The opponent's battleships were the same as the heavy artillery units in the northwest corner of the enemy before, and they could only be beaten passively due to the range factor, and this battle was extremely embarrassing.

The only pity is that their own artillery is all land artillery, firing grenades, and these other sides are all inland ironclad ships, and their protection capabilities are okay, especially the waterline and the main battery are armored.

Your grenades are all collision fuses, but they can't penetrate the enemy's armor defenses and explode deep inside.

But even so, it's pretty good.

You don't have to sink the other party, you can sweep the deck, especially for these small-tonnage warships, sweeping the deck is just right.

Because of these hundreds of tons of inland river ironclad ships, the artillery is basically deployed directly on the deck, or the kind deployed in the open air, at most there is a circle of gun corridors, not to mention the contemporary small-tonnage inland river ironclad ships on the Blue Star, even if there are many small-tonnage warships on the earth during World War I and even World War II, their naval guns are basically deployed in the open air, at most there is a gun shield, but in fact, the artillery is in an unprotected operation.

A large number of high-explosive grenades smashed into such a small-tonnage, unprotected battleship, and washed their decks, and the opponent basically lost its combat effectiveness, so that even if there was only one hull left floating on the water, it would be meaningless.

This surface shelling operation did not last long, and it stopped after just over 10 minutes.

Because at this time, the three ironclad ships that came out of front of the enemy were already unswervingly sailing downstream, and they were now out of the effective range of the experimental artillery battalion.

The remaining two ships saw that the opportunity was not good, and before they were shelled, they had already turned directly and returned to the river bay wharf, taking advantage of the hill on the north side of the wharf to avoid the shelling.

Later, the reconnaissance boats of the Luo An fleet also reported that the enemy fleet had at least 20 ships ready to go out, but after being intercepted and shelled, most of them stopped leaving the port.

However, at the same time, the reconnaissance boat also reported that the other party's ship had never turned off the fire, and had always maintained a state of fire as before, and it could be dispatched again at any time. 、

Several high-ranking officers of the Luo'an fleet also reported to Lin Ziran: "After the enemy fleet is frustrated in leaving the port during the day, it is very likely that it will leave the port at night!" ”

But in this regard, Lin Ziran has nothing to do, people take advantage of the night to sneak away, but they will not burn a fire to guide you to the trajectory, and it will be more difficult to intercept and fight at that time.

However, if the other side wants to go up the river at that time, the Luo An fleet and dense land artillery fire that they have prepared for a long time will be enough to block the entire Luo River and intercept their northward movement.

No matter what they do, they won't be able to stir up any waves.

So the next focus, Lin Ziran still put it on the siege battle.

At this time, the battle to attack the northwest battery continued, and although no experimental artillery battalion participated in the battle, it actually had little impact, because the experimental artillery battalion had already completed the task of suppressing it in the early stage.

The huge front-loading smoothbore artillery units now on the front line were enough to completely suppress the enemy's firepower and bombard the enemy's fixed defensive line.

The first division of the front was still slow to break through after being reinforced by the second division.

Because from beginning to end, they actually did not say that they had launched a direct dense charge, but used scattered assault operations, slowly attacking with the help of terrain to obtain a better infantry shooting range, and then using the fire of rear-loading rifles to kill and injure the enemy.

As for the direct and intensive charge, it can be, but the casualties will be too great, and people will randomly pull out a few small and medium-caliber front-loading guns to scatter the shells, which will cause a lot of casualties to the attacking troops.

What's more, the other side also has a South China Sea breech-loading rifle, and in the beginning of the engagement, the other side was already firing at a distance of four or five hundred meters to intercept and shoot.

If you stupidly launch a dense charge, it is estimated that you can be hit by the opponent's infantry firepower.

Therefore, although it was faster to directly charge, the 1st and 2nd Divisions still did not choose to do so, but chose to fight steadily and steadily, using the advantages of their own infantry tactics to gradually encroach on the opponent's defensive line and kill and injure the enemy.

In fact, this way of fighting made the other party even more unaccustomed, and even felt very awkward, and for a while many officers didn't even know how to deal with it.

Because, whether it was when they were in military school in the past, or in later operations, they had never heard of this kind of combat method, and they didn't know how to deal with it effectively.

They knew that the enemy was ahead, but in reality they could rarely see people. Because the opponents are all hiding in trenches or other terrain bunkers, all of them are fighting on their stomachs, and occasionally you can see the figure of enemy soldiers, but they are also relatively scattered.

At this time, the side is very embarrassed, seeing a small number of personnel on the other side, if it is a soldier equipped with a rear-loading rifle, they can hide in the trench, lying on the stomach to load the battle, but the actual results will not be too much, people are running scattered, but there will not be much shooting window left for you, and an inattentive person will disappear outside the shooting window again!

However, it was even more embarrassing for the defenders, who were still armed with front-loading muskets.

Even if they see each other, they can't fight back, because most of the time the distance is far away, beyond their effective range, and sometimes the enemy is within 100 meters of their effective range.

However, this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that sometimes they are just about to stand up and shoot back, and the other party just crackles and shoots from nowhere, and the bullets fired by the dense rate of fire of the rear-loading rifles often make them kill and injure many people in an instant.

Not to mention the complete suppression of this infantry confrontation, it was constantly threatened with artillery shelling.

From time to time, grenades exploded overhead, spraying large balls of steel into their defenses in the air, so that many soldiers could only hide in their bunkers and did not dare to stand up straight to face them, let alone do anything else.

There is no high-explosive grenade in front of you and behind you, which falls on the ground in front of the defense line, but if you land on the breastwall or in a trench, it can cause a lot of damage.

And that's not all, the most important thing is that the enemy's heavy artillery shells did not fall!

Those small-caliber artillery cannons miss that is, they can't hit, but the shells of these heavy guns, even if they don't hit directly, but if they fall nearby, they can kill and injure the soldiers in the trenches just by breaking through the impact.

Not to mention, although the place where they stayed can also be said to be trenches, they are still more willing trenches, and in some places the rear is simply a large open space, which strictly belongs to the breastwall defense system.

This heavy artillery is much easier to fight.

As the shells continued to fall, they continued to cause casualties to the opponent while also constantly destroying the opponent's will to resist.

While numerous shells continued to fall, destroying the opponent's will to resist, the infantry of the Luoan garrison on the front line also continued to advance.

In particular, the first step corps of the 1st Division, which was the core offensive force, was actually about to kill in front of the defenders of the trench outside the city walls.

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