"What should I do?" Will Jon put down the binoculars in his hand and said with a gloomy face. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"For the time being, there is really no way, we have experimented with various means, sent a demolition team to blow up the railway, or planted mines, but the British still have a line of defense behind the railway, and the demolition team that barely passes the fire of the armored train will still be shot by the British troops in the rear line."

"We tried to use mortars to attack the railway and the train over the breastwork, but the accuracy of the mortar was already terrible, and a simple high-explosive shell would cause very little damage to the train unless it hit directly." Pershing said at a loss, the situation in front of him was beyond his expectations, he didn't expect an armored train to be so difficult to deal with!

"Why don't we push the 75mm rapid-fire gun up?" Will Jon said cautiously.

"It's useless, the trajectory of the rapid-fire gun is too straight, the earthen wall is enough to block most of the firing range, and it is very difficult to move the cannon body of more than 1 ton, and it may be covered by the opponent's 37mm machine gun before entering the position, if it is fired in a curved way, the effect is not much different from the mortar, or even inferior to the former. What's more, the opponent is moving, and it is too difficult to hit a moving target. Calyput said calmly.

"What then? Fill it with someone? Or just retreat? Or wait for the other side to run out of ammo? "Will Jon is in a hurry! Said angrily.

"We can blast down the entire earthen wall, and then destroy these Iron Kings from a long distance." Calyput said with a slight smile.

"What are you kidding? The opponent's breastwork is a gravity structure, and it is very stable, even if it is blasted, it will only make it shorter, and it is very difficult to blow it up completely! If we use a 75mm rapid-fire gun, I'm afraid we won't be able to open a big enough gap with all the shells! Pershing couldn't help it.

"Don't forget, we destroyed a British train with four 120mm guns on it! At that time, the vehicle was hit by a mine and only overturned. It did not explode, and three of the four guns on the car were repaired and workable, and there were a large number of shells on the last carriage. With these things, we can completely take out this iron turtle! "A good commander must learn how to use all favorable conditions!

"That's great, why didn't you send these things in sooner!" Pershing said excitedly.

"These guys have just been repaired, and when they arrive, the artillery is too heavy, weighing 4 tons, and these shells, I mobilized more than 100 horses to send the personnel, artillery and ammunition over." Calyput said with a smile.

The original 75mm guns were very powerful and very difficult to destroy the breastwork, but now with heavy artillery it is different, once these breastworks are opened a few gaps, then other light guns can find a flat-fire window. And the attacking forces also had several more passages.

What the British did not expect was that their unexpected loss of several artillery pieces became the key to this battle! The heavy 120mm naval guns successfully entered the position under the tow of 6 horses and more than 30 people, they were far from the front line, about 4 kilometers or so, and a solid gun nest was set up around the position, and the ammunition was placed 200 meters away from the gun emplacement, and the fortifications were also constructed, and the ammunition delivery work was carried out completely in the trenches, and neither the British field guns nor the guns could hurt these formidable things.

The thick barrel of the 120mml40 gun slowly pointed at the breastwall in the distance. The accuracy of flat-fire at this distance is not high, but it doesn't matter, the Boers have as much as one wagon of ammunition to waste! The gunner fed a shell weighing more than 20 kilograms into the chamber. A projectile kit was then sent in. Some of them had seen the power of these heavy naval guns, and they were confident in it.

Rumble! With a huge recoil, a shell flew out of the muzzle, and this thing was an armor-piercing shell, that's right, an armor-piercing shell! Generally, the army's heavy artillery is not equipped with armor-piercing shells, but these naval guns did not have suitable shells when they were sent down from battleships, and in line with the principle of using them, the armor-piercing shells on battleships were also received by the army.

A huge cloud of smoke gradually spread, and the shell flew out at a speed of more than 2 times the speed of sound, and the hard warhead easily penetrated the soil layer at the top of the breastwork wall that was up to 1 meter thick, and then continued to move forward and crashed headlong into the armored train behind the earthen wall!

This time, God helped the Boers again! Not to mention how difficult it is to hit a moving target from a distance of 4 kilometers, and not to mention how much the trajectory changes after breaking through the earthen wall, simply rushing the luck of hitting the first locomotive with this cannon, the British will not lose a little temper!

The so-called armored train is just blocking machine guns and shrapnel, artillery shells are absolutely unstoppable, 57mm guns can't stop, so the British will build a breastwall to block the view of the opponent's artillery and flat-fire fire, even if the 75mm high-explosive shells used by the Boers can theoretically penetrate, but most of them will be detonated, but the 120mm heavy guns are different, and the use of armor-piercing shells is even more different! After breaking through the breast wall, it easily penetrated the boiler that was only protected by 10mm steel plates!

Rumble! The boiler in front of the entire car body exploded like a volcanic eruption, and a large amount of high-temperature and high-pressure water vapor and flame fragments erupted, sweeping across the entire armored train, and the two cars that were close to it were directly destroyed by the steel storm, and the remaining cars also derailed under the huge vibration! A few minutes ago, it was as if the indestructible steel beast had completely lost its combat effectiveness, lying on the railroad tracks like a corpse!

When the armored train was destroyed, the British no longer had the strength to stop the Boer offensive! The Boers pulled the artillery to the front line and put the artillery almost on the head of the other side! With a slightly hoarse firing command, artillery of various calibers spewed out a series of fire snakes to clean up the target very efficiently!

Shells of various calibers flew out of the muzzles of the guns in various trajectoryes, drawing arcs in the air that heralded death. They hit the British bunkers that were still resisting, and blew the fortifications to pieces. Under the cover of machine guns and artillery, the Boers divided their forces and rushed towards the fortifications of the core of the town.

The two forces were outflanked, and the troops on the left flank attacked the various trains parked in the parking lot, and a single grenade shot could disable a locomotive, and a pack of explosives could turn the locomotive into a pile of debris! The Boers did not hesitate to use explosives in their hands, they methodically crossed ravines and broken barbed wire, and then blew all the trains and facilities that could be destroyed to smithereens, even the water towers. In just 2 hours, 30 locomotives of various types and more than 200 wagons in the entire station were turned into a pile of scrap metal in the flames!

Thank you book friend fisherman, the sea has a side of the reward~~~! Today it seems that the subscription is even more sad to urge ........ (To be continued.) )