Chapter 290: The Iron Blood Army Strikes

Commander-in-chief Liu Mingzhao glanced at the enemy position opposite with a telescope and said with a smile: "On an amateur level, their fortifications are not bad. ”

Peng Dechao, the commander of the First Army on the side, said with a smile: "It's a pity that they ran into us, the Iron Blood Army is an expert in defense, and it is naturally very good at breaking through defense." ”

Liu Mingzhao said with a smile: "Then you will use your own First Army to take full responsibility for this attack, and I will lead the Fourth Division to prepare for the volley." ”

Peng Dechao smiled: "Deputy commander, you can just take a look." ”

In order to shake the enemy's morale, Peng Dechao let his troops attack only in the south, leaving a way for the defenders in the city to escape. The next morning, hundreds of cannons of the First Army of the Predator Army raised their muzzles and aimed at targets in the city.

In the ranks of heavy artillery, there are not only hundreds of 105 mm howitzers, but also dozens of 155 mm howitzers and 203 mm siege artillery, and the attack power is absolutely very strong, so when the Iron Blood Army began to shell, Cheng Jiajun was immediately knocked unconscious.

Cheng Feng, who had been waiting for the other party's attack for a day and a night, was extremely anxious to turn around the command post, and when he heard the sound of artillery, his spirit was shocked, and he finally started, if he waited like this, he would collapse. But then he found out that something was wrong, the density of the opponent's artillery fire was too great, and the dense explosion sound of the front-line position even made Cheng Feng feel that all the artillery of the Cheng family together might not have such a big momentum.

Since the regular army of the Xia family is a regular army in China, they are very well equipped with weapons and equipment, and there are naturally a lot of artillery. The Cheng family's army, which had fought against the Xia family, habitually hid in the trenches to avoid the attack of the opponent's shells, but soon they realized that they were wrong.

When the huge 203-millimeter shells roared in, they hit the solid ground hard, blowing the ground out of a deep pit with a diameter of more than 20 meters, and even from a distance of 40 meters, the soldiers of the Cheng Jiajun hiding in the trenches were all shocked to death.

At this time, these soldiers of the Cheng family army realized that although the same artillery bombardment was carried out, this artillery bombardment was also heavyweight, and the artillery of the Iron Blood Army was definitely the most heavyweight in the world, and it was not a little different from the Xia family's seventy-six mm artillery.

Recruits are afraid of artillery, veterans are afraid of machine guns. When the recruits of the Cheng Jiajun were subjected to such heavy shelling and began to suffer casualties, their hearts were already panicking. Under the intense artillery fire, many of the recruits were so frightened that they crawled out of the trenches, threw away their rifles and fled to the rear.

However, such a move was even more dangerous, and the deserters, who had lost the protection of the trenches, were quickly torn to shreds by shells that exploded nearby. On the battlefield, flesh and blood flew everywhere, people's stumps and arms were broken, and internal organs flew everywhere, making the position of the Cheng family's army like hell, and a large number of collapsed trenches buried a lot of soldiers who were honestly guarding the trenches.

When half an hour after the shelling, the artillery of the Predators began to shoot extendedly, and the Predator soldiers, who had been waiting impatiently in the forward positions, began to charge under the cover of light and heavy machine guns and mortars.

Different from the cluster charge that is now popular in the world, the charge of the Predator seems to be very orderly, they are divided into battle groups one by one, using all the obstacles they can use to conceal, and slowly approach the opponent's position.

Cheng Jiajun also secretly purchased some heavy machine guns from the Cossack Empire before this uprising, but unfortunately the heavy machine guns were not easy to move, so soon after they fired, the snipers of the Predator Army targeted these fire points. The Heavy was knocked down one by one, and after seven or eight Heavy changes, no one dared to touch these fatal guys anymore.

Cheng Jiajun's junior officers still have some ability, most of them are experienced veterans from the garrison, but unfortunately Cheng Jiajun's biggest sorrow is that there is a slight difference between the uniforms of officers and soldiers. The soldiers wore soft cloth hats, and only the officers wore hard-brimmed caps, and it was such a little difference that caused the tragedy of Cheng Jiajun.

After clearing the machine-gun fire points, the snipers of the Predator Army found these officers with hard-brimmed caps, and as a result, these officers would be sniped as soon as they showed their heads, and soon no officers dared to risk their lives to stick their heads out.

The junior officers of Cheng Jiajun were unable to know the situation of the Dao and lost their command ability, and they soon suffered hardship. When the soldiers of the Iron Blood Army touched a few dozen meters in front of the position, they threw out the anti-infantry grenades in their hands.

Anti-infantry grenades filled with steel balls exploded in the trenches, and the iron shells of the grenades scattered with hot steel balls, leaving a large number of soldiers wounded and falling in the trenches.

The soldiers of the second line of defense were blocked by the heavy artillery barrage of the Iron Blood Army, unable to support the front line, and could only watch the Iron Blood Army rush forward with a rifle with a bayonet, and the Cheng Jiajun, who was blown up by the grenade, had no fighting spirit to surrender obediently, and a few stubborn ones were directly nailed to the ground with bayonets by the soldiers of the Iron Blood Army.

The rapid advance of the Iron-Blooded Army startled Cheng Feng, and he didn't expect that he had attacked for half a month and suffered nearly 10,000 casualties before he captured the first line of defense, and the Iron-Blooded Army actually captured it with a single charge, and the casualties were very small. Cheng Feng knew that if he continued like this, he would not be able to hold it for long, so he immediately ordered the artillery to shell the first line of defense.

The caliber of Cheng Jiajun's artillery is generally small, which is also a common phenomenon in pure infantry units before the appearance of trucks, and it is impossible to march long distances with large-caliber artillery by relying on people to pull horses on their shoulders, and the use of too many horses to pull artillery trucks is easy to cause confusion among troops.

Large groups of horses are also very difficult to serve, so pure infantry units generally carry a variety of light artillery under 76 mm, because these guns are easy to move, even over mountains and mountains can also be carried by infantry, so many people call them mountain artillery, or infantry artillery.

Cheng Jiajun is such a pure infantry unit, or in today's world, all the infantry except for the iron-blooded army and the guards of the Chinese Collar are pure infantry units, so most of Cheng Jiajun's artillery is 76 mm mountain artillery, or 52 mm flat artillery. Although these guns had a close range, they were all deployed on the city walls and fired from a high position, which greatly increased their range.