Chapter 22: The Night of the Battle
Wang Feng's iron-blooded army was well prepared, and all the trench arrangements were still going well.
The artillery equipped by the Iron Blood Army is mainly 75 mm caliber mountain artillery, and the elite of the six towns founded by Yuan Datou at the beginning, each town has 54 artillery pieces.
It is no wonder that after the end of the Daqian Empire, Yuan Datou relied on his army to show off his might, but unfortunately, he was collapsed by an imperial system.
However, the army of the Great Qian Empire still has a great influence on the armies of various states, just like the army of Yuan Datou now, which is also based on the Sixth Division of Beiyang, and reduces its own allocation.
The artillery of the 10th Division of the Third Army is 12 75-mm mountain guns, and the so-called cannon is 10,000 taels of gold when it sounds, and if it goes down, it is all white silver, and on the battlefield of the European continent, perhaps the 75-mm caliber artillery can only be said to be a small fight, but it is definitely a big war in the Daqian Empire.
When the flying shells, after skimming the long fiery red trajectory, finally touched the position of the independent regiment, in an instant, the booming explosion resounded through the sky and the sky!!
Lin Junjie moved quickly and fell into the trenches, in order to avoid the shelling, the trenches dug by the independent regiment were all zigzag, so that when the shells fell, the power of the shells could be weakened to the greatest extent.
In my ears, I only felt a buzzing roar...
Damn, it's so loud.
If this is smashed down by large-caliber shells, and a war falls, I am afraid that my ears will be deaf......
Fortunately, there were not many pieces of rubble in this trench excavation, otherwise the shells would have caused more damage to those pieces of rubble, which would have been devastating.
"These turtle grandsons are really menacing, as soon as they come up, they will give us a dismount!" Zhou Weiguo, commander of the first battalion, said.
Not far away, especially in the garrison area where the 1st Battalion was located, it was even more heavily covered by artillery fire, and for a time, the 1st Battalion was so suppressed that it was not able to carry out an effective counterattack at all.
The trenches were dusty and dusty, and Lin Junjie, who was hiding in the trenches, only felt that the ground under his feet was shaking, which was much stronger than the grenadiers of the independent regiment.
I don't know when the Separate Regiment will have this level of fire support!
"Get down!"
The captain suddenly shouted, and Lin Junjie's body immediately tensed, but no, what the captain said was right, a cannonball happened to hit this precise area.
The huge impact made Lin Junjie only feel that his stomach was tumbling, and his ears were roaring......
Am I dead...
His deputy gunner just didn't have time to dodge, just happened to be hit by a stray bullet, and even his body was about to fall apart, and a large piece of shrapnel was stuck in his chest.
Lin Junjie felt scared.
"Dead, dead..."
In the end, some of these recruits couldn't control the fear in their hearts, and roared out wildly, and the white fear enveloped everyone's heads, and they now finally knew why the battalion commander repeatedly emphasized that they should dig the trenches a little deeper and dig a little harder!
Under the bombardment of artillery, human life is so fragile!
Taking advantage of the interval between the shelling, Lin Junjie touched the talisman that hung on his chest and was worn with weeds, and he was afraid in his heart, if it wasn't for the captain's reminder just now, I'm afraid he would have fallen to the ground now......
The growth of a recruit, sometimes, is just in the middle of this thought.
Lin Junjie suddenly felt that he must not panic on this battlefield, the more scared he was, the faster he would die......
He has to calm down, just like he trains on a regular basis, he has a good sense of the big picture, he needs to be like a captain, to make calm judgments in order to keep his brother alive.
Finally, after the fifth round of shelling, the artillery of Los Angeles finally stopped further shelling...
Lin Junjie hid in the trenches, feeling that for the rest of his life after the catastrophe, his state of mind was completely different from before the war, and the war was like a crazy temptation on the verge of death.
He finally understood why the captain even behaved so indifferently when he saw his brother dead......
Because I've been through a lot, it's useless to be sad.
I can only muster up the courage to shoot my own bullets at those enemies, and use the heavy machine guns in my hands to strafe these bastards!
On the artillery position of the 10th Division of Yuan Shiren's army, Song Zhongyi and Jin Jinhua were also condescending, looking down on the entire battlefield, with twelve 75mm mountain guns.
Just five rounds of salvo fire, sixty shells were fired, and it is estimated that the iron-blooded army in front of him has already lost its morale!
Indeed, from their point of view just now, five rounds of shelling were simply devastating, and if the people inside were inside, they would not have been killed.
"I don't know where Wang Feng learned this thing, digging this kind of trench, what is the use, it just so happens that it is used as a live target by artillery! Smart! ”
Song Zhongyi held the telescope in his hand, and the city wall of Guide County not far away was getting bigger and bigger in the lens, and now he finally believed it, what Old Man Zheng said in the letter was a little true.
But he said that Wang Feng's independent regiment had strong combat capabilities, which was pure nonsense......
"Such a little trick, under the cover of artillery, has no chance of survival at all ..."
Song Zhongyi and Jin Jinhua, after seeing the defensive position in the north for the first time, had only one idea, to start with a round of shells, so that these hillbillies who had never seen the world could not even rise to resist.
"There is even a barbed wire ......"
"Chief of Staff, what is barbed wire ......?"
"That thing Lao Tzu stepped over with one foot, get these useless things, it's better to hide in the city and wait for surrender!"
Song Zhongyi thought that he had read a few war books on the Western Yuan Continent, this barbed wire, trenches, he couldn't see it in the Daqian Empire on weekdays, and he didn't expect to see it in the attack on a small county town today, but it just made him laugh a little bit.
This thing really works, so you don't need to bombard.
On a frontal battlefield, nothing is as practical as a round of artillery bombardment.
"Someone, order the first regiment, the second regiment, the third regiment, the fourth regiment, concentrate fire, and open the city gate for me before dark!"
"These people are estimated to have been scared stupid, look, they can't even see the head, they are almost dead!!"
As soon as Song Zhongyi's order was issued, the people of the 10th Division killed Wang Feng like chicken blood, rewarded 100,000 oceans, and promoted the official to the third level, which was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
"Do you want to let the third regiment and the fourth regiment wait first?"
Jin Jinhua still expressed the concerns in his heart, although he also felt that even if the Independent Regiment of the Iron and Blood Army launched a counteroffensive, it would be difficult for the strength of the four regiments, and he was still afraid? ?
"No need, let's do it quickly, it's not worth wasting shells!"