Hertz's idea was good, and it was close to success last time, if the fixed bracket hadn't collapsed.

So Hertz thought that the next thing would be very simple. However, learning from the past, the benefits were very high, but one person had already died, and the artillery was a well-paid branch. Although the 1,100 pounds plus the mercenary's own share

The pension is very generous, but there are no brave men who stand up bravely. After all, it is only a few years' salary. If you save some money, you can still get it.

It is worth mentioning that the people who did this were all mercenaries, and the Dutch colonial army had limited skills and was unwilling to do it. Hertz did not want to force these people. After all, the Netherlands, with less than five million people, every

An adult labor force is extremely precious. If you don't see the Netherlands, you can only recruit mercenaries to fight the war. Are you recruiting colonials to join the warships?

As a last resort, Hertz doubled the bounty and pension. The mercenaries chose the former between the golden coins and rushing out to attack the South China Army's positions.

But Hertz, who had secured the personnel, turned around and found that it still didn't work, there were no more shells...

Although Marvin Owen and others found more than one, they only picked up one. This was not a golden gold coin, but a cannonball that no one knew whether or when it would explode.

In fact, when Marvin Owen discovered the cannonball that the soldier brought back, he almost didn't get killed. It is worth mentioning that after receiving the reward of ten pounds, the soldier had already joined the first wave of assaults by Marvin Owen.

Team.

Now the big boss has to do such a dangerous task again. Unsurprisingly, the Irishman named Adam Johnston was thought of by Marvin Irving again. Then after hesitating for a second, Marvin Irving decided to

The task was assigned to Adam Johnston.

"Young man, you are the one chosen by God. You see, there is Adam in your name. The first man created by God was also Adam. Now, the time for God to test you has come. The firepower of the pagans is very fierce and hinders our delivery.

God’s gospel, I have a good mission here, to pick up more shells and come back, God will bless you.”

There is a saying, such a low-level sentence really made Adam Johnston go, but I don’t know whether his motivation came from God or the pound.

Of course, you can't go there in broad daylight. The shelling point is only over a hundred meters away from the South China Army's front line. If you go there in broad daylight, you will be a living target. This is not a corpse collection team.

Therefore, we had to wait until night, so Hertz decided to move the camp forward to a place four thousand meters away from the South China Army's forward position to build camps and fortifications. The fortifications here were shallow trenches with piles of piles on them.

The low walls and trenches that came out were straight, with no saw teeth, no irregular arrangements, and no communication trenches. The trenches were independent of each other.

In addition, the depth is only 30 centimeters, and with the mounds of soil, it is only 50 or 60 centimeters. Its function is to resist bullets and reduce the area exposed during shooting. As for anti-gunfire, it has not been considered at all.

In fact, the South China Army and the Dutch colonial army and mercenaries can be said to be on the same starting line. The South China Army has no experience in large-scale combat and regimental field operations, so that it can only defend. If it attacks, the troops may disperse, and the Dutch

Whether they are mercenaries or colonial troops, they are fighting low-intensity wars and have no concept of modern warfare. Both sides are evenly matched.

That night, the crawling mercenaries made a good harvest, bringing back ten dumb bombs and wasting seven people, including Adam Johnston. Facts have proved that the young man's faith is not strong enough!

After Marvin Owen found out, he cried sadly, but the sound was quite strange. Maybe the Austrian cry was "hahaha".

On November 21, Hertz took the mortar shell with the fuse successfully removed and looked at it carefully.

"This kind of cannonball is so strange. It's thick in the middle and thin at the ends. Isn't it a waste of space?" an officer said.

"What's on this tail? Why are there strange things on the back of the cannonball?" the artillery major asked.

"You are an artillery professional, why don't you come to ask us if you don't know?" Marvin Owen said.

"Hiss... the caliber of this artillery shell is really large, it looks bigger than a three-inch cannon, and no country in the world is equipped with this kind of artillery shell!" the chief of staff said sharply.

"You mean, these cannonballs were produced by those yellow-skinned monkeys themselves?" Hertz asked in surprise.

"Maybe, it's very possible, and a cannon like this must be different from the cannon used to fire it." The chief of staff said, looking at the cannon in his hand repeatedly.

"Judging from the fact that no firing position has been found, this is a direct-fire cannon with an extremely fast rate of fire." said the artillery major.

"Also, this kind of cannonball flies very slowly, at least a black shadow is visible to the naked eye." Marvin Owen said as if he was afraid that everyone would forget him.

"In other words, the yellow-skinned monkeys have produced a direct-fire cannon that is more powerful than a three-inch cannon and has a very fast rate of fire, but the muzzle speed is not very fast, and it has been mass-produced?" Hertz concluded.

"It's really surprising that yellow-skinned monkeys can also make such a thing?" the artillery major replied, "and the cost is very low."

"There is no need to be surprised. That big country in the north has a history of thousands of years, and where are the Chinese from? They have made many inventions and creations in history." Marvin Owen said that Austria has no interests in Southeast Asia anyway.

, he doesn’t care about it.

"You said the cost of making this kind of artillery shell is very low?" Hertz grasped the key point.

"Yes, this is a cannonball made of cast iron, and the price may be only one-tenth of ours. But its charges are very luxurious, and they are all highly potent. For example, this one is filled with Dana explosives, which are very expensive.

” said the artillery major.

"How is it possible? In other words, they fired so many artillery shells yesterday, but ended up spending less than us???" Marvin Owen said in disbelief.

"Okay, don't discuss this. I want to know if there is a way to crack it?" Hertz said in a bad mood.

"Yes, the accuracy of the projectile will not be high, and there should be many restrictions on the launch of this kind of artillery shells. For example, the shooting distance must not be far. But if it is a projectile, I cannot guarantee the effectiveness of the artillery." The artillery major said, "

However, such a high frequency of shelling must consume a lot of shells!"

Hertz read out the artillery's voice-over, asking the infantry to solve the problem, but does it have to take huge casualties to solve it?

Hurts never doubted that the infantry could solve the problem by rushing forward.

The meeting ended with Hertz unable to find a perfect solution.

On November 21, the Dutch army stood still, and Wang Yang and others were shocked.

"Don't be scared away!" Xie Hui complained. He only suffered casualties of more than one battalion and less than three hundred people died. How can he be so scared of thousands of people?" Xie Hui complained.

"Report! The signal trooper is back!"

"Bring it in!" Wang Yang and others' attention was attracted by these few words, because the communication corps is currently only sent to two places, one is Semarang and the other is the tiger's mouth.

"Report, I successfully found the special detachment and reported the situation of our army to detachment leader Wang Xu. This is the letter he asked me to bring." The communications soldier took out a letter.

After Wang Yang took it, he opened it immediately and found several pieces of paper inside.

"Our unit has made all preparations for combat and has not been discovered yet. Please inform us of the plan implementation time! Special detachment - Wang Xu"

The first one is a short report.

"Captain Wang, our unit has been training since we occupied the Tiger's Pass. Currently, we have recruited and trained 100 militiamen. The actual number of combatants can reach 1,200. They are equipped with 60 mortars and have sufficient ammunition. We can march in a day.

We can reach the rear of the Dutch army and cooperate with the main force to launch an attack. I also attached a report to Surabaya, and I hope to forward it to——Wang Xu.”

The second one is for Wang Xu.

The third picture was a report to Liu Yiming, but Wang Yang didn't read it.

After reading the short letter, Wang Yang gave the letter to others to read and started writing the letter himself.

"The battlefield is changing rapidly, and the original plan is no longer suitable. Commander Liu has appointed me as the commander-in-chief in front of the enemy. I have changed the combat plan. The new plan is that the special detachment will start mobilizing after receiving the order. Twenty kilometers behind the Dutch

Build defensive positions, cut off their retreat, form a north-south pincer attack with the main force, wait for the opportunity, and completely annihilate the Dutch. The commander-in-chief in front of the enemy - Wang Yang."

"The Dutch have moved too far forward and have already built defensive positions. The original plan for a general attack by the special detachment may cause huge casualties. The purpose of the decoy plan has been unable to be achieved. In order to preserve my effective strength as much as possible, I changed the battle plan and sent the main force to

For the main attack, the special detachment needs to stop the desperadoes who may attack you and pay attention to reducing casualties. The planning time is to be determined - Wang Yang."

After writing the letter, Wang Yang handed it to the communications soldier, who set off again to the special detachment.

"Old Wang, what do you say?" Yang Tao asked.

"There is no way, the Dutch are very cautious, there is no chance of a surprise attack." Wang Yang replied.

"What should we do? Change the plan?" Yang Tao continued to ask.

"More or less, if a surprise attack doesn't work, then we can encircle and attack by force. I ordered Wang Xu to build a position 20 kilometers behind the Dutch and surround him to death!" Wang Yang said.

"Hey! You said, this Dutchman really won't come? Is he so cowardly?" Xie Hui said, breaking the solemn atmosphere in the command room.

On November 21st, the whole day, the Dutch did not launch a single attack.

On the 12th, Wang Xu, who received the news, inquired about the situation on the battlefield and led 1,200 men to build a defensive position behind the Dutch, eighteen kilometers away from the Dutch.

On the 12th, the Dutch army launched a tentative attack, with companies as units, dispersed on a front line of thousands of meters, and slowly attacked the South China Army's positions.

The mortar fire fell silent, with only a few shots being fired where there was a chance of a breakthrough. By the end of the day, both sides were suffering damage.
Chapter completed!