Chapter 97: Shivering under the muzzle

Xue Ke remembered very clearly, the instructor has always said that soldiers who have not really experienced the battlefield can never become veterans, according to this standard, even these student soldiers and security regiments who have been trained with Qin Kai for more than a year are not really veterans, although in terms of physical fitness and the results of various military skills, they are all excellent, and the only experience that can be regarded as a positive jiao fire, that is, the capture of a few mao thieves at that time.

And the French on the other side, the instructor repeatedly emphasized that the French have never stopped expanding abroad in the past ten years, and they have been carrying out various colonial wars in Africa and Asia.

Of course, the weakness of these French is also obvious, and the tactical rigidity is extreme...... Or maybe our firepower was too fierce and the French didn't have time to react? Anyway, since encountering the powerful frontal firepower, there has been no formation change at all, and it is still a straight tǐngtǐng mobile charge, although their platoon guns are very good, but the instructor has long made a conclusion, and the era of platoon guns has become history!

In the round of battle just now, there were too many problems with the eggs of these recruits under his hands, and several Xiao Zi were grazed by bullets, and they were so psychologically fragile that they thought they were hanging, and they lay on the ground until Captain Xiao kicked their butts...... Not to mention forgetting to pull the bolt, forgetting to load bullets, shooting without aiming, and not finding bullet clips.

At this time, news came from the reconnaissance post again, and the French had also begun to build fortifications on the road from West Street to the palace! This made Xue really depressed, *** The French are not stupid at all, and set up a scene for himself to fight!

He lay on the map and measured and measured, and when he climbed on the roof, he could see the fortifications laid out by the French in the distance, the French fortifications were really simple, and the protective parts were obviously low, only to the height of the Xiongkou! This made Xue a little confused, do the French have funny heads and don't want to protect their upper bodies?

In fact, this is not a French show, the French army is now equipped with breech single rifles, which require constant removal of bullets from the bullet belt, and then reload and shoot, and too high fortifications, but will hinder the movement of the elbow, slow down the degree of shooting, of course, the French can also take the gun to the back of the fortifications for loading, and then stand up to shoot, this shooting...... Then the loss is big.

After the appearance of breech single-loading bullets, an excellent soldier of the 6th Army can completely achieve a firing degree of 1o per minute, of course, this is in an ideal state, shooting like this all the time, not to mention accurate xìng, even the loading bullet will be loaded to the hand; If the French were allowed to besiege the palace unhurriedly, Xue also knew that it would be doomed to be a disaster, although the instructor repeatedly asked him to pay attention to taking advantage of the situation when talking to him last time, but he thought about it for 1o seconds and immediately ordered: "Gather the commando!" ”

1 minute later, in the safety zone behind the Xiao Building, thirty soldiers gathered around Xue, and Xue drew a simple schematic diagram on the ground, "Brothers, you are all the backbone of our first and second battalions, and you are also members of our commando team, most of them are the old men of the Mawei Ship Administration, and some are the elite of the Vietnamese Chinese brothers, and now the French have taken control of the avenue from Xijiekou to the palace, and we still have 1oo brothers in the palace, waiting for us to rescue ......"

He asked a stout man with a stern face next to him, "Commander Xue, how many troops do the French have?" ”

"Deng 6 troops more than 1ooo, the strength of this fortification in front is estimated to be about 1oo people in two teams," Xue glanced at this man, this is Ma Long, the captain of the commando team, "Old horse, I have seen it, the weapons of the French 6th Army are not as good as our AKO2, I will transfer 2o 8O submachine guns, 5 explosive yao bags for you, can you take it?" ”

Ma Long looked at the schematic diagram on the ground, raised his eyebrows, raised his eyes and looked at Xue again, "Commander Xue, you didn't plan to ask us to rush over from the front of the road!" ”

"That's natural, I'll be a battalion on the front to push the fortifications up and attract their attention," Xue Haha smiled and pointed to the right of the French fortifications on the map, "There are two alleys here, you attack from the side, and the Mutual Freemasons will take you around there!" ”

Ma Long pointed to the two young men in Vietnamese costumes on the side, "These two?" ”,

"Well, they are the core members of the Mutual Masonic Association responsible for the news of Hue, and they are very familiar with this terrain, and most of the courtyards in those two alleys are connected, so you can wear bsp without knowing it; Hearing this news, Ma Long also sighed in surprise, after all, it is a complete hand-to-hand combat, and there is a guide who is familiar with the terrain, which is definitely a huge advantage, and he immediately changed his iron face, squeezed out some ugly smiles and arched his hand at the two young men of the Freemasonry, "Two brothers, it's hard work, wait for me to ask Commander Xue what to get a good guy, and then go on the road!" ”

"Old horse, it's still the old rules, I'll let the first battalion wait for your signal, and immediately attack to cooperate with you!" Xue thought about it, but still felt a little uneasy, and leaned over to the old horse's ear to say a few words, this time Ma Long nodded very seriously, took the weapon and the fried yao bag and rushed into a large bungalow area opposite.

"Order, the first battalion to move the fortifications to the front and paste them! Don't let the French have time to dump their fortifications," Xue ordered loudly.

Soon, the French soldiers who were arranging on the opposite side began to move the people in the fortifications in front of them, and those tables and g-boards were carried slowly and pushed forward, and soon, the enemy's improvised fortifications moved forward nearly a hundred meters. Since they did not receive the order to attack, the French could only shoot at the wooden tables in the fortifications, which was almost a futile act under the actions of the other side.

And Xue Ze slowly leaned forward on both sides of the large army Tongguò, the only thing that worried him was the back road of the West Gate, and at this moment there was only Ruan Puxing, the general of Zhendong, squatting there with a group of remnants of the defeated army to watch.

When the fortifications of the two sides were close to 2oo meters, the other side's fire was obviously intensive, and Xue ordered to immediately stop the action of continuing to advance, and instead reinforce the relevant fortifications, and all kinds of door panels and other things slowly poured up from behind......

Song Yunze took 1oo soldiers to stand on the city tower, the direction of the French attack was very direct - that is, the main gate, the other two sides have been seen, the French only sent a team of soldiers to build fortifications to intercept, and there is no sign of preparing to attack, and there are two teams of Vietnamese guards to cooperate in the defense.

And at this time, he saw an amazing scene on the tower of the palace, two guns that were obviously unloaded from the battleship were being pushed slowly by more than twenty soldiers from the street of the east city gate, although the caliber is not clear, but in the face-to-face battle, anyone will tremble under the muzzle of the god of war, except for the dead.

Apparently this was the intention of the French to attack the city, but what made him strange was that the French were not prepared to bombard the palace directly with the guns on the battleships? But even the two doors in front of them have made them unable to face them directly, and if they are hit by this thing, they have no power to fight back at all, and staying on the city wall is really a life waiting for death......

"Immediately build the fortifications of the inner wall!" Song Yunze immediately ordered, fortunately, there are a lot of people in this palace city, and the number of guards in the wine bag and rice bag must be three or four hundred, and these people were immediately organized to put the tables, stools, wooden doors, wooden windows, bonsai, and hua pots in the palace...... As long as it can be piled up, everything has been collected.

Immediately, dozens of bunkers were piled up around the main gate of the palace, and there were dozens of guards in the palace who were still holding Mao Se breech guns transported by Qin Kai, and they were also arranged to shoot in a shooting position.

The back road was ready, Song Yunze ordered a team of people to garrison the new bunker, and he led the other team to the back of the battlements on both sides of the city tower first, preparing to block the enemy first when the French attacked, there were so many enemies outside that he was a little unexpected, and now the only way was to block layer by layer, waiting for Xue to attack the French! At this moment, he suddenly realized that he had incomparable confidence in this seemingly unadvantageous war......

By the time they were busy here, several soldiers watching the scenery at the city gate had jumped down like rabbits, and the French began to break down......

The French pushed over the 4-inch cannon, otherwise they would not have been able to knock down such a few hundred yards to bombard, but it was also a breeze to deal with this thick wooden gate.

This first shot hit the wooden gate of the palace gate, and after the light yì penetrated, it exploded a large dong of more than two meters, and the huge impact force had already put the entire palace gate in jeopardy, and with the sound of another cannon, the thick imperial city gate fell with a bang, and the French soldiers outside burst into cheers.

The officers of the various teams began to reorganize their ranks and prepare for a final assault on the Vietnamese in the palace, while the artillerymen continued to push the artillery slowly, and a few French artillerymen cursed the damned Vietnamese for taking their cattle with them as they fled, causing them, the artillerymen of the god of war, to push this bulky thing. ,

In the distance, Major Clark, who was in charge of directing the siege, stood on the second floor of a newly occupied restaurant at the entrance of Dongjiekou with his accompanying officers to observe the offensive situation in the distance.

The smile on his face grew even stronger when the cannon easily blasted open the city gate, and the officers in front of the queue began to clean up the ranks, and then one group followed one group and rushed towards the city gate! In his opinion, the strong firepower of the 6 French soldiers was enough to crush the attack of the 6o Vietnamese natives, and it was obvious that now was the moment for the glory of the warriors......

3oo rice ......

2oo ......

15o m......

Clark looked at the telescope of the palace and suddenly appeared a lot of Vietnamese soldiers, standing behind the battlements of the city wall, taking advantage of the favorable terrain to prepare for a counterattack, but he clearly saw that the Vietnamese were loose formations, occupying different battlements, he naturally muttered to himself, "Sure enough, the stupid Vietnamese, the basic concept of rifles is not clear, so it can't shake the charge of the French ** team at all!" ”

After thinking about it, he immediately turned around and told the officer behind him, "Give the order, storm the city gate, and give priority to the Vietnamese soldiers who still dare to resist on the walls on both sides......"

By the time he laid out the order, the two sides had already entered a hundred meters of mutual fire, and the first team that charged in the front row actually fell as many as seven or eight people in the first round of shooting from the opponent, and the French immediately fired at the enemy on both sides with platoon guns, but obviously the opponent was standing too open, so that the platoon guns had a feeling of lack of clear goals.

The magistrate on the front line immediately adjusted his shooting to choose the target freely, and immediately raised a layer of white smoke from the masonry on the city walls on both sides, Major Clark looked at the Vietnamese soldiers on the city tower, under the fire of 3oo single rifles, he had been suppressed by the fire and couldn't raise his head, the corners of his mouth were raised, and he wanted to smile, but some other positions on the city wall had already stretched out the barrel of the gun again, and remembered the fierce gunfire again......

Obviously, these Vietnamese soldiers still have some wisdom, Kraka was stunned, and continued to pay attention to the battle situation, the French soldiers who were rushing towards the spacious gate of the palace were hit and fell from time to time, and the other side relied on the defense of the city wall, obviously the loss was very small.

"Let the reserve behind move forward, advance to a distance of 15o meters, and suppress the Vietnamese soldiers on the city tower with firepower!" Major Kraka continued to issue orders, these Vietnamese are really difficult, he knows very well, there are an unknown number of Vietnamese troops approaching on the west street nearby, if these two groups of enemies are equally difficult, whether the lieutenant general's plan can be successful is really a question mark.

Under the pressure of the follow-up troops of the French army, Song Yunze on the city wall could not lift his head soon, but the loss of the team was not large, only one person was seriously wounded, four or five were lightly injured, and the seriously wounded were immediately sent behind the bunker.

And the six detachments of the charging France, after paying nearly 2o casualties, finally broke through the gates of the royal palace. But...... A group of soldiers who rushed into the city gate immediately saw a strange situation inside, seventy or eighty meters away, the enemy had already built a large bunker, and countless gun barrels were heading towards this city gate.

According to the charging pattern of the French 6th Army, at this time it was necessary to form a fast platoon of guns and rush into the enemy's fortifications in a high assault manner, or...... Retreat, and then gradually build up the fortifications to advance the offensive at a hierarchical level.

Obviously, the officer leading the group believed that the Vietnamese soldiers, who had no rifles at all and were extremely inferior in firearms, did not apply the doctrine of building fortifications and attacking gradually, and immediately formed a group and charged.

But they made another mistake, as if they had forgotten the gunmen on the wall behind them, and when their team had just finished assembling their ranks, the bullets that swarmed from the front and left and right immediately knocked over half of the soldiers, and even the officers of the first squad were swept to the ground by the projectiles fired by this round. The officers who took over, in the face of this stormy casualty rate, did not understand the situation at once.

The opponent's second round of shooting came again, and when the officer fell, he figured it out, the enemy on the opposite side was definitely not an indigenous soldier with an old-fashioned breech gun, within 1o seconds of his order, the other party fired 3 rounds of bullets in a row, in front of him, almost all the soldiers of his own Xiao team were killed and wounded, and the other Xiao team that followed behind obviously also suffered Chi Yu, and also put down more than a dozen before the whole team was completed!

No matter how stupid the person is, the guards here are definitely not a rabble, the army that just rushed to the gate of the palace is close to the city gate, and the other party shoots the bullets at the gate of the palace, but the accuracy is not bad, from time to time there are soldiers injured, and now they are completely suppressed at the gate of the palace! ,

This palace gate did not have any potential to be used as a fortification, and the French quickly retreated from it, which surprised Major Karak, who was watching the battle from a distance, and he immediately lost more than a group of soldiers in it, obviously the hidden fire behind the palace gate was absolutely astonishing!

Fortunately, at this time, the enemy's fire on the city wall was suppressed, and after exiting the palace gate, the French quickly restored order, and the officer quickly reported the enemy's fire arrangement in the palace to Clarke's side, and the best way to deal with the enemy's fortifications was naturally needless to say! Soon, two 4-inch guns were slowly moved towards the palace gate.

Song Yunze, who was on the city wall, saw the two slowly crawling cannons, and his scalp suddenly became numb, and this thing swung towards the palace gate, and he didn't aim at who killed whom, but he couldn't think of a way at all......

At the entrance of West Street, Xue had already heard the rumbling cannons in the direction of the palace, the crisp gunfire of AKO2 rifles, and the sound of the volleys of fire from the French infantry...... You have to let the security regiment and the academy soldiers take the lead, but with such a sacrifice, you can't even look up when you look back at the instructor!

He looked anxiously at the French labor, on an ox cart beside him, the soldiers of the mortar Xiao team were waiting for him, this is our baby, good steel must be used on the blade, and strive to hit the French in one fell swoop, otherwise the French cannons and numbers are not comparable to themselves!

Major Clark had ordered the two groups of soldiers in the vanguard to collect the wooden furniture and door panels for the fortifications in the surrounding houses at once, and prepare to advance the fortifications into the palace city, and the artilleryman, who was like an old cow, could not wait for him to roll all the way to every corner of the Vietnamese palace before killing all the rebellious Vietnamese inside.

Two 4-inch guns that were slower than the old cow were rolling on the bluestone pavement, and the artillery officer who was in charge of commanding the artillery was also sweating profusely at this time.

Finally, the artillery slowly moved to the city gate, and he also saw the situation in the distance, and a lot of individual bunkers were built in the place, which made the artillery officers also have some fire, could it be that the artillery, known as the god of war, was actually sent to bombard the opponent's individual bunkers! These Navy 6 squad members are really getting more and more idiots!

"Straight line flat shot! Turn on the grenade! "The artillery officer gave the order loudly! At this angle, the soldiers on the other side could not see the artillery fire at all, and the artillerymen were not in a hurry to complete the clearing and loading! After a little aiming, the cannon roared!