Chapter 578, Assault

New Bayi Chinese Network - A collection of online novel reading networks

Just as the sword and shield soldiers of the Qing army pounced, the follow-up troops of the Model Army also followed, and these follow-up soldiers were equipped with ordinary flintlock pistols with only one bullet in the chamber. They used the tactic of four soldiers holding the enemy with bayonets in groups of five, and then one soldier freed up his hand and fired at the enemy at close range. When he finished shooting, he stepped forward to take cover and replaced another soldier to shoot. Shooting at such a distance, the hit rate is surprisingly high. Moreover, neither the rattan card in the hand nor the cotton armor on the body of the Qing army could withstand the blow of the flintlock pistol.

In fact, shooting in white-knuckle combat is not a good tactic in many cases. It has the following problems.

First of all, the position of a soldier's hands in a white-knuckle battle is not the same as when he fires his gun. After firing, you need to reposition your grip, and the gaps in this space can be easily grasped. Secondly, it is easy to accidentally injure a gun in a white-knuckle battle. Especially in later generations, rifle bullets have very strong penetrating power, often penetrating several people at close range. When the two sides are fighting, a single shot may be able to knock down several people, both enemies and their own. Therefore, in later generations, many armies were not allowed to shoot when using bayonets in white-knuckle combat. But there are exceptions.

The tactics of firing guns in white-knuckle warfare that the model army is now using are actually from a certain army of the National Revolutionary Army, which was supposed to have only 45,000 men according to the imperial court's fixed salary, but it was seriously overstaffed, resulting in a company of more than 1,000 people, an independent regiment of 10,000 people, and a total of nearly 1 million personnel. Because of the lack of ammunition, they always tend to use ambushes in battles with the Japanese locust army, close the distance, and shoot at most three bullets before entering white-knuckle warfare. But in white-knuckle combat, they don't actually have the upper hand, because their training and nutrition are not as good as their opponents. Therefore, they invented the tactic of firing a shot at a very close distance in a white-knuckle battle with the Japanese locust army, so as to obtain a better exchange ratio.

Moreover, the equipment of this army is mostly very old, and the rifles used are often the same age as the soldiers' grandfathers, so that the rifling in the chambers of these rifles has long been worn bald. Of course, this is not a good thing, because it means that as soon as the bullet they shoot rolls out of the muzzle, it will fly everywhere, and the accuracy of long-range shooting is naturally a mess. But at close range, this disadvantage brings an unexpected benefit. That is, on the one hand, it reduces the penetration of the bullet, and on the other hand, it strengthens the stopping effect of the bullet. The penetration of the tumbling bullet naturally decreases, and after it hits the enemy, it rolls inside the enemy's body, releasing all the kinetic energy into the enemy's body, so that at close range, such a bullet can kill the enemy almost instantly if it hits the enemy's torso. In this way, this army has a much smaller chance of accidental injury than normal when it fires with their old guns in white-knuckle combat. Therefore, Eighteen episodes specially developed such a tactic of several people covering one person to shoot in a white-knuckle battle.

The flintlock pistol in the hands of the model army soldier has a lot of similarities in a sense to the old sleeve in the hands of the eighteen-episode soldiers. For example, the guns in their hands are not rifled, so the bullets are easily unstable, and the penetration of thicker things is not good enough, but the stopping effect is excellent. The model army's flintlock pistol shoots unarmored lead bullets, which are bound to shatter when they enter the human body, making it almost impossible to penetrate the enemy's body and injure those behind it. Shattered lead bullets will keep all the kinetic energy in the enemy's body, so the stopping effect is particularly good, and it is almost impossible for someone to get hit by several bullets and still rush up and slash someone with a sword. Therefore, the white-knuckle combat tactics of the eighteen episodes are particularly suitable for the use of the model army.

But even with such tactics, white-knuckle warfare is still very cruel, and the entire battlefield has become a big grinding disc of flesh and blood, and the armies of both sides are thrown into it wrongly, and then constantly crushed by this big grinding plate.

Pan Daxing couldn't remember how long he had been fighting in this flesh mill. Maybe it's been a long time, but maybe it's not long, and fierce battles always ruin people's sense of time. Two rounds from his double-barreled shotgun had been fired, knocking out two of the gills, and he was engaged with the enemy with his bayonet.

At first, he and four other warriors covered each other, but soon, one warrior was killed and the others were scattered. At this time, a large wave of Qing troops with shields came straight over. Pan Daxing stared at the shield held in front of the nearest sword and shield soldier, estimating the position of his arm, and just as the Qing army collided with him, he stabbed the bayonet a little above the center of the shield.

By the force of the collision between the two sides, the steel three. Edge. The bayonet pierced the shield made of raw cowhide pine at once, and then pierced the shield soldier's shield-holding arm and pierced through. The sword and shield soldier could no longer hold his shield as soon as his arm hurt, and at the same time, the inertia of the rushing man made him unable to stop his feet, so he crashed into the bayonet that passed through the shield and his arm in an exclamation.

Pan Daxing's bayonet pierced deep into the chest of the Manchu Qing sword shield, and he fell down as soon as his feet were weak, but Pan Daxing's bayonet was hung by the corpse of the Qing soldier who had fallen, and sank, and at this moment, another Qing soldier rushed over from behind, and slashed at his gun-holding hands. Pan Daxing didn't have time to pull out the bayonet, so he had to give up the shotgun and retreat backwards, not wanting to tripped over a corpse under his feet, and suddenly lost his center of gravity and fell to the ground on his back.

The sword and shield soldier stepped forward again, raised his sword and was about to cut it down. At this time, a bayonet was stabbed from the oblique side, but the sword and shield could only turn the shield to block. Pan Daxing hurriedly wanted to get up, but he didn't want another person to come behind him, collide with him, and knock Pan Daxing, who was just about to get up, to the ground again. The man himself fell to the ground, and the two fell together.

Pan Daxing looked at it, but saw a white-armored soldier beside him, and couldn't help but be taken aback. He had no weapon on him now, so he squinted his eyes and saw a knife on the ground beside him, and he reached for it. But that Bai Jia's action was faster, and he had already slashed towards Pan Daxing with a knife.

This knife slashed on Pan Daxing's helmet, fortunately, the white armor himself was lying on the ground, his waist knife was too long, and it was inconvenient to exert force, but this knife failed to cut the helmet, but it only made Pan Daxing a little dizzy. The white armor threw away the waist knife, went to his waist and pulled out a dagger, and with his hands and feet on the ground, he pounced.

Pan Daxing was a little dizzy by the knife, and his reaction was a little slow, and he was pressed under the white armor. The white armor held Pan Daxing's helmet with one hand, trying to fix his helmet, and with the other hand, he held a dagger and prepared to poke it through the gap in the armor. Pan Daxing hurriedly shook his head, stretched out his hand, held the hand of the white armor pressed on his helmet with both hands, and pulled it to the side, and the dagger stabbed crookedly, cutting a big hole in Pan Daxing's forearm obliquely.

The white armor raised the dagger again, but this time it stabbed down on Pan Daxing's right arm. Pan Daxing was pressed underneath and couldn't move, and the knife stabbed him in his right arm, and his right arm was so weak that he couldn't lift it up immediately.

The white armor sneered, and was about to continue the knife, but a rifle butt flew from behind him and smashed it on the white armor's head, smashing his helmet three or four feet away. A mouthful of blood erupted from the white armor's mouth, and he fell to the ground and died.

Pan Daxing pushed the body of the white armor away and tried hard to get up, but saw that the Qing army could no longer withstand the attack of the model army, and was already fleeing one after another. And the model soldier who had knocked over the white armor with the butt of a rifle just now and saved his life had already chased forward with a rifle with a bayonet.

Pan Daxing covered his arm, looked around, and saw that the waist knife dropped by Bai Jia was still beside him, so he picked up the waist knife and chased after him.

{Lao Tie please remember New Bayi Chinese Network }