108: Tragic casualties
"Kill! They ran out of muskets and rushed into the fort with a reward!! ”
With another wave of shouts and killings outside, the soldiers who were almost exhausted of ammunition had to retreat from the low wall to shrink the defensive area, and each person averaged less than ten rounds of ammunition, which was already the final bottom line, Luo Dan could only hope to rely on complex terrain and buildings in the fort, as well as narrow passages to try to improve the hit rate of this ammunition, and the other side was also extremely hard to fight now, in ancient battles, casualties of more than thirty percent of a unit basically lost morale and the courage to continue to attack and fight, Luo Dan can only hope that the other party will take such a step before himself.
It's just that the rhythm of this collapse has not come for a long time, and the soldiers' practice of blocking the intersection by shooting in turns has made several roads leading to the inner fort full of corpses, and the other party also understands that it is not possible to break through, so they switch to breaking through the shacks and rooms, so that although the speed of action will be much slower, it also greatly compresses the shooting horizon that the soldiers in the mountain village can use. In later generations, the People's Liberation Army also adopted such tactics to reduce exposure to the streets during siege operations, and Israel even developed a special wall opening equipment to speed up the opening of roads...... It seems that war is indeed the easiest way for people to learn......
And as the other side approaches, the space for their own defense is getting smaller and smaller, and the fighters have been compressed in the last circle of the inner fort, and with the arrival of the other party, it is no longer a problem of no ammunition, and it is difficult to have enough time for you to reload under the hand-to-hand combat, and the bayonets of some fighters have seen red, which clearly explains the seriousness of the current situation. The lookout post standing not far away was also pushed down by the other party five minutes ago, not only did Luo Dan lose his last external observation point, but also the plate on it and the other soldier were also unknown whether they were alive or dead. Luo Dan wanted to rush over with a few people to rescue his good brother, but he was forced back by more than a dozen people, looking at the pistol with only two bullets left in his hand, and the blood-stained dogleg scimitar, Luo Dan's mood at the moment is beyond words.
"Company commander, there's someone coming in from behind!!"
A shout from the soldiers around him brought Luo Dan back to his senses, not only was the weakest place in the defense, but there were also many wounded people who could not move there, Luo Dan's eyes suddenly turned red when he heard it, brandished a pistol and a dog's leg, and rushed over with a snort.
At this moment of the battle, there is basically no gunfire, and there are only the fighting and shouts of men and wild surnames left in the fort, as well as the desperate shouts before death, and outside the low wall and the fort, it is the cheers of those attackers, and at this moment, they finally don't have to face the damn rain of bullets, and they no longer have to worry about being scared when they rush forward and worry that they will be hit by something, let alone afraid of being beaten into a sieve by that kind of double-eyed gun, and they have worked hard for a day, and they are about to win the moment, they are qualified and entitled to such cheers.
But they were entitled to cheer, but there were those who were unwilling to let their cheers last until the end, and could not do so even longer, because the cheers of these people drowned out the continuous muffled sound from behind a mound not far away......
No one likes to stir up trouble when they are happy, let alone the kind of thing that the artillery bombs to harvest their lives, but it's a pity that these people, no matter how reluctant they are, have to accept such a round of fierce artillery fire!
"Take a cloth dipped in wet water to cool the cannon and keep firing! Fire! Fire! ”
Deng Shifeng didn't care about doing this at the moment, it would reduce the intensity of the cannon barrel annealing, when he advanced all the way to the fork fort with the reinforced soldiers, the sound of gunfire that had been sparse from there could indicate that the situation was extremely critical at the moment, Deng Shifeng also ignored the danger, and led the artillery and two squads of infantry to spread the team and rushed all the way to a distance of less than 600 meters outside the fork fort, and the reconnaissance post on the periphery of the other side may have felt that the victory was in hand and relaxed their vigilance and shrank back to prepare to sneak into the fort to take advantage of the chaos. Only then did Deng Shifeng successfully set up a mortar, and there was an artillery bombardment on the outside of Chabao. Especially for the war horses outside, although Deng Shifeng coveted these horses that could carry people, for the safety of his more precious students, Deng Shifeng had to deliberately smash many shells in that direction......
The continuous falling shells caused a large number of casualties outside, mainly because the attackers sensed that the resistance in the fort was about to collapse, and everyone unconsciously rushed forward to take advantage of the chaos to catch the last handful of heads...... With these thoughts in mind, the rest of the attackers all flocked to the cha fort and piled up together, and it was precisely because of this that the continuous falling cannonballs found that this was simply the best Shura field to harvest lives......
The unexpected shelling made these attackers panic, the charge that could be carried by the shells weighing three catties was far more than the charge that had just broken two taels of grenades, not to mention that the first ten rounds were the same as the ones used by Lao Ma in Liuzhou City, and they were also military explosives tossed out in the chemical laboratory, each shell could cause a killing zone within a radius of fifteen meters, and the first ten shells alone had already made everyone crazy......
"Brothers, reinforcements are coming, kill!!"
Hearing the familiar sound of shell explosions, for those attackers, it is a supreme weapon that destroys life and morale, and for the soldiers in the mountain village, it is the best stimulant, taking advantage of the moment when the attackers are stunned, the soldiers are as excited as if they have been beaten with chicken blood, and they screamed and played a small counterattack, not only forcing the attackers to withdraw, but also winning to reload and prepare to hold on to the next round. And those grenadiers who were temporarily transferred from artillery no longer had to be stingy with a few grenades that were no longer on hand, and while smashing the other side, they were looking for guys to prepare for a counterattack......
Morale is a thing, once it falls, it is difficult to recover, the attackers know this, and the reinforced Deng Shifeng knows this, at this moment the follow-up team has also arrived, Deng Shifeng let except for the three artillerymen continue to fire, the rest of the people all lined up to stand on the slope, and advance forward in a line, although the team of less than a hundred people looks extremely thin, But at this moment, their appearance became the last straw that overwhelmed the morale of the other party: the same hundred or so people in the fort had already made more than a thousand people fight so hard, and now the other party has so many people, and there is terrifying artillery support...... Plus the shells that were still being smashed just now and are still smashing down to harvest human lives...... It's no wonder that morale doesn't collapse!
The battle ended with the rout of the attackers, and when Deng Shifeng walked to the fort with people across the corpses all over the place, he saw a group of soldiers who were almost all wounded, and Luo Dan and Huang Shicheng stood at the front, their eyes red as they watched as their teacher came with reinforcements to save his life.
"Teacher, I'm sorry for you, when I came out, it was one hundred and three people, and now there are only fifty-six wounded people left who can stand here and behind, and the casualties are nearly half, I am ashamed of you and these soldiers......"
When Deng Shifeng walked to Luo Dan's side, Luo Dan couldn't help crying out anymore, when counting the number of people just now, the names that were determined to be killed made Luo Dan's psychology ache for a while, he could name these people, and even familiar with many people, and many of them were still alive before the final attack was launched just now, but now they are separated by yin and yang...... The biggest casualties came from the last round of attack, because there was no way to give full play to the advantage of firepower and carried out hand-to-hand combat, the battle of cold weapons was very cruel, and even to some extent it was a one-for-one fight with your life, and you might be able to survive if you met someone who was less timid than you, but you could survive when you encountered someone who was as bold.........
"You're right...... You did your best...... Let's treat the wounded first......"
patting Luo Dan on the shoulder, Deng Shifeng wanted to comfort him a few more words, but he couldn't say more when the words reached his throat; When he came to this time and space, Deng Shifeng had not seen dead people, but it was the first time he had seen so many dead people, and many of them were soldiers he knew...... It's an overwhelming feeling...... Moreover, other people may not know, but Deng Shifeng understands that the death of these soldiers is actually an unshirkable responsibility for himself!