Chapter 176: The Battle of Despair
Through the lenses, you can see that on the second floor attic of a mansion in the distance, a young and beautiful little lady is lying on the window lattice, looking at the scenery in the city, a rather handsome boy is close to her back, the two wolf paws are not restless at all, the little lady only struggles slightly, and then lets him do nothing.
After Song Xiance accidentally discovered that the monocular had this kind of benefit, he fell more and more in love with this baby, and also fell in love with this bad hobby, the monocular is definitely a very good baby.
"The military division, the people's army has been killed."
Hearing the report of his own soldiers, Song Xiance responded, reluctantly turned around, faced the outside of the city, and held a monocular to observe.
Under the city, the people's army came like a tide, and then stopped outside the range of the Franco's cannons, and began to form a chaotic formation, the team looked quite messy, but Wang Ziyong and other leaders could not care about these anymore, they came to the front of the formation on war horses, and saw the fortress standing outside the city, their faces were pale and bloodless.
There was a bit of luck before, but now, they are all desperate, Sun Chuanting really dug a big pit for them, and this pit is in Yangquan Pass, at this time, if you want to retreat again, think of other ways, I'm afraid it's too late, Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army has already chased behind the buttocks.
However, in despair, they still have a glimmer of hope, maybe the scum of the official army in Yangquan Pass, they can break through the encirclement and break out, after all, when people are desperate, the potential that bursts out is still quite terrifying.
"Brothers, we have no way out, only by killing can we have a chance to live, and if we don't want to die, we can only break through those fortresses."
Wang Ziyong shouted loudly, explaining the current critical situation to tens of thousands of subordinates, so that they could burst out in despair with super combat effectiveness, and those who didn't want to die could only fight and fight again, defeat the officers and troops blocking the road in front of them, and fight their way out of the encirclement.
"Kill, kill, kill!"
The desperate soldiers of the People's Army roared in unison, and indeed burst out with a fierce fighting spirit, and the combat power doubled in an instant, and then under the command of the small leaders, they launched a decisive charge to the first fortress.
"Open fire."
Song Xiance has been holding a monocular to observe the movement of the people's army, and saw that the people's army entered the effective range of the Francophone cannon, and immediately ordered the artillery bombardment, he didn't see the people's army set up the cannon, and he was immediately relieved.
The 25 Franc cannons erected at the head of the city fired one after another, the cannon rumbled, the smoke of gunpowder billowed out, and the sound of the cannon was an order, and half of the 20 or so Franc cannons erected at the fortress outside the city also fired, and the earth-shattering explosions rang out one after another, and the earth shook for it.
One after another, the flowering bullets exploded in the dense crowd of people's troops, and the stumps and broken arms were thrown everywhere, shrapnel flew everywhere, and pieces of people's soldiers fell down with screams, and the wounded and undead lay in pools of blood struggling and shouting.
"Big brother, the artillery of the official army is too powerful......"
Gao Yingxiang frowned, watching the flames and smoke of the explosions drown the soldiers in pieces, his heart was dripping blood, although the first attack echelon sent up was cannon fodder, used to consume the ammunition, physical strength and fighting spirit of the officers and soldiers, but the lethality of the guns of the officers and soldiers was too terrifying, hundreds of times stronger than the solid iron bullets fired, only one wave of bombardment, most of the soldiers of the first attack echelon fell.
The remnants of the people's army fled back in embarrassment, no matter how the small leaders stopped and cursed, and they were unwilling to charge again, today's people's army, in addition to the brothers who had fought a lot of vicious battles with Wang Ziyong, Gao Yingxiang and others before, can be called elite, most of the new joiners are gangsters who can't get along in various places, or people with small ambitions, which not only leads to the corruption of the military discipline of the people's army, the damage to its reputation, but also leads to a decline in combat effectiveness.
In order to rectify the military discipline and regain the fighting spirit, Wang Zi chopped off the heads of more than a dozen unlucky people, gave a stern warning, and then ordered the second attack echelon to attack, and at the same time transferred another army to line up outside the range of the Franc machine gun, in case the officers and soldiers in the city suddenly opened the city to kill.
The second attack echelon shouted and launched an attack, and dozens of Francophone cannons at the head of the city and the fortress also roared, and one by one the flowering shells fell into the dense group of people's army, blowing up a cloud of fire and gunsmoke, and pieces of people's army screamed and fell, but the remaining people's army still charged bravely and fearlessly, and they had no choice, and they were dead when they retreated, and they did not necessarily die when they rushed forward, and they also fell to the ground and pretended to be dead in the fierce artillery bombardment, anyway, the ground was full of broken corpses and wounded soldiers struggling to shout, if the battlefield was not cleaned up, Who will find someone lying on the ground and pretending to be dead?
Dozens of Franc cannons only fired three rounds of flowering shells to stop roaring, the Ming army is still equipped with front-loading Franc cannons, after a cannon has to clean up the gunpowder residue in the chamber, even if the fixed ammunition is used, to avoid the explosion of the chamber due to too much gunpowder, and the rate of fire is still very slow, coupled with the desperate charge of the people's army, most of them have crossed the range of the artillery, and bombardment of a small number of people is simply a waste of shells.
Bang bang –
The Ming musketeers in the fortress fired the first wave of bullets under the command of the officer, and the civilian soldiers who were at the forefront of the charge fell miserably, and the rest were still charging bravely, and with the second round of gunfire, dozens of people fell.
Bang –
A sporadic gunshot rang out, and the small leader of the people's army who was responsible for leading the charge fell down with a scream, followed by three more gunshots, and two more small leaders fell down with a scream.
By the time the fourth round of guns of the Ming army rang out, there were only more than 100 people left in the charging civilian army, and they had just rushed to the bottom of the mud wall of the fortress, when dozens of thunderbolts suddenly fell from the sky and smashed under their feet, and the unfortunate ones were directly hit in the head or body, and fell on the spot.
"Mom, it's thunder, run......"
The quick hiss screamed, turned around and ran, they didn't suffer less from the thunder, as soon as this thing exploded, a piece of brothers fell, and if they didn't run, they could only wait for death.
However, no matter how fast he ran, he could not outrun the shrapnel that was fired in all directions, and the thunder that landed exploded in seven or eight seconds, and the shrapnel cut through clothes, cut through the skin, and burrowed into the flesh, bringing severe pain in the spine, and those who were shot all fell down with screams.
The ping-pong guns rang out again, the only remaining 20 or so militiamen all fell in a pool of blood, the second attack echelon was wiped out, such a tragic situation, so that the people watching the battle from a distance were all frightened, the firepower of the Ming army in front of them was terrifying, and there were many artillery, more terrible than Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army.
Wang Ziyong and the other leaders twitched out of their eyes, and their hearts were chilled, but at this moment, if they didn't fight, there was no way to live, they planned to rush again, and if they didn't work, they would break up and run away.