Chapter Seventy-Three: Approaching
readx;?“ Ready to shoot! Nguyen Van Ngoc shouted loudly, and the New Army soldiers beside him all picked up the rifles that had already been loaded. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info then a rhythmic drum beat sounded, and then the drum beat became rapid, accompanied by Ruan Wenyu's password, "Gun stance!" The soldiers held their rifles to their waists to the beat of the drums.
The barbarians in the distance were still walking forward, with swords and guns in their hands, although they were in chaos because of the large number of officers killed, but they were still crowded, and in the face of this large group of barbarians, the new troops who occupied the city and port were all uneasy. Only some of them had participated in the previous battles against the Dhaka tribe, and suffered heavy losses in the night battles that followed, and at this time, the fighting quality of the new army dropped directly after the addition of a large group of new recruits, who had not even learned to aim, but only learned to reload and set fire hats, and many of them could not even distinguish between left and right.
"Volley, target two hundred meters!" Ruan Wenyu roared loudly and swung his command knife downward, "Fire!" ”
The soldiers had been waiting for this order, and hurriedly rested their rifles on the bamboo poles in front of them and pulled the trigger. This bamboo pole and the salvo sight are basically the same, because the height of the new army is basically between 1.45 meters and 1.55 meters, and at this time there are two bamboo poles in front of them, one is a curve aiming height of 200 meters, and the other is 150 meters, they only need to stand behind the white line, put the rifle on the bamboo pole and fire. At least for these new army soldiers, who are not even very familiar with aiming, this trick is definitely simple and effective.
With the thud of the rifle fire, hundreds of projectiles flew out, because the smoothbore gun had no rifling, the bullet flew out about fifty meters is an irregular movement, and the shooter did not know where his bullet would eventually fly, so he had to use a salvo. The bullets rained down like hail into the phalanxes that were slowly advancing, and soon the results of the battle were highlighted, more than a dozen brute soldiers fell limply and died immediately, and many more brute soldiers were hit and were wailing with their wounds. The brute soldiers around him suddenly burst into a big hole in their bodies when they saw these companions, and the blood splash had no intimidating effect on them, but this kind of walking and dying was too scary. One by one, they jumped to the side, and for a time several large holes were vacated in the middle of several phalanxes, and because there was no officer to issue an order, the formation of the phalanx was disrupted, interfering with each other, and gradually walking into a mess with each other.
"Volley! Target 200 meters! Nguyen Van Ngoc turned his head to see that the soldiers in the second row had already stepped forward with their guns on standby, while the soldiers in the first row had already begun to reload behind the third row. Fire! ”
Another rain of bullets fell on the brute array, this time thanks to the encouragement of the first shooting results, allowing them to hit more accurately, and the brutes below were also crowded together because they avoided each other from the wounded and blood splashed, making the effect of this bullet rain even more obvious. One of the hundred-man phalanx fell more than thirty directly, and then a wail sounded in the middle of it.
Tuliman now understood that the smoke on the wall in front of him must be the weapon that fired these projectiles flying with a whistling sound, and he never thought that there would be a weapon that could hit people at this distance. In the past, when fighting the Annamite, both sides were deployed on the plains, and then they only had to rush towards the Annamite, and if those giant beasts of the Dhaka tribe charged in front, the effect would be even better. The only thing that the Annam people can hurt themselves at a certain distance is the bow and arrow, but it is also at a distance of seventy or eighty paces, and it is not yet accurate, even the kind of big longbow used by those Japanese Annamite is only about a hundred paces and has lethality, but what is going on in front of you?
He suddenly remembered that in the past few days, he could often hear a dense explosion like fried beans on the road, which was very close to the sound of weapons erupting from the smoke at the head of the city now, could it be that they had been under attack by the new weapons of the Annan army? He couldn't help but look around him, there were a few unlucky people who had died on the ground, and a dozen or so companions with injured hands and feet and torsos were sitting on the ground, watching their wounds gush outwards and bleeding, and it was estimated that they would not live long. The unlucky bastard, who had just become a centurion yesterday morning, was now lying two hundred paces later, and had been walking like these unlucky bastards before, when suddenly a big hole burst out of his body and he fell to the ground and died. Now there are only about fifty people left in his hundred-man team that are not injured, and there is no one to command them at the moment. He kept looking left and right, complaining secretly in his heart, he didn't know where these weapons of the Annanites were so powerful, they were specially picked up by the officials, the centurion didn't count, even the chief was swept away, and at this time they were still moving forward purely because of inertia - they didn't know where to go except to go forward.
The barbarians at the front of the array were still wielding swords and guns to force the people to walk in front, and they looked curiously at the Annan people in the distance at the head of the city constantly spewing out gunsmoke, which looked staggered and sounded ping-pong, which looked quite funny in the eyes of these barbarians who were not among the shooting. At this time, they had no idea that the phalanx that was marching more than a hundred meters later was constantly being shot at, and there were many casualties along the way.
This group of people was lucky, the north and south walls were defended by the new army of Champonggang, and although their shooting seemed to be much more lively than that of the marines, the hit rate was not very high, and according to the city defense command, there were only six snipers sent to the south wall. At this moment, the brutes in charge of the main attack in the west were already close to a distance of three hundred meters, and the two platoons of the marines had rushed to the west wall to defend after firing a salvo from the south, although they were smaller than the new army, but these rifled rifles and ten snipers allowed the brutes to almost lose their centurions on the way forward.
"Bang" was another brute soldier holding a banner and fell to the ground, beside him a pile of stones painted with white lime powder.
Xue Ziliang held the telescope and shouted, "Enter three hundred meters!" Salvo! ”
The Marines took aim with a salvo sight and opened fire, firing six salvos from 500 to 300 meters, mainly in a phalanx pushing heavy siege equipment.
The wheels of a heavy door-breaking hammer had fallen apart and had fallen crookedly on the grass four hundred meters away, with dozens of corpses lying on the ground. Three times the brutes tried to repair the hammer, but the precious carpenters were met with concentrated fire from the marines as soon as they approached, and by the third time, the brutes with leather shields could not stop the covering shots, and finally abandoned the attempt after losing more than thirty men.
Behind the people about 200 meters were more than a dozen huge wooden shields, and when they saw the branches and vines that had not been cut down clean, they knew that they had been rushed out of the work last night. The brutes drove the common people to carry these heavy wooden shields to clear the way ahead, and they were complacent that they had not been shot all the way. Xue Ziliang could see the excited expressions of those barbarians in the telescope, "You guys just have fun, if it weren't for the fact that it was to reduce the casualties of the common people, I would have beaten you into a sieve." He muttered to himself and looked at the soldiers beside him. Once again, the soldiers had finished their reloading, and he turned his head back to the west, and chose a phalanx at the back, with six or seven ladders in it, and the brutes were walking forward with weapons in one hand and ladders in the other, shouting slogans.
"Cloud ladder phalanx, three hundred meters away, launch!"
A dense rain of bullets flew out of the city, passed over the unsuspecting Dingkou and the road-opening barbarians below, and fell directly into the cloud ladder phalanx. The brutes who were walking in the middle suddenly fell a dozen or so at once, and they had to walk very far apart because they had to carry ladders, so they reduced their hit rate when they encountered a rain of bullets. But even so, two ladders fell to the ground, and the brutes on both sides leaned in to lift the ladders again. A brute, who looked like a leader, was shouting something with a short knife, occasionally kicking the slower brutes.
"Smack!" In the crisp sound of the SKS's gunshot, the guy who looked like the leader fell to the ground, and the bullet that came through the chest killed another brute on the same trajectory.
Yang Muqin looked at the group of brute soldiers who were splashed with blood in the scope with a panicked look on their faces, "Lao Tzu told you to pretend, pretend to Lao Tzu!" He muttered softly and began to look for his next target.
Yang Muqin's side was lying on his stomach Zhao Yong. This Zhao Yong is not from the army, but from the Ministry of Information, in front of him is a tripod, mounted on a single-lens reflex camera, this is the high-priced goods of the old time and space, I heard that it cost more than 7,000 US dollars when I bought it at that time, at this time Zhao Yong behind the lens was wearing an evergreen training uniform brought by the old time and space, a pair of excited eyes behind the wide-rimmed glasses, and couldn't help but squint under the reflection of the sun, the corners of the eyes were moist, I don't know if it was excitement and tears.
He took the initiative to come to Champa Port to take photos of the first battle after crossing the crowd, but because he was forcibly asked by the Executive Committee to stay in the camp during the first anti-encirclement and suppression operation, he could only shrink behind the wall and listen to the earth-shattering sound outside. Later, when he wanted to create a "Crossing Daily", he even wrote Xiao Mingwei's inscription, but encountered the embarrassing problem of not having enough newsprint. After the paper mill in the industrial system was successfully put into operation, he was excited to go to Zhou Liming, who was in charge of printing, and was told that there was only one set of printing equipment for the old version, and the printing of teaching materials alone was already stretched, and if he wanted to print newspapers, the schedule would be at least six months later.
At this time, he had to take the initiative to go to Champa Port to take photos of the scene, even if it cannot be edited into a film now, it will be an extremely valuable historical material in the future. His wife Catherine is on the castle tower twenty meters away at this time, and she has a Japanese-made digital video camera in her hand, in order to prevent a shortage of power, there is a UPS next to the two photographic and video equipment, ready to charge their equipment at any time, and the equipment to charge the UPS, in addition to the hand-cranked generator, there is also a wind turbine and a solar power unit, in order to prevent any situation from causing power failure and unable to shoot.