Chapter 1349: Closing the Door and Fighting the Dog (Asking for a Monthly Pass)
"The copper shell fixed ammunition is too expensive~!"
Lord Lorraine looked at the golden bullet casings at the bottom of the steps, and then made a slight conversion, and suddenly there was a faint feeling of a blunt knife cutting flesh in his heart.
Although Nai An has now stepped into the road of large-scale industrial production, after all, it is only just starting, and the efficiency of industrial production is not high. And there are a lot of things in the middle, which is extremely troublesome.
Taking the copper-shell fixed-loading bomb as an example, its production efficiency is not high.
It's just a realization of machine qì shell making. Links such as the charge of bullets and the installation of warheads all need to be manually operated.
Moreover, because the personnel are low. When making zuò in the hand, mistakes are often made.
Even though the lord sacrificed the two invincible weapons of the capitalists, 'assembly line operation' and 'deduction of wages and bonuses', he still had to tolerate a defective rate of almost six bullets per thousand.
Not to mention, due to the failure of the inspectors, many defective bullets went directly into the barracks.
Therefore, in the large camp of the Eagle Division, it is common to see those soldiers sitting in a group, picking up all kinds of crooked and substandard ammunition from a large pile of bullets.
They are hard-working for this work. First, it is because Lord Luo stipulates that every twenty unqualified bullets picked up can be replaced with a copper plate.
The second reason is that the soldiers also know the importance of bullets to their lives. In wartime, if a single substandard bullet is in the chamber of a gun, it is likely to cost them their lives - and when their own lives are at stake, no one but a madman does not take them seriously.
Of course, as a very conscientious capitalist, after the lord found out about the enthusiasm of the soldiers, he immediately raised the original standard to replace every thirty unqualified bullets with a copper plate.
Under the influence of such circumstances, you can imagine how outrageous the cost of a good bullet must be.
However, these machine gunners are all cubs selling Ye Tian. There is no concept of saving for Lord Lorraine.
In fact, they are trained to shoot as many bullets as possible without getting stuck.
In Lord Luo's plan, the machine gun was not primarily used against the infantry, but against the most powerful unit of the era, the cavalry.
Only in the shortest possible time, as much as possible to sprinkle the rain of bullets. to stop their charge. Knock these 'kings of the medieval battlefield' out of the historical stage of war.
At this time. The Semitic armies on the street had all turned and fled, and the enemies in front of the Temple of Light had been largely cleared.
Seeing this, the machine-gun squad quickly pulled up its weapons and moved to the next position.
The hand-cranked Gatling gun was heavy though. But the two huge iron wheels on both sides make it move incredibly flexibly. As long as two people can tow it away.
Behind the machine guns, two other people also towed a small cart of equal size, which was filled with supply ammunition so that the machine guns could have strong and sustained firepower.
The machine gun is in the process of being transferred. Unable to fire, therefore, in a rather dangerous situation. There must be other soldiers to provide protection.
Therefore, the soldiers of the Eagle Division, who were ambushed in the houses on both sides of the street, immediately rushed out of their bunkers and appeared on the street, covering the members of the machine gun squad with weapons in hand, and quickly rushed to the next battlefield.
The army of Semitic strikers who rushed into the Vatino City was now running around like a group of rats in a burning house. Running wildly along the streets.
At the moment, it was as if they were in the hell of death.
Behind him was the sound of machine guns that rang out like hail falling to the ground, and a gap always appeared in the walls of the buildings on either side, and then several iron pipes that spewed flames protruded from them.
On the rooftops on both sides of the street, there were all human soldiers dressed in black.
They had rifles in their hands. Condescendingly, he kept shooting at the Semitic soldiers in the streets.
Deadly metal projectiles littered the streets, scattering among the Semitic soldiers.
Every now and then, someone is suddenly shot, and a terrible wound is blown out on his body. Die directly, or fall screaming. Then he was trampled to death by his companions who ran behind.
The Semitic soldiers had never seen muskets.
This is something far beyond their time, and far beyond the comprehension of their minds.
They just went to the muzzle of the gun and spewed flames, making a loud noise, and then a blood hole exploded in the body of one of their companions, so they characterized the gun as a magic weapon, a terrible magic weapon.
All of them were scared.
In the midst of the confusion, they did not argue with each other, like a swarm of headless flies, but they knew where there was little gunfire and ran there.
And under the pursuit of the Terran soldiers, everywhere they ran past, there were always corpses left behind.
And when they had just turned into a street, and before they could clear the road in front of them, a row of guns poked out from the bunker at the intersection and fired at them fiercely, and the Semites who rushed to the front fell several rows in an instant.
Hearing the gunfire in front of them, the Semites turned around again in fright, quickly fled, and turned to the next road, but as just now, they found that this road was also impassable, and the black-clothed Eagle Division soldiers had been waiting for them for a long time.
Lorraine had already planned to close the door and fight the dogs, he only had 20,000 people, although the firepower was strong, but if he was pulled out to fight in the field, the results would not be too great, and the Semitic people were not stupid.
Knowing how powerful the machine guns are, they will look for countermeasures.
Turning the entire Vatino into a bunker group, into a man-eating pit, putting enemies in, no matter how many comes, can devour them - think back then, when the lord used to play real-time strategy games, the name of the 'handsome little prince of the bunker' was not called for nothing.
Regardless of which road the Semitic soldiers ran on, they were always within range of machine-gun fire, and they were soon flanked by large groups of Eagle Division soldiers, shooting at them from the rooftops or from inside the house.
Some of the clever Semites were in great danger on the streets, so they rushed straight to the houses on either side of the road to take refuge.
At this time, they will find that the doors and windows of many buildings are sealed, and no matter how they push and bump, they can't open them.
Although the doors and windows of a few buildings could be opened, the Semitic soldiers would not have realized that these doors were actually reserved for them.
When the Semitic soldiers rushed into the house with the blood-spurting fallen soldiers beside them, they would soon find that there were several black holes in the room. They are being targeted from different angles.
The muzzles of these guns would then erupt with fire, and hundreds of steel balls fired by several shotguns in succession swept across the house, blasting the Semitic soldiers into a sieve.
Shotguns with paper shells are not expensive, wooden butts. Shotguns with smoothbore barrels are also cheap. Rather than rifles that can shoot longer and machine guns with more firepower, the soldiers of the Eagle Division generally prefer shotguns with a short range but great power.
Although the quasi-head is only a dozen meters away. Beyond this distance, even a cow is difficult to hit, but the seven bullets in the bomb bay ensure the continuity of fire.
Powerful enough to kill you at close range, even when you're wearing plate armor. It will also be lightly pierced by bullets.
It only takes a group of three or five people to ensure that the firepower is endless, and no one can rush in.
Eagle soldiers can walk through the open buildings and fire at the Semitic people in the streets from the firing ports without fear of being attacked by the enemy.
After half an hour of scurrying through a hail of bullets, the Semitic soldiers finally learned that the city was not safe anywhere.
The only way for them to survive now is to flee the city.
"Retreat, retreat~!"
"Rush to the west gate and withdraw from the city~!"
"Run west, run west~!"
“......”
The Semitic soldiers, who were stunned by the rain of bullets, came to their senses at this time. They had just been following the army around like headless flies, but now they suddenly understood, quickly turned around, and rushed towards the Vatino Simon as fast as they could.
Thirty or forty thousand people poured from different streets to the west of the city, but the soldiers of the Eagle Division, who had been chasing them on either side, did not pursue them at the moment.
A sharp whistle sounded in the rear. The officers of the Eagle Division shouted: "Assemble, assemble~!"
Gather the soldiers of each company.
Hearing the sound of fried beans behind them, it suddenly became much more sparse, and the Semitic soldiers felt as if they had picked up a life, and they rushed to the city gate noisily.
But when they cross the streets. Stepping on the street facing the city gate, they all stopped in fright.
The west gate is not high on the city wall. Obviously, there was no one when he came in just now, but at this moment, there were soldiers in black clothes, and the city gate was closed.
The black-clad soldiers knelt or stood, holding strange-looking short spears in their hands.
A dozen machine guns, regarded by the Semitics as devil's weapons, lined up along the city walls, and the muzzles of the guns were coldly pointed at the Semites who crowded the streets.
Time seems to have frozen......
Tens of thousands of Semites and thousands of soldiers of the Eagle Division faced each other from a distance of several hundred meters.
At this moment, from behind the Semitic soldiers, the loud shouts of the Eagle Division officers suddenly sounded.
"Attack~!"
The regrouped Eagle Division soldiers divided into several divisions and blocked the Semitic soldiers' back path.
The machine guns were dragged out by the mighty orcs and quickly erected in the middle of the road, and the houses on both sides of the road were occupied by the Eagle Division soldiers, and countless rifles protruded from the roofs and windows.
A few seconds later, a loud shout suddenly sounded in the Semitic crowd: "If you want to live, rush, kill~!"
"Kill~!"
Trapped in the city is only a dead end, and only by breaking out of the Vatino can you survive.
The Semitic soldiers strode towards the gates.
The officers and men of the Eagle Division on the city wall calmly watched as the Semitic army, which outnumbered them ten times as many as them, approached quickly.
The officer took out his revolver, brushed off the hammer, raised his arm high, and shouted: "Ready~!"
Seeing that the enemy was getting closer and closer, and was about to rush through a distance of 100 meters, the officer suddenly waved his hand down and shouted: "Fire~!"
The 3,000 soldiers on the ramparts pulled the trigger hard, and the orc machine gunner sneered and clenched the handle, lowered the muzzle of the gun, and then turned the grip.
The Eagle Division soldiers blocking behind the Semitic opened fire at the same time, firing bullets into the dense crowd.
Shots rang out, and the Semitic soldiers who rushed to the city gate fell in groups, but the people behind still rushed up in groups with corpses......
Lorraine watched the battlefield from the top of the Temple of Light, and from this height, the entire Vatino and the Semitic camp outside could be seen in full view.
Seeing the Semitic soldiers constantly storming the city gate, I secretly sighed in my heart that the Semitic elite was indeed not built.
If you had replaced ordinary troops, it would have collapsed a long time ago.
But that's about it.
If they could get past the Eagle Division's defensive positions, Lorraine would have jumped off the building in anger, and now. In the face of the absolute superiority of the Eagle Division's firepower, all that remained was only a matter of time.
Within minutes, the corpses of the Semitic soldiers who had been shot blocked the road, and thousands of people bravely rushed to the city gates. Then turned into corpses a few dozen meters from the city gates. The morale of the Semitic soldiers finally collapsed.
They turned their heads in a bit of a hurry, looked for a way to survive in other directions, and instead attacked the Eagle Division's defense line behind them, where there were far fewer people than at the city gates.
Lorraine put down her binoculars. After thinking for a moment, he waved his hand and said, "Let them surrender." ”
Mazovia was stunned for a moment, then complimented, "Your Excellency is merciful." ”
Although he also boasted that he was a ruthless figure, otherwise he would not have climbed to where he is today, but the Semitic people fell in droves. I was also secretly frightened in my heart.
"Kindness?" Lord Lorraine sneered, then shook his head and said, "No, I just don't want to waste any more bullets. ”
Mazovia shuddered, laughed dryly, and unconsciously took a step back.
Lord Lorraine touched his chin and said thoughtfully, "Moreover, a living Semitic is worth more than a dead Semit, isn't it?"
Mazovia pondered for a moment. Immediately understood what Lord Lorraine meant, and nodded heavily, young and strong laborers are always the most sought-after goods.
Even if they were taken prisoner, the fate of these Semites would not be too good. But Mazovia doesn't care.
Even if Lord Lorraine kills all these people, he doesn't care, as long as it's not in front of his eyes.
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The sudden change in the city startled Veraprani, who was in command outside the city.
Knowing that there was a human ambush in the city, and that the human Pope and the god of war were both in the Vatino City, Veraprani not only did not panic. On the contrary, I was very excited.
This means that he can capture these two great enemies in one battle and make immortal feats.
Veraprani, in his ecstasy, immediately ordered the whole army to press. Attack the Vatino directly, you must take the city within a day, and don't let the Pope and Lorraine run away.
A small Vatino, it is impossible for humans to hide many armies in it.
Under the attack of his superior forces, it did not take much time to end the battle.
But what happened next left Veraprani and the Semitic generals dumbfounded.
The roar of cannon fire continued like rolling thunder, and the cannonballs flew out of the city with a sharp whistling sound through the air, smashing outside the Vatino West Gate.
Several explosions per second formed a barrage of flames and steel that stretched across the Semitic rush to the Vatino.
The Semitic soldiers in the barrage were swallowed up in an instant, and thousands of people disappeared without a trace in the sound of explosions.
The Semitic soldiers in the rear were still charging forward, and groups of soldiers rushed into the smoke of the explosion, and one after another disappeared.
Except for the flashes of explosions that kept coming out of the smoke of gunpowder, there was nothing else.
The violent explosion and the shaking of the ground made the Semites outside the city stunned, and the attacking team stopped before the explosion, not daring to take another step.
Veraprani was also stunned, he had seen the shelling for the first time.
With a shrill whistling sound that tore through the air, the light of the fire rose from the ground, followed by black smoke and dirt and dust from the explosion.
The Semitic soldiers in the explosion area disappeared in an instant, and those who were close to the explosion fell to the ground, and no one was seen getting up, and it was clear that the remaining half of the human body and stumps were flying all over the sky.
More than a thousand people rushed up and disappeared in the flames and smoke of the explosion.
More than 1,000 people rushed up from behind, and they disappeared clean in an instant.
The artillery fire completely blocked the vanguard and the main force entering the city.
"Is this artillery......" Veraprani muttered to himself.
Hadou had warned them countless times to be careful of Lorraine's artillery, but Veraprani had never scoffed at him, and it was the loser who was making excuses for himself.
He didn't believe that any cannon would be more powerful than the full force of the ** division, and what artillery fire was endless, and thousands of them could be hit in a short time.
It's simply impossible~!
The violent explosions and deafening roars in front of him at this moment proved that what Haddou said was true.
Veraprani secretly regretted that he should have asked Haddou a few more words.
"But so what~!" Veraprani shook his head, still confident in his heart, there will always be a time when human artillery fire will stop, and it is impossible to take care of the four sides of the Vatino.
At this moment, the other three sides are not quiet, it is a big detour, the Semitic soldiers can always rush in, and the advantage is still in his hands.
At this time, a bloody man suddenly rushed to his horse and cried: "My lord, my lord, the striker is finished, the striker is finished~!"
Veraprani was stunned for a moment, and then exclaimed with a hideous face, "What did you say?"
"Striker, blocked in the city, it's over, it's all over. ”
Veraprani flicked his horsewhip and shouted angrily, "Where is Talma, let him come to me, bastard, how to lead the striker." ”
"General Talma is trapped in the city. ”
Veraprani jumped off his horse, grabbed the collar of the messenger, and said fiercely, "What the hell is going on? Didn't you rush into the city?"
The officer's forehead was still dripping with blood, and he said sadly: "We took the city gate, and we were about to win, and suddenly a group of black-clothed men came out of the ground, their weapons would breathe fire, and the brothers died inexplicably, and they occupied the city gate again, and thousands of people went up to the city wall to block the general's back road, and then there was a crackling sound in the city." ”
"How did you get back?" asked Veraprani, glaring at him.
"I was about to come back and ask for reinforcements, when suddenly there was a fire on the ground, and my brothers and men and horses flew into the sky, and the people were broken into pieces.
Hundreds of people rushed over all the way, only a few of us were left, begging Your Majesty to save our family~!"
"Talma, this idiot~!" Veraprani shook off the officer in his hand and scolded viciously: "Pure to make trouble for Lao Tzu." ”
The surrounding Semitic generals looked at each other, and then they all fell silent, and muttered dissatisfiedly in their hearts: Isn't it your old man who let him attack the city immediately before he found out the truth in the city, and who is to blame.
Although Veraprani doesn't care whether Tama lives or dies, the forward 50,000 is very important to him.
It was the best army he could fight, and if they were all buried in Vatino, his power would be greatly damaged.
"Order the whole army to attack simultaneously from all sides, and be sure to enter the city. ”