976 Battles on wooden walls
Obviously, this crazy scene has a great psychological impact on the defenders, although the soldiers on the gate tower know that the enemy cannot attack the tall brick and concrete city wall, but the constant spouting of bullet chains from the gate tower surprised the soldiers of the garrison even more - strictly speaking, the soldiers were first surprised, then excited, although they had long heard that the iron guy who was placed in the city gate tower covered with canvas was a sharp weapon to kill the enemy, and the legend said that even thousands of enemies were only as fragile as ants in front of this big killer, It's just that since the big killer was installed in the city gate tower, no unrelated people can get close, and the squad leader and platoon leader are also standing guard there on weekdays, and whenever the soldiers ask the squad leader what that guy is, the commander's answer is also vague.
In fact, officers at the rank of company commander and deputy company commander and some squad and platoon commanders only knew the true face of the mass murder weapon, because they had seen it a few years ago - when Pimont's fleet attacked the city of Dili, which was occupied by Orne, the officers of those garrisons were soldiers under Pimont who fought in battle.
The machine gun fire suddenly stabilized the morale of the army, watching the natives charging on the road being hit by the bullet chain, watching the tangible firepower net cause the enemy to suffer heavy losses, so that the soldiers defending the wooden wall were a little more at ease, they knew that even if the enemy broke through the blockade of this firepower network and rushed to the wooden wall, the number of enemies they faced would not only be greatly reduced, but also the combat effectiveness would be greatly reduced - you know, in addition to this terrible fire blockade, the pits and wooden stakes on the ground were enough for the enemy to drink a pot.
Of course, for the soldiers who defend the wooden walls on both sides of the city gatehouse, especially for those veterans with combat experience, they all know that under the impact of this kind of crowd, the wooden wall may still be vulnerable, which the company commander has explained when giving the soldiers a pre-war mobilization briefing, and has made a plan to deal with it - the pre-war mobilization notification is a hard rule formulated in Wei Hong's "Federal Army Infantry Drill Code". The purpose is to explain to all the soldiers in advance the basic requirements of the battle and the countermeasures for various unexpected situations, of course, Wei Hong's regulation is not his invention, after all, there is still a group of members of the Huotang Club standing behind him, if you talk about military history and various strategies for leading troops, there are still high-ranking people in it.
Therefore, in addition to the usual discipline, training, and the confidence of the soldiers in their military skills, weapon performance, etc., the soldiers were still able to maintain a considerable degree of composure in the face of such a surging crowd, and there was no escape-like collapse, one of the reasons is that everything in front of them was informed in advance by the company commander at the mobilization briefing, and in the face of a foreseen scene, experienced soldiers would not panic. And the several companies now deployed on the wooden walls of the two wings of the South Gate Tower are the most elite companies of the garrison.
Just as the crowd was surging a few hundred meters closer to the wooden wall, a line of gray-white smoke suddenly rose up on the kilometer-long wooden wall, followed by a huge roar, mixed with the roars of the tribal warriors, making the sound and roar resonate - up to the sky.
The five companies of the garrison guarding the wooden walls on both sides of the South Gate Tower are one of the most elite companies of the garrison, and they are equipped with all the 59-type rifles, and the daily discipline training and combat experience of the company platoon leaders and soldiers are finally revealed at this moment - the company was not intimidated by the surging crowd, and the soldiers behind the wooden wall in the front row also began to pull the gun frantically and mechanically, pull the trigger, and then pull the gun chain, load a cloth shell combined ammunition, and close the gun chamber in the shouts of the squad leader and platoon leader. Pulling the trigger again and firing it with a bang, the whole process was completed in one go, and most of the soldiers fully showed their usual level of training at this critical moment.
After a while, with the accumulation of the number of shots, the smoke above the wooden wall became denser and denser, and finally the soldiers on the wooden wall could not see the comrades around them and the scene in front of them, but the shooting did not stop, because the soldiers knew very well that the front of the muzzle was pointed at, there was a dense crowd there, as long as the height of the muzzle was estimated, there was no need to aim at all, at this moment, every bullet shot out, the probability of hitting the enemy was very large, so, for the soldiers on the wooden wall, the only thing that needed to be done was to keep shooting, Shoot as quickly as possible, seize the precious time the enemy arrives at the wooden wall, and pour as many bullets as possible at the enemy, and if you do this, victory is guaranteed - yes, sometimes the reason for defeating the enemy is as simple as that.
At this moment, Wei Hong, who was standing on the southwest corner tower to observe the enemy's situation, had realized that the enemy's main attack direction was the wooden walls on the two wings of the South Gate Tower, not the two wings of the southwest corner tower, although the two wings of the corner tower and the West Gate Tower on the seaside were being attacked, but judging from the number of enemies in front of him and the momentum of the attack, the two wings of the South Gate, especially the wooden wall on the west bank of the Xin'an River, were the direction of the enemy's key attack, so he immediately informed all the crossing partners with walkie-talkies.
At this time, Hou Xianglin at the south gate of Dongcheng announced on the walkie-talkie:
A large number of enemies appeared outside the south gate of Dongcheng, and the crowd was pouring towards the city gate tower, and immediately, the continuous fire of machine guns also sounded from the south gate tower of Dongcheng, and soon after, the machine guns of the east gate tower of Dongcheng also began to shoot, and immediately, dense gunfire also sounded on the walls of the naturalization camp and the naturalization village - this means that the tribal warriors have crossed the unfortified wooden wall of the east city and are attacking the naturalization camp and the naturalization village.
At this moment, on the first line of the wooden wall near the river at the south gate, the soldiers of the tribal alliance have attacked to the edge of the wooden wall, and the company guarding the wall immediately retreated the soldiers defending the outer wall to a higher inner wall through the small gate according to the established plan, at this time, the mortar and machine guns on the south gate city tower kept pouring explosives @ medicine packs and ammunition on the crowd hundreds of meters away from the wooden wall, at this time, although the tribal soldiers suffered heavy casualties, but saw that the wooden wall was close at hand, and now, the attack of the soldiers became desperate, and after a while, At least 3,000 men broke through the blockade of machine guns and mortars and rushed under the outer walls of the wooden walls.
"Attention all! Grenade @ Bullet Ready! ”
The squad and platoon leaders outside the inner walls immediately screamed and gave orders.
"Class six, bomb throwing!"
"Class five! Bombing! ”
"Three shifts, bomb dropping!"
"Four classes ......"
"Class 2 ......"
With the order of the squad leader, in just ten seconds, there were four hundred five-seven-style hand @grenade @ bombs with a graceful arc, dragging a wisp of gray-white smoke, falling to the ground on the outside of the wooden wall, two or three seconds later, a burst of fireworks rose from the outside of the wooden wall, and in an instant, wooden spears, rattan shields and even stumps and severed arms flew into the air with the sound of roaring explosions and the screams of tribal soldiers......
Obviously, this is not the first round of bombing, followed by the second round, however, after the continuous explosion, there was only a short pause, and the vigorous bodies of a large group of tribal warriors crossed the outer wall and jumped directly into the mecca, at this time, the soldiers on the inner wall immediately came up and shot directly into the mecca with the already loaded 59-type rifles @ - almost a face shot or a riding face shot, and a piece of screams suddenly came out of the mezzanine, and the first group of tribal warriors who jumped into the mezzanine were wiped out in this way, and then, It is the most classic "three-stage shooting" performance in the training subjects of the garrison -