1855 United States Tycoon

86 Vigorously Perform Miracles (7)

The Austrians invested so much in the army at one time, which gave the Sardinians a great visual impact. Looking around, people far and near are all people. These Austrian soldiers lined up neatly in the accompaniment of artillery fire and military music, striding forward in great strides, looking like an unstoppable tide, making everyone facing them feel heavy. pressure. If it weren’t for the miraculous “Dali Pill”, I’m afraid that someone would already turn around and run away.

All the soldiers have swallowed the “power pill”. As the “Daliwan” melted away in their abdomen, the soldiers felt saliva in their dry mouths, and their heartbeat seemed to be calmer. That kind of tension and fear went away with the wind.

Neville’s regiment was placed at the forefront of the battle line. This is the most vulnerable location. The soldiers now stretched their rifles out of the trenches, quietly aiming at the approaching enemy. At this time, the artillery arranged on the side had already shifted their positions. They were moved to the top of the high ground and fired at the Austrians from a high level.

The effect of firing from this direction is not as effective as firing from the side. Because firing from the side, if the shot is accurate, a whole row of people can be killed with one shell. On the front, the thickness of the military formation is relatively limited, that is, if the mission is in the goal, it can defeat only four or five people.

However, there were losses and gains. After the position was moved to the top of the hill, the artillery also gained another advantage: a greater range and a greater range of fire. Almost the entire battlefield is within the range of their cannon. And they have measured and tested various positions before. The shooting accuracy will be relatively higher.

As a bronze smoothbore gun, the accuracy and range of the Napoleon gun is quite good. Of course, compared with the steel rifled gun that will appear soon, it is still much worse. In the original history, in the later Franco-Prussian War The Napoleon gun was completely compared with the Prussian Krupp steel gun, but in this era, it is almost the best field gun. Although there are very primitive rifled guns in this era, the excessively high cost, short life span and extremely low rate of fire make these things impossible to equip troops on a large scale.

The Sardinian artillery first used the range advantage brought by the altitude advantage to attack the Austrian artillery positions. Although there were not many shells that actually hit, this round of artillery severely disturbed the Austrian artillery. They Had to panic transfer the position, in this way, the Austrian artillery temporarily withdrew from the battlefield.

Then, the Sardinian artillery began to turn the muzzle and attacked the Austrian infantry unit continuously, and continuously shot the artillery shells into the Austrian array, continuously punching out bloody alleys. However, these shelling did not stop the Austrians. There were only dozens of cannons. Although they were doing their best to inflict casualties, in front of the Austrian army that surged like the tide, these shells seemed to be lost in the tide. A few stones, although they caused a little splash, they were swallowed by the tide in a blink of an eye.

“Stay steady, hold steady! Don’t shoot! Hold steady!” The shouts of the officers echoed in the trenches. Tommy moved the butt of the rifle over his shoulder, tilted his head again, squinted one eye, and continued to aim. The Austrian who was slowly approaching in front of him. At this time, those United States people had already shot, anyway, the rifle they used would not emit thick white smoke, and it was not easy to expose the target. As for gunshots, the constant sound of gunfire on the battlefield has long suppressed the particularly crisp gunshots.

If the soldiers of Sadin used to have various opinions on those United States people, now they can only admire what is left of these United States guys, because they only need to shoot, and it’s almost impossible. There will be a commander in a gorgeous military uniform and fall to the ground.

However, the tide did not stop because of this, and it still rushed forward. The distance between them and the first trench was getting closer and closer, two hundred meters, one hundred and eighty meters, one hundred and fifty meters, one hundred and twenty meters… Neville stared at the white stone not far away and slowly raised his hand.

“Fire!” Neville shouted, and at the same time he slashed his right arm fiercely, just like Hao Xiuang wanted to split the oncoming crowd.

“Bang, bang…” The gunshots rang suddenly. Prior to this, the Austrians had not found a well-concealed first trench, and this round of salvo was completely beyond their expectations. With the accuracy of MacDonald in 1857, shooting at such a distance, coupled with the dense queue of Austrians, it is not easy for the Sardinians to fight crookedly. So this row of guns almost directly knocked over all the front row of the Austrians. Immediately after this row of guns, the second trench and the third trench were also fired. Three volleys killed and injured nearly a thousand Austrian soldiers, and the frenzy that swept through was suddenly frozen. The volley of rounds, like an invisible dam, smashed the head-on waves.

After these three volleys, the oncoming regiment was almost wiped out. The remaining dozens of lucky guys who were not shot stood there, not knowing whether to rush forward or turn around, just froze there. After a few seconds, someone yelled, turned and ran, and others simply fell on the spot and pretended to be dead.

“Don’t worry about running back! Be prepared to fight back!” Neville hurriedly shouted when he saw someone aiming at the escaped soldiers.

Another shock from the back is already in sight. The soldiers quickly pushed out the shells, filled them with bullets, and shot them. At this time, the Austrians had clearly seen the first trench, and they began to shoot at the Sardinians. The “pupupupu” bullet hit the ground and aroused a lot of dust.

There were also casualties among the Sardinians. More than a dozen soldiers were hit by random bullets. The trenches blocked most of the shooting. The Sardinian soldiers only showed their heads, so they were not easily hit. , But once it is hit, it is also very troublesome, because it must be a head shot.

However, the “Daliwan” gave the Sardinians courage, and they continued to shoot back. Their loading speed was obviously faster than those of the Austrians. When the Austrians were still loading, they knocked them to the ground with bullets one by one. The three trenches dug on the high ground happened to have a height difference, so that the three trenches all had a fairly good line of sight for shooting. The three trenches spit out thick smoke continuously, killing those Austrians who stopped there and shooting at the front of the position. The corpses continued to pile up, and they even interfered with the advance of the troops behind.

“Idiot! Don’t stop and shoot! Get the bayonet and move forward!” An Austrian commander saw that the problem was wrong and shouted. The soldiers next to him began to rush to bayonet their rifles. At this moment, a bullet flew over and hit the commander’s chest. This is not a 7.62mm bullet fired by the MacDonald 1857 precision shooting rifle, but an 11mm bullet fired by the normal version of the Macdonald 1857 rifle. The power of this bullet is not greater than that of the former, but it should be a caliber issue, and its stopping effect is more obvious. This shot directly knocked the officer to the ground. Let the Austrians who had just prepared a bayonet charge chaos again.

“I killed an official! I really did it!” Tommy cried, but now no one pays attention to him, everyone is attentively reloading, aiming and shooting. Tommy looked around, no one paid attention to him, so he turned his head to load, aim, and shoot honestly.

However, more and more Austrians began to understand that they were no longer stupidly shooting at the Sardinians. They began to mount their own rifles with bayonets and charge upwards. For speed, they even ignored the formation, just rushing forward.

The MacDonald 1857 rifle does not involve a magazine, so the rate of fire is a little slower than that of modern bolt-action rifles. In fact, even modern bolt-action rifles, without the help of machine guns, may not be able to stop such a crowd. charge. Seeing the enemy rushing closer and closer, Lieutenant Colonel Neville ordered to withdraw back to the second trench.

The soldiers quickly ran along the traffic trench back to the second trench. At this time, some Austrians had already rushed to the first trench. Some of them directly jumped over the first trench and continued to rush to the second trench. Some were smarter and jumped out of the trench to avoid bullets.

As a result, the existence of this trench shook the Austrians who had been rushing forward with one heart. More people found that it seemed safer to jump into the trench and hide. As a result, fewer people charged honestly, and more and more people hid in the trenches. As a result, the people who rushed to the second trench were of course killed to the ground without any suspense, and this caused more people to hide in the first trench.

At this time, the Austrian follow-up troops also followed. But obviously, they had no place in the trenches, so they had to bite the bullet and rush to the second trench. But at this time their momentum of charging has also dropped a lot. Coupled with the loss of physical strength all the way, their speed has also dropped drastically. Although one of the three trenches is missing, the people in the first trench have basically moved to the second trench. Therefore, the number of bullets the Austrians have to face has not decreased much, only 80. At a distance of meters, people were constantly being killed on the ground. Although the distance between them and the second trench was still getting closer, their actions had obviously become more and more hesitant.

“Let the soldiers mount the bayonet.” Robson said to Neville, “Now the enemy is close to the limit. It only takes a recoil to defeat them.”

Neville thought for a while, then looked at the enemy army that was already close to less than 50 meters away, and finally ordered: “All of you bayonet!”