53. Destroy the withering and decaying

When a car with steel plates on the outside of the engine compartment and the cab ran over a stone with its heavy wheels and rushed up the hill crookedly, the infantry of the Kingdom of Jin saw this strange thing with a hideous appearance.

After a brief period of panic and confusion, lying on the ground that had been shattered by artillery fire, the soldiers began to prepare to deal with these weapons, which had never appeared on the battlefield of Liaodong. Although armored vehicles have appeared in the distant European battlefields, and even some weapons against armored vehicles have been produced, there is indeed no such thing that is still a little novel in Liaodong.

"Cars?" Watching an armored car slowly move closer to his position, a regimental commander of the Jin Kingdom put down his binoculars and muttered in a somewhat confused voice. Although I have never seen armored cars with machine guns and armor, cars are not a novelty after all, and it is not very knowledgeable to recognize the essence of this thing.

What puzzled the officer of the Jin Kingdom was that there were many reasons why things like cars could not be used on the battlefield, after all, there was still an essential difference between this thing and the real armored vehicles of later generations. Even with the addition of steel plates, the protection it can provide to members is still very limited......

The cars that appeared on the battlefield in the Ming Empire were not just one, but dozens of them in two rows in front and back. At this time, the artillery of the Jin State happened to be suppressed by the heavy artillery of the Daming Water Division, so for the time being, there was no time to draw out to help their infantry bombard the attacking enemy.

"Fire! Attack! When these Ming army cars were already less than 300 meters away from the position of the Jin State, the position of the Jin State finally couldn't bear it, some officers shouted and gave orders, and the machine guns and rifles quickly began to attack like a storm.

"When! Dangdang! "The bullets hit the armored car, causing a splash of sparks, and the bullets were ejected from the steel everywhere, but none of the bullets penetrated the steel and caused damage to the inside of the car. These cars are not temporary welded iron plates, the armor steel plates in front are very thick, and ordinary 8 mm caliber bullets really can't have any effect on them.

But after all, this is an offensive echelon composed of two rows of cars, not an airtight city wall, and soon bullets crossed the gap between the cars, causing damage to the Ming soldiers behind, and the new army soldiers who had just experienced the battle formation were slightly confused for a moment, and then continued to lower their bodies and advance according to the usual exercises.

The soldiers of the New Army on both flanks suffered greater losses, and many soldiers were hit by bullets and fell on the way forward, which made Guo Xing, the commander of the 2nd Division who commanded the attack behind him, feel a pain in his flesh. You must know that these elite soldiers under him are all Wang Jue's treasures, and each of them will be the backbone of a company or even a battalion in the future, and if they are thrown here now, wouldn't it be a great loss?

However, gritting his teeth, Guo Xing still did not give the order to retreat, and the soldiers of the New Army on the front line soon showed their unique adaptability, and the machine gun team accompanying the attack began to arrange temporary machine gun bunkers in the suitable terrain on both flanks, and began to suppress the fire at the dense enemy fire.

And the attack speed of the Ming army, which accompanied the attack of armored vehicles, was more than twice as fast as that of a pure infantry assault. In the past, the attack that would have been hindered by enemy machine gun suppression is now as smooth as an exercise. Guo Xing knew that armored cars played their due role, and the secret weapon that was still on the production line was heard to be more effective than these armored cars in front of him.

Thinking of this, Guo Xing even had some excitement in addition to the pain, he had been by Wang Jue's side for a while, and knew that the new army that Wang Jue was building was definitely an unprecedented existence. Let him command such an army to fight, wouldn't it be easy to make a contribution?

It's a pity that as if he was slapping him, there was still a problem with the armored forces attacking from the front. An armored car was hit in a vulnerable part and ended up paralyzed on the path of the offensive, unable to move on.

The soldiers of the Jin Kingdom are not stupid, they are shooting at the armored cars fiercely, and when they find that it has no effect, some of them begin to retreat in a panic, while the other part is thinking of ways and countermeasures. Eventually, the increasingly dense attacks hit the wheels of an armored car, and then caused damage that was difficult to repair.

More bullets hit the wheels, which were much more fragile than the other steel-covered areas. Soon the second armored car also had to stop, since its two front wheels had been beaten into a sieve and could no longer support its forward propeller.

It's a pity that after a short cheer, before they had time to share their joy of finding the enemy's weakness, the defenders of the Jin Kingdom on these positions found an embarrassing problem for them - the enemy was only a few dozen meters away from their position.

On the rotating turret with steel plate protection installed on the top of the armored car, two Weiyuan machine guns side by side condescended, unscrupulously strafing the Jin soldiers in the trenches, and the losses instantly reached an unbearable point, and these Jin soldiers immediately became disorganized.

The shock brought to them by the new things, the pressure brought by the powerful enemy army, and the baptism of terrible artillery fire that they had just experienced made these Jin soldiers quickly exhaust their courage and flee to the positions behind them in a mess.

At this time, the soldiers of the new army crossed into their positions with rifles with bayonets already inserted. Unlike the defeated Jin soldiers, these new troops saw the power of new weapons and saw the role of training exercises on weekdays, and this was the time when morale was high, and they jumped into the trenches to immediately kill those enemies who had opened fire on them, and then aimed their guns at the defeated guys in the distance.

"Phew!" "Suddenly! Dodo! "Machine guns and rifles fired together, and the dense rain of bullets drowned those poor Jin soldiers, and until now they have not figured out why their positions were lost so quickly, nor have they figured out why the Ming army attacking them is a hundred times more powerful than the legend.

They can only ask the ghosts and immortals, because their lives have been harvested by cold bullets, and the second line of defense has just been baptized by the cannon, and before the impact of the Ming army, they obediently erected a white flag.