Chapter Seventy-One: Run
"Bang Bang"
The militiamen suddenly got up and opened fire, and the rushing British fell in a large platoon, which was then filled by the soldiers behind. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info The British sent out all their soldiers in a desperate gamble, and the defending militia opened fire, reloaded, fired, and reloaded......
However, the enemy did not seem to have diminished in the slightest, and continued to advance steadily.
"The front row is responsible for shooting, and the rear row is loaded!"
The militia was not rigorously trained to do the continuous three-stage firing like the British. Reloading and transposing work poorly, which is a waste of time. I simply let the front row just shoot, and the back row reloads them, anyway, the British army is dense, and there is no need to worry that people with poor marksmanship can't hit, as long as the firepower is maintained.
The sudden dense rain of bullets made the British army suffer, and the queue slowly stopped.
"Push the cannon up!"
I commanded the gunners to push the artillery to the front line, the scatter bomb was amazingly powerful, but the range was too short and the killing range was too wide, and it had to be on the front line to be used.
While pushing the artillery while observing the situation in front, the front is still full of gunfire, from time to time there are militiamen who fall on their heads, while inflicting huge casualties on the British army, our own casualties are also high, and the corpses carried down have blocked the road behind, I silently calculated the casualty rate to judge how long these militiamen can hold on.
Normally at 30 percent there will be cowardice, and these militias will collapse when they reach 40 percent at most, and now we are not far from this red line.
When the deserters first appeared, we successfully pushed the artillery up, and the three deserters tried to attack them when they were blocked by Jiang Yitao and others, and were almost killed by the angry members of the team.
Seeing the deserters tied under my feet, I didn't know what to do for a while, although the soldiers in front were still shooting or loading, but their eyes were glancing at this side from time to time, and if they didn't handle it well, they might mutini on the spot.
It's easy to kill directly, but it may make the people below have no good impression of me, you must know that I am still an imposter commander, and I must consider whether I will be liquidated because of this after the battle. If the treatment is light, it is difficult to guarantee that no one will follow suit.
"Tie them up first, and deal with them when you get down the mountain"
I'll have to be an ostrich and leave this problem to the command under the mountain.
"Boom"
A long shot was a severe test for the barrel of the rifle, and one rifle could not hold out and blew up.
"Ahh
The wounded soldier clutched his wrists and rolled on the ground, the front line was in chaos, and the sound of gunfire slowly subsided.
"Carry it to the back and bandage it, the others continue, the enemy is coming!"
I walked to the breastwork and saw that the British had seized the opportunity to get closer to less than 50 meters, and the situation was extremely critical!
"Give me a gun!"
I reached back with my backhand, a rifle was handed to me, I raised my gun to aim and pulled the trigger, and a British soldier fell.
"Come again!"
This time, no gun was handed over, I turned around, and the loaded soldier fell to the ground with blood on his forehead, and Wang Li picked up the gun and was working hard to reload.
"To you"
I took the gun, thought about it, and said:
"Go to the back to treat the wounded, don't come to the front line"
After saying that, he pulled the trigger, and then took out the gunpowder package and loaded the bullet. Wang Li pursed her lips, and finally lowered her head and turned to leave.
The enemy was already in sight, and many of the militiamen stopped firing and took out their bayonets, loaded them, and watched me waiting for the order to attack.
"Squat down for me, artillery ready!"
Guns loaded with scattered shells don't need to be melons, it's time for the British to taste the bayonets on the cannons!
When the British army rushed to within 20 meters, I waved and shouted:
"Fire!"
"Boom!"
The artillery fire was earth-shattering, and the pieces of iron pierced through the British crowd, and the British soldiers at the front could not see it, they looked like corpses after being killed.
There was blood, severed limbs and internal organs all over the place. Only a few died on the spot, and most of the British soldiers either fell to the ground and howled, or ran around covering their wounds.
The British troops behind were frightened by the sight of the Shura slaughterhouse, and they all stopped and did not dare to step forward.
I didn't see these sights because I was hit hard when the cannon was fired.
The gun in front of me was overcharged, and the heavy barrel flew backwards so hard that I couldn't avoid being smashed in the waist.
"Brother You!"
The members of the clan panicked, threw down what they were doing and ran over. I tried to get up, but I felt like I had been stabbed in the waist, and I didn't have any strength.
"I'm fine, what's wrong with the enemy?"
"It's already gone, you better worry more about your injuries."
Wang Li gave me a brief examination of the injury, and the result was very pessimistic, the bone in my waist may be cracked, and I need to recuperate.
"Lift Me Up"
I propped my hands on the ground and tried to get up.
"Don't move! You can't go to the front anymore, you need to recuperate! ā
Wang Li pressed me down and didn't let me get up.
"Let go of me, I have to go over and help me!"
At my insistence, Wang Li helped me to the front line. The enemy retreated, leaving behind only large swaths of flesh and blood.
"Report sir! We're running out of ammo! ā
A soldier came running up to me and told me bad news.
"How many more?"
"There are still a lot of lead bullets, but there is not enough gunpowder, only three rounds per person. The artillery also has a powder pack for firing once, but the iron piece is gone, so you can only use solid bullets."
"Search carefully again to see if there is any omission, and send someone to examine the corpses of the British soldiers to see if there is any gain. Smashed the damaged weapon and stuffed it into the barrel. ā
"Yes, sir!"
When the soldier left, Wang Li asked in a low voice, "Can we still hold on?" ā
"No, you go and inform the rest of the team, always be ready to evacuate"
I held the command knife in my hand and watched the movement of the enemy down the mountain. It is strange that it was still early, and the enemy did not attack again. It's not like giving up, because the enemy is still in the whole team.
Thinking of the enemy's initial naval artillery bombardment, a cold sweat broke out in an instant.
"Quick! Hide in the back! Enemy shelling is coming! ā
The soldiers of the entire defense line retreated to the other slope at the top of the hill in disbelief, leaving only a few clever observers.
"Woo~" "Boom"!
The enemy shelling really came, and the soldiers lying on the ground were terrified, and they all looked at me with the expression of seeing God.
I didn't explain much, but the necessary sophistication still has to be pretended.
The shelling lasted a long time, much longer than the first. As soon as the cannon fire stopped, I took my soldiers and fixed it. This time, the British did not wait for the artillery to completely stop and began the attack.
By the time the warriors had come up, the enemy was already close at hand.
"Fire!"
The soldiers who had just come up didn't have time to rest, and the battle broke out directly!
I endured severe pain in my lower back and was always commanding from the front. As time passed, the guns of the counterattack became weaker and weaker, and we were about to run out of ammunition.
Later, Wang Li and the others had already begun to secretly transport the wounded to prepare for the evacuation.
The enemy guessed what we were thinking, and no longer kept a neat line, but went straight to all of them.
"Artillery fire!"
The last big killer was used in the roar, and the loss of the top of the mountain was inevitable.
"The whole army retreats!"