Chapter 63: Who's the Strongest?

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That's right, it's not a martial victory! From beginning to end, Buchen never doubted that he would lose this decisive battle!

It's not blind self-confidence, it's something that comes from great strength! Perhaps, Charlie is a general! Perhaps, Charlie's army was not much worse than his army in terms of fighting qualities! However, it has to be said that the outcome of a war is determined not only by the will of the people and the number of troops, but also by the degree of advancement of the equipment; if the equipment can be several eras ahead of the enemy, thus producing a qualitative change, then even if the strength of the troops is far inferior to the opponent, the will to fight is not superior, and the balance of victory will still be tilted in favor of the superior side of the equipment!

"All but artillery, a hundred steps forward!"

The commander-in-chief of the campaign, Wang Ergen, sent an order to all the Chinese generals on the battlefield through the terminal!

Buchen gave Wang Ergen a thumbs up: "Ergen, your vision is very sharp!" ”

"The emperor has won the prize!" Wang Ergen smiled humbly. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Wang Ergen's intentions are not complicated, anyone who can read the battlefield situation can see at a glance that the reason why Bryze's Western Empire heavy infantry can stand in line with the Chinese army at this time is completely due to the advantage of distance. With a distance of about 200 paces, even rifled guns cannot maintain particularly high accuracy, which directly leads to the fact that even if the Chinese army's artillery fire and platoon guns are on the same level, the Western Imperial Army still has enough time to fill the gap in the formation after each round of damage, to put it bluntly, it is a mathematical problem, the firepower of the Chinese army is not strong enough, and it can always be offset by the enemy's numerical superiority. In order to break this stalemate, the only solution is to increase firepower, and the easiest way to strengthen firepower is to reduce the distance between the two sides and improve the accuracy of rifled guns, so as to destroy the enemy's battle formation with overwhelming firepower superiority!

However, as the distance between the two sides approaches, the accuracy of the six-stone strong crossbow will also be improved accordingly, therefore, Wang Ergen's decision can be said to be a double-edged sword, and the only difference between the two sides in the face of this move may be that the Chinese army can withstand the casualties, while the Western Imperial Army can't withstand it!

"Damn! It's just forcing people to die! After receiving the order, Liu Dade took off the steel helmet on his head and threw it on the ground like a military hat!

Just kidding, take the initiative to approach, and use the life-for-life tactics to destroy the enemy, there is no difference between having a steel helmet and not having a steel helmet! This bit of protection can't do anything, if you want to live, it's better to pray to God to fight for a white face!

When the guards saw that the master was so decisive, they also took off their steel helmets one after another, threw them on the ground, and even threw off their cuirasses - a toy that will be pierced in 200 steps, and a hundred steps forward has the protective value of a spicy man?!

"Haha! This is the spirit that you want, go! Go with Lao Tzu to beat up the white-skinned ghosts in the Western Continent! ”

Liu Dade laughed heartily, picked up a rifle, separated the front row array and strode towards the forefront, the guards followed him, and there was no trace of fear on everyone's face!

Witnessing this scene, even the political commissar Cao Pu was moved, picked up a rifle and followed behind, while walking forward, this person also shouted at the artillerymen who stayed in place: "Fight ~ artillery, the aftermath of the brothers will be left to you!" ”

To tell the truth, if it weren't for the fact that they didn't have a rifle, they could only rely on hitting ~ artillery if they wanted to kill the enemy, and the artillerymen had already rushed to the front line with the division seat at this time, looking at the generals who resolutely rushed to death, the artillerymen's eyes were red, and the speed of loading shells suddenly accelerated a few points!

How the other four infantry divisions on the front line were willing to fall behind Liu Dade's 109th Division, they were also led by divisional generals, and all senior officers rushed to the front line!

……

At this moment, Blaise is in the middle of the line.

"Soldiers, the time has come to be loyal to the Western Empire! Follow me! Blaise drew his sword from his waist in one hand and shouted with a resolute expression.

"Long live the Emperor! Long live the Western Empire! At this time, even fools know that the time has come to fight hard, and the Western Empire soldiers in this formation just shouted along, and then followed Blaise resolutely into the Shura field!

With the two sides advancing, the distance was quickly shortened to one hundred and fifty steps!

"Stop, squat down in the front row...... Raise your gun...... Aim...... Three rows of volleys! ”

Liu Dade held a rifled rifle in his hand, and stood side by side with his guards in the first row of the battle line, and the grassroots commanders did not give orders by themselves this time, but handed over the command of the battle to Liu Dade, the commander of the first division, and let His Excellency the division seat personally shout the battle order, and they just followed and conveyed!

Unlike before, because the battle formation was in a state of advancement, it was inconvenient to change the formation and reload, so the Chinese army did not maintain a four-row line formation and use two rounds of salvos, but changed the formation into three rows before launching the attack, turning the salvo into a large salvo of three rows, so that although the number of attacks was less, the firepower of a single attack was 50% stronger, and the lethality became more terrifying!

"Fire!"

Liu Dade's first row was half-kneeling on the ground and raised his gun to aim, the second row stood to aim, and the third row put the muzzle on the shoulder of the second row to aim.

"Woo !!"

Nearly 3,000 people fell to the ground in the enemy formation one hundred and fifty paces away, and compared to the previous shooting at 200 paces, the result of this battle was about 30 percent greater, and the effect of increasing the hit rate was vividly displayed!

It's just that Liu Dade didn't take a look at the results of the battle, and after standing up from the ground, he continued to move forward with the battle formation, while quickly reloading the ammunition, directly ignoring the enemy! Even the sudden trembling of the bowstring in the face of the enemy formation did not make him frown!

At this moment, the division seat of the 109th Division of the Royal Army has completely surrendered his life to heaven!

Liu Dade's luck was good, this volley of the enemy did not hit him, but only pinned a few guards around him to the ground, he did not look at the brothers who had been with him day and night, just loaded ammunition like a cold war machine, after the reloading, he raised his voice again and shouted:

"Stop, squat down in the front row...... Raise your gun...... Aim...... Three rows of volleys! ”

At this time, the gap around Liu Dade had been filled by the soldiers in the back row, and the 109th Division, as before, once again put on a salvo posture under his order!

"Fire!"

One hundred and twenty steps, at this distance, the accuracy of the rifled gun has become very terrible! The Western Imperial Army on the opposite side fell to the ground with five thousand people this time, and the entire front array was almost swept away!

"Haven't arrived at the intended location yet, keep going!"

Liu Dade stood up, took out a paper shell bomb and walked forward while loading, as before, without looking at the situation on the other side at all, calmly like a machine!

However, his luck was almost exhausted, and in the next volley of the enemy, a short javelin-like wooden feather crossbow bolt hit his flank, piercing his breastplate like piercing a piece of paper, and burrowing into his body!

"Ugh!" Liu Dade clenched his teeth, but let out a muffled snort, and at the same time, he pulled out the dagger on his waist and swung it fiercely, cutting off the part of the angry arrow that was left outside his body!

"Master!"

The only remaining guard around him saw this scene and wanted to help Liu Dade, but he pushed him away!

"I'm good, I can fight! Leave me alone! ”

Liu Dade endured the severe pain and squeezed out these nine words between his teeth.

The guard hesitated, but finally withdrew his hand and continued to reload his ammunition.

Liu Dade smiled with relief, threw away the dagger, and continued to load the bullet with a trembling hand, without stopping, and continued to follow the queue.

100 steps to the end.

This time, the grassroots officers did not wait for Liu Dade, who was seriously injured, to speak, and issued a stop order together.

However, the 109th Division waited for the Chinese army to stop, but the Western Imperial Army was still advancing!

"Shizao, is that the enemy's general?"

As soon as Liu Dade finished loading ammunition with pain, the guard pointed to a guy in gorgeous armor in the opposite formation and said.

Liu Dade glanced up at the guy in gorgeous armor and found that the other party was holding a crossbow machine, and he happened to be face to face with him.

"Maybe!"

Liu Dade wiped the sweat on his head, and said with a forced smile: "Dare to go to the front line, you are a man!" ”

"Master, do we want to shoot a salvo?" The guard swept the rifle that was already loaded in his hand.

Liu Dade shook his head slightly: "It's not time yet." ”

"Not then?!" The guard asked in surprise.

"That's right!" Liu Dade looked up at the sky, "When the fire rain arrives, it will be the time of the salvo!" ”

The guard was stunned and didn't say anything more.

The enemy's tenacity has completely exceeded the expectations of the imperial army, if it cannot completely destroy the enemy army in the next salvo, then it will enter a white-knuckle battle, and that is not the strength of the imperial soldiers who were born in ordinary people and have not cultivated their fighting spirit!

The artillerymen didn't let Liu Dade wait longer, and just a few seconds later, there was an earth-shattering sound of artillery salvo from the rear of the battle array!

"The time has come! Brothers, salvo! Let these Western Continent ghosts understand that our Chinese soldiers are invincible! ”

Looking at the meteor rain that crossed the sky and fell towards the enemy formation, Liu Dade roared with all his strength.

Although Liu Dade's salvo order this time was not standardized, none of the officers and men of the 109th Division did not understand what to do at this time.

"Boom! Bang! ”

The shells fell into the column of the enemy formation, and the enemy soldiers who were about to fill their positions were bombarded, and they suffered heavy casualties!

"Damn it!" Blaise glanced back behind him, then at the enemy in front of him, who was already in a salvo stance, immediately raised his bow and crossbow, and shouted hoarsely:

"Shoot !!"

"It's a pity that you will die first!"

Liu Dade pulled the trigger at the same time as Blaise shouted the word "arrow", and when he heard his gunshot, the soldiers of the 109th Division did not have the slightest eggshell, and the bullets in the chamber were neatly fired in the next moment!

"Dry ...... Pretty! ”

General Blaise looked down at the smoking bullet hole in his chest, tilted his body, and fell to the ground!

Before Blaise fell, there were few people standing in the heavy infantry formation of the entire Western Imperial Army, not only was the front row swept away by the platoon of guns, but even the soldiers in the back row waiting to fill their positions were blown up by the previous artillery fire.

There is no doubt that the winner of this queue has been decided at this time, and the winner is the Royal Chinese Army!

"You're not bad either!"

Liu Dade stared at the fallen burly figure, laughed weakly, also turned his back to the sky, and fell down - although General Blaize's order was a step too late and failed to allow the soldiers of the Western Empire to shoot the last round of arrows, his own strong crossbow was fired, and the crossbow arrow accurately hit Liu Dade's right chest, causing him irreparable and fatal injuries......

On the occasion of his death, Liu Dade looked up at the blue sky, and his memory returned to the time when he first saw Buchen, when he was the monarch of Buchen personally went to the countryside to inspect, but he was just a farmer villager, he was scolded by the captain of the village militia because he stopped Buchen and did not let the other party enter the village.

At that time, he said a few words softly, and let the captain of the iron man cry like a tearful man, that scene left a very deep feeling in his heart, out of curiosity, only half a month later, he said goodbye to his parents, went to Zhenxi Fucheng to join the Buchen army, starting from a pawn, step by step by merit promotion, and finally achieved the length of a division, nearly six years of military discipline career has profoundly changed him, making him a qualified imperial soldier and general, He had already known the reason why the militia captain was in tears, and when he was about to die, he was only relieved in his heart.

"Your Majesty, it's great to have met you in the first place! It's great to join your army! Died fighting for the country, I Liu Dade, I have no regrets in this life! ”

Two lines of clear tears flowed from the corners of Liu Dade's eyes and flowed down his temples into his bun......

"The division is gone." The only surviving guard in the guard company knelt beside Liu Dade and said with tears streaming down his face.