Chapter 742: Trenches
1. Some readers said why not use hot air balloons to bomb the Jiangbei Army. The www.biquge.info of the pen is very simple, because the hot air balloon target is so big, it will be shot down by the Jiangbei army. Hot air balloons have a limited payload, they can only carry dozens of grenades at a time, they only explode when they are ignited by fuses, and enemies will dodge when they are thrown. Hot air balloons are still mainly shot with rifles. It was already stated when the DPRK was attacked.
2 Some readers say why not block the coast? Why not land in the south and kill the Jiangbei army. Li Zhi did have 50 or 60 gunboats, but this could not blockade the Chinese coast. A boat blockade for five hundred miles? An aircraft carrier with AWACS? As for the landing, could it be that the protagonist landed at the port and killed all the gentry along the coast? What impact did that have on the Jiangbei Army? All the gentry in the world supported the Jiangbei Army, and there was no shortage of those along the coast. Li Zhi did that, only forcing Chongzhen to mobilize the world's soldiers and horses to fight Li Zhi.
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The soldiers trained by Zuo Liangyu and Wu Sangui still had considerable discipline, and the soldiers of the Jiangbei Army rushed forward despite the casualties.
When the stragglers of the Jiangbei Army rushed to within 300 meters of the trench, the cannons in the bunker opened fire.
At this time, the artillery of the Tiger Ben Army did not need to shoot at the artillery of the Jiangbei Army, and the barrel did not heat up, so it could wantonly harvest the lives of the infantry of the Jiangbei Army.
Shotgun projectiles erupted from the muzzle of the bunker and fired at the Jiangbei Army infantry who were bending forward.
Although the soldiers of the Jiangbei Army lined up in loose stragglers, the scattering range of the shotgun was very wide when fired at 300 meters. So the lethality is still considerable. At least 1,000 Jiangbei soldiers were shot and fell in pools of blood screaming.
Seeing that his artillery was useless, and the artillery of the Tiger Ben Army was wantonly bombarding the soldiers of the Jiangbei Army, Shi Kefa's face turned pale.
In fact, Shi Kefa did not think of relying on the Jiangbei Army to defeat Li Zhi, and Shi Kefa only has more than 40,000 formosa rifles so far, and there is no possibility of a decisive battle with Li Zhi. In fact, Shi Kefa could not even completely blockade the city of Huai'an, and 40,000 new rifles could not completely isolate the 30,000 people on the city wall.
Shi Kefa only wanted to rely on the might of the Jiangbei Army to attract as many Tiger Ben troops as possible to the head of Huai'an City. There are too many people offended by Li Zhi, and as long as the war is stalemate, more and more enemies will join Shi Kefa's camp to attack Li Zhi, such as North Korea.
Last month, Mr. Shi sent a waiter from the Nanjing Ministry of Rites to North Korea. Now is the time of the south wind, and the sailboat can only go north, and the waiter of the Ministry of Rites has not yet returned. However, Shi Kefa's informant in Liaodong had sent back the news that the king of Joseon had ordered two classes of nobles in the country to rise up and attack Li Zhi.
Li Zhi is already embattled, but the soldiers and horses that Li Zhi can use are nothing more than 60,000 tiger troops.
In Shi Kefa's eyes, Li Zhi had fallen into the quagmire of thieves and the siege of the Jiangbei Army. As long as hundreds of thousands of North Korean soldiers and horses dealt a fatal blow to Li Zhi from the northeast, Li Zhi's fragile body would inevitably collapse.
This is a beautiful situation that Shi Kefa thinks about day and night and looks forward to.
However, what happened on the battlefield at this time told Shi Kefa that all he was thinking was fantasy. Li Zhi's methods seemed to be endless, and when he was obviously short of troops, he actually came up with such a system of using trenches for defense.
Shi Kefa had a feeling of being played by Li Zhi.
On the battlefield, after leaving behind two or three thousand corpses, the soldiers of the Jiangbei Army finally attacked within 200 meters of the trench.
The Jiangbei Army began to shoot at the Tiger Army.
But the Jiangbei Army, which rushed into range with blood, soon found that their sacrifice was in vain.
The Tiger Army shot in the trenches, exposing only one head, which was smaller than the body area exposed in the battlements on the city walls. If the Jiangbei Army wants to shoot the Tiger Army, it must steadily hit the forehead of the Tiger Army soldiers. You can only kill if you hit the middle of the forehead, and if you hit the side of the Tiger Helmet, the bullet will be bounced off by the sturdy Helmet.
Moreover, the soldiers of the Tiger Army were shooting at the Jiangbei Army on the same level in the trench at this time, and there was no need to block the gun with waste paper*** faster. It used to take 18 or 9 seconds to shoot once, but now it can shoot once in 15 seconds. When the Jiangbei Army fires three bullets, the Tiger Ben Army can shoot four bullets.
The Tiger Army shot in the trenches, and even the hit rate was higher. When fired from the walls, the path of the bullet is sloping downward. If you don't hit the target, you will quickly burrow into the ground. However, when fired horizontally from the trench, the bullets are always level-fed, and the probability of stray bullets hitting other stragglers in the back row is also increased.
In the face of the small head in the trench, the Jiangbei Army had no possibility of using stray bullets to kill people.
If the original exchange ratio between the Jiangbei Army and the Huben Army could still be maintained at five to one or six to one, now this exchange ratio is directly going to more than ten to one.
This is still only the exchange ratio when shooting. And the casualties from the artillery bombardment, the casualties before the rush into the firing range, these are not counted.
Front-loading rifled guns cannot be reloaded lying down. On the battlefield, the soldiers of the Jiangbei Army standing on the dirt without any shelter and the Tiger Ben Army hiding behind the trench shot at each other, and soon they could not hold on.
"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"
The heavy artillery, which had reloaded, opened fire again on the Jiangbei Army. Without an opponent, the cannons of the Tiger Army are like beasts that have lost their natural enemies, slaughtering lives on the battlefield with impunity. There was a burst of blood flying in front of the Jiangbei army, and I don't know how many people fell into the shotgun projectile.
The Jiangbei Army collapsed.
They only fired two rounds at the Tiger Army, and then they could no longer stand such a massacre, and fled to the rear in a panic.
But even as they fled, the tricky rifle bullets were still harvesting their lives. The soldiers, who had fled slowly, had not taken a few steps before they were shot in the back and fell to the battlefield screaming.
Shi Kefa looked at the infantry who had collapsed on the battlefield and let out a long sigh. Zuo Liangyu and Wu Sangui's faces were pale, and they were speechless.
The high-ranking members of the Jiangbei Army could not have imagined that the battle would be fought like this.
The 160,000 Jiangbei army was stopped under the city by the 30,000 tiger army of Huai'an, and they couldn't move forward.
And looking at the current situation, it seems that the 30,000 Tiger Ben Army does not need it, and only fewer people are needed to defend the key stronghold of Huai'an.
To the right of Zuo Liangyu, his relative Zhao Zhu knelt helplessly on the ground, and he didn't even have the strength to stand up. The 10,000 infantry under Zhao Zhu rushed to the front this time, and the 10,000 were killed at least 5,000, and they were completely disabled.
Li Zhi's trench system looks very simple. But in defensive warfare, it is extremely effective.
How did Li Zhi come up with such a system? I've never heard of such a tactic before? Li Zhi invented such a system, how could he master it so well from the beginning? Is he really a star in the sky?
Although Shi Kefa and the others did not believe in ghosts and gods, they were also shocked by Li Zhi's methods, and they felt speechless.
Shi Kefa's beard trembled slightly, he looked at the hidden forts, trenches and barbed wire fences in the distance, which were unremarkable no matter how he looked, and said helplessly: "Li thief is a good method..."
"What a good means..."
Zuo Liangyu and Wu Sangui glanced at each other, and their faces were a little pale.
Could it be that this time the Chuang Army, the Jiangbei Army and the North Korean tripartite siege of Li Zhi will be defeated by Li Zhi?
Seeing that the Jiangbei army was defeated, a cheer rang out in the trenches of the Tiger Ben army. With very low casualties, the Jiangbei army was repulsed, and such a battle made the GIs feel relaxed and happy.
Li Zhi was also in the trench, and he said loudly: "Everyone fought bloodily, it is not easy!" All soldiers will be rewarded with ten taels of silver! ”
The soldiers were even happier, and they opened their throats and cheered.
Zheng Kaicheng walked up to Li Zhi and arched his hand and said, "Grandpa Guo's immortal means!" The subordinates really admired. Now with this trench system, Grandpa Guo is to take away 10,000 people, and Zheng Kaicheng can also guard Huai'an. ”
Li Zhi nodded with a smile and patted Zheng Kaicheng on the shoulder.