Chapter 33: Fierce Battle

Boom, there was an explosion behind him. Looking back, a puff of smoke rose from the direction of the training ground, followed by the sound of barking dogs.

The shell was shocked, but the subsequent explosion made Liang Hong's hanging heart settle down a little, fortunately this was not a large-caliber artillery.

Outside the fence, the marching drums sounded again, and another assault began.

In sync with the drums, the machine guns also fired more fiercely at the wall, and the six machine guns opened fire together, enveloping the entire wall in a rain of bullets.

Boom, another explosion. The shells landed outside the fence, and the blasted clods of earth were thrown up by a powerful wave of air, and even fell inside the fence. This is not very accurate shelling, or the artillery performance is poor, or the artillery crew is too fashionable. Liang Hong had already lowered the danger of artillery to the back of the machine gun.

The enemy's infantry infantry was approaching, but under the suppression of the machine guns, it was simply impossible to counterattack.

"Seven hundred meters, rocket test launch."

Liang Hong gave an order to the rocket soldiers behind him.

The rocket rose from the fence, its tail spewing flames like meteors across the twilight and crashing into the ground.

Boom, the rocket exploded, and the power was not inferior to the cannon that had just sounded. The point of impact was so close to one of the machine guns that it was strafing that the Heavy temporarily stopped firing and turned his head to watch the missiles falling from the sky.

"Hurry up and transfer!"

The officer commanding the machine gun crew realized the danger and had just shouted the order when he saw countless meteors flying in the sky.

A salvo, thirty rockets fired at the same time, and almost simultaneously landed in a close strip. The explosion superimposed into a huge thunderous roar, which shook the earth.

The sound of the Maxim machine gun was abruptly halted, and the steel parts mixed with the human stump were thrown into the air by the powerful shock wave. After this moment, there were more dense craters on the narrow strip, and the killing machine that had just been powerful was now crooked and dilapidated. The humans who manipulated these machines have been mutilated corpses, or even disappeared altogether.

Liang Hong was shocked, he had used Hall rockets, but that time it was only a few. Today, after a five-fold increase, the effect is a different story. The narrow area of intensive rocket bombardment, that is, the line where the six Maxim machine guns lined up, was a mess. There were no living people standing, not even living creatures, all the machine gun crews that were still pouring bullets just now were killed, there were no survivors, and even the horses pulling machine guns were blurred with flesh and blood.

It's so powerful, damn, isn't this a salvo of multiple rocket launchers, and the tough Katyusha in World War II is nothing more than that. It's a pity that the Hall rocket still has a short range and is not accurate enough, so it was eventually eliminated by artillery.

Barron was also stunned, shocked by the simultaneous detonation of the rockets, and even more shocked by the possible outcome of the impending bombing. The most powerful weapon on his own, the Maxim machine gun, was almost gone. Maybe one or two working machine guns can be found on the scene, but there is no one who can control the machine gun. The natives' castles are still there, and the fighting natives are still there, so what should be done to defeat the enemy next?

No, he can't fail, he can't accept this ending, let alone bear it. Leading an army of seven hundred armed with advanced weapons and being defeated by a group of indigenous Africans, he will become a disgrace in Western military history and go down in history forever. What's more serious is that if he escapes back in this way, he can imagine that the ruthless Rhodes will never spare him. Having ruined the prestige of the South African Company in Africa, countless indigenous Africans would take up arms against white colonial rule, inspired by today's victories. He would be a heinous sinner in Rhodes's eyes, and he would be killed as soon as possible.

"Pass my orders, the infantry charge the enemy, at all costs, defeat the enemy!"

He was yelling, almost hysterical. The heralds were sent out and galloped forward on horseback. Yes, artilleryman, he still has artillery in his hand, just now he just took into account the fact that he did not carry many shells, just a deterrent shelling. Now there is no need to scruple. He was like a drowning man who suddenly grabbed a straw.

"The artillery fired, used up all the shells, and blew the enemy to pieces."

Outside the wall, Chomba was even more stunned, with a deafening loud bang, and he even felt the ground shaking under his feet. Looking back, the powerful weapon that successfully suppressed the enemy on the opposite side was gone, and the sound of a soothing click could no longer be heard. On the contrary, on the opposite wall, there were cheers and gunshots.

Lying down on the spot, it was his instinctive choice. It was quite right, the body fell to the ground steadily, and when I looked around, I noticed that many of my companions were doing this. The great Morimer continue to bless me, Chomba prayed in his heart. Many people had fallen just now, but he still survived, which made him think that it was a miracle of prayer. It must have been Morimmer's anger just now, and he turned into lightning and smashed the white man's artifact, he speculated in his heart.

Boom, there was an explosion in front, it was a shell, which fell on the enemy's position. Yes, they still have cannons, and with the protection of the god Morimer, he will be safe.

"Cowards, get up, forward, charge."

Behind Chomba, the voice of a white officer was heard, and then the sound of a pistol was heard behind him.

"Advance, those who lag behind are shot on the spot."

Urging the same order to die, moving forward may die, standing still and dying now. Soldiers are mean, black soldiers are even more humble, they don't have a choice.

"Rush!"

Many people got up and ran forward, shouting loudly in their mouths, dispelling the fear in their hearts with their shouts. Chomba also followed, unhurried, he would not run in front, and it would have been proven that those people would surely be killed.

"The enemy has rifles, we have sticks; The enemy has bayonets, we have backbones. ”

He remembered the story told by the white officers, who laughed at the clumsiness of the Russians in the Great War long ago, and shot them with smoothbore rifles in the face of rifled guns of the Anglo-French troops, which the Russians sang tragically as they charged. Now the enemy has terrible missiles, what do we have?

The gunfire on the wall ahead suddenly intensified, and countless small clouds of smoke erupted from the top of the wall, firing deadly bullets and raining down on the ranks. People around them kept getting hit, and others continued to scream and keep running. There is no formation, no rank, no one dares to retreat forward, and the gunshots that rang out one after another behind him are shooting cowards.

Boom, boom, and the rumbling of artillery noticeably quickened the tempo and injected a boost into the soldiers who were swarming forward.

Liang Hong shook off the pieces scattered on his head, not knowing what was formed by the explosion. On the right side of the wall, there was a crater about one meter in diameter, and the two soldiers on the wall were missing, and they were directly blasted out of the wall by the shock wave of the shells.

Outside the wall, the enemy troops rushing over were closer, no longer lined up in arrays and rushed directly, advancing extremely fast. In the distance, a large number of galloping horses appeared, and the white cavalry was finally dispatched.

"Seven hundred meters, rockets fired in continuous salvos."

He gave the order to use a constant salvo to block the reinforcements of the enemy's cavalry.

There was a sharp whistling sound overhead, and the shells flew again. Liang Hong hurriedly ducked behind sandbags, and the shelling was very fast, estimated to exceed three rounds per minute.

Barron stood next to the mountain gun, and despite the gunner's full strength, he still didn't think the shelling was fast enough. The rate of fire of the retreating mountain artillery, even by a skilled gunner, could only reach three rounds per minute.

"Quick, stupid, don't delay, hurry!"

He cursed and urged.

"Lieutenant Colonel, it's fast now, and no matter how fast it is, you can't aim at all."

The artillery officer retorted angrily, they were human beings, not gods, and the short-barreled mountain artillery was not a precision artillery weapon in the first place, and no matter how fast it was, it would be even more uncertain.

"You don't need to aim, just shoot the shells."

Barron's order stunned the entire artillery squad.

"But that would hurt our own people."

"Leave it alone, as long as there is a chance that you will blow up the enemy."

Crazy, this guy must be crazy, the artillery officer did not dare to argue with the madman, especially the crazy boss.

The galloping horses ran through the area that had just been ravaged by rockets, and the wreckage of the broken machine guns and the officers and men of the blasted artillery crew all made the cavalrymen's hearts tremble. They had seen the thrilling scene from afar, but seeing the tragic scene in person at this moment was even more shocking.

Suddenly, there was a whistling sound overhead, and the cavalry looked up and saw rockets flying densely in the sky. With its tail raging with flames, it fell straight into the newly destroyed land.

Those in front of them whipped their horses desperately, hoping to get through safely before the rockets exploded, and those who followed behind hoped to restrain their mounts and avoid the disaster.

There was another series of explosions like thunder, and the entire area was once again shrouded in smoke and dust. Before the smoke and dust cleared, a second wave of rockets appeared in the sky.