Chapter 212: Rare Bravery
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"Double charge? Confirmed?" Seeing the single-barreled arquebus that was first sent from behind, Xiao Xuan asked.
In order to deal with some relatively protective targets in actual combat, many of the single-close arquebuses equipped for the Third Company were larger in size because they were also made of steel and did not have the burden of bayonets, firing about one or two projectiles. When the extreme power charge is charged, it has a great threat ability to many non-professional side vans and car shields at a certain distance.
"I believe that the officers and men of the third company can do it." A shooter from the first company of the volunteer battalion said approvingly at this time.
At this time, Xiao Xuan also remembered: The volunteer battalion is not only a company of regular soldiers, but also a revolutionary infantry carefully selected and trained by himself, and most of the other officers and soldiers in the battalion have also passed the severe test of the volunteer war test on the city. There may still be shortcomings of one kind or another in training, but there should be no problem in the vast majority of psychological literacy on the battlefield.
When the caliber of about 20 mm fired about one or two lead bullets at about 450 meters per second, close to the limit speed of black powder, the huge fire and momentum also continued to make the entire blood-stained alley become flaming again, as if under the continuous fire, someone fell in the sharp arrows that came in the dark night, but this time the first thing that could not be supported was the enemy infantry on the street under the cover of the heavy shield array on the opposite side. The Ming army was in the barracks that rushed over, but they didn't expect that the fire from the alley could be so continuous, and the seemingly heavy wooden shields and even the armor of ordinary soldiers together could not effectively avoid casualties.
At this time, the continuous rain of arrows began to fall from the night, although the projectiles at night were not very accurate, and not all arrows were very powerful, but there were still many of them in the densely populated streets and alleys, fortunately, at this time, Xiao Xuan realized that the battle situation had been reopened, and quickly ordered the team to use the ammunition that had been continuously loaded to rush out of the alley to launch a counterattack.
In this way, the team of about four hundred people got out of the crisis and completed the reloading of most of the ammunition of the barrels in constant fire. However, at this time, the Ming army gradually completed the preparation of the battle formation.
The terrain had previously given the team a great deal of protection from the cavalry, but at this time it also exposed the team to new dangers. With only a face-to-face fight with the opponent, can the 400 or so troops defeat the opponent with ten times the strength in a head-to-head confrontation in a small area? In the case that the team has already endured a certain amount of attrition, Xiao Xuan does not have this kind of certainty. However, the only strength of the entire team was that several more likely situations and corresponding combat methods were formulated before the war, and the officers above the platoon level were required to keep it in mind, and Xiao Xuan himself also remembered it at this time.
"The members of the Datong Society followed me and stood up behind the first-line steel shield bearers and prepared to fire! The others were prepared in order to take turns loading firearms! Fast! ”
The strong psychological literacy of the battle, the training in peacetime, was fully reflected at this time, and it also began to initially reflect the strength of the volunteer camp
When the Ming army began to push a heavy vehicle shield with a certain degree of protection, and unfolded a shield wall to cover the artillery fire, the firing preparations of the vanguard of the Datong Society members in the volunteer battalion were also completed. The whole team was like a sharp arrow, on the avenue about two zhang wide, with a cumulative horizontal line of about three zhang to form an arrow, squatting and standing postures stretched for six zhang, and thirty-six members of the Datong Society continued to use the firearms loaded behind to approach the hand-to-hand combat distance of less than one zhang from the enemy's vehicle formation, and the distance was only about five steps, and launched fierce fire on the exposed enemy troops one after another. After firing, the firearm was quickly and methodically transmitted to the rear and reloaded.
In this way, in just a minute or so, hundreds of firearms were reloaded.
The fierce firearms, accompanied by black-and-red bayonets, finally approached the edge of the enemy's chariot formation, and after sweeping away several rows of soldiers on the enemy front line near the chariot shield, the firearms continued to attack in depth. The Ming troops in the rear row, who tried to raise their shields to resist, retreated one after another under the bombardment of powerful projectiles.
In this way, relying on the firepower battle momentum of the brave to win on the narrow road, the partial general of the Ming army, who had thought of targeted tactics, did not expect that the opponent he was about to face was so strong, and after suffering two or three hundred casualties in the continuous close shooting, some people in the rear team finally began to waver.
The firepower began to be a little incompatible, but Xiao Xuan understood that the attack at this time could not be relaxed, and led the remnants of the guards around him, together with the brave volunteer battalion soldiers with the members of the Datong Society as the core, to launch a white-knives assault, and finally drove the officers and soldiers of the Ming Army's main barracks, who had an absolute advantage in strength, out of the original street position. Firepower warfare and attrition warfare have gradually turned into hunt and kill warfare once again.
Many enemy soldiers prayed for surrender in shock, but at this time, the volunteer battalion trapped in enemy territory had no intention of leaving prisoners. Perhaps for some of the needs of civil warfare in modern revolutionary warfare, captives were an important source of soldiers. However, for volunteer troops who do not need large-scale high-level warfare and only need to achieve relatively elite capabilities in a small range, it is not necessary to digest the prisoners of the other side.
This time there still seemed to be no trace of decline, still brave and tenacious, and thwarted the opponent's attack from the front, Xiao Xuan also felt a sense of accomplishment after coming back to his senses: the entire volunteer battalion seemed to have really become a force that rivaled the position of the Marine Corps under the cover of the well-prepared Marine Corps Artillery Regiment and night-vision carbine in the Battle of Changjin Lake, and broke through the opponent's outer defense with a not too large advantage in strength. Worthy of the name in the reputation given by himself.
In recent history, there may also be elites whose combat efficiency is not inferior to that of the Volunteer Army, such as a very small number of teams in the German army or those non-ad hoc main forces invested by the Japanese army in the frontal battlefield in the early stage of the Anti-Japanese War. However, even the elite German or Japanese troops could not have such resilience in offensive battles while having efficient battlefield combat efficiency, and seemed to be able to fight better and stronger in battle. These advantages seem to be absent from all the other fierce elites in history.
In this way, the main force of the enemy, which had absolute superiority in troops, was once again defeated, and it suffered a total of 30 percent casualties in the night's battle, and the volunteer battalion, which had been completely reduced by 100 officers and men, still seemed to have a strong fighting spirit and determination at this time, as if it would never decline.