In the early morning of June 28, 1793, before the day turned white, several black drones quietly rose from a sugarcane forest on the east side of Bacheng to the sky dozens of meters high, and flew straight towards the VOC coalition defense line two kilometers away.

At the same time, the troops including the five minion camps, the Hoi Camp and the Land Camp had already hidden in various sugarcane forests less than 500 meters away from the VOC and the Vandan Sultanate Alliance in advance, and were ready to attack.

On two open spaces inside the fortifications of the North Navy, four grass-green-painted armored vehicles were starting up. As gray-white smoke erupted from the exhaust pipe on the right side of the vehicle's body, the body roared. The driver, gunner, commander and accompanying maintenance team were all in place. They were all specially brought by Zhao Xin from Beihai Town.

Twenty minutes later, the long-range strike forces composed of forty 75mm guns and twenty 122 howitzers also fell out of camouflage made of fishing nets and entered the firing position. Among these guns, the 75mm gun was responsible for attacking various field fortifications and artillery positions on the enemy's defense line, while the howitzers were responsible for attacking camps and material warehouses behind the enemy's defense line.

"Report! All artillery positions in various places have been prepared!"

In the front line command of Fort Nordwich, a staff officer who was specifically responsible for artillery contacts reported to Zhao Xin. Zhao Xin nodded and said lightly to the staff officer: "Order the test firing of each benchmark gun."

"yes!"

The reason why Zhao Xin launched a ground attack the day after the victory of the Thousand Islands Sea was because Zheng Wenxian sent another telegram shortly after sending the telegram to the good news; the content above said that two pigeons flew out from above before surrendering. This news made Zhao Xin anxious. Without hesitation, he immediately ordered all troops to prepare for attack since dark.

Fortunately, I made a week's preparations before, otherwise the departments would be frustrated and accidents would occur frequently.

You should know that since the pigeon was brought back to Europe by the Crusaders from the Middle East, it took Westerners hundreds of years to establish a very mature communication network. Today, the busiest aerial communication route in Europe is to set off from London, cross the English Channel, and then to France, the Holy Roman Empire and Amsterdam.

The Dutch used pigeons to convey trade information very early, obtaining information accurately and in a timely manner, thus gaining the lead in business. After colonizing Southeast Asia, VOC quickly established its own pigeon communication network. At the beginning, it focused on Bacheng and radiated to castles such as Ceylon, Malacca, Java, Banda Islands and the Lyune Islands, and also included various vassal sultanates with dispatched personnel. When Bacheng was lost, they transferred the communication center to Malacca.

Zhao Xin has never raised pigeons, but because he lived in a bungalow for a while, he kept a lot of them at home and often went to see them, so he still has some understanding of this animal.

A carrier pigeon can be released from its shell and can be released for a hundred days. Then it can be trained from a short distance of 5 kilometers to different lengths. Basically, it can be used as a carrier pigeon after reaching 200 kilometers. Generally, the flight speed of a carrier pigeon is about 100 kilometers per hour, and some good breeds can reach more than 150 kilometers per hour. If you follow this speed, whether it is a Dutch in Banten or Malacca, you 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 northern waters of Bacheng. However, if the news alarms the coalition forces of the Dutch and the Sultanate of Vandan, causing them to retreat to various strongholds in advance, the battlefield annihilation war will become a siege war; not to mention that the battle will be delayed, the troops' supply line will be long.

When Zhao Xin's order was issued, the four benchmark cannons on the artillery position fired one test shot on the north and south wings of the enemy's defense line according to the predetermined target.

Boom! With the violent tremor of the cannon body and the momentum in the back seat, the dust and weeds on the ground were rolled up, mixed with the smoke from the gun mouth, and spread around the cannon position.

The command center slightly adjusted the coordinates based on the picture of the drone feedback, and after some calculations, it quickly notified the artillery positions. In less than a minute, there were roars from various artillery positions in the North and South wings of the enemy's defense line. At the breakthrough point of the planned breakthrough point of the enemy's defense line, the fortifications built of wood and soil suddenly jumped up.

In the past, Europeans' field fortifications... Well, they are basically composed of winding chest walls. In addition to being built with compacted soil, they are also reinforced with wrapped wooden sticks or firewood bundles on the inside and outside sides. The thickness can reach 2 to 3 meters, which can effectively resist the shooting of solid bullets.

Under the fierce artillery fire, the first chest wall fortification set up by the coalition was like paper. The fragments produced by the explosion swept groups of lives into a steel storm, and the roaring air waves brought out large patches of soil, gravel and wood, mixed flesh and blood, constantly spilling around.

Although Zhao Xin only took out sixty cannons, it was earth-shaking for the Dutch and the Vandan Sultanate coalition three kilometers away; even for those Prussian mercenaries and officers who had participated in the "Seven Years' War" and the "Fourth Anglo-Dutch War", they were only seen in their lives.

Some brave soldiers hid in the crater and observed for a while, and found that there were no soldiers attacking the opponent, and the opponent's shelling had been hit for 10 minutes, and it was still endless.

Thousands of people on the north and south wings on the defense line collapsed immediately under the sudden attack. The Sultanate officers on the front line quickly joined the fleeing army, determined to escape from this bloody hell, completely ignoring the orders of those VOC officers.

As for the VOC mercenaries, they dared not fight, but the Prussians earned this kind of money they worked hard, but they were not able to adapt to such battles.

If you didn't say anything, retreat quickly! Let's gather in the rear, set up a formation, and wait for the enemy's attack. However, because the escape was too hasty, many Prussian mercenaries wore underwear...

Well, this is the tactical rules of the year. Due to the touching firing rate and shooting distance of the flintlock rifle, a European soldier received only shooting training from training to training in the company, rather than shooting training alone. In addition, because gunpowder is very expensive, no country can spend so much money on soldiers to practice shooting skills.

All the training received by battle infantry is to suppress individuals' active thinking and performance. The troops' firepower is only somewhat lethal when firing at close range and fired at a large group of soldiers. Therefore, no matter whether it is an officer or a soldier, except in villages and woodlands, no one knows how to conduct scattered combat in plains. Even the way of fighting in dispersed formations is despised, believing that it is just a common practice of the troops when discipline is dispersed and training is lacking.

However, when the VOC's coalition forces retreated to the west of a village 800 meters away from the front line, and then began to assemble under the officer's whip, they were shocked to find that the enemy's artillery fire was actually chasing them. So after a bombing, the coalition forces left corpses everywhere and began a hasty retreat again. Until they ran two kilometers away in one breath, they found that the rumbling cannon behind them had finally stopped, and they sat on the ground.

At this time, on the attack position of the North Navy, a red signal flare rose into the air, and then a sharp whistle sounded in the sugarcane forest. The five battalions of the Sendai vassal minions rushed out of the sugarcane forest with excitement on their faces. They formed a dispersed formation in groups of five people, and attacked the broken fortifications of the VOC coalition like a tide.

Speaking of these servants in Beihai Town, since they were equipped with front-mounted rifles, they were still using line infantry tactics. However, the Northern Navy adopted Wang Yuanfang and others based on the teaching of captured Russian officers, and referred to the infantry tactical works after the Napoleonic War in history, making the troops' marshal and combat mode more flexible and tended to be scattered formations.

The most basic infantry organization unit in this tactic is "Feng", each platoon consists of twenty "Fengs". Whether it is shooting or formation changes during combat, they are based on this unit.

When trainees are trained in a queue, they should first learn to stand, and then learn to walk slowly and quickly. The pace of each step should be kept at 0.7 meters, with a slow step of 75 steps per minute and a fast step of 110 steps per minute.

Unlike the ninety-degree steering of later marching formations, soldiers under the line tactics not only need to learn to move forward straight, but also learn to use the oblique travel method. That is, each soldier must turn 45 degrees to the left or right, advance in a straight line for a distance and then turn 45 degrees to restore the original direction.

After the queue training is over, they will receive gun drilling training. After the individual training has made enough progress, they will form a team to learn how to load and shoot in dense queues. At the same time, they will be accustomed to shooting forward or to the left and right in units.

After completing the shooting training, the recruits must also learn to line up and carry guns. They must practice moving straight forward and use two methods to move in a diagonal direction. They must learn to keep flush, turn in line and move in line.

After completing this series of training, the recruits must go to the battalion. The training elements in the battalion are still the same as those in the training of the recruits, but the focus is on the training and loading steps, which can reach the level of at least 3 shots per minute. Each platoon must receive a full volley, a volley, and a volley in the row.

To put it bluntly, in the era of line warfare, individual soldiers were just waste, and individual soldiers with super combat capabilities were even more ruined. Such people were either sent to be light infantry or hunting soldiers, and would never appear in battle infantry.

The command's requirement for the attacking troops is speed, and it must be interspersed in one morning and the enemy must be divided and surrounded. Therefore, whether it is a soldier or a medical soldier, everyone turned a blind eye to the injured and groaning enemy.

At this time, the sky was already bright, and a servant soldier suddenly saw something shining on the chest of a guy wailing in front of him. He quickly turned his head and looked behind him. He felt that no one was paying attention to him, so he slowed down and planned to take it. Unexpectedly, as soon as he reached out his waist, he had not touched the thing, but someone kicked him hard on his butt and immediately fell to bite the mud.

Quan Baocai, who was the platoon leader, grabbed a North Navy standard rifle with one hand and scolded fiercely: "Bastard! Who told you to stop! Get up and keep running!"

When the servant saw that it was his platoon leader, he was so scared that he was exhausted. He hurriedly got up with both hands and feet, grabbed the falling rifle, and ran away without daring to turn his head.

"waste!"

Quan Bao scolded in discomfort. He glanced at the guy lying on the ground, his intestines were exposed and he was still stained with soil, and it was obviously helpless. So he picked up the rifle without hesitation and threw it hard, then stabbed the snow-liang bayonet into the injured man's chest and sent him a ride.

After he got the shiny chain, he found that there was a golden and heavy round box connected below. He took it and opened it and saw two black pointers on it, and there was a picture of a blonde woman inside the lid.

"It should be very good to take this thing back and serve as a gift for Abin, right?" Quan Bao thought so and put it in his pocket.

This villager from Niudu Village defected to Beihai Town and made a huge noise. After Li Ji was fired by the Intelligence Bureau, he took his wife to Heilongjiang City and became a big soldier again. Last year, because he wanted to recruit the minion army, Quan Baocai was born in the island country and served in Beihai Town for many years. So the Ministry of Military Affairs issued a transfer order to transfer him from the Heilongjiang City Garage Battalion to the minion army teaching brigade. When the minion army completed training in Ganlingo, Quan Baocai naturally became a platoon leader with 80 people.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! Speaking of which, the troops of the Servant Army are different from the Aoye Camp. The Aoye Camp is a mercenary, so officers will naturally use the vassals of the Sendai vassal, and the scale is only 500; while the Servant Army must be stationed in Southeast Asia for a long time and must not be scattered. Therefore, officers above the platoon leader are all members of the North Navy themselves.

At 11 a.m. on June 28, after six hours of intersecting and pursuit, the battalion where Quan Baocai was located and the other two platoons of friendly troops, with the cooperation of an armored vehicle, blocked more than 500 Württemberg mercenaries in a town 17 kilometers southeast of Langasbetong.

For obvious reasons, the mercenaries of the VOC were unable to form formations and could only fight in the form of stragglers. They were hiding behind trees, fences, ditches and buildings in the town, ready to fight back.

As soon as the North Navy came up, it sent out four five-man teams to investigate. After finally confirming the enemy's hiding place, it sent two platoons to launch a tentative attack. Both sides quickly launched a fire in the town.

After fighting for a while, the Prussian mercenaries found that the "flintlock gun" used by these short enemies was significantly different from their weapons; not only did the range exceed a lot, but the enemy soldiers' shooting accuracy was very high, and they could not get any cheaper in shooting; that is, they could still kill when shooting with two-pound cannons.

The problem is that due to the hasty escape, the Prussian mercenaries hiding in the town only brought out two two-pound cannons, and there was insufficient ammunition. After firing seven or eight cannons, one of the two-pound cannons was completely wiped out. However, the battle-hardened mercenaries were far better than the minion army that had only been trained for more than half a year. The other party often charged with a bayonet, which beat several five-person teams to their butts and urinated.

In order not to waste time and make the annihilation war a war of attrition, the battalion commander of Quan Baocai found the commander of the armored vehicle. After some communication, the armored vehicle drove into the town in a fierce manner. After a bombardment like lightning and thunder, several of the most sturdy buildings in the town turned into ruins. The Prussians, who were killed and injured, immediately raised the white flag and surrendered.
Chapter completed!