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1820 One-sided battle
One after another, the well-trained Chinese soldiers and the Indian native soldiers took turns shooting in two queues, and the terrible firepower covered the indigenous coalition forces.

The densely packed indigenous coalition forces began to fall 300 meters away, and the closer they got to the expedition, the more people fell.

"Fire!"

The two artillery groups of the expedition loaded the cone-shaped hollow shells into the iron cannon, and the iron cannon roared, and the huge recoil made the sand sink!
boom! !boom! !
The conical hollow bullets that replaced the spherical solid bullets fell into the indigenous coalition forces, and the exploding shells instantly killed several nearby indigenous soldiers!
The native allied forces had never seen such a terrible thing as artillery, and their advancing formation stopped!
It was the end of the 19th century when the Zulu War broke out between the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets and the Zulu Kingdom in South Africa. At that time, the Zulu people had already seen guns and cannons. No small trouble.

However, it is only the 17th century now. Except for a few western colonists passing by the sea, most of the local aborigines have never even seen guns and artillery.

At this time, there were no decent kingdoms, but many tribes sent warriors from their villages to resist outsiders.

When the sound of muskets and cannons enveloped the battlefield, covering up the shouts of the natives, they saw that their companions were constantly falling on the way, and their progress was hesitant.

The Gatling machine gun, which is the killer weapon, has not yet fired.

The killing efficiency of this machine is higher than that of artillery, and the grave of all infantry and cavalry.

"If they know the difficulty and retreat, if they enter the range of 100 meters and don't know how to retreat, our machine gun team will open fire."

The commanders of the two machine gun groups mentally calculated the distance between the enemy and the machine gun positions.

They probably guessed that even if the opponent's javelin skills were strictly trained, the shooting range was estimated to be only about 50 to 60 meters.

The efficiency of the machine gun is high, but it consumes a lot of bullets. They have to wait for the indigenous coalition forces to get as close as possible before destroying their confidence in one fell swoop.

When the group of natives were about 150 meters away from the line of defense, the front column hesitated a little. Under the attack of rifles and artillery, too many people were killed or injured!
Leather shields and javelins were falling everywhere on the battlefield, and soldiers who were killed by bullets or shells but not yet fatal were crying, which aggravated the panic of the opponent.

The native coalition forces, who had never seen guns and artillery, were suddenly stunned.

The aborigines at the front hesitated, while the chiefs and elders at the rear were yelling, and the members of the expedition team who could not understand the local language had no idea what orders the other party had issued.

Under the urging of the chiefs to supervise the battle, the aborigines mustered up their courage again and quickened their pace, planning to break through the defense line of the expedition team desperately!

The leader of the expedition team saw the natives launching a desperate charge, but he didn't know whether they were fearless warriors, or it was the first time they encountered an enemy with pure firearms. enemy positions.It is estimated that it is mostly the latter.

Unless the ammunition supply of the expedition team is not available, forcibly attacking a position composed of muskets, artillery and machine guns is simply killing people.

"Gatling gun fire!" ordered the captain.

White smoke soon rose from the two Gatling machine guns, and metal bullets fell into the indigenous coalition forces like a storm!
One by one, the native soldiers fell forward to the ground holding their javelins!

The ancient leather shield is useless in the face of the metal bullets fired by the machine gun within a distance of 100 meters!The metal bullet easily pierced through the leather shield, killing the native soldier who was half hidden behind him!

In an instant, because of the sudden burst of fire from two machine guns, the front row of natives fell down, and the number of casualties on the opposite side increased sharply!

This time the orders of the chiefs behind them didn't work either, and the surviving native soldiers braved the intensive firepower and hurriedly threw the javelins in their hands, and then began to retreat.

When these soldiers threw their javelins, they were more than 50 meters away from the expedition team's position. Only a few javelins could fall into the position, and most of the javelins fell outside the position.

The first large-scale battle between the local indigenous tribes and the conquerors from outside the sea came to an end.It's a completely unbalanced battle.One side has advanced muskets and artillery, and even brought machine guns.The other party mastered relatively low-level metallurgical technology, and its weapons were javelins, hunting bows, and leather shields.

The more combative civilizations on the African continent are in North Africa. They have frequent exchanges with Mediterranean and West Asian civilizations, and they have already used matchlock guns.

The civilizations in West Africa and South Africa are still quite backward due to little communication with the outside world.

The indigenous soldiers fled back, and this battle is expected to become their nightmare.

Outside the positions, thousands of native soldiers were killed.

On the expedition team's side, only a few people were hit by javelins and injured!

"Even if this kind of battle is won, it will not be won by force. This can be regarded as enmity with the various tribes here. The most troublesome thing is that none of us understand their language, and we cannot communicate with them in a short time." The expedition team The captain saw a lot of dead and wounded outside, the scene was a bit scary, and he didn't show the joy of victory.

He came to search for the Rand gold mining area, and a conflict with the local tribe would undoubtedly cause a lot of trouble.

The expedition changed a place to spend the night, away from the terrible battlefield.

Not knowing when the opponent would strike again, the expedition team chose to camp on a hillside by a river to rest, and once again used four-wheeled trucks to form a square formation as a "city wall."

"They may not have seen firearms at all before, and with so many dead today, they will certainly continue to fight us and try to defeat us. Their advantages are their numbers and their familiarity with the terrain. I have a hunch that they may It will attack our camp overnight, making it difficult for us to defend ourselves. We must strengthen our patrols. Everyone is divided into four shifts and take turns to rest. This period of time may be difficult for everyone.” The captain found several main leaders of the expedition team and deployed Patrol arrangements.

Sure enough, the local tribal coalition forces made a comeback at night. They appeared surreptitiously, crossed the river and attacked the hillside.

Perhaps realizing that their own weapons are far inferior to the opponent's strange firearms, the indigenous tribes who are still living in the cold weapon era use the only way they think they can defeat outsiders, and that is sneak attack.

At night there was the sound of muskets and machine guns, primitive hand grenades were being thrown, and the black powder exploded so violently that the kerosene lamps hung on the four-wheeled wagons were shaking!
The existence of torches and kerosene lamps made it difficult for the indigenous coalition forces to hide their whereabouts, and the burst of machine gun positions caused heavy casualties to these raiders.

"Take out the generator and searchlight, I will make them have nowhere to hide!" the captain said to several people around him.

(End of this chapter)