Team after team!

Irish soldiers in green uniforms strode along the road, each of them with pride on their faces, smugness in their expressions, and excitement in their eyes. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoWhenever passers-by threw flowers at them, the pride in their eyes intensified.

Now they are not a rabble!

It's the upright IRA!

An army that has defeated countless "red shrimp soldiers", an army with a glorious history of "winning a hundred battles". As for their repeated failures, even defeats, they have been selectively ignored, or perhaps selectively eliminated. ‘

At least in their eyes, they deserved the title of "Victory in a Hundred Battles", and they even gave themselves a new name "Green Devil", which corresponds to the British army that they once called "Red Devil".

They are the "Green Devils"!

The "Green Devil" in the eyes of the British!

When the "Green Devils" call them that, it means that the British people have developed a fear of them!

"We're going to take Dublin, we're going to take all of Ireland, and if we want to, we're going to go to London!"

In the face of victory after victory, those Irish politicians who have emerged from the wrong place out of nowhere are so confident, and the source of their confidence is this "green devil" with nearly 80,000 troops.

The "Green Devil" is the source of their power!

In the middle of the manor, Jason, the commander of the Irish Republican Army, looked helplessly at the green outside the window, there were some things that even he couldn't stop.

"In the future, Dublin will be the capital of Ireland! Therefore, we hope that the capital of Ireland should be recovered by the Irish, not by the Chinese! ”

"Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and we must uphold the honour of Ireland!"

Victory after victory made everyone float, not everyone, but all Irish to be exact, whether it was officers in the IRA or those "politicians".

In reality, there were few career officers in the IRA, many of whom had been seminary students, businessmen, lawyers, or doctors, and had no real military training at all. As for the so-called Provisional Government, there were also no far-sighted politicians, businessmen, lawyers, doctors, gentry and priests, who hastily formed the Provisional Government.

Because of this, in the face of victory after victory, everyone was excited, but also began to change their mentality, they even felt that the British were not as strong as they thought, after all, they had defeated them many times, and now, as long as they wanted, they could also defeat them.

Even without the help of the Chinese!

Compared with others, this is the real deadliest part, as the commander of the Republican Army, Jason knows very well that without the Chinese Expeditionary Force as a pillar, the Republican Army would not be able to take on the big responsibility, but now it seems that everyone is turning a blind eye to this, and they are all carried away by the victory in front of them.

"Yes...... Why didn't the command refuse? ”

Jason's brow furrowed at the thought that the command had agreed to the Irishman's request, and listening to the faint sound of bagpipes in the air, he felt as if he was attending a funeral......

"Whoosh" As the sharp sound of breaking the air got closer and closer, the next moment, at the moment when the whistling sound disappeared, there was a violent shaking between heaven and earth. "Boom!" With a loud explosion, the thick oak tree, which had been so conspicuous, was blown to pieces, and broken branches, wood chips, and tons of dirt flew everywhere. Before people could react, more shells flew over, and the screaming sound of the shells became the most heart-wrenching sound in heaven and earth, followed by a deafening loud noise, and the violent shells continued to make violent explosions. The sound of the explosion and the roar were in harmony, suppressing all the sounds of heaven and earth. It's a battlefield, a battlefield that has never been seen before! In the past half month, tens of thousands of British troops and tens of thousands of forcibly conscripted Irish have dug more than a dozen miles of ravines around Dublin, and the ditches up to 6 feet deep have formed an extremely complex trench system near Dublin, and not only that, but in front of the trenches, there are thousands of tons of barbed wire composed of barbed wire. It's a complex fortification that has never been seen on this planet, and it's not accurate to say that, at least a few years ago, it appeared in China, but on a very limited scale, and the Chinese army had experimented with similar fortifications, but no army had ever had the privilege of experiencing it. But now, all this is in Dublin, in front of the soldiers of the Expeditionary Force and the Irish Republican Army.

"Damn, there must be a spy!"

Almost subconsciously, any officer who has ever studied in a military academy will have such a thought in his mind when he witnesses such a complex barbed wire, because in their opinion, all this once belonged to the patent of the Chinese army, but as soldiers, they naturally know very well that technology has never been blocked, not to mention that this kind of barbed wire is not a secret, and now it appears here, there is nothing strange about it, However, knowing how deadly the barbed wire and trenches were, they still secretly cried out for bitterness.

The appearance of barbed wire, naturally, put the next offensive on hold, and the offensive immediately evolved into how to break through the enemy's system of fortifications, and one thing is for sure, if these are not resolved, then everything will not be solved, and they will even have to withdraw from here. This is undoubtedly unacceptable.

Shelling!

Now it's the only option.

Even if the artillery shells were far from sufficient, in the face of such stubborn fortifications, the expeditionary force still chose to shell and break through the British defense line with artillery fire.

It was also from that moment that the entire outside of Dublin was caught in a field of artillery fire, and under the invasion of artillery fire, the soldiers in red uniforms in the trenches heard the "whoosh" sound from far and near, and hurriedly stuck their bodies in the trenches and buried their heads in it. Rows and rows of shells were exploding, the ground was shaking, and the sky was dusty. The trenches were filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke that robbed people. This kind of shelling for British soldiers is something they have never experienced, and it can even be said to be unprecedented, more than a thousand field guns, mortars in just a few hours, just like the British positions fired more than 100,000 shells, so many shells more than any war in history combined, and for the British soldiers in the trenches, all this is simply a nightmare, in the shelling the sound is sharp is the shells fired by the field guns, its trajectory is straight, the shells will always go over the trenches, Flying towards the artillery positions of the British in the distance - the balloons of the artillery reconnaissance school in the vicinity of the artillery positions of the expeditionary forces, rising to a height of several hundred meters, would guide the artillery attacks and enable them to shell the British artillery positions in depth.

For the British soldiers, the real threat was those dull-sounding, slower shells, that is, mortar shells, compared to field guns, its trajectory curved, the muzzle velocity was slow, but the curved trajectory could always smash the shells into the trenches, thus bringing devastating damage to the British soldiers, but because the trenches were built into a zigzag shape, even if a 120-millimeter shell fell into the trench, the result was only a few casualties.

But even so, for the British soldiers in the trenches, they were still experiencing a nightmare, they were like boats in the stormy seas, rocking, twisting, struggling in the waves, and the deafening sound of cannons continued to bombard their eardrums, making each of them look frightened.

In the midst of this sea of steel and fire, the deep bunker became their last resort, and they always tried to shrink their bodies into as small a ball as possible, and many people crowded into the trenches, and now each and every one of them was praying, praying to God, praying that it would all end immediately.

However, for them, all this was undoubtedly an empty dream, because the shelling did not end with their prayers, in fact, the shelling was just beginning.

In the trenches and bunkers of the British army, except for the frightened shouts of some people, these frightened pale people did not speak, although the light was extremely dim, people could still see the pale faces of their companions, they all looked at the people around them with frightened expressions, and had the illusion that they might die at any time.

The soldiers who stayed in the bunkers were undoubtedly luckier than the soldiers in the trenches, and the explosions heard in the bunkers were much quieter, but when the shells fell on the heads of the bunkers, the walls of the bunkers shook and the British soldiers inside were afraid that the impenetrable bunkers would be collapsed - if they did, they would all be buried alive here. In fact, it was almost inevitable that these hastily built fortified bunkers were far from being as strong as they thought, at least for the engineer who designed them, who was referring to ordinary shelling and ordinary shells, so the bunkers were not covered with as thick soil as they thought. The layer of cover, no more than two feet thick, might have protected the soldiers in the bunker in the first round of shelling, but if the bunkers that had been badly damaged in the previous shelling were hit by a shell of more than 82 mm in the second round, the people in it might have been buried alive.

However, for the British soldiers who were struggling with the stormy seas in the bunker, they did not know about this fire at all, and it was impossible for them to know that someone had been buried alive in the bunker, and for them, there was only one thought now, let this shelling end quickly!

When the British were praying there, praying for God's blessing, in the artillery positions of the expeditionary force, it would be boiling, compared to the field artillery positions where the sound of artillery was not too urgent, but the mortar positions were like the ringing of fireworks during the Spring Festival, one by one, all the time, almost from the day the mortar was invented, for the Chinese army, they liked mortars more than field artillery, although the field guns had a long range and high accuracy, But the rate of fire of one to two rounds per minute has not been able to satisfy the Chinese army.

In contrast, the mortar, from the moment it was put into service, quickly conquered the Chinese artillery with its surprisingly high rate of fire, with a rate of fire of more than 20 rounds per minute, allowing it to throw ammunition at the enemy even faster than a rifle.

But the mortar is not without drawbacks, such as its low range and low accuracy. Still, his strengths cannot be disguised, and his speed of fire and power are more than enough to make up for his own strengths.

We need artillery with a faster rate of fire!

At the request of the army artillery unit, although the Hanyang Arsenal tried its best to increase the rate of fire of the field artillery, but limited by its receding structure, the rate of fire has not been able to increase, and in order to solve this problem, it finally set its sights on the mortar, and finally in the second year of Kaihong, after years of research, the Hanyang Arsenal launched a two-year 120 mm rifled mortar, compared with the ordinary smoothbore mortar, although the weight of this rifled mortar is larger, but its high accuracy and power, Moreover, the firing range also reached an astonishing 5000 meters, and more importantly, its rate of fire far exceeded that of ordinary field artillery, which is why it was accepted by artillery units as soon as it was launched, and immediately became the main artillery of the infantry regiment.

Now, the two-year rifled mortar, which is the main artillery of the expeditionary force, is the main force of the artillery bombardment, and in the first round of artillery preparation, each two-year rifled mortar fired an average of 20 to 30 shells, and all of them were non-stop and rapid fire. So much so that the barrels of the Xu mortars were red, and he had to stop to catch his breath. When the shelling stops temporarily, someone immediately wipes the barrel with a cartridge stick dipped in water to cool the barrel that begins to expand, and at the same time cools the barrel from the outside with water, the mortar may fire fast, but if the barrel is over-inflated, it may even cause the shell to fall from the muzzle, thus causing damage to itself.

While the gunners were cooling the barrels, the heavily trained and burly loaders had to change their loaders because their arms were so sore that they couldn't straighten them after feeding dozens of shells in a row.

After a short rest, the silent gun emplacement boiled again, and in order to speed up the firing speed, the loaders who stood on the steps of the gun emplacement's bunker did not put the shells in the rear as in the past, but directly under their feet, and at the moment of the shells, they once again bent down to pick up the shells weighing 17 kg, stuffed them into the barrels, and kept throwing the shells at the positions of the British.

"Blow these grandsons to shreds!"

Every time, accompanied by shelling, the shouts of these gunners were always heard on the artillery positions, and they believed that under such shelling, no one could survive! Don't even think of a rat alive!

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