Chapter 303: Attack and Defense of Ancient Mandalay City
With Wang Chen's roar, the other twenty-nine bazooka gunners all pulled the trigger at the same time!
Sou!
Sou!
Countless rocket launcher grenades blasted in the direction of the ancient city of Gumandalay, and the shells dragged a long smoke in the air, like meteorites falling from the sky, and bombarded the crowd of ancient Mandalay soldiers at the gate of the city!
Boom ββ!!
The first grenade fired by Wang Chen exploded in the crowd!
A huge shock wave centered on the shell falling to the ground, mixed with sharp fragments of shells, shot in all directions.
Before the hundreds of soldiers who accompanied Jue Xin Wu out could react, some of them felt a flash of fire appear in front of them, and then lost consciousness.
The ones who died directly were happier, and even more miserable were the wounded who were hit by the power of the shock wave and the fragments of the shells!
"Ahh
"Ahh
The screams rang out incessantly, and some people were directly overturned by the shock wave, hitting the ground and tumbling.
The sky is full of fire!
Smoke fills the air!
And this is just the first wave.
The next moment, twenty-nine grenades struck again.
Thunder and lightning hissed in the sky and pierced the dark clouds, the sky changed, the red fire and black smoke obscured the sky, like a thick color on the graffiti board, explosions, shouts, the roar of grenades fired by bazookas, all kinds of sounds were intertwined, and there was only that kind of humming sound that made people ring in the ears, and there was no other sound.
Tai Tai Ang was one of the soldiers who accompanied Jue Xin Wu out of the city, and in his subconscious, the war was after the battle was over, and the offensive and defensive battles between the two armies, especially the defenders like them, had the city as the backing, and the opposing army was nearly a mile away, so there could be no danger at all.
But at this moment, Tai Taiang showed frightened eyes, looking at the sky only fire and gunsmoke, full of fear and death, he clenched the big knife in his hand tightly, as if holding a life-saving straw.
The roar of artillery continued, and many people leaped out of his side, spilling blood on the battlefield with a fierce roar of artillery fire and screams.
Tai Tai Ang wiped his forehead because of the cold sweat that was shed, his hands kept trembling, he wanted to stand up and run away, but his legs were like being filled with lead and couldn't move at all, extreme fear grabbed him, as if to squeeze all the vitality in his body!
Just as Tai Tai Ang sat down against the wall in despair, another wave of meteor-like dance of death began, and the smell of gunpowder accompanied by the smell of blood irritated his nasal passages, and he couldn't hold back any longer, and stood up on the ground, cursing his cowardice while picking up the big knife and raising it.
Tai Tai staggered to his feet, raised his broadsword, and staggered a few steps.
"Click!"
In the distance, a steely beast moved, it was the one in the enemy army, and it shook its long "nose" and aimed it here.
The surrounding soldiers of the ancient mandalay city raised their swords to meet the battle, and Tai Tai Ang was in a daze for a long time, and suddenly remembered something, and screamed like crazy, and was about to pounce on him with a big knife.
However, the next moment, an army-green cannonball almost as big as his head shot and exploded directly in his head!
Tai Tai Ang fell to the ground soaked in blood, and even though he lost control of his head, his fingers still seemed to grasp the lost life and clench it into a fist...... The arms drooped and the fingers relaxed.
He, along with his comrades-in-arms, died on the battlefield.
Finally, I don't have to face demon-like enemies, and I can sleep and rest in peace.
Tai Tai Ang is dead.
HOWEVER, THE 120MM FLOWERING SHELLS FIRED BY THE M1 MAIN BATTLE TANK DID NOT STOP ADVANCING, AND BOMBARDED THE CITY WALLS WITH PRECISION.
Instant explosion!
The stone chips on the city wall flew sideways, and a large hole of more than 20 meters was blasted out at once!
The grenade is commonly known as the flowering bomb, which can explode and kill people, and it is loaded with high explosives, which is generally mainly used to destroy fortifications, like attacking the ancient city wall, the effect is no better, especially in Myanmar, a small country like Fanbang, the design of the city is not as strong as the Central Plains, and it is like a piece of paper being torn directly after being hit by a 120mm flowering bomb!
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A few minutes ago.
After Wang Chen fired the first round of bazooka grenades, he gave a command: "All obey the order!"
"Yui!"
The morale of the 10,000 township soldiers was high.
"Mortars indiscriminately bombarded the position of the opponent's city gate, striving to blast twenty feet, next, I will take the lead in the tank, you will follow me to harvest the battlefield, the bazooka hand will be the cover, and the rifleman will shoot everywhere!"
"Obey the President's orders!"
"Obey the President's orders!"
After that, Wang Chen beckoned Xiao Jianhua, Xiao Feng and Zhang Qing to get into the tank, if it was an RPG bazooka, it might not be able to achieve the effect just now, after all, the maximum range of the RPG bazooka was only 500 meters, and their army was almost so far away from the ancient city of Mandalay.
However, Wang Chen used the PSRL-1 rocket launcher that was imitated and improved by the United States, made of new special steel, with a firing service life of 1,000 times, and the weight was lower than that of the RPG7, and the use of new steel allowed it to withstand higher chamber pressure, with a maximum range of 800 meters; and also designed a variety of tactical accessories and optical sights, and the probability of hitting a target the size of a tank 800 meters away exceeded 90 percent, let alone hundreds of people standing together.
Even if the bazooka gunners have little experience, such a large target is over there, and there are optical sights, it is difficult not to shoot!
To buy time for mortar installation.
It's a bit unrealistic to rely on bazooka suppression alone.
Wang Chen entered the cockpit of the tank, covered the hatch, then adjusted the position and angle of the main gun, and ordered Xiao Feng, who was the commander of the gun, to fire the shell.
Xiao Jianhua, who was the commander of the car, actually didn't have anything to do now, and he laughed with Wang Chen: "Fortunately, the city of this barbarian country has no moat, otherwise we would have to wait for a lot of trouble." β
Wang Chen replied with a smile while observing the position angle with a periscope: "Yes, if there is a moat, unless we flatten all the city walls, and then use the pontoon bridge to get there, okay, as long as the city wall is blasted out of a big hole, we can drive tanks in and kill all sides." β
Xiao Jianhua said happily: "I estimate that the mortar can be blasted away in one round of projection." Speaking of this, he was slightly excited, "Xiao has studied military books for more than 20 years, and it is the first time that he has seen such a convenient war, my lord, your immortal weapon is simply amazing!"
Xiao Feng also interjected: "Isn't it, a big hole in the city wall was blasted open with one shot!"
Zhang Qing was the most excited, and shouted: "Fuck it!"
Wang Chen didn't talk to them anymore, and commanded: "Xiao Feng, fire the second shell!"
"Okay!" Xiao Feng agreed.
The second shell came out of its chamber again, and it slammed straight towards the city wall!
The fortress was the most important fortification in ancient times, and most of the ancient Chinese city walls were built of rammed earth, with stone walls in some areas. Stone walls are expensive to build, and suitable stones are not available everywhere, so the vast majority of ancient cities choose to build around mountains and rivers, surrounded by water, known as moats, and there are developed stone resources here in Myanmar, like the ancient Mandalay city in front of you, which is basically stone walls, which are extremely strong in the eyes of the Bagan army, and there is no need to make any moats.
This is true in the current era.
It's a pity that the mistake is that they ran into Wang Chen, who is holding an advanced weapon that surpasses the current more than a thousand years!
The main guns of tanks of one hundred and twenty mm caliber are no joke, and it is only a matter of time before they want to blast through ordinary stone walls without reinforced concrete.
To be precise, a 60-millimeter mortar is enough, and the number of shells consumed is just a little more, but Wang Chen has 100,000 mortar shells, and he is not afraid of consumption at all.
If it were replaced by some cities in the Song Dynasty, it would be basically unrealistic to rely on tanks and small-caliber mortars to attack them in a short period of time.
Take Xiangyang City as an example, the average width of its moat is more than 18 meters, and the widest point reaches more than 250 meters.
And many ancient Chinese city rammed earth walls are a whole, very thick, like Wang Chen's M1 main battle tank with a 120 mm smoothbore gun, the rest of the mortars are 60 mm caliber, want to blast the whole rammed earth wall is very difficult, this can be seen from the World War II period of the Japanese Ben army attack Nanjing, at that time, the Japanese Ben army more than a dozen tanks with a lot of heavy artillery bombardment for two days, the city gate overturned, the city tower blew up, 80 meters of the battlements were blown flat, even so, the last day Ben army also needs to use the help of sappers to blast, you can imagine how awesome the Chinese city wall isγ
Therefore, if Wang Chen wants to start a war with the Song Dynasty army, he must have heavy artillery such as cannons, which can break the defense at an ultra-long range, and it is best to train a group of sappers to come out.
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The other side.
Ancient Mandalay City.
The general who defended the city was called Yeinang, and not long ago, he heard a report that a large number of men and horses had appeared not far away, and he had just hurried to hear that the republic of the world wanted to liberate the people of Li here.
Many of the soldiers wavered.
Yeinang was very angry at that time, and hurriedly climbed up the city tower and jumped far away, vaguely seeing a large group of people and horses in front of him who seemed to have no armor, horses and weapons, Yeinang instantly breathed a sigh of relief, and almost laughed out loud, just this group of unarmed people in front of him still want to capture the city?
He didn't take it to heart, and casually patted a military general under his command in the past, wanting to teach the other party a lesson, so as to retreat from the difficulty.
Jeong did not want to let his army out of the city to meet him, because he was afraid that this would be a game set up by other forces, and that a group of unarmed men would be used to trick his army out of the city and hide in other places to lay in ambush, and then there would be no strong city to protect it.
But what Yeinang didn't expect was that Jue Xin Wu Wuyi was also a good player, and he also had the advantage of horses, weapons, and armor, and was actually killed by someone!
At this time, Yeinang was a little embarrassed, and he felt that there were other forces ambushing around, asking people to shoot arrows to repel the enemy, and then send a letter to the king of Bagan.
But he never expected that as soon as the rain of arrows was shot, he was retaliated against by the group of "defenseless" people in front of him!
And it's the kind of revenge that can't be beaten!
Hundreds of soldiers, almost all of them died in just a few breaths!
Couldn't help but panic.
The adjutant general also stepped forward with a panicked face, "General...... General, this ...... This ......"
Yeinang swallowed his saliva and hurriedly commanded loudly: "Hold the city gates, don't let people in! If they get close, immediately fire a salvo of bows and arrows!"
The adjutant general replied: "Yes!"
As soon as the two of them finished speaking, something happened that made their hearts tremble!
The other party didn't know what demon method was used, so he actually summoned a meteorite from outside the sky, and directly bombarded the city wall, directly blasting out a big hole in the stone wall that they seemed to be indestructible, although it was not completely broken, but anyone with a discerning eye could see that as long as the other party continued to aim at the bombardment, it wouldn't be long before the city wall would be blasted out of a big hole!
The adjutant general gasped, "I'm a Buddha......! What is this thing?"
Yeenang was also dumbfounded, he was stupid by Wang Chen's M1 tank with a cannon, and even, he felt the city wall shaking just now, you can imagine how terrifying the power of a cannon is!
"Buddha bless!"
"Oh my God, the devil is coming!"
"What are we going to do? What are we going to do?"
The soldiers defending the city were all terrified, their hands holding their weapons were trembling, they had never seen the power of modern warfare, at first glance, they were all scared, this is not an adjective, there are really a few soldiers who are so frightened that their crotches are wet!
If it weren't for the fact that the city walls could barely resist it, these soldiers would have fled with their legs!
Yeinang deserved to be the main general, and after the shock, he quickly came back to his senses and commanded loudly: "All the soldiers obey the order, once the other party breaks through the city, you will immediately fire a salvo of bows and arrows, find a way to fight them in close quarters, and immediately summon the elephant cavalry to come! They have no armor, no mounts, no melee weapons, we can win!"
Oh, yes.
The other party has no armor!
How can flesh and blood resist bows and arrows and broadswords?
The soldiers were all in quick action, the archers clenched their longbows, the cavalry and infantry were ready, and once the city was breached, they tried their best to fight to the death in close quarters, and when the time came, they would win in the face of an unarmed army!
Hundreds of elephants behind the walls are also ready, and the elephant cavalry is ready to charge at any time!
Sure enough, it was no different from what they imagined, the bombardment of the opposing army was endless, and countless roars kept ringing out.
Rumble......!
Thundered!!
The huge smoke and dust obscured the sky and the sun, completely obscuring the vision, but the hearts of the Bagan army sank, because they all knew that the walls they had relied on for a long time were about to be broken!
Sure enough, after about half an hour of continuous bombardment, a section of the stone wall near the city gate collapsed, revealing a large hole of about 60 meters, and the enemy could enter at any time.
Seeing this, Yeinang took a deep breath, knowing that when it was time for the decisive battle, he looked through the layers of smoke and dust, and saw the crowds surging in front of him, shouting endlessly, he knew that the enemy army had attacked, and immediately ordered: "Elephant cavalry to attack the opponent's camp!"
The soldiers who delivered the order shouted one after another, "Elephant cavalry charge!"
"Elephant Cavalry Charge!"
"Elephant Cavalry Charge!"
When the elephant cavalry behind the city heard the order, they all drove the heavily armed elephants to rush forward!
Yeinang was excited, like the cavalry was invincible in the world, and the other party was "poorly equipped", as long as he was close, he would definitely win.
Suddenly.
The roar that had previously resounded through the heavens and the earth stopped.
All that was left was the sound of a hundred elephants rushing, bang, bang, bang, thump,
It's going to win!
The opponent's demon law has stopped, and this battle will be won!
Yeinang exclaimed excitedly: "God bless Bagan!
Five thousand soldiers also shouted loudly.
"God bless Bagan!"
"Victory!"
"God bless Bagan!"
"Victory!"
Wave after wave of shouting.
The elephant cavalry charged faster and faster, and soon approached the city.
The smoke and dust gradually cleared, and Yeinon was slowly able to see what was ahead, and he squinted his eyes to see clearly, but before he could see clearly, a strange sound sounded in his ears.
Click.
Click.
What is this sound?
Yeinang was a little strange, tried to concentrate his eyesight, and looked down at the tower, it was good not to look at it, but when he saw it, he would never forget that picture!
A huge steel beast rushed at a gallop, with a long tongue of fire on it, and before it could get close to the elephant cavalry, it made a "click" sound, or "bang", and a head-sized "iron bullet" bombarded the first elephant!
Rumble!
The iron bullet directly hit the first elephant, and directly blasted the elephant out of a big hole, and this "iron bullet" was castrated, and then it bombarded the ground next to the second elephant, and then the fire was blazing, and a huge force directly overturned the three or five elephants around!
Buddha...... O Buddha!
What the hell is this, what kind of monster is this!?
In the face of unrivaled power, Yeinang is completely desperate, this is definitely not something that human beings can resist!