Chapter 19: No Conscience Cannon
As the shield cart slowly advanced, sweat slid down the tip of Goxinga's nose. It had already reached a distance of eighty meters, and if the enemy began to charge now, there would be only one chance for Goxinga's troops to fire a salvo. It only takes less than 20 seconds to sprint 80 meters with all his might, and he can't finish a single alternating shot, so he can only make a full salvo. And how effective a salvo can be Guo Xing'a knows in his heart, it is not enough to stop the full charge of nearly five hundred people, and the next thing can only be hand-to-hand combat.
"My lord, the bandits are coming along the path!" Cezanne finally played the role of a staff officer.
"Ahh Guo Xing'a, who was too nervous, realized that the enemy did not press on it in an all-round way, but lined up in a sharp formation along the path. The defensive line at the entrance of the village was nearly eighty meters long, and the enemy only lined up in a formation of more than thirty meters around the path. The first and second platoons facing the enemy could still only face the enemy's shield carts, while the third and fourth platoons lined up on the flanks had the opportunity to flank the enemy. At a distance, the shield wagons sheltered the enemy, but when they got closer, the enemy's flanks were all exposed to the fire of the third and fourth platoons.
"Zhang Yi, take half of the people to protect a few old men and retreat. Fuquan and Han Yu take the rest of the people to follow me! Guo Xing'a was afraid that Saishan'a would stop him, so he walked directly to the trench with half of the guard squad.
"Three rows, four rows of free fire! The first row, the second row are ready for a salvo! "Guo Xing's left hand*, and his right hand Yanling knife took over from Feng Sheng'a commanding the second company.
"Retreat without an order, and those who cross this line will be beheaded immediately!" Guo Xing'a drew a horizontal line on the ground with a goose feather knife.
The flagmen lost the excitement of the first encounter, and held the foreign guns in their hands tightly. The third and fourth platoons were also able to relieve the pressure by constantly firing, but the first and second platoons quietly aimed at Guo Xing'a behind them with their peripheral vision.
The enemy obviously lacked a commander who could see the overall situation, and did not abandon the shield cart to launch an all-out attack as Guo Xing'a expected, but continued to push the shield cart slowly forward. The flanking attacks of the third and fourth platoons had a good effect, and the enemies exposed to the flank fire fell to the ground one after another, and the speed of the shield cart advance was greatly reduced.
"Grab food!" The shield cart advanced to about twenty meters, and with a strange slogan coming from nowhere, the enemy finally launched an all-out assault.
"Hatan, more three, on!" The muscles of Goxinga's thighs twitched uncontrollably.
Hatan and the three divisions quickly entered the front-line trenches and vigorously threw out the first wave*. Nearly 60 large iron bumps fell into the enemy group, and with the explosion of "boom, boom", flying fragments and lead bullets harvested lives in the crowd.
The first wave of bombs knocked down nearly seventy percent of the enemy's impact arrows, and the rest were also dizzy in the smoke and dust raised. But the enemy's offensive showed no signs of being thwarted, and the crowd that followed soon began to push the front men to continue the charge.
For the first time, Goxinga saw his enemy clearly, dressed in tattered clothes and yellow-skinned, but his eyes shone with a fanaticism that Goxinga could never understand. Goxinga even saw a wounded man with a broken arm that had been blown up, supporting his body with a severed arm mixed with blood and dirt, and reluctantly got up on the ground, drooling and continuing to rush forward. He was already certain to die, and it was difficult for Goxinga to understand what was sustaining him. Goxinga saw more people shouting, spitting saliva and rushing towards him.
"Hartan!" Goshinga's voice was hoarse.
"Bomb dropping!" Hartan and Dosan hissed and roared as hard as they could.
The strong men of the commando team threw * aimlessly, throwing all the * on their bodies as fast as they could. It seemed to be raining in the sky, but the raindrops were made by Goxinga*. More than one hundred and sixty*, with a violent explosion, killing fragments flew in the shield workshop like mosquitoes on the summer grassland. A body full of hope, pierced by fragments and torn to pieces by the explosion.
The third and fourth platoons had stopped firing, and the impact of the explosion weighed down on them in the trenches and could not raise their heads. After seeing the results of the explosion, although it was not the first time they had seen the power of *, the shock after the simultaneous explosion of more than a hundred pieces still made them sluggish. The flagmen poked their heads out from behind the earthen wall and stared blankly at the place where they had just been raging.
The enemy had already lost more than 200 men, and there was still a full thirty meters between them and the earthen wall defense line, in addition to the bloody stumps and severed arms. But they didn't seem to see the flesh and blood of their companions, and they still pounced like moths on the earthen wall defense.
"Ahh One of the bannermen in the third platoon threw down his gun and fled to the village crying.
"They're not human! Ahh Two more people in the fourth platoon were infected, crying and fleeing from their posts.
"Volley!" Goxinga no longer has time to worry about deserters.
"Bang, bang, pass!" Acton and Tong Jia's forces obviously had a big fluctuation in momentum, and the salvo shots were somewhat scattered. But fortunately, with the support of Hatan and the three more departments, the bannermen have some confidence in their hearts.
The commandos of Hatan and Duosan also began to shoot at the enemy with their own *, and the gunfire of "Tong, Tong" was the *unique sound. Unlike the effect of one shot at a foreign gun, one shot is a piece at a distance of thirty meters.
"Tong, Tong, Tong!" The assault team had two each*, and there was no pause in reloading, and a second salvo came quickly.
"Follow Lao Tzu!" Hatan, wielding an axe, was the first to jump out of the trench, and his platoon jumped out of the trench with his melee weapons.
The second platoon of Duo San began to reload, and the barrel of the * was only about a foot, and the reload speed was very fast. Duo San did not jump out of the trench until the whole platoon was fully loaded, following Hatan's footprints, but he was nearly twenty meters behind Hatan.
"Second Company, Assault!" Guo Xing'a pointed the Yanling knife forward.
"Assault!" Acton, Tong Jia and other platoon commanders also shouted the slogan of the charge.
"Assault!" Feng Sheng, who rushed to the third and fourth platoons to suppress the deserters, also jumped out of the trench.
Originally, seeing that some people had fled and no one had reinforcements, the flagmen of the third and fourth platoons had plans to abandon their guns and flee. However, Feng Sheng'a, who arrived in time, and the sound of the salvo of gunfire suppressed their urge to escape.
"Tick tock, tick tock, tick, tick, tick, tick!" The suona version of the charge resounded through the defense line.
The enemy was beaten back again and again by Hatan's brave counter-charge, and the addition of the three more divisions made them even more confused. Hatan just disrupted their momentum, and Duo San really disrupted their array, after all, the lethality and effect of * were far greater than that of hand axes. The entire charge of the Second Company completely routed them, and after throwing down more than 300 corpses, they fled again in embarrassment.
"Do you see clearly! Who was running just now? After cleaning up the battlefield, Chengtai in the fourth row was in a much more relaxed mood and secretly asked Ta Er.
"I didn't see it! Not like the people in our class! Ta Er carried a few captured weapons, and the word worry was almost written on his face. The flagmen are from the same small city, they are neighbors in the street on weekdays, and they have received devil training from King Goyama for more than a month in a platoon, and they are very emotional.
"These two are indisputable, and thirty military sticks are indispensable!" Tuha has some meaning that iron is not steel.
When the bannermen dismantled the enemy's abandoned shield carts, collected the materials available on the battlefield and returned to the defensive line, the guard squad had already escorted the three deserters to Goxinga. Including Mu Shun, who commanded the inspection, all the officers gathered around Goxinga. Although all the officers and men of the second company and the commandos of Hatan and Duosan were resting in the trenches, their eyes were also looking directly in the direction of Guoxing'a. Everyone was speculating about what Goxinga would do with the three deserters and how many sticks he would fight.
"The subordinates and others have no way to lead the team, and the subordinates have produced such an unangry waste, please punish the adult!" Feng Sheng'a took Nash and Degui and knelt down on one knee in front of Goxinga to plead guilty.
Guo Xing'a didn't say anything, looked up at the sky, and just waved his hand to signal the three of them to get up.
"My lord, give these shameful scum to your subordinates! The subordinates broke their dog's legs with their own hands! Nash's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and his man was the first to run.
Guo Xing'a still didn't speak, just stared blankly at the sky, as if an actor was waiting for everyone to turn their eyes to him.
"My lord! In order to enforce military discipline, his subordinates proposed fifty officers per person to set an example. Saishana felt that Goxinga's expression was wrong, and hurriedly said a punishment that he thought was very heavy.
The flagmen sitting in the trenches gasped, fifty military sticks, not directly disabled.
"Brothers, what do you say?" Goxinga didn't answer Saishan'a's words, but threw the question to everyone present.
The flagmen were stunned for a while, and no one could answer Guo Xing'a's words.
"The three of them are also our robes! Come out of the house together, everyone eats and lives together and trains together, how can people be ruthless! I have feelings for them too! Guo Xinga shook his head affectionately.
Can you be acquitted and acquitted? All Ren were waiting for the second half of Goxinga's sentence.
"But they ran, and they threw down their robes on the battlefield, and Brother Zeze ran away, and threw you to the enemy. They don't care about our lives or deaths! In two sentences, Guo Xing'a classifies the three as wicked people who abandoned their brothers.
"But also, who is not afraid of death! The enemy is so fierce, not afraid of everyone's jokes, just now I almost peed my pants again! "Goxinga seems to be about to start easing the awkward atmosphere again.
"I remember when I was training, I said that people can only rely on two things on the battlefield, one is the rifle in their hands, and the other is the comrades around them. Without these two things, you will die! Do you three want your comrades to die for your own lives? Throw them at the enemy and let them block the sword for you, so that you can have a chance to escape? Guo Xing'a suddenly angrily questioned the three deserters.
"Slaves are guilty!" The three of them kneeling on the ground buried their heads deep between their legs.
"I said before the whole training that if you don't die in front of the battle, you will die in military law!" Goxinga began to look at the sky again.
"My lord......" Xiande and the others finally noticed Guo Xing's attempt.
"Today's punishment for them is simple! I'm talking about it! The common triangular wolf eyes of the Guoxing Amans quickly swept over everyone.
"Ahh Almost everyone did not expect that Goxinga would actually execute the three deserters.
"Execute!" Guo Xinga turned his face, as if he couldn't bear to look at the death of the three of them.
"Adults......" Xiande and others tried to persuade Guoxing. However, there was no chance, and as soon as the word "execution" came out, the guard squad had already pulled the trigger on the backs of the three people.
"Bang, bang, bang", with three gunshots, the three corpses fell straight to the ground. The guard squad had received guidance from Goxinga in advance, and the muzzle of the gun was aimed at the location of the hearts of the three people.
"It's all your own brothers, let's put away the body! Count it as a dead person! "Goxinga kept his back to the three corpses.
"Huh!" No one said a word more.
The flagmen re-consolidated the defensive line according to the officer's command, and then looked blankly ahead. Although three shots were fired during the training, no one was injured at all that time, which can only be regarded as a threat from Goxinga. This time it was also three shots, but the three people they were once familiar with turned into three corpses. Including swearing not to abandon his comrades-in-arms, including the most important partner of the warrior is the gun in his hand, every word that Guo Xing'a said is repeatedly flowing in the hearts of the bannermen, because King Guoyan is a talker. In the face of the harsh military law, the pale flagmen completely gave up the last trace of luck in their hearts. Guo Xing'a's face is really as terrifying as Hades in the hearts of the bannermen.
"My lord, the bandits are building shield carts again!" Feng Sheng's face was also a little pale.
"Hmm!" Guo Xing snorted and agreed.
"The bandits were defenseless about * just now, if the bandits are allowed to approach again, their subordinates are worried that something may happen!" What Feng Sheng'a said is the truth, the enemy is very strong in learning and adapting, and can build a shield car to deal with muskets, and it is difficult to guarantee that he will not research something new to deal with it*.
"How many people are there in these gang of kings and calves?" Angry, Guo Xing'a scolded the local voice of his previous life, but asked a question that even the big boss couldn't answer. Guo Xing Ah thought that he had eliminated nearly 400 enemy troops before and after, and the enemy army would retreat after more than half of the casualties. However, when Goxinga dealt with the deserters and looked at the enemy camp again, Goxinga found that the number of enemy troops did not seem to have changed, and it was still so large. It seems that the people who died in front of the Guoxing'a battle just now were all soybeans. The total number of enemy troops is 1,000, and after 400 people have been destroyed, there are 1,000 people.
How many bandits there are, the big boss really can't answer the question of Goxinga, because he doesn't count. A large number of hungry people, indeed if Xing'a feels the same, it is no different from sprinkling beans into soldiers. A few bags of multigrain leaf cakes were handed out, and a group of new troops stood up. The big leader, who had lost 400 men, still had a nearly four-fold superiority in strength over Goxinga.
"There are almost a thousand bandits, but it seems that there are still some troops in the distance that have not yet been committed!" Feng Sheng'a also felt that the more the bandits were fighting, the more they fought.
"We can't let this pile of rotten wood come up again." Guo Xing'a also knew that if he was approached by the earthen wall defense line, he would not be able to defend it.
"Bullets can't penetrate the shield car, and if you take the initiative to attack, you're afraid of ......" Fengsheng Ana's shield car has no choice.
"You're in front, I'll figure it out!" Guo Xing'a interrupted Feng Sheng's words and turned to walk towards the village.
Guo Xing'a really has a way, but Guo Xing'a has no bottom in his heart about this method. This method is a new weapon he developed a few days ago in order to make up for the lack of heavy firepower - the conscienceless cannon. The conscienceless cannon was an invention and creation of our party and our army in a period of difficult conditions. The bottom of the gasoline drum is thickened with wood, and then the pack is packed with *launch*. It can launch a * bag of about ten kilograms to a distance of 200 meters, and the power is not to be said, after all, how thick the barrel is, how big the caliber is.
In order to take the initiative to attack in the future, Guo Xinga has been studying this treasure. However, there are no gasoline barrels, and there are no * bags, so Guoxinga's conscienceless cannon is seriously reduced. Replace gasoline barrels with large wooden barrels with iron sheets, and stuff small wooden barrels with iron sheets instead of * bags. The capacity of the small wooden barrel was limited, and Guo Xing'a only stuffed it with 30 catties* and 5 catties of sundries. Guo Xing'a tried to shoot once, and he would never be able to hit 200 meters, and he could barely reach about 100 meters. The power of the explosion is not comparable to a ten-kilogram bag, at most a giant *. In order to prevent the fuse from being extinguished, Goxinga filled the small wooden barrel with a wooden fuse. As a result, although it is guaranteed that every cannon will be fired, there is no guarantee of when. The wooden fuse made by the soil method has no burning time at all. And because the wooden barrel is different, and the iron sheet is also hand-wrapped, whether this baby will be fried, and when it is easy to blow up, it all depends on the character. Guo Xinga originally wanted to set up a death squad and experiment a few more times. Today, only death squads can be set up and directly fought.
Under the flickering of Guoxing A's meritorious service award, the guard squad and the miscellaneous service team each sent out a few people and set up a death squad. Between the earthen wall trenches and the second-line trenches of Hatan, artillery positions were constructed. In order to have more hope of survival, the death squad first dug a pit in the ground and buried the lower half of the conscienceless cannon in the soil. He also erected an earthen wall more than a meter high around it, and surrounded the conscienceless cannon. Finally, a trench was dug on the outside of the earthen wall, and it was kept for hiding when the cannon was fired.
In the afternoon, the enemy army really launched an attack of about 500 people, and Guo Xing'a had to surrender to the enemy's manufacturing speed, and after half a day's effort, dozens of shield carts were actually drummed up. And almost every striker on the front line has a shield made of tree branches, and some protective gear that is not anything like a quilt. After all, not many people were actually killed, and most of them died from flying fragments. With things like shields and quilts, the number of casualties from fragments will be greatly reduced. Guo Xinga wondered how these guys, who absolutely didn't understand the principle of killing, came up with it.
The enemy slowly approached within one hundred and fifty meters, and Goxinga finally saw what something like a quilt was. It's fucking people, some seem to be children, some are skinny adults. I don't know whether I am dead or alive, so I am held in my arms like a shield and used as a protective tool. While feeling the cruelty of the enemy, Guo Xing'a also had a headache, and the human body was indeed a perfect match to resist*. In all previous wars, there is no shortage of heroes who use their bodies to suppress* protect their comrades.
"Fire!" When the enemy approached within 100 meters, Guo Xing gave the order to open fire.