391 Battle of Thonburi (7)
The Phaya Surian faction was in charge of the Chinese army, and saw the Siamese army flocking to Thonburi City, and the flames continued to erupt. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe heavy artillery of the Datang Navy is not a joke, it is very normal for a cannon to erode tens of meters, even if the shell falls on the side, it will be shocked by the shock wave and the internal organs will be broken, and the limbs and even the head will be cut off by fragments. As long as it hits the crowd, the casualties are tens or hundreds, then it is certain.
The Phaya Surian faction was shocked: "How can the artillery of the Tang army hit so far? And I didn't see any artillery firing on the city wall! ”
He still didn't attribute the bombardment to the navy's ships, because the bombardment of Thonburi City that day was a completely different feeling from being on the battlefield at this time. Although the number of artillery guns of the Tang army was relatively small, it was extremely powerful, which brought a great shock to the Siamese army. However, after all, the Phaya Surian faction led tens of thousands of troops, and in the case of thousands of people attacking the city together, although the artillery bombardment of the Tang army had a certain delaying effect on the charging Siamese army, the Siamese still rushed to the city wall of Thonburi under the interaction of the group.
At this time, due to the lack of patience of the marines, even the members of the Navy SEALs participated in the defense on the city wall, Wang Tao's face was serious, and he said: "This time the Siamese people are not so easy to be repulsed." ”
General Luo Teng pulled the bolt of the heavy machine gun in his hand and said disdainfully: "Come on, even if they are not afraid of the gun, then they should be afraid of the machine gun." Don't be afraid of better, then it will become our guns and ghosts! ”
In order to consolidate the city defense, the Tang army not only came up with a series of cannons that could be used to defend the city, but even some of the artillery abandoned by the Siamese army was also installed on the city wall. Every Marine soldier on the city walls was either operating artillery. Either that or operate light and heavy machine guns. There are not many people. But this configuration of firepower is extremely terrifying.
When the siege troops of the Siamese army rushed into the range of the city artillery, the city fire was opened. Although these artillery pieces are not as good as the Navy's 203, they are lightweight and convenient, and many of them are actually foreign trade weapons sold by the Tang Dynasty to the Siamese. The addition of dozens of artillery pieces immediately gave the Siamese army another head-on blow. The losses of the Siamese army became even greater. Although the Navy's 203 heavy artillery is exaggerated in power and has a long range, the rate of fire is not fast, so the density of firepower is also limited. But when the city fire cannon joined. The density of artillery fire on the entire battlefield increased, and at the same time, it also caused greater losses to the Siamese army.
However, this did not stop the advance of the Siamese army. The Phraya Suria faction looked at the siege troops of the Siamese army, which had suffered huge losses, and they also gritted their teeth and did not relax. He naturally knew that the Siamese army was facing great trouble, and the ability of the Tang army to kill and injure living forces was something he had only seen in his life. However, if any one of the Siamese army retreated, it would trigger an avalanche effect, causing such a battle to fail, and their losses to be in vain. Only in the face of huge casualties, the capture of Thonburi. That's what makes sense.
Before the war, the Phraya Surian faction had already considered that his troops might collapse easily, so the Phraya Surian faction gave the order. Anyone who escaped from the battlefield was beheaded for any reason, and he also specially made his henchmen form a similar existence to the Warlords, just behind the battlefield, and if that force took even one step back, the Warlords would kill and drive the soldiers forward.
It can be said that the Phaya Surian faction is completely open-minded, and for the victory of this battle, anything can be done.
But the question is, even if he did, would it work?
Groups of Siamese soldiers braved the artillery fire, trampled on the corpses of their comrades, and even tore their bodies apart by the artillery in the next moment, grabbing the fire blocking area arranged by the Tang army. The command of the Datang Expeditionary Force was a plan to use its own artillery superiority to isolate the enemy from the battlefield. But the enemy was so fierce and fearless of death, beyond the expectations of the Tang people, Luo Shirong, a lieutenant colonel of the Marine Corps who was in charge of commanding the battle on the city defense, ordered loudly: "Everyone, open fire, and never let the enemy rush into the city!" ”
The Siamese army was aiming at the gap in the wall, which was not actually a complete gap, and after the wall collapsed partially, that section was shorter, so that people could climb up the crumbling earth and stones, and thus attack the city. Here, the Tang army installed a number of heavy machine guns, including the Browning held by Luo Teng.
"Fire, fire!" After Wang Tao got the order, he also shouted, and at this time, the tense Tang officers on the city wall all ordered their subordinates to shoot at the enemy with the fastest movements. They didn't have much to do with the target, because the Siamese army was so dense that most of these bullets would hit its enemies as long as they didn't shoot at no one. The heavy machine gun's impact spread is very large, and the number of settings is large, so the lethality is extremely impressive.
Five hundred meters away, the Tang army's heavy machine guns clicked, and large-caliber bullets flew out, weaving a terrifying net of fire and covering the Siamese inside. This time, the Siamese people fell to the ground like wheat harvesters. At this time, the light and heavy machine guns of the Tang Army did not make much difference in the lethality of people. Although the caliber of the Browning was larger, the Tang army prepared a large number of dummies for the Siam campaign.
The dummy bullet is a kind of warhead that is processed, generally by drawing vertical lines on the warhead, changing its aerodynamic characteristics, and finally hitting the human body, it will directly punch a large hole. This gun has the lethality of a machine gun, and even if it hits a minor limb fill, if it is not dealt with properly, it is likely to turn into a massive hemorrhage death. On the other hand, after the 20th century, it was agreed that sovereign states would prohibit the use of dumm, but there were still countries that made this dummmma out of their own needs.
The era in which the Tang Dynasty lived would never have any conventions on the laws of war, and although the Tang people seemed to be very kind most of the time, they were also very intimidating when they were murderous. Faced with a large number of enemies, Chang Bin took the first step to issue a dum bullet that would not have appeared on the battlefield. After the experiment, many soldiers found that this small weapon was extremely lethal.
The siege of Thonburi was the first appearance of the Dondam bullet. Machine guns also accounted for the largest number of military casualties of all the weapons involved in the fighting. Even though there was a group of Siamese who were desperately preparing to break into the gap in the wall of Thonburi, they were still driven back by a shuttle of bullets from the marines. (To be continued.) )