The soldiers of the artillery team began to spend their money as much as they could. The rapid-fire cannons were being consumed at a rate of six or seven rounds per minute. As soon as the shells there fell, the shells here were fired out from the muzzles.
The roaring sound of explosions is endless, and the explosive power of shrapnel bombs is not strong. Compared with high-explosive bombs, if you are in the center of the explosion, you can still be shattered into pieces without any flesh and blood, leaving only blood in the world.
Every time a cannonball fell, it brought up a cloud of gunpowder smoke. In the smoke, countless foreigners were screaming, and Drunni's heart also ached.
At this time, the best way to deal with artillery was undoubtedly artillery. Without artillery in hand, Drunni could only clench his fists and pray to God to bless those soldiers.
The white people who were ordered to guard the first house couldn't withstand it after several rounds of shelling. They were not professional soldiers, they were just pioneers who knew how to shoot. They could bully and bully the indigenous people.
Encountering the Chinese Self-Rescue Army with cannons, they had only one choice - to run away.
More than a dozen white people retreated hurriedly like bereaved dogs. However, they were unlucky enough, because at this time, Jin Xiaowu saw that the first private house was in pieces, so he ordered a deep shelling forward.
Suddenly, as if the shells had eyes, following the footsteps of the fleeing foreigners, the shells rang out from the front of the position and plowed toward the rear quickly, like plowing a field.
With a bang, a cannonball fell into the crowd. Amidst the screams, several foreigners were thrown up high as if they were on a roller coaster, and then fell down piece by piece, turning into pieces of flesh and blood.
Of course, there are also some smart foreigners who lie down on the spot, holding their heads with their hands, like an ostrich, burying their heads in the ground.
Boom, boom!
The artillery shells passed here, the projectiles were flying everywhere, and the smoke continued to fill the air, surrounding one house after another, and finally fell back.
The foreigners who were alive all stood up and took a look with lingering fear. They saw that there were craters every few meters, passing from the front and spreading towards the back, leaving behind corpses on the ground.
Drunni's defensive position was immediately torn into holes. Wrong, Drunni did not have a defensive position in the first place. He only relied on private houses to resist. These private houses were not built specifically for defense, and of course there was no military rules between them.
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"If we don't attack now, we will wait until later!" Liu Zhenming roared without waiting for the cannon to stop firing, and the buglers around him immediately summoned up their strength and blew the order to attack.
Woo woo woo…
As soon as Madman Zhang, who was lying on the front line of the attack, heard the sound of the trumpet, he forgot everything else but remembered to attack.
"Brothers, charge!" Madman Zhang roared, jumped up from the ground, and rushed forward crazily.
Go!
Countless soldiers were crouching, holding guns, and roaring from their mouths. They all rushed forward risking their lives. In these days, even if they have not learned other things, they have at least learned this bravery.
"The troops are attacking, keep pushing forward! Open a way for them." Upon seeing this, Jin Xiaowu put down his telescope and issued this order without any hesitation.
Seeing that the Chinese were attacking fiercely, Drunni had to mobilize some troops from other directions to support the northeast.
And what Liu Zhenming wanted was this effect. He wanted Drunni to disrupt his position, so that he could find opportunities and win this place at the minimum cost.
"Hurry up, hurry up!" Ergouzi loudly urged the soldiers to push the heavy machine guns forward. They were already quite far behind the infantry.
"Death, foreign devil!" Madman Zhang rushed to the front, and before the smoke cleared, he jumped into the corridor of a house...
A foreigner who was still alive was stabbed to death by him before he could raise his gun.
bang bang…
The remaining foreigners opened fire from other houses, allowing the charging soldiers to find their target at once.
The foreigners fired a few shots when they first arrived, but they received countless shots from the Chinese in return.
"Lift it down, lift it down!" Ergouzi shouted excitedly, and all the soldiers quickly lifted the heavy machine gun down.
In an instant, fierce gunshots rang out, and the foreigners who had attacked from the window suddenly became silent.
Madman Zhang led the Second Battalion with great momentum and captured three houses in succession. At this time, the artillery had already stopped shelling for fear of accidental damage.
"Shit, hurry up, we can't let yellow people come here again."
"Follow, keep up! The enemy has stopped shelling."
After the foreign reinforcements from the northeast arrived, they quickly joined the battle. Two hundred foreigners hid in the room, aimed outside, and fought back fiercely.
Not a single soldier of the second battalion was checked, and four or five of them were knocked down.
"The foreign devils are hiding in that house, everyone, be careful, mortar attack!" Crazy Zhang has a rough and tumble, and fighting does not rely solely on rushing. Seeing this situation, he immediately concentrated the three mortars owned by the second battalion.
stand up.
As soon as the sharp sound of the shells rubbing against the air was heard, the foreigners in the house were awakened.
"What's going on? Those Chinese are only a hundred yards away from us, so why do they dare to fire?"
A soldier looked out of the window and immediately became horrified and shouted: "The opponent's cannon is used by infantry, how come there is such a small cannon?"
"I remember, when they attacked us last time, they seemed to be carrying this kind of cannon with them."
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Before the foreigners could wake up from their panic, three artillery shells fell, two exploded outside the window, and one managed to escape through the window.
"Run!"
As the foreigners screamed and several violent explosions were heard, the windows of the house were blown into pieces, and the eight foreigners who were standing next to the windows immediately took action.
All kinds of sounds resounded throughout the battlefield, including the sound of machine guns, rifles, and artillery shells. They were like playing a symphony, mixed together, and sprayed out with blood.
Mortars and heavy machine guns were used in conjunction with infantry attacks. The firepower was beyond the imagination of ordinary people. At least Druny had never encountered such an attack method.
"General, they are requesting a retreat!" Drunni's headquarters was set up in the middle of the town to the north. He could clearly see the thick smoke rising from the front line, and requests for retreat or reinforcements were heard from time to time in the headquarters.
"Don't those idiots know? If we retreat to the outskirts of the town, we will fall into the hands of the yellow people." Drunni was upset and yelled angrily.
If the defenders in the northeast continue to retreat into the town, the Chinese Self-Rescue Army can attack from the left and right wings, which is equivalent to attacking from behind the defenders in other directions. Those frontal defense measures will be ineffective and seriously affect Drunni's
Defense all day long.
"Deploy another 300 reinforcements from the west!" Druny could not believe those volunteers now. They had no clear superior-subordinate relationship with Druny, and even if they escaped, they would not be dealt with by military law.
"Yes, General!" The messenger came down hurriedly, but the defenders to the west were already less than 500 strong.