Xinshun 1730

Chapter 712 Counterattack
"Fortunately, I didn't deploy my troops to storm Cirebon. If the Dashun Empire hadn't participated in the war, I think I would get a cowardly evaluation in the future? I created the Dutch siege of a castle controlled by the rebels in Southeast Asia The history of not attacking by force...Even in Pangyier, which has been in operation for a long time in Surabadi's rebellion, we attacked by force instead of besieging it."

As early as when Liu Yu talked with him about prospecting and cooperation trade, free trade, and forced him to send the "surplus" Chinese in Batavia to Ceylon, Valkneer had already felt disheartened.

At this time, he was still in the mood to laugh at himself, perhaps because he subconsciously expected the company's retreat in Southeast Asia.

Even if Dashun doesn't participate in the war this year or next year, it will one day participate in the war. Once it participates in the war, how can the company's remaining power in Southeast Asia be unable to stop Dashun's attack?
After laughing at himself, there were several cannon shots from the front position.The "rebels" who were besieged in Cirebon actually launched an offensive on their own initiative.

Valkner waved at his confidants and said, "Gentlemen, go back to your posts. Let the artillery stand in front for a while, don't be stuck by them, and withdraw the troops to Batavia as much as possible. This is the capital we negotiate with the Chinese."

"In addition to surrender, there is a possibility of not accepting surrender. I hope that we can lose honorably and honorably."

"If there are insufficient troops, I am afraid that the Chinese will not give us a chance to surrender. Gentlemen, you must know that our heads are the best tool for the Chinese to show off their force to those small countries with three swords and three swords."

"Don't let the Chinese get the chance to deny us an honorable defeat."

In order to guard against the flank attack of the "rebels", Valknir did not deploy all his troops, which also provided him with very convenient conditions for retreating.

Most of the cannons on the front line are impossible to take away.These are all cannons transported by sea, and the command of the sea is gone, so how can it be possible to take these cannons away?

When all the confidantes around him gathered their troops and prepared to evacuate, Valknir stood alone on a high place, observing the movement of the forward position.

He wondered if he had overestimated the fighting power of the "rebels" in front of him.

In any case, from this counterattack, you can know whether you are overestimating.

Although overestimating or not is irrelevant to the situation of the battle, he hopes to give himself an explanation to reassure himself and make sure that his deployment is not due to subconscious timidity, but out of respect and importance for the enemy, as well as his own observations. Accurate judgment behind those trenches.

On the front line, the elite troops of the Guiyi Army gathered in the frontier garrison pits.These pits had been dug before the Dutch besieged the city. The original plan was to compete with the Dutch for the line, allowing the Dutch to push the cannons to the range where they could bombard the bastion.

Originally, it was an active defense, relying on frontal offense to defend, not squatting in a bastion and being beaten.It is quite convenient to directly turn to attack at this time.

The counterattack direction chosen by the Guiyi army is very chicken thief, and it is a direction close to the coast.The Dutch had previously laid siege to the city, spreading their forces among several camps.

Because I didn't expect Dashun to participate in the war before, especially the large-scale participation of warships, so the direction near the coast is also where the Dutch defense is weakest.

The Netherlands itself has gunboats, so there are not many field artillery and siege artillery in this direction, and the troops are scarce.From here as a breakthrough, the attack can be rotated to the southwest, and the side of the Dutch artillery position can be directly attacked.

What Niu Er grasped was that the Dutch attached great importance to the combat effectiveness of the Guiyi Army, and they also worried that another part of the Guiyi Army would take advantage of the chaos to counterattack.

Therefore, Niu Er judged that from this point of attack, once the Dutch encirclement was broken through, the first reaction of the Dutch was "the other part of the rebel army who is not in Cirebon may launch an attack from the rear, so they cannot be stuck." Hold on, get out quickly."

To make the Dutch think this way, they must demonstrate superb tactical literacy, and let the Dutch have a very intuitive judgment on the combat effectiveness of the Guiyi Army.

On the side of Cirebon, the number of artillery pieces of the Guiyi Army is small, but there are quite a lot of artillery positions outside the bastion.

Because Dashun's tactical system emphasizes mobility and the concentrated use of artillery, and artillery can keep up with infantry and cavalry.Even if the material conditions are not as good as those of the most elite troops in Dashun, the tactical system is still the same.

These artillery positions dug in advance are for rapid transfer, so that the Dutch who may attack by storm cannot destroy the artillery of the Guiyi Army in a short time, and the Guiyi Army can independently choose the direction of counterattack. The artillery can provide support.

The concentrated four British artillery moved in the trench to the pre-deployed position near the coast, and launched a round of bombardment in the direction of the Dutch camp.

The dry season of the tropical monsoon climate makes the land around Cirebon very hard, which greatly exerts the power of the artillery.This is why this battle has to wait until this season. Once June, the navy may be hit by a "kamikaze". Shooting is all about contributing to the scavenger behind the battlefield.

The heavy cannonballs danced on the dry land like children splashing on calm water.As for where the cannonball can bounce, it all depends on luck.

The Dutch have very few troops on the coast, and it's not that they didn't think that the rebels might counterattack, but considering that a fleet of more than 300 cannons can support the coast, the lack of troops is not a problem.

It's just that there is no fleet support right now.

The more than 200 Dutch people stationed in this camp endured a period of shelling by the rebels and shrank behind the parapet.

It's just that shells can still easily destroy those simple parapets.The way for the Guiyi Army to prevent shelling was to dig a zigzag trench to avoid being hit by shells; the Dutch did not consider the threat of shelling from the Guiyi Army, but only built a simple parapet.

After several rounds of shelling, the officers of the various units of the Guiyi Army who had already been ambushing in the pits of the soldiers through the trenches began to form a team.

The soldiers of the four companies were scattered in several garrison pits.After the officer determined that the Dutch were not threatened by shelling, the four companies of the rebels rushed out of the pits of the garrison in columns from the reserved gaps to the sound of military drums.

There was no threat of shelling, and after the faster column moved forward for a certain distance, the officer immediately ordered to form a horizontal column.

The soldiers of the four companies completed the formation of the horizontal formation in the standard Dashun Qingzhou Army system with the numb mechanical footsteps trained by the officers as if they were training dogs or ducks and geese according to the sound of drums and trumpets.

The front company deploys first, the second and third companies in the back line up directly to the left and right, and the fourth company deploys behind, following behind the first company.

The entire formation change took only 3 minutes. This is the minimum standard of the Qingzhou Army: the battalion as a unit must complete various formation changes within 3 minutes.Including column to horizontal team, marching formation to battle formation, battalion-sized hollow square formation, etc.

The tactical system formulated according to the situation is also because Liu Yu has considered that Dashun does not have the chance of tens of thousands of people to fight, and it still focuses on the rapid change of the battalion.The inheritance of this system, accompanied by a large number of officers who entered the Guiyi Army, was naturally reflected in the tactical actions of the Guiyi Army.

In addition to the lack of skirmishers with rifled guns in front, and the lack of artillery of the Dashun regular army, which has always bullied the few with more guns, the Guiyi Army has a very strong smell of sea oysters from Weihai small station training.

The whole transition is as natural and quick as a dramatic transition in a theater.Accompanied by the sound of drums, it was completed quickly.

After the four companies of the rebels spread out in line, they continued to advance despite the resistance of the free-firing Dutch.

When someone is shot and falls to the ground, the people behind will walk a few steps quickly to fill the vacant seat in front.

When approaching the breast wall of the Dutchman, a round of salvo was fired and loaded on the spot.

The grenadiers behind lit grenades with matchlocks and hurled them over the rear of the parapet.

Amidst the explosion, the Dutch cried for their father and mother.They had just experienced a stormy salvo followed by grenades thrown behind the parapet.

The grenade is heavy, with smoke from the fuse, like a big iron firecracker. It is a sharp weapon against parapets, anti-battery slopes, and concave trenches.

The roaring explosion did not affect the mechanical loading of the soldiers of the Guiyi Army.

According to the standard action, bite open the gunpowder in the paper bag, put the lead bullet in your mouth, load the priming powder and gunpowder in order, and dare not make any mistakes under the rhythm of the snare drum.

After the explosion of the grenade stopped, the three companies also completed their loading.The sound of the army drum suddenly became rapid, and a wave of impact crossed the parapet, and the few remaining Dutchmen quickly collapsed and ran towards the distance.

The Guiyi Army that crossed the parapet trench did not stop, nor did they pursue the scattered Dutch soldiers. Instead, they moved forward to the southwest where the Dutch deployed their artillery.

Valknir in the distance witnessed the whole process of the assault. In his eyes, it was really like the rhythm of a drama.The transformation of formation and the appearance of dramatic characters are as natural and smooth as ever.

When the Guiyi army rushed behind the parapet and flanked the artillery position, Valknir's face became extremely ugly.

The changing rhythm of the "rebels" is absolutely incompatible with European tactics.

The evolution of line tactics is very slow. Although some people have realized it at this time, no genius has made military reforms, nor has it been tested in actual combat, and it has not been popularized in Europe.

It can even be said that the speed of their formation at the battalion level is absolutely shocking in Europe.Frederick II let the reinforcement column enter the field from the flanks, and when they arrived at the position, they turned directly into a horizontal line to attack, which was enough to be exclaimed by the whole of Europe.This set of tactical moves of the Guiyi Army is much more difficult than turning from the column to the horizontal.

Valkner had never even seen a Prussian column entering the pitch, and he was extremely shocked when he saw this style of change.

"Behind them are definitely not British."

Putting down the binoculars, he murmured.

(End of this chapter)