"Quickly penetrate the island and fight with the enemy. Be careful of the battleship's artillery..." Xiang Ying fired his gun while giving this order. Under his command, more than 200 officers and soldiers quickly rushed into the enemy's formation and fought with the chaotic law enforcement officers. The soldiers strangled together.
This is the only correct tactic. At this moment, the French army on the island experienced a night of bombardment by the Reach, and almost all of their heavy weapons were destroyed.
Many cannons and machine guns were blown up by the ship and sank in the sea before they could even be unloaded!
As for the limited number of cannons and heavy machine guns, although they successfully landed ashore, they also became spare parts in the previous bombing of the Zhiyuan main gun.
Without heavy firepower, these French troops could only rely on their numerical advantage to fight with the soldiers, but their numerical advantage was also dispersed by more than half by the Prussian army.
The two thousand Prussian troops rushing up from the opposite shore have already pinned down twice the number of French troops. Coupled with the increasing artillery support from the mainland, the number of French troops they have pinned down is increasing.
The French army on Spike Island is actually not something to worry about, because these French armies have already disrupted their organizational structure. It is very common for officers to be unable to find their own soldiers, and for soldiers to be unable to find their commanders.
The only thing he had to guard against was the French warship on the sea. Once Hof found out that the officers and soldiers on the Zhiyuan had broken through, he would definitely change the target and pursue Xiang Ying and the others for bombing.
If you want to survive at this moment, you have to fight your way into the enemy at all costs, creating a chaotic situation where you are among us and you are among us. Only in this way will the French warships take action!
"Kill...kill..." The two hundred people were divided into two sharp commando teams. One team charged into the French position, while the other team shot and covered, continuously outputting firepower.
The two troops were like the two claws of a crab, cooperating with each other to attack, and soon rushed into the small woods more than 100 meters away from the shore.
At this time they were besieged by nearly a battalion of French troops in the woods.
"Ready*! Ready*! Shotgun fire!"
Xiao Letian's idea of building the army attaches great importance to street fighting and close combat. Since the Chinese were founded, early resources were supplied to the navy and national industrial development, so the army did not receive much funds.
The Chinese's limited army military expenditure cannot support them in forming a large group army and a powerful cavalry unit. This means that Xiao Letian's future army will lack a strong strategic force for a period of time.
There is a lack of powerful army artillery and strategic mobile cavalry, but we still need to ensure the combat effectiveness of the soldiers. This requires finding ways to use subtle tactics and weapons and equipment.
The Chinese Military Research Institute has its own unique development ideas for the army's armaments!
Pay attention to snipers, pay attention to individual weapons, pay attention to guns, pay attention to shotgun weapons, pay attention to various types of weapons... These are all effective weapons that can greatly increase the lethality of individual soldiers.
In the brutal street fighting in Vladivostok, it was these unique weapons that made the Chinese soldiers even more powerful and defeated the brutal Cossack Legion.
Today it was the French's turn to have a drink. These big noses had never seen so many individual weapons, especially the large number of weapons, which made them complain endlessly.
Bang bang bang... The wine bottle hit the ground, the tree trunks, and the soldiers. The flames burst out and the forest suddenly turned into a sea of fire.
What's even worse are those snipers. Germany's optical lens industry is very developed. It is impossible for Xiao Letian to ignore such a huge industry. Ryukyu now has two mirror grinding factories that have learned from German technology, specializing in the production of weapons-grade lenses. Optical sight.
Not only sniper rifle scopes, but also various optical sighting instruments used on battleships can now be produced by Ryukyu themselves.
These snipers hidden in the breakout regiment carefully hid their figures in the woods. Basically, their bullets were unmissable, knocking down the low-level French officers who only knew how to fight to the ground one by one.
The French army's command system had already been disrupted. Coupled with the targeted killings of snipers, more than 400 French troops soon fell into a chaotic situation with no one under their command.
"Ask for help! Hurry for help... We can't hold it anymore..."
In the raging fire, the French army retreated wave after wave. As the dull sound of shotgun firing sounded, the French army did not fall one by one, but fell in batches after batches!
Two hundred lone troops actually defeated the encirclement of more than 400 French troops in ten minutes, and allowed themselves to advance another 150 meters into the depths of the island!
The French army's calls for help came one after another, and the miserable bugles were like ghost cries, summoning friendly forces in the distance, while the Prussian landing troops not far away were full of morale.
"The Allied forces have disembarked and broken out... They are approaching us! Fight up and join the Allied forces!"
"The lives I owe to the Chinese must be repaid today! This is our Prussian national war. How can we just sit back and watch friendly troops die!"
"We are descendants of the Teutonic Knights, we are proud Prussians, and all descendants of the Junkers... cannot let our ancestors be shamed!"
"Officers ahead! Charge!"
The military aristocracy that has been imprinted since the time of Emperor Friedrich has now shown its power. All descendants of the Junker nobles are out-and-out military aristocrats.
Bravery, self-discipline, tenacity and even paranoia...all kinds of mixed good and bad characters form a very unique military group.
Once the Junker nobles are determined to fight to the death, they will use their lives to inspire the soldiers to fight!
After a short and fierce landing battle, only 1,500 of the 2,000 Prussian troops were left, and more than 500 corpses lay on the beach. However, the killing sounds of the sailors of the Zhiyuan in the distance inspired them.
The remaining 1,500 Prussian troops showed no fear. Regardless of the French army that was several times larger, they bravely charged forward and engaged them hand to hand!
In the strait, the Prussian fishermen were going crazy. They shook the oars with all their strength and opened the sails. Countless soldiers on the shore were waiting for them to pick them up. The fighting on the opposite side had already stimulated them to the point of going crazy.
At this moment, bursts of splashing sound suddenly came from the west side of the strait. When everyone took a closer look, it turned out that they were two steam-powered offshore fishing boats dragging long smoke ribbons and rushing towards the battlefield.
Behind these fishing boats there are more fishing boats coming to support!
Prussian fishermen throughout the Frisian Islands heard the church bells and the cannon fire on the sea. They couldn't sit still and came to support the army regardless of the danger!
"Hurry up and get on the boat...I will take you across the strait..."
The steamship lowered the rope ladder when it was still more than thirty meters away from the shore. The entire side of the ship was covered with rope ladders for climbing. The Prussian troops on the shore rushed into the sea with weapons and ammunition on their backs, stepping on them up to their waists. Deep water begins to board the ship.
"Quick, quick, quick... Our allies are bleeding... We must not waste a second!"
"Artillery continues to fire... cover the landing!"
This time, more than 4,000 Prussians successfully boarded the ship, and as the second wave of troops rushing to the beach, they began to fight towards Spike Island!
