The distance of 300 meters is not far away, but it is not close, that is, in three or four minutes, the soldiers of the South Bank Army have already entered the range of the 1629 smoothbore gun. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The rangefinder held a one-meter rangefinder and shouted loudly with a voice that was so excited that he wanted to pee: "Enter 1,200 meters!" The soldiers of the smoothbore artillery crew replied loudly, "Yes!" Ready to shoot! Then they all turned their heads to look at Li Zhen.

Li Zhen was also quite excited, now the wind on the city wall was very strong, blowing the Polaris flag on the flagpole at the head of the city to hunt, he raised his right hand and measured the distance with the jumping eye method, and then shook his head very firmly.

"The target hasn't entered the firing range yet, we're going to hit the soldiers behind!" As soon as Li Zhen's words fell, a signal standard-bearer next to him shouted loudly, "The commander-in-chief instructed to shoot the soldiers in the rear, don't shoot at will!" ”

Li Zhen nodded, "That's right! The herald hurriedly rushed to the position of the smoothbore gun crew, and shouted orders to the soldiers of the smoothbore gun crew.

Although the gunners had a look of disappointment on their faces, they responded to the order very simply. In fact, they still have a trace of anxiety in their hearts, the entire Shabak Kerry plus the recruits of the training camp together is only less than 600 people in total, and the mighty troops in front of them are more than 5,000 people, even if the weapons are many times more than the South Shore Army, after all, it is still necessary to use one as ten, under such a rate, no matter who is still not confident.

This sentiment was not only common among the artillerymen, but also among the infantry on the city walls, many of whom had their rifles tightly in their hands, but most of them were a little weak, even the veteran snipers on the city walls, but they were all lying in their respective firing positions, and for a time they did not show it. These veterans, who did not show the slightest sign of panic, set a full example for the soldiers of the Foreign Legion, and even played a role in stabilizing the morale of the army - what are you afraid of, the senators are not afraid here, this is not one or two senators who can be abandoned, there are dozens of them.

"Fire!" Li Zhen, who was staring closely at the distance of the soldiers, shouted excitedly, his eyes had been glued to the position of those soldiers, and he couldn't wait to reach out and pull them over, but when he finally saw the other party enter the firing range, he was about to jump up.

The cannons on the city wall roared one after another, and one round iron ball after another flew out of the cannon muzzle and smashed straight into the phalanx more than a thousand meters away.

The chamber pressure of the smoothbore cannon was low, and although the shells gathered great kinetic energy, the speed was slow, and the soldiers could see with the naked eye that these balls flew out of the city one by one, drawing arcs in the air, and falling in their own direction.

"Get out of the way!" "Don't get in my way!" "The cannonballs are coming!" The soldiers shouted in amazement, dodging left and right, and many of them bumped into each other in terror, at which point they did not care about arguing at all, but yelled and looked up at the sky, pushing or being pushed away by those who stood in their way.

The shells smashed on the grass one by one, kicking up dust and grass clippings five or six meters high, and several soldiers who could not dodge were immediately knocked to the ground and did not move on the spot. But the shells were not over yet, and the shells that smashed the mud ground were not finished when they landed, but were bounced up again by the ground.

It has been about half a month since this area was cleared by the soldiers of the Ito Corps, and the soil on the ground began to harden due to the sun during this time, so that the shells were bounced up by the hard ground and smashed straight into the crowd. What's even more terrifying is that the ground of the grass is uneven, and when the cannonballs hit the ditch or tree stump, it will change the direction of flight, so that there is no way to determine the direction in which the cannonballs will be bounced, and you can only watch the round cannonballs jump around in the crowd with fate.

The speed at which the projectiles rolled on the ground was already very low, and it looked as if they could stop the shells with just one foot on them, but the kinetic energy on the shells was far from being released. A reckless lieutenant brandished a long knife in his hand and tried to knock down a cannonball that jumped past him, but his hand was forcibly pulled off by the cannonball, and a large fragment of the broken long knife flew in all directions, directly smashing into the crowd next to him, causing more than ten casualties in an instant.

Before the jumping shells stopped, they smashed out a bloody alley directly in the crowd, and the people who were hit were killed and wounded heavily, either dead or seriously injured, screams and curses were everywhere, and several soldiers with broken hands were in a daze snatching a hand that fell to the ground, no one knew whose hand it was, and no one knew what the use of this hand was even if it was their own.

"Look there!" The veteran of the sniper team next to him patted Qian Longzhou's shoulder, and at the same time pointed to the position of a red flag with the word "Zhao" fluttering in the distance. "There should be a commander there!"

Qian Longzhou had already left the observation post when the artillery opened fire, and when he heard someone talk about it, he raised the telescope in the direction of the man's finger and looked over. Sure enough, near the flag, a few people who looked much better dressed than the people next to them were walking there in a low-key manner, as if they knew that officers and soldiers could be screened here, and their movements could not be more low-key. But the people around them saluted them, or danced and said something. Qian Longzhou hesitated slightly, and muttered to himself, "These people should indeed be commanders, if not not, at least senior officers." As he spoke, he pointed at the herald and shouted to the herald beside him, "Tell the hexagon gun crew to knock out that flagpole and the people nearby." ”

The hexagonal artillery group is now definitely the sweetheart of Shabak City, not only has a firing range of up to three kilometers, but also has a far higher accuracy than the 1629 smoothbore gun with the optical sight mounted on the gun body, and is now almost used as a sniper gun. Anyway, as long as the command feels that there is a need to take care of it first, let the hexagonal cannon play it, and with the range of the hexagonal cannon, it is enough to fight the entire preset battlefield.

"Boom", the sound of the hexagonal cannon is much louder than that of the smoothbore gun, loud and brittle, and the shell is definitely different from the shell of the smoothbore gun, and it flies directly to the target at a speed that is completely invisible to the naked eye. Because there were only ten shrapnel with him at the beginning, and according to the battle plan, five more were left to wait for the next enemy attack to shoot, so the only five shrapnel left had to be kept, and this time it was one grenade that was fired.

The shell of the grenade was cast, the warhead was covered with prefabricated fragments, the warhead was filled with five kilograms of TNT, and the detonator was detonated by a detonator made of glass bottles - the muzzle velocity was too fast, and the glass bottle as a detonator could easily explode, so a lot of soft stuffing was stuffed behind the glass bottle to prevent it from exploding at the same time as it was fired. There is no padding in front of the warhead, and when it hits the target, the glass bottle will crack, causing the chemical agent inside to leak out and react quickly, causing the shell to explode. This method of detonation sounds lofty, but it is not so perfect when used, because the position where the projectile warhead falls is often not as hard as ideally, and even when it is shot into water or mud and sand, the ground is not hard enough, and the rate of non-fire is quite high. In addition, the chemicals filled in the glass bottle can easily react with the air, causing incapacitation and the chance of not ignition. In addition, although it is filled with soft filler, the muzzle velocity still exceeds the speed of sound, and the glass bottle may still burst when the barrel is accelerated, resulting in a firing accident, so the grenade is not particularly popular. Compared with the bump fuze made of this glass bottle, the timing fuse is more loved by everyone.

But this kind of bump fuse is very suitable for today's hard ground, and this shell landed near the red Zhao Ziqi and successfully caused an explosion, and the shock wave mixed with shrapnel flew and bleed. The terrified soldiers trampled barefoot on the blood-covered ground, and the sharp dead branches punctuated the soles of their feet from time to time, making them sticky and painful and they didn't know what to do. Several people who looked like officers next to Zhao Ziqi were knocked to the ground by the stormy shrapnel, which blew off the flagpole with blood and the sound of the wind.

"Flag! The flag is down! The soldiers were attracted by the sound of the explosion, and just in time to see the flagpole crash to the ground in the explosion, and several soldiers who could not dodge were smashed to the head and bleeding by the fallen flagpole.

"Onward! Forward! Don't stop! "Keep going! Conquer this city, and there will be a reward! The officers in the various formations brandished their long knives and roared loudly, and the eyes of the soldiers were already flashing with horror, this was more than three miles away from the enemy's city wall, and it was completely safe at this distance in previous battles, and it was impossible to be attacked by the enemy without entering a distance of one mile.

The array is still slowly moving forward, and the cannon fodder at the front is now confused, they were so frightened that their legs trembled in the roar of the artillery just now, and they were directly scared to pee, but the main target of these shells was the battle team behind them. After all, the iron bowling balls flying overhead will not be pleasing to the eye, and they also know that when they go to the city, it is the time for them to be beaten.

The veterans of the clan also felt very depressed, at first they thought that the enemy would focus their fire on the cannon fodder in front of them, and the corpses of the cannon fodder and the bundles of firewood carried by many of them could fill the trench in front of them and pile the wall in front, so that they could directly step on the corpses and climb the wall to slash and kill. The problem is that the enemy's artillery is aimed at their soldiers, who are mainly attacking, and the artillery on the opposite side is fierce and accurate, with at least six or seven cannons. Every round iron ball flew over, and it could easily take the lives of at least sixteen or seventeen people, and more than twenty wounded people. The soldiers in the back shouted, "Hurry up!" Go fast! "Don't let us get beaten in the back!"

"What are you doing so fast?" The cannon fodder in front also roared, "Run so fast, you won't have the strength to get to the front, and you can't move." "I don't need you to fight! Just rush forward! Rush and rush! ”

In front of the attack formation were now eight phalanxes, each of which numbered about a hundred people, and they were advancing densely towards the Shabak city walls. The distance between the phalanx and the phalanx is about five meters, and the width of the front of the array has reached about two hundred meters.

"Meow! So many people. "What are you afraid of, we have a lot of people! And rifles! "That is, our rifle has a range of four or five hundred meters!" The soldiers emboldened each other and whispered to each other.

Looking at the main force of the South Coast Army spreading out the offensive sequence like a mercury drop at the entrance of the official road in the distance, some people were full of nervousness, "What about four or five hundred meters away?" Aren't there still so many people entering the battlefield ahead? "That is, even if it is a rifle shot, at most it is a shot per person, when are we going to fight?"

"No discussion!" The non-commissioned officers shouted behind them with command knives in their hands, "Shut your mouths, reload your weapons, and carefully inspect your weapons when they are loaded!" Just do what you're doing! ”

The soldiers who spoke just now couldn't help but shrink their necks, and hurriedly lowered their heads to check their rifles, and there were also veterans who had participated in the defense of Champa Port next to them calmly and loudly to appease the emotions of the recruits, but more recruits were attracted by the actions of the veteran snipers who entered the aiming posture around them.

Most of the rifles of the veteran sniper team were SKS rifles with sights and Mosin Nagant sniper rifles, and the range was between 600 and 800 meters, and now the enemy was shortened to less than a thousand meters from the city wall, and in fact they could reach the enemy in front. The secondary shooters carefully searched for targets with binoculars, and from time to time they would provide targets to the main shooters around them, and the main shooters would carefully search for the enemy marching on the battlefield with rifles - there were too many people, because of the previous attack by the sniper detachment of the special reconnaissance team, these enemy officers already knew what tragedy would be different from the ordinary soldiers around them. It is now much more difficult to distinguish officers from the enemy, and it is only possible to distinguish possible officers by who the soldiers next to them salute or who they are listening to. However, the whole battlefield is full of bouncing bombs and chaotic enemies running around, and it is a very difficult task to find the target of sniping from such chaos.

"Take a deep breath, dear, don't worry, okay?" Wang Xiaojing held the binoculars and carefully searched for the enemy troops who were still marching for about a thousand meters, and said indifferently to the main shooter beside him, "It's not easy for me to find a target, okay?" Don't rush. As she spoke, she put down the binoculars and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, brushed the bangs on her forehead, and raised the binoculars in front of her eyes again.

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