Chapter 424 One-sided killing
The fifty sword card players in front were originally all captives of the Manchu Eight Banners. They were originally heavy armored infantry when they were in the Qing army. They can be said to be the most powerful melee infantry in this era.
The stout Manchu soldiers, holding iron-wood shields and wearing wooden armor, waved their swords and advanced all the way forward. The arrows shot from the natives shot on them, either blocked by shields or blocked by wooden armors, and the Manchu soldiers were unscathed.
Wooden armor and bamboo armor are armor suitable for water battles in the hot Nanyang area. If it is used with excellent sword spears and firearms, the protection ability of this armor is very poor, but the natives only have stone spears and bone arrows in their hands. These simple weapons cannot penetrate their armor when they hit the sword player.
The knife player waved his sword and slashed it over, slashing it on the indigenous people who had no protection ability, and easily cut one by one like a knife cutting butter.
The fifty spearmen who followed the sword player were also prisoners of the Eight Banners. They held a tiger spear of 15 feet long, which was far longer than the short spear of the sap of the sacred life. The weapons in the sacred life could not reach them at all, and the tiger spear in their hands stabbed out, and the one shot was a chilling heart.
Morgen and a group of Manchurian archers followed closely behind the melee combat soldiers. They shot their arrows without fail, and they reached the flesh.
The Manchu soldiers were very satisfied with this. The enemies he faced did not know how to form formations, had no shields, no armor, and even had clothes. The Jurchen strong bow in his hand was easier to harvest the lives of the natives than to use a sickle to cut rice.
Sun Lin and Fang Qiyi didn't have to worry about the rebellion of these Manchu soldiers, because in this place, the Manchus were not familiar with the land, and without Ming army ships, they would not be able to go back. Moreover, after three years of hard labor, these Manchus had been trained to be honest and sold themselves to the Nanyang Company.
The archery skills of the Eight Banners soldiers were very accurate. Although there were only thirty archers, plus Sun Lin and Fang Qiyi, as well as their eighteen servants, there were only fifty archers in total. However, every round of archery shots of fifty people could harvest at least thirty or even more than forty indigenous people.
"Our archers are still powerful!" Morgen said in his heart proudly.
However, the melee soldiers did not give in, but fought desperately into the enemy group. The sword light flashed, and the tiger spear slashed left and right, shaved a path from the indigenous people like a razor.
"Hmph! Where are they shooting arrows and killing us more hands-on soldiers!" A Chuhui, a card player of the Man Eight Banners, cut off the head of an indigenous man and said in his heart.
The mercenaries not only receive military pay, but also calculate the credit based on the number of enemies killed. A Chuhui has already cut off twenty-three native people's heads. It is great that the archers behind can shoot fifteen arrows in such a short time. Even if each arrow can kill a life sect, they will only kill fifteen people. How can the efficiency of killing people be as high as that of the sword?
The people who cannibalized the lives of the life-eating people found that the stone spears and beast bone arrows in their hands had no effect on the enemy and could not kill the other party at all. However, the other party easily killed their warriors like hunting.
There is no suspense in the battle: one side is full of armor, strong body, holding nine-foot steel spears, and arranged in formation; the other side is full of nakedness, because of its short stature, there are only three-foot stone spears and animal bone arrows in its hands, and there is no formation of a mess like a swarm of bees, and the strength of both sides is not on the same level.
What's more, behind the mercenary hand-to-hand combat soldiers and archers, there are also the firepower output of the bird gunner and the turtledove gunner.
The loaded bird gunners came forward and fired in a row. The natives screamed and fell down a whole piece. The loaded turtle dove gunners walked behind their own hand-to-hand combat soldiers, raised the turtle dove gun and pulled the trigger. Only a roar was heard. The turtle dove guns loaded with shotgun spit out flames, and the indigenous people were knocked down by shotguns.
However, these firearm soldiers adapted from green camp prisoners and the captives of the Han army in the Eight Banners, because the firearms are loaded slowly, their killing efficiency is still not as good as those hand-to-hand combat soldiers adapted from the captives of the Eight Banners of the Manchu.
Even if the Eight Banners archers have a killing efficiency that is not as good as the hand-to-hand combat soldiers. Although the archers have faster shooting speed than firearms, no matter how elite the Eight Banners archers can shoot twenty arrows, their arms are already sore and they can no longer shoot the opponent effectively, so they can only take a temporary rest.
The hand-to-hand combat soldiers were in full swing, and soon they forced the cannibalism to retreat to the river.
At this time, more than half of the 800 young and strong men in the world had died or injured. The remaining 300 young and strong men in the world had already lost their fighting spirit, threw down their weapons, knelt on the ground and surrendered.
"There are too many prisoners, we can't digest them." said a familiar native guide.
Sun Lin nodded slightly: "Then kill some more, and you will use the rest as slaves."
After saying that, Sun Lin turned around and asked the gunners behind to push the four-pound cannons up.
Four four-pound cannons filled with shotguns and fifty turtledove guns filled with shotguns were fired in a salvo. The remaining more than 300 cannibals were still able to stand, and the rest were all in pools of blood.
Sun Lin ordered the battlefield to be cleaned up, and the mercenaries rushed into the tribe of the cannibalism. They only looked for gold and jewelry, and did not want any other spoils, and threw them all to the local mature men.
The rice seized was already old, salt, cloth and wine. In the Han villages, Sun Lin looked down on these things used by the zodiac signs. He asked the mercenaries to take away only the gold sand and gold, and threw the rest to the natives of the zodiac signs.
Mercenaries slaughtered a large tribe of the zodiac, like standing melons and cutting vegetables. Not only did they eliminate these zodiacs and seize a nearby gold mine, but they also shocked the local zodiacs, making them realize that the Ming army was invincible. If you want to live a good life in the future, you should honestly trade with the Ming people and must not have any other ideas.
In this battle, none of the mercenaries were killed, and none of them were seriously injured. Only more than ten were slightly injured. However, the more than 800 young and strong opponents were killed and received less than one hundred people, which was a great victory.
This is civilization versus barbarism, and technology versus brute force. Although weapons are not the only factor that determines the outcome on the battlefield, weapons are very important factors on the battlefield. If weapons surpass their opponents, they are one-sided crushing. Especially if weapons are several levels ahead, they cannot be compensated no matter what method is.
The indigenous people were still in the Neolithic Age, while the mercenaries of the Ming Dynasty were the Iron Age and the Half Firearm Age, with bronzes in the middle, and the weapons were three times different. Even if the indigenous people were commanded by Sun Wu and Bai Qi, they would not be able to defeat the mercenaries. What's more, the command of the indigenous people was far inferior to Sun Lin and Fang Qiyi.
The local leader of the mature family came over after hearing the news. They harvested a large amount of food, cloth, pottery, salt, wine and other spoils. Looking at the piles of spoils, the indigenous chiefs were ecstatic. They just led a way and hardly put in much effort, but got the largest number of spoils. However, the Han people only took away a little "worthless" small thing.
Chapter completed!