The reality was that after the fifth round of shelling, the Continental Army infantry had rushed halfway before they saw a rickety white flag come out of the bastion - the Hesses had surrendered. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This is actually not surprising at all, even the Continental Army side is stunned, some veterans of the Continental Army from 1775 to the present, still have a strong leg and stomach tendons, and those who believe in piety draw crosses on their chests, saying things like "hell rage". As for the Hesses, who were directly covered by this shelling, even if they were protected by fortifications, they were beaten to the point of leaking urine and feces.

Almost eighty percent of the people on the city wall were killed or wounded, and even the barracks in the fortress were almost destroyed, and this unimaginable level of firepower caused a large number of casualties and turmoil in the morale of the Hessian army. Colonel Van Eyber was acupunctured by a piece of shrapnel and lost the back two fingers of his right hand, so he finally saved his life, and he didn't think about any military glory and the power of the Tang people, so he quickly let people fly the white flag.

Washington, who was waiting to cross the river in the distance, could actually see some of the battle going on, and when the loud cannon fire came, he and everyone in the Continental Army headquarters looked far away, hoping to see some of the battle at New Brunswick's Ridge. The flames and the loud explosions shook them, and soon someone came and said, "The Hessians have surrendered." ”

One of the officers said: "You can't fight such a battle, everyone will surrender." ”

General Adam. Stephen said: "The weapons used by the Tang army are different from those that support us, I paid attention to their artillery when I was in Philadelphia, although it was sealed tightly, but it was much larger than the 12-pounder cannon sold to us. The structure also seems to be very different. I'm afraid that's the secret of their ability to achieve longer range and greater power. ”

Washington nodded and said, "This is probably Datang's secret weapon." So they won't sell it to someone else. But it doesn't matter, now this combat force is on our side, and with this terrible artillery, we only need to keep firing at any fortress, and we don't have to invest any troops in attacking the fortifications, and we will suffer huge losses. ”

Stephen said with some concern: "Now Datang is our ally, but who can guarantee that we will not have conflicts with them all the time?" When the time comes, if it is we who face this kind of artillery. And what to do? ”

Washington was silent for a moment and said: "There is no need to think about this kind of issue now, the Tang Dynasty has not shown interest in the Thirteen Colonies, and if they become aggressors, the people will oppose it, and it will not be as popular as it is now." Moreover, these guns, although terrifying, are no less bulky, so the only way to deal with this kind of artillery is to maneuver. Do not give them a chance to stop firing and then attack their artillery in the rear or on the flanks. In the end, such artillery could only become trophies. ”

The officers laughed, because this kind of tactics of running up and fighting was clearly mastered by the Continental Army under the influence of the Tang Military Advisory Group.

Washington pointed to the Datang sappers who were fighting by the river and the soldiers of the Continental Army who were fighting on the river, and said: "The Datang Army's boat and bridge troops are also admirable, and it may take us more than a month to build a bridge that can pass through the Lalitan River, and they, more than six hours, are almost finished." ”

Of course, Datang's engineers were able to be so fast, first of all, because they had been prepared for a long time, before building the pontoon bridge, they had prepared a lot of materials, and the Datang Navy also entered the Lalitan River and dragged several ships as part of the pontoon bridge. They used ropes to tie all the pontoons together, and then covered them with thick wooden planks, and in some places, inflatable plastic floats were used to increase the buoyancy of the pontoons. If it was a thick heavy vehicle, it would not be possible to pass through the pontoon, but for infantry and horses, and even animal-powered carts, there would be no problem.

Someone said: "Actually, there is no need to build this bridge at all, New Brunswick was taken so quickly, it would be nice to cross the river there." ”

Washington naturally shook his head and said: "The strategic value of two bridges and one bridge is different, and we can get to the other side of the river and start operations first." General Liu probably didn't expect the Hessian army to be defeated so quickly, so it wasn't a waste. We can now cross the Lalitan River at a much faster speed. ”

On this day, the U.S.-Tang forces conquered the important town of New Brunswick, crossed the Lalitan River, and advanced to Perth Amboi, New Jersey, across the water from Staten Island. The British defenders of Staten Island did not expect the Continental Army to appear in this position at all. However, because night fell, the Continental Army did not launch an offensive, but rested on the spot.

The Tang Expeditionary Force crossed the river from New Brunswick and was not in a hurry to continue its advance, and was stationed on the north bank of the Lalitan River.

It was not until the next morning, in New York, that Clinton received news that New Brunswick had fallen and that the US-Tang coalition had arrived at the doorstep of New York.

At this time, in addition to the superiority in troops, the two cavalry battalions of the Tang Expeditionary Force enabled the Tang and American coalition forces to completely grasp the initiative on the battlefield. In fact, there was no shortage of horses in the Thirteen Colonies of North America, but the Continental Army had only 176 cavalry so far, and the British army also had almost no cavalry. This is because cavalry requires more training than the army, and not everyone who can ride a horse can become a good cavalryman. And even if the British had their own cavalry regiments, it would be difficult to transfer them directly to the Americas to fight.

The cavalry of the Tang Army previously belonged to the category of dragoons, and they were basically fighting on foot. However, after Chu Bai arrived in Philadelphia, he carefully prepared horses for the arrival of the follow-up Tang army, although these horses could not be compared with the original mounts of the Tang cavalry, and they were not even suitable for riders to shoot on horseback, but Liu Fangwu mainly needed the cavalry's mobility ability rather than impact ability. After a week's adaptation to the horses, the cavalry and horsemen were barely able to continue riding and fighting.

So, on the land of New Jersey, the Tang cavalry began to attack the various outposts of the British army like a gust of wind, the British army's defense in this area is not high, and the garrison of each outpost is limited. Not only the Tang cavalry is contributing. The Continental Army, as well as the militia of New Jersey, also cooperated in the attack on the British outpost. In the past, the militia would not have been able to breach these posts. But with hundreds to thousands of troops of the Continental Army, plus a gust of wind like a Tang Dynasty soldier, in just three days, the British army was uprooted by the coalition forces on the land west of Staten Island and Newark Bay.

At the same time, several warships of the Datang Navy also sailed to the waters of Xiawan and constantly bombarded the British troops on Staten Island. Staten Island is an important place to compliment New York. The British defended the area well, but they completely lagged behind the coalition forces in terms of size.

Soon, a thousand-strong Continental Army unit transported by the Datang Navy landed on Staten Island under the cover of naval artillery fire and artillery fire from the Datang Army on the opposite bank. Although the British army on the island frantically wanted to drive the Continental Army back, in the end they could not succeed because the Tang Army was too heavy in firepower, so the Continental Army was continuously transported to the island. After 4,000 Continental Army soldiers surrounded the fortress of Staten Island, the British did not continue to put up useless resistance and surrendered to the besieging Continental Army commander Putnam.

The British army on Staten Island had a total of more than 1,800 personnel, but in fact there were only 47 casualties. But that's how they "know the times".

After Staten Island was conquered, the Tang Navy mastered Shangwan. All British forces in New Jersey were largely wiped out, and the main forces of the Continental Army led by Washington arrived in Newark to prepare for the assault on Manhattan, while the main forces of the Don Army were transported by the Navy and prepared for a direct landing on Long Island.

At this time, Washington received news that the Continental Army in Upper New York had also exchanged fire with Bergoyne who was heading south, and Bergoyne himself died on the battlefield, and the British Right and Center Army were routed, and 5,800 men surrendered to the coalition forces.

What happened was actually very simple, and Burgoyn's actions were very resolute, but he was highly subjective but could not completely change the difference in strength. The British army first encountered an American army led by Arnold at Freeman Farm, and Arnold, a well-known Continental Army officer, was keenly aware of the gap between the British Army's Right Route Army and the Middle Route Army, and cooperated with Morgan's Continental Army to directly insert between the two British armies, causing huge casualties to the British army.

Soon Arnold was removed by Gates, and Burgoyne thought he had found an opportunity to bypass the forest and prepare to attack the rear of the Continental Army's middle lane, but fortunately, Burgoyne successfully infiltrated and set up a formation, and found that in addition to Gates' men and horses sitting in the middle lane, there was actually the second battalion of the infantry of the Longxiang Regiment led by Xu Daorun.

"Let's fight, defeat the Tang people first, and then destroy Gates." Bo Goin can only bite the bullet, he has 1,500 people in his hands, and Xu Daorun only has more than 400 people, no matter how you look at it, it looks like he has an advantage.

Burgoyne had the British army set up, three perfect rows of musket arrays had been formed, the military musicians beat the drums, and the line infantry marched at neat steps, and Bergoyne felt that his chances of victory were not small.

Then he saw that the Tang army, about a mile away, was also hastily arrayed, and soon, the Tang army also formed a perfect three-row line, but to Bogoin's slight surprise, the Tang army's line phalanx was relatively small, and each row seemed to have only ten to twelve people.

This made Bogoyne feel a little troublesome, because the Tang army's phalanx was relatively small, so marching from different positions might cause crossfire damage to the British army, but Bergoin also felt that if the British army could quickly break through the oncoming enemy, and then deal with the other way, it should not be a problem.

Burgoyne also praised his opponent, saying: "From the battle to the present, I have not seen the rebels form a phalanx, they are all some cowards, some mud legs who take up arms, it seems that only a real regular army like the Don Army will fight us with a brave and noble phalanx, come, British soldiers, let the enemy witness your bravery and strength!" ”

So, Bergoyne watched the phalanx of the British army and the phalanx of the Don army, taking uniform steps, and began to approach each other, as if a heart-pounding battle was coming.

Burgoyne generally asked his junior officers to shoot when the phalanx had reached a distance of eighty yards from the enemy, a dangerous distance, because the enemy would shoot first if he could not bear the pressure, and the British phalanx would be the first to be damaged. However, the infantry behind will automatically fill up, and they will keep the phalanx intact until they reach the preset position and open fire.

The last enemy to shoot was superior, they were close and could sweep down more enemies with more dense fire, so the British used to rush under the enemy's nose and open fire despite casualties.

It's just that these enemies they encounter today don't seem to be as zealous on honor as they think.

"Four hundred meters away, lie down!" Then in the surprised eyes of the lobster soldiers, the Tang soldiers lay on the ground in a hurry.

The British officer who led the team laughed and said, "Are you scared, you just lay on the ground." ”

"Fire!" The bullets fired from different directions instantly converged into a rain of bullets, and not only the S1 rifle in the hands of ordinary infantry fired, but also the light and heavy machine guns holding drum chains also burst into fire aggressively at this moment.

Then a whole phalanx of one hundred and twenty men was struck down in a moment, and they were shot to death like wheat without any resistance, and in less than a minute, they were reduced to a pile of corpses.

The "phalanx" of the Tang army was completely gone, and even the soldiers who got up again did not line up any more squares, but began to constantly look for better positions to shoot the British troops under the leadership of the squad non-commissioned officers. One by one, the phalanxes of the British army were completely annihilated by the Tang infantry with a dense rain of bullets, and when the British formations behind found out that this was the case, they no longer dared to move forward, but immediately ran backwards.

What is this? It's like two people say they're going to fight hand-to-hand, and then one of them suddenly pulls out a Gatling and starts sweeping. There was no need for the Tang army to line up at the beginning, but Xu Daorun made his infantry pretend to be so similar that Bogoin mistakenly thought that the Tang army was going to have a glorious confrontation with him, and in the end it only confirmed that this was a one-sided massacre of the Tang army against the British army.

That's right, Xu Daorun's subtext is just one sentence: "Teasing you." ”

As the mortar shells fell into the fleeing British troops, the battle ended in this way, and the frontal British army led by Burgoyne was 1,500 people, with a total of 1,288 killed, a casualty rate of more than eighty-five percent, and Burgoyne himself was also hit by a bullet and died of bleeding in the spleen.

The war in Upper New York State ended with that. (To be continued.) )