On March 14, in the trenches outside Huai'an, Boss Wei looked at the soldiers of the Jiangbei Army who were groping in the distance, and scolded a thief. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Now Boss Wei is already a new platoon commander, and there are more than 30 soldiers under him. Originally, he was in Henan and had been idle for a year. But this time, the prince personally conquered Huai'an, and Boss Wei's platoon was also ordered to go out, so Boss Wei went to the front line.

It's not a good place to be on the front line.

Fighting outside Huai'an was fought for more than a year. Every day, artillery shells flew around the heads of the Huben Army and the Jiangbei Army, and from time to time shells smashed into the city of Huai'an.

The entire city has been completely abandoned.

In the north of Huai'an City, which was controlled by the Tiger Ben Army, the people were still good at fortune-telling, and they encountered well-disciplined soldiers, and no soldier dared to bully the people. But south of Huai'an City, which was controlled by the Jiangbei Army, the people there were completely preyed upon by the Jiangbei Army. Wu Sangui's soldiers and horses still have a little discipline, and Zuo Liangyu's soldiers and horses are completely bandits, doing everything to burn, kill and loot.

The people of Huai'an became refugees and desperately fled to Shandong in the north. After more than a year of fighting, Huai'an City has become an empty city. Except for the large mansions, which were used as military camps, there were no people in the other buildings.

Fortunately, the prince is benevolent. Boss Wei heard that the prince ordered the governments of various parts of Shandong to open porridge sheds to relieve the refugees in Huai'an, so that the people of Huai'an would not starve to death in Shandong. In the future, the refugees will be organized to farm in Henan, and their income should be stronger than in Huai'an.

However, Huai'an's destruction did not surprise Boss Wei, and what surprised Boss Wei was the Jiangbei Army, the opponent of the Tiger Army.

What made Boss Wei unable to react to the fact that the Jiangbei Army actually had the same rifle as Boss Wei. The rifles of the Jiangbei Army were loaded from the breech, using the same conical lead bullet as the Tiger Army, and the range was also 200 meters.

And the sniper rifles, which only veterans of the Tiger Army, also have in the Jiangbei Army. Huai'an's 70,000 Tiger Army and 8,000 naval artillery had about 50,000 sniper rifles, while the Jiangbei Army on the opposite side seemed to have tens of thousands.

The scope of a sniper rifle is not a high-tech thing, and this equipment is less difficult to make than a telescope, having appeared before the nineteenth century. But the accuracy of the pre-XIX century smoothbore guns was poor, and the sights were meaningless. So the sight really appeared in real combat in the American Civil War, when rifled guns had already begun to be installed in the troops.

In the United States in later generations, the basic type of sight was only a few tens of dollars a piece, which was very cheap. Basically, as long as you can produce a telescope, you can produce a low-magnification scope.

Therefore, after Li Zhi invented such a thing as a sight, the Dutch quickly learned it and taught the production method to the Jiangbei Army.

Boss Wei found that this time, the enemy's weapons on the battlefield were similar to those of the Tiger Ben Army.

Of course, the Tiger Ben Army has many weapons that the enemy does not have, for example, the Tiger Ben Army has about 8,000 breech-loading rifles, all of which are armed to the elite of the Selector Division, and the rate of fire is extremely fast.

But in trench warfare, the rate of fire can't turn the tide of battle completely. Trench warfare is a form of warfare in which the defender has an extremely advantageous advantage, and even if the elite of the front selection division equipped with rear-loading rifles rushes up, it cannot withstand a row of cold guns of the soldiers of the Jiangbei Army.

50,000 veterans entered the Huai'an battlefield, not only did not change the balance of the battlefield, but even stayed in a defensive state. The Jiangbei Army even launched tentative attacks from time to time.

Boss Wei saw the soldiers of the Jiangbei Army groping on the battlefield, and scolded: "The little ones, they are all aimed at me!" ”

A platoon of thirty-two people all raised their rifles and stood on the small bench, aiming at the Jiangbei Army soldiers who had touched them.

In fact, after more than a year of trench warfare, the tactical literacy of the soldiers of the Jiangbei Army has been greatly improved. The soldiers marched three hundred meters away, constantly looking for cover on the battlefield, walking in a complex zigzag pattern. This way of advancing makes it difficult for the Tiger Army shooters to target them.

But the archery skills of the veterans of the Tiger Army are not vegetarian.

Li Zhi placed great emphasis on target training, and the veterans under Wei Boss shot two or three thousand rounds of targets in a few years. Under this kind of training, the veterans of the Tiger Ben Army had higher archery skills than the ordinary soldiers of the People's Liberation Army in later generations. Even if you hit a moving target at 300 meters, you have a good hit rate.

Boss Wei spat out a mouthful of phlegm and shouted, "Fire!" ”

Crackling gunshots rang out, and dozens of sparks erupted from the trench on Boss Wei's side.

Screams suddenly sounded from a distance, and two or three of the dozens of Jiangbei Army soldiers who groped their way over were hit and fell.

The soldiers of the Jiangbei Army couldn't help but be terrified when they saw that the archery skills of the Tiger Ben Army were so sophisticated, far surpassing them from the south. The soldiers of the Jiangbei Army left behind the casualties and fled back and forth on the road.

Boss Wei sneered: "The dog entered, now you know grandpa's methods, right?" ”

The most important thing in trench warfare is the accuracy of shooting, and in this regard, the Tiger Army is far superior to the Jiangbei Army. Therefore, when the 160,000 troops of the Jiangbei Army attacked north, they were stopped by Li Zhi's 30,000 troops.

Now that Li Zhi has released 80,000 people in Huai'an, it is unlikely that the Jiangbei Army will want to break through the defense line on this side.

However, the Tiger Ben Army had no way to defeat the Jiangbei Army in the trenches.

Seeing that Boss Wei repelled the incoming enemy, Old Man Han, the company commander fifty meters away, came over and stuffed a cigarette for Boss Wei. Boss Wei took the cigarette and picked it up, and Old Man Han lit a cigarette for Boss Wei with the cigarette on his mouth.

"Boss Wei, this battle is harder than imagined. The weapons of this Jiangbei Army are better than we imagined. ”

Boss Wei nodded and said, "Company commander, why does this Jiangbei Army seem to have been bitten by a dog these days, and come up from time to time to test it?" ”

Old man Han took a breath and said, "The Jiangbei Army is attacking!" ”

"The Jiangbei Army has been grinding and dragging on in Huai'an for a year, and it has not been attacking with all its might, but in the past few days, the Jiangbei Army has really begun to attack. Not only stormed our trenches under the city of Huai'an, maintaining frontal pressure, but also made a detour to the east and west towards our rear, trying to cut off our grain routes. ”

"The prince had to divide his troops to the two wings to block the roundabout Jiangbei army. Now there are trenches in the east and west of Huai'an, and the entire trench front has been dragged to more than 100 miles long. ”

"Fortunately, this trench battle is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and our 80,000 people can resist the 160,000 Jiangbei army. It's just that he couldn't attack for a long time, and he was dragged by the Jiangbei army, and he heard that the prince was very unhappy. ”

"If this stalemate is reached, the prince must be unhappy." Boss Wei took a puff of his cigarette and said, "Why did the Jiangbei Army suddenly seem to have opened its mind? What is this trying to do? ”

Old man Han threw the cigarette butt with only one butt left outside the trench and said, "I guess you want to drag our soldiers and horses?" ”

"Hold us back?"

"You don't know? Yesterday, news came from the steamer that the Tokugawa shogunate of the Wakuni country had begun to attack Osaka. The Choshu Domain and Satsuma Domain of the Wa Kingdom urgently supported us, and now the battle is in full swing in Osaka. ”

Boss Wei angrily threw the cigarette in his mouth to the ground, stepped on it, and scolded: "I already knew that the Wa Kingdom was going to rebel!" ”

Old man Han was about to light a cigarette with Boss Wei's cigarette butt, but when he saw that he had extinguished the cigarette butt, he couldn't find the source of the fire for a while.

Old man Han looked left and right, didn't see anyone smoking, and couldn't help but scold: "Crooked birds, the sky is falling and there is a prince on top, what are you excited about?" ”