The situation of the battle was indeed as expected by the staff. [No pop-up novel website] He Ming thought. However, the Ming army was only defeated for a while. The opponent's flags were not in disorder, and the troops and horses showed no signs of wavering. Judging from the sound of drums and the movement of military flags, the enemy was stepping up its deployment of troops. At this time, the enemy will definitely mobilize their elite main force to attack with all their strength.
"The enemy is mobilizing new troops." The observation post continued to receive new information, "The enemy is transporting things out of the city."
He Rubin mobilized his troops and actively prepared for the second attack. In order to resist the firearm advantage of the Kun thieves, a large number of chickens and buses from the firearms camp and the baggage camp were gathered together, and many bags and straw bags filled with sand and soil were piled on them, all of which were soaked with water. Some cars were also equipped with a large number of heavy door panels dismantled from the county seat, and even several thick iron-clad doors in the county government office were removed. In accordance with the orders of the Chinese army, Liu Jingxuan personally led the government officials everywhere to remove wooden boards and collect carts and bags, so as not to "delay the military plane." The carpenters and blacksmiths in the army were hurriedly carrying out modifications.
No matter how thick the door panel is, even if it is covered with iron sheets, it cannot withstand cannonballs. He Rubin still understands this basic truth. What he shoots alone is the enemy's blunderbuss.
Judging from the several battles that started yesterday, it can be seen that in addition to the Kun thief's artillery, the shotgun is also very "powerful". The power of killing people from 300 steps away can scare the soldiers. No matter how many Kun thief cannons there are, they are only twenty or thirty. Compared with the blunderbuss in each hand, the threat is not too great.
Earth bags and door panels were used to cover the soldiers during the charge and resist the lead. When they were below the trench, they could be used to cross the trench. With the help of a telescope, He Rubin could see clearly: Kunthi's earth embankment was very wide, but not high, at most only two feet high. There were no defenses above except a low wall made of low sandbags. As for the towers built with wooden poles, they were too thin to be equipped with cannons. They only had a few cannon shooters at most, and they did not pose a big threat.
While watching the movements of the Ming army, He Ming ordered high-calorie dry food and water to be distributed to the soldiers - the battle in the afternoon was likely to be very intense and last a long time.
"Eat quickly and prepare for war."
The second attack was launched in the afternoon. Those who launched the attack were the elite of the Ming army in this crusade. In the center were 1,500 Biao battalion soldiers from Fubiao, commanded by the guerrilla Wang Daoji, who was known as a fierce general. On his left wing were Li Guang's 1,000 guerrilla soldiers, and on his right wing were Wang Xi's 1,200 guerrilla soldiers.
When the cannon fired, only the wheels rolled. Hundreds of chicken carts were either piled with soil bags or erected with wooden planks to clear the way. Behind them were the army infantry following in long columns.
The officers and generals had already seen the Fubo Army's artillery superiority. This time they no longer used dense formations to surge up together, but dispersed their troops into sparse formations, keeping distance between columns to avoid Kun's attack. The thief can create an alley of flesh and blood with one shot.
Wave after wave of people and horses surged forward amidst the sound of military drums and smoke billowing. The generals rode on horseback and shouted loudly in the team, driving the troops forward. Behind them, the flags were flying, and there were people of varying numbers surrounding them. The soldiers and servants, with their swords unsheathed and arrows cocked, are ready to protect their generals and fight with the enemy or deserters.
The cannon on the embankment opened fire again. The thick smoke and fire when the cannon was fired shocked all the Ming army generals and officials. They already knew that with the thick smoke and fire, something useful would happen to the people who were running forward in the open space. The soldiers will assist you. Everyone is watching the battlefield with breathless concentration.
The black shadows of the cannonballs made a terrible whistling sound, and fell in the queue one after another. Nothing could stop these black beating iron balls. Once they fall into the ranks, there will be a burst of screams and wailing. The smoke dissipated, leaving only piles of corpses and broken limbs on the ground. When the cannonball was about to hit the ground, it was already so slow that it seemed like you could reach out and catch it. A reckless commander raised his iron gun upwards, swinging it like an arrow, desperately trying to knock the cannonball to the ground. The cannonball broke the tip of the spear, and a huge force was transmitted through the barrel of the gun, tearing half of his body apart. Some people turned around and wanted to escape, but were instantly killed by the officers supervising the formation behind them.
"Go forward, go forward" the generals were giving orders, but they themselves were not safe. In addition to the cannonballs that would kill them regardless of their official position, from time to time someone would suddenly fall off their horse, and some people would circle around on horseback. , pretending to wave the sword and roar, but he never moved forward.
As the troops drew closer to the embankment, the artillery fire became more intensive. As the Ming army rushed to a distance of 500 meters, the artillery began to fire shrapnel and grenades. The shells either exploded in the air or exploded on the ground. Fragments and iron bullets knocked down rows of soldiers.
"Hurry, hurry," the officers waved their knives, "rush down the embankment."
The soldiers roared loudly and rushed forward like dying beasts. The black formation rushed towards the earth embankment. The gunners of the Fubo Army took off their arms and tried their best to fire the cannonballs as fast as they could. The sound of cannons came one after another, and the entire embankment was completely shrouded in thick white smoke. Only the sentry towers protruding above floated above the smoke like attics on the clouds. Under the clouds were rolling waves of approaching people. The snipers on the sentry tower have lost the leisurely energy of slowly reloading at first, searching for the target in person, carefully aiming and shooting, shaking their heads or nodding, and then drawing a mark on the wooden board next to them. Everyone quickly pulls the bolt to aim, and then quickly looks for the second target.
"Target 300 meters, shotgun." Zhang Bolin finally shouted the command to load shotgun. The battle finally reached the level of close combat. A dozen cannons were quickly loaded with shotguns.
"put"
27 shotgun shells retreated and shot out with every beat of the muzzle, forming a dense barrage. Many soldiers were killed before they even got close to the trenches.
"Infantry shooting" He Ming watched as the officers and soldiers approached the trench regardless of the artillery fire. Some soldiers have already thrown bags of earth, chicken carts and the corpses of fallen soldiers into it to fill up a road. Although they were quickly killed by pieces of shotgun, the follow-up troops were coming in a steady stream.
"The ruler is 15o meters, put it"
The smoke from the artillery fire was so thick that no one could see the target clearly, so the infantry set up a yardstick and fired volleys one after another without aiming. The clear gunshots rang out one after another. Many people did not When they got close to the trench, they were shot and fell down. Some people retreated, but He Rubin had already sent 2,000 more troops to rush over, and the rolling crowd once again filled the battlefield. The front team rushed forward against the back team.
"Charge across the ditch for a reward of five taels of silver, and climb the wall for a reward of ten taels." Several officers and their soldiers galloped along the already chaotic ranks of officers and soldiers, roaring and encouraging morale.
"I will give you a reward of two taels of silver for the first level of rushing and beheading the Kun thief. If you kill the director of the Kun thief, you will be rewarded with fifty taels of silver. Anyone who cowers or retreats from the fight will be beheaded."
Wang Daoji took the lead and rushed to the front. Half of the servants and soldiers around him were dead or wounded. Two flag officers were replaced, but he was still the first to lead the team to the trench. Some archers were already unloading their bows and arrows at the edge of the trench, shooting dense arrows. The first wave of casualties appeared on the earth embankment. The three-eyed gunman also shot the three-eyed gun.
Tian Liang stood on the right side of the company, his ears almost deafened by the sound of gunfire. He saw the company commander jumping onto the low wall regardless of life and death, waving the command knife in his hand and roaring, his voice almost suppressing the firing of the entire company's platoon guns. At this time, five or six feather arrows were shot out from the smoke, and one of them hit the company commander. He fell down from the embankment with a groan, and was instantly cut down by the officers and soldiers.
The soldiers were so stunned that they forgot to fire for a moment. Tian Liang was so surprised that his command sword almost fell to the ground - the company commander always ranked among the best in military training assessments, and those who dared to fight and charge died like this.
"Quick, Second Lieutenant Tian, it's your turn." Seeing that Tian Liang was still dazed, the company chief quickly pushed and pushed him to the company's flag.
Tian Liang almost forgot the command he shouted for a while. Finding that a company commander in the camp was killed, he quickly ran past You Laohu, who was supervising the battle, and kicked him hard:
"Why did you shoot so suddenly?"
Only then did Tian Liang react. His command sword slashed down hard.
"Salvo"
A gust of sea breeze blew away the thick smoke. A red fire snake flew along the earth embankment. When they reached the trench, the soldiers who were firing arrows to fill the trench fell to the trench one after another under fire from the left and right wings, but the second group of people came over again.
Fu Sansi carefully held the SKS rifle. While paying attention to the situation of the entire battalion, he picked up the gun and fired a few bullets from time to time. He specializes in attacking trench-side officers and projectiles such as archers. His marksmanship is very accurate, and he is not affected by the outside world when shooting, basically one shot at a time.
Seeing that some sections of the trench were filled with corpses and sandbags, more and more Ming troops rushed to the wall. Although they avoided the frontal fire, the rifle fire fired from the other side still killed them in groups. of knockdown.
However, casualties on the embankment increased as large numbers of archers and firearmsmen rushed to the ditch to provide covering fire. Fu Sansi felt that the time had come, picked up a grenade from his hand, and pulled the ring to release the bomb in one go.
"Drop the bomb," he shouted as the grenade was released.
"Drop bombs, drop bombs" a series of orders were passed on the embankment. The soldiers who were shooting arrows and filling ditches only saw many small iron lumps dropped on the earth embankment.
The grenades exploded one after another. Although the grenades filled with black powder had a mediocre killing effect, the power and momentum of many grenades thrown together was still amazing. Then the second and third rows continued to drop grenades. At this distance, the shotguns were no longer effective and could only be fired in depth. Hand grenades became the best weapon. The officers and soldiers crowded beside the trench and under the earth embankment had almost no place to hide under the rain of grenades, and they fell to death one after another.
Before the first group of people fell, the latter group of people had already rushed over driven by the generals. The soldiers fell to death in the open space between the horn forts one after another. Each volley fired on the earth embankment. They are all like a sickle, quickly harvesting a group of people's lives. Smoke shrouded the earth embankment, and those in the distance could only see the flash of rifle and artillery fire.
There were more and more casualties on the embankment. Many infantrymen were hit by arrows and bullets fired from three-eyed muskets. Health workers continued to pull away the fallen casualties. The infantry line on the embankment began to weaken, and the firepower became sparse.
The first batch of officers and soldiers took advantage of the sparse firepower and had already pulled out and chopped off the standard bamboo sticks stuck diagonally on the slope. Although some of them were shot and rolled down, the people behind them still came in batches. Those who had climbed up using ladders or simply using hands and feet were immediately killed by the infantry's bayonets, but more and more people climbed up, and some three-eyed gunmen also climbed up. After shooting, they used This heavy iron tool was used as an iron bar. Many officers and soldiers rushing to the stronghold threw burning fire pots onto the earth embankment while climbing. Although this kind of ceramic fire pot could not explode, the flames and smoke after landing also caused a certain amount of confusion for the defenders. The infantrymen began to be forced to retreat step by step, and their positions were in chaos. A boss jumped up onto the earth embankment with such force that he cut off an infantryman's rifle with his long knife and stabbed him down. Then he cut down another infantryman who rushed forward. The two militiamen who rushed forward with spears actually retreated under his momentum of slashing with swords. Seeing more and more officers and soldiers coming up behind him, he became more courageous. He rushed a few steps and forced the defeated militia back. He stretched out his hand and planted a military flag on the earth embankment. The morale of the Ming army above and below the city was greatly boosted, and at the same time they howled fiercely. They rushed here risking their lives, and were about to open a breach in the earth embankment. Lin Shenhe, who was still enjoying the shot of the civilian version of the semi-automatic M14, shouted loudly, and rushed over with the M14 with a bayonet in his hand. Seeing that the two sides were about to fight in close combat, he dodged to the side, and Shout: "Let go!"
A typewriter mounted on a trolley behind him immediately made a huge roar, and the dense and hot lead bullets swept away all the officers and soldiers who climbed up the embankment. One person's head was immediately smashed, and another was torn apart by the lead bullets. How fast it became. Those who were lucky enough not to be hit also rolled and crawled away from the embankment.
Breakthroughs appeared everywhere, but the militiamen and reserves of each battalion continued to seal the breakthroughs and beat down the officers and soldiers who broke through the defensive and occupied embankments. The battle entered a fierce stage: on one side were the crowds who were engaged in hand-to-hand combat, and on the other were artillery fire. The platoon guns were still spitting out fire and smoke all the time.
The place where Tian Liang was was a breakthrough, where Wang Daoji's servants and soldiers attacked with all their might. The company under his temporary command had suffered one-third casualties. The officers and soldiers took the opportunity to climb up the earthen embankment and engage in hand-to-hand combat. His command knife was lost somewhere during the fierce battle. After firing the revolver, an officer and soldier rushed towards him before he could reload it. In desperation, he slammed the revolver into the opponent's face and picked up one of his guns. The three-eyed fire gun whipped up and hit the enemy's brains with a single blow.
Before he could find any more weapons, the officers and soldiers had already swarmed in front of him. He had completely forgotten all the military regulations at the critical moment of life and death. With a desire to survive, he swung the heavy iron guy with his bow and smashed it from left to right. Invincible. At this time, an arrow shot through his thigh. Tian Liang screamed and fell into the pile of corpses on the earth embankment. An officer and soldier saw a scabbard hanging on his waist and knew he was an officer. He jumped over and brandished the saber to chop off his head, but was immediately stabbed to death by the infantrymen who came from behind to save his acting company commander. The two sides fought back and forth where Tian Liang fell.
The staff on the command platform began to lose their composure. They saw more and more enemies boarding the embankment and starting hand-to-hand combat - some of the battles started right next to the cannon.
"Come into the reserve team." Zhu Quanxing came to ask for a fight in person
"Wait a little longer, you can still hold on." He Ming picked up the telescope and carefully observed every breach in the earth embankment. Yes, officers and soldiers boarded the earthen embankment in many places, but there were Fubo troops and militia fighting in every gap. He firmly believed that the soldiers who had undergone rigorous training could repel these few officers and soldiers.
You Laohu gave full play to his role as "one muscle" in the battle. He rushed into each breach with a joyful roar, hacking at random with the long sword of the frontier army in a large number of ways. While slashing the officers and soldiers, he almost cut off his own head, but his crazy energy boosted the morale of a large number of militiamen and infantry. They surged up and followed him, slashing and charging, sealing the breaches one after another. Facts have proved that officers and soldiers are far less resolute in one-on-one hand-to-hand combat than the well-trained infantry of the Fubo Army. There are often cases of three or five infantrymen repelling a group of officers and soldiers with bayonets.
At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, although Wang Daoji organized fierce attacks again and again regardless of casualties, the soldiers were hit by shells next to the trench, causing many casualties. The defenses on the earth embankment gradually became more flexible. Militiamen filled the gap in the casualty infantry, using spears to poke down the officers and soldiers who had barely climbed up the earthen embankment. Typewriters played a vital role in the battle to seal the breach. This terrifying company monster completely destroyed the determination of any attempt to occupy the breach on the earth embankment, and the lead bullets poured like raindrops wiped out the officers and soldiers who poured in. The artillery fire cut off the following troops from time to time. The officers and soldiers who boarded the embankment did not receive timely reinforcements and were unable to open a breakthrough and were driven down one by one.
Wang Daoji was still shouting to board the camp, when the bullet from the Mini rifle hit him. He staggered and fell off his horse. The soldiers finally couldn't hold on any longer and ran away with a roar. v! ~!
