"Get ready! Release!"
Major General Luo Sheng'an, commander of the artillery brigade of the Zhengxi Army Corps, held the flag in his hand high and waved it forward!
As a child of the Lanfang Luo family, Luo Sheng'an entered the Huangpu Army Officer School to study artillery as early as the Battle of Guangzhou.
Now he commanded one hundred and thirty howitzers and launched a dense artillery attack on the Russian army's land acquisition ahead.
This may be the first time such intensive artillery fire has appeared in this world.
One hundred and thirty three-inch howitzers fired high-explosive grenades filled with yellow powder.
With the widespread armament of rifled guns.
In this era, artillery with very limited range has almost become the supporting firepower of rifles.
However, the artillery of the Ming army obviously has a much longer range than the artillery of the Russian army.
Although the range of the three-inch howitzer is not much farther than the effective range of the rifled gun, the range is shorter when ejected.
Therefore, they can only be placed at the forefront and rely on infantry bunkers to launch salvos.
even so.
The salvo of the One Hundred and Thirty's cannons still made the whole world seem to tremble.
Pieces of sparks exploded on the Russian army's position.
Suddenly, the Russian army's forward position turned into a sea of fire.
The air wave formed by the explosion blew up countless smoke and dust, obscuring the sight.
This was the first time that the unlucky Russian infantry encountered such a fierce shelling.
Many of them were lying on the trenches shivering, and then were blown to pieces by grenades falling from the sky.
The barbed wire fences and deer villages they had worked so hard to lay out were all blown to pieces by grenades.
The Russian artillery group was also counterattacking.
It's just that their explosive shells couldn't be fired that far, and in order to avoid being hit by the Ming army's longer-range howitzers, which caused their own mortar positions for firing explosive shells to be flattened by artillery fire, they just arranged some solid shells at the front. A flat-firing artillery piece that fires directly.
The solid projectiles fired by these artillery guns could not cross the parapets and bunkers, posing a threat to the Ming army's artillery group hiding behind the bunkers and firing in a straight direction.
"Hurry up! Climb forward!"
"Brothers, follow quickly!"
The first wave of attacking Ming infantry had already left the bunker.
Under the cover of artillery fire, crawl forward.
the officers and non-commissioned officers shouted.
soon.
In the first wave of attack groups, soldiers climbed under the first barbed wire fence. Some soldiers took out the vise they carried with them and clipped off the spiked wire.
The strength of these barbed wires produced by the Russians is very average, and it will be broken in a short time.
However, those officers and soldiers who propped up half of their bodies, or squatted down to clamp the wires, were injured a lot by the bullets flying intensively.
"Monitor! Monitor, help me"
"If you die, squad leader, give my pension to my wife and son!"
"Old Huang! Old Huang! Open your eyes quickly!"
In Jin Biao's ears, similar voices came and went.
Someone died.
It's Lao Huang.
A former coater of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
But he was lucky.
From now on, Lao Huang's family is no longer a baoyang, but the home of the heroes of the Ming Dynasty. No one dares to call his family a baoyang.
Jin Biao thought.
The Russian army's firepower was very fierce.
After all, they also knew what they would face if the Ming army broke through the three barbed wire fences.
But the Ming army also moved very quickly.
In the blink of an eye.
The first barbed wire fence has all been breached.
The second barbed wire fence was also cut quite a bit by the vise.
At this moment.
The breech-loading guns equipped by the Ming army have also entered the effective range.
Many Ming soldiers pushed the rifles on their backs forward, lay down on the ground, pulled the bolts, inserted bullets, and waited for the order to fire.
Jin Biao lay quietly on the ground, he couldn't see clearly ahead.
This distance is still a bit far and visibility is very low.
The effect of free fire is very poor, so everyone is ready to play volleyball.
Use the vitality of your volley to overwhelm your opponents.
Try to break through the second barbed wire fence.
Several lieutenant colonels and colonels who were crawling with the frontline troops saw that many soldiers were already in place.
Issue the firing order immediately!
As a sharp whistle sounded.
After receiving the order, Jin Biao pulled the trigger without hesitation!
At the same time, more than a thousand breech-loading guns exploded together!
On the Ming army's skirmisher line, a burst of fire, large and small, was spitting out tongues of flame in the dark night.
at the same time.
The soldiers who were lining up to fire volleys in the Russian trenches across the way suddenly seemed to have been electrocuted.
Shaking.
A large area arrived at once.
Screams came and went.
The Russian trenches were suddenly crowded with fallen corpses.
However, the rise of the Russians into a world power is not so easy to deal with.
They still have that fierce energy.
Those soldiers who were not shot continued to reload and return fire under the orders of the officers.
The Ming army's breech-loading guns rang out.
In about ten seconds, you can fire a round of volleys.
Bullets rushed forward like raindrops.
The Russian soldiers were swept down one by one.
The formation quickly dispersed.
The neatness of the gun platoon is also not as good as before.
The entire military formation gradually became chaotic, and the volley of guns could no longer continue.
There were only sparse shots from Russian soldiers actively returning fire.
"Gold Label! Cut the barbed wire!!"
Jin Biao, who was immersed in shooting, heard the order from his immediate superior.
Let him cut the barbed wire under the rain of Russian bullets!
It's terrible!
This job is filled with human lives.
Jin Biao cursed, but still jumped up and took out the vise and started to cut off the barbed wire one by one.
He was also a military householder who received Emperor Zhu's 40 acres of fertile farmland in the Northeast. This was a huge fortune, and it was worth selling his life - at least his newly born boy could live comfortably for the rest of his life.
"Okay! Another barbed wire fence has been broken through!" Yang Yuchun put down the telescope in his hand and said excitedly. "Li Huhu is still brave!"
Li Sheng, the former commander of the Guards Cavalry Brigade, was nicknamed Li Laohu for his bravery in combat.
Chen Dewang also put down the telescope and nodded slightly: "Now we can break through to the front line of the Russian army. At this distance, the power of the breech-loading gun will be fully exerted. Russians who use front-loading guns need to stand to reload quickly, and The rate of fire is only one-sixth of that of a breech-loading gun... There is no longer any suspense about the outcome of this war..."
Fish farmer Cun smiled slightly: "We haven't won yet."
He pointed to the Russian position opposite, "They have restored order. Apparently reinforcements have arrived, and the Rakshasa Ghost's cannon has also started firing shotguns. The hard battle is still to come!"
Chen Dewang nodded.
But there were some things he didn't say clearly.
Victory in this war.
It was a victory for industrialization.
The Ming Dynasty was able to produce enough steel, enough breech-loading guns and bullets, artillery and artillery shells to build railways all the way to Central Asia.
Victory in this war.
This means that there will no longer be any possibility for nomadic tribes or agricultural countries to defeat industrial countries like the Ming Dynasty (End of Chapter)
