C2771 Break out of the fray! (1/2)
Chaos, utter chaos. The battlefield had long been devoid of order. The soldiers were fighting in accordance to their original instincts. They searched the battlefield for their nearest enemy, opened fire, charged, and engaged the enemy in melee combat!
It was undeniable that the individual qualities of these French soldiers were very high. They were all the Veterans of the Hundred Wars s who had colonized the entire world with Napoleon III, and also the main force that the Foreign Legion had in attacking and strengthening.
If it was a normal battle between the two sides, the remaining Prussian Legion might not necessarily be a match for the French.
However, war would never be a simple battle. This was not a battle between Knights, so there was no fairness and no rules here!
A war was a war of attrition!
Ever since the French found the British Fleet in the early morning, the army had been fighting for the beach and setting foot on the Spic Island. These exhausted soldiers who should have been sleeping had turned into porters when they should have been sleeping.
Cannons, war horses, ammunition box, food, medicine … All the war-related materials had to be done by the hands of the soldiers.
This was a very heavy job. Normally, it was done by the civilians in the military ports everywhere, but this time they were on a expedition to the Prussian coast, so looking for another worker was wishful thinking!
Everything had to be done personally, not to mention the death of the exhausted bandits. More importantly, the tedious and busy transportation of goods was a disturbance to the morale of the army!
Just when the soldiers were tired and annoyed, the Zhiyuan Warship rushed through the double layered battle formation of the battleship and aimed its cannon at the unprepared soldiers.
A barrage of random bombardments destroyed the limited cannons of the French Army and greatly disrupted the French Army's momentum. Under the bombardment of absolute fire, these French Army had no way to fight back and could only run around like headless flies!
The mad rush late at night had consumed a lot of the French Army's stamina. By the time Prussian army arrived, these French Army were basically half exhausted troops!
On one side was the Prussian Legion, which had spent the night running on their war horses. They had saved most of their stamina!
On the other side, there was a headless fly that had been madly bombarded for an entire night!
Once these two troops came into contact with each other, they would be able to fight evenly against each other at first. However, the more they fought against these French soldiers, the more fearful they became!
”I can't hold on any longer …” I need reinforcements here! These Prussian s have all gone mad … ”
A captain's military knife had been hacked into pieces. Blood sprayed all over his body. At this moment, he was so tired that his consciousness became blurry!
Fighting and killing were everywhere around him, and the fresh blood was thick and pungent. After a whole night of bloody battles, he had yet to drink any rice. At this moment, his throat was so dry that it felt like it was stuck together.
Just as he shouted for help, he was immediately followed by a fit of dry coughing and nausea!
The captain felt as if he had returned to Egypt. When he had suppressed the Egyptian natives' rebellion, he had led the soldiers in running for a full ten kilometers!
Those who ran past the marathon knew that after running for a long distance, what people lacked the most was not food but a mouthful of water!
Today was the same. The captain was so tired that he was on the verge of death. He almost coughed up blood, but the Prussian army was pressing down on him one by one, as if there was no end to it!
”Reinforcements... ”I need reinforcements …”
Boom! Boom! Boom! What answered him was not reinforcements, but the sound of cannon firing. While the battlefield was in a state of extreme anxiety, the crazy Prussian had actually loaded a few field gun onto the fishing boats, and began bombarding them along the coastline.
The cannons were worthy of being called the gods of war. The might of the bombardment was not something the human body could withstand. No matter how brave and tenacious the French army was, in the midst of the cannon's roar, their military formation also crumbled!
The confused captain was thrown down by tons of sand, followed by layers of bodies pressing down on him.