Chapter 402: Fire Suppression
Thousands of security troops drove out of the camp and drove in the direction of the Lushun city wall, and the Houjin people immediately entered a defensive state after discovering the movement of the security army, ready to repel the attack of the security army at any time. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The first to attack was the security army, in the direction of the Golden Mountain a small team advanced the fastest, they pushed the rocket cart to the bottom of the mountain, did not climb up but began the rocket attack, the Houjin people heard the scream of the rocket was very frightened, you can see far away from the Golden Mountain Houjin artillery position behind the rocket landing point came to the mountain bursts of laughter and scolding.
"Just take out this thing to scare people, and put a few more for the master to listen to."
But they didn't close their mouths for long, and the rocket that seemed to have missed was falling in the mountains and forests where the Houjin artillery position was in the limelight, and the rockets exploded on the ground, igniting the surrounding trees, and the mountains and forests were on fire.
When the Houjin people established their positions, they had cut down the trees around the positions so that they would not be burned by the flames burning in the mountains and forests, but the smoke that drifted over also made the Houjin soldiers very painful, they were smoked and wept, and it was very difficult to see the situation under the mountains. The Houjin people did not dare to be careless, and ordered the soldiers on the defense to stick to their posts against the smoke to guard against the sneak attack of the security army.
At the same time, the Houjin soldiers who were guarding the city of Arthur also received a fatal blow.
After enduring two more days of naval artillery attacks, the Houjin people began to adapt to the casualties caused by naval guns. When it was found that the security army began to advance towards the city wall of Arthur, the general ordered the Houjin soldiers to board the city head to defend, at this time, the small and medium-sized ships of the security army that had been waiting on the sea for two days suddenly started and rushed forward, and immediately opened fire after entering the range of the artillery on their own ships.
"Counterattack, counterattack, what are you artillerymen eating." The Houjin generals saw that the ships of the security army finally entered the range of the red-clothed cannons at the head of the city, and hurriedly ordered the artillery to open fire to counterattack. Seeing hope, the general immediately ordered the gunners to quickly reset the guns and prepare to continue the attack. But they only had one chance to counterattack, and the four large warships of the security forces also moved together with the fleet, approaching the distance from the city wall, and the shotgun of the ship's huge cannon could already hit the city wall. The artillery positions of the Houjin counterattack were quickly marked, and they were immediately taken care of by the shotguns.
The small projectiles that rained down could not cause damage to the artillery, but they were able to deal with the fragile flesh of the Houjin artillery. The Houjin artillery was injured a lot at once, and the rest were frightened to find a place to hide, and the Houjin people used their knives to take the artillery back to the position to load the shells, and the artillery could not be dumbfounded.
But the rate of fire of the guns of the security warships was much faster than that of the Houjin people, and soon the second round of shotgun attacks arrived, this time the calibrated attack was more accurate, and the Houjin artillery who had just assembled into the gun position suffered greater losses. After a few rounds, the soldiers who could operate the guns in the Houjin artillery were killed and wounded, and there were only a few of the Houjin artillery that could fire.
The Houjin people not only had to endure artillery bombardment from the sea, but also had to watch out for the approaching security forces on land. As the distance approached, the Houjin people saw that there were no common heavy shield carts and other siege equipment in the security army, but the soldiers pushed two-wheeled vehicles, the cars were loaded with bulging cloth bags, and after entering the range of the artillery, the security army stopped, began to unload the cloth bags, and built a semicircular wall, the Houjin people did not understand what the security army was doing, but understood that there must be nothing good, so they used a few artillery pieces that could still fire to attack the security army attacking from the land. The cannonball hit the cloth bag on the two-wheeled cart pushed by the security army, the cloth bag was filled with soil, which greatly slowed down the momentum of the forward impact of the cannonball, and the cannonball stopped after smashing over the two two-wheeled vehicles, although it injured several soldiers pushing the cart, the casualties caused were much smaller than the Houjin people expected.
A few shells hit the semicircular wall, and the dirt bags on the wall knocked out a few and had no effect.
"Quick! Fill the gunpowder and hit again. Seeing that the effect of the shelling was not good, the Houjin generals were afraid that the security army would rush up, so they hurriedly ordered to prepare for the next round of shelling.
The security forces did not give the Houjin a second chance to shell, and the brigade behind the charging team pushed the gun wagons into the semicircular wall, which was originally intended to be used as an artillery position. The artillery fixed the artillery, quickly reloaded, and shouted loudly for the security soldiers who were still reinforcing the wall to step back, and the artillery was fired. The security army let the Houjin people understand what rapid-fire artillery is, and the security army has fired four or five rounds of shells, and the second round of shooting of the Houjin people has not yet started.
Coupled with the superiority in the number of artillery of the security army, it didn't take long to dumb the artillery of the Houjin people on the head of the city. The security army took this opportunity to pull up the heavier artillery, and after the heavy artillery was placed, the disaster of the Houjin people came, and the heavy cannonballs not only hit the city head, but also cracks in the city wall, and one of the bricks and stones collapsed.
The Houjin generals had no choice but to let their soldiers repair the city walls with masonry at the risk of being hit by cannonballs.
At this time, the infantry of the security army pushed the two-wheeled cart forward for some distance, and came to the distance where the bow and arrow could not shoot at the city, and some of them hid behind the dirt bags on the cart and began to shoot at the city with muskets, while others simply lay on the ground and dug up the earth.
Most of the artillery casualties of the Houjin people were lost, and only a few of the artillery pieces could fire sporadically, and the bows and arrows could not shoot that far, so they had nothing to do with the security forces under the city.
The security army was not in a hurry to attack, and at the same time used muskets to beat the Houjin people on the city and did not dare to show their heads, they dug out foxholes under the city, and then connected them to form a series of trenches, and the trenches were dug diagonally in the direction of the city wall, and it didn't take long to see this trend to approach the city wall.
In the direction of the Golden Mountain, the Later Jin people were treated in the same way, and took care of the artillery on the mountain more. The security army set fire to the mountain, because the trees were burned out, the fire and smoke were small, and the Houjin people on the mountain could see the situation below, but the security forces who had advanced to the bottom of the mountain could also see the situation on the mountain. In order to support Arthur City, the Houjin artillery on the Golden Mountain took the risk of opening fire to expose their position, attracting the recovery of the security army's shells. The soldiers of the security army with rocket launchers took advantage of the cover of the terrain to get as close as possible to the artillery positions of the Houjin people.
Rockets kept falling around the artillery positions like they didn't want money, and balls of flames rose up. Finally, a rocket landed on the position of the Houjin artillery, and the fierce flames ignited the gunpowder stored on the position, and an explosion occurred on the position, killing not only many artillerymen but also overturning two guns. The Houjin people suddenly panicked, and the artillery firepower was greatly reduced. (To be continued.) )