Chapter 26 Morocco (3)
At two o'clock in the afternoon, when the bloody scouts came to the last time, Lieutenant Colonel Bai Chuanping, the commander-in-chief of the East Coast Army, ordered the military band to play music. The soldiers who were resting stood up one after another, began to organize their equipment, and prepare for battle.
Before this, the logistics and supplies troops, which were ordered to marching quickly, arrived at the battlefield one hour before the Moroccans arrived. The baggage soldiers arranged a large number of carriages on the right wing of the entire army and formed a circle. The baggage soldiers were stationed in the circle, carrying guns and gunpowder barrels and bullet boxes in the rear, and at the same time, some people were assigned to serve as stretchers for the field hospital. As for the students directly under the regiment headquarters and the battalion school, they arranged formations in the rear to protect the center.
There is no way, the terrain is narrow and the troops cannot spread out at all, so it is difficult to arrange a square formation, so they can only rely on the terrain to arrange troops. Fortunately, there are a large number of professional officers in the Sixth Mixed Regiment, so there is no chance of any confusion. Once there is a change, they can respond in time.
At 2:20, the Moroccan vanguards arrived in front of the East Coast Army. After watching for a while, their commanders found that the slope on the right (the left wing of the East Coast people) was very large and allowed to gather. However, the East Coast cavalry had already occupied it. Although there were many people on their side, it was difficult to attack from the back, so they could only give up. On the left, not to mention that the cavalry attack was inconvenient (the cavalry were always used to assaulting from the right wing), the large number of baggage vehicles and woods over there were enough to cause a disaster.
The commander of the Berber cavalry was rational. He gave up the main battlefield to the infantry and sent a team to detour from the left wing, looking for mountain trails to go back to the east coast. Even if this detour would waste a lot of time, it would be better to be late than not. Perhaps the battle took a long time, and when they arrived, they happened to launch a fatal blow?
Lieutenant Colonel Bai Chuanping knew the plans of the Berber cavalry, but he did not intend to make changes. There were combat troops directly under the regiment headquarters and a whole infantry battalion as a reserve team. The Berber cavalry's abacus was destined to fail.
At 2:40, when the military band played the music for the second time, the Moroccan brigade finally arrived. They marched for a few hours, and were tired and thirsty. They wanted to take a break and then attack, but the range of artillery arranged by the East Coast people on the front line was beyond their expectations and directly smashed into their queue, causing considerable casualties.
At this time, Sayed, the commander of the Moroccan army, had two choices. One was to retreat and fight in the future. The other was to accelerate the advance and fight closely with the East Coast people, hoping to defeat the enemy with their fierce attacks and win.
The first choice will face huge political pressure. Morocco has only been founded for more than 30 years, with clear rewards and punishments. Moreover, the army has won a series of victories before, and is not low-spirited. If he retreats without fighting, Said would not dare to imagine his fate. Besides, where can he retreat? If the East Coast people walk out of this forest and on the plains, are they really sure to defeat these invaders? Said is not a fool. He has heard that the East Coast army has strong firepower and advanced weapons, and the chance of winning on the plains is not very high, because the opponent does not have to be as cramped in the narrow mountain basin as he is now, and cannot use the advantages of firepower.
To take a step back, even if the troops are withdrawn, how long will it take to lure the East Coast people to the plain to attack with the advantage of cavalry? Said heard that there are damn Italian troops who are divided into two groups and attacking two important port cities. Those Christian troops may not be able to fight against the brave Berber cavalry in the field, but defending fortresses or cities is quite good. Once the war is deadlocked and the Italians stay in port cities such as Tangier, what will His Majesty the Sultan think? You must know that there are still many remnants of the previous dynasty and tribes that do not obey orders in China. As long as they cannot take back Tangier and other places, the legitimacy of their rule will be greatly affected, and national turmoil is a high probability event.
Then, there is only one to fight!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The enhanced East Coast artillery took advantage of the range advantage to start shooting, and the formation of the Moroccans was suddenly scattered. Because of the narrow terrain, the less wide mountain trail was crowded with enemy infantry, creating an excellent killing environment for the artillery.
The fire-striking effect of dozens of cannons was amazing. Solid bombs, shotguns, and explosion bombs took turns to fight, causing Moroccan soldiers to overturn and suffered heavy casualties. Among them, as soon as the solid bomb landed, it wades a bloody path full of broken limbs and arms. Even if about 40% of the shotguns did not achieve the effect of volleyball explosion, it still caused terrifying damage in the enemy's cluster. What scared the Moroccans the most was the bomb that hit the bomb with a bomb that hit the bomb with a bomb developed by the East Coast people. This shell was characterized by the Army as a "type A special bomb" and was very dangerous. If you neglect it during transportation, you may explode yourself, so you are less equipped. But even so, once this shell falls into the enemy's formation accurately, the damage caused is even more excessive than that of the shotgun, which directly made the Moroccans lie all over the ground.
Technological progress is always the primary productive force, and the military force transformed by this productivity will surely shock everyone!
The Moroccans, who suffered heavy casualties, just broke through the death blockade caused by artillery, faced the head-on attack of the East Coast Army musketeers! They held rifled rifles and started shooting from four hundred meters away. At this time, enemies were hit one after another. After entering three hundred meters, the chance of Moroccans being hit increased greatly, and the crowd lay down like harvested wheat. Because the mountain path was narrow and the power of the rifle was very strong, the entire battalion of East Coast infantry fired alternately, and the firepower was never interrupted, so it made it difficult for the Moroccans to charge forward!
The bullet rolled in his body, and the wailing sounds shook all over the fields. Even the Green Cultist who yearned for the river with milk and honey most felt frightened at this moment. Said's eyes were even more rippled, unable to believe what was happening in front of him!
All this was too far from what he imagined! In his imagination, the East Coast people had fierce firepower, but they could not be used here. Perhaps as long as they endured a certain degree of casualties in the initial stage, they could get close to the enemy and cause damage to them. But what was the situation in front of them? Perhaps the only damage suffered by the East Coast people was that the smoke of guns hurt their eyes, and the residual bullets flying out of the barrel splashed their faces. There was nothing more than this!
Can this battle continue?
"Transfer the order! The Second Infantry Battalion and the Third Infantry Battalion detour forward on both sides and take over the enemy in a scattered formation!" Before Said could react, Lieutenant Colonel Bai Chuanping had already issued an order. In fact, he did not expect that the previous firepower strike was so effective, causing nearly a thousand casualties in just twenty minutes. If he had known this, he would have been more bold. If the entire army had been suppressed, he would have achieved greater results.
Of course, he knew this and could only think about it. The Moroccans had never seen the new model of modern warfare and did not know how to fight with the 6th mixed regiment, which was armed to the teeth. Moreover, the terrain here is special, and both sides could not be used for the troops, so the formation was extremely dense. In addition, the Moroccans were still foolishly facing the intensive projection firepower charge, so the casualties were naturally not very large. In fact, if it was on the plain desert terrain, relying on the well-trained Berber cavalry, they could still cause considerable casualties to the East Coast people, provided that they no longer foolishly face the East Coast troops who set up their formation head-on. After all, have they invented heavy machine guns, and cavalry and stages to play. Unfortunately, the Moroccans were too arrogant and did not know the strength of the East Coast Army. With their own shortcomings and strengths, they could naturally have to defeat one way to defeat the enemy!
"Retreat! Retreat!" Said turned over and rode on the horse, his eyes blurred. He knew that he had lost this time, and he was defeated without even seeing the face of the soldiers on the East Coast. The defeat was so miserable and so heartbroken!
He is a little confused now. Why didn't he encounter such serious difficulties when attacking Tangier's British army? The range of rifles of the East Coast people was so far, why didn't they sell them to Europe on a large scale?
In his impression, this kind of rifle with a range can only be seen by the pirates in the Port of Sale, but both the barrel and the bullet are very precious. With the pirates as rich as pirates, they can only be equipped with a small number of confidants as the trump card for maritime combat. Only a few elite troops in the continental continent have such rifled rifles and will not easily fight, which shows how high their maintenance costs are. But why can the East Coast army be equipped on a large scale? There are only thousands of guns at once, and there is no pain in the bullets when they are fired. What is going on?
Unfortunately, no one can give him an answer now. And before that, he would be better off running away, because the cavalry deployed by the East Coast people on the flanks had already begun to move! After seeing the Berber cavalry running away, the well-equipped riders began to slowly accelerate along the hillside. Their target was the group of Moroccan infantry crowded in chaos.
The number of Moroccan troops is now roughly clear. It is about two thousand cavalry and more than four thousand infantry. The cavalry runs away quickly, and it is difficult to chase after them, but the infantry cannot let them run away, so they have to stay as much as possible!
The rumbling sound of horse hooves began to echo in the valley. The cavalry on the east coast, waving the saber, cut into the chaotic formation of the Moroccan infantry in an oblique manner, separating hundreds of people from the large army. At this time, the enemy was rushing to escape, and except for a few people who dared to shoot at them, most of them were already in panic all day long.
The cut Moroccan infantry was naturally left to the East Coast infantry who were rushing over. After rushing through the enemy's formation, the cavalry returned, rushed into the weak area between the enemy's troops, and cut out hundreds of enemy troops again. With such repeated attacks, it didn't take long to leave all the remaining 3,000 infantry soldiers. Unfortunately, the Moroccans lost and rushed to escape at this time. Even if some professional officers organized their resistance to death, they could not change the overall situation. Their efforts, if they survived, they would have to fight for more time to let more defeated soldiers escape into the hills and forests on both sides, and then escaped with the advantage of familiar terrain.
The rapidly advancing East Coast infantry achieved brilliant results with the help of the cavalry. They lined up in neat formations, loading bullets, medicines, and shooting. The Moroccans in the chaos had no way to resist and suffered large-scale casualties. Later, they didn't know who started the first place. The Moroccans abandoned their weapons and surrendered, which saved the East Coast people a lot of effort. They handed over the captives they collected to the infantry who arrived later, and then continued to pursue them, and would not give up until they completely eliminated the enemy!
The only thing that insisted on resisting was the Moroccan artillery. Instead of giving up the cannons and fleeing alone, they seized the last time to load the bullets and fired at the East Coast army one after another. But how long can this lonely resistance last? Soon, under the intensive platoon of infantry soldiers on the East Coast, they fell to death one after another, and the entire battlefield was once again trapped in a unilateral massacre.
Seeing this situation, Lieutenant Colonel Bai Chuanping couldn't stop laughing. According to his observations, the cavalry rushed into the enemy's formation and repeatedly disturbed the situation, but only dozens of casualties were killed and killed. Under the attack of the enemy, only 100 casualties were killed and injured. Even if the scouts lost before, the total casualties of the East Coast people in this battle would definitely not exceed 200. What about the results of the battle? More than 3,500 enemy soldiers were killed, wounded and captured, and the loss ratio of 1:18 was a brilliant victory.
Chapter completed!