Compared to the powerful naval equipment, the Mu Empire's army equipment was somewhat lacking.
The Lamu Battleship's cannons were powerful, but they didn't have matching guns. This was the biggest weakness of the Dark Night Army. Fortunately, they had a black technology armor — Lamu Armor.
Like the Lamu Battleship, this armor was also the crystallization of the Mu Empire's civilization technology. It was also silver-white in color and had amazing defense. It could resist flintlock attacks to a certain extent.
That was very powerful!
The only regret was that the Lamu Armor was scarce. The raw materials for manufacturing were currently only available in the Mu Continent. Otherwise, the Dark Night Empire would really be invincible.
The combination of the Lamu Battleship and Lamu Armor determined that the Dark Night Empire could control the ocean, but couldn't conquer other continents. It was a strategic defense empire.
Fortunately, the Mu Continent was vast, and Keisuke Honda didn't have too much ambition to expand.
Their strategic goal was to use the Mu Continent as the core and rely on sea control to develop ocean trade and gradually expand the Dark Night Empire's influence.
This was in conflict with the Xia Empire's maritime strategy.
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Among the 150,000 Dark Night Army that landed on Oahu, 50,000 of them were slave soldiers. Not only did they not have the Lamu Armor, but they only wore simple leather armor. They were the real cannon fodder.
After landing, the slave soldiers were forced to charge in front to consume the enemy's ammunition.
"Fire!"
On the outskirts of Honolulu, Cao Yuan arranged for the troops to temporarily build an artillery position. Seeing the enemy rushing up, Cao Yuan didn't hesitate and directly ordered to fire.
The artillery was left behind by the Pacific Fleet. Hawaii County itself didn't have an industrial base.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Under the bombardment of the dense artillery, the slave soldiers at the front were smashed into pieces. Broken limbs and wantonly splashed in the air. It was like hell on earth.
"Next wave!"
The commander of the Dark Night Army didn't change his expression and sent batches of cannon fodder to the battlefield.
At the same time, an elite troop wearing the Lamu Armor was doing the last rest in the rear. As soon as the enemy's artillery stopped firing, they would immediately rush up and seize the enemy's artillery position.
The Xia Empire's artillery had been improved several times. Today, they had gotten rid of the backward and inefficient smoothbore cannon and replaced it with the more advanced rifled cannon. At the same time, the breech of the cannon was improved, and the firing speed was significantly increased.
With the help of the anti-recoil device, the flexible gun carriage was realized. The force acting on the gun carriage was greatly reduced, and the weight of the cannon was reduced. When firing, the cannon would not move, and the firing speed was increased again.
The artillery shells launched by the cannons had also evolved from the original solid shells and loose shells to the more destructive grenades.
The latest grenade developed by Great Xia used a powerful explosive and a compound fuse to increase the weight of the projectile and increase the destructive power of the grenade. Complemented with tools such as scopes, protractors, and fuse setter, the damage of cannons on the battlefield was increased explosively.
The artillery had officially stepped onto the battlefield.
A few days ago, Great Xia was preparing to establish an artillery academy outside of the framework of the Empire's Army University. This would allow the artillery to become a standing branch of the Great Xia army.
The professors hired by the Artillery Academy were mostly Inhumans, and they were all experts in real life.
In the eighth year of Gaia, following the unlocking of the technology tree of the Second Industrial Revolution, Great Xia would conduct research on the basis of the existing artillery, such as mortars, flat-firing cannons, and anti-aircraft cannons.
The role of the artillery would only become more and more important, and it would become a stabilizing force on the battlefield.
In the face of such artillery positions, the outcome of the slave army of the Dark Night Empire could be imagined. No matter how many were sent, they would be mercilessly bombarded into pieces.
The name "cannon fodder" was well deserved.
The commander of the Dark Night Army looked solemn. In just one hour of artillery bombardment, more than 6,000 slave soldiers had died in battle. The worst thing was that he didn't seem to feel the weakening of the enemy's firepower.
"Cease fire, retreat five kilometers, and set up camp!"
The commander was very decisive. He realized that the enemy's firepower was much stronger than expected, and the purpose of testing the enemy had been achieved. If he wanted to take down the enemy's position, he had to ask the imperial court to send artillery over.
Only cannons could fight against cannons.
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In the next few days, there was no major battle on Ohu Island.
The Dark Night Army tested the enemy every day and then retreated. They didn't plan to launch an all-out attack. They were waiting for the imperial court to transport the artillery before starting the war.
Cao Yu didn't stay idle either. He took the opportunity to strengthen the artillery positions, and even mobilized the engineers to build small fortresses to accommodate the gunmen, forming a dense firepower network.
Before the close combat, the two sides would launch a contest of hot weapons.
On January 20th, just as the battlefield in Hawaii was in a stalemate, the battlefield in Java, which had always been inconspicuous, ushered in a decisive result.
At about 11 am, the commander of the first legion of the Southern Xinjiang Army, former martial arts scholar Niu Da, led his troops to capture the Java palace, announcing the official end of the battle on Java Island.
As predicted before the war, the Java imperial guards, who were ill-equipped and lacked actual combat experience, were completely vulnerable in front of the Great Xia army. They were unable to fight a decisive battle in the wild, nor could they defend the city that was baptized by artillery fire.
They retreated step by step!
In less than two weeks, Java Island was declared to have fallen.
In this battle, the Great Xia Army of the Southern Xinjiang Army and the Heluo Army suffered less than 20,000 casualties, killed nearly 200,000 enemies, and captured more than 800,000 prisoners of war. This was the most brilliant achievement in the history of the Great Xia army.
This also marked the official withdrawal of the purely cold weapon army from the stage of history.
The battle on Java Island was thus written into the history of the game.
This battle also once again proved the necessity of Great Xia's disarmament and military reform. It proved that after the reduction of soldiers, the overall combat power of the Great Xia army didn't decline, but instead rose and became even more terrifying.
Great Xia's disarmament was finally unimpeded, and there was no longer any opposition.
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Indian Empire, Cusco City.
After the news of the battle on Java Island was revealed, it caused a storm of firearms on a global scale.
The European and American dynasties focused on the research and development of firearms, and their strength was comparable to Great Xia's. They were just a little surprised that Great Xia, as a traditional eastern dynasty, was also at the forefront of industrialization.
The most difficult one was the Indian Empire.
This American dynasty, which adhered to the Indian tradition, had been having a hard time recently. Faced with the attacks of the Spanish and Brasilia dynasties, it was already somewhat powerless.
Juarez's faith also began to waver.
This emperor realized that in today's days of vigorous development of firearms, if the empire still insisted on sticking to its tradition, it would eventually be buried with it.
"The empire must make changes!"
The current Indian Empire had almost zero industrial base. It was impossible to manufacture cannons and firearms in a short period of time.
The only way was to purchase firearms from outside.
Looking at the entire world, only Great Xia had the strength and was willing to trade with the Indian Empire.
What gave Juarez a headache was that in the seventh year of Gaia, Great Xia had taken the initiative to offer assistance to the Indian Empire to establish an industrial system, but Juarez had rejected it.
Now, he didn't know how much effort it would take.
"Even if I have to put down my pride, this matter must be negotiated. At most, I'll just have to cede some benefits."
Juarez already had the awareness of cutting his own flesh.
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On the 22nd of January, after capturing Java Island, the Heluo army was ordered to go north and land on Sumatra Island to encircle and annihilate Padong City.
As a result, the already tottering army of Badong City became even worse.
Unlike the imperial guards, the Padong City army was still considered an elite force and was also equipped with cannons and firearms. However, compared to the Great Xia army, the gap was still very obvious.
Under the siege of three armies, even with the support of the mutants, Padong City was ultimately unable to withstand the attack.
On the 27th, at about three o 'clock in the afternoon, after three days and three nights of fierce fighting, Padong City was captured by the Great Xia army. This meant that the battle of Java had officially come to an end.
The Nanyang war zone had completed the imperial court's order to capture Java before the Spring Festival.
This battle was indeed fought beautifully.
After capturing Java, the entire southern border was unified and placed under the rule of Great Xia.
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