The thief of the fortress dominates the world

Chapter 490
The Qin army, which was chasing the British mercenaries from the frontal battlefield, and the Qin army, which was outflanking from the side, soon joined up. The two teams merged into one, and they chased the British in the direction where the British were fleeing.

When they approached the edge of the virgin jungle, they were strongly blocked by the British.

The British set up a line of defense here, using the condescending terrain to build a simple position.Intercept and shoot the Qin army's pursuit team.

The British have intensive firepower, and their shooting level is also very high, coupled with condescending,

The Qin army, which was attacking upwards, was quickly suppressed.

And on the British position, artillery appeared this time.

Although it is a field gun with a short range and a straight trajectory. , But it also put a lot of pressure on the Qin army's pursuit troops.

The Qin army was unable to attack for a long time, and the casualties were increasing rapidly.

But because of Di Qing's order, the Qin Army Firearms Battalion must stick to the British and grab their tails so that they cannot escape.

Therefore, although the Qin army was under great pressure, they still fought hard and continued to fight back against the British.

Although the soldiers of the Qin army were fearless and fearless, they were brave and good at fighting, but the British occupied favorable terrain and had rich combat experience.

Moreover, David Copperfield, the leader of the British mercenaries, gave the rearguard troops a death order, so the Qin army could not shake the British defense for a while.

In fact, the British defenders in charge of the defense of the rear are also very depressed at this time.

They thought that the deployment of 2000 guards was enough to suppress the Qin army and force the Qin army's pursuit troops to retreat.

But now it seems that although they temporarily suppressed the Qin army from the battlefield situation, the Qin army on the opposite side showed no sign of retreating at all.

Instead, they tried their best to find every opportunity to launch a counterattack against them, which made the British soldiers very depressed.

With such a tenacious counterattack by the Qin army, they can't retreat even if they want to retreat now.

Qin Jun's current appearance is like a fierce tiger that bites its prey and will not let go. No matter how hard the prey tosses and resists fiercely, it must be put to death and then quickly.

One of the two sides fought to the death and refused to retreat, while the other wanted to retreat, but was unable to retreat at all, and the battle situation became stalemate for a while.

Although the British had field artillery to cheer this time, the casualties of the Qin army were rising rapidly.

The casualties of the British were much smaller than those of the Qin army.

But judging from the morale and fighting will of both sides, the British are like the side with more casualties.

The news from the front quickly spread to the rear, and at this time, the main force of the Qin Army's firearms troops also kept catching up.

As more troops arrived on the battlefield, the suppression of the Qin army maintained by the British before was rapidly diminishing.

And with the Qin Army's artillery units in place, the British's artillery was soon completely suppressed.

And because the British artillery is a field artillery with a straight trajectory, the target must be in the field of vision when shooting.

The Qin army was equipped with curved mortars, and the final result was that the British field artillery could not see the Qin army's artillery positions at all, but the Qin army's mortars could easily hit the British artillery positions.

Soon, several British artillery firing points all misfired.

As the British artillery was completely destroyed, the British's originally solid line of defense had begun to become precarious.

Moreover, the Qin army also began to form a crushing advantage over the British British guard force in terms of strength.

The situation on the entire battlefield finally turned completely, and the casualties of the British began to increase rapidly.

During the battle, the mortars equipped by the Qin army played the greatest role.

Although the British have a geographical advantage, the curved trajectory of the mortar made the British hiding behind the simple bunker suffer.

They couldn't figure out how this kind of artillery that could be fired in a curve existed in the world. Round after round of shells hit the British positions, causing the British to cry and cry, and their morale plummeted.

Under the crushing of the Qin army's mortars and superior forces, the British defense force collapsed after less than half an hour.

The British soldiers ran away with their heads in their arms, and fled towards the mountains and forests.

Before the advent of automatic weapons and machine guns, artillery was almost the nemesis of all infantry, and mortars that used curved ballistics to accompany soldiers forward were even more of a disaster for all infantry.

The completely collapsed British defenders finally knew why their forwards were so embarrassed before.

They were still laughing at how the leader David Copperfield suddenly became cowardly, and the soldiers in the vanguard were so cowardly and incompetent.

But now they finally understood why those people behaved like this.

The Qin army quickly occupied the previous British line of defense. At this time, all the British rearguard troops had fled into the jungle except for those who were killed or injured and unable to move.

Watching the enemy flee into the jungle, the frontline commander of the Qin Army issued an order to temporarily stop the pursuit.

Therefore, there is a rule of not entering the forest, which is also an effective battlefield law derived from thousands of years of war.

At this time, the supreme commander of the Qin Army's firearms unit, the captain of the firearms battalion, finally arrived.

After listening to the report of the battle situation by several commanders on the front line, the lieutenant of the Firearms Battalion ordered the dispatch of two advance troops of the thousand-man team to search for the whereabouts of the British in the jungle after a little thought.

The search range is within five miles from the edge of the jungle.

If no trace of the British is found within five miles, they must be withdrawn quickly and must not go deep.

The two thousand-man troops of the Qin Army quickly carried out the pursuit order. They went deep into the jungle and followed the traces left by the British for four or five miles, but they still did not find the British.

Although the two commanders wanted to continue to pursue, they could only order the troops to return because of the mountainous military orders.

Although this sudden British army failed and fled in the first battle with the Qin army.

But the level of fighting they displayed is obviously not low, but rather methodical.

Moreover, the situation in the jungle is complicated. If you continue to go deeper rashly, you are very likely to encounter an ambush by the British.

After the search troops returned, the captain of the Qin Army Firearms Battalion also knew that there was no way to continue tracking at this time, so he could only order to start cleaning the battlefield.

Although the main force of the British fled, the British also left hundreds of corpses, hundreds of wounded, and more muskets on the battlefield, and even field battles that were blown up by the Qin army's mortars. gun.

These captives, as well as weapons, can be an effective source of intelligence to understand the enemy's information, which can well make up for the current intelligence deficiencies of the Qin army about the British military.

　One more thing, thanks to the book friends whose nickname is a string of numbers for their rewards.

　　
　
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