Li Mu guessed correctly, Will fought with the idea of monopolizing this Spanish servant army.
This Spanish servant army has a total of only 1,000 people, and the equipment is so rudimentary, if you really want 5,000 people to share this credit, how much can each person share, it is better to give it all to the cavalry battalion, after this battle, the cavalry battalion will be reborn, from the new soldiers to the ranks of veterans, which is of immeasurable significance to the training of the cavalry.
In fact, Will's idea is correct, for an army that is in battle for the first time, it is most important to find a soft persimmon to pinch it and build up self-confidence.
Will's cavalry was not equipped with the most common quarte horses in the United States, but with Spanish cattle horses, which had a compact appearance and thick muscles, and were heavy, fast, and enduring.
The cavalry did have unparalleled mobility, twenty kilometers away, two days for those Spanish servants, and three or four hours for the cavalry under Will, which was the result of controlling the speed in order to save horsepower, and if you let go of running, two hours was more than enough.
As reported by the scouts, the Spanish servant army was poorly equipped, with only a small number of them armed with rear-loading rifled guns, most of them using front-loading flintlock pistols, and two guns with wooden tires slowed down their march in addition to their lazy morale.
In order to make the gun move more easily, the wheels of the gun were nailed with wide short planks, which increased the contact area between the wheels and the ground, so that the wheels would not sink into the muddy ground.
Yes, the ground is muddy, the rainy season in Cuba is from May to October every year, under normal circumstances, there are short showers every afternoon, although the Spaniards have built a road system in Cuba, but this "road" is different from Li Mu's "road", that is, it is just paved with stones on the flat ground, and the traffic situation in the dry season is better, but it is necessary to catch the blind in the rainy season.
"Order the troops to rest and seize the time to recover their strength, Company A and Company B are ready to charge with me, and Company C will build a sniper position along the side of the mountain" Will put down the binoculars in his hand, looked up at the sky, and then looked at the slowly squirming enemy a kilometer away, and a series of orders were immediately issued.
The Guantanamo Infantry Regiment and Battalion still use the three-three system, each battalion has three companies under its jurisdiction, the cavalry battalion has a special point in its establishment, and the three companies are seriously overstaffed, the A company with the best cavalry skills and the B company responsible for auxiliary attacks are about 150 people, and the C company with the strongest firepower is more than 200 people, and these 200 people are equipped with 30 "rainstorm" light machine guns, which is the highest in the 19th century in terms of firepower density.
At this time, it is already two o'clock in the afternoon, generally speaking, it is time for rain again, the sky is full of dark clouds, the air humidity is very high, and the clothes are soaked with sweat and stick to the body is very uncomfortable.
And the rain also has one of the biggest benefits, it will have a greater impact on this Spanish servant army.
This army was equipped with a lot of breech flintlock pistols, and their bullet propellant and projectile were separated, and if the cartridge was soaked in water, then these breech flintlock pistols were not as good as burning sticks, and in the face of the cavalry's Spencer seven bursts, these servant armies were only ready to die.
God was on Will's side, and after about half an hour, the long-awaited rain finally fell, first with scattered raindrops, and almost in a few seconds, the sparse light rain turned into a pouring rain, and the dense mist rose instantly, and the sky and the earth were white, and the servant army that had been close to within three hundred meters had disappeared into the mist, and the dense raindrops had no pain on the people, and it was difficult to even open their mouths to speak at this time.
Will raised his head and opened his mouth to take two sips of rainwater, unbuttoned the shirt on his chest by the way, and took this opportunity to take a good shower, seeing that the rain stopped for a while, Will turned over and pulled out Spencer's seven consecutive shots from the saddle bag and swung his horsewhip forward vigorously: "Fire" Almost instantly, the sound of gunfire like bursting beans rang out violently, and a metal storm composed of dozens of projectiles smashed towards the servant army trembling in the wind and rain in the distance, tearing apart one body after another unscrupulously, harvesting lives, at this moment, the "heavy rain" is really worthy of the name.
The moment the gunfire rang out, the servant army on the opposite side did not react, it is estimated that they thought it was a muffled thunder from the sky, but soon, the falling soldiers and the flying limbs made them understand that they had been attacked.
It's useless to understand, the storm comes and goes quickly, although the downpour has turned into sporadic light rain again, but the mist caused by the rainstorm just now has not completely dissipated, the air is at its most humid, if this army is all equipped with rifles that use metal cartridge casings to set bullets, then they can still resist, but in the current situation, they are almost no ability to resist.
Like the rest of the servants, the commander of this unit was a pure Spaniard, and when he found out that he was ambushed, this commander also tried to reorganize his troops to defend in place, but soon the commander found that the enemy fired bullets were so dense that it would take at least tens of thousands of troops to fight such a dense barrage.
It's a, the enemy's weapons are not afraid of water, and they are ten times more than themselves, so there is no room for resistance at all.
So the commander hesitated for only a second, then immediately turned his horse's head and fled in the direction of Elcristo.
Even the commanders, not to mention the ordinary soldiers, abandoned the heavy artillery, abandoned the comrades who wailed for help, and even threw away the weapons that accompanied them day and night, and fled the battlefield without looking back.
How could they escape, it had just rained, the ground was wet and slippery, and the road was already muddy when they came, even if it was the Cotai Strip, they couldn't outrun the cavalry who were waiting for work.
The cavalry led by Will was one man and two horses, and with Will's order, all the machine guns stopped firing, and the cavalry controlled the speed of their horses and charged forward in a neat formation.
At this time, there is no need to pursue speed, there is no problem of cavalry chasing infantry to catch up, the cavalry only need to maintain the formation, according to the usual training and drills, and steadily harvest life, it is only a matter of time before the enemy is completely annihilated.
From Will's order to "shoot" to the cavalry's attack, the total time was less than two minutes, and many machine gun shooters did not even finish a chain of 250 rounds, and the battle was over, all that remained was to clean up the battlefield and pursue the remnants of the enemy.
Of course, cleaning up the battlefield is the task of Company C, and the soldiers of Company C have already been cool just now, and now it is the turn of Company A and Company B to connect with Shuang.
There was nothing to clean, and the soldiers of the Guantanamo Infantry Regiment had already been whipped up by Li Muyang, and they had no interest in the breech-loading flintlock pistols all over the ground, let alone those stumps and broken arms, and no one even picked up the odd belongings on the ground.
The United States of Cuba uses the United States dollar, and the banknotes issued by the Spaniards do not have any purchasing power on the territory of the United States of Cuba, and it is too hard to wipe the buttocks When Li Mu and the others rushed to the ambush point, they saw such a scene, the soldiers of C Company were cleaning the battlefield weakly, the officers of C Company gathered in front of the two guns discarded by the servant army to discuss whether they should be dragged back, and some recruits seemed to feel a little disgusted by the scene of stumps and broken arms everywhere in front of them, and they would vomit to death.
"Hank" Li Mu was accompanied by Chu Xue and Gloria sisters, so Li Mu didn't go to the battlefield, and he knew how miserable it was by looking at the color, so he only called the commander of the original cavalry battalion over.
Hank is Chinese, originally surnamed Liu, but in the Guantanamo Infantry Regiment, all Chinese have an English name, and they usually use English names, which is a death order issued by Li Mu, and no one is allowed to disobey.
"General, Company C of the Cavalry Battalion is on a military mission, please instruct" Hank trotted over with several officers of Company C, saluting in a standard posture and reporting in a loud voice, which was very meritorious.
Although Li Mu has no military rank, in Guantanamo, "General" is Li Mu's code name, and when calling other people, they must bring their names, and only when they call Li Mu, they will only shout the word "General".
Speaking of which, in the current Guantanamo Infantry Regiment, there is only one general, Will, and this is still promoted by the United Republic of Cuba in the face of Li Mu, and then Yan Hu, after three months of training, Yan Hu is now wearing the rank of colonel and serving as the deputy commander of the Guantanamo Infantry Regiment.
"Will" Li Mu still has a glimmer of hope.
"Report to the general, General Will led Company A and Company B to the west to pursue the remnants of the enemy, and is currently missing" Hank seized the opportunity to give Will eye drops.
Although Hank is the commander of the cavalry battalion, but in the case of Will parachuting into the cavalry battalion, Will is the military commander of the cavalry battalion, it is said that Hank should be responsible for the pursuit, and Will, the military commander, should always be in command of the Chinese army.
"Continue with your mission."
Although Li Mu's face was gloomy, he would not openly express his dissatisfaction with Will, and it was only right to communicate privately if there was a problem.
Far away from the blood-stained red area, Li Mu took Chu Xue and Gloria sisters to continue westward.
Bypassing the battlefield, what appeared in front of Li Mu's eyes was an endless stream of corpses, extending to the end of the line of sight, most of these corpses were shot in the back, and the progress of the cavalry could be seen from the number of bullets on the corpses.
At the beginning, most of the corpses were beaten to shreds on their backs, some were even hit by more than a dozen bullets, and the whole back was blurred with blood, and as time went on, the blood stains on the corpses became less and less, only a hundred meters away, and there was already only one blood stain on the corpse, which was already killed by one shot
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