"Do not retreat...continue to attack...There is no place in this world for pagans to live..."
"Attack...no retreat..."
The supervising team were all the most fanatical believers. They picked up their scimitars and began to chop down the unsteady warriors. Human heads hung on the sides of the horses and camels. The smell of blood stimulated the army to continue to attack!
Boom...boom...
After Agubai's army, scattered cannon sounds suddenly rang out. The artillery that the Rakshasa ghost sold to Agubai at a high price finally went off. Agubai finally used all the treasures in the box!
After so many years of hard work, Agubo also has some useful information. He also has forty or fifty cannons of various miscellaneous models. This time he brought more than thirty of the best!
Agubai is reluctant to use these precious lumps on weekdays, because cannonballs are really scarce for him!
No country in Central Asia can produce modern artillery shells. At first, it could only rely on exports from Britain and Tsarist Russia!
The British exported some to him from India, and Tsarist Russia used horses and vehicles to export some to him through the trade routes of the Central Asian steppes!
Later, due to the diplomatic efforts of Xiao Letian and Emperor Tongzhi towards Britain, Aguba could no longer receive arms support from India and could only rely on supplies from Tsarist Russia!
But how much can Tsarist Russia divide among them? Their own garrison in Yili is not enough!
After all, there are still no roads. In the era before railways were built, you could only rely on waterways for all transportation. Without waterways, you could only rely on the power of livestock!
Cannons and ammunition were transported from Europe to here. They had to go through thousands of mountains and rivers and endured many hardships. The price of a cannonball was almost equal to the price of gold!
Aguba wouldn't dare to use these golden knots unless absolutely necessary, but today I really can't use them!
Regardless of whether the artillery fire was accurate or not, at least it emboldened the army. Coupled with the brutal massacre by the supervising team, these desperadoes finally regained some courage!
But at this moment, the two cavalrymen, Liu Jintang and Xu Zhanbiao, suddenly accelerated their speed. The two wild goose wings began to retract, and the leading troops inserted into the rear of Agubai's army!
Even a fool can see that this is a posture to outflank!
Agubai was so angry that he screamed, "Twenty thousand people actually want to defend my 60,000 army? You are a madman who will die... No matter how powerful your artillery is, you cavalry will die!"
"Warriors! Don't you have the courage to fight with the Chinese with scimitars? Kill all those cavalry... leave no one alive!"
The rebels began to separate their formations at this moment, and the left and right wings began to charge towards the Qing army's cavalry!
At this moment, the battlefield formed the shape of a sea king's trident. Agubai's army in the middle kept attacking the artillery position, trying to use his life to tear open the defense line of heavy machine guns and artillery!
Aguba doesn't care about human life. He will never lack fanatical believers under him. The berserkers can have as many as they want. It's just a matter of spending time training!
Agubai is keeping an eye on the Qing's cannons at the moment. There are more than 200 cannons. If he grabs them all, he can completely dominate Central Asia!
What the hell, this khanate, that khanate, will tremble under his cannon!
Today's battle started as a siege of Dihua, but after a while it turned into a cannon-plundering battle!
Zuo Zongtang has been preparing for this day for more than two years. Over the past two years, the Chinese have continued to transport artillery shells, and today they can finally be used openly!
After the war, Xiao Letian's military experts quickly sent the battlefield data to Naha. When Xiao Letian saw the numbers on it, he couldn't help but be shocked!
In this great victory at Dihua, the scale of firepower output was close to the firepower density of a local battle during the First World War!
This is a victory achieved purely with industrial power!
In front of the artillery position, corpses were piled up like a mountain, but the left and right wings reversed!
The Qing cavalry only approached slowly and never increased their horse speed, but Aguba's two-wing army began to charge faster. They just want to bully you with more people and fewer people!
The armies of both sides were getting closer and closer. When the Aguba cavalry was less than 300 meters away from the Qing army's line, suddenly there was a sudden movement between Liu Jintang and Xu Zhanbiao!
The Qing army did not attack, but suddenly turned their horses and began to retreat at an accelerated speed!
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaized...Qing army escaped a...pagans got timid...Kill them all...Kill them all..."
"Charge...Kill them all without leaving any one behind..."
At that moment Agubai really saw victory waving to him!
But just after the Qing army retreated more than three hundred meters, strange things suddenly appeared in these empty positions!
Between the yellow sand, circular formations suddenly appeared one after another. These circular formations intersected in a Z-shaped shape, and the distance between them was kept at about fifty meters!
The long position almost covered the entire charging area on the left and right wings!
Guan Lu, another new army commander left by Emperor Tongzhi in the Western Regions, was in the largest circular formation!
"Reinforce the barbed wire...triangular steel cross-fixed...put up all the hard boards...leave out shooting holes..."
"Get ready... everyone put on bayonets!"
"Long live the Qing Dynasty! Long live the Emperor! Fire..."
The Ming Dynasty once had a tactic called a chariot formation to deal with the Mongolian cavalry, but today Chinese engineers and military experts have developed a highly industrialized iron grid and steel formation!
The Chinese have mechanized the production of barbed wire. The output is quite high and the cost is low. Before this bloody battle, thousands of trucks were transported roll after roll to Zuo Zongtang and the others!
The triangle iron is even simpler. It doesn't use the best molten steel. It uses the lowest quality iron material to boil a little molten iron, then pulls it into a strip shape, and finally mechanically folds it to become a strong triangle iron!
Three meters per piece, five meters per piece, made into various lengths and specifications, and six to seven hundred cars were transported to the Western Region!
Although it was very difficult along the way and countless civilians put in their blood and sweat, once this batch of supplies was delivered, it really cut off Aguba and his family's last way of survival!
The role of the cavalry on both wings of the Qing army was not to launch a charge at all. They used military formations to block the work of civilians and engineers behind them!
This simple barbed wire formation has been trained countless times in the rear area. A dozen civilians can set up a defensive position in half an hour!
Those triangular irons are all prefabricated parts that have been sawn in advance. A few large trucks can pull them over and piece them together like building blocks to form a ring-shaped skeleton!
The triangular irons support each other and are inserted into the sand, making them very stable!
The soldiers entered the fortification and began to fill it with cut hardwood boards. They did not use nails or wires. They directly stuck the wood of suitable size in the triangle iron. These hardwoods can provide the best cover for the soldiers!
This is a very simple and solid shooting position. The circular defensive position is unbreakable!
