Chapter Seventy-Four: A Night as Bright as Day (Part II)

"It's finally here, let you Manchu lackeys see the secret weapon of our Han army. "In the command headquarters of the Han Army, Zhao Gang showed a somewhat penetrating smile, and others trembled when they saw it.www.biquge.info

Subsequently, ten boxes of special shells were sent to the artillery positions of the Han army, and the artillerymen opened the shell box containing special shells, took out a special shell, and looked closely, it was not a shell of a 75-mm field gun, but a mortar shell.

"Maximum range, one shot in each of the four directions, fire!"

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Four mortar shells were fired in four directions, landing right in the middle of the enemy ranks.

However, an unexpected scene happened.

The mortar shells exploded in mid-air, and no violent explosions were heard.

I saw that the whole world was illuminated in an instant, and the dark night turned into day in an instant.

The eyes of the Qing officers and soldiers were stung by the sudden light, and they had to close their eyes to get used to the light, but the Han soldiers were notified in advance and were mentally prepared, so they quickly adapted to it and continued to shoot at the Qing officers and soldiers who had already revealed their figures.

"It's over, it's over, it's over." Zuo Zongtang, who was originally commanding the battle in the back with the support of his own soldiers, saw this scene, and his heart was completely confused.

It turns out that the secret weapon of the Han army is actually a flare (flare manufacturing is very simple), with flares, the dark night will become day, and the Han army is slightly worse than the Qing army's night combat ability (mainly because the Qing army is equipped with more cold weapons, and night battles are easy to turn into close combat, and the bayonets of the Han army have no advantage in the face of the cold weapons of the Qing army) There is no need to be afraid of any night battle.

Under the illumination of the flares, the Han soldiers could clearly see the entire battlefield, and the Qing officers and soldiers could no longer be hidden in the night, and one by one the Qing officers and soldiers fell under the guns of the Han soldiers.

In just a few tens of seconds, thousands of Qing troops fell on the battlefield forever, and at this time, the flares were also burned out, and the day was about to return to night.

The next moment, four more flares were fired from mortars, and the night, which was as bright as day, continued, and the massacre of Qing officers and soldiers by Han soldiers continued.

The dense gunfire on the battlefield and the rushing and killing sounds and screams of the Qing officers and soldiers are all together.

Zuo Zongtang, who was in the rear, saw that the battlefield was constantly shining and the soldiers of the army were screaming again and again, and he knew that this night battle was not a night battle, and the hope of victory of the Qing Dynasty was reduced.

In the end, Zuo Zongtang decided to go to the front in person to boost the morale of the soldiers, even if Zuo Zongtang's personal soldiers wanted to stop Zuo Zongtang from going to the dangerous battlefield, they did not stop, and the soldiers could only use their bodies to cover Zuo Zongtang and approach the front battlefield.

When the Qing officers and soldiers saw Zuo Zongtang personally coming to the battlefield, their morale increased greatly, and they braved the rain of bullets and bullets of the Han army to attack the Han army's position.

It's a pity that no matter how much you increase morale, the flesh and blood of Qing officers and soldiers can't withstand the steel storm of the Han army, and the short distance of less than 300 meters has become a forbidden area for the death of Qing officers and soldiers.

In the rear of the Han army, the Mongol cavalry could not break through the blockade line composed of more than ten heavy machine guns; On the flanks of the Han army, 10,000 elite Chu troops could not break through that short distance, and thousands of people fell on the way to charge; In front of the Han army, there were countless Manchu officers and soldiers lying down.

Automatic weapons (heavy machine guns), which had only been equipped in large quantities since the First World War, exerted their fearsome power in the eighties of the nineteenth century, and no matter how many people came, they would be eaten.

The barrels of the Han army's heavy machine guns were seriously hot, and in desperation, all the heavy machine guns could only be divided into two groups to fire alternately, and even so, the Qing army could not break through that short distance.

"Hey, this is a big official?" Somewhere in the Han army's position, Mao Xiaofei used the scope of the sniper rifle in his hand to look for the enemy's generals, and after a while, he found the target of a suspected enemy official.

But the other party is too well protected, almost no place is exposed, and the deal is almost more than 900 meters away from Mao Xiaofei, the effective range of the sniper rifle in Mao Xiaofei's hand is only 850 meters, the farther the distance, the greater the deviation, if you want to hit this enemy official, Mao Xiaofei can only rely on illusory luck.

Determining the direction of the wind, Mao Xiaofei raised the sniper rifle steadily, aiming at the senior official, Mao Xiaofei knew that if he missed, the other party would be vigilant, and there would be no chance.

After taking a few deep breaths, Mao Xiaofei finally pulled the trigger.

Bang!

The bullet went straight through, through the gap between the officer's guards, and hit the officer in the chest with a single blow.

From the scope, Mao Xiaofei saw that the senior official fell, and the guards around him surrounded the senior official tightly, and he could no longer see the specific situation, Mao Xiaofei did not know how important the senior official was to hit an enemy, and continued to look for the next target.

On the other side, Zuo Zongtang's personal guards tightly surrounded Zuo Zongtang, who was bleeding from his chest, and looked at Zuo Zongtang with sad eyes.

"Zuo Shuai, Zuo Shuai was shot, go find a doctor." One of the guards shouted with a crying voice.

"Don't... Shout, I... No... Okay, this... The second is... It's true... Defeated, you... We... Run... bar. Zuo Zongtang, who was hugged by the guards, said weakly, he knew his physical condition, he couldn't hold on, and he swallowed his breath after saying the last sentence.

In the short period of time after being shot, Zuo Zongtang saw countless pictures in front of his eyes, he saw a Qing Dynasty that had broken mountains and rivers, he saw an army holding a Han flag gradually devouring the Qing Dynasty, but he couldn't stop it, he hated, he hated whether he could defeat the "short-haired thief"......

"Zuo Shuai!"

"Zuo Shuai!"

Zuo Zongtang's death made these guards cry bitterly.

"Brothers, Zuo Shuai is so kind to us, what should we do?" A leading guard said.

"Kill, avenge Zuo Shuai!"

Nearly 100 guards, except for the four youngest who left the corpse of Zuo Zongtang, the rest of the guards held big knives and rushed madly towards the Han army's position.

Zuo Zongtang was dead, and the defeated Qing officers and soldiers fled to the back, but there was a small group of tall and strong warriors in the crowd rushing in a completely different direction.

"Kill, avenge Zuo Shuai."

"Kill."

However, they were unable to resist the bullets of the Han soldiers with big knives, and they were all shot in a few seconds......

The Qing army in four directions was defeated, the overall situation has been decided, the Han soldiers listened to the order, rushed out of the position to chase the Qing soldiers, and stopped chasing the Qing soldiers after chasing for a thousand meters, after all, it is still night, the possibility of accidents is too great, as long as the enemy is defeated, the task of the first brigade of the Han army is completed.

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