Chapter 243: Crossing the River

Li He didn't know why his eldest brother had such strong confidence in the army under his command, but after a period of experience in the army, he slowly felt a lot of strangeness from this army, indeed, just like the sentence that his eldest brother had been hanging on his lips: This army is unique, this is really an army that is different from any other army in this era.

It's a feeling that's hard to put into words.

What to say about this army, compared with the armies of other countries in this era, it has not become fierce, but it is more disciplined, the strongest impression of Li He in the barracks of this army is the discipline here, everything is in order, everything is according to the rules, the regulations in the barracks are so harsh that they are like a pendulum, every minute and every second is stipulated, and every soldier or officer is like a part in this huge clockwork machine.

Once an order for a unit is issued, all the machines rumble up.

Li He is now a member of such a machine, silently watching the soldiers perform the actions prescribed in the field code like worker bees, digging up earthworks, building fortifications, the chasers in front of them come out, and the artillery camp of the rear artillery team is set up almost in the blink of an eye.

A few dozen minutes later, the battle for a forced crossing of the river was ready, and the hunters observed the target on the other side of the river from behind the improvised breastwork of their homes.

"On the other side is the Xuanwu Army, the strongest army in the imperial court today, but guess what?"

Fang Boxuan, the commander of Li He's main official camp, said to Li He,

"They only have eight guns, and the caliber is only 30MM small cannons, and there are only five firing rates in a minute."

"I'm afraid this little cannon can only be used in the capital here!"

Fang Boxuan's expression didn't know whether it was pity or disappointment.

"If it weren't for the order from above, my old party would have been able to go forward for dozens of miles today, and I would have been able to beat out the of these so-called Great Song Heavenly Soldiers, believe it or not."

Fang Boxuan shook his head and said, he is really big-hearted, knowing that it is the only brother of the Metropolitan Governor standing in front of him, and his mouth is still full of droplets.

Or maybe this was what he deliberately wanted to let himself see, Li He thought to himself, he really didn't dare to underestimate the scheming of these veterans in the current Japanese military camp.

ACCORDING TO THE NEW MILITARY SYSTEM OF THE JAPANESE ARMY, THE THIRD BATTALION ARTILLERY BATTALION HAS FOUR RIFLED 75MM GUNS, AND BECAUSE OF THIS MISSION, THE FIREPOWER OF THE THIRD BATTALION HAS BEEN DOUBLED, THAT IS TO SAY, THE THIRD BATTALION HAS EIGHT 75MM GUNS.

This kind of firepower is already very exaggerated in the scale of this land battle, the thick barrels roared into the sky, and the shells crossed the bank of the Fangjia River and bombarded the Song army on the opposite side.

The Song army soon found that the range of their artillery was far inferior to that of the Tianzhu army, in fact, the artillery of the Song regiment battalion was only aimed at the infantry in a dense formation of anti-personnel formations, in fact, it was an improved version of the Buddha wolf machine and mother gun, and the firing range was only less than 100 meters.

The battle on the scale of the Song Legion battalion has never encountered this kind of firepower at all.

THE 75MM CALIBER FIELD ARTILLERY WAS LIKE A HEAVY HAMMER WANTONLY HITTING THE PHALANX OF THE SONG ARMY LINED UP ON THE BANK OF THE RIVER, AND EACH SHELLING SEEMED TO MAKE THE FORMATION OF THIS PHALANX MORE LOOSE.

Boom, boom, and boom!

Shells continued to smash into the gaps in the phalanx.

Each phalanx of the Song army was a battalion of 500 people, and the same as the Japanese army a few years ago, the four sides were spearmen, and the middle was the firecrackers, and the four corners of the phalanx were small and extremely small artillery teams, with two sub-cannons on each corner, to supplement the long-range firepower of the firecrackers.

Back then, the Japanese army was also in such a formation, but now Fang Boxuan came to see,, how could he be so stupid, just relying on Lao Tzu's 75MM cannon is enough to destroy this phalanx.

Compared with the Japanese army, which has now strengthened its artillery and is already a full firearms lineup, such a Song army is simply a target.

The premise, of course, is that they have to cross the river first.

Although the Fangjia River is only a small river, it is also a river.

Even such a small river is now a natural barrier in front of the Song army.

The Tianzhu artillery roared for a long time, and the rhythmic cannon smashed into the Song army's formation, the Song army's original gray phalanx was filled with blood, the soldiers gritted their teeth, and relied on the comrades around them to be tighter, a wave of things that didn't know whether it was blood and internal organs, fell, and the shock wave continued to hit their bodies, continuing to test the will of these ordinary officers and soldiers of the Song army.

This feeling of being beaten all the time but not being able to fight back destroyed the morale of the soldiers, and the nerves of the Song officers and soldiers in the formation had been pressed to the limit.

Even the elite of the Song army, which is known as invincible in the world, is difficult to hold out for long in this situation.

The morale of the Song officers and soldiers fell at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The Song officers and soldiers in the phalanx lived like a year!

Then, they finally saw the long-awaited enemy attack, and in the Fangjia River, which was only waist-deep for adults, the Tianzhu soldiers were raising their rifles in both hands, one foot deep and one foot shallow, trying to wade directly across the river.

This section of the river was less than forty meters wide, and the attacking side did not even need to build a bridge.

The Tianzhu people lined up in twos and threes, not knowing whether it was a formation or not, and overflowed the river.

The Song army has already been bombed by the artillery of the Tianzhu people, if the Tianzhu people do not take the initiative to attack, the Song army will disperse sooner or later, and now when they see the enemy, they are shocked, shouting trumpets, stepping on the drums, and the whole phalanx is pressed towards the river bank.

Unexpectedly, the phalanx on this side moved, and it was the guns on the other side that rang out first!

The Tianzhu army had a chaser team, and the firearms they used generally exceeded a range of more than 100 meters.

At this time, the hunters fired freely across the river to provide cover for their troops crossing the river.

The Song army had nothing to do with the chasseurs hiding behind the breastwork on the opposite bank, and could only deal with the soldiers in the river.

"Ready, put!"

The rhythm of the Song army's guns clearly began.

At this time, the Tianzhu soldiers who were crossing the river began to suffer casualties, and there was no way, the Tianzhu soldiers in the river at this time could only be targets.

The casualties on both sides rose proportionally, and the small Fangjia River soon turned into a river of blood.

Seeing that the hunters were not effectively involved in the Song army, Fang Boxuan was anxious, and personally ran to the back and shouted to the commander of the artillery battalion, pulling the artillery battalion forward, except for the 75MM gun, all the other dozens of large and small artillery pieces in the battalion were concentrated.

Lined up along the riverbank,

"Point me at the opposite side, boom! Boom a donkey ball! ”

The timely addition of this force quickly upset the balance on the battlefield.

When the Song army's array faced the riverbank and was dispersed by the fierce artillery fire of the Tianzhu people, in the smoke of gunpowder, the first flag of the Tianzhu army finally stepped on the riverbank......