Not to mention, these guards were very accurate with their marksmanship. One by one, they killed several envoys sent by the Moroccans.

When the Moroccans saw it... they were furious.

The two armies are fighting, but the envoys don’t understand. They also say that we are barbarians and you Chu people are barbarians.

So they were very angry and gathered more than 5,000 people to resist and take back Tarfaya.

These more than 5,000 people were equipped with smoothbore artillery and flintlock guns obtained from Europe, and export-type plate armor produced by Chu State purchased from merchants. They were considered the main force in Morocco.

After all, the Moroccans also heard about the power of the Chu Empire and the strength of the Chu army, so even though they knew that there were only eight or nine hundred Chu people who captured Tarfaya, they still assembled a main army of more than 5,000 people.

The Moroccans still attach great importance to the Chu people and do not underestimate the enemy!

However, the battle process was more exaggerated than they expected, and the result was more cruel than they imagined.

Facing the Moroccan counterattack, the soldiers of the 3rd Battalion of the 212th Infantry Regiment of the 53rd Division of the Dachu Imperial Army actually paid little attention to them.

The soldiers of the Chu army were not even in the mood to leave the camp and fight!

It was so damn hot in Northwest Africa in June that the men of the Chu army were unwilling to leave their houses and run into the sun to fight with the Moroccans on the opposite side.

After the army on the shore discovered that thousands of Moroccans were massed and ready to kill them, they did not move. Instead, they sent a message to the navy at the port, saying that there were thousands of Moroccans on the other side, and they let the navy take matters into their own hands.

Several naval officers discussed it and felt that the credit would not be in vain... so they asked the three warships to approach the coastline directly and get ready for bombardment.

In order to obtain a better strike effect, the navy even waited until the Moroccans were close to the city and very close to the coastline before firing... The navy was afraid of firing too early and scaring away the Moroccans.

What happened next was very simple. The army watched a good show on the shore, the navy gained a wave of kills, and the Moroccans suffered heavy losses. More than half of them were lost on the spot and fled in panic!

These Moroccans didn't even understand how they were defeated until they were defeated!

Because they didn't even see the Chu army's naval guns firing!

The Chu army's naval guns have a much larger caliber than the army's field guns, and they are all long-barreled cannons with very long ranges.

At that time, in order to ensure the hit rate, the Navy still moved closer to attack, using hot air balloons to guide the bombardment at a distance of about three thousand meters.

So what the Moroccans could see and hear was this: when they had just finished gathering their formation and were preparing to attack the city wall.

Before even seeing a single Chu State person, countless cannonballs fell from the world, and the power of the cannonballs was extremely powerful... Some of the cannonballs could be considered as reimbursing hundreds of them in one hit. You knew without asking that the cannonballs must have been fired by a cruiser.

150 mm high explosive grenade.

This one was bombed inexplicably, and the bombing was particularly tragic... If the Moroccan commander hadn't reacted quickly, it only took a few minutes to order the entire army to retreat.

With such a dense formation like theirs, even if they were just a few minutes late, they would all be killed alive by the bombardment of the Chu Navy!

This was actually the scene when many European colonists faced the Chu army before... Most of the time, they didn't even see the Chu army, so they were bombed inexplicably, and then they were defeated inexplicably.

There is a generational difference between the Europeans' war model and the Chu army's war model...and at least two generations!

The Portuguese and Dutch people had a deep impression of the Chu army's fighting power. After all, they had been beaten too many times... It wouldn't matter if they didn't feel deeply.

Therefore, when the Portuguese and Dutch people faced the Chu people going north this time, they did not carry out any actual resistance at all. Instead, they packed up their belongings and ran away early. Resistance... was non-existent. Even before they left, they sometimes still

A few people will be left to act as envoys, mainly to ask the Chu people about their plans to go north this time.

When it is known that the Chu people are going north this time to promote European free trade...the faces of these envoys are often very interesting, but in the end they will lick their faces and express similar meanings: You Chu people are going to Europe.

We welcome you to do business, and we will continue to cooperate when the time comes!

Doing business makes money, it’s not shabby!

Those who resisted the Chu army heading north were some European colonists who did not know the specific strength of the Chu army, or some local indigenous people, and some were simply pirates!

For example, the French and British are relatively stubborn and often rely on colonial strongholds to resist, thinking that their small fortresses can really block the large-caliber naval guns of the Chu army!

However, apart from wasting some Chu army's artillery shells, these resistances had no practical significance.

Just like the current Moroccan counterattack... The Chu army did not even bother to leave the barracks to fight. They just gave the navy a greeting and asked them to bombard them. Then more than half of them were killed or injured on the opposite side, and the rest ran away.

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However, these corpses left by the Moroccans were very disgusting. If left alone, they would easily cause plague. The Chu army had to arrange for the prisoners of war to clean the battlefield and bury the corpses.

Looking at it this way, the Moroccan counterattack was actually not useless. At least it limited the number of prisoner-of-war labor available to the Chu people and slightly delayed the construction of the Tarfaya base!

It’s just that after the Moroccans knew this, they didn’t know what to think!

And how should European countries feel when they find out?
Chapter completed!