The situation of Li Dingjun, Jian Liangzhi and Wang Xu in the city, Lin Ziran outside the city naturally did not know, at this time he was leading a group of generals to command the battle on a hill more than 2,000 meters outside the city.

At present, the army is already surrounding the entire Dingjiang fortress, and the first line is the officers and men of the 1st Division who entered the communication trenches in advance.

There was also the 2nd Division, which was the second wave of the attacking force, and the 3rd Division and the 8th Brigade of the 4th Division, which were temporarily used as reserves and were to be put into battle as appropriate.

However, for the time being, the infantry unit is not currently the protagonist on the battlefield, the current protagonist is the artillery unit.

The seven steel breech-loading rifled guns of the experimental artillery battalion at the rear continued to fire, maintaining fire suppression, so that the heavy battery in the northwest corner of the opponent almost completely lost the ability to counterattack.

At the same time, a large number of front-loading smoothbore artillery units are rapidly moving forward, and the artillerymen are urging their horses and even pushing and pulling, striving to make these guns with a relatively short effective range quickly enter the preset position.

And it didn't take long for Wu Guanlin, who was beside Lin Ziran, to say: "My lord, look, the first wave of troops of the First Artillery Regiment has been put in place!" ”

Lin Ziran looked and saw that two artillery batteries of 120 mm smoothbore guns had arrived at their preset positions and began to unravel

As the first wave of rapidly advancing artillery units, they did not advance too close, but made an emergency stop about two hundred meters before the fort in the northwest corner of the city according to the predetermined plan.

At this time, Wu Guanlin said again: "Now this distance is just the maximum effective range of our 120 mm smoothbore guns to launch grenades, and the accuracy is a little worse, but it can still be effectively hit. ”

Lin Ziran said: "This alternate cover, the continuous promotion of the combat method is not bad, hard work!" ”

Wu Guanlin said: "How dare you say that it is hard, if you want to say that it is hard, you are even harder, and you are just doing some trivial things!" ”

Lin Ziran didn't speak, this Wu Guanlin is also thick-skinned enough, what is insignificant? The battle plan of this artillery was obviously formulated by Kong Deyi, and it had nothing to do with him Wu Guanlin.

Lin Ziran said before that he was only in a good mood if he worked hard, just say that casually, this Wu Guanlin is good, and he is on the line......

At this time, Lin Ziran continued to look ahead, and saw that after the two 120-mm smoothbore field artillery batteries of the First Artillery Regiment arrived at the predetermined position, the artillerymen began to untie their horses and set up artillery.

Although it was a front-loading gun, the rate of fire was not fast, and it fired only a round grenade at the same time, but it was also a 120-mm round grenade, and the lethality of this shell fell on the enemy's artillery position, and the lethality was not small, roughly equivalent to a 75-mm rear-loading cylindrical shell.

It didn't take long for several other 120-millimeter artillery battalions that continued to advance into their predetermined positions one after another, and they entered even closer, all of them directly advanced to a distance of about a kilometer, and the hit rate of shelling at this distance was higher.

With the firepower of these smoothbore artillery units, this northwest corner battery can be regarded as completely dumb.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the heavy artillery unit led by Kong Deyi also arrived at the preset position, also at a distance of about a kilometer, and began to fire large-caliber howitzer shells.

When the artillerymen began to fire, the auxiliary forces of the accompanying artillery units and the engineers who had come with them began to urgently strengthen and construct artillery positions to guard against the enemy's artillery counterattack.

After the heavy artillery units opened fire, it was announced that the battle had entered a fierce phase.

Those are 130 mm, 150 mm or even 170 mm howitzer shells, the power is quite good, a large number of heavy artillery and 120 mm field artillery continuous shelling, not only completely suppressed the artillery units on the head of the Dingjiang fortress, but even free up their hands to continue to shell the infantry deployed on the head of the city and the infantry in the trenches under the city were also bombarded by heavy artillery.

Lin Ziran, who was watching the battle from behind, looked at the explosion smoke and dust constantly raised by the Dingjiang Fortress, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Wu Guanlin also spoke: "My lord, this firepower suppression has been completed, and it will be easy to fight later!" ”

Lin Ziran said with a smile: "Well, this is not bad!" ”

In today's battle, the Luo'an garrison under Lin Ziran first used the range and power of the rear-loading artillery to suppress the enemy's heavy artillery, which led to a series of reactions, and finally laid the favorable situation today.

The next step is simple, continue to carry out artillery bombardment, on the one hand, to inflict a lot of casualties on the enemy, but more importantly, to cover the continuous advancement of your own troops, and finally blow up the city wall to kill in.

If this Dingjiang fortress was placed one hundred and eighty years ago, it is estimated that ten times the strength of the army would be enough, even if it was the Hengao War fifty years ago, it would be enough, because at that time, the artillery fired basically solid shells, although the grenades also began to enter the battlefield, but the grenades at that time were still very primitive, the fuses were not good, and the power was not great.

But now!

In the face of a large number of heavy artillery, especially heavy howitzers, these so-called fortresses are actually not as good as the trench defense system dug in the field!

A heavy howitzer landing on the top of the city can sweep away a section of the city wall from the enemy......

Otherwise, Li Dingjun would not have dug a trench under the city wall, nor would he have piled up a large number of sandbags on the platform at the head of the city and rebuilt the defense system.

And no matter how high and thick the city wall is, it can't stop a large number of explosives from blasting, in order to blast the city wall, Lin Ziran asked the logistics department to prepare a lot of explosives, just waiting for the artillery to suppress the opponent, and after the infantry annihilated the enemy's trench defense forces outside the city, they advanced to the city for blasting.

Of course, the premise of such a tactic is to suppress the enemy's firepower, allow the infantry to advance, and annihilate the enemy troops in the trenches under the city, so that they can get close and carry out blasting.

But unfortunately, Lin Ziran not only had many smoothbore cannons under his hands, but also had rear-loading artillery, which completely suppressed the enemy artillery at the head of the city.

Therefore, the next thing is very simple, just continue to shell the enemy troops in the trenches under the city, support the infantry in battle, and then blast and kill the city.

The next situation was similar to what Lin Ziran expected!

The intensive shelling of a large number of artillery pieces completely suppressed the enemy's firepower at the head of the city, not to mention the support, and it was the enemy troops in the trenches under the city walls that caused great casualties.

At this time, the soldiers of the First Division, who had been waiting for fighters for a long time, also launched an attack under the command of Xu Zhongshu.

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