Chapter 101 Suppressing and attacking the artillery of Yu Shengjun's artillery was initially only solid shells and scattered shells.

After stationing in Shanghai, Yu Shengjun purchased part of the grenade from the foreigners, which is commonly known as the 'flowering bomb' in contemporary China, and the test effect was good, and it was later used when the siege of Songjiang was relieved.

As for this grenade shotgun, Yu Shengjun has only started to implement the equipment in recent months, and he also purchased a small number of shells from foreigners, and then handed them over to the Linde Machinery Factory to start copying, but at present, the imitation of the Linde Machinery Factory is not too successful, and it has not yet been able to be mass-produced, so Yu Shengjun's current grenade bombs are all imported, and the quantity is not too sufficient.

Fu Linyang said: "The grenade bombs we carried before departure were allocated according to ten rounds per door!" ”

Lin Zhe said: "Isn't there only one or two hundred rounds like this? ”

It is simply not enough to rely on such a small number of artillery shells to support a long-term large-scale battle, so he immediately turned to Han Xiangfang, the Ordnance General Office, and said: "You immediately send a letter to Shanghai, immediately purchase grenade bombs from foreigners, and also notify the Linde Machinery Factory to speed up the imitation production of grenade bombs, and then quickly transport these shells to Guangde!" ”

Relying on the rear to purchase and then transport the shells, it takes too long before and after, Lin Zhe naturally put all his hopes on this grenade bomb.

On the one hand, he continued to order artillery units to fire solid balls and grenades to destroy enemy walls, and at the same time to fire ordinary grenades to kill and injure the enemy troops on the city and the enemy in the trenches.

Although the killing effect against enemies in the trench is not as effective as the grenade shotgun, if the grenade hits accurately, its killing effect is also considerable, at least much better than the solid bullet.

On the other hand, he also asked the troops to start digging trenches leading to the city walls.

Since the Taiping army dug trenches and defended to the death, they could not stupidly rush directly to it, and they could also dig trenches and gradually get closer to reduce the casualties of frontal attacks.

By the way, you can also experiment with your newest weapon: the grenade!

Some time ago, Lin Zhe asked the Linde Machinery Factory to develop a bomb that could be thrown by a single soldier, but it didn't take a few days to send a few samples.

But what made Lin Zhe very depressed was that the 'grenade' sent was completely different from the grenade in his memory, the grenade made by Lin Deji was a round iron-shell charge, and the arquebus fuse was so primitive that it could no longer be a primitive hand-thrown bomb.

In addition, the power of ** is limited, the charge is less powerful, the charge is more and the shell has to be thickened and thickened, the weight is straight to the brush to rise, the most tragic is that the fuse due to the use of the fire rope fuse, you have to light the fire rope before throwing it.

The small power, heavy weight, and inconvenient throwing led Lin Zhe to expect the grenade to become a real portable weapon for individual soldiers.

However, although the grenade made by Lin Deji was a little more tragic, Lin Zhe did not give up, this time he also brought a thousand pieces with the army, he thought that it was estimated that it would not be used in field battles on weekdays, but it should still be useful in defensive operations, and it was estimated that the effect was good when he threw the fuse out.

And now seeing the trenches dug by the enemy, Lin Zhe thought that this time the grenade could probably be used to blow up the enemy in the trench, because the grenade was thrown manually, and the trajectory could be so large that it could fall into the enemy's trench and explode.

Yu Shengjun's artillerymen bombarded the city wall, and some soldiers dug the battle trenches used to advance, and other Yu Shengjun soldiers were not idle, for example, they imitated the attack on Shanghai, building a platform that allowed soldiers to climb on a high platform to shoot.

Didn't your Lin Chengting's soldiers want to hide under the trench, Lin Zhe didn't believe that he couldn't hit you from a high-altitude shooting platform tens of meters high.

After Yu Shengjun arrived at the city of Huzhou, the first few days were relatively calm.

On the first day, the Shengjun and the Taiping army engaged in an artillery battle, but the Taiping army's artillery was quickly destroyed by Yu Shengjun.

So on the second day, only Yu Shengjun's family was left to continue the large-scale artillery bombardment, and the solid iron ball continued to smash on the Guangde city wall like no money, smashing the front city wall into potholes, and even several city walls were smashed out of several small gaps.

On the third day, the Taiping army still couldn't shrink, and at this time, Yu Shengjun cut down trees nearby, and several siege vehicles had been pushed out, and they didn't push too close, just about 360 meters away from the city wall, and then the first infantry battalion responsible for suppressing the task sent dozens of Yu Shengjun riflemen to the siege vehicle shooting platform.

Taking advantage of the large range and accuracy of the Linde rifle to hunt the Taiping soldiers at the head of the city or under the trenches one by one, Lin Chengting also tried to mobilize artillery forces to counterattack after seeing these high platforms, so as to destroy these siege vehicles.

However, their artillery had just emerged and had not fired a few shots, and Yu Shengjun's artillery suppressed the artillery fire in time!

What's more, if these artillery pieces want to be launched and fired, they will be directly exposed to the range of Linde rifles, and for a while, the artillery of the Taiping Army suffered heavy casualties, and no matter how Lin Chengting gave the order, he refused to risk his life to open the artillery.

On the fourth day, Yu Shengjun built seven or eight siege vehicle platforms and put them into battle, so with artillery and rifle fire, it can be said that the activities of the Taiping army in the city and trenches were completely suppressed, and the Taiping soldiers who dared to take the lead would be beaten into a hornet's nest for the first time.

Looking at the head of Guangde City, which seemed to be empty, Lin Zhe nodded with relief: "Yes, I haven't been busy in vain these past few days, not only killing and injuring many thieves, but also completely suppressing them!" ”

Hunter William on the side also said: "General, now you can try to attack the city!" ”

Lin Zhe thought about it, even if he completely suppressed the enemy army outside the city, it would be useless if he didn't enter Guangde for a day, and the city would have to be fought sooner or later.

Immediately, he said: "Wait for the fourth battalion to go up and test one or two, and the artillery unit and the first battalion on the siege vehicle must do a good job of suppressing and covering with all their firepower!" ”

Immediately, Shen Chiyun, the commander of the fourth battalion, came out and said: "The post department is ordered!" ”

Lin Zhe glanced at Shen Chiyun, and was a little worried that Shen Chiyun wouldn't understand his orders, so he specially instructed: "When you move forward, the first task is to test the reaction of the enemy army, and retreat immediately when you can't do anything, do you understand?" ”

Shen Chiyun said: "Don't worry, the department will not let you down." ”

Lin Zhe nodded: "I know your ability, go ahead, let your colleagues see how the combat strength of the fourth battalion you have practiced for more than half a year is!" ”

Immediately, Shen Chiyun arrived in front of his fourth battalion on horseback, and he secretly made up his mind on the horse, this time he must fight a good battle.

Although he was a little unwilling to wait for the siege vehicle to suppress the task of suppressing it by the first battalion, he also knew that it was not easy to suppress the enemy army on the siege vehicle, because this required very high marksmanship from the soldiers.

There is no way, who made the first battalion the unit that has been in the army for the longest time, and the long time in the army also means that the soldiers have been trained for a longer time, and the same soldier has been trained for half a year and trained for one year, and the level is naturally very different, especially the marksmanship that requires live-fire training and accumulation.

The first battalion is also the most abundant unit in the actual combat of Yu Shengjun, the battalion almost participated in most of the battles of Yu Shengjun, the battle of Changxing, the battle of Guangde and the battle of Si'an are basically the first battalion shoulder to shoulder the war, and the second battalion at that time can only be regarded as a foil.

Later, Yu Shengjun's army marched into southern Jiangsu, and the first battalion was also the main force in a series of battles such as Qingpu, Kejiading, and Shanghai.

It can be said that the first battalion alone supported half of the sky of Yu Shengjun!

Therefore, while the other infantry units were still resting behind, the soldiers of the first battalion boarded the siege engines or accompanied the siege engines, and began to suppress the Taiping troops at the head of the city and in the trenches.

However, now the task of attacking the city for the first time was obtained by Shen Chiyun's fourth battalion, Shen Chiyun knew that this was the first appearance of his fourth battalion, and what was the status of the fourth battalion and himself in Yu Sheng's army in the future, whether it could be valued by the marshal, it would depend on today's battle.

Riding a horse, Shen Chiyun left the camp with more than 500 infantry of the fourth battalion in a neat queue, but soon the soldiers of the fourth battalion broke away from the phalanx and then entered the traffic trench dug by Yu Shengjun a few days ago.

They Chiang used the communication trenches to get close to the city walls, and then threw grenades at the Taiping trenches more than 20 meters away.

As for the other five infantry companies of the 4th Battalion, they were lined up in three horizontal rows, stepping on the drums of the military band!

Due to the fire suppression and cover of the first battalion and the artillery unit, there was nothing to hinder their advance, Shen Chiyun looked at the city head and those trenches a hundred meters away, and thought to himself, could it be that those thieves had already retreated back into the city?

But what he didn't know was that on the tattered city wall, many Taiping soldiers were curled up and hiding behind the city wall, and in the trenches under the city walls, more than 2,000 Taiping soldiers were also huddled in the trenches.

Lin Chengting had been observing the soldiers of the Yu Shengjun who were advancing from the gap in the city, and kept estimating the distance in his heart. Three hundred steps, two hundred steps, one hundred steps, closer, closer, as long as they dared to get closer to a distance of fifty paces, then he would not hesitate to order the whole army to jump out of cover and open fire!

But soon he frowned, because he saw nearly a hundred Yu Shengjun soldiers using those crooked trenches to reach the close range of his own trench about 20 meters later, one by one threw out black things, before he could figure out what it was, he saw a dense explosion sound from his own trench, and when the white mist was lifted, it was also accompanied by a large number of screams.

Damn it!

Although Lin Chengting still didn't know what kind of weapon they threw out, he knew that this was a very deadly threat to his troops in the trench, and he couldn't wait any longer, and if he waited any longer, he was afraid that the soldiers in the trench would suffer heavy casualties and even collapse.

After taking a deep breath, Lin Chengting immediately shouted: "Sons, give Lao Tzu a hard beating!" ”

As the herald banner soldier shook the military flag to pass on Lin Chengting's order, a large number of Taiping soldiers armed with arquebuses and bows suddenly appeared in the originally empty city head.

At the same time, the Taiping soldiers hiding in the trenches under the city wall also crawled out and pointed their guns at the fourth battalion of Yu Shengjun!

Shen Chiyun couldn't help but feel a tense feeling when a large number of thieves suddenly appeared at the head of the city and the trenches.

Forcibly suppressing the uneasiness in his heart, he straightened his waist while riding on the horse, held the command knife high in his hand, and his eyes were firm: "The whole battalion stops!" ”

"Aim!"

"Fire!"

In the next instant, the 4th Battalion and the Taiping Army soldiers on the opposite side fired their first round of shots at the same time!