In the old days of cold weapons, when the enemy came to attack, he either used cavalry and infantry in the field.Either they retreated to the city and refused to defend it according to the system of tall wall defenses.Now the British army has also made some progress, and has learned trench warfare with the Huaxing army.But their trenches did not dare to dig closer to the riverbank.At this time, the defensive tactics were still being innovated, and in later generations, because of the popularization of artillery, machine guns and breech rifles, it was completely possible to dig trenches, build watchtowers, and dark bunkers on the river bank, and build three-dimensional fortifications.Then rely on artillery, suppressing the enemy's fleet and artillery.Even if the defenses were bombed, the remaining bunker towers still had strong defensive capabilities.The dark forts and watchtowers built with cement and steel in later generations are not comparable to the current earth forts and stone forts.No matter how much the shells bombed, they only destroyed part of it, and they couldn't move their bones at all.But at this time, the British army had just been equipped with breech rifles, and the artillery unit was destroyed by the navy and artillery of the Huaxing army.Building fortifications on the shore is a dead end.The Huaxing army only needs to cover the bombardment with artillery fire, and it can completely open the gap and break through easily.Even a salvo of heavy artillery from the fleet of the Huaxing Army could have razed these fortifications to the ground.Having learned the lessons of the Battle of Chittagong, the British set up fortifications around the city to preserve and concentrate their forces as much as possible.Because it is also set up in vain by the river, it is usually bombarded by the fleet and artillery of the Huaxing Army, and the battle line completely collapses, and the soldiers and horses are lost in vain.Dig trenches around the city for defense, not only the supply of materials and troops on the battlefield is timely, but also the city can be used as the last defensive position.Upstream, the city of Madalipur is located in the central part of Bangladesh, when it was still a small town of 20,000 or 30,000 people.After the start of the war, the British army forcibly recruited the people in the city to build fortifications, even the elderly and children.Because of this, more than 1,000 people died of exhaustion.Southeast Asia's hot flashes are the most prone to outbreaks of infectious diseases such as malaria, and there is almost no cure at this time.The people hated these yellow-haired and green-eyed foreigners, but they were blocked by the British army and worked as coolies in the city, even if they wanted to, they couldn't leave.As soon as the Huaxing army landed, the local people took the initiative to act as guides and guide the Huaxing army.The airship force had already reconnoitred the Mekna line of defense and drawn up a detailed map showing all the cities along the river.Although the Huaxing army can move without a guide, it still takes a lot of detours when it is guided by the guide.It took only one day for the Huaxing army to assemble on the other side of the Mekna River, and immediately launched an attack on the British positions.The British general who defended Madaripur was none other than Major General Charlton, who had been defeated in Chittagong.After he retreated to Madaripur, he gathered the remnants of the defeated army everywhere and reorganized the strength of a corps, which was later supplemented by Gordon, and now he had a total of 60,000 or 70,000 troops in two armies.The Huaxing Army was commanded by Wu Xuming this time, but it brought together two provincial military districts, with a total of four soldiers and horses, which was twice the number of Charlton.These four lines of soldiers and horses surrounded the city of Madaripur in four directions, directly cutting off Charlton's way of escape.The soldiers and horses in the south were mainly responsible for defending against British reinforcements in the middle and did not participate in the siege.So Charlton had to face a siege on three sides by the Huaxing army, and Gordon supplemented him with an army, the Indian Sikh army with breech rifles.In the face of the strong onlookers of the Huaxing Army, Charlton's head was about to explode.I just hope that I can hold on for one day, so that the reinforcements from the middle stream and the peace will be able to rush up to support immediately.The situation was indeed as he expected, and the British command in the middle of the stream had already synthesized the intelligence from all over the country and judged that the Huaxing army would attack from the upstream.So the command had just gathered half of Barisal's men and horses, and rushed to his support.Wu Xuming looked around the battlefield with binoculars, and the armies from all walks of life had assembled on the positions one after another, and successively let the heralds send back signals.He slowly raised his right arm and fired the starting pistol for an all-out attack into the sky."
Boom, boom, boom" three bullets with colored smoke flew into the sky, and even in the daytime, they emitted blinding flames.The offensive began in full swing, and more than 30,000 Huaxing troops quickly closed towards the British position.The artillery positions in three directions also rumbled for a while.The new grenade "whoosh, whoosh" was fired, and soon a violent roar was issued in the British position.Charlton's eyes were about to pop out, but he didn't expect that in just a few months, the Huaxing Army was equipped with such a powerful artillery.The positions of the British troops were full of flames and smoke.The shrapnel flew out in all directions, rampage through the position, destroying everything in front of them.The happiest of them all were the 30,000 Indian Sikhs, who used breech-loading rifles.Therefore, all of them were deployed according to a dense array of guns, and rows were neatly arranged at the front of the trenches.Breech rifles cannot be fired from lying in a trench because they have to be reloaded in a half-crouch position and rely on the gun formation to make up for the lack of firepower.As soon as the howitzers of the Huaxing Army fell, the flying shrapnel was like a sickle, almost harvesting the lives of these Sikh soldiers in bundles.The Indian Sikh regiment was notoriously brave, and the commander did not give the order to retreat to the trenches to take refuge, but braved artillery fire to attack the Huaxing army.Only in this way can we mix with the Huaxing army as soon as possible to avoid artillery bombardment."
Come back, come back quickly," Charlton saw this on the city wall, and ordered the heralds to withdraw to the trenches immediately.He was almost mad by the commander of the Sikh army, and when he charged the Huaxing army in this way, he made it clear that he was shooting at a live target for others.But by the time the herald had brought his orders back to the front, it was too late, and the Sikh regiment had already rushed out of position three hundred meters away.The infantry of the Huaxing Army charged in a skirmish line, in a group.After a thousand meters from the British position, they either bent down and rushed in, or crawled forward, or jumped and rushed in.Shoot irregularly while taking advantage of the terrain to charge forward.After the main offensive of the Indian Sikh army, the rush of the Huaxing army also slowed down.All of them were prostrate on the ground, ready to launch aimed shots at these Sikhs.Because the Huaxing army did not attack on the southern front, Charlton quickly pulled out half of the soldiers and horses deployed on the southern front.The Indian Sikh army was more than 30,000 people, and nearly 10,000 people were deployed on each side except for the southern front.At this time, more than 10,000 people lined up in a neat gun array, and each side took the initiative to attack the Huaxing army.The artillery of the Huaxing Army all fired a salvo on the British position, and after they rushed forward, they really avoided the artillery fire.Wu Xuming looked around the battlefield and was almost amused by these dark-skinned Indian soldiers, but he admired their courage in his heart."
One, two; One or two" "Don't be afraid, keep going, Lord Shiva bless us in heaven" The Indian commander kept shouting slogans, holding a command knife and pointing directly at the Huaxing army.When they saw Huaxingjun crawling on the ground, they thought that Huaxingjun was scared.These 30,000 Indian soldiers had just withdrawn from India's northwestern front and had not yet fought the Huaxing army.In their minds, it is only brave to charge upright, and it is timid to crawl forward with a low body.In Hinduism, only the brave go to heaven, and the cowardly go to hell.When they were three hundred meters away from the Huaxing Army, the straggler line of the Huaxing Army finally let out a dense burst of gunfire.Originally, the Sikh army had already entered the range of expeditionary rifles, but within 300 meters was the most lethal range, and the commander of the Huaxing army was worried that shooting too early would make these Indian soldiers turn around and flee back.At a distance of 300 meters, even if the Sikhs turned around and fled back, they could not escape the bullets.In an instant, bullets flew out of the straggler front of the Huaxing Army.The Indian Sikh army also pulled the trigger at this time, and the bullets flew out of the barrel of the gun to the Huaxing army.The bullets from the two sides crossed the sky, like locusts, making a "buzzing" sound, and hit each other.But the Indian Sikh army half-crouched and fired a volley, and all the bullets flew over the heads of the Huaxing army, where could they hit a person.However, the bullets of the Huaxing army were all aimed and pointed, and almost all of them hit the body of the Indian Sikh army."
Brush, brush, brush" The Indian Sikh army was like wheat straw, swept away by a hurricane, and fell to the ground one after another.After the first round of bullets, the gun array still rushed at a neat pace.The commander was trained rigorously on weekdays, and no matter what kind of resistance he encountered during the attack, as long as he did not give the order to retreat, he had to continue to advance in a gun formation, even if there was only one man left in the entire gun array."
Brush, brush, brush" The gunfire on the straggler front of the Huaxing Army became more and more intensive, and a hurricane did not stop, and another hurricane rose.From front to back, the gun array of the Indian army was like an onion, peeled and torn layer by layer.At a distance of 300 meters, it was a straight impact, which was even more alive than a live target, and it was completely hitting the muzzle of the Huaxing army.And the bullets they fired still flew over the heads of the Huaxing army, and the commander estimated that he wanted to scare the Huaxing army to death.Backwardness is backwardness, and the well-organized breech gun array was originally used to deal with the enemy army that charged intensively, such as infantry and cavalry armed with cold weapons, and also like a gun formation with the same weapon.In the face of the Huaxing army's prostrate shooting, these well-organized gun formations did not play a lethal role at all, but became a live target for the opponent.In less than three minutes, the Indian army in three directions, ten gun formations, and tens of thousands of soldiers only attacked less than forty or fifty meters, but more than half of the soldiers fell.All the Sikhs were almost paved with corpses, advancing one by one.Hua Xingjun's bullets were fired one after another, and the barrels of the guns were a little hot.It's too easy to kill people like this, every Huaxing army is red-eyed, and their fingers can't stop at all.After firing a rifled bullet, quickly change your outfit and continue to pull the trigger."
Machine Gun Company Prepares" "Shooting" The machine gun company of the Huaxing Army took advantage of this gap to step forward and was already preparing in the position, with the muzzle of the gun facing the Indian Sikh Army.Each machine gun is a three-person team, one person carries the gun, one person loads, and one person carries ammunition.Seeing that the fire had arrived, the commanders of the various armies waved the order flags in their hands one after another, and finally put these meat grinders to use
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