The goblin officer seemed very disdainful and had no intention of answering the 1st Battalion Commander's question. The 1st Battalion Commander waited for a few seconds and found that the other party seemed to have no intention of answering his question, so he nodded.
He looked at the somewhat embarrassed officer of the 2nd Battalion and said, "I'll give you a chance to call back..."
The officer of the 2nd Battalion was at least 1.78 meters tall. After hearing this, he looked at the goblin officer who was only about 1.45 meters tall, with a cruel smile on his face.
The goblin officer was stunned. Before he could react, a fist grew bigger and bigger in front of his eyes.
Amid the exclamations of the remaining goblin prisoners, the goblin officer was punched in the face by an officer of the 2nd Battalion.
At this moment, his world was colorful, and only chaotic pictures remained in his mind. He thought of his grandfather, and seemed to see his own butt.
After spinning around in circles, the goblin officer finally realized that he might have been beaten. But before he could prepare for defense, he was hit by another powerful uppercut on the chin.
A solid one.
His brain entered a state of shutdown again, and his whole body couldn't stop leaning back. He took three steps back, but still couldn't stand still, and fell directly onto the sand.
The goblin prisoners behind the goblin officer started to commotion, but the bright bayonets and the dark muzzles of the guns brought them back to their senses. Everyone watched helplessly as their commander was pinned to the ground and repaired with punches.
"How did you discover us and deploy here in advance?" We randomly found another prisoner, and the 1st Battalion Commander patiently asked the same question.
"We are not deploying in advance, we are temporarily changing defenses..." The goblin who was asked the question glanced at the commander who was being beaten on the ground with the corner of his eye, swallowed his saliva and replied.
"Temporary change of defense? How many people do you have?" The 1st Battalion Commander vaguely felt that things were not that simple.
"A legion..." The soldier knew everything, obviously not wanting to be beaten.
"We defeated 1 battalion... This means that there are still 2 enemy battalions nearby." An officer looked at the commander of the 1st battalion and reminded him.
"Let the 2nd Company cooperate with the 3rd Battalion to deploy a defense line along the bushes! Prepare to resist a new round of enemy attacks!" The 1st Battalion Commander immediately made a judgment: "The 2nd Battalion, help mount the 105 howitzer
OK! We may need artillery support."
"Stop fighting! Wait for the regiment commander to handle it!" Looking at the 2nd Battalion officer who was riding on the opponent and shaking his fists, the 1st Battalion Commander stopped him.
Standing up with bloody fists, seeing the goblin officer lying on the ground with only the strength left to groan, the officer from the 2nd Battalion spat and turned around to assign tasks.
Soon, the troops in the landing site began to mobilize. Some people were helping to set up cannons on the beach. Soldiers carrying weapons began to set up defensive positions in the direction of the enemy's charge.
As expected by the 1st Battalion Commander, the Mirage troops finally obtained some information from the defeated troops and found out that this landing force was not the Zheng Guo fish belly that they had been fighting against before.
Zheng's troops were weak in combat effectiveness and generally did not dare to initiate attacks. Moreover, once they fell into hand-to-hand combat, they would often be defeated quickly.
This is also the reason why the troops of the Mirage State did not form a square formation and directly launched a charge, trying to drive the Datang Group's landing troops into the sea by relying on hand-to-hand combat.
They were used to hand-to-hand combat, so they tried to use the most familiar tactics to eliminate the enemies in front of them.
But what they never expected was that this time they were not facing Zheng's army, but the Tang troops with powerful combat power and ferocious firepower.
The feeling of being kicked on the iron plate was not good. The commander of Mirage Kingdom found that only less than one-fifth of the troops of the battalion he sent came back!
An entire battalion of troops lost their combat effectiveness, either intentionally or unintentionally, which made the commander of Mirage feel a crisis.
Just as the prisoners said, this mirage army just happened to be passing by. They were transferred nearby and prepared to go into the mountains to search for the Zheng civilians who were hiding.
As a result, someone saw the black smoke on the sea, and then discovered the landing force of the Datang Group. Later, after confirming that there were less than 500 people on the beach, the commander of the Mirage Kingdom deployed his troops and sent a battalion to launch the attack.
A tentative attack.
Who knew that this temptation would collapse a whole camp...
After realizing that the enemy's combat effectiveness was very strong, the commander of the Mirage Kingdom decided to change his tactics. He had already deployed subsequent troops, and he still had an advantage in terms of strength.
But he was more afraid of the continuous gunfire mentioned by the defeated soldiers. Almost all the defeated soldiers described the intensive gunshots from the opponent...
Therefore, he made his own response measure - shelling!
Since the opponent seems to be very strong in terms of individual soldiers' guns, let's use longer-range cannons to regain the ground first.
Wait for the opponent to fall into chaos, and then use superior forces to engage in hand-to-hand combat to defeat these idiots who don't know how high the sky is to provoke the mirage.
After thinking about the tactics, the Mirage army's bombardment began. More than a dozen muzzleloader guns were lined up in a row, pointed in the direction of the beach, and started firing.
The solid artillery shell suddenly passed through the bushes and flew across the beach, startling the Datang Group's landing troops.
The 1st Battalion Commander felt that the gods had played a joke on him today. From the moment he started commanding the landing front-line troops, everything seemed to be going wrong.
It was originally a silent landing, and there was no thought of encountering an enemy attack. As a result, during the chaos of the landing, we inexplicably encountered a counterattack by enemy troops.
The 2nd Battalion Commander suddenly had a whim, asking the soldiers to give up their baggage and weapons to ensure safety, so that the precious first batch of landing troops would have at least one-third more "non-combatants" who could not participate in the battle, which further weakened the
Improved the combat effectiveness of the Datang Group's landing troops.
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Seeing a shell whizzing over the soldiers' heads and smashing into the sea, the 1st Battalion Commander felt that he was not well.
"Where's the artillery? Can you fire back?" He looked at the adjutant beside him, pointed to the distance where smoke was starting to rise, and asked.
"There are no parameters! Sir! You can't just shoot blindly, right?" the adjutant explained to the artillerymen in a dilemma.
They only have one artillery and can't do any covering fire, so accuracy is very important.
After all, you don't even know whether the opponent's location is high or low, so if you blast it with this big cannon, it probably won't have any effect.
The commander of the 1st Battalion, who also knew this, gave up the idea of letting his own artillery join the battle and began to think of another way.
The enemy's artillery fire has no accuracy and is completely blind. So it looks fierce, but in fact it has no effect at all.
Most of the time, a blind cat won't be able to hit a dead mouse. If he fires randomly with solid bullets, he is unlikely to hit a high-value target.
Most of these shells didn't even know where they hit, except for one shell that hit the beach, flying up gravel and making a group of soldiers who had just landed disgraced.
"We can't let them fight blindly like this anymore! No one can afford the loss if they accidentally hit a shot!" When I saw a solid bullet crashing into the sea, the water column stirred up was only ten meters away from a small boat.
When the distance was less than 1,000 meters, the 1st Battalion Commander felt that sitting still and waiting for death was not an option.
"Even if it's just to scare them! Let the 105 howitzer fire!" He knew that although there was only one artillery, the Datang Group's artillery with high rate of fire and high power was completely incomparable to the Cyric muzzleloader.
Just when the adjutant was about to pass the order, the goblin's artillery fire suddenly stopped. The 1st Battalion Commander was stunned, and then realized...the other party's artillery could not keep up with the reloading speed.
"The enemy's artillery fire...has stopped...then, shall we fight back?" the adjutant asked with some uncertainty.
"Huh..." After exhaling a breath, the 1st Battalion Commander thought for a few seconds and made a decision: "Let's wait for now! Since their rate of fire can't keep up, then wait a little longer!"
After he finished speaking, he issued another order: "Organize troops to conduct reconnaissance! Determine the location of the opponent's artillery..."
Before the 1st battalion commander finished speaking, the sound of the air being torn apart came from above his head. The terrifying scream made everyone on the beach shrink involuntarily.
More than a dozen shells roared past, crossed the beach, and landed on the other side of the small bush where the white smoke had not completely dispersed.
The next second, fire shot into the sky, the earth trembled, air waves carried broken branches and swept everything around, and explosions resounded throughout the sky.
Those were shells fired by the 150mm caliber artillery of the naval cruiser. These shells crossed the beach, also passed the Mirage troops, and landed farther away, turning an open space upside down.
It turned out that the observation post on the naval warship, which had never been aware of the exchange of fire on the shore, saw the white smoke remaining from the firing of the muzzleloader cannon.
That was obviously not our own artillery fire, because most of our own howitzers were still waiting to be unloaded on the ship. The surprised navy realized that the concealed landing might have turned into a storm, and the troops on the shore were being attacked by the enemy!
As the top commander on the battlefield, Bernard immediately ordered the warships to open fire to cover the landing troops. For fear of accidentally hitting friendly forces, he temporarily decided to raise the muzzle a little bit...
As a result, these shells passed over the beach, passed over the heads of the Mirage troops, and landed farther away, blasting a lonely place.
Fortunately, the naval guns on the navy warships have semi-automatic loaders and a high rate of fire, so they fine-tuned the muzzle and soon fired a second salvo...
