Chapter 106: The Battle of Bozhou (3)
Chen Feng was helped up by the guards and simply bandaged the wounded part of his arm.
Chen Feng turned his head and took a deep look at Erdanzi, then leaned over and touched Erdanzi's immature face, the corners of his mouth twitched, and then turned around to let the soldiers carry the body away, he knew that there was still a long night...
After a long period of training, the defenders' artillerymen were able to quickly adjust the angle of the shelling and rejoin the counterattack.
Makqin heavy machine guns lit chains of fire, with a screaming sound, pouring on the opponent's position, and several places in the city had begun to cause fires, although the bandits' artillery was not accurate, but they could not bear to have six or seven guns firing together, and both sides began to suffer casualties at this time.
However, Chen Feng's troops only numbered a thousand people, but they were enough to hold the city wall, and with the favorable location at this time, they had slowly calmed down from the enemy's artillery fire and began to stabilize the battle line.
After the initial panic in the city, under the patrol of the law enforcement team, it gradually calmed down, and the artillery fire fell on the local positions one by one, setting off clouds of blood mist on the opponent's positions from time to time.
Chen Feng looked serious, constantly patrolling around the city, urging the soldiers to fight back, and at the same time finding where the defensive loopholes were, and then quickly plugging them.
Soon the vanguard of the bandits was pressed down and could not move on.
"Commander, the bandits are crazy!" Just when Chen Feng wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, one of his subordinates next to him suddenly pointed to the distance and spoke.
Chen Feng couldn't help but look outside the city, and sure enough, by the light of the fire, Chen Feng saw the back of the bandits, and a group of torches rushed forward, and under the torches, there were blurred faces, at this time, regardless of the suppressive firepower on the city, they rushed to this side like crazy!
"Go, let the artillery not have to pay attention to these attacking bandits, as long as the opponent's artillery is suppressed, the task will be completed, and these people will be handed over to the infantry to be responsible." Looking at the firelight that still rose from time to time in the opponent's position, Chen Feng sneered.
The battle situation became crazy at this moment, and countless bullets in the air rushed back and forth, driving the firelight, forming a colorful barrage between the city and the city.
At the same time, the bandits were not to be outdone, and scattered shells exploded all over the city from time to time, which made Chen Feng, who was watching, resentful, and scolded the defenders in Henan and other places for eating and growing up, and they had such sharp weapons, and they could be scattered by the bandits, but these weapons were obtained by the bandits!
The sound of artillery at the head of the city has stopped, which greatly boosts the morale of the bandits, but they do not have the slightest idea of artillery operations, and they do not know at all that the coordinates of the shells are being adjusted at the head of the city at this time, and the artillery of the bandits has entered the coordinates of Chen Feng's artillery.
Bullets fell on the city like raindrops, and the bandits under the city were splashed with bullets, and some people kept howling and falling, and then another group came up.
In Chen Feng's eyes, I don't know if those bandits were red-eyed, and no one was as broken up as they were just now.
How did Chen Feng know that behind these attacking soldiers, there were a full 500 people with guns guarding them, and once they found that there were people who retreated without authorization, they would shoot them mercilessly.
There are also soldiers in the city who are hit by stray bullets from time to time and fall down in wailing, at this time, the health team that is always ready to take the risk of stepping forward and quickly carrying the wounded or the remains of the soldiers.
Chen Feng stood on a high place and watched the scene in front of him, watched his men being carried down one by one, and watched the bandits attack the city wall desperately under the expulsion, clenching his fists tightly.
The firepower fired from the six Maxims and the city wall stubbornly withstood the wave after wave of impact of the bandits, and they covered the heads of the bandits with bullets as if they didn't want money.
Chen Feng was confident in the combat effectiveness of the thousand people he brought out, but the casualties in the army began to increase, and Chen Feng did not expect that the bandits could burst out with such great energy when they launched a frenzy.
He thought that he would take these people to hold Bozhou City, not to mention three days and three nights, even five days, and he would be able to complete this task easily, but he didn't expect to encounter a hard nail at this time, no wonder these people could crisscross Henan for so long.
At this time, the corpses of the bandits were scattered everywhere in the city, and the bandits were blocked by a line of fire intertwined with machine guns, but that line of fire could not stop everyone, and as time went by, the bandits' front began to move forward slowly.
Liu Shang, who was watching the battle in the back, looked at his own soldiers who were constantly falling in front, and his heart kept twitching, more than 2,000 people sent to attack the city had been killed nearly 400 people, although it was Liu Mazi's family, but after he killed Liu Mazi, these people still took over by themselves!
Seeing the progress of the front front, I couldn't help but mobilize a thousand people to support again, wanting to expand the results, but the effect was not obvious, and the speed of advance was not ideal!
Time passed slowly, and it was already 8 o'clock in the evening of April 22, and the residents of the city listened to the sound of guns outside, and kept praying in their hearts, and they were afraid to step out of their homes.
Finally, perhaps the bandits could not withstand such heavy casualties, the gunfire outside became lower and lower, and then gradually subsided, and then there was a burst of cheers, which made them breathe a sigh of relief, and through the crack in the door, it seemed as if they wanted to see the city.
It turned out that after these bandits had been brave for a while, although the battle line was getting closer and closer to the city wall, but it was such a very short road, but it became the road of death, and after a long time, looking at the companions around them who were constantly beaten into a sieve, the bandits could no longer hold on, and then gave up the advantage they had piled up with their appointments, and some people began to flee behind.
And at this moment, the artillery fire in the city finally sounded again, and after a few shells, a shell, with an accurate orange tail, fell into the artillery position of the bandit army, blowing up a cannon on the spot, and affecting the death of more than a dozen bandits!
The bandit artillery was full of gall, and then, without waiting for orders, directly pushed the cannon, away from this position, and was blown up on the way, so far, the bandit artillery was completely dumb.
When the artillery cooperation was lost, this exacerbated the rout of the bandits, from one person to many people, and then the collective rout.
The 500 people who pressed the formation in the back could still control the pace of the rebel army at the beginning, but as more and more routs retreated, and even shot with these people who pressed the formation, the 500 people who were terrified could no longer hold down the position in the face of thousands of people who were already crazy, and then reluctantly withdrew from the sniper line.
At this time, Liu Shang also had to accept this result and issued an order to withdraw the troops.
In this battle, the bandits left behind six or seven hundred dead corpses and wounded to wail under the city.
After the defenders at the head of the city retreated, they didn't have time to pay attention to the wailing under the city walls, not to mention what kind of cruelty this was, in the troubled times, they had to live first to have the ability to show kindness, not to mention the bullets in the hands of those wounded, I don't know how many of their comrades they took away.
On the city wall, the soldiers were busy treating the wounded, carrying ammunition, wiping weapons, and preparing nervously for the next wave of bandits.
The artillery reloaded the ammunition and adjusted the coordinates, and the cold water sent up by the Maxim machine guns continued to cool down, and the red barrels remembered bursts of sizzling sounds from time to time.
There are also soldiers repairing the broken walls in some places.
All this proves that the war has not yet passed...
After Chen Feng went down, he used a period of time to urgently summon some subordinate officers to rearm the defense, and then led the guards to inspect all parts of the city wall.
Seeing that most of the soldiers were still a little nervous, after repelling the strong onslaught of this wave of bandits, it was obvious that their morale was very high.
When the soldiers saw Chen Feng's arrival, they wanted to quickly stand up and salute, but they were pressed down by Chen Feng.
Chen Feng came to a platoon commander and said softly, "How is it?" Scared? ”
"Report to the Captain! Don't be afraid! The platoon commander obviously didn't expect the regiment commander to stop and talk to him, and said in a somewhat excited voice.
"I remember you came out of the night reading training, right? Is it called Tang Shunzi? Chen Feng asked.
Tang Shunzi was a little excited in his heart, he didn't expect the head of the regiment to remember himself, so he quickly puffed up his chest and said, "Yes, the head of the regiment." ”
"Well, you just performed well, after this war is over, how about making you a company commander, do you have any confidence?"
"Rest assured, the head of the regiment will definitely live up to the high expectations!"
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Sure enough, Chen Feng did not guess wrong, throughout the night, the unwilling bandits launched four large-scale attacks on the city in succession, and even in one of them, two or three hundred people broke through the blockade of the machine guns, and then entered the collapse of the city wall!
Chen Feng was shocked, and commanded his subordinates to frantically snipe the follow-up reinforcements of the enemy, and Liu Shang, who was in the back, even sent more than 1,000 bandits again in order to reinforce the front, but under the sniper of the already crazy defenders, he could only watch the opportunity pass in front of his eyes!
Chen Feng personally took the reserved more than 200 people, as well as the local defenders, into battle, killed the bandits who were cut off from the back road, and then after a bloody battle, drove the bandits out of the collapsed city wall!
The night was unusually long for the defenders, and equally long for the bandits.
The final casualties of the bandits have reached more than 2,000, and the defenders have also suffered more than 300 casualties, and there are no less than 150 casualties, and the combat strength has been greatly weakened!
The next two days will be a real time of testing!