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Chapter 474 Iron and Fire in Prussia (First update, please subscribe)
"Swoosh...boom..."

After the violent explosion sounded, the low hedgerows were blown away by the shells, and the soil and branches flew around, hitting their heads and faces from the air.More shells flew over, and the strong screaming sound of the shells flying overwhelmed everything, followed by a deafening bang, and the violent shells continued to explode with boom, boom, boom.

The soldiers in the trenches, after hearing the sound of "whoosh" coming from far and near, they hurriedly pressed their bodies tightly into the trenches and buried their heads in it.Rows of shells exploded, the ground trembled, and the sky was filled with dust.The trench was immediately filled with the choking smell of gunpowder smoke.

"Whoo... whoo... whoo..."

The whistling and explosion sounds of the shells are completely different. The sharp ones are the shells fired by the Krupp field guns. full.

Although mortars spread to Europe, like many countries, the Prussians did not choose this kind of artillery with a range of only about 1300 meters. They chose another kind of artillery-rifled mortars.

Compared with the smoothbore mortar, the 1867-style rifled mortar manufactured by Krupp has a caliber of 150 mm, a range of 3000 meters, and a shell weighing 30 kg. Although the gun body is much heavier, it is definitely powerful on the battlefield powerful weapon.

Occasionally, a heavy mortar shell fell into the trench, and the tens of kilograms of shells would immediately set off a bloody storm in a certain section of the zigzag trench.

"Where's the cannon? Where's our cannon . . . Damn it, the artillery isn't going to fire back?"

The soldiers who ducked down in the trenches to avoid the shelling shouted loudly.

But the shells near the trenches fell like raindrops, and the shrapnel flew over the trenches. Even the soldiers hiding in the anti-gun bunkers seemed to be in the sea, shaking in swaying boats. with.

They were waiting for the bombardment to end, and only a few people were left on the ground to monitor the possible attacking Prussian army, and the others were placed in anti-battery bunkers.

As an army that is good at using cannons, the Nanhua Army has been hit by the superior firepower of the "enemy" in all previous exercises. It is also during the exercises that they learned how to preserve themselves.Although it only took half a day from receiving the order to building the fortifications, they still dug trenches and fortifications as much as possible. The only problem was that the trenches were a little shallower.

"These artillerymen haven't fired yet! They must be waiting for an opportunity. In an artillery battle, whoever fires first will have the upper hand."

Crouching in the bunker with his waist bent and holding his rifle, Wang Taisheng said to the soldiers.He was just promoted to squad leader, but he is no longer the recruit he was last year.

He is a veteran, so he naturally knows what the artillery is waiting for.

"That's right, that's right, let me tell you guys, maybe our artillerymen are waiting for those foreign devils to finish firing the cannons before firing. This is called... Well, first lure the enemy to expose, and then come to the pot... Damn, when our cannon fires, we will knock out their artillery. At that time, without the cannon, those foreign devils will not be the target of our men. If nothing else, it will be our barbed wire. The foreign devils must take thousands of his lives..."

Huddled next to the squad leader, Li Mingdou took out a cigarette and handed it to the squad leader, and then started smoking like this. Although he looked relaxed, he was hit by a shell near the bunker as soon as he took a breath. In the middle, the bunker was shaking, and the soil grains rustled into the helmets above their heads.

"This iron hat is so damn heavy..."

The steel helmet is a new type of equipment that has just been equipped with the expeditionary force. The helmet shape of this kind of helmet is completely imitated by the M35 helmet. The reason why the steel helmet was developed is in the final analysis, considering the Prussian cannon—after all, as far as Zhu Xianhai knows, the Prussians can beat the French War relies on cannons!And steel helmets can give soldiers a certain amount of protection in artillery fire. Even this kind of ordinary carbon steel helmets are much better than cloth caps. The only problem is that they are much heavier than cloth caps.

Li Mingdou loosened his tie, and just when he was about to take off his hat, a piercing whistle sounded from outside the blast hole!

"Quick, quick, the foreign devils are coming up, the foreign devils are coming up..."

Amidst the whistles and shouts, the soldiers stooped out of the anti-gun holes one after another, and ran to their positions with their waists stooped. The soldiers immediately picked up their rifles.

"Quick!...Quick! Everyone enters the position...Everyone, hurry up!"

As soon as he led the soldiers into position, Wang Taisheng heard Captain Lian Changjiang Shanyue's shout.The captain's voice seemed a little anxious. When he picked up the rifle, Li Ping saw a group of blue figures who seemed to be scattered and disorganized at a distance of more than [-] meters in front of them.

It's Prussian!
They bowed their backs and held their rifles and killed them.

"Attention everyone, the distance is 800, put..."

As the company commander shouted, a burst of rifle fire immediately rang out from the position, and a Gatling machine gun pushed out from the bunker also began to roar.

There is also the "beep" sound of the rifle and the "da da" sound of the machine gun.

Wang Taisheng put the rifle on the parapet in front of the trench, opened the safety, and pulled the trigger.As the rifle slammed into the backseat, there was only one voice in his head:
"Shoot forward!"

Like everyone else, he kept loading bullets into the gun chamber, laying down in the trench and shooting non-stop. In order to speed up the shooting, he even took out five or six rows of bullets and put them on the breast wall of the trench. After emptying the bullets, Just reload quickly and shoot again.

A round of bullets was shot out in this way, and Wang Taisheng, who was lying in the trench, could see the blue figures who kept rushing towards this side fell down one after another with the muzzle light of the gun.

However, those figures who did not fall continued to approach the trenches. For Wang Taisheng, this was the first time he had experienced such a defensive battle. He was a little nervous in his heart. Bullets are fired at unprecedented speeds.

Aim, shoot, pull the bolt, shoot...

It's like being on a shooting range, but now, every time they hit a "target," those blue targets bleed, die, and scream in pain.

Suddenly, several white puffs of smoke came from behind the Prussians.

"Bombardment!"

With horrified shouts, an explosion occurred not far from Wang Taisheng and the others. The soldiers in the trench were directly thrown into the air by shells, and the blown soldiers writhed in the air like puppets, looking very weird.

"Cannon, cannon, they're pushing the cannon up..."

(End of this chapter)