Wild North America 1846

Chapter 613 They Have Many Talents
"Kill the damned Orientals, take back our Tumaco, take back our lost homeland, kill..."

The Colombian white men rushing forward shouted with ferocious expressions, charging from all directions.

Thousands of Colombian rebels emerged from the jungle and flocked to Tumaco City like a tide. The fighting broke out at about 9:00 in the morning.

The thick gunfire and the bursts of dense gunshots cleared out the disorderly attacking mobs row by row, and the bullets whizzed sharply over the head, hitting the defending soldiers from time to time.

Blood flowers bloomed, and the body fell down on the ground slumped.

Lieutenant Colonel Hu Zhengguo stood on the defensive belt on the edge of the town with a cold expression, holding a telescope in his hand to observe carefully, and he put it down after a long time.

Judging from the current situation, it is quite bad. The aggressive thugs are bound to win, and gathered about 8000 people to besiege the city of Tumaco.

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About 6500 to 7000 people are relatively well-equipped regular troops, using a unified legal Chasaipo rifle, which is very similar in technical performance to the Colt bolt-action rifle used by soldiers of the Tang Empire.

the only difference

That is, the Colt bolt-action rifle uses an all-metal bottom case to fire ammunition, and the French-made Chasaipo rifle uses paper-packed fixed ammunition.

In the French army, the Chasepau rifle equipped with it has been replaced with brass metal bullets, which has bridged the gap with world-class infantry weapons in the field of light weapons.

There are about 7000 regular army soldiers dressed in all kinds of clothing, mixed with the mob to attack the position.The bullets it fires are quite deadly, and it is also a key target.

There were thousands of other Colombian resistance armed with an assortment of old-fashioned muskets, and these jungle rats gathered at their most fanatical in battle.

All that remained were some local farmers who had been bewitched or coerced, and some white manor owners could be seen, all of whom joined the ranks of thugs, attacking the city in turn.

Tumaco Port is a southern port city on the Pacific Ocean. It is located in a large coastal plain. It has a long history of development, dense population and many villages and towns.

Although the population of the port city is only 8.6, the total population of the villages, towns and vast rural areas around Tumaco exceeds 40.The surrounding population of the entire Cali region exceeds 110 million.

Although it has been reduced after the catastrophe of war, it is not difficult to gather tens of thousands of thugs.

As a very experienced mid-level military commander, Lieutenant Colonel Hu Zhengguo was not worried about the 1.7 thugs in front of him, but worried that they would have future moves.

The main force of the third regiment and the servants are basically huddled in the city and the port area. The total strength is about 4500 people, and the servants of more than 1300 soldiers are all on the first line, with the dark guns of the supervisor behind.

In addition to these military forces, there are more than a thousand Chinese armed civilians in the city to help in the battle, and they can also get support from some sailors on board, so their strength is not weak.

Fierce gunfire soon subsided, and the mob who besieged frantically left behind a large body of corpses and retreated in a panic.

Before long, they will launch a new round of attack.

If you look closely you will find
Among the corpses at the front of the position, the most mobs were armed with simple weapons. Under the instigation of nationalists, their blood surged, and they often rushed to the front without knowing their lives.

What greeted them... was a deadly volley of gun bullets and exploding cannonballs.

In this round of attack alone, the thugs dropped nearly a thousand corpses and caused dozens of casualties on the defender.

After hearing the report, Lieutenant Colonel Hu Zhengguo's expression was not good. Most of these casualties were shot by advanced legal Chasaipo rifles, otherwise there would not be such a large number of casualties.

In the several large-scale battles to conquer Colombia, there was no such a large number of advanced legal rifles, which made Lieutenant Colonel Wu Zhengguo feel faintly uneasy.

Needless to say, the relationship between France and Spain, now that the Spanish throne is vacant, the most likely person to be on the throne is Prince Felipe of the Spanish Bourbon dynasty who is trying to restore.

The Spanish Bourbon dynasty is a branch of the French Bourbon dynasty. Although France has entered the era of the Third Republic, the traditional Bourbon family still has great influence.

As the former colonies of Spain, Peru and Ecuador are logical to receive military assistance from France, which may include but not limited to guns and ammunition and military command.

Fierce fighting until about 3:00 pm

The three regiments of the Royal Mexican Musketeers repelled four consecutive attacks by the mobs, and the bodies of the dead stained the streams and rivers outside the city red, which greatly frustrated their momentum.

Just when the officers and soldiers of the third regiment thought they could take a breath, they heard cheers from the enemy camp. It turned out that the enemy's reinforcements had arrived.

can be seen from a distance

At the end of the southeast horizon, a flood of people gathered, stepping on leg-high green wheat seedlings, spreading along the wheat fields.

Seeing such a big momentum, the faces of the soldiers who had been fighting for most of the day changed.

My God... How many people does this have to be?

The most worried thing finally happened. Lieutenant Colonel Hu Zhengguo slammed his fist on the window sill so hard that his color turned livid.

These hateful mob leaders first forced the Third Regiment to retreat to the city with great momentum, and then sent people to mobilize the villagers village by town, even using coercive methods...

More and more mobs gathered, including many gray-haired old people and underage children, who were instigated by the mob leaders and were about to become cannon fodder in the war.

Such scheming and insidious tricks are not at all like the work of Colombian thugs.

Lieutenant Colonel Hu Zhengguo knew that the third regiment was in serious trouble. He had to lead the existing forces to persist for more than two days and two nights before he could get reinforcements from the division.

Most of the day has passed today, and the most dangerous night is yet to come. The officers and soldiers who have worked hard all day will almost persist for a day and two nights.

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Generally, both sides in a night war will consciously disengage, because the sight of the night battle is unclear, and it is difficult to distinguish the enemy from ourselves, and it is very easy to cause accidental injury.

With the insidiousness and sophistication shown by the enemy commander, he can't fail to see that the night battle is beneficial to him.

These Colombian farmers gathered from all directions have no discipline at all, and they don't have much fighting literacy, so they are more suitable for a big fight.

Not long after resting, the enemy immediately launched a larger-scale attack. Crowds of people from all directions besieged the town from all directions, and the battle broke out immediately.

The bloody battle continued intermittently until night, and at around ten o'clock at night, the defense line at the southeast corner of Tumaco City was finally breached by mobs.

The enemies that surged up like a tide quickly fought hand-to-hand with the soldiers, and the casualties increased rapidly.

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Lieutenant Colonel Hu Zhengguo led the remaining reserve force of more than 600 people to arrive in time, blocked the enemy's breakthrough gap, and then knocked down all the faint figures in the night with dense volleys of guns.

The efficient harvesting of human life finally frightened the thugs, and they retreated yelling, leaving behind a mess of corpses.

Major Liao Changyuan, the chief of staff of the regiment in charge of commanding the operations in Dongcheng District, gasped heavily exhaustedly, exuding a strong smell of blood and gunpowder smoke, leaning against the wall tiredly and said;
"Report sir, the 450 officers and soldiers of the Servant Army assigned to my East City have almost lost all casualties, the Chinese militiamen have lost hundreds of people, and my brothers have also lost a lot.

The officers and soldiers fought for a whole day and took them most of the night. They didn't have much ammunition left, and they were extremely tired.

If this continues, it may be difficult to stop the enemy's fierce attack, there are too many of them. "

(End of this chapter)