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This is really the darkness before dawn, the light is getting dimmer and dimmer, and it will be wireless light when you get through this dark moment. It's just that at this time, after Wu Yingzhi found that the method of "soil tank" was feasible, he went crazy and commanded his subordinates to attack. In this way, the "earth tank" moved forward steadily, and although the speed was slow, it only took a minute to advance thirty meters. For such a period of time, the officers and men of the Mawei Army in front took turns to move forward, with an average of five bullets shot out of each person, and thousands of bullets poured over, but it really had little effect on the Wu army, most of them were blocked by the "earth tank", and only some stray bullets shot through the gap of the "earth tank" and hit some Wu soldiers who followed behind.

On the side of the Mawei Army, the continuous advance of the Wu Army made Bai Xianzhong anxious. The Mawei Army rarely fought hand-to-hand with the enemy, and of course they did not hesitate when it came to hand-to-hand combat. It's just that the enemy on the opposite side doesn't know how many, but it is expected that there should be far more soldiers and horses than their three battalions to attack, and if they are really approached by the Wu army, I am afraid that their three battalions will be in danger of being wiped out.

"Wasn't the cannon already erected? Why haven't you fired the cannon yet, hurry up and shoot the big guys in front of the enemy army! Bai Xianzhong shouted urgently. Bai Xianzhong was also in a hurry, a little confused, and forgot to let the gunners fire at the first time.

"Fire!" With the order of the commander of the artillery battalion, the flag was waved. The gun carriage of each gun involuntarily jumped backwards. Loud streams of fire and smoke rose up. Sixty cannonballs about two fists in size roared towards the Wu army's "earth tank", and sixty flowering bullets crossed an arc in the sky and then smashed fiercely into the Wu army's "earth tank" group, in fact, most of them flew past the position of the "earth tank" and fell behind in the military formation of the Wu army's infantry army.

Wu Army's 200 "earthen tanks" lost less than 20 in this round of shelling, and the other "drivers" were frightened and some of them did not dare to move forward. However, under the escort of the regular soldiers of the Wu army, they continued to advance steadily. The guns and bullets of the Mawei Army took advantage of this opportunity to quickly pour down on this side again, causing dozens of Wu troops to fall in more than a dozen gaps. After a while, the artillery battalion's artillery rang out again, and the shells fell into the Wu army's formation again.

When these flowering bullets fell to the ground, the Wu soldiers who were frightened just now were so frightened that they hurriedly scattered from the side in an attempt to avoid these projectiles, but with an earth-shattering explosion sound sounded again, the Wu soldiers around the projectiles were shocked into the sky one by one, and the violent explosion shock wave easily tore apart the fragile bodies of the surrounding Wu soldiers, even if they had the protection of armor, but it was useless. Mass of flesh and stumps were tossed into the air. Countless pieces of blood flew in the air, forming patches of blood-colored smoke. but I can't see it in the darkness of the night

When these explosions sounded, Wu Yingzhi, who was behind him, couldn't help but be shocked, and his thoughts immediately returned to the scene when he led thousands of cavalry to attack the Mawei Army the day before yesterday, it was a nightmare, countless shells that he thought were very expensive were exploding, and the shrapnel they splashed out and the loud noise made his elite cavalry fall in large pieces, and this nightmare now appeared here again.

"Speed up, rush to the front is our victory, rush!"

Many soldiers of the Wu army were killed and injured, and it also stimulated the blood of many Wu soldiers, and they advanced faster with red eyes, and at this time they had also advanced to a position of about sixty meters, although they were still a little unable to see the outline of the opposite side, but they also estimated that the distance was about the same, and a part of the Wu army behind them took off the bow and arrow behind them, bent the bow and arrows, and began to fire at the side of the Mawei army.

Looking at the approaching soldiers of the Wu Army, the expression on Bai Xianzhong's face at this moment was almost distorted. "No, the Wu army is getting closer and closer, and the sixty guns of the artillery battalion alone can't stop the pace of the enemy army! Wavelet! ”

"Yes!" Long Bo, the guard beside Bai Xianzhong, immediately took a step forward and answered loudly.

"Order Zhang Dabiao, Sun Desheng, and Guo Ziyi, let them each send some soldiers to assault, blow up these big guys with grenades, and use all the explosives bags for me, sue them, if they don't succeed, we will all die!" At this moment, Bai Xianzhong's face is hideous, how many years have he been fighting in the south and the north, and today is the most critical moment, and this time there is no luck, he must do it hard. "Xiao Tao! Order the artillery battalion position, change the grape shell, and fire the cannon as soon as the fighters in front blow up those big guys! I want all those Wu soldiers to die here today! ”

"Yes!" The guard Long Tao also quickly turned around and ran to the artillery position behind the side to give the order.

"Commander, we are really dangerous today!" Several officers at the top level of the First Division were also beside Bai Xianzhong, although everyone was nervous, but now they were a little quieter. Chief of Staff Long Jie watched their soldiers fall under Wu Jun's arrows and said worriedly. "Wu Jun's method caught us off guard, bastard, if they were discovered in the daytime, eighty miles earlier, they wouldn't be so passive now!"

"It's useless to complain, it's going to be a bloody battle today. By the way, did the soldiers sent to the cavalry division for help come back? We estimate that we can't stop the Wu army alone, and the cavalry division can have a few chances of winning, otherwise we will definitely be left here today! Bai Xianzhong wiped the sweat from his forehead and asked.

"Not yet, and it's probably going to be soon. And I think that Senior Commander Jiang's side should be no later than the news we got, maybe he is moving now, but he didn't notify us! Long Jie said analytically. He was right, not long after the Wu army launched an attack, Jiang Yuanxun also received a report from Zhan Jie. More than 13,000 people of the Wu army pounced on the 1st Mawei Division. It was still nighttime. It is the cavalry in his early 2,000s that is still intact. Sending it to Bai Xianzhong's side didn't play a big role.

So Jiang Yuanxun changed his mind, did not go to the frontal battlefield, took advantage of the mobility of the cavalry, made a detour to the back of the Wu army's buttocks to launch an attack, and relieved the siege of the first division from behind. The Mawei Cavalry Division is really familiar with this place in Ji'an Mansion, and the day before yesterday, there were 300 ambushes to ambush and flee the Wu army.

Zhang Dabiao, Sun Desheng, and Guo Ziyi of the First Division received Bai Xianzhong's orders almost at the same time, and the three of them immediately gathered fifty death squad members, each of whom had more than a dozen grenades on them. Fifteen of them carried an explosive bag in their arms and one on their backs, and they spread their feet and sprinted at a speed of 100 meters towards the opposite side. The distance of sixty or seventy meters is still a little dark, but it is only a few seconds.

The night was the best cover at this time, and one hundred and fifty soldiers ran to the front and immediately threw out the grenades with the fuses, which exploded together with the grenades connected by ropes, and the power was no less than that of artillery shells.

An explosion blew the "earthen tanks" to pieces, and the "earthen tanks," which had lost less than 50 units under two shellings, were now only bits and pieces. There are less than twenty intact left. The horsetail fighters threw it ten meters away, and immediately ran back to their positions. Just seconds after the grenades and explosives exploded, the soldiers had just returned, and sixty guns roared again.

"Fire!"

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

With the deafening sound of the cannons, forty of the sixty guns in the artillery battalion were covered with grapeshit, and in fact, the furlong machine guns were all spewed out of a large stream of gunsmoke and fire.

As mentioned earlier, there is a difference between shotgun and grapeshot, shotgun is not exactly equal to grapeshot, but the principle of grapeshot is similar to shotgun, at this time for Western countries, this grapeshot is only a naval bomb, not an army bomb. The power of grapeshotfire is not much to say, and when striking the enemy's living forces, one gun can play the role of several guns. To facilitate reloading, dozens or hundreds of spherical iron or lead marbles of equal size are packed into a shell (drum and box) or fixed together.

This is similar to the shape of the current shotgun bullets, but at that time it was a large barrel fired with a cannon, and now a small barrel is fired with a shotgun, and they are fixed together, because something like an iron plate is used to hold the round bullet, and there is no shell on the outside, and it looks like a large bunch of grapes, so it is called grapes. When fired, the round projectile broke through the shackles of the projectile body and flew around under the impact of gunpowder, effectively expanding the impact surface of the round projectile.

In naval battles, the Mawei Army had already proven the usefulness of this thing. Grape bullets, which are bundled into bunches with a net bag, do look like bunches of grapes. Although the range of this thing is not as good as that of solid bullets and flowering bullets, a single shot fired at close range can instantly knock down dozens of enemy soldiers, which is enough to break up a team of hundreds of people. In several naval battles, grapeshothutters were used to knock down large swaths of enemy officers and sailors on enemy ships, achieving the goal of paralyzing enemy ships.

At this time, too, with a loud bang, the iron pills flying all over the sky instantly enveloped the front of the entire position. These grapeshotridges used by the army are still a little different from those used by the navy, the round bombs in them are larger than those of the navy, and the number is smaller, and each grapeshotle is wrapped in 30 small round bullets, but the volume is slightly larger. Although the number was small, the lethality did not decrease but increased, and forty artillery pieces loaded with grapeshotfires were fired at the same time, and in an instant, 1,200 round bullets were scattered towards the array of the Wu army, each grapeshot shell covered an area of more than 20 meters, and a large area of the Wu army fell in an instant.

In the midst of a terrible howl of horses, the soldiers of the Wu Army, who were steadily advancing, had just recovered from the grenade explosion of the Mawei Army's surprise attack, and they were attacked by a large field of grapeshits. As long as you are hit head-on by these dense round iron pills the size of pigeon's eggs, not to mention people, even horses and elephants, their bodies will suddenly be full of dense blood holes, and it will be absolutely difficult to survive.

"Can't wait, what about our cannon, why haven't we been able to fire it yet?" Wu Yingqi was angry at this time, and he also had thirty artillery pieces in his army, that is, the first batch of red-coated cannons and Francophone cannons that Geng Jingzhong originally sold to Wu Sangui, this time when he came to Jiangxi, Wu Yingqi also brought ten red-coated cannons and twenty Frann cannons, the Franco cannons were better, relatively lightweight, and they had already set them up at this time, but the red-coated cannons were too bulky and were still being erected intensively.

"Back to Dashuai, twenty of them are already good, but I can't see the scene in front of me clearly, so it's not easy to fire!" Wu Yingqi's personal guard explained.

"There's nothing bad about firing artillery, it's right to cover the position two hundred paces ahead, it's all the positions of the Mawei Army on that side, listen to their gunfire, that is, on that side. Quick, don't be sluggish, as soon as our cannon goes off, it can also increase the morale of the soldiers below! Wu Yingzhi quickly ordered.

"Handsome! The chariots in front were almost all destroyed, and the brethren were attacked by the Mawei artillery and suffered heavy casualties! Li Pu, the chief officer at the front of the attack, ran to the front with a bloody face and reported: "Only this time, more than half of the general's troops will be killed and wounded, and how to attack next is to ask the commander to show me!" ”

"The front must be the position of the Mawei Army, let me leave nothing else, under the cover of the chariot, we are already very close to their position, give me a full pressure, with more than double my strength, I can't take the Mawei Army, then we have to apologize!" Wu Yingzhi is also red-eyed, he can no longer afford to fail, the previous "earth tank" has created excellent conditions for him, and rushing forward at this time is the only way out!

"The last general commands!" Li Pu reported with a fist, immediately turned around, and led his soldiers to attack.

"Kill! Brothers, the enemy army is right in front of us, and if we advance in front of them, we will kill them with more than 10,000 troops! Wansheng! Kill"

"Kill"

"Kill"

"Kill"

The Wu army of the brigade began to rush forward, and the officers and men of the Mawei Army heard the shouts of the Wu army, and the front commanders, the battalion commanders Zhang Dabiao, Sun Desheng, and Guo Ziyi, immediately issued the latest orders: "All listen to the order, rush me!" (The novel "I Am Geng Jingzhong" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! (To be continued......)

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