Chapter 501: Heavy Rain 3

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Qian Longzhou's body was also wet with rain, and there was originally an orderly who opened an umbrella beside him to cover him from the rain, but he hurriedly pushed the orderly away. Just kidding, there are so many patriarchs on the city wall, and he is just a patriarch, and he has to get someone to make an umbrella for himself, and the photos of officials from all over the country who let his sycophants play umbrellas behind their backs before crossing are already rotten on the street, if the patriarchs are brought to the senators' conference, they must not be bombarded? This world is not to suffer from widowhood but unevenness, why everyone is here to be drenched in the rain like three grandsons, you still get a soldier to play an umbrella in the back, you have to be scolded to death, not to mention that it is a torrential rain now, even if it is an umbrella, it has no effect, and it will still be rained. Anyway, if you want to be drenched in the rain, it is better to set an example and appear to share weal and woe like everyone else, so as not to be bombarded after giving someone a handle.

The enemy below was stopped in front of the last trench, the water in the ditch was almost two meters deep, and there were dense corpses floating on the surface of the ditch, and even the water that was originally glowing yellow was dyed a strange dark red because of countless blood, this hellish scene frightened the soldiers on the edge of the ditch, and no one dared to jump down, and they all stood on the edge of the ditch and didn't know what to do.

The rifle shooting of the Senate on the ramparts began to resume again, and the ammunition from the dumb rifles was dug out by the recruits with strips, emptied and roughly wiped out the barrels and chambers. The ammunition put in this time is an ammunition pack wrapped in wax paper, which is relatively good against moisture, so the phenomenon of dumb fire caused by this shooting has been reduced a lot.

The continuous sound of machine-gun fire was mixed with the dense sound of rifles, and more and more foot soldiers were killed by the ditch and fell into the trench, and the floating corpses at first glance seemed to fill the trench. The soldiers in the infantry began to panic more and more, if they were allowed to come forward and fight the enemy with swords and guns, they would not panic, but now they are standing on the edge of the ditch and are only being killed in large numbers by others, but they can't even touch the slightest hair of others, how can there be such a battle?

"Onward! Rush over! Someone from behind shouted, "Rush over!" But this trench, everyone is going to die here! Before the words fell, the crowd behind began to push forward, and the soldiers in front were not only beaten in front, but also pushed wildly in the back, and they had nowhere to stand on the edge of the ditch, and they slipped and fell straight into the trench, and then they were crushed down by the people behind them, and they were pressed under the water, and they struggled directly and drowned.

In this way, the last trench was directly filled by the corpses of so many people, and the water in the ditch was squeezed out by many corpses, and the blood water like a gushing flood overflowed from the edge of the ditch and then flowed directly down the side of the ditch, slipping all the way and falling I don't know how many soldiers were still pushing others forward. The crowd was already dense, and those who slipped and fell to the ground were immediately trampled to death on the spot as long as they failed to get up at the first time. For the South Bank Army, these thousands of casualties were not worthless, although the corpses and mud everywhere seriously affected the handling of the siege equipment, the siege team behind them still transported the siege machine to the vicinity of the second trench as soon as possible, and more sword and shield soldiers surrounded the siege machine, once the ladder was on the head of the city, it was the time for them to make a move. In front of them were thousands of archers - unlike what the senators were used to in Total War, these archers did not stand in a phalanx as in the game, but mingled among the ordinary soldiers, charging forward with the soldiers, and when they had the range of the bows and arrows, they would throw arrows at the head of the city to kill the defenders and suppress it.

When it comes to their bows and arrows, most of them are shoddy ordinary wooden bows, and most of the luxurious equipment of the arrows is sharpened stone as arrows, not to mention that there are few iron arrows, and even the number of arrows in stone arrows is not much, most of them are even just sharpened wooden sticks or bamboo branches, and the tail of the arrows is tied or glued with feathers. Their bow pull is not high, usually as long as you pull it open, you can hear the bow body make a very unpleasant sound, if you force it to be full, it is often possible to directly break the bow body. The range of such a wooden bow is within fifty meters at most, and as for the accuracy, it is better to look directly at the character than by aiming. In comparison, the former archers of the Ito Legion used bamboo longbows with far more range and accuracy than them. Now this mighty thousands of archers are pressed over, and the biggest effect is nothing more than to suppress the city with a rain of arrows, relying only on the number of suppression, and they don't know how many casualties they can inflict on the enemy in the city, and they can only hope that their character can explode.

The soldiers of the 2nd and 3rd Companies of the Foreign Legion at the head of the city were still firing at the enemy in the distance as fast as they could, the barrels of their rifles were burned by the continuous firing, and the smoke and water vapor were emitting in the rain, and the water droplets falling on the sights with the heavy rain directly affected the accuracy of their shooting - but they were not too worried, the enemy in front of them was so dense that they didn't even need to aim too much, they basically just fired in the general direction.

Behind them, there were logistical soldiers nervously walking back and forth with ammunition boxes, and from time to time soldiers turned around to take a handful of bullets from their hands. The logisticians were still carrying rifles on their backs, and not far away there were recruits in military uniforms nervously cleaning up the gunpowder residue and lead chips in the barrels, which would soon begin to affect the accuracy of shooting and even directly affect the safety of shooting.

The Senate rifles in the hands of several companies of the recruits used seamless steel tubes from the old space, and the performance was even better than the 1628 rifles with the barrels produced in this space-time, but despite this, the soldiers cleaned the barrels quickly and carefully in strict accordance with the regulations. Weapons are a soldier's life, and this is even more important for recruits. Most of their rifles have been fired more than twenty times in a row, and now that the rain is pouring down, it is difficult to say what will happen if they don't clean up. But now it's raining heavily, and the barrel is cleaned up, and then the water and debris in the barrel are emptied of it, which is not an easy task, and the recruits are all in a hurry, and a few of the rough guys have even dropped the whole strip under the wall.

The foot soldiers on the side of the trench finally filled the trench with their bodies under pressure from behind, stepped on the corpses and rushed over, directly into a distance of seventy-five meters. There were also one or two mines behind them, but there was no stopping or deterrent power for them, who were already numb to death.

"Grenades!" Qian Longzhou finally began to wave his right hand and commanded loudly. The grenade thrower on the wall was pulled apart, and the soldiers next to him put the grenade into the projectile frame and hung the fare rope. "Freedom to fire!" Qian Longzhou didn't intend for them to engage in any salvo, the grenade salvo was flashy, it was to split the head and smash it to have an effect, and the lethality of throwing it together was not as good as the effect of launching it separately. They specially brought more than 20 grenade projectiles before the battle, you must know that the last army that defeated the Nanban in the last battle to defend the port of Zhancheng almost relied on the grenade rain, and this time the grenade projectile was actually used as a killer weapon.

That's what the soldiers were waiting for, and they didn't do anything special to aim or select targets, but just let go of the retainer in the general direction, and the rubber band threw the grenades in the projectile frame "whoosh", and the smoking grenades drew arcs in the air, falling into the camp of the foot soldiers, some fell into the water, and smashed in all directions, and more directly smashed into the foot soldiers traveling below. The grenade that hit the armor made a dull metallic sound, and the grenade that hit the head or bare skin did not make a sound, but the scream of the person was far louder than the sound of the grenade hitting the armor.

"What are these iron bumps for?" "Smash people! Didn't you see how many of us were stoned to death? Someone curiously picked up the grenades, which had been stained with muddy water, "It's still smoking!" This thing is ......"

"Boom, boom!" Grenades exploded in the crowd, because three to six grenades were usually placed in the grenade projectile frame, so the sound of grenades exploding in the crowd came and went, some grenades were specially filled with detonators such as TNT, and some even wrapped a layer of iron beads around the shell. The explosion directly blew up a no-man's land 300 meters long and more than 30 meters wide between the foot soldiers who were not affected in front and the archers who followed behind. Everywhere there were either dead or seriously wounded, and the seriously wounded were dying, and they soon followed those in front of them after falling in the cold rain.

"Shoot the arrows! Shoot the arrows! Finally an officer began to shout, they had entered the city wall about seventy meters in front of it, the foot soldiers could not threaten the people on the city wall, the archers could.

So the archers began to draw their bowstrings against the city wall with arrows in their hands, and at this moment, they suddenly saw a bunch of grenades flying from the head of the city, which landed among the archers, and once again exploded in the crowd, and bleed the heads of the archers, and all of them fell to the ground crookedly, and about three hundred or so archers were killed and wounded, and they fell on the dead foot soldiers who had died before, and the area was immediately piled up with two layers of corpses.

The archers are usually in the middle and rear positions of the battle formation in battle, and the probability of them encountering casualties is not high.

"Don't go back! Don't go back! "In front of the third trench, soldiers carrying ladders had already approached, and the overseers were also in the middle, and the officers, seeing that the archers in front of them were retreating, commanded the siege team to cross the ladders to block their escape route. At the same time, the overseers with spears in their hands flattened their spears and poked at the fleeing soldiers - these archers belonged to Nguyen Wei's regiment, and they did not feel heartache when they were killed. The archers were directly stabbed dozens of people in an instant, and the pace of retreat was blocked, and they could only scold and turn their heads and continue to walk towards the city wall. But the overseers behind didn't plan to step forward, they just stood in place, coaxing the soldiers around them to rush forward, after all, only by rushing under the city wall, the easier it would be for the opponent's attack to be overstretched.

The foot soldiers had already rushed to the bottom of the city, and when they got to the city, they couldn't help but be dumbfounded, the wall was about six meters high, they couldn't climb up at all, and the soldiers on the city wall no longer aimed, but just lowered their guns and aimed them at the city and fired again and again - this is not a rifled version of 1628 and Senate rifles, these are unrifled versions of shotguns. The effect of the shotguns at these few meters was not as good as that of a smoothbore gun, but it could not have been better against such an enemy that was still clustered. Soldiers who use rifles no longer shoot with rifles, especially senate rifles, the bullets loaded in the barrel are still smaller than the barrel, and when the muzzle is pointed down, it is likely to slide directly from the muzzle, and when the time comes, it will often shoot fire, but it will not kill the enemy at all, they throw grenades directly into the crowd under the city wall - these are not Type 29 grenades, just ordinary time-delay grenades that pull the fuse, and the loading is mainly black gunpowder, the power is small, the advantage is low cost, and the production is easy. But the problem now is that the moisture resistance of this grenade is not very good, not to mention that in the case of heavy rain, many grenades that fall into the crowd do not explode at all, and are directly soaked by the water on the ground and fail. The detonation rate is less than 30 percent, and even in these 30 percent, more than half of the grenade explosion power has weakened, failing to stop the offensive below.

At this time, the arrows fired by the archers flew over, although the archers had suffered heavy casualties in the previous grenade attack, but after all, there were more than a thousand people, and the dense array of arrows fired looked very deterrent. However, because the rainstorm was too heavy to see the city, and the archers had not eaten, they were hungry and shivering, so that most of the arrows not only failed to fly to the city, but fell on the heads of the foot soldiers under the city. The enemy in front of them hit, and their own people in the back, and the foot soldiers roared angrily and cursed at the back. But their ordeal was not over long ago, and the shotgun shots in the city seemed endless. They were so close together that each shot hit six or seven people, and the wounded and dead fell to the ground one after another, and then trampled under the feet of those behind them.

"Grenades!" Qian Longzhou's legs have begun to weaken, he was in command in the headquarters during the defense of Zhancheng Port, and now there are thousands of people without a shore, plus the heavy rain, he can't see the enemy's situation clearly, and the commander doesn't know how to command. The rifle and artillery fire had begun to malfunction as it had been fired for too long, and a smoothbore gun in the northern wooden fort had cracked in its body and had to stop firing, and the artillerymen picked up their rifles and began to shoot at the enemy. "Don't stop grenades! Go on! ”

One of the soldiers transporting the grenade slipped on the city wall, and rolled down the road with the grenade, and the round grenade rolled to the ground, causing the people next to him to flee to the side.

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