Chapter 101: Artillery Coverage
Under the stunned gaze of several pairs, Wei Zheng continued to order......
"Heavy Franc planes, medium Franc planes, all replaced with shotguns, aimed at the front of the position eighty to one hundred paces away from the fire."
"The light Franc machine and the Tiger Zun cannon are all replaced with solid iron bullets, and as soon as the enemy starts to attack, they will open fire, and destroy the shield carts and shields that the Tartars may use to attack in the shortest possible time."
"All musketeers in the musket battalion, fire freely and shoot one enemy within range......"
Facing Wei Zheng, who had a calm face in front of him, Zhou Shuyuan continued to ask with a worried face: "General, can this work?" ”
"Definitely...... Just give the order as I just said. A hint of surprise flashed directly on Wei Zheng's calm face, and he replied in a firm tone.
Thousands of people started at the same time, and in less than half an hour, the earthen wall with a thickness of more than three feet disappeared from the battlefield.
More than 1,000 infantry and 300 Tartar archers jumped into the front-line position that the Tiger and Par Army had just abandoned without hindrance.
"Don't stop, keep the troops on the offensive...... Shields took cover and continued to attack the positions of the Tiger and Par Army. Facing the position of the Tiger and Leopard Army a hundred steps away, Tartar Niu Lu Zhangjing did not care about the exhaustion on the faces of the infantry and followers around him, and ordered with a murderous face.
Then, like hungry wolves, the three hundred Tartars began to show their hideous faces to the infantry around them. Wielding the broadsword in his hand, he drove the infantry around him to climb out of the trench and continue to attack.
Densely packed infantry followed, holding shields, like a tidal wave pouring out of the trenches, forming a new offensive phalanx on the battlefield. The dense shields also formed a tight shield wall in front of the phalanx.
Subsequently, the mighty infantry phalanx was driven by the Tartar soldiers behind them, and advanced step by step towards the second-line position of the Tiger and Leopard Army.
Facing the enemy who was getting closer and closer to the battlefield, on the position of the Tiger and Leopard Army, except for Wei Zheng, everyone showed a worried expression on their faces.
Just as everyone focused all their eyes on Wei Zheng and waited for Wei Zheng's order, a trace of hideousness quickly flashed away from Wei Zheng's face. He shouted a command to his subordinates.
"The artillery battalion opened all its guns, covering the distance of 80 to 100 paces in front of the position, so that the enemy could taste what real artillery bombardment is, and taste the new way of artillery."
......A series of deafening artillery sounds sounded around him, and more than 20 artillery pieces of various types under the artillery battalion of the Haw Par Army, as well as more than 10 heavy Franc planes that had just been captured from the Tartar artillery team, fired the first round of bullets at the enemy who had just broken out of the trenches.
Hot lead bullets flew out of the long barrel of the heavy Franc machine gun, quickly forming a fan-shaped net at the muzzle. Then, with a huge initial velocity, it flew into the sky.
Like the arrows fired by the Tartars, these buckshots cut beautiful arcs in the air, and with a slight whistle through the air, they fell from the sky to strike the enemy.
The losses of successive battles, coupled with the fact that the Tartars believed that the Hawpar army did not have archers and could not hit themselves from the air.
The limited shields of the thousands of infantry and equipment were all concentrated at the front of the formation, which were used to defend against the rain of bullets fired from the front by the Tiger and Par Army.
So, when countless buckshots whizzed down from the sky, most of the infantry who hid behind the shield wall were defenseless.
Before he could react from the shock, the whistling buckshot had already smashed the upper body of the tartar that was in the area covered by the buckshot into a hornet's nest.
At the same time, the Huzun cannon and the light Franc machine, which were smaller in both barrel length and barrel caliber, were not idle, and at the same time roared at the enemy on the battlefield. More than 20 solid iron shells with tremendous force, driven by a large amount of gas from the combustion of gunpowder, roared towards the enemy's shield wall at the front of the military formation at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Bumper Bumper ...... Boom Boom Boom ......"
The sound of the iron ball hitting the shield, and the roar of the wooden shield tearing apart had just reached everyone's ears, and more than a dozen gaps that exposed the bodies of the infantry and the servants quickly appeared on the enemy's tight shield wall.
The musketeers, who were responsible for delivering pinpoint strikes to the enemy, covering the artillery, did not ignore this opportunity to kill.
After a simple aiming of more than a dozen notches, the arquebus trigger was quickly pulled.
After the piercing sound of gunfire came out of the chamber of the gun, the black hole of the arquebus barrel quickly spewed out a cloud ......of white smoke from the burning of gunpowder.
The hot lead bullets burned by the gunpowder flew out of the chamber of the gun along with the white smoke and flew towards the target.
Although arquebuses have no accuracy at a distance of 100 paces, there are times when blind cats collide with dead mice, not to mention that more than 300 arquebuses are fired at the same time......
More than a hundred buckshot bullets whistled through the gap in the shield wall and into the Tartar formation.
With a scream resounding in the Tartar formation, the infantry who were walking in the gap in the shield wall were cut to the ground by the oncoming lead bullets.
Thousands of lead bullets fell from the sky, solid iron shells opened the gap, and several white lead bullets followed up with an effective means of killing the enemy......
In the blink of an eye, several gaps were punched in the dense military formation of the Tartars. At least 100 infantry followed, dead or wounded, on the way to the attack, and their fate was uncertain.
Looking at the subordinates around him who were stunned because of the huge results, and feeling the face of Wei Zheng covered by the artillery fire of the later generations, his calm facial expression did not change in the slightest, and he continued to order.
"The brothers fought well...... Tell my artillery brothers, show me all the real skills in your hands, and strive to fire three more rounds of shells at the enemy before retreating, and fiercely rub the arrogance of the Tartars, and beat the infantry driven by the Tartars into fear, so that their legs tremble when they see our Tiger and Par Army......"
"Boom Boom Boom ......" may have been in response to the Wei Zheng order.
As soon as Wei Zheng finished speaking, a deafening shelling sound sounded on the front line of the earthen wall around him.
Subsequently, the sound of bursting bean-like arquebus shooting also reached Wei Zheng's ears.
With the help of the monoculars, Wei Zheng saw with his own eyes that the infantry in a dense formation followed the army and once again left corpses on the ground.
There is a saying that morale is all out of the fight......
In the face of more and more big results, counting the white gunners is like taking stimulants. On the battlefield with a biting cold wind, I went directly shirtless, and used myself to clear the gun, reload, and shoot the artillery as quickly as possible......
When the enemy had reached eighty paces and began to bend his bow and arrow to counterattack, the artillery battalion unexpectedly fired five rounds of shells at the Tartars.
As far as the eye can see, the dense attacking army formation of the Tartars has almost lost half of its troops. The tight shield wall has also become incomplete.
It is certain that as long as the two battalions continue to hold their positions and strike at the enemy with this style of fighting, it is not impossible to completely annihilate the remaining 500 infantry of the Tartars.