1030 Mysterious Eastern Tactics
Brown-clothed army, this is a title that makes the Chilean and Bolivian army very scared. Those who can defeat the guards of the entire saltpeter mining area with bare hands and easily defeat the Chinese who rescued the regular army, are simply a group of killing gods from hell.
They were elusive, they broke into pieces, they shook pennant flags that they had never seen before, with words that people didn't recognize.
They have countless horns, gongs and drums. Every bloody battle always starts with overwhelming noises. They are good at creating chaos. They will not let their opponents understand the direction of their attack. When you are disturbed by the chaotic flags and sounds, you will soon find that the war has entered the hand-to-hand combat stage.
The super long and heavy Taiping sword cannot be resisted by bayonets and light swords. In addition, these people are almost crazy attacks and do not care about their own life and death. The war often ends the battle after just one or two charges.
The fear caused by the Brown-clothed Army is far greater than that of the regular army in Chile. Although most battles were fought by the regular army, people always feel natural fear of strange things, which is due to nature.
Today, when the banner of the Brown-clothed Army was launched, the psychological pressure of the Peruvian guards suddenly increased several times, especially those Indian mercenaries who were stumbled, were panicked and frightened.
The Peruvian commanders on the fortress had no idea how much the Brown-clothed Army had arrived. They saw the shaking triangular flags and drums everywhere in the military formations in the south and east. In addition, the Chilean army's artillery had already begun to fire, and the smoke of the black powder explosion began to spread, which made the battlefield even more foggy.
"How many enemies are there? 20,000 or 30,000? How many brown-clothed troops are there? It depends on the banner that it will exceed 20,000. Is the information all wrong? Are there not ten,000 reinforcements from the Pacific Ocean but more?"
"Defend the fortress, don't be stingy with ammunition, continue to fire... Those brown-clothed soldiers are crazy people who love to behead their heads. Are you not afraid of being beheaded? Don't keep shooting in a panic..."
Iquique Port ushered in the first ray of sunrise in a fierce battle.
Just twenty-five kilometers east of Iquik, there is a small oasis called Osaka. There are only a dozen households here. Although they cannot grow crops, these residents can live by selling supplies to the caravans, so life can continue.
When modern people hear the phrase "Desert", their first impression should be the Sahara Desert, while Chinese people think more about the Taklamakan Desert. However, the real drought of humans is not anywhere, but atacama in South America.
This place has created extremely drought weather without rain for 16 years. There is no trace of life in the core desert area, and even single-celled organisms do not exist. It is known as the closest area on Earth to the Martian landform.
In the past life when Xiao Letian traveled through time, scientists from the United States and Europe built a laboratory here to simulate the Martian landform to study how humans can live on Mars.
A scientist at NASA once said, "In any place on the earth, even in the core area of the Sahara Desert, if you shovel a piece of soil, at least you can find single-celled organisms, that is, the simplest bacteria, in it. And in the soil of Atacama, you can't even find bacteria..."
In such extremely arid lands, only the marginal areas will have some oasis, and Osaka is located on the northern border of the desert, which is closer to Peru.
More than 20,000 Bolivian coalition forces were stationed near Osaka Oasis last night, where they suffered an unprecedented "massacre".
The Taiping Army's attack began at midnight. More than 20,000 troops were densely arranged on the ground and covered dozens of acres of land. The light of torches shone in the desert, looking like a sleepless city from afar.
At the quietest moment of the night, a rainstorm sounded suddenly in the south, followed by countless drums and trumpets, flags waving, and countless figures in the night launched a raid on the camp.
The patrol sentry fired two shots to warn and was nailed to the desert by the crossbow's arrows. Countless torches lit up at the same time and rushed towards the Belgian camp like a tide on the ground.
The chaos woke up all the soldiers. People came out of the tent and picked up weapons sleepyly. They were about to fight back and found that they were not wearing any pants and could not find their shoes.
The camp was full of noisy scolding, you complained that you had lost your pants, he complained that the bullets were lost, and even the rifles were taken wrong by others... The commander of the Borussian army was so angry that he cursed. It was not until a quarter of an hour before he could barely gather a battalion's troops to counterattack the area where the attack occurred.
At this time, the camp closest to the south had turned into a sea of fire, and there were only a few terrified words in the crowd repeating back and forth "Brown Clothing Army... Chinese... Brown Clothing Army... Chinese..."
It was indeed the Brown-clothed Army. The commando holding Taiping Knife was covered by a large number of musketeers and crossbowmen. These hand-to-hand warriors were directly in charge and killed people and set fire to create a terrifying atmosphere. As soon as many of the glass army's heads came out of the tent, they saw a flash of cold light and the Taiping Knife cut off his head.
The torch lit the canvas, the cowhide tent, and the soldiers wearing pajamas were all smokers and jumped out screaming and rolled back and forth on the sand.
Of course, some soldiers gathered together to resist in squads, but chaos had already occurred and these Chinese and defeated soldiers had formed a tangle, and the muskets were ineffective at this moment.
When soldiers from other areas of the camp formed a system to support the situation, they looked all about the soldiers running around like alpacas and the flames soaring into the sky.
The Chinese were hearing the terrifying shouts of killing, "Taiping...kill! Taiping...kill!"
"Array... shoot intensively... drive them back..." The battalion commander of the Borgward Army spoke with a tremolo. With his order, the first battalion soldiers divided into three rows to start shooting in a queue. The front-mounted rifled rifle shot a dense round of bullets, and the brown-clothed army on the opposite side fell down.
"Retreat...the Taiping Army retreat!" The Taiping Army that had attacked the sneak attack was never indulged in fighting. When they saw the established enemy troops appear, they turned around and left and threw all the torches on the tent before leaving. Soon they merged with the darkness.
"Continue to open fire! Load ammunition! You bunch of waste... open fire!" Unfortunately, no matter how much he urged, the loading speed of the front-loading gun would not be fast. After their second round of shooting, the Chinese had long since run away, and the desert was pitch black.
People finally felt relieved after a long breath. Under the command of officers at all levels, soldiers began to clean up the scene of the conflict.
But just as the flames were almost extinguished, suddenly there was another heavy rain-like gunshot sound in the north of the camp, followed by drums and horns, flags flying, and fires clashed.
"Oh, my God! The enemy has appeared in the north, go back to help... hurry up and return to help!" Mobile phone users please visit http://m.piaotian.net
Chapter completed!