beat their chests and feet, crying bitterly!
What the god of plague sent to the Dutch was the head of Lieutenant Colonel Ferdinand, the commander of the second regiment, and the second regiment's flag full of bullet holes and blood.This was the last thing Lieutenant Colonel Fidnan's regiment could have left after five minutes of shooting and fifteen minutes of hand-to-hand combat.In the 5-minute fierce battle, 15 to 10 Dutch soldiers were mercilessly massacred by the bullets and bayonets of the Heluo New Army. They also fought back vigorously, and even launched a suicide charge. Escape to death.

In this battle, the Heluo New Army suffered less than three hundred casualties.

The battle loss ratio is six to one!

(End of this chapter)