Chapter 98 Assault Battles and SAO Disturbance Battles

The cannonball happily flew out of the pitch-black chamber, but this cannon was a little more wrong, and flew straight from the top of the opposite fortification, flew over the wall, and there was a violent explosion behind the palace in the distance.

Ma Long led 3o commandos to run in Xiao Alley between a large number of houses in the west, and by this time had reached a courtyard on the right side of the fortifications set up by the French at the west street entrance.

Ma Long nodded his head one by one, this is the elite of the Hue battalion in the weekday training, at this time 2O people have been equipped with 8O submachine guns, each of the 5 magazines have been counted, this is the main force of the assault team, and the other 5 shooters with AKO2 rifles will be left behind, they will provide fire support from the roof at close range.

Two rooms away from them, less than 3o meters out of the door is the mouth of the alley, which is only 2o meters away from the French fortifications, Marlon said in a hurry again, "Pay attention to cover each other!" Pay attention to the magazine size! Try to get out of the fire zone as much as possible after being injured! Okay, that's all, you all know the rest, this is the first battle of our assault battalion, don't let those recruits look at Xiao, out of ......"

The team was immediately divided into two teams, Ma Long personally led one group of people, and the other group was led by Xiao Qian, who was born as a deputy captain and student soldier, quietly opened the door and slipped into the alley, less than 3o meters in front of the alley, the two teams began to rush outside for cover. At this time, the other 5 shooters had quietly climbed up to the nearby sharp corner of the roof, and they were not 1 head, waiting for the signal to attack with peace of mind.

The commandos all leveled their submachine guns and rifles, and they were about to reach the entrance of the nong hall, when suddenly three French soldiers turned out in front, and the two sides suddenly met, obviously surprised, the French obviously didn't expect how so many soldiers could appear in the alley they had just patrolled, and just wanted to raise their guns, Malone had already taken the lead in pulling the trigger.

"Spit and spit ......"

The French on the opposite side only had time to shoot on the ground before they fell to the ground, and it was obvious that the enemy had sensed the movement, and Malone poked his head out of the alley, which immediately attracted a burst of gunfire!

The shooter who was lying in ambush behind the ridge, when he heard the movement, immediately raised his head, and after a burst of gunfire, he lightly hit the four Frenchmen behind the fortifications from a high and low level, which immediately caused a moment of hún 1uan from the other side.

"Rush!" Malone was the first to jump out of the alley, and after rolling on the ground, he half-crouched and fired a barrage of bullets at the enemy in front of him, and then twenty submachine guns exploded with amazing power at a short distance of 3o meters.

The French soldiers in the front row who wanted to raise their guns were immediately swept to the ground, the French shot the bullets shot by Ling 1uan, and then 1uan coaxed to try to find cover, the scene was hún1uan, the commandos completely ignored the other party's sporadic 1uan shots, and quickly rushed towards the enemy, Malone ran several times, and when he changed the second magazine, he had already rushed into the nearest French man, and the three enemies who were loading were immediately knocked to the ground.

A soldier mowed out a two-piece brick-sized fried bag from behind, and after it was ignited, the lead was eating and eating, and the commandos on the side had temporarily suppressed the fire of the French from the fire at this time. With the flying out of the bombing bag, there was a loud "boom", and in the middle of the fortification built by the French, the bombing bag thrown by the commando team blew up a big hole, and seven or eight enemies were dizzy and ran out of the improvised fortification, and were immediately sudden.

Xue Zao saw the situation here, with a wave of his hand, the soldiers swarmed up, this round of sudden attack, all of a sudden hit the French position, in this short-distance fire, the single rifle was completely unable to match the 8O submachine gun, some officers who tried to reorganize the team resisted desperately, but they were immediately drowned in the sudden sound of the submachine gun, and the French ** team, which lost its command and formation, finally turned around in a panic and fled to the brigade at the gate of the palace.

Xue's troops, who occupied the fortifications, soon relied on the fortifications to advance, the scattered French 1uan army obviously helped them a lot, and the two nearby French detachments were also routed and the bullets poured behind, although there were a large number of French troops near the palace, but because of the large number of routs who fled, they could not organize an effective counterattack for a while, and the assault team fought until it was only a mile away from the main gate of the palace, and then temporarily stopped advancing.

At this time, with the firepower of Xue's troops, the Xiao unit of the French defense side gate and the main force in the middle had been completely cut off, and the 1uan coaxing French rout had completely damaged the morale of the troops who were besieging the palace in addition to leaving a corpse.

Major Clark, who was standing in our restaurant to observe the enemy's situation, was obviously angry, 4 soldiers of the Xiao team defended a street, and they were attacked by the other party in a few minutes and broke through, which is a huge shame for this team with considerable combat experience, but now the situation is so erosive, the other party has formed a situation of two-sided attack, if you still insist on attacking the palace, it is obviously an unwise move, and there is also a Xiao detachment isolated by the other party, this is also a problem! ,

"Immediately gather the troops, pull the artillery back, and set up an infantry formation relying on the artillery!" Major Clark roared loudly, this was the only way he could think of, in front of the heavy artillery, the firepower of the opposing light infantry was not worth mentioning.

However, it is a pity that the artillery that gave the French army the advantage in the previous attack wanted to push back to the position behind the troops at this time and build a new artillery position, which was obviously a difficult thing that had been painstakingly and laborious, and Song Yunze's gang in the palace was not a fuel-efficient lamp, they were pressed and beaten by the artillery just now, and they all ran around like rabbits, and suffered many casualties.

At this moment, they saw the movement outside, and immediately rushed out, and they all ran up to the battlements of the city wall and fired 1uan fire at the artillery detachment that was slowly retreating. The French were busy dealing with the large number of troops that came out of the West Street at this time, and they were not careful, and they were bitten hard by this side, but the poor two 4-inch artillery artillerymen pushed the cart with all their strength, and also gave cold shots to the people behind, and they climbed down a dozen at once.

And the French team that has just been organized, at this time there are still seven or eight hundred people, and a small team of 5o people is set up, ready to attack! Xue naturally would not give the French a chance to organize an attack, and with a wave of his hand, the mortar detachment that was holding back to the present immediately went to the back of the fortifications, facing the French brigade 5oo meters away.

It's just that this mortar of the Mawei Artillery Bureau is definitely a primitive thing, and the mortars of later generations are equipped with optical sighting devices, except for the barrel and shells of modern times, and an elevation adjustment gear and reading table, there is no aiming device at all, and shooting can completely rely on the experience of artillery.

The French suddenly heard a loud bang from the enemy positions on the opposite side, and then a puff of black smoke came out, after which there was a sharp whistling in the sky, and then several shells fell next to the infantry ranks, but this was accurate...... It's really hard to say, the single piece of the most accurate mortar shell hit a wounded soldier lying in the corner of the back wall, and as a result, this unlucky guy went directly to report to Uncle Jesus.

"I'm cao, what are you guys usually practicing, ...... You guys call it pao! At this distance, you can kill a few people if you put the cannon pipe flat......" Over there, Xue scolded loudly, and the captain of the artillery Xiao detachment turned red, and hurriedly adjusted the angle of fire.

Half a minute later, black smoke rose from the position again, this time it was finally a little accurate, and the two were still very vaguely flying out of the predetermined trajectory, but they rushed straight to the side of Major Clark's restaurant who was pondering the situation, and accurately hit the thatched pit and utility room next to the restaurant, and the smell and straw in the sky were set off, and the major was immediately smoked.

However, as soon as the major hurried downstairs, the French soldiers here were in trouble, and when they went downstairs, two rounds of mortars had fallen into the ranks in a row, and they directly lost the number 50 people.

Major Clark's face immediately darkened, the other side was certainly not a stupid Vietnamese, this kind of artillery and power, even the French-made Haggaeus rotary gun could not match, and it was obvious that the opponent's cannon had strong mobility, and the work was arranged to the position just laid at this time......

"Withdraw!" Faced with an attack by the opposing infantry, Clark wisely made the final choice.

In the retreat, the French finally showed the true character of a strong army, and officers at all levels perfectly arranged the cyclic retreat of the team, and successfully blocked the enemy's pursuit with continuous rows of guns.

The sentinels everywhere reported the information that the French had retreated to the East City Gate, but Xue was not excited at all at this time, there were nearly 2o warships lined up in the port, and his mortar was going to be used to deal with that thing, it was almost like scratching, and the East City Gate was lost, and the French could break into Hue City anytime and anywhere!

He looked at the position where the retreating army was, and suddenly remembered something, "Retreat immediately!" ”

By the time the soldiers rushed to the vicinity of the West Street entrance, the vicinity of the palace in the distance had been completely covered by the roar of heavy artillery! But fortunately, the range of the French artillery was far inferior to that of the Mawei shipmaster's cannons, and the 1uan flying cannonballs could fly into the palace at the farthest, and Xue immediately understood that this was one of the important reasons why the French had to attack on the ground.

However, it is obvious that most of the city of Hue City is within the bombardment range of the opponent's heavy artillery, and in the ground battle ahead, in the face of the opponent's superior forces, although Xue's troops have a slight advantage in weapons, and the powerful mobility of the mortar saves them, but a group of recruits, who want to rely on a little advantage in weapons, defeat a Navy 6 team under the cover of the heavy artillery of the ironclad ship, obviously a little out of their ability. ,

Xue immediately set up a number of defense points outside the range of the opponent's artillery, this is a difficult situation, the giant cannon has become a powerful protective shield for the opponent, and his own side is completely incomparable in terms of troops and artillery, and the current struggle is to use the maximum range of street fighting to kill and injure the enemy and protect himself.

After the heavy artillery bombardment, the French again organized an attack on the scale of xiao, but after being counterattacked by head-on and mortar attacks, they quickly withdrew like rabbits.

Standing on the ironclad ship Baya, holding a telescope to observe the burning city in the distance, it stands to reason that under such artillery fire, an indigenous city that has been destroyed by the city's defenses has completely lost its ability to resist. However, this was not the case, and there was a completely unexpected rout in the ground battles, with almost three hundred casualties.

After realizing the unusualness of this, staff officer Sean personally interrogated a group of captured Vietnamese soldiers, and then figured out that there was an army guarding the Qing merchant ships here, and these idiotic Vietnamese soldiers only knew that it was the army of Shangguo Qincha, but they couldn't even say the name, and finally one of the officers finally said that it was a Qing official surnamed Qin.

At this time, he was holding a copy of the "Fujian New Newspaper" specially sent by the French Consulate from Guangzhou Port, and he had already asked people to translate every man on it, and the Qing official who embarrassed himself extremely in the South China Sea was not also surnamed Qin...... Thinking of this, he was shocked, if this official surnamed Qin had already expected that he would make a surprise attack on Hue, then maybe the other party was there calculating himself at this time!

"Sean, order the cruisers Dushaver, Kaisheng, and Reconnaissance to report to me here in the outer harbor as soon as possible!" After sending away the reconnaissance post, Gu Ba was a little relieved, "Gather the commanders of all ships, I will arrange tomorrow's battle, and be sure to solve the problem of the Vietnamese!" ”

At this time, there was not a crisp sound of gunfire in the distance, it was said that it was a guerrilla war carried out by the Vietnamese on the other side, which made the officers a little uneasy, no one expected that this mission would be so troublesome, and there would be so many situations that they had never thought of at all, and soon the officers gathered on the flagship Baya.

Gu Ba glanced at the officers coldly, it was obvious that today's defeat in the 6th battle still greatly affected the morale, after all, the entire fleet was loaded with only 15oo soldiers, of course, the sailors could go to the battlefield when necessary, but obviously this was not a good idea.

"The enemy we are facing now is not a useless Vietnamese native, but a Xiao detachment of the Qing Naval Division encountered in the naval battle of the South China Sea," Gu pulled straight to the point, "Today's defeat of our 6th Army is due to ignorance of the enemy, and it is clear that the other side is even superior to the equipment of our 6th Army in terms of light weapons, which is simply shameful news for the French military industry!" ”

Today's battle was depressing for the French, the opposing soldiers were obviously inferior to their own elite, and they actually relied on the difference in weapons to fight their own 1uan with the strange anti-aircraft artillery that they had never heard of at all. Now these officers understand the reason, and the shadow of the Qing warship last time is obviously still in the minds of these officers.

"Lieutenant General, this Qing ** force is really strange, I think you have to act with heart!" There was already an officer next to him who was chattering.

"The enemy has their strengths, but we can't follow his ideas," Gu Ba looked at the officers around him, "Hue City is within the radius of the port, and most of the area is within the range of our artillery, but the enemy is very cunning, according to reconnaissance, he has already understood our artillery coverage, and has built some fortifications on the periphery, and wants to fight us for a long time!" ”

"These Qing soldiers are too cunning!" The officers were talking.

"They are not Qing soldiers," Gu Ba suddenly emphasized loudly: "At present, the minister is negotiating with the Qing State, so these people are only Vietnamese, they must be Vietnamese, and tomorrow morning, we will tear them apart with a thunderous blow!" ”

All the officers looked at the lieutenant general in astonishment, today's battle has obviously fallen behind in the 6th battle, is there any way for the general to fight against this situation?

"6 The war on the ground is a war between soldiers and artillery, and we must make full use of our two specialties", Gu Ba looked at the officers around him proudly, and pointed to one of the black and thin men, "Major Austin, I have mobilized the 3-inch and 4-inch guns on each ship, and transported them to the camp on the shore overnight, and now the gun mounts are being installed, and tomorrow we can form a lineup of 12 guns, which you will command, and under the protection of our naval guns, push the artillery positions down the front line and destroy the opponent's fortifications in one fell swoop." ”,

"Obey! Lonely General! Major Austin got up and took the order.

"Major Clark, you will lead 7oo 6 men to follow up with the attack tomorrow, and immediately attack after the artillery destroys the opponent's fortifications! If you can, try to destroy this group of enemies! ”

"Obey!"

"Major Brown, you lead 1oo soldiers to occupy the artillery position to the highest position for defense......" The order was given one by one.

At this time, at the mouth of a bay in the upper reaches of the Xiangjiang River, several Xiao-type boats were quietly going downstream, and when they saw the Hue city wall from a distance, they all lowered their degrees and quietly sailed into a hidden riverside woods.

Xue led people to carry out some round things from the woods, this thing is a standard iron guy, one by one looks like a bucket, after carrying it on the boat, a boat carries a two-of-a-two thing, and then in the center of the river, a soldier-like person pulled out a cha pin under the iron bucket, and then gently pushed this thing into the water, and the iron bucket floated on the surface of the water, slowly down the river.

After dozens of iron buckets were transported to the center of the river and released, Xue Haha smiled and beckoned the people to call it a day and return to the city.

When Vice Admiral Gu Ba arranged the next day's Jedi counteroffensive, the officers unexpectedly heard the sound of explosions in the waters upstream, which surprised them.

But I saw the fire in the distance, this was obviously not the fire of the Xiao ship, and a moment later, an officer flew to report that the fast gunboat Rustin, which was responsible for blocking the Xiangjiang River, was sunk by the enemy!