Fang Xindong, like his comrades-in-arms, held the 1864 rifle in his hand, bent over and ran briskly, kneeling directly on the ground from time to time during the march, and then raising the gun to shoot.

The bullet flew forward at an invisible speed, and then landed on the mound of earth at the head of the opposite wall, stirring up a little smoke and dust, which frightened several indigenous soldiers behind the mound and quickly retracted their heads.

"Quick, keep up!" Behind Fang Xindong, an officer with the rank of lieutenant on his shoulder shouted loudly while brandishing the revolver in his hand, directing his troops to attack forward amid the sound of gunfire.

Fang Xindong and several comrades-in-arms around him were running and shooting, and their target was a brick and stone building in the port.

It was the office building of the Hawaiian port tax officer, and it was also the main position of Hawaii's poor defensive force.

Judging from the previous firefight, there should have been about thirty to fifty indigenous soldiers inside, and these indigenous soldiers were not armed with swords, bows and arrows as outsiders thought, but they were armed with mini rifles.

After the sixties of the nineteenth century, all countries in the world, even the kind of small countries that do not enter the stream, have begun to be equipped with breech-loading rifles, and in some conflicts in hot spots, the two warring sides have basically used breech-loading rifles, such as the two sides of the Japanese civil war!

The popularity of breech-loading rifles was first because of the Sino-British and French War in 1858, and then the American Civil War pushed the breech-loading rifle to its peak, and the Prussian-Danish War in 1864 once again proved that in the face of rear-loading rifles, the Mini rifle was enough to make people despair.

With the large-scale service of breech-loading rifles in the world's major armies, the relative Mini rifles have also been sold in large quantities and introduced to the market by various countries.

So much so that some backward small indigenous countries have changed their guns in recent years!

Like this poor army of the Kingdom of Hawaii. I also bought a batch of second-hand Mini rifles!

However, the actual combat effectiveness of these indigenous soldiers using Mini rifles was very different from that of the Mini rifles used by the armies of the Great Powers.

As a front-loading rifle, the Mini rifle wants to give full play to the advantages of this rifle. Then you have to use a line formation to make a salvo.

The requirements for the army are very high, which is rarely possible for the indigenous army.

These indigenous armies were armed with mini rifles. Its combat power is not much stronger than that of them with swords, bows and arrows!

The situation is like this, these indigenous troops of the Hawaiian Kingdom are facing the attack of the Chinese marines, and they have no courage to resist, so they can only hide behind the building bunkers, and they do not even shoot back.

Fang Xindong and his comrades-in-arms advanced while suppressing with firepower, and soon rushed to the front of the tax building, at this time, they saw a strong Marine soldier holding a black grenade from his waist, and then after lighting the fire rope with a fire breaker, he threw the black grenade through the window with force. Immediately afterward, a dull explosion was heard in the building.

Although the grenades equipped by the Chinese army are very primitive and the explosion power is not large, the effect is still good in close offensive and defensive battles, especially when targeting the enemy behind some covers.

The Chinese army began to be equipped with hand grenades very early, and in recent years it has been improved one after another, and now it is the arquebus grenade designed by the Royal Arms Company in service.

Ignition with an arquebus, cast-iron cartridge casing, filled with black powder!

In fact, this is very reluctant to say that the shells are very reluctant. It should be said that it is a hand-held explosives bag that is more figurative, and it is also lit with an arquebus.

Due to the limited power of black powder, in order to ensure the power of the explosion, the charge is relatively large, and the more the charge, the larger the projectile body. At the same time, the larger the projectile, the heavier the whole projectile.

In fact, although the Chinese army used hand grenades very early, in fact, hand grenades have not had a high status in the Chinese army. Grenades are rarely used on a large scale in combat.

The grenades of these years were subject to slow firing and at the same time had a large weight. The power is also limited, so most of them are defensive grenades. It is used more often by the troops when they are in defensive operations.

Especially in some places where the fortress is fixed, there are more grenade reserves.

As for the use of grenades in the field, to be honest, there are not many times!

This has to do with contemporary patterns of warfare.

Hand grenades were widely used in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, because the mode of warfare at that time was dominated by fortress attack and defense, and the development of guns was relatively slow, so early hand grenades were also widely used in field warfare. However, in the 19th century, with the development of gun technology, the mode of engagement gradually shifted from fortress attack and defense to line engagement, and the distance of line battle became larger and larger. Muskets and artillery became more and more lethal, which made the early grenades lose their value of survival on the battlefield.

Throughout the Napoleonic Wars, the Crimean War, the American Civil War, the Prussian-Danish War, and the Franco-Prussian War and the Austro-Prussian War, there were no grenades in these large-scale wars.

This is not to say that countries are unaware of the existence of grenades, but the development of gun technology and changes in combat modes have made early grenades lose their survival value.

In what kind of battlefield should a grenade be valuable?

In the offensive and defensive battles of fixed positions, especially in the offensive and defensive battles of trench fortresses, grenades can play their due role to attack the enemy hiding behind trenches and bunkers.

The resurgence of hand grenades in the Russo-Japanese War and their large-scale use in the First World War were directly due to the prevalence of trenches.

In recent years, there have not been many opportunities for the Chinese army to actually use grenades!

However, with the widespread use of rear-loading rifles, when the enemy could not resist the dense fire of rear-loading rifles, and then began to be mostly behind cover, the grenade once again ushered in its era.

One, two, or even more grenades were thrown at the tax building, and muffled explosions and clouds of smoke and dust were coming out of it.

After throwing the grenade once, the lieutenant who commanded the troops had already drawn his saber and shouted: "Kill!" ”

In other words, he took the lead and directly held a saber in one hand and a revolver in the other, and then rushed towards the tax building!

Beside him, a dozen or so soldiers with bayonets also rushed forward quickly!

Fang Xindong was also like them, rushing up with a rifle, and as soon as he entered the door, he found that the smoke and dust in the house had not yet dissipated, and the explosion of multiple grenades just now filled the house with the smell of gunsmoke.

Although the gunpowder smoke was pungent and even more stinging to the eyes, Fang Xindong still quickly saw a figure shaking in the room, and he didn't have time to think, so he directly pulled the trigger of the rifle in his hand.

With the crisp sound of gunshots, a ball of fire came out of the rifle in Fang Xindong's hand, and a cloud of white smoke also came out of the muzzle of the gun.

After the gunshot, Fang Xindong didn't think about whether he hit the target or not, but rushed forward directly with a rifle!

The preloaded bullets had already been fired, and now in this hand-to-hand combat environment, there was no extra time for him to reload the second bullet, so he rushed directly with the rifle that had already been loaded with the bayonet.

At this time, in this environment, bayonets were far more reliable than bullets!

The bullet may not be able to guarantee the hit, and the hit may not be able to guarantee the hit of the enemy's vital point, but if it is a bayonet, the enemy's body will be 100% more than a blood hole, and the position of the bayonet hit is generally the enemy's chest, which has to be stabbed, the enemy has a great chance of dying on the spot, even if he does not die on the spot, but he will immediately lose his combat effectiveness, and the follow-up will not last long, and he will still die because of serious injuries.

In this era of infantry engagement, there is still no weapon that can crush the enemy more effectively and quickly than the bayonet!

This is also the fundamental reason why all modern armies, including the Chinese army, in this era attach great importance to the ability to fight with bayonets!

Since the day Fang Xindong joined the army, bayonet training has occupied a great weight in his daily training, and as a veteran who has been in the army for three years, his tactical ability in all aspects is much stronger than those recruits, and white-knuckle combat is even better than that of soldiers in the army.

He took a few quick steps, gripped the rifle in his hand tightly, and without hesitation, plunged the bayonet at the tip of the rifle into the chest of an indigenous soldier, who was not even interested in looking at his face that had become hideous from pain, and immediately pulled it out after stabbing it.

In the next moment, the bayonet still stained with blood was facing another indigenous soldier again!

Gunshots, shouts, and screams of pain soon filled the tax building.

In less than two minutes, all kinds of noises in the building stopped, and the platoon that had just captured the tax building did not even stop for even a minute, and soon came out, and then continued to attack the port city.

At this time, in the building, the smoke and dust that had not yet fallen, were littered with corpses, and the blood soaked the floor red!

The sound of gunfire continued to sound in this small port, and by the time Colonel Guo Yi stepped on land in the evening, the Marines had already announced that they had conquered this port and the small batteries on both sides.

"Through three hours of fierce fighting, our army has completely defeated the enemy's resistance, incomplete statistics killed 120 enemy soldiers, captured more than 50 people, and an unknown number of enemy troops fled, in addition to our army also captured a batch of ordnance and other materials,!" A young captain in charge of specific operations on land was reporting the battle situation to Guo Yi.

"On the side of our army, two people were killed and six others were wounded!"

"At present, the troops are already arming to prevent the enemy's counterattack, and at the same time, they have also sent troops to pursue the fleeing enemy soldiers!" (To be continued.) )