Steel Dynasty - Chapter 1052

[Chapter 1043 Fire Hedgehog]

Chen Wei stuck his head out and glanced at the trench that was deeper than his height. When the red-eyed soldier was about to jump in, he suddenly made a stop gesture.

After receiving the order, the soldiers immediately lay down in front of the first row of trenches, waiting for the next order.

“Company commander, why did you stop?” A squad leader came over.

Chen Wei looked at the criss-crossed trenches and said, “These Dutch people are behaving so strangely. I’m worried that this is their trap. Look at this trench. If we jump down, we won’t be able to get back up. Even the Dutch are prepared.” “Indeed, if we go down here, we will definitely be

captured

alive. When we were in the city of Jelanja, it was said that the Dutch tried to snatch our Han-style rifles and long-range machine guns. They failed last time. They will definitely not give up this time.”

Chen Wei nodded, they were just making a tentative attack, and going down the trench with just this one company would be a sure way to die.

Thinking of this, he said: “You continue to guard, I will go back and ask for instructions.”

After saying that, Chen Wei ran all the way to Liu Chen with his waist low, and told the previous situation and his thoughts.

Liu Chen already had doubts when he landed ashore, so he sent Chen Wei to test. In his opinion, it was abnormal for the Dutch to engage in positional warfare with them here with great fanfare, because no one in European countries was more powerful than the Dutch. Learn about the empire now.

Especially Eric, he knew very well that the current power of the Chinese Empire could easily destroy all the Dutch military forces in Southeast Asia.

According to normal thinking, the Dutch should now load the wealth they plundered from the colonies onto ships and escape.

But now they are doing the opposite, and they must have some agenda.

“Stupid, do they think they have set up a position and we are going to attack from the front?” Liu Chen sneered, and he said: “The first regiment feints to attack from the front, the second regiment, the third regiment, the fourth regiment, the fifth regiment outflank them, give them to me Make dumplings.”

“Yes!”

After receiving the order, the Marines took action immediately. The soldiers in Chen Wei’s regiment immediately moved forward, using grenades and machine guns to shoot at the trenches, pretending to be a storm.

Other soldiers of the Marine Corps bypassed the trench and prepared to outflank the enemy.

The actions of the imperial soldiers were seen by Eric and Simon, and their hearts sank at the same time. Only then did they realize that the armies of the Chinese Empire were not those disorganized indigenous armies.

In fact, the generals of the Chinese Empire were more flexible than they were on the battlefield.

“Oops, they are going to surround us here.” Eric said solemnly.

Simon said; “Fools also know what they are doing. There is no other choice. Now we must launch an attack.”

“No, we will pay heavy casualties. You have also seen the weapons they can shoot continuously.” Eric He argued: “Retreat to Jagoda and then go to India. The coalition forces are waiting for us in Calcutta. They have cavalry and field artillery. They can at least fight the Chinese Empire.”

Simon couldn’t listen to Eric’s suggestion at all. Because in his opinion Eric did not produce results that satisfied him.

He said; “I am the consul of Manila, and now I order you to attack!”

As he spoke, Simon shouted at the officers.

After receiving Simon’s order, the officers left the temporary command post in the trench and returned to their own ranks. The Dutch officer who led the indigenous army first launched the attack.

Each of these native soldiers held a bench and stepped on the bench. They successfully climbed up the trench and used conscript rifles to shoot at the imperial soldiers attacking frontally.

In an instant, gunfire erupted across the battlefield, and bullets from the Dutch army flew towards the imperial soldiers like raindrops.

Facing the attacking Dutch army, the imperial soldiers all lay on the ground and fired. The breech-loading characteristics of the Han-style rifles made this posture hinder their shooting at all.

The Dutch soldiers were different. The barrels of the conscript rifles they carried were very long. After tearing apart the paper bullets and pouring them into the barrel, they had to stand up and use a purge to compact them.

During this gap, the Dutch-trained indigenous soldiers became easy targets for machine guns.

“Click, click, click…”

The flames of the machine gun fired back at the Dutch native soldiers who climbed up the trench. The native soldiers continued to fall under the dense rain of bullets.

The first batch of indigenous soldiers to climb up soon fell under the muzzles of machine guns.

Simon and Eric saw this scene, and they became more and more afraid of the machine gun, because they understood that they could not fight the machine gun now.

Although the first wave of attacks failed, Simon was still unwilling. In his opinion, the lives of these natives were worthless, so he shouted: “What are you still doing? All the natives rush forward, who can take it?” I’ll give him a hundred gold bars when he comes back with a Chinese rifle!”

Under the heavy reward, the originally frightened native soldiers screamed and climbed up the trench, but they found that the firepower they faced this time was even more fierce.

It turned out that after discovering that the Dutch soldiers had the possibility of breaking through, Liu Chen immediately sent another regiment’s reserve team to reinforce the first regiment, which greatly increased the firepower of the first regiment.

“Da da da…”

The machine gun fire became more intense, and the indigenous soldiers soon encountered the same failure as them.

The more than 3,000 indigenous soldiers who remained under the bombing died in the blink of an eye under the muzzle of machine guns. Simon could no longer remain calm.

Fear began to spread in his heart, and he shouted: “Everyone retreat now!”

The Dutch soldiers were already frightened out of their wits, and they followed Simon and immediately fled towards Manila.

In the Pasig River surrounding the city of Manila, there were pre-prepared Dutch armed merchant ships. As long as they boarded the merchant ships, they could escape the enemy’s siege along the Pasig River and enter the ocean.

The rout was unstoppable once it began, and the remaining soldiers in the trenches scrambled to escape toward Manila.

Seeing this scene, Liu Chen immediately ordered the chase.

One ran and the other chased. The imperial soldiers in dark green uniforms drove the Dutch soldiers in khaki uniforms into the city like ducks.

During the pursuit, the imperial soldiers stopped shooting from time to time, and Dutch soldiers continued to fall.

Eric frowned. He looked back at the imperial soldiers who were skilled in marksmanship and thought about how to restrain the easy-to-load firearms of the imperial soldiers.

While he was thinking, the figure of Pasighe appeared in front of them, but the soldiers of the empire were getting closer and closer.

Looking at the obstacles set up in front of the Pasig River, Eric suddenly thought of something. He said: “Simon, we must hinder their attack before we can board the ship smoothly.”

After that, he immediately led a group of Dutch soldiers to hide in the Behind the barrier, the soldiers were ordered to stand in three rows at the same time. The first group of soldiers was responsible for shooting, while the second and third rows of soldiers were responsible for loading ammunition.

Whenever the soldiers in the first row shoot, the soldiers in the second row will hand over their firearms, the soldiers in the third row will give their firearms to the second row, and the second row will hand over the empty guns to the third row. Loading.

“I’m so confused, why did I just remember the fire hedgehog shooting method now?” Eric murmured.

PS: There’s a lot going on today, I’ll make up for it tomorrow.

(End of chapter)