Chapter 133 The Qing people have small cannons

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The French shells smashed into the ground, kicking up a puff of mud and gravel, and the pungent and strong smell of gunpowder smoke circled overhead, and then was carried by the air blown by the sea breeze to the east to the mountains to the west.

The French army had been staying here for about ten days, and since they encountered the New People's Army, they could not advance even half a step, and hundreds of artillery pieces were smashed down in succession, which was deafening and made people tremble.

"Attack! Warriors of God, break the fortifications of the Qing people and kill these devils of the East. ”

"Knock knock..!"

The French drums marched in, and the musketeers attacked with muskets in their arms.

"Ready, the red-haired ghost is going to attack, and the one behind hurry up and enter the position."

The Sixth Division dug a large number of trenches in front of the French army, staggered and horizontal, and was extremely wide in depth, one or two miles.

The musket company, which was the first to go up, aimed at the French soldiers in red trousers and chicken feather crowns.

"Bang bang..!"

The shooting of the muskets caused a lot of trouble to the French, dozens of people fell to the ground and could not get up, at this time the French also fired, they were also Mini rifles, and the shooting distance would not be too far.

The musket company of the New Nationalist Army was quickly suppressed by a large number of French musketeers, and the French army continued to advance, rushing up step by step, with the rear covering the front and advancing alternately.

"The red-haired ghost has come up and retreated from the trenches to the second line of defense!"

Seeing that the French were advancing in front of the trenches, the 6th Division also had experience, and it was not wise to fight pure muskets, shoot the last round, bow down and retreat back from the trenches, save yourself first, and kill the enemy.

Although the French soldiers entered the position many times, because the trenches were narrow, it was not conducive to musket shooting, and the French troops could not be put in on a large scale, and when the French troops continued to pursue deep into the trenches, they were easily rushed by the 6th Division, which was nimble and carried broadswords.

"Kill!"

", retreat!"

As soon as the close combat, the French army was miserable, and when they saw the New Nationalist Army rushing over, their first thought was to retreat immediately, and those who ran slowly and reacted slowly were cut into bloody people in an instant, one by one missing arms and legs, and dying.

The French army, which had just entered the trenches, was immediately mixed up with the New People's Army, and the white-knuckle battle was fierce and exciting for a while.

At this time, muskets were not yet equipped with bayonets, especially the Mini rifles (according to legend, the 1859 French carbine may have been equipped with bayonets - probably only Napoleon III's personal guards, probably used to show off their good looks, to greet foreign guests, and to serve as a guard of honor). Of course, even if there is a bayonet, it is not in a hurry to install it, and it does not play any combat effectiveness in the trenches, and the body of the gun is too long, and the flexibility is not enough.

A part of the French army was wiped out and surrounded in the trenches, and some of them were naturally expelled and fled back in disarray.

In such a dozen times, three or four hundred muskets and countless ammunition were captured by the French army, and the French army suffered heavy losses.

In the following battle, the French army also learned to change, when rushing into the trenches, first gather a certain number of troops to stabilize the occupied area, first send people to climb on the mounds of earth at the intersection of the trenches, first, for easy observation, and second, shoot the new Nationalist army attacking from the trenches.

Not to mention that the first time he came played a certain role, Xiao Qi soon changed his method and arranged for the people below: "Change the way of fighting, we have captured a lot of French muskets in these battles, and the firepower has increased instead of decreasing, and at the same time, our purpose is to drag down the French army and attract the attention of the French army, we can't exchange lives for lives like the previous times, our 6th Division into Vietnam is precious, even if the casualties of the knife battalion are heavy losses." ”

"Next, we will let the French army taste the power of grenades, and I believe that after a fight, the French army will not dare to launch a large-scale attack."

Sure enough, after the French army occupied the first line of defense, they began to fight for the second line of defense of the New People's Army.

"Grenade! Throw! ”

It was the first time the French had come into contact with this thing, and they had no idea what it was, and they had no defense to avoid it, and their eyes were surprised and surprised.

"Boom..!"

"Ahh Oh, God.. Mom..! ”

". My balls. It hurts. ”

"The Qing people have cannons, they have cannons."

A mere grenade instantly blinded the French fighting for the second line of defense, and the grenade was no match for the bombardment of artillery shells.

But its function is to kill, and the impact of the explosion is weak, but the fragments and the iron pieces, steel nails, and stubborn stones inside are unscrupulous, and they will be hit if they are not careful.

In particular, the black smoke from the explosion does not disperse for a long time, which is a very good cover.

The veterans of the New People's Army have rich experience in this area, and they threw off their arms and took the opportunity to rush over, and when they encountered the crowd, they didn't care about the crowd, and the big blades slashed left and right, blood splashed everywhere, and the French army screamed again and again.

How could the French army have suffered this kind of crime, even if they were not injured, they were choked by the black smoke, their eyes were not eyes, their noses were not noses, they were almost tortured, and they had no power to fight back, and they were recaptured by the New People's Army to recapture the first line of defense.

Major Weixi, who had lost the battle, returned to the headquarters and reported: "General Rigot, our men have been driven out by the Qing people again, and the position we have just taken has been lost again. ”

"How could it be so soon, didn't our valiant soldiers of the French Empire have learned to capture the trenches of the Qing people and secure the occupied territory? How can you be kicked out. Rigo's face was very bad, the army of 10,000 people was stuck here, and he couldn't move forward half a step, this was an opponent he had never met before, the number of opponents was not large, and the use of a wall barrier was not even strong.

It is a kind of trench that is the most popular in Europe now, but this kind of trench is very different from the trench used in Europe, it is not a line, nor is it a U-shape.

This made him confused for a while, and he couldn't think of a way to crack it quickly.

"General! This time, the despicable Qing people used a small cannon that could be fired at a short distance, which caught our army by surprise, and the Qing people took the opportunity to rush over and fight with us. Major Visey was a little embarrassed and bowed his head.

"What! The small cannon of the Qing people? Major Vesie, you're not wrong! Rigaud was confused and asked, "How small a cannon?" How powerful. ”

Major Viche broke out in a cold sweat: "General, follow the escape. No, it was the soldiers who withdrew that they didn't see that kind of small cannon, they only knew that they were attacked by a kind of cannonball that was only the thickness of a wrist, this kind of cannonball was not very destructive, but it was better than a wide range of lethality, of course, their quality was not very good, and the black smoke was very large, which may be the reason why the Qing people's artillery building technology and gunpowder ratio technology were very backward. ”

Rigo vaguely felt that he might have overlooked something, why he had a sense of familiarity with this kind of small cannon, but he was extremely contemptuous of this kind of small cannon that appeared in the New People's Army, after all, the power was the same as their cannon in the sky and on the ground.

So I had a slight headache, and I didn't pay attention to the grenade in my heart.

In the end, he only said: "Forget it, don't attack, it's useless to fight like this, it will only bury our precious soldiers in that worthless trench, what we want is the whole of Indochina, it seems that it is inappropriate to blindly attack, we must change the method." ”