Although many front-loading guns can hit several kilometers, and even some long-barreled cannons can even reach a maximum range of five or six kilometers.

However, this maximum range hardly makes any sense!

Because it is simply impossible to effectively hit the enemy.

The firing range of the artillery, usually said to be the effective firing range, can accurately hit the enemy's firing range, and this effective firing range, even if it is a new type of nine-pound field gun, its effective firing range is about 1,500 meters, and it is also the effective range of firing solid bullets, if you fire grenades, it is even less, only about 1,200 meters.

Larger caliber cannons, such as 14-kilogram cannons and even 18-kilogram cannons, have an effective firing range of more than 2,000 meters.

In the case of naval guns on a battleship, taking into account the swing of the battleship itself, the effective range is much closer, often only a few hundred meters.

Therefore, in actual combat, hardly any artillery general will carry out artillery bombardment two or three kilometers away, and this will hardly do anything except waste shells.

But!

The Sixth Division on the opposite side did not know why, but it opened fire more than 3,000 meters away, and more importantly, the opponent's shells turned out to be accurate one by one, and directly landed the shells on their own positions.

This kind of thing is completely beyond their imagination.

More than they had ever imagined when they had been subjected to intensive fire from rear-loading rifles.

Although the rear-loading rifle is also novel, the rebels of the New Army in the South China Sea have already used it, and even the Luo'an Arsenal itself has begun to imitate and produce, and I heard that a small number of troops have begun to experiment with equipment on the county side.

But this is the first time they have seen this artillery, which can accurately hit more than 3,000 meters, and even the first time they have heard of it.

This kind of thing is far beyond their imagination.

The artillery positions of the army on the opposite side of the county guard were chaotic, and many of the surviving artillerymen threw down their guns and ran out, but the shells continued to fall, and even ignited the powder kegs, causing this artillery position to explode more violently.

This artillery position is finished.

Although many of the artillery pieces were still in good condition, the artillery suffered heavy casualties, and the rest ran away.

Seeing this scene, even Lin Ziran was surprised.

He knew that the rear-loading artillery was very powerful, but he never thought that just one test gun could completely destroy one of the enemy's artillery positions.

What surprised Lin Ziran was not only these, as the test mounted gun turned its muzzle and began to shell the artillery positions of the other two county defenders, the entire battlefield was completely chaotic.

The dozens of artillery pieces in the artillery array of the county guard were completely suppressed by a small 75-mm rear-loading gun.

At this time, many of the artillery of the field artillery regiment of the 6th Division also began to advance, and some of the 120-mm front-loading guns reached a range of 1,000 meters and fired at the enemy's defensive line.

The 90-millimeter front-loading guns, which had a smaller caliber and a shorter effective range, stepped forward and fired at a distance of only five or six hundred meters from the enemy's defensive line.

Although these front-loading guns are still backward in Lin Ziran's opinion, they are still the indispensable artillery firepower of the Sixth Division.

In this way, the infantry defense line of the county guard headquarters on the opposite side is also finished.

Your artillery units were completely suppressed, and your infantry could only be killed and wounded by the opponent's artillery power unilaterally.

This battle! Can't fight!

However, what made them even more desperate was not only the opponent's artillery, but also the opponent's infantry!

When the 1st Division of the 6th Division launched a skirmish line attack on the left flank, the left flank defense line on the opposite side completely collapsed.

An infantry regiment they deployed here could hold up even ten minutes before it completely collapsed!

If you don't collapse, you can't do it!

They were originally in a dense line, relying on the fortifications of the breastwall they had built for defensive operations, but they were first bombarded by the artillery units of the 6th Division, resulting in many casualties.

When they saw the infantry of the 6th Division rushing up, they expected a fierce battle to fight in line and column.

But what I didn't expect was that the infantry on the other side actually stopped at a distance of 300 meters, and then directly raised their guns to shoot.

Although you have a breastwall as a defense, the bullets fired by the opponent are too dense.

After the front was suppressed, some of the opponent's troops began to detour, and as a result, they killed from the side.

The entire assault of the First Infantry Corps lasted less than ten minutes.

What's more, the actual distance between the two sides has not been pulled within 100 meters.

The battle between the two sides has always been fought at a distance of between 100 and 300 meters.

It is not appropriate to say that it was a battle between the two sides, but it is more accurate to say that the first regiment always used the range and rate of fire of the rear-loading rifles to unilaterally kill and injure the county guard headquarters at a distance of 100 meters.

This kind of can only be beaten unilaterally, but there is no way to fight back, and more importantly, it can't even fight back!

They tried to launch a counter-charge directly, but as soon as they left the protection of the breastwork, the casualties skyrocketed, and an infantry company that launched a counter-charge had just climbed over the breastwork and had not yet rushed out a few dozen meters before it was completely crushed by the enemy's dense rifle fire.

If you can't prevent it and fight back, then the fate of these county guards can be imagined.

Ten minutes later, it was a complete collapse.

I can't run, the casualties are too heavy, and it has only been a long time since the battle, and the infantry regiment of this county guard is already hundreds of dead and wounded.

What's more, many of the officers who commanded the battle on horseback were treated as priority targets by the gunners of the First Infantry Corps, and suffered a large number of casualties.

After the regiment commander, chief of staff and company commander were all killed and wounded, it was difficult for this county guard regiment without the command of an officer not to collapse.

This scene was also seen by Lin Ziran, who was watching the battle from the rear, and said on the spot: "Tell me to go down, and in the future, the officers will not ride on horses to command the battle!" ”

Wu Guanlin, who was on the side, said: "Well, this is indeed not feasible!" ”

In the past, officers rode horses to command operations, on the one hand, it was necessary to command, and on the other hand, it was also related to the poor accuracy of smoothbore guns, and commanding operations on horses was actually not as dangerous as imagined.

But now, it's different!

The accuracy of rifled guns is so high that some soldiers with good marksmanship can even shoot accurately from a distance of several hundred meters.

In this case, the way in which the officers fought on horseback at the forefront was very unnecessary.

In addition to its own casualties, it is more critical that the army will lose officers.

And if an army loses a large number of officers, it will end up completely collapsed like the army of the county guard on the opposite side!

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