"Your Excellency, the Liaodong Army has begun to attack, there are five or six hundred people, and there are more than a dozen heavy machine guns to cover it. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 As soon as a battalion of attacking troops appeared outside the city, the officers on the city wall who were now co-commanders reminded one after another.

The commander frowned and scolded, "What are you panicking about? At this glance, we can see that it is a tentative attack by the Liaodong Army, trying to test our defensive firepower. ”

"The order is that as long as the Liaodong Army enters the firing range, the heavy machine guns of the first team of the heavy machine gun battalion will shoot, and do not let them get close to the city wall. Also, the heavy machine guns of the other two teams were hidden for me, and no one could shoot to expose the target without an order. ”

Although the Beiyang Army on the city wall has been training for nearly a year, whether they have been on the battlefield or not, it is immediately clear at this time.

When the Liaodong Army was still nearly 400 meters outside the city, the twelve heavy machine guns of the Beiyang Army scattered on the city opened fire.

Although the heavy machine guns could easily kill targets at a distance of 400 meters, because of the distance, the bullets fired by the twelve heavy machine guns seemed to be dense and violent, but they rarely hit the target.

Although the Beiyang Army exposed only one squad of heavy machine guns, the field artillery of two regiments still opened fire as promised.

When the screeching of cannonballs across the sky reached the ears of the Commander, thousands of men were guarding the city, even though there were only a hundred machine gunners fighting. But the rest of the soldiers were all concentrated on the bare city walls and hid behind the stomping.

Compared to his subordinates who had never seen blood, the commander was a veteran of the Korean battlefield.

Then I heard it all at once, such a piercing scream, without sixty or seventy field artillery shells, it would not have been able to be emitted at all.

With so many field artillery shells, as long as half of the shells hit the bare city wall, they could bring very heavy casualties to their own subordinates. Therefore, the Commander's face, which was calm just now, immediately turned pale.

Then he faced his subordinates who were also stunned beside him, and decisively ordered: "Is Du Leng being bombed here?" The troops were ordered to withdraw immediately to avoid the shelling. With such heavy artillery fire, it would have been possible to blow up one of our joints in five minutes at most. ”

The commander's order was timely, but compared to the flight speed of the shells, it was still slow.

After a series of violent explosions reached the ears of the commander, at least thirty shells smashed into the city wall and exploded, and the fireballs that rose into the air not only enveloped a large number of defenders in it, but also threw many Beiyang Army officers and soldiers directly out of the city wall.

After three rounds of shells hit the city wall and exploded, the Beiyang Army, which had already fallen into chaos, fled from the city wall in confusion under the organization of the officers.

The commander was also embarrassed, and just now, a shell exploded less than ten meters away from him. If it weren't for the desperate protection of the guards, he would definitely be injured, or even killed.

Thinking of the thrilling scene just now, a nameless anger suddenly rose in the commander's heart. At one of his subordinates, he yelled: "What about our artillery? Why didn't you fire artillery to counterattack, could it be that the Liaodong Army kept being arrogant. Call for help from the Governor immediately, we need artillery support. ”

Of course, this artillery battalion is not an artillery battalion of the Liaodong Army, but is equipped with 54 mountain and field artillery, which is equivalent to the artillery battalion of a reinforced artillery regiment of the Liaodong Army.

In addition to the two artillery battalions brought out of the Guannai by the fourth and fifth towns, the newly organized army of the three towns has also been equipped with a lot of artillery in the past month or so, about one and a half artillery battalions, with seventy or eighty artillery pieces.

Now, all these artillery pieces were gathered together by Xu Shichang and divided into four artillery positions to provide artillery support to the defending troops at any time.

As soon as the cannon outside the city sounded, one of the commanders in charge of all the artillery made it possible to determine the size and specific location of the artillery units of the Liaodong Army.

"My lord, there are more than 70 artillery pieces in the Liaodong Army outside the city, all of which are field artillery. The artillery position was 1,800 meters outside the east gate, and more than 70 field guns were all gathered together. ”

The leader of the command said with emotion: "The Liaodong Army is really well-equipped and wealthy. The siege had just begun, and so many artillery pieces were used at once. ”

After finishing his sigh, he directly ordered his subordinates next to him: "More than seventy artillery pieces, if they are ready, our two artillery battalions can eat them." Artillery positions No. 1 and No. 2 were ordered to immediately open fire for a counterattack. Artillery positions No. 3 and No. 4 were ready for a counterattack. ”

The two field artillery regiments shelled for nearly two minutes before a dull shelling sound sounded from the artillery positions of the Beiyang Army in the city.

"Army commander, the Beiyang Army used half of its mountain artillery to counterattack!" The chief of staff, who was almost familiar with the strength of the Beiyang Army in the city, said to Wang Hu as soon as he heard the artillery staff report.

"The other party is quite cautious, ordering two field artillery regiments to organize a counterattack immediately, and in addition, two mountain artillery battalions are also sent to join." Wang Hu was stunned for a moment, and then immediately ordered.

Compared with the Beiyang Army, the artillery trained by Lao Maozi Artillery began to counterattack after only one minute of preparation.

More importantly, although the number of artillery in the counterattack was not as good as that of the Beiyang Army, the hit rate of the shells was much higher than that of the Beiyang Army.

For a time, the shells fired by the artillery of both sides came and went over the battlefield, and it was not lively.

"My lord, the artillery of the Liaodong Army is too accurate, and if we continue to fight like this, we will definitely lose both." The two artillery positions lost nearly twenty guns in just two minutes, and the shells fired by the Liaodong Army, although a little less, were still fierce. Faced with this situation, one of the artillery battalion pipe bands under the commander couldn't help but remind. ”

The commander's brow has been wrinkled into a big Sichuan character since the artillery counterattack of the Liaodong Army.

The commander, who had long seen the seriousness of the matter, now heard the reminder from his subordinates, and immediately ordered: "We must not lose both, and we must eat the artillery units of the Liaodong Army as soon as possible." Artillery position No. 3 was ordered to join the battle and immediately begin a counterattack. ”

As soon as the new artillery unit of the Beiyang Army began to counterattack, Wang Hu reacted and ordered all the remaining mountain artillery to open fire.

As soon as the mountain artillery of the two divisions fired, the Beiyang Army could not stand it.

As a last resort, the commander could only order the last artillery position to join the battle.

"Army commander, all the more than 100 mountain artillery pieces equipped by the Beiyang Army have participated in the battle!" The chief of staff, who hurriedly walked to Wang Hu's side, reported very excitedly.

"The Beiyang Army is still a little tender, and its strength has been exposed at the beginning of the shelling. It seems that they don't really understand our Liaodong Army yet, otherwise they wouldn't have been fooled so quickly. Wang Hu's frowning brows quickly relaxed, and then sneered at the chief of staff.

After finishing, he immediately ordered the chief of staff: "Tell the commander of the heavy artillery regiment directly under the army, Commander Zhou, that the fish has been hooked and can counterattack." For half an hour, I didn't want to hear the artillery of the Beiyang Army in the city and the counterattack. ”

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