Gold Coast, this geographical term was first called by Europeans, but the specific scope is not too accurate. In a narrow sense, you can specifically refer to the small area of Ghana City where the Golden State Governor's Palace is located, but in a broader sense, it can also Refers to the coastal area of the Gulf of Guinea.
After the Chu people arrived, because of the establishment of the Golden State, they expanded the traditional Golden Coast to the large hinterland area north of the northern coast of the Gulf of Guinea.
Basically, the Chu people call this area in the northern part of the Gulf of Guinea the Golden State, or the Gold Coast. After all, the former is actually the abbreviation of the latter.
There are many indigenous tribes in this area, many of which have formed alliances with each other to form a small federation.
However, it is worth noting that so far, there are no serious large-scale indigenous kingdoms in this area, or even in the entire West Africa region.
The last indigenous kingdom in West Africa was wiped out by the Moroccans almost a hundred years ago. In the following hundred years, various tribes in this area lived in their own ways, and were affected by the slave trade and fought and plundered each other. slave.
\bThis situation did not change much when the Chu people first came over, but recently in this area, several relatively large tribes in West Africa are trying to integrate, trying to unite loose and even hostile tribes. to unite against so-called outsiders.
What is an outsider? Well, there is no doubt that he is from Chu. Under such circumstances, the Golden State Governor's Palace of the Great Chu Empire would naturally not ignore it. It just so happened that Xu Duolin and the others also wanted to continue to expand their territory, seize more gold mines, and obtain more labor force to mine gold mines.
As a result, a war naturally broke out. But to be honest, even if the war has begun, the Chu army has already begun to move north. In fact, the Golden State Governor's Office and the military still have not figured out which tribe is joining forces, which tribe is taking the lead, and how many people are there. What strength and so on.
You can't blame the people of Chu for being careless and starting a war without even knowing who the enemy was. But the Chu people really don't care who the enemy is... Anyway, when the Chu people fight in Africa, they never distinguish between good and bad natives. They just pull the net and push them all the way, regardless of what happens along the way. What kind of annihilation of all the indigenous tribes?
It is impossible for the Chu people to stop their march just because your tribe is a good tribe and has no ill intentions towards the Chu people. It is even less possible for them to bypass you and fight against any bad tribe.
It's impossible. When the Chu people expand abroad, they will never bypass any indigenous tribes to attack, and then expose their supply lines to the noses of the indigenous tribes.
In order to march safely, all the indigenous people along the way were exterminated. This was the consistent practice of the Chu people during their overseas colonial expansion.
Of course... Having said all this, I still can't hide the Chu people's lack of information about the indigenous people... There is nothing I can do about it. These Africans are all black and look exactly the same, and they all speak in a gibberish voice that I can't understand. .
The Chu people really can't tell who belongs to which tribe... Since they can't tell, let's treat all the natives as enemies!
Well, this is the consistent practice of the Chu people in overseas expansion. I don’t care if you are an enemy or not, I treat you as an enemy anyway!
What matters is being impartial and selfless, treating everyone equally. This is also done in the Gold Coast area now, and then many indigenous tribes discovered that they were shamefully invaded by the Chu people even though they clearly did not participate in the federation plot of those large tribes.
What can be tolerated and what cannot be tolerated, grandma is a bear, don’t think that because our tribe doesn’t beat you Chu people, you think we are easy to bully... Pull out all the warriors, put out all the bows, arrows and spears, let those Chu people see Look, how brave the warriors of our tribe are.
Then, the Chu people pulled out two 42 machine guns... With the crisp sound of the 42 machine guns firing, the natives on the opposite side soon discovered that there seemed to be no chance to show off their proud bravery. .
There were not even a few Chu people on the opposite side, and they fell down in pieces on my side.
A captain officer wearing a 41-style summer officer's combat uniform looked at the indigenous soldiers falling in front of him. His jade slips showed shock, and then joy followed. The artillery lieutenant in military uniform said: "This 42 machine gun is easier to use than expected. It is not like those hand-cranked machine guns before. Not only is it as heavy as an infantry gun, but it also has many malfunctions, making it particularly difficult to use!"
"Look at this thing, it's light and easy to shoot, and it shoots very fast. No matter how many people on the other side rush towards you, you have to lie down when several long-point shots are fired. Moreover, the aiming is simple. Ordinary soldiers can also perform rough aiming after a short period of training. , it doesn’t matter if you miss it with one shot, you can still hit it with a straight shot!”
"Besides, bullets are cheap. A thousand rounds of bullets only cost about ten yuan. After rounding up, it's almost free of charge!"\b
"I see there's no resistance on the other side, so the artillery doesn't need to fire, save some shells!" Seeing the captain in front of him constantly praising the 42-heavy machine gun in front of him, this made the artillery lieutenant feel a sense of crisis.
If in the past, this kind of battle had more than 200 or even 1,000 troops participating in the battle, then our own 70mm infantry cannon would be the absolute battlefield master... even if the 60mm infantry gun has emerged in recent years. Millimeter mortars cannot replace the living space of 70mm infantry guns... When they heard that 60mm mortars were used in large-scale live-fire operations on the battlefields of Eastern Europe, the top military officials were very dissatisfied with their performance!
The new 70mm infantry cannon that had been stalled continued to be developed, and at the same time hundreds more 70mm infantry cannons were purchased.
The first batch of more than 3,000 60mm mortars was originally scheduled. It was reduced to more than a thousand doors, especially many troops stationed overseas, and the number of equipment was greatly reduced.
Many people thought that this thing had some performance flaws, but most people failed to guess that the reason why the military reduced the size of the 60mm mortar was purely because the rate of fire of this thing was too fast and the accuracy was not high enough. The cost-effectiveness was too low for the locals... so we simply reduced the number of 60mm mortars for overseas garrison troops, retaining only a small number of these mortars for use in special situations, such as when a large amount of direct firepower is urgently needed.
Well, that's right, the Army now regards this mortar as a mortar again... It has a similar role to the 115mm light howitzer in the front-loading smoothbore era, and is only used for direct firepower.
As for the ability to shoot quickly and form artillery coverage in a short period of time, the Army stated that it can defeat the indigenous people without this ability.
The reason why the local garrison still retains this thing is because of internal defense. Because when you are fighting the indigenous people, you will dislike the mortar because it consumes shells too quickly and has low cost performance... But when you are fighting a civil war, you will wish that the mortar could fire hundreds of shells a minute.
The elite main force of the various military services of the Da Chu Empire, as well as the huge number of heavy weapons, are basically stationed in the country. Even if the elite troops are rotated and deployed overseas every year, the people will leave, but the weapons will not... After all, you It's impossible to bring a lot of heavy artillery overseas to fight the indigenous people!
A 75mm mountain cannon plus a 70mm infantry cannon are basically enough. If the caliber is higher, it will be a waste, and it will not be used... In this way, the local and overseas garrison forces of the Chu army are formed. The equipment is very different, which also results in the same 60mm mortar, but its evaluation in the army is somewhat polarized.
The 60mm mortar cannot affect the status of the 70mm infantry gun at all... But today, after the artillery officer of the 70mm infantry gun saw the actual combat performance of the 42 machine gun, he suddenly felt a feeling: defeated Your people may not be peers, but people from other industries.
The 4-2 heavy machine gun in front of me is really amazing. This thing was only officially finalized and equipped last year. The current number of purchased equipment is actually not much, and it is basically still in the early stage of small-scale equipment testing.
As for the Chu Army, which is developing projects all over the world, after completing the testing of various weapons and equipment in various environments and live ammunition tests, they are often sent to hot spots for actual combat testing.
Sometimes in order to test a certain weapon, overseas troops stationed with testing tasks will deliberately launch a small war.
After all, if there is no war, then there will be an opportunity for actual combat testing. According to this tradition, after passing various preliminary tests, the 42 machine guns were dispatched to hot spots in Eastern Europe, Africa, Western Europe and South America.
Although the local indigenous people in West Africa do not have much strength, they are still considered hot spots and battles are relatively frequent. Therefore, more than twenty 42 machine guns have been allocated. The West African Army Command specially mobilized personnel to form a temporary machine gun company. .
It's just that the war broke out not long after the training. These 42 machine guns were quickly split. Some were assigned to the troops staying in various places, and some were assigned to several combat missions. infantry company.
This is how the Chu army used two 42 machine guns to sweep across the natives on the opposite side today. To be honest, not even the commanders who commanded the operations of these two 4-2 machine guns and even the soldiers who operated these machine guns never thought that their two heavy machine guns could play such an important role.
The dense machine gun bullets are like a heavy rain in midsummer, so dense that people can't open their eyes, and then continue to harvest the lives of the indigenous soldiers... The indigenous soldiers on the opposite side officially fought out from a mountain recess eight or nine hundred meters away, Chu The commander of the army sent dozens of logistics soldiers to carry out shooting sporadically.
This kind of shooting is naturally ineffective. After all, the distance is eight to nine hundred meters. Even a rifled rifle such as the Type 25 repeating rifle cannot achieve any actual results.
Apart from making a sound for yourself and the enemy, it basically has no practical effect. When the gunfire rang out, the natives on the opposite side were very nervous at first. They thought they had been ambushed. There were Chu people ambush within 100 meters nearby... But after taking a closer look, well, it turned out to be at least 800 meters across the way. Some Chu people outside were shooting... A few knowledgeable indigenous leaders who had fought with European colonists laughed when they saw it, thinking that these Huangpi Chu people were useless.
Holding a musket and firing it hundreds of meters away... This is just a waste of ammunition.
\bFacing this kind of foreign colonists who couldn't even abide by the basic rules of firing muskets within 100 meters, the few indigenous leaders who had seen the world quickly changed from panic and anxiety before the battle to full confidence!
They believe that although the opponent has the advantage of firearms in this battle, they are not proficient in using firearms... Even if these muskets are given to them, they all know that they must fire within 100 meters with muskets. At the same time, musketeers cannot fight alone. They need to Paired with a considerable number of spearmen to maintain the strength of the formation.
It is best to pair it with a considerable number of cavalry... But don’t think that the indigenous people in West Africa cannot fight. They are all uncivilized primitive people. In fact, West Africa has very frequent contacts with Europe and North Africa. The last empire in West Africa was conquered by The Moroccans in North Africa were wiped out.
Later, they had long-term contact with European colonists and engaged in slave trade. During this process, local West Africans were also exposed to a large number of military changes from Europe.
Therefore, strictly speaking, these indigenous people are not all equipped with cold weapons. In fact, many of them still have some matchlock guns exchanged from Europeans.
Therefore, some local tribal leaders in West Africa actually know line tactics. Some of their soldiers are also equipped with matchlocks, but the number is very rare. Some of them were bought by previous Europeans, and Many of them were sold by the people of the Chu State... The people of the Chu State often sold backward weapons in the process of ordinary trade, as well as in the process of colonial expansion and provoking fights among tribes. Among them, the matchlock guns were the most purchased.
According to incomplete statistics, in the past few decades, the Chu people have exported at least tens of millions of matchlock guns... Who knows how those arms dealers sold these massive amounts of matchlock guns.
These indigenous tribes who use matchlocks in small quantities naturally know that they cannot shoot from a few hundred meters away... To fire from a few hundred meters away is a behavior of low tactical literacy even from the perspective of the indigenous Africans. Performance.
At the same time, these natives did not see any large-scale Chu cavalry... Because West Africa has a very low priority in the Chu army's global strategy, the expensive cavalry units are not assigned on a large scale here, and there is only a mere cavalry company. That's it, this cavalry company is also cooperating with the main force on the Western Front in sweeping operations.
The Chu army here only has about twenty cavalry who serve as necessary sentinels, and they also have to serve as messengers to deliver messages to the back.
\bBased on these circumstances, they believed that the more than 200 Chu troops on the opposite side were mediocre. They only needed more than a thousand warriors to rush forward and kill these outsiders.
So much so that at the beginning of the battle, when he was shot sporadically by the Chu army's rifles, Kai was urging his own soldiers to speed up and keep in formation, don't spread out... The Chu people on the opposite side were like that, we huddled together. Just rush over and fuck him.
Then the commander of the Chu State calmly watched the indigenous soldiers on the opposite side gradually approaching. He did not order the infantry artillery to conduct interception operations, nor did he let the machine guns start shooting from 800 meters away. He did not even allow the infantry to be fired. A long-distance coverage shot.
Just wait! From 800 meters, then to 500 meters, until the distance is 300 meters, it has entered the best range for machine gun shooting, and at the same time, it has also entered the effective and accurate shooting range of riflemen.
It was a captain commander of the Chu army who finally gave the order to open fire... As he gave the order, gunshots rang out quickly and intensively.
The riflemen began to fire at the enemy formation three hundred meters away, but they also opened fire and began to achieve good killing effects.
But compared with the power of the two 4-2 heavy machine guns next door, it is simply the difference between heaven and earth!
The shooters of the two heavy machine guns fired long bursts of fire at the indigenous queues under the orders of the officers... But for the large group targets within 300 meters, the machine gunners did not even need to take careful aim, and directly aimed at the crowded crowds. Just line up and shoot.
As the clicking sound of machine gun fire rang out... the world seemed to have quieted down, leaving only the clicking sound that kept lingering in my ears!
And as the gunshots continued to ring out, the natives who were still full of confidence before imagined crossing the last three hundred meters and then killing the Chu people until they were pissed off.
They turned into rice stalks that were cut in autumn... The indigenous infantry formations with multi-layered tactical depth, under the heavy machine gun fire of the Chu people, were like cabbages being peeled off one after another. ...In the end, there was nothing left!
