Chapter 160: Cover, Attack (Text)

Heavy iron balls thrown by gunpowder bounced and rolled over the narrow towers, taking away patches of life in the panicked crowd, leaving the ground with fresh, slippery flesh and blood.

On the so-called liver and brains on the ground, the officers and soldiers who climbed the wall again had almost nowhere to put their feet, slipped heavily, pulled out of the collapsed gap, and fell into the city wall with a larger drop.

But more people roared and crawled over the battlements, stepping on the mud of flesh and blood, and slaughtered the inside of the city wall, cutting down the archers in the arrow towers one by one, and throwing them into the city walls.

Then, at the corner of the stairs, they encountered the spear team of the defenders who had rushed to help, and almost immediately dozens of flesh and blood bodies were pierced, like sugar gourds, dressed in strings.

Then, after a brief pause, these brave men of choice continued to step on the fallen corpses of their comrades in the forefront, leaping atop the heads of these spearmen, and slashing at their frightened or dazed faces.

As the corpses rolled down the stairs in clusters, it was announced that the defenders' counterattack had failed again and that the small section of the wall had changed hands again.

Standing on a towering tower that had been transformed into a forward command platform, Wei Chen, the commander of the front line, watched almost expressionlessly at the breakthroughs and progress that were unfolding little by little in the repeated tug-of-war.

As the vanguard sequence of ascending to the city and destroying the enemy, under his command of the front, he claimed to have eight battalion heads, of which only three old battalion leaders who were dissatisfied with the formation were more capable and familiar, and the others were newly added by various armies, and some kind of tacit understanding and coordination had not yet been formed, so he would accidentally look at a certain regimental training.

Because of his predecessor's negligence, the three elite selection battalions were trapped in the city, and he had the opportunity to be named by the marshal, so he also had enough vigilance and understanding of his own position and position.

Many people were envious and jealous that he had picked up this big bargain, seeing that the rebels were at the end of their crossbows, and the first merit on the verge of breaking the city would justifiably fall into his hands. It was something that countless people had worked hard to earn before, and it couldn't help but make people go crazy in private.

Therefore, he must have a better expression and a watertight approach, so as not to become an excuse for the attacks and rejection of others. At the same time, he repaid Liu Shuai's thoughtfulness and protection.

Wei Chen's ancestor was Wei Fangjin, one of the famous military chiefs under the command of Liang Gong hundreds of years ago.

At that time, the five long histories around Liang Gong were all Liang Gong's eyes drawn from the humble and poor or the body of sin, and later they all became the top figures in the limelight.

Like Xue Jingxian, the recognized first chief of the Liang Gate, Sui was originally just a criminal official, and since then, in addition to the status of a subordinate official in the scene, he has not held any official position, but Liang Xuan's old man went to the region, and he became the first minister of Great Xia.

Another foreign minister, Shi Zheng Yuanhe, is much more famous, he is the protagonist of the eternal prosperity of the story of the former talented and beautiful woman, because he married Li Wa, a famous prostitute born in the dust, and was born in Rongyang Zheng, and the family was cut off by the consciously humiliated family, but he was successful in the imperial examination, and he was put in Chengdu to be a petty official, and he also got Liang Gongqing, who was fortunate to be in Shu, and his self-control soared into control.

From the long history of Chengdu in the Tianbao period to the last years of Taixing, the first person of the prime minister's foreman, after four dynasties and six times of recovery, is known as a generation of Zhongxing ministers after the white-clothed prime minister, your marquis Li Mi, known as the Pingzhi minister

In the end, the Zheng family wanted to beg him to read about the kinship relationship, and help one or two, so as not to let the family background fall, and he was also the ancestor of Baoping Zheng Fan, one of the five veins of the Southern Dynasty Wing Protector Clan.

Another example is the first lackey of the Liang Gate, Shi Wenzhe, although his temperament and character are quite criticized, but the loyalty to the Liang family has been carried through, he single-handedly laid and strengthened the huge underground forces that served the dictatorship of the Liang family, and at its peak, even the life of the Son of Heaven dared to spy on the secrets, and now the predecessors of several confidential departments, including Sihaiwei, are also separated from its southern branches.

As the ancestor of the Wei family, Wei Fangjin was only a scribe in the Jianmen garrison, because his family was involved in the township test cheating case, and had to change his name to join the army, because he met Liang Gong, changed his life experience, and finally was able to worship the privy left envoy who was known as the military minister, Silicon Guogong, became one of the emerging prime minister lineages of the Tang Dynasty, and was also known as the leader of the Taixing Party who turned the tide of the times for hundreds of years.

However, in his generation, his family background has declined, and he is just an ordinary general's son who is unknown in Guangfu, so he finally managed to obtain his current rank in the army, and he also took on the heavy task of regaining his glory with a certain glorious lintel.

As long as you can grasp the first merit of breaking the city at a relatively decent price, it doesn't matter how many ineffective people you kill and how many colleagues in the army you offend.

After all, he holds the momentum of great merit, and he, as Liu Shuai's cronies and assistants, can also get the opportunity to be promoted, whether it is to enter with the coach and become a member of the ministry, or to release one party and the opportunity to specialize in any army.

Under the fierce battle, my so-called third sequence, in the end, could not escape the fate of the assist, hiding behind the large platoon set up diagonally, taking turns to shoot at the head of the city,

Since that counterattack, the last remaining strength of the rebels seems to have been exhausted, and the enemy we faced was almost depleted of ammunition and food, and there were not many qualified archers left, only a few yellow-faced and skinny bodies mixed with the soldiers, desperately throwing behind the masonry and rolling logs.

So they can get very close and shoot directly at the city, the dust and debris of the ping-pong are flying around, they are repeatedly bombarded like dogs, and the battlements that collapse everywhere can hardly provide them with much cover, so even the firecrackers whose range and power do not seem to be significant can cause casualties, and from time to time injured or dead bodies fall from the wall.

launched several tragic counterattacks again, but unfortunately the number was too small, and before they could get close to the position of the gun team, they were first cut down by the officers and soldiers in the front row, even if a few barely broke through the barrier and rushed forward, they could not help but become the ghosts of the white soldiers crouching in the trench......

At this moment, the archery team has already shot more than a dozen rounds of arrows, retreating to the side to rest and press the formation, and at this time, the durability of the firepower of the gun team is fully displayed.

From the beginning of the battle to the present, they have not stopped firing except for dozens of overheated replacement guns, and finally even the auxiliaries have joined the ranks of the shooting with spare weapons to increase the firepower.

The spear team, which was temporarily useless, turned into a temporary transport team, pushing carts everywhere to replenish the medicine and flint, and it seemed that they were busy planting their own order.

During this period, we were also mobilized several times to cover the officers and soldiers who were or had already landed in the city.

During this period, we also cooperated with other guns in the official army, but I don't know if it was because their equipment was disorganized and they lacked systematic training, so they could not keep up with us in terms of rate of fire, range and accuracy, but because of the rough weapons, repeated blind fire or excessive loading, there were many casualties in the chambers.

In fact, most of them had to stop to clean the blocked chamber or repair and replace the faulty parts.

Therefore, in the end, our unit was pulled out alone, as a mobile cover formation, as long as it was released to fight, it was an endless flight of projectiles.

Although the actual damage caused by this kind of direct fire at the target in the city may not be able to exceed that of the traditional curved projectile, the continuous, whistling and flying projectiles are still enough to constitute some kind of actual threat and psychological deterrence suppression effect.

In this way, we can also ask for more gunpowder and lead pellets and other materials from the front-line military divisions.

After the scenes of the great war, with the increasingly tacit cooperation and smooth movements, something jerky and immature visible to the naked eye gradually faded from this nascent team.

The battlefield is really the best teacher and lesson丨 so cranky,

I gently let go of the somewhat hot long gun in my hand, and since someone had removed it from the small wooden fork-like support, and replaced it with a loaded ammunition one, I re-grasped the armored figure facing the city, and then raised it slightly by two points.

He was running and shouting, kicking and dragging those who were crouching or lying on the ground one by one, even as the other struggled as they cried.

Then I pulled the trigger, and the recoil, with a recharge of gunpowder and a special long tube, was clearly transmitted to my shoulders and arms, and this time he didn't seem to be able to dodge it again.

Because of the excessive force, the half of his body almost stopped as if it were a freeze frame, and then from the position under his armpit, a bright red blood spring spurted out, so his troubles were completely solved.

The seventh, I silently remarked, was my seventh since the beginning of the war.

Since I had reached this point, even I had no way to stay in the rear, but took this opportunity to take a small group of temporarily drawn out of the hands of a relatively accurate manpower, and replaced them with special long guns with extended tubes and increased gunpowder.

Under the cover of the pacesetters, it is more important or valuable to carry out some kind of relatively precise concentrated attack on the city

In this situation, the so-called risk of taking the arrow is not big, but it can play a very good role in leading by example and boosting morale.

The so-called good shooters are fed with ammunition, even if it is a relatively primitive front-loading pistol, there is a certain probability and chance. Especially in the use of ration-assembled ammunition.

Of course, this kind of fixed installation is only an improvement on the existing foundation, using a large artillery battle, the appearance of the wax and moisture-proof cardboard tube, loaded with the weighed gunpowder and polished projectile sealed with wax, can be stored for a long time.

In the case of a close-range scatter bomb called a troll, a thin wooden plug is added between the lead particles and the gunpowder as a thrust.

Then these fixed cartridges, a group of ten or twenty, are inserted into a specially sewn strip of cloth or leather case, which constitutes some kind of primitive bullet belt, and each gunner can bring a plural number according to the needs of the battle, unscrew the wax seal and remove the projectile when used, pour the gunpowder into the chamber, and then stuff the bullet tightly, and then complete the steps before the counting.

The auxiliaries were responsible for recovering the cardboard tubes, which could also be used as a unit of weighing, using barrels of gunpowder and lead for some kind of reloading, and the ammunition also had several preliminary standardized specifications.

With a unified amount of ammunition, there is also a relatively unified standard and specification for the grasp of the shooting feel and the determination of the distance, coupled with the application of the real crosshair and simple scale, (these small gold parts with precise scales are not easy to process), which is enough to constitute a battlefield killer within a certain distance.

Almost as a guide from my trajectory, more than a dozen consecutive gunshots rang out, and the target that knocked me off the target again, connected with several figures around him who couldn't help but stand up, and flipped to the ground together.

Then a few drumbeats sounded, and half a regiment of officers and soldiers crossed us, and once again climbed up to the top of the city along the ladder left by the previous time, and then fought with the defenders, who were already quite sparse, and we stopped again and turned our aim to other areas.

At this moment, a roar drew my gaze, and in our distant position, the battle was once again pushed to a fierce juncture,

The cannons of the Shenji Army were also pushed to the front position, almost against the city gate, until a breach was opened for the soldiers to break into, and the light fire nest vehicles, hand cannon teams, and catapults also turned the bunkers and fortifications that had been rebuilt near the cracked gap in the city wall into a sea of fire.

But those enemies are always stubborn in these seemingly impossible places to survive, desperately blocking the progress of the army.

Even the Divine Machines inevitably suffered heavy casualties, but we were fortunate because we were always fighting beyond the range of most enemy counterattacks.

At this time, the last reserve of the front line finally moved, an elite force that made everyone who saw it sigh.

They are from the Chinese army directly under the Yuhou Army, the tiger warriors, even the head to toe fine iron armor leaves, cowhide armor lining, lined with cocoon silk, cooked hemp, four layers of wrapping, unless directly hit by the siege equipment, or directly poked in the face, otherwise most of the weapons and arrows, can not be opened with it canned iron-clad meat.

The soldiers all embroidered robes and cloaks, the officers wore large coats, and the white feathers and red tassels on their heads shook in the wind like a forest, and they looked like they were all awesome.

In contrast, my team has just made a stroke, and most of the archery and gun teams wear a half-body inlay, and the white soldiers and spears in hand-to-hand combat are only equipped with a full set of men and horses, which is much more shabby.

Under the command of the banner, they slowly but resolutely formed a column, with some tall players at the forefront, forming a front like a huge crash, and there was no doubt that something could stop them.

Compared to the other ordinary officers and soldiers who roared feverishly and tried to shred their affairs in an attempt to get in their way, they were undoubtedly silent and indifferent, like groups of metal sculptures, only at the moment they received the order to march seemed to come alive, turning into a raging and roaring dragon.

As the noise of this force breaking into the city was fading away, we received a new order to follow the rearguard through the gates that had been captured by Guò, and to assist the officers and troops in consolidating and stabilizing the rear.

At this time, the spear team and the white soldier team, who have been fighting soy sauce for a long time, can finally come in handy.