It took less than five minutes for a small experimental artillery battalion to completely blow up the heavy battery in the northeast corner of the Dingjiang Fortress into ruins and bleed it all over the place.

There were even several heavy guns that were overturned and fell to the ground!

But more than that, there were artillery casualties!

Before, Lin Ziran's troops had already set up a posture to prepare for a general attack, and Li Dingjun and the others naturally would not be unaware that the troops on the city, especially the artillery units, were ready to counterattack at any time.

But I didn't expect that the first round of shelling by the other side was so violent.

When Li Dingjun watched the heavy artillery position, which was the most important artillery position for his own artillery bombardment on land, being blown into ruins, and the artillerymen suffering heavy casualties, the whole person was stunned!

He had also heard Jian Liangzhi mention before that the other party might have artillery with a very long range, but he was still a little skeptical.

Breech-loading rifled artillery is actually so easy to do, not to mention anything else, just a gas leakage problem is unsolvable.

However, despite his suspicions, he still made people strengthen the anti-artillery deployment at the head of the city. , especially with more sandbags piled up on various artillery positions.

But he still didn't expect that the other party's artillery would be so powerful.

He was already able to accept it if he hit it far, after all, Jian Liangzhi had said it before, but why was the rate of fire so fast? So powerful?

Although the distance is long, if the opponent's artillery and horses are used as references, he can basically deduce that most of the opponent's rear-loading guns are actually small calibers of seventy or eighty millimeters.

This caliber is not as good as the caliber of the five-kilogram field guns with the lowest configuration of the army in the towns of Daheng.

But why is this explosion more powerful than a nine-pound field gun?

Also, the power of a large-caliber gun of the opponent is even more amazing, judging by the participating objects, it is about 150 mm at most, but the explosion power is even greater than the shells of those 200 mm short-barreled mortars!

The power of the opponent's rear-loading cannon exceeded his expectations, and even exceeded his imagination.

He couldn't have imagined that a cannon with a mouth of 70 or 80 millimeters could produce at least 120 millimeters of caliber.

And the accuracy is amazing.

Li Dingjun watched the other side's shells fall one after another into his heavy artillery position in the northeast corner.

Although it is not said that every shell will fall on the head of the artillery crew, every shell will accurately fall into the position of your own artillery.

Long range, high accuracy, high power!

The combination of these three caused the tragedy of the heavy artillery position in the northeast corner.

At this time, Jian Liangzhi also quickly stepped forward: "You can't continue to stay in the city and be beaten, let the brothers of the Northwest Fort go down to the city to avoid it, otherwise, this battle will not have to be fought!" ”

Li Dingjun also nodded quickly: "Then let the artillery brothers avoid it first!" ”

If your artillery continues to stay in this northwest battery, it will be a unilateral shelling, not to mention the problem of casualties, but the morale will definitely plummet, and in the end, it is even possible to flee directly under heavy pressure.

The two sides openly shelled each other, and if they fought back and forth, even if the casualties were larger, they could withstand it by gritting their teeth.

However, if it is only a one-sided shelling, and the own side cannot fight back, then it will be difficult for the soldiers on the front line to withstand this kind of pressure.

can't fight back, can't hide, can't hit the other party, but continues to suffer casualties, the psychological pressure brought by this situation far exceeds the actual casualties.

In fact, many of the troops that surrendered to Lin Ziran before surrendered under this situation.

With Li Dingjun's order, the surviving artillery on the northwest fort was finally liberated, and they left their positions directly, and then went directly down to the city, hiding from the shelling in the strong fortress below.

But at this time, the hundreds of artillerymen who were originally preparing for battle were already dead and wounded at least hundreds.

On the other side, Dr. Tian Yaping, after seeing through the telescope that the other party's artillery took the initiative to withdraw from the city to avoid the artillery fire, smiled slightly, this is what they wanted.

It is unrealistic to rely on only seven artillery pieces to kill the opponent.

His strategic task of testing the artillery battalion was only to suppress the other side in the early stage, and now, the suppression has been successful.

The order was immediately issued: "Rotate the artillery bombardment, continue to suppress the continuous fire of the enemy's northwest battery, don't worry, as long as they don't come out, just shoot a few random shots, if their artillery comes up, give them another rapid fire." ”

"Inform the friendly artillery again that our unit has successfully suppressed the enemy's heavy artillery, and they can move!"

At this time, on the many anticlines ahead, many artillerymen of the 1st Heavy Artillery Regiment and the 2nd Heavy Artillery Regiment began to urge their horses to drag the heavy artillery forward continuously.

As the chief of staff of the artillery of the Luo'an County Garrison Headquarters, Kong Deyi directly served as the commander of the heavy artillery group composed of these two heavy artillery regiments.

These heavy guns were difficult to maneuver and could easily be intercepted by enemy artillery before they could reach effective range.

If there were no experimental artillery battalions, then these heavy artillery units would have braved enemy fire to counterattack, or to find anti-slope bunkers and other ways to enter the effective firing range and fire.

But now, they don't need to go through the hassle!

After the experimental artillery battalion suppressed the opponent's heavy artillery, they could directly swagger directly into the battlefield.

I didn't see Kong Deyi, who was wearing a summer uniform for a young general, riding a Nanzhou horse to lead the heavy artillery group forward!

When the heavy artillery regiment began to march forward, preparing to go to the preset artillery positions at different distances such as 1,500 meters, 1,300 meters, and 1,000 meters.

In fact, the divisional artillerymen in the artillery regiments of the masters have already begun to run wildly.

Their artillery is lighter, and the towns of Daheng like to allocate a large number of horses to the artillery unit, and if it is placed in other countries, the field artillery unit of Daheng can be regarded as cavalry artillery......

With so many horses and manpower pushing and pulling, these 90-mm and 120-mm field guns trotted and marched quite fast.

When the divisional artillery and heavy artillery groups in the rear began to go forward!

In the trenches further ahead, the officers and men of the 1st Division, who had entered the predetermined trench positions in advance through the communication trenches, were also squatting in the trenches with rear-loading rifles in their hands at this time, and some of them were hiding directly in the anti-artillery holes.

It's as if the battle outside has nothing to do with them!

And it is, in fact!

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