Nowadays, the nine-pound artillery used in other feudal towns is a bargain of three or four hundred, at most more than five hundred Hengyuan, but the nine-pound artillery purchased by Lin Ziran was more than a thousand before.

Not to mention the four nine-pound new field guns that were urgently purchased in the follow-up, each of which cost more than 2,000.

Zhou Li's heart is dark enough, but Lin Ziran's heart is also ruthless enough!

Zhou Li dared to sell it so expensive, and it was estimated that he would not buy it if he were replaced by others, but Lin Ziran dared to buy it.

Now, these expensive artillery pieces are playing their part.

At a distance of about 1,400 meters just now, a salvo almost wiped out half of the opponent's artillery battery.

If this continues, when the opponent's artillery unit enters the best effective firing range of about 1,000 meters, they will have to lose half or even more of their artillery in advance.

Even if the effective range was reached, the difference in accuracy between the two sides was too great, plus the gap in fortifications.

This time the artillery battle is stable!

Lin Ziran was in a good mood when he saw the effect of this artillery battle, while Li Kun on the opposite side had a more and more ugly face.

In this early artillery battle, our field artillery units have not yet entered the effective firing range, and the losses are already not small, and if we continue like this, even if we can take Nanguang City later, the losses will be huge.

Time passed, Guang'an's artillery units continued to advance, and at this time their nine-pound field artillery unit finally advanced to a distance of 1,000 meters, and their eighteen-pound field howitzers arrived along with the field artillery.

It's just that at this time, the artillery units of Guang'an already suffered a lot of losses.

Rao suffered a lot of losses, but they still reached the predetermined position and began shelling.

At this time, both sides had already entered the best effective range, and even a five-pound field gun could barely shell with solid shells at this distance.

At this time, the two sides competed in quantity, accuracy, and fortifications.

The artillery of both sides came and went, and both were able to inflict casualties on the other side.

However, it is clear that the defenders of Luo'an, with their well-established fortifications, have a great advantage, they rely on the fortifications to be condescending, and the enemy's shells are difficult to hit them, but their artillery bombardment is more accurate, and a large number of grenades and grenades kill and injure the enemy's artillery units and infantry units.

Yes, the infantry units of the Guang'an people also began to advance, and they entered the battlefield with rapid maneuvering in columns.

Casualties are not small, but for the contemporary line infantry, it is a basic ability to withstand the enemy's artillery fire, and when some elite infantry is shelled, even if the loss reaches 50%, it can still continue to attack.

Although the infantry of the Guang'an people is not all elite, they are all regular infantry, and it is okay to suffer 20 or 30 percent casualties.

What's more, it is still far away, and although the power of the artillery bombardment is huge, the number of artillery pieces on the head of the city is limited, and the rate of fire is limited, and for the 20,000 troops outside the city, the number of these artillery pieces is still small.

Even though some infantry companies were unlucky, they were directly hit by the shells of the defenders at the head of the city, and most of their companies were reimbursed with a single shot, but for an army of 20,000, the casualties of a mere company were a fart.

Therefore, the infantry of the Guang'an people still entered the battlefield quickly in columns!

A thousand meters, eight hundred meters, six hundred meters!

Their infantry was getting closer and closer, and at this time, the artillery units at the head of the city no longer cared about shelling the opponent's artillery, but were equipped with grenades that specialized in killing and injuring dense enemy troops.

Numerous artillery grenades exploded above the enemy's heads, and countless steel balls were splashed like rain, constantly hitting the enemy's infantry.

But the enemy infantry still strode forward and kept the column forward.

A middle doctor riding a tall horse had just been hit by a cannonball and fell, only his own soldiers hurriedly dismounted to check the situation, but the deputy battalion commander in the back had already let his own soldiers put up the command flag at this time.

Then he saw that the young doctor quickly stepped forward, walked at the front of the team, and successfully took over the command of the whole battalion, and he didn't even look at the fallen boss.

The marching band musicians didn't even pause for the slightest beat.

The beating of the drums continued, and the soldiers marched in a fixed rhythm to the sound of the drums.

The next doctor rode a horse and walked in front of the right side of the line!

Behind him were soldiers and adjutants holding command flags.

Taking a step back on the left is the company commander of the first company under his command, who also rode to the front!

At this time, there were still shells falling in the ranks of this infantry battalion from time to time, and the soldiers kept falling, but this did not affect their progress in the slightest.

The soldiers in front fell, and the soldiers behind them didn't even look at their fallen comrades, but continued to hold their heads high, look ahead, raise their feet and step past their comrades, and continue to move forward!

Six hundred meters, five hundred meters!

The young doctor who took over the command measured the distance visually, and then said: "Change the formation, two horizontal formations, accelerate forward!" ”

But as soon as his troops accelerated, they saw a fence-like obstacle in front of them, which did not look strong and had a relatively large gap between them, but it was unlikely that the troops would continue to pass in formation.

But he had no choice but to disperse his troops slightly and move on.

At the same time, the first trench defense line under the city wall in the direction of Nanguang.

Wu Dajiang looked at the enemy infantry that was constantly approaching, and the adjutant beside him kept informing: "The enemy army is five hundred meters away!" ”

"The enemy army is four hundred and fifty meters away!"

Wu Dajiang did not give the order to fire!

The adjutant's voice was already nervous at this time: "The enemy army is four hundred meters away!" ”

When Wu Dajiang saw that the other party was passing through the first fence and the formation began to scatter, he finally gave the order: "Fire!" ”

In the next instant, the soldiers of the 1st Infantry Battalion under his command pulled the trigger in unison.

The Minnie rifle is at a distance of four hundred meters, and for targets in dense formations of the enemy, the hit rate is quite impressive!

After this round of shooting, at least dozens of people fell on the other side.

"Quick, keep loading!"

Without Wu Dajiang's order, several company commanders under his command were already urging the soldiers to continue loading.

"Free Fire!"

After firing the first volley, the soldiers of the 1st Infantry Battalion began to fire freely.

The gunfire did not seem to be as loud as the salvo, but the continuous gunfire never stopped.

Dr. Guang'an, who led the army on the opposite side, already had a bad premonition when the opponent fired the first volley, but he had no other choice but to continue to lead the army forward.

However, the opponent's subsequent continuous fire caused his infantry to suffer continuous casualties.

It didn't take long for one of the infantry companies at the front to be almost dead!

As soon as he entered the distance of 300 meters, his troops had already changed from more than 600 people before the war to more than 400 people.

They haven't fired a single shot since they stepped on the battlefield!

However, his troops were already losing more than two hundred people!

This situation left his mind blank and he didn't know what to do at all, move on or retreat?

Just when he was hesitating, suddenly there was a sharp pain in his chest, he subconsciously looked down, but he hadn't finished bowing his head to see what was wrong, it was dark in front of him, and then he fell from the war horse!

His last thought before falling into darkness was: What the hell is going on?

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