The grenade directly destroyed the guard soldiers at the front.
They ran back crying, throwing away their weapons and even their felt hats, clothes, and weapons in an attempt to reduce their weight.
The explosion of nearly a hundred grenades completely enveloped the enemy's front part in smoke. Dense fragments flew in at high speed from all directions. A large number of soldiers were shot and fell to the ground.
At this time, the camel cannon on the mountain wall opened fire. All shotguns were used.
Boom boom boom! The camel cannon roared, and iron sand fell down diagonally from above.
Different gun emplacements are set up in different positions, but they are all designed to attack enemies entering the valley. This valley is narrow, and when marching at the bottom of the valley, once attacked by artillery fire, there is a serious lack of cover. You can only resist forcefully.
As soon as the artillery fired, the thorns and bushes in the shelter were shaken and fell down, exposing several gun emplacements.
As the artillery opened fire, the effect was immediately apparent. Although it is a low pressure Camel gun. It's not comparable to a rifle when it comes to firing shotgun shells.
From a height of twenty to thirty meters, a shot was fired horizontally.
The shells sprayed out of the muzzle like a storm, directly creating a huge fan-shaped gap. He directly cleared the queue of the team on the official road in the valley.
The ground was full of dead and wounded soldiers.
As the camel guns on the hills on both sides opened fire. The soldiers who entered the valley met with disaster.
They couldn't retreat even if they wanted to. The volley of gun fire in front was so intense that they couldn't get past them. Three or four seconds, which is less than one breath in this era, is enough for the opponent to fire one round. The other side kept firing. The party attacking here was very depressed.
At this time, six Gatling guns also opened fire.
Da da da! The sound of hand-cranked Gatling guns was different from the sound of normal muskets. It was more like a sound of tearing cloth.
Six huge flame whips were swung down from the mountain walls on both sides.
Every time the whip was whipped, dead bodies were left on the ground. Although it is a 7.92mm light Gatling gun, its rate of fire is very high and the bullets are very powerful.
The officers and soldiers who entered the valley were completely dumbfounded. They had never seen such a machine gun in their lives. Those flaming whips swept away the dirty soldiers at the bottom of the valley.
Five hundred rounds of ammunition ensure an adequate supply of bullets. The rotating barrel machine gun has different barrels for loading, firing, and ejection, so it is very heat-resistant, and there is rarely a problem that the barrel cannot be used due to firing.
The addition of machine guns was the straw that broke the camel's back.
There was a dense array of muskets in front, shooting wildly, and grenades being thrown out. The person who was blown up fell on his back and couldn't rush forward at all.
Now the camel cannon on the side can clear out a section of the swarming soldiers on the official road at the bottom of the valley with one shot.
Gatling guns were added to the front, left and right, and they fired every three rounds of tracer bullets at the soldiers in the valley, regardless of the front or rear.
There is no safe place in the entire valley anymore. The artillery was spitting flames like crazy, and the machine guns were firing wildly from front to back. The soldiers in the valley fired back. Huddled with the soldiers behind.
"Fix bayonets, everyone cross the parapet and advance." Li Jike ordered.
After several rounds of fighting, the guardsmen were completely unable to hold on anymore. Running back crazily, at this time, under the constant blows of various firearms, they were hit, killed and injured all around.
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The explosive shell of the camel cannon exploded directly, flames rose into the sky, and the surrounding guard soldiers were blown away. Solid bullets will ricochet in the valley. A lead ball will be driven diagonally into the crowd at the bottom of the valley. The shell will roll forward at high speed, smearing the liver and brain wherever it passes. Limbs flying.
Machine guns chased the running crowd, and the line of fire swept back and forth. People were cut down piece by piece like wheat.
Finally, the fear reached its peak, and the three thousand people in the front completely collapsed. With red eyes, they raised their swords and guns, turned around and ran away towards the way they came.
The defeated troops in the front directly impacted the soldiers in the middle, causing the soldiers in the middle to become confused.
At this time, the artillery positions on the mountain also began to shift their muzzle pointing and began to bombard the central part.
The soldiers in the middle also began to run away, and the officers were unable to stop them. They were dragged away and rushed backwards.
Tian Guang was surprised to see explosions and gunshots everywhere in the valley ahead. On the stone walls of the mountains on both sides, cannons were exposed. There were also several unknown firearms firing fiercely.
These firearms can actually fire bullets continuously. I don't know how.
Hou Shilu's face turned pale at this time, and he could already see that he was defeated.
The shouts of killing in the front are not from our own troops, and this is not the movement of our own troops.
Looking at the various ministries in the valley ahead, they were overwhelmed by the defeated troops one after another, and these officers and soldiers were also bundled up and fled backwards.
Hou Shilu and Tian Guang looked at everything in front of them dumbfounded. They rushed into the valley with great satisfaction just now, but why did they suddenly become like this?
"Sir, let's go quickly. We're defeated in front. It's not fun to rush over with defeated troops." A personal guard grabbed Hou Shilu's horse reins. He forced the horse to turn around, and then pulled the horse to run down the sand dam.
When Tian Guang saw that Hou Shilu was gone, he felt helpless and immediately rode away.
Seeing the general and deputy general, they all ran away with their own soldiers. The officers looked at each other, paused, and then suddenly realized what was happening. One by one, they immediately turned around and ran away.
At this time, Hou Shilu ran in front with his soldiers, and officers at all levels ran behind with their servants. The camp soldiers also fled backwards. He hadn't gotten very far yet. The surging crowd, like a tide, overflowed the sand dam and fled.
Hou Shilu looked back at the galloping horse, feeling frightened for a while. Fortunately, he saw the opportunity quickly and knew that something was going to happen in advance. Otherwise, he would have been trampled to death by the defeated troops like those officers who ran too slowly.
After a large number of guardsmen escaped from the valley, more than a hundred cavalrymen riding camels chased behind them. These camel soldiers were the soldiers who blocked the attack just now.
At this point, since the enemy has been defeated, we should attack immediately without giving the enemy a chance to breathe.
These cavalry are riding camels, and the speed of these creatures cannot be compared with horses. Very slow. But even jogging is much faster than human legs.
The camel cavalry chased behind, hitting the enemy with firearms from time to time. In this way, these guardsmen all started a crazy rout mode.
Tian Peng also looked at it in a daze. He did not expect that there were just these ten artillery pieces and six machine guns. There are more than a hundred riflemen who can hold off the enemy's attack for three days without any problem.
But now, less than an hour into the battle, the enemy was immediately "moistened".
"Tell the troops in front to chase them five miles away. Don't be reluctant to fight. Our mission is to guard the mouth of the valley." Tian Peng said.
At this time, in the east official hall of Jiming Yi, Zhang Shize was sitting on the Taishi chair with his legs crossed, drinking tea from a covered bowl.
The group of people in front were almost going crazy.
"Master Zhang, please give me a word. We are willing to contribute one hundred thousand taels to subsidize the military. Let the army set off quickly."
Zhang Shize looked unhappy and put the bowl of tea heavily on the table. He wanted to touch me and Yang Fan for a hundred thousand taels. You guys are just begging for food.
