Chapter 120: A Long Way to Go

The power of the ammunition explosion far exceeded Lin Ziran's imagination, even if the place where Lin Ziran was located was more than 1,000 meters away from the place where the explosion was carried out in the rear, even if the charge of these shells was black powder, but he still deeply felt the huge power of the ammunition explosion.

The skyrocketing fire, smoke, and loud noise, and even the shock wave can be felt!

Lin Ziran's Qingshan Patrol Battalion was used to protect the first half of the transport team, so it was okay that he didn't receive much actual damage, at most he was shocked.

But the 6th Heavy Artillery Regiment in the second half of the period did not seem to be in a good situation.

Needless to say, more than a dozen wagons and other materials on them, and even the shells that had not had time to be detonated were blown away, and even the soldiers who ran out in advance did not survive.

Even a nearby car formation more than ten meters away was also injured, but in a car formation further behind, there were people injured by shock waves or debris.

A martyrdom destroyed at least twenty wagons, more than 100 soldiers of the 6th Heavy Artillery Regiment, and many more people.

This kind of power is not something that you have seen in person, and you can't even imagine it.

What's even more interesting is that even the Guang'an cavalry that attacked and set fire to the previous one, which directly led to the explosion of the ammunition truck, although they ran fast, they were not as fast as the shock wave, and some of the cavalry that fell behind were also overturned and killed, and the casualties were not small.

This kind of result was something that Lin Ziran did not expect, and it was also something that the Guang'an cavalry did not expect.

They just wanted to attack, but they didn't expect that the wagons were full of propellants and grenades, and the explosion was earth-shattering, affecting themselves.

It didn't take long for Fang Yuanxin to arrive with the main force of six hundred cavalry, and when he saw the forward cavalry unit with at least fifty casualties, and learned that it was because of the explosion of the opponent's ammunition truck.

They can't help but scold, these Luo An thieves are all crazy, what are you going to do with these gunpowder shells in a centralized manner, aren't you afraid that some accidents will blow you up into the sky?

But Fang Yuanxin naturally didn't know, this was really what the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment did on purpose.

Because there were too many propellants and shells they carried north this time, the grenades were quite good, because the grenade shells in these years were relatively thick, and they were relatively safe without fuses.

But those propellants are very dangerous, and the quantity is too large, if one truck is loaded here, one car is loaded there, and if it is dispersed, if there is some problem, the whole convoy can be blown up directly into the sky.

Therefore, Cheng Hongbin concentrated these propellants and other more dangerous grenades in the rear of the convoy, and even if any accident occurred, it would only affect a small part of the rear, and it would not destroy the entire convoy.

This arrangement led to the martyrdom just now.

Although Cheng Hongbin was saddened by the loss of artillery under his hands, he was even more saddened by the loss of so many ammunition, which was not one or two pieces of ammunition, but several truckloads of ammunition, but now, except for the martyrs, the others were scattered all over the place, and there were even small-scale serial explosions, many of which were not, and some of them were nearby.

This means that most of the ammunition cannot be recovered.

What's more important is that the Guang'an cavalry is still eyeing the tiger, and these Guang'an cavalry will definitely attack next, and there will inevitably be losses at that time, once the losses are too much.

Even if his 6th Heavy Artillery Regiment successfully transported the artillery to Chongguang City, there were not too many shells to use, and he had to wait for the rear to replenish.

But now there is no good way to be anxious, you can only defend passively.

So even though everyone was still panicking just after the explosion, he still shouted and tried to make his artillerymen muster up the courage to continue to rely on the car formation.

Lin Ziran was a little lucky, fortunately, he was clever, and he did not choose a convoy full of ammunition in the rear of the garrison, but chose a convoy that transported ordinary materials and artillery in the front half of the garrison, otherwise he would not have been killed or injured by the Guang'an cavalry, and he would have to worry about the explosion of ammunition.

At the same time, it was also secretly decided that in the future, it must not be with vehicles transporting ammunition, especially a large number of propellants.

I don't care about my own life, but no one cares about me.

At this time, Luo Mazi stepped forward again, this time he was much more normal, and only listened to him: "My lord, those Guang'an cavalry are coming up again!" ”

Lin Ziran also looked up, and sure enough, the Guang'an cavalry had already started a new round of impact, and as soon as it came up, the main force was exhausted.

I saw that most of the Guang'an cavalry began to line up, and then slowly advanced, except for dozens of cavalry who stayed behind, the others rushed forward.

But as last time, these Guang'an cavalry did not choose to come towards the Qingshan Patrol Battalion, the reason was still the terrain problem.

When he saw hundreds of Guang'an cavalry rushing up again, and still rushing towards his side, Cheng Hongbin's teeth were about to crush.

Ma Dan, you think I'm a bully, don't you, if you don't beat Lin Ziran, you have to come and beat me!

Depend on!

And Lin Ziran just continued to sit on horseback, with an officer's head, watching from afar as the hundreds of cavalry in Guang'an attacked the convoy behind.

It's tragic!

The fight was too bad!

Even Luo Mazi on the side couldn't help but feel: "These Guang'an cavalry are really fierce, they just rushed up with bullets and shells!" ”

"But the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment is not easy to mess with, you see, my lord, they have already set up several artillery pieces, seeing that this cannon is not, tsk, this shell has also killed more than ten horses, and their artillery is not chaotic, and they can even use muskets to shoot at the opponent's cavalry!"

"The cavalry of other people's guns is a revolver, how fast the rate of fire is, using the Fuyuan musket and the revolver to shoot at close range, this is not looking for death!"

Luo Mazi chattered and exclaimed, while Lin Ziran was amazed!

This was the first time he had seen such a serious duel between infantry and cavalry.

Although the soldiers of the 6th Heavy Artillery Regiment were artillerymen, today they are all incarnated as infantry to defend and fight, so there is no problem in treating them as infantry.

This fierce battle scene made Lin Ziran realize the cruelty of war in this era for the first time.

Charging intensively, men and horses fell all the time, but what shocked Lin Ziran even more was that the infantry in the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment played by artillery actually relied on the chariot formation to fight the cavalry at close range without falling behind, and there was no sign of large-scale rout.

Looking at his own soldiers who were so nervous that he trembled, Lin Ziran felt that he had a long way to go!