Rise of Empires: Spain.

Chapter 306 Encounter

News of the Spanish army's massive attack to the north eventually reached Fuban, the capital of the Kingdom of Bam.

When the Sultan of the Kingdom of Bam learned that the Spanish army was invading, he hurriedly organized his army and decided to lead the army south personally to resist the Spanish attack.

As the Sultan of the kingdom, Bam Sultan still has some military capabilities. He has about 2 direct troops under his command, and about 1 subordinate troops from other tribes.

More than 2 of the 5000 troops were equipped with muskets. Although most were muzzle-loading rifles, there were also about 500 breech-loading rifles in the army.

In addition, the troops were equipped with several rusty cannons that looked like they were at least thirty or forty years old.

It's worth mentioning that these natives have taken good care of the artillery. Although the artillery is old, at least it can be pulled out and used.

After Sultan Bam assembled his troops, the Spanish army had already pushed the border line a distance of more than ten kilometers.

The indigenous people here were scattered in large and small tribes in lands not far apart, which also slowed down the speed of the Spanish army's attack.

Each tribe has its own guard force, which is the army controlled by the tribal leader. The scale of the armed forces of each tribe varies according to the number of people in each tribe.

The capital of the Kingdom of Bam is in the north, and the larger tribes are also distributed in the land further north.

There are not many large tribes in the south because of its proximity to the Spanish Guinea colony.

This was good news for the Spanish army. On its way north from Guinea, the colonial division encountered no significant resistance.

When the indigenous tribes, big and small, saw the Spanish army, they all fled in panic, and no one was able to gather their troops to fight back against the Spanish attack.

On the second day of the Spanish offensive, the Spanish army finally met the Bam army.

The place where the two sides met was at the foot of a mountain, with the Spanish army at the foot of the mountain and the army of the Kingdom of Bam at the mountainside.

From common sense, the Bam army occupying the high ground is more advantageous. As long as their firepower is sufficient, they can completely suppress the Spanish army at the foot of the mountain and easily harvest the lives of the Spanish.

Jyoti, who led the Colonial Division, naturally discovered the enemy. He used a telescope to observe the enemy's situation on the hillside in detail, then put down the telescope and said solemnly: "Damn it, where did the enemy buy the artillery?

Get the artillery ready. We must destroy the enemy's firing points as soon as possible, otherwise we will suffer."

In Joti's opinion, the enemy's only threat to him was those few artillery pieces. No matter when the artillery pieces were produced, as long as they could be used, they could cause huge casualties to the Spanish army.

The messenger nodded quickly and conveyed Jyoti's order to the artillery.

On the side of the Kingdom of Bam, because of their high location, they discovered the Spanish army earlier.

However, because it was an encounter battle, they could only adjust the formation in a short period of time and then adjust the positions of the limited number of artillery pieces, and most of the time had already passed.

The Spanish army also reacted at this time, and the artillery of both sides opened fire almost at the same time.

"Hey! Their artillery is there! Artillery, kill them for me!" As soon as the Bam Kingdom's artillery fired, it had already discovered the location of the enemy's artillery.

Because the order had been given long ago, the Spanish army's artillery did not hesitate at all and aimed their guns at the enemy's artillery.

Although the Kingdom of Bam purchased artillery through various means, they did not receive qualified military education.

This led the Bam army to deploy their artillery in the same location, which they believed would facilitate the loading and transportation of shells.

On the Spanish side, artillery was deployed at different locations to prevent the enemy from destroying all existing artillery positions at once.

However, it was obvious that the enemy did not have such awareness. The main purpose of the enemy's artillery was to kill Spanish soldiers, and the shells were fired at the crowd.

boom! Boom boom!

With wave after wave of artillery fire, the positions of both sides were filled with smoke, and for a moment they could not see the other side's situation clearly.

To be on the safe side, Jyoti did not order the artillery to stop firing. Instead, he asked the artillerymen to continue pouring shells onto the mountainside according to the positions they remembered.

Spain invested a huge amount of military expenditure in this war, and because it had made preparations in advance, it did not need to save on artillery shells.

Almost every half a month, Spain would transport large quantities of weapons, equipment, bullets and artillery shells to its African colonies, which were more than enough to sustain the war.

Jyoti had previously commanded the Spanish Guards and had fought in battles where he had more money than this, so he had no intention of saving on ammunition.

boom! Boom boom!

On the Spanish side, the sound of artillery fire continued, and there was no pause even when the battlefield was filled with smoke. Anyway, there were no Spanish troops on the hillside, so there was no need to worry about accidentally injuring friendly forces.

At first, you could still hear the sound of artillery coming from the mountainside, but after a few minutes, you could no longer hear the sound of artillery coming from the mountainside.

However, the sound of exploding shells and the screams of the natives on the hillside were quite piercing, proving that the other side had suffered considerable casualties under the bombing of the Spanish army.

After bombing for more than ten minutes, Jyoti ordered the artillery to cease fire and wait for the smoke to clear before checking the enemy's situation.

After the Spanish artillery stopped shelling, the enemy did not show any sign of counterattacking, which made Jyoti feel relieved.

After the smoke cleared, Jyoti used a telescope to look toward the mountainside and discovered that the original location of the enemy's artillery position had long since become a scorched earth. The bloodstains and traces of gunpowder on the large rocks also showed what had happened here.

Looking higher up, Jyoti was surprised to find that the enemy was showing signs of retreating.

Although there were still many native soldiers halfway up the mountain, the native troops higher up were already evacuating to the top of the mountain. Judging from the size of these natives, even if these were not all the soldiers of the native army, they were definitely the main force of the Bam Kingdom.

Since it was confirmed that the army in front of him was the enemy's main force, Jyoti was not in a hurry to defeat the army in front of him.

If the enemy insisted on evacuating, the Spanish army would have no choice. The enemy was not stupid either. After experiencing several rounds of bombardment from Spanish artillery, the natives also wisely dispersed, effectively reducing the damage caused by Spanish artillery to themselves.

In order to defeat the indigenous army in front of them, the Spanish army could only charge and destroy them head-on. But the problem was that the enemy was guarding a high place, and the Spanish army would definitely suffer a lot of casualties if they charged upward from the bottom of the mountain.

This was not what Jyoti expected, so after seeing the enemy slowly retreating, Jyoti immediately planned to delay the enemy.

Anyway, there are still more than 6000 troops on the Eastern Front to attack the indigenous capital. As long as Jyoti can hold back most of the indigenous troops, the attack on the Eastern Front is likely to be successful.

In order to enable the Eastern Front Army to capture the enemy's capital more quickly, Jyoti specially equipped the Eastern Front Army with more than 20 artillery pieces, the number of which almost caught up with the colonial division.

As long as the enemy's main force does not come back to support, these 20 artillery pieces alone can easily destroy the indigenous army.

After all, the situation here is different from that on the Eastern Front.

At present, the front battlefield is still a long distance away from the indigenous capital. The Bam army can certainly choose the strategy of resisting while retreating, fighting while retreating.

But the Eastern Front was different. The indigenous soldiers on the Eastern Front could certainly retreat, but their capital could not.

As long as the indigenous soldiers on the Eastern Front chose to retreat, the capital of the Kingdom of Bam, Fuban, would be exposed to the Spanish army.

Without the protection of the army, Fuban was like fish on the chopping board of the Spanish army and could only be slaughtered by the Spanish army.

Once the capital was captured by the Spanish army, these stubbornly resisting indigenous troops would lose their morale.

After all, many soldiers and officers' families live in Fuban. Once Fuban is occupied by the enemy, how can they not worry about the situation of their families?
Because Jordi wanted to delay the main force of the enemy on the hillside, he did not choose to let the infantry launch an attack, but instead let the artillery continue to bombard the hillside and the top of the mountain. At the same time, the large army tended to set up camp, making the enemy mistakenly believe that they had successfully delayed the Spanish army's attack.

Sure enough, when the indigenous troops on the top of the mountain found that the Spaniards did not launch an attack, but only used artillery to bombard a few times from a distance, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

The Sultan of Bam even said with a smile that the Spanish soldiers were already afraid of the Bam army. They only dared to fire a few shots from a distance and did not dare to launch an attack and fight the Bam army head-on.

Since the Sultan said so, the officers of the Kingdom of Bam naturally had to agree with their Sultan.

Occasionally, there were officers who did not believe that the Spaniards could be so cowardly, but seeing the Spanish troops setting up camp at the foot of the mountain, they could only believe what the Sultan said.

For a moment, the two armies were in a stalemate.

Under pressure from the powerful firepower of the Spanish army, the Bam army did not dare to go down the mountainside to fight the Spanish army.

The Spanish army did not show any signs of launching an attack. The soldiers occasionally fired a few shots, but more often the artillery bombarded at will according to their mood.

On the indigenous army side, the smile on Bam Sultan's face became more and more obvious as time went on. He was convinced of the cowardice of the Spanish army, and he also looked down on other European colonists.

If the Spanish army's firepower had not been so strong, even the Sultan of Bam would have thought of ordering his troops to go down the mountain and launch an attack.

Although he was briefly suppressed on the top of the mountain by the firepower of the Spanish army, Sultan Bam also discussed the next plan during a meeting with several of his officers.

As long as the Spanish army showed signs of insufficient artillery shells, the Sultan of Bam would order his army to attack southwards and let the timid Spaniards see how the brave and fearless people of Bam fought.

If the Spanish had enough artillery shells, then they could just fight the Spanish here. Anyway, they could transfer a lot of food and supplies from the capital, Fuban. As long as there was no danger in the rear, even if they were in a stalemate with the Spanish army for a long time, it would be acceptable to the Sultan of Bam.

After two days of delay, Jyoti decided to do something to attract the attention of the native army.

Jyoti was more worried that after these natives found out that he had no intention of attacking, they would quietly retreat to the capital, Fuban, for defense.

If all these people were to return to the rich class, it would not be so easy to conquer the rich class.

After all, the enemy also has a certain number of rifles. If street fighting were to take place, it would definitely cause heavy casualties to the Spanish army.

In addition, the enemy was more familiar with the terrain here, so if the Spanish army attacked rashly, they would be the only ones to suffer.

During these two days, Jyoti thought carefully about his plan.

He decided to put on a good show with the natives in front of him, making them mistakenly believe that they could defeat the Spanish army and make them more proactive in fighting the Spanish army.

In this way, Jyoti can easily delay the indigenous troops in front of him. As long as the three colonial garrison regiments can capture Fuban, then it will be time to launch a general attack.

The three colonial garrison regiments that conquered Fuban could move south at any time. Under the pincer attack from the north and the south, even if these indigenous troops had more rifles and artillery, they would not be able to break out of the encirclement of the Spanish army.

On the third day after the two armies met, Sultan Bam was surprised to find that the timid Spanish army actually began to try to launch an attack.

Although the number of enemies launching the attack was not large, it was indeed a considerable change compared to the relatively calm situation in the previous two days.

To be on the safe side, Sultan Bam immediately ordered his army to be ready to fight the enemy at any time, and transferred his most elite troops, the 5000 men equipped with rifles, to the front line of the battlefield, ready to give a surprise to the attacking Spaniards at any time.

After about a few minutes, the Spanish army was slowly approaching the halfway point of the mountain.

Sultan Bam could no longer wait. He looked at the growing number of Spanish troops and gave the order to open fire.

boom! Bang bang bang!
As the order was conveyed, the Bam army took the initiative to attack the Spanish army.

It's no wonder that whether it's a muzzle-loading gun or a breech-loading gun, it will cause a huge wound on a person, there is basically no difference.

The disadvantage is that the accuracy of Bam's army was not good enough. With thousands of people firing in one round, only a few soldiers on the Spanish side were hit.

However, because of Jyoti's early instructions, many soldiers pretended to be injured, howling in panic, and kept retreating to the rear.

Some soldiers even threw away their rifles to look more convincing. The Sultan of Bam, who was standing on a high ground, also saw the chaos of the Spanish army. He was excited and thought that the cowardly Spaniards had lost all their fighting spirit.

"Kill them! These damn Spaniards are scared. Let them know who is the master of this land!" Sultan Bam shouted excitedly.

(End of this chapter)