Chapter 66 Weapons of Mass Destruction

(I rarely ask for tickets, and today I have to be cheeky to ask everyone, ask for recommendations, ask for collections, and bow!!) )

Ding Huai ordered not to shoot and sent someone to pick up the seven or eight lucky people. But the French army on the other side was not happy, they originally accused the Vietnamese mercenaries of rebellion, these people survived, so they didn't have to redress their grievances? How will it end?

Suddenly, the French army fired a wave of guns, and Yuan Shikai shouted: "Quick, quickly open the cannon to cover them!" Immediately, more than a dozen artillery pieces opened fire on the French troops, and in a puff of smoke and dust, two Vietnamese were finally rescued. They will be the most haode propagandists, who can go around giving lectures and completely ruining the reputation of the French army, then the Chinese army will be transformed into a righteous side, which will be of great political benefit.

These two poor fellows, who have been trembling, for them, today's adventure is too absurd, just now they were subordinates of the French army, and now they have become the guests of the Chinese army, the line of life and death, ups and downs, as if they have not woken up in a dream.

Petain couldn't care so much at the moment, and with more than a thousand lives, he was stunned to open up a safe area hundreds of meters wide on the battlefield. The passage to the opposing positions has been opened, the road to victory has been paved, and the victors are not condemned.

At his command, all the artillery bombarded the thick-walled positions, and in the past few days, the French had accurately located the defensive positions by hot air balloons, providing the artillery groups with precise indication coordinates. In an instant, the entire defensive position was shaken, the thick wall was constantly hit by heavy artillery, the wall was smashed out of large pits, and the defenders were even more pressed by the artillery fire and could not raise their heads, and shrank in the fortress.

This thick wall, called the wall, is more like a great wall, with a large number of fortresses built on the thick wall, and the whole wall is not built in a straight line, but in a jagged shape. Thanks to such a design, when the shell falls and explodes, the resulting fragments do not fly too far. Therefore, although the French artillery fire was fierce, it did not cause major casualties.

The artillery preparations continued, the French army had begun the ground offensive, Major Brownson commanded the entire regiment of infantry, divided into several columns, all bayonets loaded, the French "Grass" rifles plus bayonets, the total length reached 1.88 meters, at a glance, it seemed like a snowy bayonet jungle, everyone knelt on one knee, quietly waiting for the attack order.

There were also some soldiers in the queue carrying sandbags, because according to the information of the balloons, there was a deep ditch in front of the thick wall of the opponent, and the French were ready to fill in the passage with haode sandbags.

As soon as the roar of the artillery ceased, the fanatical Major Bronson swung his command knife forward, and the French column howled at once, like a silent mountain forest turning into a roaring sea of rage, rushing forward like a tide along the clearing.

In an instant, the attacking force had crossed a distance of several hundred meters and approached five hundred meters in front of the position. At this time, the smoke of gunpowder on the positions of the Chinese army had not yet dispersed, the firepower of the defense had not yet been fully organized, and the French offensive seemed to be very smooth.

At this time, Yuan Shikai was holding a telescope in one hand to observe the movements of the French army, holding a table in the other hand, and looking down from time to time.

In the minefield at the front, although the French army opened up open space, it did not mean that there were no mines in the open space, and there were still a number of jumping mines, and these jumping mines were all pulled and broken down by the fuse index, and they could not be removed.

On the ground where Yuan Shikai stood, there was a metal microphone, the pipe led to the back of the thick wall, and a mine control command post underground, there were more than a dozen people in the command post, and there were more than 100 small electrode switch planks densely placed in front of them, each person was responsible for more than a dozen switches, and each wooden switch was connected to a jumping mine, as long as the switch was pressed, the metal electrodes inside were turned on, and it would detonate.

The coordinates of each plank are written on the top of the heavenly and terrestrial branches, marking the location of each jumping mine, and more than 100 jumping mines are divided into one and two areas, each with 60 jiazi. And the table in Yuan Shikai's hand is the schematic diagram of the thunder jumping.

He silently looked at the battlefield, estimating the position, in Xiangshang, where the French army was attacking, there were about thirty jumping mines, and he waited for the French army to approach, so that more people could enter the minefield. And he understands that the greatest power of mines is to deter the opponent with an unknown fear when they are buried in the ground, so he does not plan to detonate them all at once, so he has to cause damage and repel the opponent.

Estimating that the position was almost over, Yuan Shikai began to give orders through the microphone: "Pay attention to everything!" It is now launched, Xinmao, Xinhai, Renwu, Renyin, Guiwei, and Guichou in the first district, and Jiawu, Jiachen, Yiwei, Bingzi, Bingshen, and Dinghai in the second district. "

The soldiers in the command immediately flipped the switch as ordered.

On the battlefield, Major Brownson roared and rushed to the front of the ranks, his saber held high in the air, the sun shining on the blade, shining with golden light, his momentum was like a tiger descending from a mountain, no enemy could stand up straight in front of him, he had no doubt that in a moment he would be able to stand on the enemy's position, those dwarfs who were naturally short and had flat faces, would kneel in front of his boots and beg for mercy.

At this time, under the surface, there was a sudden "buzz", a very dull explosion sound, and then five or six meters in front of him, a black object broke through the ground and flew out, jumping up two meters high at once.

Brownson hadn't seen the shape of the object yet, but with the instinct of a soldier, he knew that it was going to be bad, and this obviously would not be a good fruit, so he immediately wanted to pounce to the side and lie down on the spot, but before his muscles tensed, a white light flashed, so that he couldn't see anything clearly in an instant, and almost at the same time there was a loud "boom", which was deafening, and Brownson didn't have time to react, a huge force came, and he felt that his eyes were dark, and he didn't know anything.

But the French soldiers who followed behind knew it, and they saw that Chief Brownson was torn apart in an instant, and the pieces of his body, in the white light of the explosion, like black silhouettes, flew in all directions.

Immediately after that, a large black round object rushed towards them, accompanied by a sharp impact pain all over their bodies, and they, like Brownson, knew nothing.

Of the jumping mines that were pressed on the switch, only one did not respond because of the line failure, and the rest were successfully detonated, flying out of the ground and exploding in the air one after another. The power of the explosion was huge, and at the same time, a large number of iron beads flew in all directions like bullets, which could kill and injure a radius of nearly 100 meters, especially in the area within more than 10 meters around the center of the explosion, almost instantly swept everything, and no complete object could be preserved, and none of the French soldiers who died were humanoid.

Hundreds of people were killed and injured on the spot, and the remaining soldiers completely lost their fighting spirit, and in the face of such a mine of mass destruction, people were like ants, looking extremely small and fragile.

Major General Belan in the rear was really shocked and angry, and his hands holding the binoculars trembled slightly. No wonder he was so shocked, because even as a professional military officer, this was the first time in his life that he had seen a jumping landmine. At this time, in the armies of Shijie countries, even mines have not yet been fully promoted, let alone jumping mines. In Europe in the previous life, it was not until the thirties of the twentieth century that the Germans took the lead in applying jumping mines, and for the current Belan, this weapon is naturally too "advanced".

But after Beran calmed down a little, his first thought was that since this jumping mine had exploded, then this direction should be really safe, and the offensive must be continued.

He ordered Lieutenant Colonel Castelno to lead a regiment to replace the remnants of the defeated army just now, and continue to fight back the same way, and the shouts rose again for a while.

Beran not only killed some of his subordinates today, but also performed a farce of cannibalism in front of the enemy, and the French proud chivalry was disgraced, and his face was very embarrassed, and now he is like a gambler who has lost in a hurry, and he has to get something back no matter what.

But unfortunately, when rushing into the minefield, more than a dozen thunderbolts were born, and the violent power swept the battlefield, and the French army came back crying and shouting again.

A wounded soldier was lifted in front of Belan, and the man's arm was hit by an iron ball, and the huge impact completely broke the arm bone, and miraculously the hand was not knocked off, but hung up like a part that had nothing to do with the body, and was thrown around like a pendulum.

Belan looked at the wounded soldier, his body trembling slightly as if he had malaria. Today, his subordinates have suffered seven or eight hundred casualties, but he hasn't even seen a single hair of the Chinese, and his nose is almost crooked!

It was clear that the attack could not continue any longer, and Beran had to find another way. The atrocities of the French army also greatly irritated the Vietnamese and aroused their hatred of the same enemy. That night, Nguyen Thien Shu came to the command post and brought a Vietnamese soldier to Ding Huai and Yuan Shikai, saying that this person claimed to know a secret passage to Daqing Mountain!