Chapter 736: Meat Grinder
Maybe it's God's favor, and without the help of scientific instruments in the future, just by experience.
Of the first round of nine flowering shells fired by the artillery company, two of them landed directly on the artillery positions of the officers and troops.
After all the 27 flowering bombs were fired in three consecutive rounds, there were a full 10 flowering shells, which hit the target very accurately.
In the violent explosion, although only two of the positions of the red-coated cannons were hit by the flowering shells, they were blown to the ground and could not be used.
However, under the damage caused by the air waves and fragments generated by the explosion of the flowering shells, more than 50 gunners were directly killed in battle.
You must know that the strength of the entire artillery battalion of the official army is only 300 people, and this time a third will be removed, which directly means that the eighteen red-coated cannons of the artillery battalion are all intact in time, and there are also three red-coated cannons that cannot continue to be used because there are no gunners.
Of course, the commander of the artillery company did not know about this result, and he did not want to know.
At this moment, he had only one thought, and immediately transferred the nine mortars in front of him to meet the retaliatory artillery counterattack of the officers and soldiers.
The artillery battalions of the officers and soldiers, which were suddenly attacked and suffered heavy losses, were all enraged by the artillery of the Tiger and Par Army from top to bottom.
The remaining 200 people in the artillery battalion were like angry lions, trying their best to adjust the heavy barrel of the red-coated cannon......
After finally adjusting the muzzle, regardless of the exhaustion on his body, he quickly loaded the redcoat cannon with gunpowder and flowering shells......
The cannon sounded, and the remaining sixteen red-coated cannons in the artillery battalion directly roared angrily and fired flowering shells at the artillery positions of the Tiger and Par Army outside the city.
However, sixteen flowering shells with a screeching sound. Go over the city. When flying to the battlefield.
Nine medium mortars. Already carried by hundreds of gunners, they fled to the second artillery position, continued to set up mortars, and fired the second wave of flowering shells at the red-coated artillery positions of the officers and soldiers......
And with the officers and soldiers of the red-coated artillery changed the firing target. Light mortars, which were constantly being transferred, also stopped.
Hurry up and fire a flower bomb at the head of the city as fast as you can. Kill as many defenders as you can and destroy the Franco's artillery......
When the artillery battalion of the official army counterattacked two rounds in a row, all of them were empty, and no results were achieved.
The nine mortars that inflicted heavy casualties on him have already roared again.
Compared with the first wave of 27 flowering shells hitting 10, the shooting accuracy of this wave of flowering shells is obviously much higher.
Of the same twenty-seven flowering shells, fifteen directly hit the target......
As a result of the fifteen flowering shells, three redcoat cannons were destroyed. More than sixty gunners were killed and wounded by flowering shells.
Face the attack. The first reaction of the officer's artillery battalion was to return fire......
However, what made them feel aggrieved and aggrieved was that they fought back hard, not only did they not destroy the other party, but they also ushered in the third attack of the other party...... Again lost three redcoat cannons......
Faced with this result, the commander of the artillery battalion, who was still full of confidence before the cannon fired, had turned pale at this moment......
As the commander of the artillery battalion, he is very aware of the value of these red-coated cannons, and he also knows the importance of these red-coated cannons on the battlefield.
Without these red-coated cannons, even if he survived this battle, he would not be able to escape the responsibility of the imperial court.
Therefore, at this moment, the artillery battalion commander who has already vaguely felt the tactical tactics of the Tiger and Leopard Army is not thinking about how to crack this tactical tactics. Instead, he was thinking about how to keep the remaining ten red-coated cannons in the artillery battalion......
Therefore, as soon as the third round of artillery fire from the Tiger and Leopard Army ended, an urgent order was issued from the mouth of the commander of the artillery battalion......
"Immediately transfer all the cardinal cannons that still work...... We don't need this artillery position......"
More than 100 gunners, with great difficulty, withstood the fourth round of artillery fire of the Haw Par Army, and were very lucky to transfer the remaining nine red-coated cannons.
Looking at the artillery lined up in front of him, looking at the gunners around the artillery, who still had lingering palpitations. The artillery battalion made a decision directly in his heart, and he would never use the remaining nine red-clothed cannons again until he had to do so......
However, what he didn't expect was that because of the words of last resort, his remaining nine red-coated cannons were captured by the Haw Par Army without even having a chance to fire......
The officers and guards who had been holding the head of the city almost vomited blood because of anger after hearing the news that the eighteen red-coated cannons of the artillery battalion not only did not destroy the artillery positions of the Tiger and Leopard Army outside the city, but also lost more than half of them under the counterattack of the other party.
Of course, anger is anger, and as a guard, he has not lost his mind because of this.
In just an instant, he confirmed his inference that he was unwilling to use the red-coated cannon in the first place.
The Haw Par Army, which hid several artillery pieces, really hid a conspiracy. And this conspiracy is also aimed at his own artillery battalion.
Faced with this fact, the guard general could only sigh and regret why he didn't insist on the choice in the first place, why he didn't hold back in the face of casualties, and directly ordered the artillery battalion to participate in the battle.
However, there is no regret pill in the world.
After a short period of time, the defender regained his senses and shifted his gaze back to the increasingly bad battle situation for him.
Because the artillery battalion withdrew from the battlefield ahead of schedule, the more than 20 mortars in the hands of the Tiger and Leopard Army outside the city directly became inconsiderate.
One by one, the flowering bullets with a screaming sound flew towards the city as if they didn't want money.
Under the killing of these flowering shells, the defense line of the city head soon appeared one after another.
In order to maintain the number of musketeers, suppress and prevent the Haw Par Musketeers from approaching the walls. He had to draw in new musketeers to fill the gaps that had been blown up by the flowering shells......
As time passed, the sound of the explosion never broke the city, and to the defenders, it was like a huge meat grinder.
No matter how many troops the defenders draw to the city, they will be blown up by the flowering bombs in a short time......
At first, the defenders didn't notice much.
However, when he successively sent thousands of musketeers to the city wall to defend it,
He suddenly realized that in less than half an hour, he had lost more than a thousand people.
And the Tiger and Par Army outside the city, from the very beginning, did not have more than 300 troops to attack.
The only difference is that throughout the battle, the Haw Par Army consumed a large number of flowering shells.
A tentative attack on the artillery battalion of the official army turned into a general attack that greatly consumed the vital forces of the defenders......
Xiao Dan, the regiment commander who had been paying attention to the battlefield outside the city, also noticed the changes in the battlefield.
However, this change is very beneficial for the Haw Par Army.
Therefore, as time passed little by little, the smile on the face of the head of the regiment, Xiao Dan, became stronger and stronger.
Just when Xiao Dan thought that the defenders had been almost depleted.
A trace of murderous aura emanated directly from him. (To be continued......)