Unfortunately, it was too late for him to remind, and even before he finished speaking, the cannonball had already fallen near the low wall, and then there was a dull explosion, and the explosion kicked up a large cloud of dirt and dust, although the cannonball did not directly hit the back of the low wall, but a few bandits who were close were still stunned by the shock, and their bodies were covered with dirt that fell from the sky after the explosion.

The charge of 80 mm mortar shells is not low, if you use imported TNT explosives, the power of this explosion is even greater than that of 75 mm field guns, but Zhao Dongyun has limited money in his hands, and TNT explosives are very expensive, and it is not enough for regular field guns and mountain artillery, and there will also be mortars positioned in the support of cheap battalion-level infantry, so the charge is still ancient black powder, and the explosion power can only be regarded as average.

But even if it's not as powerful as TNT, it's still a cannonball, and if it explodes nearby, not to mention the impact breaking, the fragments of the cannonball alone are enough for you.

The bandits are still wondering, didn't they find that those officers and soldiers had artillery, where did this cannonball come from?

When these bandits were wondering, hundreds of meters behind Liu Fufu's first battalion, Wei Anpo was holding a telescope to observe the landing point of the shells, and he was not surprised that the first shell did not hit him, although the mortar gunners under his command had already started training before, and had also carried out many live-fire trainings, but in the end, they had not yet formally formed an army, and the mortar team in a state of testing and training naturally could not expect them to fight how fast and accurately.

Even in the past nearly an hour, his artillery almost had an accident, and his artillery support had to be delayed for more than half an hour.

Wei Anpo put down the binoculars, and then turned his head and gave a few orders, correcting and shooting Zhu Yuan according to the impact point of the first shell, and at this time, it was not only two that fired artillery, but six mortars fired together.

Six more 80-millimeter mortar shells flew into the air, and then after crossing a distance of nearly two thousand meters, they landed near the low wall, and as the shells fell one after another, although four shells landed on the outside of the low wall, two of them landed on the inside of the low wall, and they were not far from the bandits, so when these two shells exploded, the fragments emitted instantly engulfed the three or four bandits not far away.

And this is not over, this round of shells just fell, another round of shells whistling, because there is no need to worry about the other party's long-range artillery counterattack, Wei Anpo naturally does not need to transfer the mortar team of the artillery position from time to time, Wei Anpo, who commanded the artillery bombardment in the rear, not only showed the bandits under Lu Shuanggun's command what is called large-scale shelling, but also made a group of infantry officers below Meng Enyuan stunned, so that they knew what is called mortar rapid fire.

In just one minute, Wei Anpo's mortar team fired nearly 75 shells, and each mortar fired an average of 12 shells in this minute, and for a time the low wall of only a few hundred meters was shrouded in gunsmoke.

This shocked the officers of the 3rd Mixed Association, who were accustomed to the rate of fire of artillery at two or three times per minute!

Although it is said that there is already the latest type of tube withdrawal artillery in contemporary times, the pipe withdrawal artillery is still the most advanced technology at present, and now even the Japanese army is not equipped with it, and only a small number of Grusen artillery guns in the Beiyang Army are barrel retreat guns, and most of the rest, including a large number of artillery recently purchased from Japan, are still artillery units.

In addition to the latest artillery of the French, which can achieve a rate of fire of more than ten methods per minute, other artillery is basically not good, and the rate of fire of the Krupp 75 mm 1903 field gun ordered by Beiyang from Germany is only about eight rounds per minute.

And this mortar, but in the first actual combat burst out of the rate of fire of twelve rounds per minute, you must know that this is still a very conservative rate of fire, those few Fuyuan machine qì factory technicians have been worried that the rate of fire is too fast will cause explosions or other accidents, so it has not been allowed to burst out of the maximum rate of fire, otherwise it is possible to shoot fifteen shells a minute.

"I finally know why the Lord Commander bought this mortar now, it's worth it with this rate of fire!" When Meng Enyuan said this, he had even begun to think about how to equip his cavalry with mortars.

The mortar is only 100 kilograms, and it is divided into three parts, it can be carried by horses to carry out high-speed maneuvers and follow the cavalry, and it will not be much more troublesome than equipping machine guns, if their own cavalry has machine guns and this mortar, they will be able to have independent support firepower in the future.

If you are fighting with any enemy, it is best to win with a saber on a horse, but if there are thousands of Russian cavalry on the opposite side, if you can't win with a cavalry knife, you can completely dismount and fight on foot, with mortars and machine guns in hand, then you can't die as many as you want!

Not to mention Meng Enyuan's cranky thinking there, the other officers and officers were also dumbfounded, and the day before yesterday, Liu Fufu saw through the telescope that almost every meter of the low wall had been blown up by shells and burst out with a foul mouth: "This dog's artillery is so fucking fierce!" ”

He also thought that if his first battalion could follow such a mortar team in the future battle, his combat effectiveness would not soar!

And Xi Hezhi, who was on the front line of the battle, was even more red, he was just a lowly-level officer, but he couldn't imagine what would happen to his troops after they were equipped with mortars, and they didn't think about what kind of impact this kind of mortar would have on the combat effectiveness of the Third Mixed Association after being equipped on a large scale.

Those things were still too far away for him, and now he didn't think about why the mortars were so fierce, he only knew that the bandits on the other side were definitely stunned.

Although it was 300 meters away, from the telescope, there was a cloud of gunsmoke on the opposite side, and more than 70 shells fell on a section of low wall defense line of less than 300 meters in just one minute, and the low wall on the opposite side was not the kind of trench fortification with perfect protection against shelling, and after being ploughed by seventy or eighty 80-millimeter mortar shells, it was estimated that there were not a few people left.

At this time, Xi Hezhi knew that his opportunity had come!

Although there was no prior arrangement for the coordination of infantry and artillery, the boss only let them conduct fire reconnaissance at the beginning, and did not give them the order to conquer the position, but as a qualified grassroots officer, it was impossible to give up after seeing the opportunity!

So Xi Hezhi had once again waved the command knife in his hand, and shouted in his mouth: "Brothers, Lord Zhao has been waiting for me for a long time, in order to support everyone to support the family on weekdays, this salary is not less than a cent, and now the time has come for Lord Zhao to need me to serve my life!" ”

Han Duotian beside him also shouted excitedly: "Rush over and kill his mother, I want to avenge the big tiger!" ”

Xi Hezhi continued to do the last morale boost: "Now those bandits on the opposite side have been scattered by our artillery brothers, as long as we rush over, we will be able to win!" ”

Xi Hezhi looked around again, and then shouted: "Get on the bayonet!" ”

As the soldiers pulled out their bayonets from their waists and inserted them into the bayonet slots at the muzzle, Xi Hezhi also blew the copper whistle!

A sharp whistle sounded in the ditch, and the soldiers in the second row climbed out of the ditch one after another with rifles that had been loaded with bayonets, and then charged forward, Xi Hezhi also waved the saber in his hand and rushed out of the ditch, shouting from time to time: "Rush!" ”。

The saber in his hand also made a forward movement from time to time, leading dozens of soldiers in the second platoon to charge, and during the charge, from time to time, some people stopped in turn and shot at the low wall in the distance with a half-squat, so as to suppress the fire.

The bandits behind the low wall were almost stunned after being shelled by the round just now, and in their bandit career, they had fought with the officers and soldiers not less, and they had not experienced the shelling of the officers and soldiers, but this kind of shelling today was far different from the shelling they had encountered in the past.

In just one minute, the bandits had fallen nearly half of them again, and the entire low wall was almost covered with corpses, blood flowed everywhere, and the bandits who were injured by the shells let out painful groans, those whose feet were broken by the bomb were crawling on the ground, those whose abdomen was cut by shrapnel shed their intestines, and one person even screamed while trying to stuff his intestines back.

At this time, they were charged by the second platoon, and although a few of the remaining bandits shot back, most of them were horrified when they saw the Beiyang soldiers who seemed to be rushing over the mountains, and some of the timid people even turned their heads and fled.

And there is such a thing as running away from the battlefield, with the first one, there will be a second, and then there will be pieces of escape.

When the soldiers of the second row charged, they had not even rushed to within a hundred meters of the low wall, most of the surviving bandits behind the low wall had already run away, and not a single bandit shot at them during the second half of the charge.

This surprised Xi Hezhi, who was already ready to bear the casualties, and this time the charge didn't seem like a charge, but more like an armed outing.

"Bandits are bandits, no matter how they are, they won't be beaten!" Xi Hezhi was full of contempt for these bandits in his heart: "You must know that I knew that this would be the case, and I rushed up with people at the beginning!" ”

However, when Xi Hezhi led the low wall, he saw the corpses all over the ground and the wounded who were wailing, and he couldn't speak for a while.

"These artillerymen are really ruthless!" Xi Hezhi thought that these were the results of the artillery, but what he didn't expect was that the wounded here were all the results of the artillery, but half of the corpses in that place were the battles of his second row.

In the hour-long counter-fire just now, maybe it took a soldier to hit one after another, and even some soldiers didn't get any hits from beginning to end, but even if the hit rate was worse after the base was large, they could still achieve the result of killing twenty or thirty people.

It's just that it's been so long that people can't feel it.

In this way, Xi Hezhi subconsciously thought that the corpses in this place were all masterpieces of artillery!