Chapter 293: Breaking through Aikawa Castle (2)

After two fires, the army of the Heunghankai directly opened a gap more than three meters wide in the walls of Aikawa Castle. However, the infantry of the Xinghan Society did not start the attack, but continued to protect the artillerymen. The artillery continued to be designed, not in one area of concentrated fire, but in both directions. When the gap was widened to a distance of six meters, they slowly moved forward two hundred meters under the escort of the infantry, and then they had to knock out the fire cannons on this wall, and then it was time for the infantry to attack.

Wei Ming didn't expect that he also overestimated the artillery under his command, and fired three shells in a row, and the shell reserve went down by one-fifth, and only one of the largest red-coated cannons was hit. The barrel of the redcoat cannon showed a noticeable depression and was absolutely unusable. However, there are still nine large and small cannons on this wall. Because this side faces the sea, the number of artillery pieces is the largest, just to prevent the enemy from coming from the sea.

Wei Ming could only take a risk and let them continue to advance a hundred meters, reaching a distance of six hundred meters outside the city wall. At this distance, the artillery on the city wall can be powerful. These artillery pieces in Xiangchuan City are all old goods, and the Dongying people are not thorough with each type of artillery, the maintenance is a little bad, and the gunpowder is not good, so their effective firing range is more than 700 meters on average. At a distance of seven hundred meters, it was just enough for all artillery to fire. Wei Ming wasn't unaware of the danger, but he knew the strategy that Xiao Lin had thought of before.

It just so happens that there is the ability to do it now, and that is to be ready to move at any time. The Heavy Punch series has been improved to the present, and the entire gun carriage is a steel frame, and the tires are rubber tires. If you don't put down the iron pillar to fix, both people can easily push it. Wei Ming personally led eight people, each of whom watched the loading of a cannon on the head of the city. When the artillery has finished firing and there is no way to re-aim, they will notify the artillery that may be attacked in the corresponding area, and the artillery will immediately push the artillery away.

You don't need to travel too far away, just a little away from the original area. The accuracy of the front-loading artillery is very poor, Wei Ming specially brought the artillery detachment together, just to attract the enemy's artillery, if it does not move, the enemy's artillery has a high chance of hitting their artillery inside. However, with this move, the shells fired by the artillery missed. One group of artillery walked away, and the guns of the other groups were still firing. This is also the time it takes for the Dongying people to fire a single front and rear gun, otherwise it will be too late.

This is also Wei Ming's helpless move, after all, they can't produce their own heavy fist series artillery. A cannon was all exchanged for population or price from Xiao Lin. Unless they have solid financial resources and can build a corresponding arsenal with the help of the company, they dare to fight the enemy face to face. But that's it, and they're winning the design race. They paid the price of knocking off the tires of one of the gun carriages, and wiped out all nine guns on this wall.

Although all the artillerymen looked embarrassed and sweating profusely, at least no one was seriously injured and no one died. The infantry began to advance in a phalanx, again stopping at a distance of one hundred and fifty meters from the city walls. Because the second purpose of this battle was also to train soldiers, Wei Ming asked the soldiers to shoot at the enemy on the city wall at this extreme distance. In fact, only a small number of the recruits have this ability, but if they step in, they will be fired by the enemy's iron cannons.

Because of the huge caliber and relatively strong power of the iron cannons of the Dongying people, the steel plate body armor on the soldiers of the Xinghan Society may not be able to defend against the bullets they shoot. Bow and arrow, they can already ignore it. The steel helmets on the Xinghanhui soldiers and the improved steel plate body armor that covered their hands and feet could protect them from arrows, after all, their main opponent in the future was the Manchu Qing, most of the Manchus used bows and arrows, and their bow and arrow skills were also developed to the peak.

The bows and arrows of the Qing Dynasty can be defended, let alone the bows and arrows of the Dongying people. After all, they have shifted their focus to firearms, not bows and arrows. These spears are not professional archers, and a qualified archer can be trained for more than a year. They can only shoot together on a large scale, and they can't shoot flat at all. Because they can't aim, flat shots won't shoot people at all.

But when it is thrown, it will be bounced off by the steel helmets of the soldiers. The sponge cushion inside the helmet will also remove most of the impact force, and will not cause any damage to the fighter's brain due to the shock. If you accidentally hit the face, the high-energy plastic shield of the face can also block the arrow, even after two times, the passport will be shattered. Therefore, when the warriors of the Heunghan Society shoot arrows, they immediately bow their heads. Archers are very physically demanding to shoot, and those fingers that pull the bowstring can also be strangled very painfully.

For these pikemen turned archers, the consumption is even greater, especially since these people have not even completely found all the finger guards, only some of them have. The most of them fired only ten arrows, and then they stopped shooting. As a result of the shooting, only a piece of paint was rubbed off the helmets of some Xinghanhui fighters, and some of the outer cloth was torn from their body armor. Of course, there were also some fighters who suffered some internal injuries due to the force of the arrow's fall.

Of course, none of them are serious. There is a big boss of Xiao Lin behind him, and there is no shortage of medicine in the Xinghan Society, this little injury, it is enough to go back and take the medicine and rest after the battle. However, the more than 300 iron cannons on this wall were wiped out, except for a dozen Ashigaru who had been hiding behind the battlements early, and the others were killed by a single bullet. The infantry began to advance, and Mikami Yuto was too late to send another batch of iron artillery to come over.

However, he didn't want to give up, and ordered the Iron Cannon Ashigaru to defend in place, thinking that no one would be able to understand them. If this is really the Qing Dynasty's troops, it is indeed possible. The Ming Dynasty, which defeated the financial collapse and had a large number of moths inside, made the confidence of the Manchus extremely inflated, and no one would learn Dongying dialect at all, basically Dongying people learned Huaxia. However, Wei Ming is not the kind of arrogant person, and neither is Lin Xin, for this battle, the grassroots officers of the Xinghan Association have basically learned Dongying dialect.

They heard the roar of Yuto Mikami, and knew that there was a high probability that there was a lot of iron cannon ambushed behind this gap. Fortunately, they had steel plate bulletproof shields and various grenades that they bought from Sholin. A series of smoke grenades were thrown in, and more than a hundred meters around the gap were filled with smoke, and the view of the iron cannon ashigaru was completely blocked. Even many people are not used to the smell of smoke and have a cough. While they were panicking, five Xinghanhui soldiers walked in with bulletproof shields, shields in their left hands and a box cannon in their right hand.

The five bulletproof shields blocked the Xinghanhui soldiers behind, and some of the approaching iron cannons quickly shot, but the bullets hit the shields and did not cause any casualties. Instead, the light and sound of the fire revealed their position, inviting the attack of the box cannon in the soldier's hand. The 9mm bullets of the box cannon were not something that the armor on their bodies that was not even steel armor could block it, and one by one the iron cannons died lightly.

At this time, Cameron and the others were already impatient, they even ate lunch, and the lunch break was over, and as a result, Wei Ming and the others entered Xiangchuan City. Even with modern modifications, the environment on a sailboat is not very good. They also wanted to get ashore early and get some rest, for the previous two months, they had been floating at sea, relying on nautical charts to get here from North America. Land was where they longed for the most now, and Cameron knew that Wei Ming wanted to train his troops, but his patience and his men's patience were about to be exhausted.

"Adam, why don't we send someone to help them, and if we continue to fight like this, we may not be able to enter the city until tomorrow night to rest. ”

"That's right, forget it, anyway, to this point, their purpose of training has been achieved. In this way, organize a company of fighters with submachine guns and machine guns to support them, and try to end the battle before late tonight. ”

"Okay, I'll go get ready right away. ”

As a newly formed navy, it will definitely not be able to obtain the most advanced equipment in the hands of the kingdom, which the kingdom cannot produce itself. However, they all have the equipment that the kingdom can produce on its own. Because of the peculiarities of the navy, they are basically armed with Type 50 submachine guns and ZB-26 light machine guns. The number is still sufficient, and the firepower intensity is no worse than that of the kingdom's garrison sequence troops. Cameron's fleet also happened to have a company of soldiers who were more inclined to land warfare, and immediately asked them to disembark and assemble and go to Aikawa Castle to support friendly forces.

At this time, Wei Ming and the others happened to be in trouble. Whether it is a spear or an iron cannon, under their steady and steady actions, there is no obstacle to them, and they are being eaten away step by step, and the number is getting smaller and smaller. However, the main force of the Dongying people is not these cannon fodder. Their real core force is still the samurai and cavalry. The Dongying people lacked horses, but the power of cavalry was too great, and they had to have cavalry, so the cavalry was not treated worse than the samurai to a certain extent.

The samurai and cavalrymen were fully armoured with steel armor, and they were basically fully guarded. At a distance of one hundred and fifty meters, there is still some defense against the bullets of Hall M1819, and if they do not hit the vital point, they will not lose most of their combat effectiveness.