Chapter 66: The Power of Mortars (2)
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The junior officers who were at the front line of the battle were even more red after the artillery coverage was completed, and they did not have time to think about what would happen to their troops when they were equipped with mortars, nor what effect such artillery would have on the battle in Fifth Town after a large-scale deployment.
It was too far away for them to think about it, and now these junior officers did not think about how there could be such a fierce artillery support in the mountains, because the bandits on the opposite side had been blinded.
Although the distance between the two was a little far, this did not prevent the attacking officers from judging that seventy shells had fallen among the bandits in just one minute, and the bandits had no cover there.
So at this time, these officers who took the lead in the attack knew that the opportunity to attack was now ushered in.
Although there was no such thing as infantry and artillery coordination in this era, every qualified officer would know to start an offensive in such a large situation.
The sharp assault post remembered again, and the soldiers began to draw their bayonets from their waists and insert them into the bayonet slots of their guns, and then attacked forward with their rifles already loaded.
The bandits behind the cottage were suddenly blinded after being bombarded by the discussion just now, and in their experience, they had never encountered such an artillery attack as today, and the density of such artillery was so dense that these bandits did not even dare to show their heads in the village.
After the shells fell, they caused huge losses to the bandits behind the cottage, and in just one minute, hundreds of casualties were inflicted on the bandits gathered behind the cottage, and the corpses fell all over the cottage, blood flowed on the ground, and the bandits who were injured by the fragments of the shells let out a painful groan.
Some people are lying on the ground crying, while some unfortunate people have broken arms or legs and are constantly "squirming" on the ground, in short, the cottage after the shelling is like a realistic version of hell on earth.
At this time, the recruits of the fifth town finally rushed to the front of the cottage, and the soldiers who rushed to the cottage with the help of the aftermath of the artillery gathered together and pushed away the bandits' cottage, and after pushing away the cottage, the soldiers looked at the afterimage inside and couldn't help but be a little stunned, but how could they have seen such a tragic phenomenon in the recruits, if it weren't for their subconscious telling themselves: This is the battlefield, and the battlefield may vomit.
I have to say that Chen Dongsheng himself was also stunned after seeing the scene in the cottage, but then his consciousness as a soldier urged him that this is the battlefield, and what the battlefield needs is not emotion, but continuous attack until the enemy you see in front of you is eliminated.
So Chen Dongsheng immediately began to urge the recruits to attack, at this time these recruits continued to advance to the front under the supervision of Chen Dongsheng, at this time the attack was not encountered in any powerful resistance, although some of these remnants of the bandits were shooting back, but most of the bandits were shocked after seeing the Beiyang soldiers who were still attacking, and the previous artillery attack had lost their last courage, looking at the Beiyang soldiers rushing over the mountains, The bandits have already begun to escape.
However, as long as someone starts and no one stops the battlefield, it is natural that if one runs and no one stops them, the number of people who flee will snowball, and the same is true for bandits.
After the soldiers in front began to charge, it was only about a hundred meters away, and the surviving bandits had already fled for more than half of them, and even some sporadic counterattacks were just a flash in the pan, and after the soldiers behind rushed up again, there was no attack from the bandits.
To the surprise of the soldiers and officers who were ready to fight to the death against the desperate bandits, this time the attack was as easy as an armed stroll compared to the previous ones. "Bandits are really bandits, but an artillery attack has already beaten them like this, and they were the first to rush forward knowing that labor and management." Many of the soldiers thought to themselves after rushing up.
After the battle, Chen Dongsheng looked at the corpses all over the ground, and didn't even say anything for a while, only sighed after a long time, and said in his heart: "This is the battlefield!" “
Looking at the corpse on the ground, Chen Dongsheng didn't expect the power of this mortar to be so great, he saw that the mortar was so fast, and he thought that the power should not be too big, but what he didn't expect was that this mortar not only had a fast rate of fire, but also extremely powerful.
In fact, although some of the corpses on the ground are the masterpieces of mortars, a large part of them belong to the first soldiers in charge of the attack.
In the previous hour-long shooting between the two sides, many soldiers felt that their hit rate had obviously dropped a lot compared with the usual training, and some soldiers even thought that they seemed to have never hit the bandits from beginning to end, but in fact, even if the hit rate was low and the firing base was large, they didn't dare to say anything else, but they still dared to say the word hit the bandits.
As for why some soldiers feel as if they didn't hit the bandits, it's just that the time has taken for them to feel like this.
In this way, Chen Dongsheng subconsciously thought that most of the stones on the ground were the work of mortars, which led to Chen Dongsheng's infatuation with artillery in the future.
In Wang Bin's view, this was originally just an ordinary bandit operation, but in the end it became a strong attack, and more importantly, there was a trace of signs of infantry and artillery coordination in this battle, originally when the infantry attacked, Wang Bin saw that the mortar began to fire and he was a little worried in his heart whether it would hit his own people, but what Wang Bin didn't expect was that the commander of the mortar would let the shells fall in front of the infantry charge, which made Wang Bin feel that his subordinates were also hidden dragons and crouching tigers.
After the artillery reinforcements were completed, the infantry followed in time, and the door to the bandit cottage was opened almost effortlessly.
The next battle was very simple, those bandits who were frightened were either killed one by one, or when they fled behind the mountain, they happened to be solved by a battalion of veterans arranged by Wang Bin behind the mountain.
In short, this battle not only played the prestige of the fifth town in Liaoxi, but also allowed the new weapon of mortar to be trained in actual combat, and also allowed these recruits to get the baptism of war, because in Wang Bin's opinion, only soldiers who have gone through the baptism of war are qualified to be called soldiers, otherwise these soldiers will always only deserve to be called recruits, and it is this battle that makes Wang Bin know that there are still so many people with real talents and real learning under his hands.