The front trenches are less than 500 meters away from the Northern Army's defense line. They have always been the focus of observation by the Northern Army's sentinels. If the Southern Army wants to attack, it will definitely launch an attack from there.
After noticing the movement in the front trench, the Northern Army sentry immediately shouted loudly.
"Yanks, the Yankees may be attacking..."
The northern troops who were chatting one after another picked up their Enfield rifles and relied on the trenches to aim forward. Through the moonlight, they could vaguely see some movement over the front trenches.
"Be quiet!"
Even with Ye Mu's cover, there was still a lot of movement as the soldiers were busy wielding shovels.
Soon they dug a 45-degree earth pit at the bottom of the trench, and then under the command of the platoon leader, they fixed the square logs with bolts. After a while, several strange-looking three-story wooden pedestals were formed.
Place it there. There is a launch tube standing on the wooden platform.
"Hey..." With a muffled shout, the bottom section of the artillery shell, which weighed hundreds of kilograms, was lifted onto the launch tube, then the middle section of the shell, and finally the warhead.
In the dark night, an iron pillar with a diameter of one foot stuck out of the front trench, glowing with a cold metallic luster under the moonlight.
This is Nanhua's unique artillery - the Type 64 mortar. It is a super-caliber mortar. In order to conquer the fortresses of this era, Zhu Xianhai specially learned from the Japanese Type 98 mortar in World War II and designed and manufactured this powerful
weapon. In order to facilitate transportation, its shell is broken down into three sections. The warhead is round and blunt. The front of the projectile is loaded with explosives and fuzes. The middle is the propellant chamber. The fire line is introduced through the door tube on the side of the projectile. This shell is extremely powerful.
Powerful, its total length is about 1.5 meters, its diameter is 330 mm, its shell weighs 300 kilograms, and its explosive charge is as high as 200 kilograms! The explosion damage diameter can reach 250 meters. On the battlefield, even the strongest defenses can easily
Exploded to pieces with one shot!
Now, this is the first time it has been put into the battlefield. In order to ensure that it can break through the Chilean army's defense line in the first battle, Zhu Xianhai mobilized all 24 Type 64 mortars to the front line.
24 mortars, like 24 tree stumps emerging from the ground, pointed directly at the Northern Army's defense line in the moonlight. In the front trenches, the artillerymen stared nervously ahead, while the officers watched nervously
pocket watch.,
At 4:30 in the morning, when the sky was slightly dark, as two green flares dragged the fire dragon into the sky, the gunner in the front trench pulled the fuse rope hard.
Accompanied by the dull sound of the cannon, the moment the smoke spurted out from the bottom tube of the shell, the 300-kilogram shell flew out of it with a roar. Its sound was very strange, a bit like a weird scream.
And the speed was so slow that the Chileans in the trenches could even see it dragging a slight smoke trail slowly across the night sky, and then falling from the sky.
They were not too worried about the shelling. After all, they had trenches and parapet protection. But now this shell fell from the sky at a nearly vertical angle and hit directly near the trench.
The moment the shell hit the ground, a violent explosion blew tons of soil into the sky. As the ground shook and the mountains shook, a giant gray dragon swallowed up everything around it with smoke and flames. Not even the Chileans within a few hundred meters of it.
His internal organs were shattered by the shock wave, and he was buried alive in the trench by the collapsed parapet.
The twenty-four rounds of heavy grenades were like twenty-four gods of death. They roared with death in the air. The roars were connected together, like the joyful chants of the gods of death. When they fell into the Chileans with a piercing roar,
When they were on the fortifications, everyone saw twenty-four huge mushroom clouds composed of explosive smoke and deathly fire rising up one after another. The rapidly expanding smoke clouds soared hundreds of meters into the sky. People who were blown up in the smoke clouds
The broken corpses were thrown almost hundreds of meters away.
While the heavy mortars were bombarding, field artillery and mortars were also dumping shells towards the Chilean defense lines. Even armored trains several kilometers away were bombarding the Chilean positions with 180mm cannons.
For a time, thousands of artillery shells fell on the Chilean position, and the violent explosions reduced the trenches to rubble. Tons of soil and smoke accompanied by steel fragments flew across the trenches, and the steel fragments whizzed past.
Reaping life in the trenches, the shock wave shattered the internal organs of many soldiers. The air was filled with the pungent smell of gunpowder and thick smoke. The Chilean soldiers in the trenches screamed and cried in despair.
Many of them were blown directly into the sky while crying. They were frightened by such a violent shelling. Those who were lucky enough to survive just huddled in the trenches with their heads in their hands. They were trembling in fear and screaming.
Shouting and crying, sometimes some frightened people even stood up like crazy, and then the whizzing shrapnel directly penetrated their bodies and shattered their heads.
The ground trembled violently under the bombardment, flying dust and fragments of limbs flew up in the air, and then fell down. The broken limbs and broken arms that fell to the ground made the soldiers scream in horror. At this moment, even the most severe
The brave soldiers, faced with such fierce artillery fire, were left with only fear in their hearts. The boundless fear and despair devoured their souls and destroyed their will.
During the bombardment, people were like insignificant things on the sea, drifting with the current, and then their clothes were torn apart by the shock wave, their internal organs were shattered, their bodies were hit by shrapnel, and they finally fell to the ground, and then exploded violently.
, was blown into the sky, flesh and blood were combined with dust.
Suddenly the heavy shelling stopped!
For a moment, the world seemed to suddenly fall silent.
peaceful!
In the eerie tranquility, gunpowder smoke filled the air. The wind blew away the gunpowder smoke, and what appeared before people's eyes was a mess!
Everything was destroyed, the trenches were destroyed, and the wooden deer village in front of the trenches was directly broken into pieces. In the smoke, there were everywhere the frightened roars of the soldiers and the heart-breaking cries of the wounded soldiers.
The sound was accompanied by a strange laughter...
Those laughters were made by some crazy soldiers. They seemed to have forgotten that they were on the battlefield, standing there screaming and crying. They were either sitting or standing in a daze.
There, there are even some people walking like zombies.
The human will is fragile. In the fierce artillery fire, facing death, and facing the earth-shattering explosions, many people's will collapsed directly. After all, this was a storm they had never experienced before.
At this time, suddenly, the sound of artillery sounded again, and this time the bombardment came like a violent storm!