Dong Jishu said: "If they run fast enough, they can rush under the car before the second shot."
Dong Jishu is also a veteran. He clearly knows the artillery firing interval and the infantry impact speed.
He didn't finish his sentence. The dense artillery opened fire again.
Because it is free fire, these artillery pieces are aimed at their targets individually. So the firing wasn't as neat as the first round. Each gun fires after identifying the target. At this time, the entire camp was firing continuously from all sides.
Zhao Dianming was dumbfounded. He ran about a hundred meters away. Why was there fire on the other side?
This time they were out of luck. An eighteen-pounder shell grazed the right wheel. The entire shield car, the right side of which was instantly shattered, turned into a blood mist without Zhao Dianming even screaming. The entire carriage shaft on the right and the ten soldiers pushing the cart were run over by spherical solid bullets like skewers of candied haws.
A piece of flesh and blood flew everywhere, and all ten people were shattered. Human body parts are flying all over the sky. After the entire car was shattered on the right side, the remaining parts flew upwards, then fell upside down to the ground.
Hu Youlu was knocked to the ground by half a carriage, blood kept pouring from his mouth, and his vision gradually blurred. There was darkness before my eyes. His bones were broken in large areas.
The heavy artillery shells roared one after another, with a sharp whistling sound like red-hot iron bars piercing butter, and once again smashed three to four hundred flesh-and-blood passages in the dense cluster of rebels on all sides.
No one knows where it is safe from a spherical solid projectile attack. Because except for the long-awaited person it kills at the beginning, it will ricochet immediately when it lands. As for how high it flies, how far it flies, and where it lands after ricocheting, it's all random.
No one can predict. Maybe if there are stones on the ground, they will fly sideways. It's possible that the ground was covered in quagmire, floating in the water, flying across the ground, and knocking the lower limbs of the oncoming soldiers off their torsos.
As for these ricochet bombs, it is unreasonable to completely lose their kinetic energy after jumping a few times.
If you see that the cannonball seems to be motionless and you reach out to touch it, or block it with your legs, your arms and legs will definitely fly away from your body. The kinetic energy of the high-speed rotating shot put is still scary.
The rebels charging from all sides wailed. Especially the infantry at the back.
Hu Erbao was almost scared to death just now. He watched helplessly as a shell knocked over the shield truck in front, and then smashed seven or eight people into pieces flying in all directions. It hit him right in front of his eyes. His heart almost jumped out of his chest with fear.
Just when he thought he would turn into a bloody mist soon. The cannonball hit the ground, then jumped up and flew away a foot away from his eyes.
He twisted his neck in horror. I saw the black cannonball drawing an arc and crashing down again. The infantrymen behind screamed and uproared in horror. Everyone is afraid of what will happen to them. Then, a piece of body flew up from behind again.
Huang Tengyuan and others, who were standing on the high slope to conduct the command, felt their whole bodies numb. Although the performance of these bronze-haired cannons is not as good as the three red cannons in their hands. The range is also quite different. However, these artillery are still heavy artillery, and their power is terrifying within a mile.
In such a short period of time, a second shot was fired. They watched clearly. This was definitely not the case. Some of the previous artillery pieces did not fire. Stay and fire now. Instead, all the previous artillery fire has been fired. These second-fire artillery pieces are reloaded.
This kind of heavy artillery can be loaded in just a few breaths. I am not dreaming.
Now, their soldiers were surrounded on all sides and rushed forward. Although their red cannons could suppress them based on their range, they couldn't fire either. The crowds of people in front are all our own people.
However, the price has been paid by now. I can only bite the bullet and rush forward to fight hand to hand.
If you retreat out of fear of casualties, the previous casualties will be in vain.
At this time, Wang Kun's face was as white as paper. He was pampered in Prince Xin's Mansion and Palace. When had he ever experienced such a scene? I have read several military books and they are all about tactics on paper. He boasts about strange things and gives advice to his colleagues and friends, as if the famous generals of ancient and modern times are just like this.
Today, when he stood here and looked at the bloody battlefield, he truly understood
What is the battlefield? Here, the living lives are just numbers without any meaning. In the rounds of shelling, they either turned into blood mist, or turned into flying parts.
He could hardly bear to look at the tragic scene of being hit by artillery.
It turns out that when a person is struck with a knife, he or she will bleed and die. If the artillery shell hits the shield car, it will explode into fragments all over the sky. On the route of the rebels' charge, the true interpretation of what it means to be a mess.
A stream of heat left his thigh, and an unpleasant smell wafted away.
He was ashamed and glanced at the other two people uneasily. Afraid of being ridiculed and discriminated against by them.
However, the eyes of those two people were always on the battlefield outside. One was holding a single-tube copper telescope to observe the enemy's situation, and the other was holding a gun telescope and looking around. No one paid attention to his situation.
This reassured him a little, but the anger of not being taken seriously boiled over again.
"After this battle, I should write to Your Majesty that the car camp needs to be equipped with a batch of long-range red artillery. Today, because the artillery range is not enough, we can only be passively beaten, which is a huge loss." Zhou Yuji said.
Huang Hao nodded and said: "These are the elite soldiers trained by my master. If they were used as frontier soldiers, this style of fighting would have been defeated by the red cannon for an hour."
Zhou Yuji took a deep breath and said: "In the past year, the intensity of training has dropped, and the treatment has also dropped a lot. The officers' morale has increased. This battle is compared with that on the grassland, whether it is reaction speed, fighting will, or cooperation. , have all declined."
He knew it. The soul of this army was given by Uncle Dingyuan. After leaving Dingyuanbo, this army began to deteriorate. He has been leading this unit since its inception. He knew every soldier in the car camp well.
If he hadn't been there all along and commanded this army, the current battle would probably have been greatly compromised.
Huang Hao put down the telescope. Said: "There is still a chance to fire two cannons, so we can put up the steel city wall. After a while, the rebels will arrive at the city and they will have to fight hand to hand."
Zhou Yuji looked at the telescope hanging around Huang Hao's neck with some envy. He was not Dingyuan Bo's domestic slave, so he only got a long telescopic copper single-tube telescope. He couldn't put it down with this telescope. Considered a military weapon.
However, after he looked at Huang Hao's telescope, his eyes immediately became hot. It's a pity that he no longer has the position and opportunity to obtain it.
