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Wang Qiao showed no fear, picked up his bayonet and started fighting with the mercenary generals. read

Bayonets struck each other, and he felt that this Western native was stronger than the powerful soldiers.

However, the royal army always pays attention to food and training. They are powerful and they are also worthy of it.

The two of them fought back and forth for five or six rounds in the narrow trench.

Wang Qiao deliberately showed a flaw. The mercenary general made an upward movement and knocked away the rifle gun in Wang Qiao's hand.

At this moment, Wang Qiao rushed forward, threw the mercenary general to the ground, pulled out the dagger from his waist, and struck the mercenary general several times on the chest.

The mercenary general cursed loudly, but Wang Qiao couldn't understand the opponent's bird song at all, and stabbed him hard again, killing the opponent.

At the same time, the soldiers following him also cleared almost all the enemy soldiers in the trench.

He looked at the enemy corpses on the ground and shouted: "Pile the corpses on the corridor."

Under his order, some soldiers first threw a few grenades into the corridor.

Then the soldiers picked up the enemy soldiers and threw them into the corridor, which was blocked for a while.

"Brothers, their attack is weak, hold on and we will win." Wang Qiao shouted.

A few times before, the soldiers who rushed up from the trench behind had red eyes and looked desperate for their lives.

However, after repeated battles, the morale of the soldiers who rushed up was obviously declining.

The soldiers who rushed over this time were obviously less determined.

Obviously, after a whole morning of fighting, although they did not win the first trench, they caused many more casualties to the opponent than they did.

According to his estimates, their casualty ratio was at least ten to one, or even twenty to one.

In other words, if one palace soldier is injured or killed, ten soldiers from the other side will be injured or killed.

After Wangqiao occupied the trench, more royal soldiers rushed over from the beach to consolidate the first trench defense line.

at the same time.

In the eighth trench on the river bank, Wang Xie and Luther were extremely angry.

Under their eyes, the originally impregnable first trench was occupied by the opponent.

Now, the first trench was not only useless to them, but also provided defense for Yanzhou soldiers.

After passing the first trench, they continued to advance towards the second trench.

"Damn it, go get the first trench back from me." Luther yelled.

His mercenaries lost five thousand dead and wounded yesterday.

In this morning's battle, another three to four thousand people were lost.

They paid such a high price, but only persisted for one morning before the opponent took away the first trench.

To him, this was a disgrace.

But he also vaguely understood that the quality of the opponent's firearms and soldiers was much better than that of the powerful army.

Even their mercenaries are a little inferior.

Because less than 20% of the more than 20,000 mercenaries are from the West, and the rest are indigenous soldiers from the East.

During training, these indigenous soldiers were treated differently from their Western counterparts.

Therefore, they are not as strong as the soldiers of King Yan. In hand-to-hand combat, the soldiers of Xitu can still fight back and forth with the soldiers of King Yan.

They rarely win at the hands of King Yan's soldiers.

Of course, in his opinion, the most important thing is the gap in guns and artillery.

Although the flintlock gun has a range of 200 meters, the opponent's musket has a longer range and is often suppressed outside the range.

Coupled with the explosive bombs thrown by the opponent, they were suppressed and unable to fully perform.

"You three, lead the reserve team up!" Wang Xie was equally anxious.

Hearing this, he issued orders to the three generals around him.

After Luther arrived in the Kingdom of Wu, in addition to teaching them some warfare techniques, he also made some Western-style changes to their army.

One of them is leaving a reserve team during a war.

These reserve teams do not participate in the war, but rest in the rear and recharge their batteries. When the time comes to go, they will be dispatched immediately.

"Yes, General Wang." He received Wang Xie's order.

Each of the three generals commanded 2,000 men, who were divided into left, right, middle and three directions to attack the first trench.

The soldiers in different trenches did not hold muskets, but each held a long knife.

The battle for the trench was more of a hand-to-hand fight, and it was better to use a knife than a musket.

There was more than one corridor in the middle of the trench, and they each walked from the corridor to the first trench.

Seeing that the end of the corridor was blocked, they climbed up from the second trench and jumped into the first trench to fight.

But just as they climbed over the trench, the royal soldiers on the beach pulled the trigger.

One by one, the powerful soldiers were hit and fell on the trench.

There were also soldiers from the powerful tribes who jumped into the first trench, but the soldiers from the royal palace had already been prepared and immediately formed a honeycomb.

On the hot air balloon, Lu Chang and the others saw that the first trench was gradually being controlled and immediately dropped the news.

"Let the second group of soldiers cross the river." Zhao Xu ordered after seeing what Lu Chang had written.

Chang Wei had been waiting for this sentence for a long time, and immediately ordered the troop transport ship to carry the soldiers to the south bank.

Suddenly, the ships from the north of the river headed towards the south bank of the river again, covering the entire river surface.

At this moment, the south bank was locked in a battle with the royal soldiers, and was unable to stop these troop ships from docking.

In less than two quarters of an hour, the second batch of royal soldiers landed on the beach.

They were more orderly than the first group of soldiers.

Because the first batch of soldiers blocked the enemy's counterattack, they bought the entire team time.

The arrival of the second batch of soldiers immediately reversed the number of soldiers on the battlefield.

The soldiers, led by their respective generals, entered their respective positions and cooperated with the first batch of soldiers to attack.

However, as soon as they landed, the situation in Niutou Beach changed.

They saw the powerful troops and mercenaries in the trenches in the rear row constantly withdrawing.

As the palace soldiers observed.

Wang Xie and Luther were indeed retreating.

After leaving more than 10,000 soldiers behind, the remaining 80,000 soldiers left for Jinling one after another.

"This is a small local defeat, but it does not mean that we have lost." Luther said to Wang She, who looked gloomy.

He was comforting him to prevent these powerful generals from losing confidence.

After a pause, he said: "Our troops in Jinling City are much stronger than here. The value of this battle is only to consume the opponent's troops. In the second trench, they will no longer have the support of warships, and we still have There are a lot of field guns.”

In the Battle of Niutou Beach, he realized that he would be bombarded by the opponent's sailing warships, so he left the field guns of the powerful clan and their field guns in the second trench fortification to avoid being destroyed by the opponent.

Moreover, there is a river about thirty meters wide in front of the second trench, called Yuntai River.

This will effectively block the attack of King Yan's army.

Wang Xie nodded, this was just the first battle in Jiangnan.

They may play ten or twenty games in the future.

Fight after fight, they will be able to defeat King Yan sooner or later.

"As long as you contain King Yan, King Yan will die when our fleet and army from the West arrive." Luther said again, with a hint of cunning in his eyes.

The powerful people could muster the courage to fight against King Yan, partly because of this promise.

Of course, this promise was a lie.

If the powerful people really hold on, this promise may come true.

But if they can't hold on, they will only deploy their troops in more important colonies.