Shooting guns and grenades in these years can be regarded as Aka Siqi's unique skills.

With Cao Bianjiao taking the lead, the soldiers below also opened up. Because of the weight of the grenades, each person only brought two, and everyone was very precious to this thing.

The sudden explosion stunned the Mongols. They also thought that the Ming army had mortars!

It is understandable that a small group of Ming troops went around the mountain road, but it was too much to carry mortars around the mountain road. Even if you take the trouble to carry the mortar, how many shells can there be? There is only one explanation for the fact that the other side actually has such a dense number of shells, that is, this is a large army of the Ming army.

God unknowingly crossed the Star Gorge, how did he get there?

There was a brief pause in the attack, and soon Cao Bianjiao knew that he was going to stop for Mao.

When the ghost-like crying voice sounded, Cao Bianjiao's soul was about to fly.

Bazooka!

In the half-light and half-dark sky, dozens of bright spots rose. The Mongols had limited artillery shells, and small units certainly could not use rocket artillery. But the big troops, then they can do it.

Cao Bianjiao's body shrank suddenly, and the thick cotton coat covered his body. In fact, cotton clothes don't have much effect, but it's better to cover them than not to cover them.

Something suddenly pressed down on his body, and he didn't care about standing up and looking at it at this time, Cao Bianjiao covered his ears with his hands and opened his mouth, covering his cotton coat and begging not to be a heavy rocket. If that's the thing, I'll have to wait for someone to collect the body.

The sound of explosions like a tsunami in the mountains and a tsunami shook the earth with every explosion, as if someone was ramming it around. Cao Bianjiao squatted on the ground, his legs trembling like springs. I couldn't hear anything in my ears, my nose was full of earth, and my mouth was full of blood.

Finally, there was no sound, and in Cao Bianjiao's world, there was silence between heaven and earth.

"Ahem, ahem!" Cao Bianjiao coughed hoarsely.

If you can cough, it means that you are not dead. Cao Bianjiao felt that he had encountered a miracle, and the person who could survive the rocket artillery bombardment was similar to being struck by lightning while walking on the road.

His legs were sore and numb, and his bones hurt as if they were falling apart. The chest was suffocated to death, and Cao Bianjiao knew that if he continued like this, he would be suffocated to death.

I wanted to lift the cotton coat, but I felt that it was very heavy. I pushed it up, but I didn't stand up. Damn, are you going to be buried alive by the soil kicked up by the shells? This way of dying is so fucking aggrieved!

No way! Even if Lao Tzu died, he couldn't be buried alive like this.

Cao Bianjiao used all his strength and desperately pushed up. I tried my best with my legs and finally stood up like a weightlifter.

A corpse slid diagonally down, covered with a cotton coat, and bleeding from all over its face. His eyes were round, and he didn't blink his eyes when he looked at the rising sun.

This is your own guard!

The regiment commander level is equipped with guards, and the Liao army has military regulations! If the object of your protection is dead, and you are still alive. Even if you flee to the rear, you will be shot.

On the battlefield, no matter how dangerous the situation is, no guard leaves his chief.

Cao Bianjiao knew that the moment the shell fell, it was the guards who covered themselves with their bodies. In this way, he did not suffer too much impact, otherwise he would have been shocked to death by the huge shock wave like him.

It was surrounded by scorched earth, and in some places there were sporadic fires. The air was filled with the pungent smell of gunsmoke, which made Cao Bianjiao cough violently again.

In fact, on the modern battlefield, it is rare to smell blood. Especially after such a large-scale shelling, all you can smell in your nose is the smell of gunsmoke. The lungs seemed to be full of air, but they couldn't breathe it out. My chest was so stuffy that I wanted to inhale heavily, but I was choked and coughed.

Cao Bianjiao stood in the foxhole like a walking corpse, and he desperately shouted people. He really wanted to see a guy in those foxholes who stood up and had a face smoked like a little ghost, baring his white teeth and smiling to himself: "Commander! I am here! I'm alive! ”

The shouting was very loud, and Cao Bianjiao's throat was painful. But he himself couldn't hear the slightest sound. At the beginning, Cao Bianjiao thought he was dumb.

The throat was connected to the lung tube, but Cao Bianjiao didn't care. He would love to see his own soldiers stand up!

The foxholes were all silent, and no one stood up. Suddenly, Cao Bianjiao saw a hand. On the charred earth, a hand is so obvious.

Cao Bianjiao ran over and pulled his hand out excitedly. Perhaps, he could save a brother's life.

The force was very violent, and then Cao Bianjiao sat on a squat.

In his hand he was holding a hand, a hand that had been removed from his elbow. Cao Bianjiao held the severed hand and looked at it for a long time, but he didn't see who the severed hand belonged to.

In the distance, the Mongols remounted their horses, holding the reins in one hand and their rifles in the other, and rushed up with a "whoop" and "whoop". The head is a military achievement, not only in the Liao army, but also in the Mongols.

It would be great if you could catch one alive. On the other side of the Ili River Valley, the Han soldiers were very interested in or, and as long as they were carefully interrogated, they would definitely get something out of their mouths.

Cao Bianjiao held his severed hand and sat on the ground stupidly, as if he had forgotten that this was the battlefield.

The Mongolian cavalry rode his horse and galloped, and he was very excited to make a "whoosh" and "whoop" sound from his mouth. There is actually a living person, blessed by immortality, this guy must be a big official. If it is a big official, it will be very valuable.

Before the Mongol cavalry could rush out thirty meters, a scream came from the sky. Then among the Mongol cavalry, a huge explosion began. Looking at the power of the shells, it is actually about the same as the rocket artillery of the Mongols.

Three hundred Mongol soldiers who were on the way to the charge were engulfed in artillery fire in an instant.

105mm howitzer!

This is the largest caliber gun a ship can carry!

For today's operation, Li Xiao specially hoisted twelve 105-mm howitzers. The artillerymen pushed the howitzer out of the cargo hold, broke the double plough at the first time, and the calculator began to calculate the trajectory with binoculars.

The first salvo hit the Mongol charge line accurately. Many of the Mongolian soldiers who were charging frantically were swept into the air by the air wave of the explosion. There are even more people who are directly torn to pieces by the scattered shrapnel.

When the calculator saw the first hit, he immediately shouted: "Five rapid fires." ”

The artillery positions that had been hastily built suddenly rumbled with cannons. As soon as the shells were removed from the cargo compartment, they were stuffed into the chamber and fired.

The shell case exited with the hot gas, and another shell was immediately filled.

After five rapid fires, the charging Mongol cavalry was already strewn with corpses. The road was littered with corpses, both intact and fragmented. Some of the corpses still had a faint green smoke on them.

Under the rising sun, a group of soldiers rushed to Star Town with the latest Acre 47 rifles. In the morning sun, an airship flies over Star Town. The huge body quickly stabilized, and then the bomb, which weighed a thousand pounds, was dropped.

On the Mongol rocket artillery position, the Mongol soldiers are loading rockets. At this time, they also saw clearly that there was a steady stream of soldiers running down from the airship in the distance. Rockets must be bombarded in order to keep Star Town.

The bomb slammed into the ground with a fierce wind. The explosion that soared into the sky caused the huge airship to be swayed left and right by the air current. The soldiers on the rocket artillery positions were vaporized in an instant. The explosion of ammunition caused by the explosion was like hell.

Nie Dahu gasped, and billowing black smoke steamed up on the hillside behind Star Town. There seemed to be flames rolling in the black smoke, and the huge impact of the explosion directly collapsed the house in Half Star Town.

The Mongols screamed and scattered in all directions, and the Liao soldiers who rushed to the front knelt with guns, and fired accurately one by one, harvesting the lives of the Mongols.

Suddenly, more than a thousand cavalry rushed out of Star Town. These men all had rifles in their hands, and they were running and firing their guns. Looking at the direction of his escape, Nie Dahu knew that these people wanted to escape to Hami.

More than 1,000 cavalry, facing only more than 200 Liao infantry. Even if the Liao soldiers had sharp firearms and no cover at this distance, these more than 200 people were doomed.

Nie Dahu had long expected this hand, and these more than 200 people were precisely heavy machine gun companies. Six Maxim heavy machine guns were quickly deployed in place by tricycles.

More than a thousand cavalry can indeed crush two hundred infantry. But if the infantry has an anti-heaven artifact like Makqin, then these cavalry can go to reincarnation.

The commander of the machine gun company gave an order, and six Makqin heavy machine guns spat out tongues of fire at the same time. The ultra-high rate of fire hit a dense wall of metal projectiles in an instant. Anyone who hits this wall will be ruthlessly punched through.

The nine-millimeter machine gun bullets were so powerful that more than 1,000 Mongol cavalrymen immediately turned on their backs. Many people turned their horses' heads and ran into the desert.

But no matter how fast the reaction is, it can't be faster than a bullet.

The Maxim heavy machine gun is like the scythe of death, and no matter how fast you run, you will be mercilessly harvested. The ultra-high rate of fire allowed the cannon company to fire for five minutes, and not a single person from more than a thousand people was left alive.

Nie Dahu was very satisfied with the power of the Makqin heavy machine gun!

That is, Ao Ye is quick and hard to pull out of the arsenal. For this matter, he was reprimanded by Li Xiao.

Of course, this is the version that Nie Dahu heard. The fact is that Ao Canghai arrived at Li Xiao's house in the capital, and the brothers sat and drank in the dark, and Li Xiao was poured into vomiting several times, and was almost admitted to the hospital again.

"Tell Ao Ye! I have occupied Star Town, and I am annihilating the remnants of the enemy and building fortifications, and I will definitely be able to block the exit of the main Star Gorge. Please rest assured! Nie Dahu was satisfied, he did not believe that the Mongols would be able to break through their defensive positions.

"Send him back, too! Cao Bianjiao is indeed a tough guy. Glancing at Cao Bianjiao carrying on the stretcher, Nie Dahu stood up straight and respectfully saluted a military salute.

"No!" The herald ran onto the airship and flew towards Jiayuguan with the empty airship.

Before the airship flew to Jiayu Pass, countless armies were marching along the main road. The marching procession on foot meandered across the land like snakes. The lead of the team was fifty miles away, and the end of the team had not yet left Jiayu Pass.

Jiayuguan Railway Station is the busiest place outside of the Mongols. The 1st, 3rd, and 4th infantry divisions of the Liao Army were all transported by train to Jiayuguan. Before that, 37,000 Japanese soldiers were also sent here by train.

For a time, Jiayuguan became a sea of soldiers.

Li Xiao's headquarters is located in a building not far from the Jiaxing Railway Station.

Huge maps are hung on the walls, and the sand table on the ground is made according to scale. Obviously, Li Yongfang has not been idle all these years. The map of the Western Regions has been sketched in great detail.

"Handsome! Nie Dahu has already conquered Xingxing Town, and we have formed a flank attack on Xingxing Gorge from the front and back, and the 5,000 defenders guarding the Satellite Xingxia have now become turtles in the urn. Ao Canghai walked in with a smile. His subordinates can fight, and he, who is the commander of the division, also has face.

"This is just the first step! We will surround Xingxing Gorge but not fight, and even when their messenger returns to the Western Regions, we have to pretend to let him go. Li Xiao pointed to the map and said.

"Oh! Got it, you kid wants a spoonful of stew! After looking at the map for a while, Ao Canghai immediately understood.

"If the defenders in the Star Gorge do not die and surrender, the Mongols will not forget this army. They can only transfer more troops from the Western Regions to Hami, prepare for a counterattack in one fell swoop, take Xingxing Town, and re-make Xingxing Gorge an impregnable fortress. Li Xiao's hand was placed on the position of Xingxing Gorge.

"The beauty of thinking! I know the ability of this kid Nie Dahu, and I want to break through the defense line he arranged, hehe! The Mongols got a hundred and eighty thousand. "Ao Canghai is very confident in his subordinates.

"It's better to come to 180,000, and when the time comes, Man Ye will take a division and Mongolian cavalry and go south along the Altai Mountains. The retreat of the Mongols, who are dead to death, will be in vain when they have many people. If all goes well, the Western Regions issue can be solved in Hami. ”

"Cao Bianjiao's kid fought very well, more than 100 people dragged down 3,000 Mongolian soldiers in Xingxing Town. Because the fight was too fierce, the Mongols used rocket artillery! ”

"Rocket artillery? How is Cao Bianjiao? Hearing that the Mongols had used rockets, Li Xiao's heart suddenly rose to his throat.

It's better to have a light rocket launcher, but if it's a heavy rocket shell, it will weigh 500 pounds in one shot. If it hits the ground, it can tear anything to shreds. Cao Bianjiao was bombarded by rocket artillery, and he was afraid that he would not survive.

Li Xiao likes Cao Bianjiao very much, if he dies like this, Li Xiao has some bad feelings in his heart.

"Not dead! But the injury was very serious, and it seemed to be blown up stupidly. Holding a severed hand, he has been in a daze. I'm worried, this kid is so hysterical. It's a pity! "Ao Canghai also likes it, this tough guy who dares to fight. Among the new generation of generals, Cao Bianjiao is the most outstanding.

"As long as you're not dead! Let's take a look! ”