Chapter 1975: Counter-Ambush Battle

Li He stared fixedly at the highland; the reason he chose to camp beneath such a highland was to await the French Soldier attack.

The most important reason was actually because here, they had nowhere to run!

Behind them was a vast, frozen lake.

There was simply no way to retreat, and precisely because of the existence of this lake, the French Soldier troops had no way to launch an attack from their rear, and could only launch an attack from directly in front of them.

And on the highland directly in front of them, they had long since buried Landmine made from the last bit of Black Powder they had!

And just at this moment, the French Soldier Cavalry had already arrived!

Their Infantry followed closely behind, not much slower than the speed of the Cavalry.

Just as the French Cavalry reached the top of the highland and were about to launch a charge toward the Resistance Army below!

Boom—!

A massive explosion instantly wiped out a large group of the Cavalry.

Seeing this sudden explosion, the surviving Cavalry and Infantry instantly remembered when they were fighting against those Longyan troops.

They had encountered all sorts of strange weapons, and there was one weapon just like this: when you walked over the road, it would explode from the ground.

Under the power of such a huge bomb, almost no one could survive.

What they had not expected was that such a troop that could not even get enough to eat would actually still have the gunpowder to manufacture such bombs.

They had underestimated the Resistance Army led by Li He.

If Delu were here, he would certainly curse his own stupid subordinates and tell them to use their brains and think carefully.

If Li He's troops were really that easy to deal with, would they need to set an ambush?

But now, saying anything was too late, because of the French commander's underestimation of the enemy, they had already encountered an enemy attack.

The massive explosion trapped them on all sides, and their troops now had no way to escape.

Furthermore, in this battle, there was no way to continue fleeing.

Now, Li He's troops had already traveled two-thirds of the way across the Grassland and did not have much distance left.

Very soon they would walk out of this stretch of Grassland, and at that time, fighting against Li He's Resistance Army would basically be impossible.

So now was one of their few remaining opportunities.

But after encountering the Landmine attack, those Resistance Army troops who looked like they were too hungry to even lift a gun suddenly erupted with astonishing fighting spirit at this moment.

The moment they heard the explosion, they picked up the only cold weapons they had left, charged in front of the enemy troops, and engaged in hand-to-hand combat!

Under this style of fighting, the French Soldier Musket basically lost its combat capability.

The French commander looked toward the distant battlefield; hand-to-hand combat was absolutely more brutal.

But he now had the confidence of certain victory; after all, the current Resistance Army was just a group of hungry, walking corpses. As long as they dragged the battle out a little, they would collapse—this was almost a foregone conclusion.

But then, something happened that the French commander had not expected.

The bravery of the Resistance Army in battle completely exceeded their imagination; their troops did not use a square formation, but instead used an attack formation similar to a triangle.

In hand-to-hand combat, this method of attack quickly trapped the Infantry formation that had been thrown into disarray.

And those Cavalry units had been targeted by the Resistance Army from the very beginning; the Resistance Army had no Cavalry, and they had no way to build such a troop.

Ever since arriving in Australia, their troops had not recruited more, but instead had been constantly decreasing.

Things like War Horse were even less likely to be transported to Australia.

So what they aimed for first was the Cavalry; after the Landmine exploded, many Cavalry were injured, and this was the best time for them to attack.

Clearly, Li He's troops seized the opportunity, and over a dozen War Horse were captured by his Resistance Army troops.

And at this moment, the French Infantry arrived and engaged in battle with the Resistance Army.

But the Infantry, having been split up in the fighting, were clearly inferior to the Resistance Army in hand-to-hand combat.

Among the Resistance Army were a large number of people who had once received training from General Qin Zhangfeng; they were truly formidable.

In close-quarters combat, no one could compare to their strength.

The French Soldier troops did not gain any advantage in the melee.

One could even say they suffered heavy losses.

This was something the French commander had not expected; a group of soldiers who had been hungry for so many days, in such an environment, actually still had such combat power—this was simply a miracle.

But this thing had truly happened.

He felt fear; under such combat power, if this continued, he was afraid his troops would suffer losses here.

But his troops now had no support whatsoever and could only fight as an isolated force, so under such battlefield conditions.

The French commander could only go onto the battlefield himself, but for this battle, it was already of no use.

Li He's troops were clearly superior.

In this battle, Li He's troops quickly brought the fight to an end.

The French troops, having underestimated the enemy, were thoroughly routed by a group of starving Resistance Army soldiers.

Their commander was captured, and the supply column was also obtained by the Resistance Army.

The food crisis of Li He's troops was alleviated.

Before they had even finished counting the spoils of war, Ge Dazhuang found a piece of candy on a French Soldier—this was an extremely rare item—and he did not turn it in, but immediately took it and sent it to the front line.

Li He saw the whole thing, but acted as if he had not seen it.

Ge Dazhuang brought this piece of candy to the front line; he looked at the pale-faced Jiang Yuyan, slowly pried open her mouth, and placed the candy inside.

He also poured a small mouthful of cold water.

Ge Dazhuang watched Jiang Yuyan nervously, seeing the corners of her mouth twitch.

Jiang Yuyan felt a trace of sweetness in her long-numb mouth and barely opened her eyes to look at the nervous Ge Dazhuang.

"Dazhuang?"

Seeing Jiang Yuyan wake up, tears of excitement streamed down Ge Dazhuang's face.

Over such a long period of time, Jiang Yuyan had long been unable to endure such hunger; Ge Dazhuang shared some of his own food with her, but doing so was far from enough.

Jiang Yuyan had not eaten for a long time, and she was now so weak that she was like nothing at all.

Seeing that Jiang Yuyan had woken up, Ge Dazhuang grabbed and hugged her: "It's so good that you've woken up, so good..."

"We won the battle, from now on there will be food..."

During this march across the Grassland, many people could not endure such hunger and many died.

If it were not for the relief provided by Ge Dazhuang, I fear Jiang Yuyan would not have survived either.

Jiang Yuyan felt a warmth in her heart, hugged Ge Dazhuang, and said warmly: "Thank you, thank you..."

"Dazhuang, it's very sweet, you eat some too..."