Back to Ming Dynasty with Industrial Revolution System

Chapter 693
Ten hand-cranked Gatling machine guns were lined up, and the machine gunner frantically shook the machine gun, firing metal bullets one after another, and fell into the group of elephant soldiers on the opposite side.

The thick-skinned war elephants were as fragile as tofu in front of metal bullets, and the bullets easily penetrated into their bodies, making the war elephants scream.A bulky war elephant was shot and fell heavily to the ground, throwing several Siamese soldiers riding on it from the wooden frame, bloody and bloody.

Some guns mounted on the elephants also fell off because the elephants fell, and swords, spears, bows and arrows, and armor fell to the ground.

With a chirping sound, several shrapnel shells landed in the sky above the herd of war elephants, and the detonating funnel burned out and exploded!Dozens of iron bullets scattered inside, killing the Siamese soldiers riding on the elephants on the spot!

The domesticated wild elephants in the back were panicked by the loud noise of machine guns and artillery, and trampled on each other regardless of the command. Some war elephants turned their heads and trampled on their infantry phalanx, trying to escape from the battlefield.

The Siamese soldiers in the infantry phalanx instinctively moved out of the way, while some farmers who did not have time to escape were trampled to a pulp by the out-of-control war elephants.

"Don't mess up the formation!" The Siamese general was tearing his throat, riding back and forth in the phalanx on horseback, trying his best to stabilize the formation of the Siamese army.

In the plain area of ​​Prachinburi, Siam, nearly [-] local troops of Siam took up positions here, and fought a decisive battle with the Third South Army Corps that invaded from the direction of Angkor Kiln.

One hundred war elephants were placed in the middle of the army formation as the main force of the attack. These war elephants had wooden frames to fix the soldiers. Some of the soldiers on them were holding bows, arrows and firecrackers for long-distance shooting, and some were holding spears for close combat. .In the vision of the Siamese general, the plains of Prachinburi are very suitable for large-scale elephant soldiers to fight. As long as the elephant soldiers penetrate the opponent's formation and the soldiers behind cover and kill them, they can defeat the evil Kyushu army.

However, when the elephant soldiers began to charge, the artillery and machine guns of the Kyushu Army began to bombard the elephant soldier phalanx at a distance of several hundred meters, beating the proud elephant soldiers of Siam to pieces.

"The artillery battalion adjusts the attack target, and the target is the opponent's infantry position!"

"Infantry battalions ready, ready to attack!"

Cao Bianjiao repeatedly issued orders.

The artillery has destroyed the fighting spirit of the opponent's elephant soldiers. Their elephant soldiers can no longer control the elephants. The next step is to destroy the opponent's infantry.

After a few rounds of artillery, the local infantry in Siam quickly collapsed like elephant soldiers.In other words, as early as when their killer mace soldiers collapsed, they were already tense, and they collapsed directly under the offensive of the Kyushu Army's artillery.

"Charge!" The battalion officers of each infantry battalion drew out their sharp command knives, and the soldiers lined up around them launched a crushing battle to harvest heads with Dreiser rifles.

They charged forward while firing, and the dense bullets killed the Siamese soldiers in the forefront with a better range.After narrowing the distance, these Kyushu Army soldiers took out their bayonets and put them on their rifles, and started a more bloody hand-to-hand battle.In order to avoid accidental injury, the artillery in the rear has been turned off, and the gunners in the artillery position stay there to watch how the infantry harvests the battlefield.

Compared with the shooting of bullets, the bayonet array formed by the Kyushu Army with stricter military discipline is even more effective in killing, but any Siamese soldiers who block their way forward will become dead souls under the knife!
A Siamese soldier held a large sword and shield, and saw a wall of bayonets pressing towards him. He was so frightened that he stepped back a few steps, tripped over the corpses behind him, and watched the wall of bayonets submerge him.

Originally, the front of the Siamese army was a three-meter-long spear phalanx, which might be able to block the bayonet charge of the Kyushu army infantry in hand-to-hand combat.However, the spear phalanx had collapsed under the fire of the Kyushu Army's artillery and muskets, and the melee infantry and some improvised farmers behind them were exposed and had no resistance at all.

"General, where is the general?!" The Siamese lieutenant general, whose face was covered with dust, searched back and forth among the chaotic army formation for the general who was in command of the battle not long ago.

"He has already run away with his own soldiers!" A low-ranking officer removed his armor, pulled off the clothes from a dead soldier, and put them on himself, "We should also flee, it is impossible for these The opponent of the Chinese!"

"Damn it, don't take me with you when you run away!" Seeing the collapse of the whole line, the deputy general was so angry that he threw the iron helmet on the ground, and then squatted down to take off his clothes.

About two hours later, the Third Corps of Conquering the South ended its sweep of the local troops in Prachinburi, and then they had to bury the corpses to avoid causing plague here.

The South Conscripting Corps didn't have many horses, nor did they have enough energy to intercept and kill all the Siamese troops participating in the battle, so some Siamese soldiers escaped.However, Cao Bianjiao did not intend to destroy the Siamese local army at once. Now his task is to defeat the King Qin's army assembled in various places as much as possible, and buy time for the main force to attack the king's city.

"This time we beheaded more than 1000 people, captured more than 2000, and a considerable number of Siamese soldiers escaped." An officer reported the results of this battle to Cao Bianjiao, "We only suffered dozens of casualties."

"Try to maintain this state as much as possible, march towards the seat of Prachin Mansion, and let this mansion surrender to us." Cao Bianjiao led the army to continue advancing.

There are more than a dozen important prefectures in Siam, and each prefecture has local generals, and the local forces are very strong.After Ayutthaya was besieged by the main force of the Kyushu Army, generals from various places raised their troops one after another, each with their own ghosts.Among them, there are many generals who are loyal to Ayutthaya and are organizing troops to support Ayutthaya.

Cao Bianjiao, a partial division that attacked Siam from land, disrupted the plans of the local generals of Siam. They had to consider whether to rescue Ayutthaya or block this partial division that appeared.

The country of Siam was in a mess, especially Ayutthaya in Siam. The outer city wall had been bombarded by the artillery of the Kyushu Army, and there were still some blasters haunting it, which almost destroyed the outer city of Ayutthaya.

The [-] kings of Ayutthaya retreated into the inner city, relying on the crumbling inner city to make their final resistance.Looking from the inner city to the outer city, you can see the flames of war everywhere, and the burning wooden houses and thatched huts in the outer city are still emitting black smoke.There were also sporadic sounds of artillery and muskets, which were the Kyushu Army cleaning up the remaining enemy troops in the outer city.

A group of Siamese generals knelt in front of the King of Siam: "My lord, sooner or later the inner city will fall. Please escape the city with all the princes in time. As long as you are still alive, we can make a comeback."

(End of this chapter)