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"Check your gear!"

On the empty Shihe beach, as whistles and shouts of officers sounded, Ming soldier Xu Hui hurriedly checked his equipment.

A Type 4 rifle polished with a metallic glow and filled with nine bullets, with five cowhide cartridges on the belt from the left, two, right, and three, each containing ten rounds, a tinned steel kettle hanging on the left, and a bayonet still in the scabbard on the right. Also hanging from the slanted shoulder straps on his chest were two oval grenades, the latest cast-iron shelled grenades that actually contained TN antimony and steel balls. The former has been industrially produced, but the output is also not high, after all, Yang Feng's nitric acid has not yet evolved to the era of synthetic ammonia, and all his explosives industry is still subject to the output of nitric acid, fortunately, after the opening of the Longcheng Railway, Shanshan's saltpeter transportation volume will skyrocket, so the output of nitric acid will also skyrocket.

In addition, Xu Hui's head also has a stamping helmet that actually imitates the East German Wehrmacht, the previous Ming Army's helmet was still antique, that is, the dome with the edge, and now it has been replaced by this, of course, the quality of steel is definitely not as good as that of East Germany, and Xu Hui has a backpack with a gas mask and other sundries hanging on his back, and another fifty bullets.

He is still wearing the classic scarlet military uniform of the Ming lobster soldiers, with a right side, similar in length to a short coat, with a set of brass buttons, collar bands, armbands and the sun and moon emblem on the chest, and then brass buttons, with white slanted shoulder straps and belts, and black leggings underneath, and brown suede boots with rubber soles under his feet, which is the full set of equipment of an ordinary infantry of the Ming Army. As for the original standard cuirass was canceled, after all, as an infantryman, that thing is still too heavy, and now the opponents of the Ming army are rarely based on cold weapons, even if it is a smoothbore gun, it is a steel tube brown bess produced by the Ming Dynasty, and the cuirass is meaningless in front of the bullets of this thing.

In fact, the Ming army at this time was more like a mixture of the end of the nineteenth century and the First World War.

Of course, some of the equipment went even further.

"Get on the bayonet!"

Immediately afterward, the shouts of the officers not far away rang out again.

Xu Hui quickly pulled out the triangular pyramid bayonet and loaded it with the muzzle, although this bayonet was not versatile enough, but because of the aesthetic relationship of His Majesty the Emperor, it was still stubbornly entrenched in every rifle of the Ming Army, and tens of millions of people of all countries and nationalities died under its unique wound for more than 20 years.

"Forward!"

The officer whistled and shouted, raising his sword in his hand.

Xu Hui, who participated in the battle for the first time, took a deep breath, held a rifle with a bayonet, and quickly rushed out of the river beach, and at the same time, on this long river beach, the Ming army of two infantry brigades was also shouting and quickly rushing up the embankment that covered them with the same posture as him. What followed them was a city that was almost in ruins, the walls of Tashkent that had been blown down by the shells were like collapsed sand, and in them were countless buildings that were also mutilated, and even still smoking, especially the domed temples that had been the symbol of the city, were now invisible, all of them were reduced to ruins under the heavy artillery fire of the Ming army. The sky over the entire city was completely obscured by thick smoke, like a pile of wet wood that had been lit, and it was shocking to see on the boundless green grassland.

The Ming army, which had rushed out of the river beach, advanced in a straggler formation on the open steppe, when the whistling of artillery shells overhead crossed again, followed by a yellow-green poisonous mist rising in the city of Tashkent.

"Wear a gas mask!"

The shouts of the officers rang out.

Xu Hui hurriedly took off the gas mask hanging next to the rucksack and buckled it on his face.

Just as they continued to move forward, the air bombs in the sky above their heads kept passing by, and then exploded in Tashkent, and soon the city was swallowed up by the yellow-green poisonous mist, and this insidious tactic has become the practice of the Ming army, first bombarded with artillery, destroying all the fortifications that could be seen, and then when the infantry charged, the first was a gas bomb, and the rest was the infantry with gas masks to sweep the tail in the poisonous fog, this tactic greatly reduced the casualties of the Ming army, after all, even if there were surviving enemies in the poisonous fog, It's also hard to fight normally anymore.

"Rush!"

The officer holding the Yanling knife yelled and was the first to run.

Then the same roar came one after another, and the Ming army, led by an officer, with two entire infantry brigades, rushed across the steppe like a tidal wave, shouting and rushing towards Tashkent.

Soon Xu Hui was the first to rush to the range of the rifled guns on the city wall, although after the destruction of cannonballs and gas, it was obvious that the defenders were not dead, and then the scattered fires in the ruins on the opposite side shot out, and there were even two cannons spraying flames, in the piercing cannonball whistling, a cannonball was hitting less than ten zhang away from Xu Hui, and the solid bullet stirred up a large area of dirt on the ground, but it did not hurt anyone.

However, the rifles fired on the city wall caused more than a dozen casualties to the Ming army, which shows that the enemy's marksmanship is still very good, but at the same time, a heavy machine gun was erected behind the Ming army, and the stormy bullets immediately hit those places where the shooting fire came out.

And Xu Hui and the soldiers of the Ming army were still running towards the ruins of the city wall, and soon he rushed into the trench outside the city, and then rushed out, stepping on the ruins of the city wall and running upward, the broken corpses under his feet continued to appear, and even many injured people were lying in the blood bubbles wailing, the first time he saw this bloody scene, he couldn't help but gag, he forced himself to continue to move forward, just ran out of a few steps suddenly his feet were pulled, he staggered and bowed his head, A half-cut white ghost soldier was looking at him with pleading eyes.

Suddenly, a boot-clad kick struck the white ghost in the face.

"Let's go, don't stop!"

His gang leader said impatiently.

Xu Hui hurriedly shook off the white ghost and continued to move forward, but he still subconsciously glanced back, the white ghost who had just been kicked and his face was covered with blood, was still looking at him with pleading eyes, but then another soldier's leather boots fell on the face of this unlucky guy, and at the same time, suddenly a dead corpse knelt on the other side.

"Enemy Army!"

Xu Hui, who was about to turn his head, suddenly screamed, and then picked up his rifle, not far from him in a pile of ruins, a white ghost covered in blood was raising his gun to aim, and before Xu Hui could pull the trigger, the gun in the hand of another Ming soldier rang off first, and the white ghost was hit by the force of the bullet and fell backwards suddenly, and then with the blood gushing out of his chest, he struggled to raise the gun again, but at the same time a bayonet pierced his neck.

At the moment when Xu Hui turned his head, a flash of fire flashed in front of him, and a bullet flew close to his head.

At the same time, one of the nearest soldiers immediately rushed over, and without hesitation, took off the grenade, pulled the safe, and stuffed it directly into the enemy's hiding place, and as the explosion sounded, a large cloud of dust sprayed out.

"Be smart!"

The soldier shouted at him.

Xu Hui nodded with palpitations.

But then he took a deep breath and began to adjust to the environment.

At this time, suddenly a white ghost pretending to be dead in the ruins roared and jumped up, and suddenly choked the neck of the nearest Ming soldier, and pressed it to the ground with the advantage of being big, Xu Hui stepped forward quickly, and the butt of the gun in his hand slammed down and smashed it in his face, the white ghost screamed and let go of his hand, and the Ming soldier who was suppressed by him raised his foot and kicked it away, and at the same time the bayonet in Xu Hui's hand was also nailed to this guy, and the blood that spurted out at the moment he pulled out the bayonet made him finally become a real soldier.

At this time, the entire ruins of the city walls were covered with such battles everywhere.

Although after continuous artillery bombardment and gas destruction, but as the most densely populated area of Tashkent defenders, there are still a large number of Russian troops and Bukhara troops survived, they hid in the ruins, constantly shooting hateful bullets at the Ming army, and even rushed out to hug the Ming army in order to seek the same end, of course, their blocking is useless, in front of the heavily armed Ming army there is only a dead end, at most it is to cause some casualties to the Ming army, but can not stop the latter's footsteps.

Soon Xu Hui and his companions crossed the city walls and entered the city.

The city of Tashkent is also in ruins.

The Ming army's artillery and rocket artillery of various calibers poured tens of thousands of shells into the city, including a large number of ten-inch rockets, which are hundreds of pounds of big killing weapons, at this time Tashkent is not a big city, put it in the Ming Dynasty is an ordinary county town scale, so many shells smashed in, more than 70% of the buildings in the city were razed, and the rest were incomplete. As for the fragmented corpses, there are even more corpses all over the city, you must know that there are 5,000 Russian troops and 10,000 Bukhara troops in this city, as well as tens of thousands of civilians, these shells not only blow up the defenders to the ground, but also the civilians in the city are also tragically killed.

"Civilians?"

The gang leader beside Xu Hui looked at the color of the air around him, directly took off his gas mask and said: "These Xie Sect members have no difference between soldiers and civilians, Lao Tzu was almost pitted when he hit Mecca, and a brother was stabbed by a child as a result of his soft-heartedness, so as long as they are men, they will be killed!" ”

As he spoke, he pulled the trigger, and an old guy in front of him who rushed out with a scimitar fell in response.

At the same time, a Ming soldier took off the grenade as quickly as possible, opened the safety and threw it directly into the place where the old guy was just hiding, in the dust of the explosion, a little cub who looked thirteen or fourteen years old, rushed out with a scream full of fire, it was obvious that he was holding something like a burning bottle in his hand just now, Xu Hui couldn't stand it, and raised his hand to give this guy a shot.

Suddenly, there was a sharp whistling.

He hurriedly raised his head, a red signal flare exploded in the sky, and at the same time, a group of signal lights on the airship above his head kept flashing, at this time, there were a total of two airships monitoring the battlefield over Tashkent, a brigade and an airship, the brigade headquarters had a radio and the airship was connected, of course, the infantry battalion or the sentry could also directly use the signal flare to request support, and the signal lights on the airship could issue orders through different color changes, after all, Yang Feng was not in a position to distribute the radio more universally.

In fact, this kind of airship has also been very useful, especially in this kind of urban warfare, it can have an unobstructed view of the entire battlefield, who needs reinforcements to shoot a signal flare, it can directly deploy forces in the sky according to the ground situation.

"Quick, run to the right, the second post needs reinforcements!"

Not far from him, their sentry commander shouted as he looked down at the map in his hand.

Xu Hui's more than 200 soldiers at this outpost immediately ran to the right, along a street full of dead bodies and rubble, and soon reached the ruins of a temple, and at this time a sentry had also arrived, along with a sentry that had been here, and their infantry battalion had all arrived and surrounded the ruins. At this time, the bullets that stopped them in the ruins were constantly flying out, and the Ming troops who were also hiding everywhere were also constantly firing, and it was clear that the resistance here was relatively strong, and generally speaking, the temples in these cities were the most tenacious fortresses, and the monks usually fought to the last man.

And this time, the Bukharans obviously built a hidden fortress here, which is different from the observable city wall, the artillery fire of the Ming army will not deliberately aim at these hidden hidden fortresses, although they were also seriously damaged in the bombardment of heavy artillery, but after all, they were not really aimed, so there are still many hidden fortresses that survived, and those stubborn defenders and monks used them to temporarily block the attack of the Ming army.

Of course, only temporarily.

Just when Xu Hui arrived, the battalion's gun post also arrived, and soon three small cannons were pushed over.

The Ming army now includes a gun post and three infantry posts under an infantry battalion, the former includes three machine gun teams, each team is four machine guns, and there is also an artillery team equipped with three two-inch howitzers.

"Fire!"

With the roar of the gun sentry commander, the three light howitzers, which were actually 92 rifles, immediately let out a roar, and then the shells exploded on the bunkers.

This kind of artillery with a little more than two inches of caliber is said to be a small cannon, which is only relative to the Ming army's four-inch and three-inch field artillery howitzers and rocket artillery, the most important thing is lightness, at this time, the Ming army is basically the same as the Japanese army in World War II, in the era of mules and horses, and the combat environment is similar, basically there will be no decent roads, so this kind of artillery is undoubtedly the most practical. As for the power, because the cannonballs are loaded with antimony, they are not weaker than the three-inch cannonballs filled with cotton gunpowder, especially at such a close distance, for those brick-built bunkers themselves are very deadly, as the shells continue to explode, one by one the bunkers are shattered in the explosion.

Soon the last bunker was blown open.

"Chong, none of the XIE Sect members will be left!"

Then the battalion commander who commanded the battle said.

Immediately after the whistle sounded, the Ming troops with three infantry posts quickly charged with rifles with bayonets.