On December 2, the offensive and defensive battle for Talavera Fortress finally resumed after a 13-day truce.
During the armistice, the Spanish government retained the 1st Division to guard and suppress conspiracy riots, and the rest of its regular troops were deployed on the front line.
During this period, Talavera Fortress not only replenished three regular divisions and a large number of militia troops, but also maintained and built positions on a large scale.
After repairs, the Talavera Fortress, which had about 180,000 troops, was naturally very troublesome. Therefore, after the offensive and defensive battle began, Portugal did not hesitate to deploy 200,000 black troops.
At the Portuguese forward position, after the shelling ended, the black people got out of the trenches and launched a charge.
"For the emperor, warriors, charge!"
The company commander of the third black division, a black Brazilian Shaq, shouted slogans and was the first to rush out of the position.
"For the sake of the emperor and the tribe, warriors, charge forward!"
Seeing the company commander's heroic example, the black Angolan mixed-race deputy company commander Bryant responded and rushed out shouting in indigenous languages.
The two black men were leading the charge, and the black soldiers naturally followed suit.
"For the Emperor!"
"For the tribe!"
"kill!"
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"Oh my god, what is that!"
"Why did a group of black people appear in the Portuguese position?"
"Am I right? There are so many black people."
"Hahaha, if Portugal uses black people, it must be running out of soldiers."
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The Spaniards on the Spanish position soon discovered that the charging Portuguese army was black. They were shocked, and then many of them became happy.
On the battlefields of Europe, there has always been a fight between whites and whites, and blacks have no share at all.
Now that the Portuguese have brought over the colonial blacks, in the eyes of the Spaniards, it is obvious that their military strength has been exhausted.
this is a good news.
As long as Spain persists, there is still a chance for a comeback against Portugal.
"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"...
The charging black troops soon encountered Spanish artillery fire.
Faced with the shelling of live ammunition, many black people were screamed by the bombing and began to run around in confusion.
"Idiot, get down and dig a hole!" Shaq roared angrily.
"Warriors, get down and stop running around." Bryant also yelled angrily.
The black army formed by Portugal, with middle and low-level officers, was selected from Brazilian blacks, mixed-race blacks, and some blacks with deep plans.
In terms of specific officer appointments, Brazilian blacks enjoy full-time positions because they know the basics, while colonial mixed-race blacks and planning blacks usually hold deputy positions. Their task is to cooperate with the command and convey orders of Brazilian blacks.
Although the military quality of these black people is not as good as that of regular lower-level officers of the Portuguese army, it is still barely adequate.
The black platoon leader and squad leaders also reacted quickly and loudly ordered the black soldiers to come as they were trained to do.
Most of the black people reacted quickly, but there were still some young and young black people who were new to the battlefield and were still running around in confusion and disobeying orders.
"Shoot me!"
When Shaq saw these black people disobeying orders, his anger boiled into his heart. He did not hesitate to use his Lewis machine gun to shoot at the black people who were standing and running around.
"Da da da!"
After Company Commander Shaq made the move, Deputy Company Commander Bryant also picked up his machine gun and started firing. Then the platoon leader and deputy platoon leader's machine guns, and the squad leader's and deputy squad leader's 20-shot Mauser rifles also fired.
Soon, all the black men who dared to stand upright on the battlefield were killed.
"It's so exciting. The Warriors are all Nico! You can't do it without holding a gun." Shaq cursed.
Hearing what the boss said, Bryant, who is a mixed-race black man, responded with deep emotion: "Boss, these black people are savages. This kind of behavior on the battlefield is normal."
Although Dushak and Bryant are also black, they are all mixed-race, and their ancestors or themselves have a white father, so they naturally think that they are superior to others.
And Portugal does have a heavy responsibility for them.
In order to facilitate the management of colonial black people, Brazilian black people and colonial mixed-race black people were directly assigned to be managers among black people, that is, the big boss of the Three Banners.
Brazilian blacks, mixed-race blacks, are the eldest among the lords of the Three Banners. They have privileges. Among blacks, judges, senior police officers, and senior civil servants have priority. Even though they are not allowed to do business, they can do it.
Intermediaries and guarantors.
If black people in the colonies wanted to have relations and communicate with white people, they had to go through these people.
Senior blacks like Shaq and Bryant treat colonial blacks as Negroes and never think that they have anything to do with them, whether they have deep plans, have planned for a long time, or are just barbaric.
relation.
After the artillery fire ceased, Oriel and Bryant quickly directed the black men to rush forward. During this process, some of the black men were lying on their backs and were beaten, kicked, and cursed. If punches and kicks failed, they were shot to death with guns.
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day.
With the support of black cannon fodder, Portugal finally reached the border of Spain's main fortress, and at the critical moment of the attack, the white Portuguese army also joined in.
On this day, the main Portuguese troops came out in full force, and the artillery went into long working hours.
"kill!"
The white army, with the black army charging ahead, launched an attack on the fortress.
In order to defend the main fortress, the Spanish are still making fearless resistance.
"Fire!"
Accompanied by a loud shout.
Long tongues of fire erupted from various defensive positions along the Spanish fortress wall.
The Spanish cannons slanted out and blasted into the charging army of tens of thousands.
"Boom! Bang! Bang!..."
The sound of the shells exploding was like firecrackers, so dense it was frightening.
After a bombardment, the Portuguese army quickly fell to the ground tactically, but at such a close distance and in such a narrow combat circle, they still suffered more than 800 casualties.
Although the sound of Spanish artillery is still fierce this time, it is no longer what it used to be.
If it were not for such a narrow combat radius and because the artillery was suppressed, the working time of the artillery was shorter than that of Portugal. Spain's remaining artillery resources would not be able to cause heavy losses to the Portuguese army.
The Spanish artillery attack was soon followed by the Portuguese heavy artillery attack, and the Spaniards were soon beaten into silence.
Under the cover of Portugal's heavy artillery, the Portuguese army quickly got up and launched an attack.
In such a narrow battle circle, the artillery fire on the battlefield was deafening, and all Portuguese soldiers wore special earplugs.
The Portuguese artillery group, in order to cover and suppress the Spanish artillery group, after a long period of firing, the barrels have become red, and many of them can no longer work. The ones that can work now are just holding on.
Fifteen minutes later, the Portuguese artillery group was sparse, but by this time the Portuguese had pushed the front into the trenches 2.5 kilometers outside the fortress.
On this day, after a high-intensity attack and more than 10,000 casualties, Portugal finally completely occupied the Spanish Fortress of Talavera.
From this moment on, Portugal's march to Madrid was clear, and Spain lost all capital to resist.
This chapter has been completed!