The end of the military era

At present, there are still about 11 people left in the 72 Bauhinia Empire Group Armies in Bauhinia Province, including more than 6 lightly and severely wounded. In total, almost 16 officers and soldiers of the Bull tribe have died in the battle with the Silver Wolf Column.

The temporary commanders of these 11 Brute Bull Empire armies were held by Oria, the commander of the Brute Bull Empire Second Army.

Among the dozens of army commanders in the Manniu Empire, only three had the rank of general, and the rest of the army commanders were all lieutenant generals, and Oria was one of the three general army commanders.

At dawn on January 1543, 1, Oria, who was still sleeping in the marching tent, was suddenly woken up by an adjutant.

It turned out that there were traces of the human rebel army around the barbarian army camp that stretched for tens of kilometers.

Prachi, the deputy commander of the Second Army of the Bull Empire, frowned and said, "Commander, could it be that the human rebel army in the Silver Wolf Empire wants to eat up our eleventh army?"

Oria sneered and said, "I'm afraid the human rebels in the Silver Wolf Empire don't have such good teeth.

According to the information sent from China, the human rebel army in the Silver Wolf Empire gathered millions of troops this time and invaded the New Wilk Province of our Bull Empire.

The human rebel army in the Silver Wolf Empire can now have 200 million troops at its peak, and throwing away the troops pinned down by the Silver Wolf Army, how much power can it use to deal with our 11 army groups?

Give orders to other group armies and immediately organize forces to defeat the human rebels that appear! "

What Oria didn't expect was that the Silver Wolf Column was really going to eat up the 11 armies of the Bull Empire this time.

Before the joint campaign of the Silver Wolf Empire and the Barbarian Bull Empire this time, the total strength of the Silver Wolf Column had reached more than 200 million, and the population in the controlled area exceeded 7000 million.

The reason why the Silver Wolf Column can expand its army so quickly is because the humans in the Silver Wolf Empire have been suppressed for too long.

The human beings living in the Silver Wolf Empire are definitely at the bottom of the society, and sometimes even their lives cannot be guaranteed.

It can be said that what the Silver Wolf Column has done in the past few years has given hope to the humans in the Silver Wolf Empire, and this has allowed a large number of human young men to join the Silver Wolf Column without hesitation.

The massacre of human civilians by the Silver Wolf Empire Army and the Barbarian Bull Empire Army this time has aroused the anger of the human people in the controlled area. If it is not because of the lack of weapons and ammunition, the Silver Wolf Column will have tens of millions of troops even if it is expanded. possible.

After sending 20 infantry divisions and 26 independent brigades into the New Wilk Province of the Bull Empire, Xiang Tao, the commander-in-chief of the Silver Wolf Column, dared to attack the 11 Army of the Bull Empire in the Bauhinia Province. It is because of the existence of millions of militiamen.

These millions of militiamen were formed to fight against the massacres of the Silver Wolf Empire Army and the Barbarian Bull Empire Army. Without the help of these millions of militiamen and the continuous replenishment of the regular troops of the Silver Wolf Column, perhaps the Silver Wolf Column would have died sooner or later. Under the joint strangling of the Silver Wolf Empire Army and the Barbarian Bull Empire Army, it was defeated.

In this campaign to encircle and wipe out the 11 armies of the Barbarian Empire, Xiang Tao mobilized more than 12 million militia troops in addition to the regular troops of 15 infantry divisions and 150 independent brigades.

These militiamen lacked weapons and ammunition, and most of them were only equipped with cold weapons. Although they had not received any military training, they did not lack courage on the battlefield.

"Brothers, come with me!" A middle-aged strong man with only one arm left shouted, brandishing a big knife with his remaining right hand.

This middle-aged strong man was originally a platoon leader of the Silver Wolf Column, and his name was Sun Liang.

Sun Liang lost his left arm in a battle. After recovering from his injury, he was assigned to a village in the area controlled by the Silver Wolf Column and was responsible for forming a local militia company.

Thanks to Sun Liang's efforts, the militia company that was originally planned to be formed actually had more troops than a battalion, reaching more than 600 people. You must know that the village in charge of Sun Liang has a total population of less than 4000. The young people in the village are almost They were all recruited by Sun Liang to the militia battalion.

This time, Sun Liang's militia company was also ordered to participate in the encirclement and annihilation battle against the 11 army groups of the Manniu Empire. So Sun Liang, in addition to leaving more than 100 people to guard the village, brought a total of 536 militiamen to join the battle.

However, Sun Liang’s militia company has very shabby weapons and equipment. Except for Sun Liang’s Huaxia Type 54 pistol, the entire militia company only has 8 bolt-type continuous-fire rifles, 20 breech-loading single-shot rifles and 168 gunpowder guns. .

Gunpowder guns are self-made by the people, and they can be regarded as the most primitive rifles. When firing, the metal hook needs to be pushed into the fire door by hand, so that the matchstick ignites the black powder, and then the lead bullets in the gun chamber are fired.

Since the process of loading black powder and lead bullets is a bit complicated, it is not easy for ordinary people to shoot 2 bullets per minute.

But even if it was a gunpowder gun, the militiamen under Sun Liang couldn't have one.

At this time, Sun Liang's militia company was in charge of attacking a position of the bull army. Before that, other militia units had already attacked eight times under the cover of the silver wolf column artillery, but they failed to capture it.

The barbarian army guarding this position has been cut off from other barbarian armies. The original 600 officers and soldiers of the bull tribe were continuously bombarded by eight French 8-type 1897 field guns from the Silver Wolf Column, as well as the eight frontmen. Under the consumption of this storm, there are only less than 75 people left.

Zhou's army, including the Silver Wolf Column, each infantry regiment has an artillery battalion equipped with 24 French 1897-type 75 field guns, which are divided into 3 artillery companies, and each artillery company has 8 French 1897 guns. Type 75 field gun.

Sun Liang led more than 500 militiamen under his command, holding crude weapons, and rushed to the position of the barbarian army shouting.

When the cattle officers and soldiers guarding the position started shooting, dozens of militiamen charging in front quickly fell on the road of charging, but the militiamen behind, as if they had forgotten life and death, continued to rush forward without fear .

At this time, the only heavy machine gun left on the barbarian army's position was suddenly misfired by shells. Sun Liang seized this opportunity and finally rushed into the position with his militiamen, and fought with the remaining cattle officers and soldiers. Hand-to-hand combat.

Before the hand-to-hand combat began, hundreds of militiamen had already fallen in front of the position.

Sun Liang brandished a broadsword and slashed at a bull soldier. Although this bull soldier was not even a low-level fighter, his strength was much stronger than Sun Liang's.

As a result, the Niu soldier used his rifle as a stick, and knocked away the big knife in Sun Liang's hand at once.

Thanks to Xu San, the guard next to Sun Liang, who immediately stabbed the bull soldier with a bayonet, otherwise the bull soldier would have smashed Sun Liang's head with a wave.

It's a pity that Xu San, the guard next to Sun Liang, is far inferior to the bull soldier in strength, and the rifle with the bayonet was immediately blocked by the bull soldier.

Just when the Niu soldier swung his rifle to smash Xu San's head, a gunshot sounded, and Sun Liang pulled out his pistol in time, and shot the Niu soldier to death.

The remaining cattle officers and soldiers on the battlefield are much stronger than the militiamen in terms of strength and hand-to-hand combat skills, and these cattle officers and soldiers have a very tenacious fighting will. Knowing that they are in a desperate situation, no one Choose to surrender.

However, Sun Liang's militiamen, relying on their superiority in numbers and the same tenacious will to fight, insisted on overthrowing all the remaining cattle officers and soldiers in hand-to-hand combat.

Sun Liang put the empty pistol away from his waist, and then shouted: "Quick! Clean up the battlefield! All the bull cubs on the battlefield have to make up their swords, and some of them will pretend to be dead!"

Of course, with so many weapons and ammunition on the position, Sun Liang couldn't eat alone. After all, in order to attack this position, the other militia units lost more than 1000 people in total.

However, the biggest piece of meat in this position fell into Sun Liang's hands.

等孙良带着手底下的民兵撤离这处阵地之时，一共带走了1挺可以使用的重机枪、2挺被炸坏的重机枪、100支手栓式连发步枪、1万多发子弹和200多颗手榴弹。

In order to conquer this position, the militia company under Sun Liang lost more than 200 people.

"Company commander, what's the use of those two bombed-out heavy machine guns?

Might as well ask for more bullets! "The guard Xu San asked Sun Liang a little puzzled.

Sun Liang looked back and saw that there were 3 heavy machine guns, one good and two bad, and his mood, which was depressed because of the loss of more than 200 brothers, was better.

"I've seen it just now, and the two damaged heavy machine guns can be completely reassembled to produce a good heavy machine gun.

With 2 heavy machine guns, our militia company can form a heavy machine gun squad in the future! "

The guard Xu San suddenly realized: "Let me just say, since when have you been so generous, company commander, you would rather ask for fewer bullets than take away the two damaged heavy machine guns."

Sun Liang slapped Xu San directly on the back of the head, "I saw that other brothers' troops were short of ammunition, so I asked for some less ammunition. That's good morality!"

Under the onslaught of the Silver Wolf Column and the militia troops, Oria, the commander of the second army of the Bull Empire, soon discovered that the strength of the opponent's participation in the battle far exceeded his expectations.

The development of the war situation was also something that Oria did not expect at all.

After two days and nights of fierce fighting, the 11 army groups of the Bull Empire not only failed to defeat the human resistance army, but were divided and surrounded by the opponent.

"Did the two offensive forces in Tulip Province and Phalaenopsis Province call back?" Oria, the commander of the Second Army of the Bull Empire, asked in a deep voice to Prachi, the deputy commander of the Second Army.

Since the millions of troops of the Silver Wolf Column had already invaded the New Wilk Province of the Bull Empire, it was impossible for Oria to receive reinforcements from the territory of the Bull Empire in a short time.