153 Short Shots
Just as Don Quixote Edward was worried.
After the attacking 'Indigenous Army' gained the advantage of complete fire suppression, it strides forward. During this period, Don Quixote and the old housekeeper around him ordered the officers on the front more than once.
However, whether it is a messenger or an officer, as long as it is exposed behind the chest wall, it will immediately be caught in fire.
Now no one dares to show his head behind the chest wall defense line. The sporadic exposed target will be pointed at the muzzles of dozens of automatic rifles in an instant. If you survive, you will really be favored by the goddess of fate...
"It's okay, our people have not collapsed yet. When the enemy rushes forward, we can drive the enemy away with bayonets.
After all, we have many people…”
Don Quixote listened to the old housekeeper beside him muttering, and a look of contempt appeared deep in his eyes.
Although Don Quixote is not a master of a general, he is also from a noble family. He has received basic aristocratic military education since childhood. Even if it is a skill of talking about war on paper, his vision is not comparable to that of an old housekeeper who is a servant.
Now the people on his side have been suppressed by the opposite side so that no one dares to look up. This is not the soldier's personal behavior, and even the officers have admitted their conscience!
How much combat effectiveness can the frontline officers and soldiers at this time still be expected to be?
After all, they are not elite troops directly under the Central Cabinet Government of the British Empire. Even if they are regular troops, their combat experience is only in the "brethrowing bandits and public security".
Never fought with an enemy with an army of about the same force as the other.
If such troops fight with the wind or have an absolute advantage in weapons and equipment, their combat effectiveness is still very good. Coupled with the belief that everyone is united, it is not a shocking thing to win the more with less.
But facing the indigenous army with such a long-range "mutt" was suppressed so much that they could not raise their heads...
His family knows his family affairs. These soldiers came across the ocean with Don Quixote. How could he not know their details?
Not all soldiers wearing red clothes and white pants can walk to the enemy's distance thirty meters away in the rain of bullets!
However, regular troops of this level are the "upper limit" of combat effectiveness of front-line officers and soldiers.
Don Quixote aimed at the surrounding area to protect himself in name, but actually monitored his family guards who obeyed the orders of the old housekeeper, and prepared to find the shortest path to leave this dangerous position of the flag when the situation collapsed!
It’s not that Don Quixote still wanted to resist stubbornly when he reached this point, but that he knew very well that as long as he was still following the old housekeeper and family guards, it would be impossible even if he cried and shouted to surrender...
The old housekeeper was not very capable, and even Don Quixote was admired by his loyalty to the Edward family.
Don Quixote knew that this old housekeeper was really willing to let himself be buried for the interests of the Edward family!
On the battlefield, apart from the sporadic gunfire, they had fallen into a strange calm, and there were not much casualties on the outer defense line of Edward Town.
After all, Luo Tianjie's firepower advantage is too obvious. When the fire is opened, the fool knows that he should hide instead of shooting a target that he cannot hit...
When Tokugawa's iron cannon foot forward less than 100 meters away, many experienced grassroots officers in the defense line began to become ready to move, and squat or lie down to start to motivate the soldiers beside him to stand up and fight back!
Not to mention, under the stimulation of the spirit of unity given by Edward Town, many soldiers and even militias who were willing to do everything stood up again and aimed at Tokugawa Iron Cannon that entered their effective range.
Immediately afterwards, Tokugawa Iron Cannon, which had been prepared, burst out violent firepower, and sprayed out blocks of barrage and sprinkled at the chest wall defense line.
During the shooting, the defenders standing up often fell back to the ground for even ten seconds. A closer distance means the automatic rifle's more terrifying lethality and hit rate!
The hard truth that you are close and accurate is universal to everyone.
Less than a minute after shooting, most of the soldiers who stood up fell down, and the remaining half of them were scared and shrunk back without even pulling the trigger...
This time, the shooting of Edward Town exhausted his last courage. The attacking enemies were really not afraid of death, and they shot against them straight in the face of the bullets without changing their face!
Of course, the counterattack of the Edward Town defenders also had results. Luo Tianjie found that the number of Tokugawa Iron Cannons in his personal panel was reduced by more than a dozen.
Under absolute firepower suppression, the flintlock rifle with low precision can achieve this record. It is conceivable how many people chose to stand up and fight back at that time.
After the brief counterattack was suppressed simply and roughly, and a large number of corpses were added, even the old housekeeper who knew nothing about military affairs could see the unfavorable situation on his side.
However, he was unwilling to admit failure, or the Edward family could not fail here!
Edward Town is everything about the Edward family in the New World!
In the dark, holding the "command arrow" given by the Edward family, as the old butler of the commander of the Edward town, it seems that once the battle in Edward town is defeated, Edward town will completely deteriorate, not only will it break away from the control of the Edward family, but it will also become a pawn of the indigenous leader opposite.
This is actually the last instinctive struggle of the 'virus' left over from the expansion of space in the era of the Empire.
They would rather be destroyed than be conquered and assimilated.
It’s a pity that the old housekeeper is not the original Governor Melville after all. If Governor Melville is now the commander, with his own personal prestige, he would be able to fight against Luo Tianjie with all the armed residents of Edward Town.
If it were the old housekeeper, the effect would inevitably be discounted, not to mention a character like Don Quixote.
From the perspective of spatial metaphysics, the appearance of Don Quixote is actually the act of space in the imperial era mixing sand into the territory.
The viruses left over from the expansion of space in the Imperial Age may spread throughout the space territory until the Imperial Age space is destroyed, and will also be reverse assimilated by the Imperial Age space.
However, this kind of assimilation needs to be promoted by Luo Tianjie, the master of the space in the imperial era. It is completely impossible to make Edward Town fall towards Luo Tianjie by relying solely on the struggle within the "virus".
In fact, if Luo Tianjie had not killed Governor Melville, the sand mixed with space in the Empire era, Don Quixote would have no effect at all. The moment he arrived in Edward's town, he would have lost all his nominal rights.
The old housekeeper whose forehead was soaked in cold sweat rarely noticed that Don Quixote, not far away, was retreating step by step.
Chapter completed!