12 pounds of mountain grenades slowly and rhythmically bombarded the deer village. The deer village erected outside the trench was slowly torn apart and destroyed under the bombardment of the shells, and several large holes soon appeared.
While the artillery bombarded them, the trenches continued to extend forward. Song Ming knew that these openings must be a breakthrough point for the bandits, so he immediately ordered the counterattack team to stand by in the nearby trenches.
At this time, the Fubo Army's communication trench had advanced to a place only seventy or eighty meters away from the Ming Army's position in Bangshan. The distance was so close that Jiang Suo could even hear the sound of shovels and gasps from the soldiers and civilians in the trench digging.
Jiang Suo quietly made a cleanup. Song Ming immediately raised a flag to the sky. The three hundred archers waiting in the trench behind him raised their bows and arrows at the same time, looked up to the sky and fired the first row of arrows down the hillside.
The fletched arrows were quite lethal at a distance of less than a hundred meters. Although most of the fletched arrows were shot outside the trench, some of them still fell into the trench. The engineers and soldiers who were digging the trench The civilians were caught off guard and many were hit by arrows. Some of the arrows hit the sappers on the head and were bounced off by the helmets. Only a few sappers were injured by the arrows. The civilians did not have helmets and many were hit by arrows. They immediately dispersed in panic. Some turned around and ran away, while others dropped their tools and climbed out of the trench to escape, but another round of arrowheads immediately shot them down at the edge of the trench.
The civilian workers suddenly became confused. They threw down their tools and huddled together in the trench. You pushed me and tried to escape along the trench. The engineers and soldiers could not hold back, and they were overwhelmed by the civilian workers. .In the chaos, someone was pushed down and screamed while being trampled.
The company commander of the light infantry company covering the front immediately led his soldiers to maintain order. There was no such thing as "fish and water" on the battle line. The light infantrymen flashed their bayonets, and the company commander fired three shots into the sky with his revolver, roaring viciously. Said: "Don't run away! Come back here!"
When the peasants heard this, they immediately panicked and stopped running away, but they refused to go back to work. They didn't know who took the lead in crying, and they burst into tears.
"Please Master Jun, please let us live!"
"We are here to work, not to die! Please let us go, Mr. Australian Army!"
"Master Jun! There are seniors and juniors among us. Master Jun, please let us live!"
"You can work with peace of mind. If you die, my Song Dynasty will help you support your family. If you are crippled, my Song Dynasty will support you in your old age. If I am injured, my Song Dynasty will provide you with pensions." Then a cold word was spat out: "Those who leave the battlefield without authorization , shoot to death without mercy!"
Under the threat of "shoot to kill", the workers turned back and continued to dig soil on the working surface.
"Call the health team to quickly transport the wounded and corpses. The reserve team took off the helmets and sent them to the front for the civilians to wear!" Yang Zeng had already seen the actions of the Ming army, and he was somewhat surprised: it was organized and orderly. That is, there was no They rushed out to fight regardless of life and death, and did not fire cannons randomly. Instead, they used bows and arrows to disrupt the earthworks.
"Prepare some more door panels and send them up to block the arrows!" Yang Zeng continued to order.
The order was carried out quickly, the door panel had been prepared long ago, and the things were sent up quickly after the order was given.
Wave after wave of arrows were shot down, mixed with burning rockets and poisonous smoke arrows. However, due to the shielding of the helmet and door panels, the rain of projectile arrows could not cause many casualties.
Soon, civilians and engineers had advanced the assault trench to a place only more than fifty meters away from the Ming army's front line. Song Ming ordered: "Prepare ten thousand enemies!"
The soldiers quickly brought out several large wooden frames, containing a large black mud ball.
Jiang Suo asked: "What is this?"
"Ten thousand enemies."
Ten Thousand Enemies is an incendiary firearm. It is roughly shaped like a large hollow clay ball with small holes around it. It is filled with gunpowder and various toxic substances. When the enemy attacks a city, he lights the fuse and throws it under the city, and the flames will
It sprays in all directions and rotates continuously, burning the enemy. It was a weapon commonly used by the city defenders at that time.
"cast!"
Following the order, several big mud balls were pushed out from the Ming army's position. The Ming army did not dare to show their heads. Several people worked together to push the big mud balls out of their positions with the door panel. The big mud balls were all taken with them.
He pressed the ignited fuse, and the fuse quickly ignited the big mud balls. The big mud balls immediately caught fire and started spinning, turning into large fireballs, pouring flames in all directions and rolling down the hillside.
"Ten thousand enemies!" A light infantryman first sounded the alarm. When they attacked Sanliang City, Shi Zhiqi's navy took one shot. This typical case was reported to the entire army. Every Fubo Army soldier knew that ten thousand enemies were very clear.
Very powerful, especially in narrow terrain.
The troops may use similar explosive and incendiary firearms against the enemy, and the troops have plans. Although this thing is very powerful, its effect is completely affected by the terrain. The outside of the trench faces the direction of the Ming army, and it was specially built with soil to compare.
A higher parapet would make it difficult for thousands of enemies to roll into the trench as expected and spray fire along the trench to kill the enemy.
Some of the more than 100,000 enemies thrown out were blocked by the parapets, spraying flames and poisonous smoke in vain outside the trenches; some were not strong enough and were directly smashed into several pieces on the parapets.
The main component of poisonous smoke is some toxic Chinese herbal medicine. Although it is poisonous when burned, it does not reach a lethal concentration. If it is blown by the wind in an open field, it will not even be able to achieve the effect of tear gas.
Only a few tens of thousands of enemies fell into the trenches. The soldiers and civilians received the warning and quickly hid in the trenches on both sides. Only a few people were unable to dodge and were burned by the flames.
Although a series of attacks by the Ming army delayed the earthworks, forcing the troops to stop construction and postpone the troops' advance more than once. But before 5 p.m., the trench still extended to more than 30 meters away from Luzhai. At this distance, the Ming army
Apart from the continuous firing of bows and arrows, the army no longer had any substantive attacks. The firepower of the light infantry had completely blocked the front line, and basically everyone would die if they showed up.
Because there were not many mountain grenades available, Yang Zeng ordered the light infantry to make rifles for calibrated shooting. Each soldier dug a small earthen platform that could support the gun, and patted the earthen platform solidly. Then he repeatedly tried firing to ensure that the enemy trenches were covered. Waiting for the attack
When using the rifle, use the maximum rate of fire output of the rifle to suppress the enemy's possible counterattack.
The three 12-pound mountain grenades used to support the breakthrough battle have all raised their gun bodies at this moment. It can originally fire at a large elevation angle. The artillerymen built earth platforms to increase the firing angle of the artillery. For the time being, they can
Serves as a mortar.
"One after another, fix bayonets!" the platoon leaders shouted in a low voice while checking each soldier's equipment and pedals used to climb out of the trench along the trench.
"Send signal! Attack!" Yang Zeng picked up the telescope and issued the attack order.
Three red signal rockets suddenly rose, and Jiang Ming whispered: "Here we come!" As he said this, he pulled Song Ming into the shelter next to the trench.
The three mountain grenades opened fire at the same time. Shrapnel shells exploded above the trench one after another. The bullets covered the trench like raindrops. The archers and firearmsmen who gathered in the first trench were caught off guard. Their bodies were torn and pierced by the projectiles, and they were bloody.
The fog was spraying, and there were terrible sounds of wailing and screaming everywhere.
Next came the grenades of the grenadiers. Each grenadier was assigned ten grenades. Although they were used for offensive purposes, they were filled with less powerful compressed black powder grenades - nicknamed "shock grenades" in the army.
.Although the killing and damaging effect is average, the advantage is that it is easy to use. When thrown together, it can quickly form a powerful firepower, which can often instantly destroy the enemy's battle formation and cause their will to collapse.
Four to five hundred grenades were thrown into the trenches within a few minutes, and smoke and explosions continued. The defenders who had not suffered all casualties under the shelling collapsed instantly under the attack of this rain of grenades. Hundreds of remaining soldiers were defeated along the way.
He fled all the way back along the traffic trench.
In the past, Song Ming would definitely have led his soldiers and servants forward to stop the defeated soldiers, but Jiang Suo had already told him that there was no need to stop them. He just asked them to retreat along the communication trench to the back to reorganize. The space in the trench was narrow and it was difficult to rashly
To stop the defeated troops, it caused traffic jams in the trenches and caused chaos.
"Tell everyone to prepare matchlocks and fire hats, the Australians are about to rush into the trench!" Jiang Suo said.
Song Ming asked the soldiers around him to blow the conches, and the deep horn sound echoed on Bangshan Mountain.
Almost at the same time, in the trenches of the Fubo Army, the company platoon commanders blew their trumpets and drew their command knives. The grenadiers, led by their officers, climbed out of the trenches, straightened their bayonets and launched a charge.
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"Extended artillery fire!"
Following the artillery commander's order, the elevation angle of the Sanmen Mountain Turret was slightly lowered, focusing on covering the main trenches and communication trenches around the breakthrough area to block enemy reinforcements and retreat.
The grenadier's attack speed was extremely fast, and they rushed across an open area of more than 30 meters in an instant. Some soldiers continued to drop bombs into the trench while charging, suppressing any remaining firepower in the trench. In the blink of an eye, the first batch of soldiers from the commando team had already charged.
Entering the breach, leaping into the trench. A green rocket soared into the sky.
The mountain grenade further lowered its firing angle and covered the depth, quickly forming a blockade effect on several communication trenches. The servants who gathered in the communication trenches to prepare for a counterattack suffered heavy casualties. Jiang Suo saw that his carefully trained servants were concentrated by shells in the trenches.
, they fell down in groups, and their eyes were all cracked.
Originally, he was not too enthusiastic about fighting for the Ming army, just to get to know Kaixin. However, now that he saw Pao Ze, whom he had known day and night, died so humbly and tragically under the gunfire of the thief, he couldn't help but think of the time when he and his old team leader
In Sanliang, under the lustful power of the Australians, there was no way to go to heaven or earth. In the end, I could only watch the innocent senior sister being executed by the Australians in helplessness and fear.
"We will never allow you to be so arrogant!" Jiang Ming picked up the rifle at hand and put on the flash cap.
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