Chapter 1828: Crazy Order

"Use the Longyan Cannons to attack the Longyan unit; do not worry about anything else."

Ken'erte said madly.

The officers under his command were slightly stunned upon hearing this order.

"General, our troops are currently locked in close-quarters combat with the Longyan army's units. At a time like this, attacking with the Longyan Cannons will likely harm our own men."

"Can we not wait until our troops have pulled back some distance before bombarding with the Longyan Cannons?"

Ken'erte said coldly: "No, do it now. The majority of the vanguard are Indians; their casualties are to be exchanged for the victory of the entire battle. Be quick, and absolutely do not give the Longyan army a chance to strike back!"

The officer who had refuted him hesitated for a moment, but ultimately decided to execute Ken'erte's order.

After their troops began fighting the Longyan army, the opposing side adopted close-quarters tactics, rendering the French troops' long-range weapons ineffective.

They all knew the reason the Longyan army was doing this was to stall for time.

Until their reinforcements arrived.

At that point, the Longyan army would be even harder to deal with.

After thinking of this, the officer ordered in a deep voice: "Artillerymen, prepare! Aim and fire!"

The artillerymen who heard the order were slightly stunned.

It was not yet dawn, and if they fired directly, their artillery fire would very likely harm their own troops.

Harm the troops from France.

But orders could not be disobeyed.

They immediately adjusted the cannons, aiming the Longyan Cannons at the French troops locked in fierce battle, and also at the Longyan unit.

Boom!

The cannonball drew an arc through the air at high speed and crashed onto the battlefield with a boom.

Qin Zhangfeng was slightly stunned when he saw the sudden explosions on the battlefield.

Both units were using close-quarters combat; it was impossible to launch an artillery strike.

But where did these explosions come from?

The French troops had not entered the Landmine Traps set by the Longyan army.

Qin Zhangfeng saw the firelight rising on the distant battlefield; it flashed and vanished, very quickly.

His pupils suddenly constricted; he had not expected that under such circumstances, the French commander would completely disregard the soldiers currently locked in fierce combat.

Firing directly—this was using their own troops as cannon fodder and targets.

Qin Zhangfeng clenched his fists, feeling extreme anger at the choice made by the French general, and shouted in a deep voice: "Order a retreat; do not continue to tangle with the French troops."

"Musket Team, move to the front and cover the retreat!"

"Yes, General!"

Qin Zhangfeng was not a French general; he would not waste soldiers' lives in such a vain manner. Retreating now was a last resort, but it was absolutely not an act of cowardice.

The Longyan Musket Team moved up rapidly. The muskets manufactured by Longyan had seen significant improvements in range and power after Liu Zheng's modifications.

More importantly, the muskets redesigned by Liu Zheng were no longer single-shot rifles.

Instead, they were capable of seven-shot bursts.

But every shot required reloading.

The Musket Team's bullets shuttled through the darkness.

Although it was in the middle of the night, the distinctly colored uniforms they wore, along with the unique Metal Badges of the French troops, made it easy for them to reveal their identities even in the dark.

The Longyan army's uniforms had also been changed to green by Liu Zheng; their uniforms even featured patterns of flowers and grass, and sometimes when they crouched in the grass, one could not even see them without looking carefully.

The accuracy of the Longyan musketeers in the dark was not low.

Gunshots rang out everywhere; the French troops were suffering from their own artillery fire while also enduring the fire from the Longyan Musket Team.

Under these circumstances, they dared not continue the pursuit.

The Longyan army was thus able to shake off the entanglement of the French troops.

Attack.

Ken'erte looked through his Telescope and saw the Longyan army retreating on the battlefield ahead, and said in a rage: "These are just a bunch of cowards!"

"Pass on my order: deploy the Cavalry, pursue the victory, and absolutely do not let the Longyan unit escape."

"Before dawn, we must take this position!"

"Yes!"

The French troops deployed their Cavalry. With the high-speed movement of the Cavalry, the accuracy of the muskets dropped in a straight line.

Because it was a side-on attack, the Longyan musketeers could hardly track the direction of the enemy's movement.

After the French Cavalry unit was deployed, they dispersed.

Because of their previous experience, these Cavalry units already knew how to attack in order to avoid the dense fire of the muskets.

They adopted a circling method to launch surprise charges.

This wave of unexpected surprise attacks caused heavy losses to the Longyan army's musketeers.

However, the Longyan musketeers had completed the mission of retreating the main Longyan force.

Utilizing their familiarity with the terrain, the Longyan army's units fought while retreating and had already reached the high ground of this terrain.

And here, Qin Zhangfeng had placed all the Longyan Cannons he could temporarily mobilize.

Seeing the Longyan army being driven back step by step by his troops, Ken'erte laughed heartily.

As the French Cavalry pushed deeper, Ken'erte ordered once again: "The whole army, attack! Crush the Longyan army in one go!"

The French troops flooded into the battlefield in large numbers.

Qin Zhangfeng saw the French troops behind pursuing the victory; his face was cold and ruthless, without a shred of emotion.

His adjutant, seeing the French troops swarming in like locusts as if to swallow them up, looked at Qin Zhangfeng beside him who remained unmoved, and said anxiously: "General, if we don't attack now, the French troops are going to kill their way up here!"

Qin Zhangfeng muttered to himself, "Wait another hundred meters!"

"Now is still not the time!"

The distance of one hundred meters arrived in an instant.

The French troops quickly killed their way over, and by this time, the Longyan Army had already disengaged from the battle.

The adjutant's palms were sweating as he gripped his hands, and he looked at Qin Zhangfeng anxiously.

"General, the French troops have already charged up."

Qin Zhangfeng watched the battlefield, watching the French army that was now within arm's reach, the corners of his mouth curling up subconsciously.

Now the French troops were concentrated within a distance of two hundred meters, and this entire distance was within the range of the Longyan Cannon.

"Fire! Give me everything you've got and fire all the Cannonballs; absolutely do not let a single French soldier escape!"

"Fire!" the adjutant shouted anxiously!

The Cannons rumbled, and the Longyan Cannon struck directly upon the French troops.

Watching the Cannonballs pouring down everywhere, these French troops were completely panicked.

Under the fierce artillery fire, they had absolutely nowhere to escape.

Seeing a sea of fire suddenly erupt before their eyes.

Ken'erte's pupils dilated, and he did not even know when the Telescope in his hand had fallen.

After fighting against the Longyan Army, he had overlooked one thing.

And it was precisely because of this thing that he had brought about today's disastrous defeat!

He had forgotten that the Longyan Cannon used by their French troops all came from Longyan.

Longyan also possessed more advanced Cannons than theirs, and they also knew better how to use a greater quantity of such Cannons to create an invincible advantage.

Now Ken'erte could finally appreciate the terror of fighting against the Longyan Army.

This vanguard force had a total of five thousand men, and it was feared that not even one in ten would survive.

The first ray of dawn light shone upon the land that had experienced the artillery fire; Ken'erte looked over, and the ground was already littered with corpses. The recent transcoding is severe; to give us more motivation to update faster, please use your little hands to exit reading mode. Thank you.