Chapter 154: Sniper Tortoiseshell Formation
The horn of the Yuan army rose suddenly, as the defense envoy of the south gate, Huang Tiancong had to hold the eagerness in his heart, reluctantly withdrew his gaze, and bowed his fist to Zhao Lie: "The iron shield armor soldier depends on Xin'an Hou." ”
Zhao Lie nodded slowly, solemnly returning the salute.
Then, the two saluted Wen Tianxiang and Zhang Shijie at the same time: "Please ask the two ministers to go to the building to supervise the battle, and watch us defeat the stubborn enemy." ”
Wen and Zhang Er glanced at each other, and at the same time turned to the Song soldiers on both sides of the city wall who staggered out from the pergola, under the wall, and by the battlements: "The survival of the Great Song Dynasty is up to you." ”
All the soldiers of the Song army knelt down and knocked on the ground.
Boom! Huang Tiancong pulled out the sharp waist knife and re-sharpened it, and the newly replaced scale armor and armor blades shook with the vibration of his body. Huang Tian pointed from the blade, and his voice was like thunder: "There is me!" Invincibility! ”
There were less than a thousand people, and almost all of them were injured by the Song army soldiers who shouted in unison: "There is me!" Invincibility! ”
The crowd was passionate and enthusiastic, but Zhao Lie and his special operations team were calm, only their eyes were burning with fierce battle intent. They are gunners, fast gunners, sharpshooters, snipers. At this moment, what they need most is calm, and the calmer they are, the faster and more the enemy will die.
Zhao Lie's face was cold and even a little cold: "Listen to my orders, the Han army and the new annex army don't care, and they will fight the Beiting army." With the exception of the snipers, all the fighters who used the 54 pistols were concentrated in the first row, and when the enemy was close to five paces, they concentrated their fire and opened fire. The rest of the weapons, gap shooting enemy ......"
The enemy didn't shoot until he was five paces closer, and this was a desperate fight!
The cavity effect of the May Fourth pistol (rolling in the body after hitting the human body) is not as good as that of the point 38, but it is extremely penetrating and powerful, and it can penetrate 3 mm steel plate at 25 meters. Although the iron shield iron plate used by the iron shield armor of the Beiting Army reached a thickness of 6 mm, and was lined with hardwood with a thickness of 3 mm, how could the performance and hardness of the iron plate of this era be compared with the steel plate of later generations? Zhao Lie's May Fourth military pistol can penetrate this iron shield from 30 meters away.
It's just that there is only one May Fourth military pistol; Single-base drug, only two barrels. The power of the imitation May Fourth is one-third weaker, and the black powder used is only, so the comprehensive power is only half of Zhao Hunt's May Fourth pistol. To break the double-layered iron shield, it is necessary to get closer and closer, as close as ten meters, eight meters, and even face to face. Even so, the only thing that can do this is the imitation of May Fourth, and other revolvers, shotguns, and muskets are not good.
The special combat personnel are all familiar with the performance of the weapons in their hands, and they all understand the correctness and necessity of this order. And who can become a special combat member, which one is not full of loyalty? To the order of Zilai Zhao Hunt, almost instinctively shouted in unison: "Obey the order!" ”
At this time, I heard the guard armor on the tower exclaim: "Iron Shield Array!" ”
Zhao Lie, the special combat team, Huang Tiancong and the soldiers of the Song army looked out of the city when they heard the reputation, and a strange shield array came into view.
I saw that the iron shield armor army that ran from the top of the slope to the front of the Yuan army formed a formation behind the two large squares composed of more than 1,000 Han troops and new attached troops. More than 100 iron shield armorers formed a circle array, everyone was close to each other, and the shields were stacked on top of each other, densely turned, and there was hardly a trace of gaps (of course there were gaps, but they were not obvious from a distance). Under the sunlight, it resembles a huge semi-circular inverted iron bowl and a moving turtle shell.
There was a sound of inhaling everywhere in the whole city, and such a thing was too ......
Huang Tiancong was also inhaling: "This iron turtle ...... If they are allowed to kill the city......"
Zhao Lie's eyes reflected the flickering silver light, and his lips, which had been tightened, opened slightly: "Iron turtle, I also want to pry open a crack and rip off a few pieces of meat." Sniper, on! ”
In the special combat team, a man and a woman came out, and the two were armed with flintlock pistols, but the barrel was a quarter longer than that of ordinary flintlock pistols. Both of them had crystal goggles with unique shapes, and one of them had a one-of-a-kind white light sight on the barrel of his gun.
The special combat team members are all selected to play with guns, and it is so difficult to stand out among these fast gunners and sharpshooters. Coupled with Zhao Lie's strict indicators for snipers, only two people in the entire special combat team barely reached the level of snipers: Ding Xiaoyi and Yang Zheng.
Ding Xiaoyi's gun sense is extremely talented, and even Zhao Lie, who is an instructor, is ashamed of himself. And Yang Zheng himself is an excellent archer, who was injured by Zhang Jue's throat with an arrow in the bow and arrow counterpart, and has lost his voice since then. After that, he practiced his arrows in anger in the hope of revenge. Maybe it's talent, maybe it's the spirit in his heart, Yang Zheng has an excellent feeling for shooting. When the Liang Villa was besieged at the beginning, Yang Zheng, who had just touched the gun, shared the heavy responsibility of blocking the side and back doors of the villa with Heimaru, which can be seen. And the black pill, which was regarded as a natural sniper by Zhao Lie because of the "natural protective color", has not yet passed the sniper test, and can only be regarded as a sharpshooter. However, Kuromaru is still young, only fourteen, and there is still a lot of potential to be tapped in the future, and perhaps the third sniper of the special operations team is unknown to him.
Ding Xiaoyi and Yang Zheng stepped forward quickly, crouching on the protruding horse face at the head of the city, the slender barrel of the spear sticking out steadily from between the battlements, aiming at the huge iron turtle shell.
Huang Tiancong, who was not far away, waited expectantly for a while, but never heard the gunshot.
"What?" Huang Tiancong was very depressed, and when he saw the Yuan Army's zigzag array surging towards the south gate of Yacheng, he had already entered a hundred steps, and he no longer paid attention to those two snipers, and turned to the musket troops who were waiting for him and ordered: "Scatter freely, give Lao Tzu a hard shot!" Whoever kills an Iron Shield Soldier will be rewarded on a per-time basis! ”
Nearly 100 musketeers lined up in three columns rushed to the battlement, and the sound of bang-bang gunfire shook the sky, the fire flashed, and the white mist filled the air.
The Han army array and the new annexed army array in the forefront bore the brunt of the attack, and the side cards in the hands of the soldiers crackled, and sawdust flew wildly, all of them turned pale with horror, and they desperately grabbed the side cards. At this moment, only this thing can save life. Some of the unlucky soldiers who did not cover up in time were shot directly in the body, and the leather armor on their bodies was easily torn by the strong lead, cracking the skin and tearing the internal organs.
When the Han army and the new annexed army fell to the ground one by one, a lot of lead also shot on the turtle shell shield array, and the lead was a ring, but it could only leave a shallow pit on the shield surface, and it could not damage the ironclad behind the shield at all.
As the Yuan army's zigzag array got closer and closer, the lethality of the muskets also increased. Many soldiers of the Han Army and the New Attached Army, who had been shielded by the side cards and were not injured, were shocked to find that the side cards they regarded as life barriers were frequently pierced by lead, and the residual strength of the broken lead was still strong, like a shotgun, beating them to a honeycomb behind the protective side cards.
However, the lead of such power hit the iron shield with no effect except the sound of ping-pong and the splashing of sparks.
Huang Tiancong punched the bricks at the battlement: "Damn turtle son! ”
At this moment, two exceptionally crisp gunshots rang out.
Bang! Bang!
A stream of blood arrows burst out from the calves of the two iron shield armorers in front of the shield array, and the two iron armorers shrank to the ground. A small gap suddenly appeared in the shield array, and the armor soldiers in the back row hurriedly stepped forward to block it to keep the formation intact. As for what the two unlucky armorers were trampled on by the successive comrades, only God knows.
The shield array is indeed tight enough to be drilled almost seamlessly, but the shield array always has to move. As soon as you move, there is a flaw. These Iron Shield Armorers have been well protected: Iron Armor Body Guards, Iron Helmet Head Guards, Armor Skirt Leggings, Iron Shield Defense, but they don't have such equipment as "Iron Pants". Generally used for leggings, called a skirt, as the name suggests, the shape is similar to a skirt, the characteristic of the skirt is that you can't see the calf when you stand up, but when you walk, the calf must be exposed.
Ding Xiaoyi and Yang Zheng seized this fleeting protective flaw and shot it. Although a bullet in the leg was not fatal, it was absolutely impossible to continue fighting, and with the medical conditions at the time, it was almost impossible to completely clean the body of the burst lead. Moreover, depending on the situation, these two iron shield armorers are afraid that they will not even have a chance to be treated.
"Good! Well played! Huang Tiancong slapped the brick wall vigorously, turned his head and smiled at Zhao Liehong who was not far away, "Xin'an Hou's command is really Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. ”
As he spoke, there was a bang, bang,
Seeing the unfortunate appearance of his comrades, the nearby Iron Shield Armor slowed down in panic, bowed lower, and subconsciously slowed down. The front was slow and the back was fast, and it was inevitable that they would collide together, and the originally invulnerable tortoiseshell array suddenly appeared congested and chaotic.
Ding Xiaoyi and Yang Zheng didn't know how to seize the opportunity, and each loaded and shot as fast as they could. In just over ten breaths, the two of them each fired three or four shots, hitting five Iron Shield Armorers, making the tortoiseshell array even more chaotic. If it weren't for the flintlock pistol being too slow to load, I am afraid that this tortoiseshell array would have been beaten into a "honeycomb formation" by two snipers before it advanced to the city.
Huang Tiancong was so excited that he cracked the bricks of the city, and the soldiers of the Song Army in the city all cheered excitedly, greatly relieved, and the pressure of being approached by the steel formation eased - these iron-clad soldiers are not invulnerable.
And the main general of the Yuan army did not spend time in the rear to see, and the muscles on his face twitched. It hurts! Every Iron Shield Armorer, that is a hundred warriors who can defeat ten battles, is the absolute main force of his army, the elite of the elite, just worthless on the outrageously cheap lead...... These bastards with black guns! Rats in the gutter!
In the midst of the cursing and gritting of teeth and the fierce gunfire, the Yuan army's character formation finally completed the eighty steps of death distance and advanced to the city. In the rear of the large array, nearly 100 corpses of various shapes and wounded soldiers who were wailing and rolling had fallen.
Huang Tiancong pulled out his waist knife, the musketeers have tried their best, and they have also achieved remarkable results, but there are too many Yuan soldiers...... Next, there is only a hand-to-hand fight.
Huang Tiancong couldn't help but glance at Zhao Lie again, the young and resolute face was unwavering, only a pair of black pupils were burning, and a flame called battle intent was burning.
"The city has been stormed." Dewarming Buhua looked at the flickering silver light like mercury, "flowing" from a long ladder to the head of the cliff city, and then, the sound of gold and iron clashing and fighting roars erupted at the head of the city, resounding through the world.
"This damn broken city is finally going to be broken! It's broken! Warming didn't take a hard time clenching his fists, and the criss-crossing scars on his face twisted like snakes.
Nearly 1,000 yuan soldiers, it seems that the number of Song troops defending the city is about the same, but the quality is very different. The Song army had no reserves, and everyone went to the city to participate in the battle. After four rounds of bloody fighting in the morning, almost everyone was wounded and exhausted, and their combat strength plummeted. And these more than 1,000 yuan soldiers are all new forces, and they have been recuperating for a long time, and the combat effectiveness of the armies of the two sides is not at the same level at all. Plus a terrifying ironclad iron shield force......
The most critical moment of the defense of Yacheng has come.