It is still the period of artillery preparation, and this artillery preparation is expected to be very long, and it will not end for a while and a half.

When their infantry also attacked, then their own artillery units must have suppressed the opponent, otherwise, who would not be stupid enough to let these infantry attack in advance.

Now, if they take the lead, the opponent's small and medium-caliber artillery will cause them heavy casualties. ，

Although the rear-loading guns of the experimental artillery battalion were powerful, they did not reach the level of completely suppressing all the enemy's artillery positions, and in fact only suppressed the enemy's two heavy artillery positions.

As for the suppression of other artillery positions, it was the task of the front-loading smoothbore heavy artillery group, and the suppression of enemy infantry fire was the task of a large number of field guns.

It is a very simple division of tasks, and it is also a very simple routine.

Even when Li Dingjun saw the enemy artillery units emerging from outside the city almost all over the mountains, he could roughly guess the other party's actions!

Immediately, he said without hesitation: "Order the northwest battery to cover the enemy's marching and running group!" ”

This will be the enemy's marching group, which is still about a thousand meters away, and only its own heavy artillery can barely carry out the artillery bombardment.

Jian Liangzhi next to him wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't speak!

This would have allowed the artillery of the Northwest Heavy Battery to go up to the city, which would be almost exposed to the enemy's rear-loading long-range artillery.

However, if this heavy battery is not allowed to counterattack, then when the enemy's heavy artillery group is in place, it will be even more doomed.

Now the enemy army is only a few breech-loading guns, and even if they have a certain advantage, they are limited.

However, once the opponent's dozens of heavy artillery pieces are mobilized in place, not only will the northwest heavy artillery battery be threatened, but it is estimated that the entire defense line of the Dingjiang fortress will be covered by a blow.

Dozens of heavy artillery, no joke!

So Jian Liangzhi didn't speak, but his frowning brows showed his worry!

Sure enough, his fears soon became a reality!

When the artillery officers once again urged the remaining artillery to go up to the northwest heavy battery, the artillery lookouts of the experimental artillery battalion, who had been quietly watching the opponent's movements with large binoculars all the time, immediately raised the alarm.

Then the artillery groups of the experimental artillery battalion directly opened fire, and they didn't even need to load, because the ammunition had been loaded in advance, and the shooting elements had been adjusted, so they were waiting for the other party to go to the battery for the second time.

The shells fired by the experimental artillery battalion whistled, one after the other, and once again the continuous shells fell on the positions of the north-western battery and exploded.

Casualties, a large number of casualties are inevitable once again!

At this time, the artillery officers under Li Dingjun did not order a retreat, but continued to urge their own artillery to quickly enter the position and then load and open fire amid the rumbling explosions.

At that time, many artillery pieces on the northwest battery had been overturned to the bottom, and the entire battery was in a mess.

But these guns are big guys, and ordinary shelling can't cause any actual damage to these heavy guns themselves, at most, some guns are broken and the gun carriage is overturned.

As the clock ticked by, the artillerymen mustered up the courage to enter the emplacements under the leadership of the officers, ready to reload and fire.

But this kind of shells that braved the enemy constantly exploded around them, and their comrades kept falling, and more importantly, they knew that even if they fired back, it was not the opponent's rear-loading guns, but only the enemy's mobile heavy artillery group.

In other words, the opposing rear-loading artillery will be able to keep shelling them until every one of their artillery is killed!

What does this mean?

Or the kind of despair that is powerless to fight back!

In this case, the courage of these artillerymen was once again quickly shaken!

Whit, this isn't a war with those damn Orissa!

On the other side are also the Luoan people!

Spank!

As a result, this group had just come up to prepare to load, and before they had time to load and fire the first shell, there were already a few artillery crew members who quietly retreated again, especially after the officers who commanded them were killed and wounded by the shells, and the ordinary artillerymen who belonged to them basically ran around, and then ran down the city......

There were one and two, and soon, one gun crew ran away one gun crew after another.

Some artillery officers saw this, and some bloody ones would shout a few words to continue the battle, but more of them remained silent, and ran down the city again with their subordinates.

An artillery sergeant ran down the city quickly, scolding and scolding: "Lao Tzu has been playing with artillery for so many years, and he has never tried to brave the continuous shelling of the enemy to load and open the cannon, and Lao Tzu is not an iron-clad ......."

After a middle-aged sergeant escaped, he also sighed, leaned against the wall and said, "If there is a little hope, it won't be like this, this battle can't be fought!" ”

The young sergeant said: "The opponent's artillery is hiding two or three kilometers away, as soon as we go up, they will hit us, we go up to fight those forward artillery is useless, in the end we don't have to die!" ”

These two non-commissioned officers, you say a word to me, and there is helplessness and anger in your words.

Why the anger?

Because Li Dingjun knew that they could not threaten the enemy's rear-loading artillery, and they would be subjected to intensive artillery bombardment, he still forcibly let them go to the city to fight, didn't this force them to die!

But they are not stupid, how can they be sent to death!

Therefore, the hundreds of batteries in the northwest fort dared to go to the city, at most, in less than a minute, they did not fire a single shot, and they retreated in a swarm, leaving dozens of dead and wounded by the way.

Li Dingjun almost vomited blood!

Once again, the Northwest Fort was defeated. How can this stop the opponent's heavy artillery group that is rapidly moving forward?

When the enemy's heavy artillery group moves in place, then it will be over.

"Bastard, damn it, adjutant, you take the gendarmes over and let them immediately carry out the order, and those who trespass will be executed on the spot!"

When Li Dingjun angrily gave another order, Jian Liangzhi on the other side looked at Li Dingjun's appearance, but he directly remembered his father.

When the front line was constantly suffering crushing defeats, his father was so angry and said so harshly.

However, his father was defeated in the end!

And can Li Dingjun win now?

With this question, Jian Liangzhi stared at Li Dingjun carefully for a long time, and finally looked around at the defending troops at the head of the city!

Finally, he sighed and took a step, and a few minutes later, he came to Wang Xutong, the deputy commander of the Luohai Fleet sent by Shao Bing of Luohai County, and whispered something, and when the two spoke, they looked in the direction of Li Dingjun from time to time.

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