Finally, we found a hospital bed and arranged for my father to be admitted to the hospital and began to take care of him. I hope that my friends and family are well and that peace is a blessing.
Swords and guns were exchanged, arrows were flying, and hand-to-hand combat was fiercely fought in the trenches. There was no trickery, just fighting with strength and killing with life.
The space in the trenches was relatively narrow, so spears and halberds could not be used, and Jianlu's bows and arrows were useless. Both sides were using shorter weapons, scimitars, axes, hammers, etc.
Compared with Jianlu's preparations, the Dongjiang Army was more fully equipped. Not only were their weapons and equipment more practical, but their teammates could also cooperate with each other, combining long and short positions, somewhat similar to Grandpa Qi's Mandarin Duck Formation.
A powerful blow came from the steel shield, forcing Chen Xingshan to take a step back, but he then roared and slashed out the sharp ax in his hand.
The enemy parried this powerful blow, but a short crossbow shot from Chen Xingshan's front and back, hitting the enemy's chest.
Amidst the enemy's screams, Chen Xingshan took advantage of the opportunity and struck out with his axe, smashing the enemy into bloody pieces.
A comrade rushed past Chen Xingshan and blocked the scimitar with a steel shield; another comrade came from behind and stabbed the enemy with a three-foot short spear.
Chen Xingshan also quickly drew out his sharp ax and entered the battle again. Behind them, three short crossbowmen loaded arrows with skillful movements and kept shooting at the enemy from a distance of more than ten meters.
It does not require a fatal blow, as long as it hits the arms, legs and feet and injures the enemy, it is the greatest help to the comrades.
Obviously, Jianlu's bows and arrows lost their effectiveness in melee combat, and they lost a means of combat. This was precisely one of the skills they were very good at.
This is a difference in vision and knowledge, and there is no way to make up for it. Because Guo Dajing knew that in the melee combat of later generations, the pistol was the most powerful weapon.
Compared with the short crossbow, the hand crossbow was originally more suitable because it was fast and could shoot left and right. However, the evaluation of the lethality made Guo Dajing finally give up.
It is precisely because of this that each team of ten people is equipped with three short crossbowmen to make up for the gap in reloading rate of fire. Moreover, the crossbowmen are also equipped with melee weapons, so they can draw their swords and go forward to fight.
Similarly, melee soldiers can also pick up short crossbows to replace injured or dead comrades, and continue to shoot at medium and close ranges.
Cries of killing, screams, and the sound of weapons clashing came one after another in the trenches, extending in both vertical and horizontal directions.
As an infantry battalion of the newly organized association went into battle, relying on its strength advantage, the Dongjiang Army continued to seize trenches and gradually approached Anshan Fort.
If it was just a fight in the trenches, the speed would obviously not meet the requirements and the efficiency would be unsatisfactory.
As the frontline trenches were occupied by our own troops, trench bridges were pushed closer, the heavy wooden bridges fell with a crash, and access bridges were built over the trenches.
After crushing the wooden bridge passage, another trench bridge was pushed up, crossing the first trench, and continuing the same operation on the second trench.
The passage continued to extend forward, and soon it was more than two hundred meters away. Coordinated with this progress was the input of musketeers.
The task of the musketeers is not to enter the trenches and fight hand-to-hand with the captives, but to cooperate with the melee soldiers' attack and shoot down at the enemy from the trenches to achieve greater damage and faster advancement.
The bows and arrows were firing back, and Jianlu had to balance attacks in front of his face and overhead. He was repelled step by step, and his defeat became more and more obvious.
Failure is already doomed, but it is just a matter of time and the size of the casualties. In terms of troop strength and training and preparation, Jianlu is far less adequate than the Dongjiang Army.
Even though they are proud of their bravery, the current Dongjiang Army is not much inferior, and some are even more brave than them, fearless of death, and charge bravely to kill.
Babutai has invested 3,000 troops, leaving only 1,000 defenders in Anshan Fort. He knew that if the outer perimeter was not defended, the castle would also be in danger.
Boom, boom, boom... The mortars of the Dongjiang Army opened fire fiercely, and shells far beyond the range of the trebuchets smashed into the deep positions of the Jianlu troops.
Explosions occurred one after another, raising smoke and dust that obscured the sky, making the field of vision gray.
The New Editorial Association once again invested a close combat battalion, attacked fiercely from the left wing, occupied several trenches one after another, and formed a pincer attack with friendly forces.
More trench bridges and ladders were put up in the trenches, and more musketeers rushed into the positions, shooting down at the enemies in the trenches from a high position.
The absolute superiority of troops and firepower suddenly accelerated the occupation of ground positions, and the defeat of Jianlu became more obvious.
More than half of the nearly four-mile trench barrier has been occupied by the Dongjiang Army, and Anshan Fort is already within the range of mortars.
The infantry pushed forward tenaciously, continuing to expand and consolidate the occupied positions. The artillery began to move mortars into new positions.
Boom, boom, boom... The artillery on top of the city began to fire, and it could only hit more than a mile from a high position. The solid shells had limited damage to the Dongjiang Army in the trenches.
The musketeers in the surface positions have stopped advancing, and the fighting in the trenches continues. The Jianlu, who suffered heavy casualties, could only retreat step by step, and the Dongjiang Army was getting closer and closer to Anshan Fort.
The horns sounded on the battlefield, and the troops of the New Association stopped attacking and began to consolidate and rest about a mile away from Anshan Fort.
But this was just the prelude to another battle. A large number of mortars and ammunition were being transported forward, and they were already able to directly bombard the city.
Babutai sighed helplessly and painfully, and ordered the troops inside the city to prepare for shelling. Although there were trenches outside the city, he also considered the layout after the city fell.
But in his field of vision, the Dongjiang Army continued to push up the Hongyi cannon, which made Babutai change his face and gasp.
Although Babutai was not very familiar with the siege power of the Hongyi cannon, the shock of defending the city made him feel satisfied.
Not only him, but all Jianlu who knew the earth-shattering power of the Hongyi cannon turned pale.
In fact, in terms of lethality, the explosive shells of mortars are not inferior to the solid shells of Hongyi cannon. But when it comes to bombarding city walls, shells without detonation fuses are really not as powerful as iron balls.
However, the old artillery on Anshan Fort could not compete with the range of the Hongyi cannon, and could only be passively beaten.
"Dealing with a small Anshan Fort, Guo Shuai is not willing to waste time, let alone pay more casualties." He Kegang chuckled and said to Zu Zepu beside him: "The overwhelming artillery fire is all over the place.
Silver!"
Zu Zepu nodded repeatedly and agreed. He was already the general of the Dongjiang Army. If he thought about anything else and complained again, it would be useless. On the contrary, he would look extremely stupid.
However, he had to be fully prepared for the combat power of the Dongjiang Army. At least, the original officers and soldiers of Liao Town had undergone changes as if they had been reborn.
And taking the initiative to attack and not flinching from the melee combat with Jianlu, this was completely impossible in his previous imagination.