"Ready! Put! ”

Major General Luo Shengan, commander of the artillery brigade of the Western Expeditionary Corps, held high the command flag in his hand and waved forward!

As a son of the Lan Fang Luo family, Luo Shengan entered the Whampoa Army Military Academy to study artillery as early as the Battle of Guangzhou.

Now he commands 130 howitzers and launches intensive artillery fire on the Russian land in front.

Such dense artillery fire may be the first time in this world.

One hundred and thirty three-inch howitzers fired high-explosive grenades filled with yellow gunpowder.

With the widespread armament of rifled guns.

In this era, artillery with a very tight range was about to become the support fire of rifles.

However, the artillery on the Ming army's side obviously has a much longer range than the Russian artillery.

Although the firing range of a three-inch howitzer was not much farther than that of a rifled gun, and in the case of projectile firing it was even shorter.

Therefore, it can only be placed at the front, relying on infantry bunkers for salvos.

Even so.

The salvo of one hundred and thirty cannons still made the whole world tremble.

Sparks exploded on the positions of the Russian army.

Suddenly, the forward positions of the Russian army turned into a sea of fire.

The air wave created by the explosion blew up countless clouds of smoke and dust, obscuring the view.

It was the first time that the Russian infantry in the inverted frieze had encountered such a heavy shelling.

Many of them shivered on their stomachs in the trenches, and then were blown to pieces by grenades that fell from the sky.

They had worked so hard to arrange barbed wire and deer barricades, all of which were blown up by grenades.

The artillery groups of the Russian army are also fighting back.

It's just that their flowering shells can't be fired so far, and in order to avoid being hit by the Ming army's howitzers with a longer range, their own mortar positions that fire flowering shells are flattened by artillery fire, they just arrange some flat-fire artillery that fires solid shells and shoots directly at the front edge.

The solid shells fired by these guns could not pass through the breastwork and bunkers, posing a threat to the Ming artillery groups that were hiding behind the bunkers and firing at curved fire.

"Hurry up! Climb forward! ”

"Brothers, keep up!"

The first wave of Ming infantry had already left the bunker.

Under the cover of artillery fire, crawling forward.

Officers and non-commissioned officers shouted loudly.

Soon.

In the first wave of the attack group, some soldiers climbed under the first barbed wire, and some soldiers pulled out the vices they carried with them, and the spiked wire was just broken.

The barbed wire produced by these Russians was of average strength and was pinched off at once.

On the contrary, those officers and men who propped up half of their bodies, or half-squatted to clamp the wires, were wounded by the dense flying bullets.

"Squad leader! Squad leader save me"

"I'm going to die squad leader, give my pension to my wife and son!"

"Lao Huang! Lao Huang! Open your eyes! ”

In the ears of the gold label, similar voices came and went.

Someone died.

It's Lao Huang.

A former Interior Office coater.

But he was lucky.

In the future, his old Huang family is not a coat, but a home of heroes and martyrs in the Ming Dynasty, and no one dares to call him a coat.

Gold Label thought.

The firepower of the Russian army is very ferocious.

After all, they also knew what they would face if the Ming army broke through three barbed wires.

But the Ming army's side also moved quickly.

In the twinkling of an eye.

The first barbed wire fence has been completely breached.

The second barbed wire fence was also broken quite a bit by the vise.

At this moment.

The rear-loading guns equipped by the Ming army have also entered the effective firing range.

Many Ming soldiers pushed their rifles forward, lay on the ground, pulled the bolt, put in the bullets, and waited for the order to fire.

Jin Biao lay quietly on the ground, he couldn't see clearly.

It's still a bit far away and visibility is low.

The effect of free fire is poor, so everyone is ready to shoot the platoon gun.

Suppress your opponent with the vitality of a platoon gun.

Strive to break through the second barbed wire.

Several lieutenant colonels and colonels who were crawling forward with the front-line troops saw that many of the fighters were already in position.

Shoot now!

With a shrill whistle sounded.

The gold standard, who got the order, pulled the trigger without hesitation!

At the same time, more than a thousand rear-loading guns exploded at the same time!

On the straggler line of the Ming army, a burst of firelight of all sizes swallowed tongues of fire in the dark night.

Meanwhile.

The soldiers who were lining up to shoot their guns in the trenches of the Russian army on the opposite side suddenly seemed to have been electrocuted.

Shake.

All at once came down to a large area.

Screams rang out one after another.

The corpses that fell all over the place immediately crowded the trenches of the Russian army.

However, the rise of the Russians to become a world power is not so easy to deal with.

They still have that ruthlessness.

Those soldiers who were not shot, on the orders of the officers, continued to reload and return fire.

The rear-loading guns of the Ming army rang out one after another.

In about ten seconds, you can shoot a round of guns.

Bullets rained down on them.

The soldiers of the Russian army were swept down in rows and piece by piece.

The formation quickly fell apart as well.

The neatness of the platoon guns is also much less than before.

The whole army formation gradually became chaotic, and the platoon of guns could not continue.

All that remained was the gunfire of the Russian soldiers who took the initiative to return fire.

"Gold Label! Cut the barbed wire!! ”

Jin Biao, who was shooting with his head down, heard the order of his immediate boss.

Let him cut the barbed wire fence against the rain of bullets from the Russians!

Damn!

This work is filled with human life.

Jin Biao cursed, but still jumped up and felt for the vice, and began to cut the barbed wire one by one.

He is also a military household who received Emperor Zhu's 40 acres of fertile land in the northeast, which is a great net worth, even if he sells his life, it is worth it - at least his newborn boy can live comfortably for a lifetime.

"Good! Another break through a barbed wire! Yang Yuchun put down the telescope in his hand and said excitedly. Li Laohu is still brave! ”

Li Sheng, the former commander of the Guards Cavalry Brigade, has the nickname Li Laohu because of his bravery.

Chen Dewang also put down the binoculars and nodded slightly: "Now you can break through to the front line of the Russian army, and at this distance, the power of the rear-loading gun will be fully utilized." The Russians with front-loading guns needed to stand to reload quickly, and the rate of fire was only one-sixth that of rear-loading guns...... There is no longer any suspense about the outcome of this war......"

Yuhu Village smiled slightly: "I haven't won yet." ”

He pointed to the Russian positions on the opposite side, "They have restored order, apparently reinforcements have arrived, and the artillery of the Rakshasa has also begun to fire shotguns, and the hard battle is still to come!" ”

Chen Dewang nodded.

But there were some things he didn't say too clearly.

Victory in this war.

It was the triumph of industrialization.

The Ming were able to produce enough steel, enough breech-loading guns and bullets, artillery and shells, to be able to build railways all the way to Central Asia.

Victory in this war.

This means that there will never be any possibility of nomadic tribes and agricultural countries defeating industrial countries like the Ming Dynasty in the future (end of this chapter)