"kill!"

Wang Qiaomiao was not afraid of anything, so he picked up the bayonet and fought with the mercenary generals.

When the bayonets attacked each other, he felt that the Western Land was stronger than the soldiers of the Shi clan.

However, the personal army of the royal family has always paid attention to food and training. They are very strong and they are not weak.

The two of them fought back and forth in the narrow trench for five or six rounds.

Wang Qiao deliberately revealed a flaw, and hired a mercenary general to lift the rifled rifle in Wang Qiao's hand away.

At this moment, Wang Qiao rushed forward suddenly, rushed to the ground, pulled out the dagger from his waist, and counted the mercenary general's chest.

The mercenary general cursed loudly, but Wang Qiao could not understand the other party's bird song at all. He stabbed him hard again, and the other party was gone.

At the same time, the soldiers who followed him also cleaned up the enemy soldiers in the trench.

He looked at the enemy's corpses on the ground and shouted, "Pile the corpses in the corridor."

Under his order, some soldiers threw a few grenades into the corridor first.

Then the soldiers lifted the enemy soldiers and threw them into the corridor, blocking the corridor for a while.

"Brothers, their attack is weak, we will win if we hold on." Wang Qiao shouted.

The first few times, the soldiers who rushed up from the trench behind were red-eyed and looked desperate.

But after repeated struggles, the soldiers rushing up obviously declined.

The soldiers rushing over this time were obviously less determined.

Obviously, although they did not take down the first trench in the morning, they caused much more casualties to the other party than them.

According to his estimates, their casualties ratio reached at least 10 to 1, or even 20 to 1.

In other words, if a soldier in the royal palace was injured or killed, ten opponents were killed or killed.

After Wangqiao occupied the trench, more soldiers from the royal palace rushed over from the beach to consolidate the first trench defense line.

at the same time.

In the eighth trench on the river bank, Wang Xie and Luther were extremely angry.

With their eyes low, the first trench that was originally as solid as a decent was occupied by the other party.

Now, the first trench not only has no use to them, but has provided defense for the soldiers of Yanzhou.

Through the first trench, they continued to advance towards the second trench.

"Damn it, go and take back the first trench for me." Luther cursed.

His mercenaries died and injured five thousand yesterday.

The battle this morning lost another three or four thousand people.

They paid such a great price, but after only one morning, the first trench was taken away by the other party.

To him, it was a shame.

But he also knew in his heart that the quality of the other party, both the firearms and soldiers, was much better than that of the army of the Si Clan.

Even their mercenaries were slightly inferior.

Because less than 20% of the Western natives among the more than 20,000 mercenaries were the native soldiers of the Eastern natives.

During training, these indigenous soldiers were treated differently from their Western natives.

Therefore, they are not as strong as the soldiers of the King of Yan. In hand-to-hand combat, the soldiers of the Western Tu can still fight back and forth with the King of Yan.

They rarely win at the hands of the King of Yan soldiers.

Of course, in his opinion, the most important thing is the gap in muskets and cannons.

Although the range of the flintlock rifle is 200 meters, the range of the opponent's musket is longer and is often suppressed outside the range.

Coupled with the flowering bullets thrown by the opponent, they were unable to fully play.

"You three, lead the reserve team!" Wang Xie was also anxious.

Upon hearing this, he issued an order to the three generals around him.

After Luther arrived in Wu, in addition to teaching them some tactics, he also carried out some western-level reforms on their army.

One of them is to leave a reserve team during the war.

These reserve teams do not participate in the war, but rest in the rear, regain their energy, and immediately dispatched them to the scene when they are in a tight position.

"Yes, General Wang." He received Wang Xie's order.

Each of the three generals led two thousand people to the first trench in about three directions.

The soldiers in different trenches did not hold muskets, but each of them had a long knife in their hands.

The battle for trenches is more about hand-to-hand combat, and it is better to use a knife than a musket.

There was more than one corridor in the middle of the trench, and they each touched the first trench from the corridor.

Seeing that the end of the corridor was blocked, they climbed up from the second trench and jumped into the first trench to fight.

But just as they were climbing over the trench, the soldiers of the royal palace on the beach pulled the trigger.

One by one, the soldiers of the straits were hit and fell on the trench.

Some soldiers of the powerful clan jumped into the first trench, but the soldiers of the royal palace were ready for battle and immediately tied them into honeycombs.

On the hot air balloon, Lu Chang and the other two saw that the first trench was gradually being controlled, and immediately threw the news down.

"Let the second group of soldiers cross the river." Zhao Xu saw what Lu Chang wrote and ordered.

Chang Wei had been waiting for this sentence for a long time and immediately ordered the troops to carry the soldiers to the south bank.

Suddenly, the ships from Jiangbei headed towards the south bank of the Yangtze River again, covering the entire river surface.

At this moment, Nan'an was in a battle with the soldiers of the royal palace and was unable to prevent the docking of these transport ships.

In less than two quarters of an hour, the second group of soldiers from the royal palace climbed to the beach.

They were more orderly than the first soldiers.

Because the first group of soldiers blocked the enemy's counterattack and won them time for the entire team.

The arrival of the second batch of soldiers immediately reversed the number of soldiers on the battlefield.

The soldiers entered their respective positions under the leadership of their respective generals and cooperated with the first batch of soldiers to attack.

However, as soon as they got ashore, the situation in Niutoutan changed.

They saw the army and mercenaries of the powerful tribes in the rear trenches constantly withdrawing.

Just as the soldiers of the royal palace observed.

Wang Xie and Luther are indeed retreating.

More than 10,000 soldiers were left behind, and the remaining 80,000 soldiers went to Jinling one after another.

"This is a small local setback, but it doesn't mean we lose." Luther said to Wang Xie, who had a dark face.

He was comforting him to prevent these generals from losing confidence in this way.

After pausing, he said, "We have much stronger troops in Jinling City than here. The value of this battle is only to consume the opponent's troops. In the second trench, they will no longer have the support of warships, and we still have a large number of field artillery."

During the Battle of Niutoutan, he realized that he would be bombarded by the opponent's sail warships, so he left the field artillery of the Shi tribe and their field artillery in the second trench fortification to avoid being destroyed by the opponent.

Moreover, there is a river about 30 meters wide in front of the second trench called Yuntai River.

This will effectively block the attack of the King of Yan's army.

Wang Xie nodded. This was just the first battle in the Jiangnan war.

They may have more than ten or twenty games in the future.

If they continue one after another, they will sooner or later defeat the King of Yan.

"As long as you restrain the King of Yan, when our fleet and army in the Western Land arrive, the King of Yan will die." Luther said again, a trace of cunning flashed in his eyes.

The fact that the powerful tribes can muster up the courage to fight against the King of Yan is also the reason for this promise.

Of course, this promise is a scam.

If the powerful tribes really hold on, this promise may come true.

But if they can't hold on, they will only deploy their troops in more important colonies.
Chapter completed!