Chen Wei poked his head out and looked at the trench that was deeper than his height, and when the red-eyed soldier was about to jump, he suddenly made a stop gesture.

Receiving the order, the soldiers immediately lay down in front of the first row of trenches, waiting for the next order.

"Company commander, why did you stop?" A squad leader approached.

Chen Wei looked at the criss-crossing trenches, he said: "These Dutch are behaving too strangely, I am afraid that this is their trap, you see this trench, if we jump down, we can't come up again, even the Dutch have prepared stools to stick their heads out of the trench." ”

"Indeed, if we go down here, we will definitely be captured alive, and it is said that the Dutch tried to snatch our Han-style rifles and Changping machine guns when we were in the city of Geranza, and they did not succeed last time, and they will certainly not give up this time."

Chen Wei nodded, they were just a tentative attack, and it was simply a death to go down the trench with the strength of this one company.

Thinking of this, he said, "You continue to guard, and I will go back and ask for instructions." ”

After that, Chen Wei ran all the way to Liu Chen with a short waist, and told the situation in front of him and his thoughts.

Liu Chen was already suspicious when he went ashore, so he sent Chen Wei to test it, in his opinion, it was not normal for the Dutch to fight a positional war with them here with great fanfare, because no one in European countries knew the current empire better than the Netherlands.

Eric, in particular, was well aware that with the current power of the Chinese Empire, he could easily destroy all Dutch military power in the South Seas.

According to normal thinking, the Dutch should now load the plundered wealth of the colonies on ships and flee.

And now they are doing the opposite, and they will have a plan.

"Stupid, do they think we're going to attack head-on when they set up a position?" Liu Chen sneered, and he said: "The first regiment is a frontal feint, and the second, third, fourth, and fifth regiments are flanking and outflanking, and they will make dumplings for me." ”

"Yes!"

After receiving the order, the marines immediately took action, and Chen Wei's regiment of soldiers immediately moved forward, and at the same time used grenades and machine guns to strafe the trenches, setting up a frame for a strong attack.

While the rest of the Marines bypassed the trench and prepared to outflank them in a roundabout way.

The actions of the Imperial soldiers were watched by Eric and Simon, and their hearts sank at the same time, and it was then that they realized that the army of the Chinese Empire was not an undisciplined indigenous army.

In fact, the generals of the Chinese Empire were more flexible on the battlefield than they were.

"Oops, they're ready to besiege us here." Eric said solemnly.

Simon said; "Fools know what they're doing, there's no other choice, and now we have to attack."

"No, we'll pay a lot of casualties, and you can see the weapons they can fire continuously." Eric argued: "Retreat to Jagorda, and then to India, where the allied forces in Calcutta are waiting for us, they have cavalry and field artillery, and they can at least fight the Chinese Empire." ”

Simon didn't listen to Eric's advice at all, because in his opinion, Eric didn't work to his satisfaction.

He said; "I am the consul of Manila, and now I command you to attack!"

As he spoke, Simon yelled at the officers.

Having received orders from Simon, the officers came out of the makeshift command post in the trenches, and they returned to their ranks, where the Dutch officers, who led the indigenous army, attacked first.

Each of these native soldiers held a bench, and stepping on it, they climbed up the trench and used their requisition rifles to shoot at the frontal attacking Imperial soldiers.

In an instant, the entire battlefield was filled with gunfire, and the bullets of the Dutch army flew like raindrops towards the Imperial soldiers.

In the face of the attacking Dutch army, the Imperial soldiers all fell to the ground and fired, and the breech loading characteristics of the Han-style rifle made this position not hinder them from shooting at all.

The Dutch soldiers, on the other hand, had long barrels of their rifles, and the paper shells were torn apart and poured into the barrels and had to be tamped up with strips.

In such intervals, Dutch-trained indigenous soldiers became live targets for machine guns.

"Da Da Da ......"

The tongues of fire from the machine guns returned fire on the Dutch native soldiers who had climbed up the trench, and the native soldiers continued to fall in a dense rain of bullets.

The first native soldiers to climb up quickly all fell under the muzzle of the machine guns.

When Simon and Eric saw this, they became more and more afraid of the machine gun, because they knew that they couldn't fight the machine gun now.

Despite the failure of the first wave of the attack, Simon was not reconciled, and in his opinion the lives of these natives were not worth anything, so he shouted; "What are you still doing in a daze, all the natives rush forward, whoever can seize a Han-style rifle and come back, I will give him a hundred gold bars!"

Under the heavy reward, the native soldiers, who had been a little frightened, climbed up the trench with a roar, but they found that this time they were facing more fierce fire.

It turned out that after discovering that the Dutch soldiers had the possibility of breaking through, Liu Chen immediately sent another regiment of reserves to reinforce the regiment, which greatly increased the firepower of the regiment.

"Da Da Da ......"

The machine-gun fire intensified, and the native soldiers soon suffered the same defeat.

The more than 3,000 indigenous soldiers left behind under the bombardment died in the blink of an eye under the machine-gun gun, and Simon could no longer keep his composure.

Fear began to creep in his heart, and he shouted, "Take advantage of the moment, all retreat!" ”

The Dutch soldiers were already frightened, and they immediately fled to Manila with Simon.

In the Bashi River, which surrounds the city of Manila, there are pre-prepared Dutch armed merchant ships, which can escape the enemy encirclement and enter the ocean along the Bashi River, as long as they board the merchant ships.

The rout was first uncontained, and the remaining soldiers in the trenches scrambled to Manila.

Seeing this scene, Liu Chen immediately ordered to chase after him.

One runs, the other chases, and the Dutch soldiers in the khaki uniforms are driven into the city like ducks.

During the pursuit, the Imperial soldiers stopped firing from time to time, and Dutch soldiers continued to fall.

Eric frowned, and he looked back at the Imperial soldier with skilled marksmanship, thinking about how he could restrain the Imperial soldier's easy-to-reload firearm.

As he pondered, Ba Shihe's figure appeared in front of them, but the soldiers of the empire were getting closer and closer.

Looking at the obstacles that had been set up in advance in front of the Bashi River, Eric suddenly thought of something, and he said, "Simon, we must hinder their attack to be able to board the ship smoothly. ”

With that, he immediately led a group of Dutch soldiers to hide behind the barrier, and at the same time ordered the soldiers to stand in three rows, the first to shoot, and the second and third to reload.

Whenever the soldiers in the first row fired, the soldiers in the second row would hand their guns up, the soldiers in the third row would give their guns to the second row, and the second row would hand the empty guns to the third row to reload.

"I'm so confused, why did I only think of the fire hedgehog shooting method now." Eric muttered.