To the east of Yongping City is a forest, to the west is a hill forest, Liang County is located in between, the width of the battle line is about 28 miles, roughly can be placed under the density of one division, two brigades, if we continue to increase troops, it will seriously affect the development of tactics, increase artillery casualties. However, the combat power of the armpit people is far higher than that of humans, and if the troops are equipped according to the regular density, they are easy to penetrate the defense line.

In view of the fierce fighting of the armpit people, Bailiyan asked Jiang Jie to transfer the first column of 5,000 people, and the Yuke and Liang army combat infantry each 1,000 to defend the western front.

The Black Crow Forest is the node of the Eastern Front, and once the Black Crow Forest is lost, the Eastern Front will be exposed to armpit fire and threaten Liang County.

Hanging up the phone, Bai Liyan said to Peng Zhi again:

"There is something that I haven't asked Master Xiao and the Soviet Army Division in time before, I don't know how many berserkers your army and the Liang army have eliminated here in the past three months, and how many berserkers have fought here."

"Back to Yongxinghou, there are corpses to be found in the past three months, a total of thirty-two wild beasts have been killed, and the number of wild beasts fighting our army head-on is unknown, but it is roughly estimated that there will be no less than eighty."

"And how many casualties did you pay for?"

"On average, killing a berserker would cost seventy-nine casualties and forty-five wounded, but the actual combat situation is complicated, and it is not always possible to kill it, and there are countless cases of escape, so the actual casualties are much higher."

It takes more than 150 people to kill a berserker on the battlefield of Changsun, and half of the Yuke and Liang armies are missing, which shows that the improvement of weapons and equipment has indeed improved the combat effectiveness and avoided more casualties, coupled with the urine nature of the Changsun army, it is not surprising that there are heavy casualties. But killing a berserker is still a staggering number of seventy or eighty dead.

After thinking about it for a while, Bai Liyan asked Peng Zhi again:

"Strangling the orcs, didn't the explosives and the grenades work?"

"Alas......" Peng Zhi sighed and pouted his head and said, "It's not all useless, the beastmen don't stay in one place for a long time, but they use jumping and rushing as a way to kill, and they won't entangle with us." As soon as they break through the first- and second-line positions of our army, they will quickly retreat, and if they do not stop, it will be difficult for grenades and explosives to work.

In addition, they wore unusually thick iron boots and steel scale armor, and jumped up quickly after stepping on a mine, and the fragments of the mine scattered in all directions, scattering very little into the air, and the impact on them was very limited, and the impact of bullets was not significant, and it was more difficult for ordinary swords and spears to break through armor. ”

Peng Zhi is the son of Peng Yi, the general of the Imperial Guest, now Chinese New Year's Eve seven, the military governor of the capital, Peng Yi died in 645, Peng Zhi has been trained in the artillery section of the armed battalion, three years ago to learn advanced artillery technology and modern infantry department, Xiao Gongyi left him as the guide of Bailiyan.

The information provided by it is basically consistent with the intelligence held by the Xian army, and there are two great characteristics of the wild beast man's combat, the first is to rush quickly, move quickly, and the second is to jump high in a large span.

Rapid collision and high jump can avoid the bullets fired by humans from the ground to the greatest extent, and at the same time do not give humans time to react, and quickly break through the gap in the battle line, causing chaos and casualties.

Grenades and detonator explosives, in the vast majority of cases, are weapons used against fixed targets, and have little effect on targets moving at high speeds, unless the delay is grasped to make them explode in the air, but the danger is too great for anyone to do so.

Ordinary bullets do not hurt the beast much, it can only penetrate its muscle tissue, it is difficult to hurt the viscera, and it has a self-healing function, once it escapes, it will be very troublesome.

Bailiyan now hopes that the 15.5 millimeter machine gun and the squad 10 millimeter machine gun can have a suppressive effect, at least 15.5 millimeter machine gun bullets are enough to cut off the human waist, which should be more than enough to deal with the beastmen.

At dusk, the battle of the Crow Forest started as scheduled, and the armpit people have always launched surprise attacks on humans at night, but the use of a large number of heat-blind shells and flares has made them passive in night assaults, so the tactics have been adjusted to attack at dusk and continue to fight after nightfall.

Because the sky is still bright at dusk, they don't need to use the infrared field of view, so as to avoid the damage of the heat blind bomb to their night vision organs at night, and rush into the human position after dark, mix with the humans, and carry out assault and hand-to-hand combat, this tactic is beneficial to them.

First, there was a fierce artillery attack, and at least 20 or more large-caliber grenades were put into fire preparation, followed by the front-line medium-caliber artillery bombardment in turn, which pressed the Xian army to raise its head.

Twenty minutes later, when it was dark and dark, the armpit infantry rushed out of the trench with the help of trees and shields, and launched a fierce attack on the position of the Xian army, and the Xian army returned fire under the cover of Moyunfeng mountain artillery and 15.5 caliber heavy machine guns.

At the same time, the armpit artillery began to fire extendedly, and the heavy machine guns were pulled to the front of the formation, and the suppression design was implemented, and the fire was quite rapid.

Bailiyan's headquarters was located in the city tower at the north gate of Liang County, and he was deeply shocked by the coordinated operation of the armpit people's infantry and artillery.

Infantry and artillery coordination is the pinnacle tactic of infantry combat, and only the army with rich experience and a perfect command system can master the infantry and artillery coordination tactics very well, and the slightest mistake or poor coordination may cause artillery shells to hit their own people's heads.

It has been 20 years since the Xian army was equipped with artillery, but the coordination of infantry and artillery is still a theoretical course and has never been put into practice.

On the one hand, the communication was backward at that time, and on the other hand, there were many technical problems in the implementation of rifle gun coordination in the breech guns. At present, although all the conditions for infantry and artillery coordination are in place, the combat experience of infantry and artillery is still insufficient, and it remains to be sharpened and summed up.

There are reasons for the coordinated operation of axillary human rifle artillery, as well as their self-healing ability and the innate advantage of the signal army.

The battle entered the dark sky, and the armpit infantry, under the cover of accompanying artillery fire, continued to advance. Bailiyan then ordered the heavy artillery position of the Xian army to cover the enemy's position fifty paces in front of the Black Crow Forest and knock out their small-caliber artillery and heavy machine gun fire points.

When the fierce battle reached the end of the battle, the enemy attacked the first line of defense of the Black Crow Lin Xian Army, and the two sides started hand-to-hand combat, and asked Xiao Gongyi for 50,000 fighting soldiers, which was intended to be used for hand-to-hand combat.

The Xian firearms were issued with seated or sleeved bayonets, and the infantry were issued with standard horizontal knives on their backs to cope with hand-to-hand combat.

Even so, the hand-to-hand combat of trench warfare is hand-to-hand, and automatic weapons can obtain suppressive firepower, but in the face of strong physiological functions, the armpit infantry equipped with steel shields is still somewhat thin, and the spears, hooks, and halberds of traditional cold-weapon hand-to-hand combat infantry are still useful.

At the same time as the battle of the Black Crow Forest began, the frontal enemy of the Xian army began to move.

Before Bailiyan could figure out the situation, the frontal defense line burst into flames and exploded incessantly, and the fire was less than 200 steps away from the first line of defense of the Xian army, which was very incomprehensible. Bai Liyan couldn't think of what kind of artillery the armpit people were using, and they could fire from a trench two hundred paces away.

He then asked Peng Zhi:

"General Peng, what kind of artillery can be fired from two hundred paces away?"

"It's the Overlord Cannon, the Armpit People copied it after seizing the Changsun Overlord Cannon in the early years, and they created a longer range Overlord Cannon, and the power is even more amazing.

Previously, it relied on the lack of artillery fire of our army, and attacked our army from a distance with grenades, and rarely used this overlord cannon, but now it is suddenly dispatched, and it must be forced to be urgent. ”

The Overlord cannon has neither a conscience gun, but from a technical point of view, it should belong to a mortar gun, or a mortar.

Shortly after the armpit people landed in the country of Changsun, they were taken aback when they encountered the Unconscionable Cannon, which had almost no killing fragments, but the detonation effect produced could severely damage their internal organs, greatly exceeding the speed at which the function could heal and repair itself, resulting in death.

Shocked, the armpits brought this cannon back to their homeland to be copied in large quantities, and it has only been three years, and they have already distributed a large number of them to the front line for use, which shows that thousands of miles of road cannot stop their industrial imitation ability.

On a front line more than 20 miles wide, the density of unconscionable artillery reached 50 paces and one door, and at the same time, the artillery in the rear constantly covered the open ground between the two armies, and the intention was already very obvious, they were clearing mines and heat blind shells, in preparation for the infantry charge in the second half of the night.

Bailiyan immediately ordered the deployment of mortars on the second line of defense, and the suppression of fire on the small and medium-caliber artillery of the third line of defense, and at the same time the deployment of 121 pickup rocket launchers to cover the second line of defense within 30 to 100 steps behind the enemy, killing and wounding a large number of infantry in its assembly.

At six o'clock in the morning, the enemy's firepower in front of the ground died down, the surface of the position was a sea of fire, the Xian army used thermite bombs and white phosphorus bombs, the killing effect was remarkable, in order to retaliate against the artillery of the Xian army, it did not hesitate to mobilize the howitzer heavy artillery group, the artillery deployed in the second and third line of defense of the Xian army to suppress, Bailiyan immediately ordered the artillery to retreat to avoid greater losses.

Looking at the roaring artillery fire more than 30 miles away, Bai Liyan immediately called Jiang Jie:

"Jiang Jie, you can see the armpit heavy artillery group firing."

"The last general sees it, but it's really too far away, and our army can't reach it at all."

"The enemy's heavy artillery group is thirty-five miles away from our army's heavy artillery position, but it is only more than ten miles away from your front line, immediately transfer two small groups of 121 rocket artillery to push it to the front line of formation, give me a salvo, and withdraw after hitting whether it hits or not."

"No."

The heavy artillery of the Xian army was deployed fifteen miles behind the front line of the Xian army, so that it could rain shells five miles into the armpits.

Axillary howitzers and heavy artillery were deployed in echelons 15 to 20 miles in front of the Xian army's formation, striking at the Xian army's position for 10 to 15 miles. The heavy artillery of the Salon army was barely out of its range, and neither side was able to destroy the other's heavy fire, but the armpit artillery had a longer range and therefore a greater threat.

However, their artillery propellant is backward, and the performance of steel is low, so they can only pile up the thickness of the barrel, increase the pressure of the chamber, and the total mass is very large, even medium-sized trucks cannot tow it.

This morning's shelling did not expose all its heavy artillery firepower, to be exact, Yuke has been fighting against it for more than three months, and the armpit heavy artillery firepower has not been fully put into use, and tonight it was forced by the Xian army, and the previously concealed artillery group was undoubtedly exposed. I want to chat about "Empire Travel" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~