1825 My New Daming

Chapter 100 Look!A new era has come! (End, madly seeking to follow up!!)

When the signal flare went up, the pocket watch in Lieutenant General Hugh Goff's hand was exactly at four o'clock!
At this time, the sky will be bright and the morning wind will blow.The overnight humidity on the plains around Peshawar has slowly risen, and the ground seems to be covered with a thin layer of mist, making it look extraordinarily peaceful, which is very in line with the atmosphere before the war.

And countless bayonets condensed with the morning dew flashed behind the two parapets that had just been erected on the starting positions of the British and Indian troops on the east and south sides of Peshawar City!
The white-skinned officers who lead the team are distributing "brave medicine" to the Indian mercenaries under their hands one by one-it's a piece of sugar pill!Without taking some medicine, how could this group of "third brothers" have the courage to charge up against the enemy's hail of bullets?

In fact, those white-skinned officers have to knock themselves down, because they dare to lead the way!Otherwise, how to fight the war in the era of queuing up and shooting?
Seeing that the "third brother" below got the "brave medicine", he was already a little excited before he started knocking, and the courage of the white-skinned officers also rose, as if they had seen the dawn of victory.

In previous battles in India, as long as the battle formation was set up, the cannons were fired, and the "drug-addicted soldiers" rushed, basically they won a complete victory.

But this time, [-] beat [-] to [-]. The gold soldiers on the opposite side were about [-], plus the former East India Company infantry who defected and surrendered, plus some Pashtun tribal warriors, it would be enough to have [-] God.

More than three hit one!
The advantage lies in Great Britain, how could it not win?
So, you Indians, knock a little more. Only in this way can you be braver and win faster!
The artillery under Hugh Goff's command was also deployed at the front at this time. The 24 12-pound Armstrong breech guns were divided into two artillery groups, which were placed on the east and south sides of Peshawar City.Among them, the artillery group placed in the east of Peshawar City is composed of eighteen cannons, and the artillery group placed in the south of Peshawar is composed of six cannons.

From the distribution of artillery, we know that today's main attack direction is the east of Peshawar.

Seeing the signal flare rising in the sky, the artillery commanders of the British and Indian Army, who had been waiting impatiently for a long time, jumped up from the bunker one by one, climbed to a high place, waved the flag in their hands heavily, and gave orders loudly :"put!"

The 24 Armstrong guns showed their muzzles, and the gunners who had just finished spraying were all extremely powerful. They quickly removed the cover with their hands and feet, and pushed the bullets into the chamber.The fire ropes were pulled one by one, and tongues of fire spewed out from every muzzle!

The artillery positions of the British and Indian Army are very close to the front of the Jinbing, and the direct firing distance is only two to 3000 meters.Jin Bing's rifles and machine guns are no longer a threat at this distance, but the 12-pound Armstrong breech-loading gun is very accurate, and it is also equipped with shrapnel designed to kill infantry, which is quite powerful at medium and short distances. amazing.

A shiny shell was filled into the barrel, and then spit out with a "boom"!On the front of the Jinbing position on the opposite side, suddenly a cloud of smoke rose up, and at first glance it looked like the ground had suddenly bloomed.

These shells were very concentrated, and almost all of them hit the carbine-repelling guns directly in front of them. As the shells continued to explode, several layers of carbine-repelling guns were blown up, and the fragments flew everywhere. , I can vaguely see the human body being blown up into the sky!The artillery of the British army was quite accurate, and the shells were all concentrated. After a while, an offensive channel was gradually blasted out abruptly.

Afterwards, the artillery fire of the British army began to extend again, and the shells fell on the trench line of the golden soldiers!After the fight, gunpowder smoke and dust filled the battlefield, flowing slowly, choking people so hard that they couldn't breathe.

The bombardment lasted a full hour, and the 24 cannons fired a total of [-] shells.A quarter of the artillery shells that Hugh Goff's men worked so hard to bring up had been lost, and the artillery positions were covered with copper shell casings.Just after five o'clock, the shelling stopped abruptly.The white-skinned officers of the Anglo-Indian army and the Sikh officers with big turbans who led the attack straightened up and raised their hands forward, and the infantry who were drugged behind them rushed out!

Behind the golden soldiers formation in the east of Peshawar, Pingxi Wang Wu Faxan, wearing a yellow mandarin jacket, carrying a waist knife, and a steel helmet imported from Ming Dynasty, led a dozen Goshhas carrying shell guns, and galloped along the traffic trench. Just come forward.

Although this Wu Chuanzhen is a prince, he is a master who likes to lead the way and charge in front of the battle.He saw the firepower of the British army on the east side of the city from the tower of Peshawar Castle, and immediately knew that the main attack direction of the British army was in the east of the city.Immediately, he handed over the command to his lieutenant general, and went down the tower with his own soldiers. First, he squinted behind the earthen wall outside the east gate. The main position in the east of the city "Dui" left.

When Wu Chuanchuan rushed into the trench of the "Dui" position, the golden soldiers inside the trench had already got up, but most of the militiamen in Peshawar were still squatting against the inner wall of the trench with their heads in their hands, and all of them were full of heads and faces. It is soil.

Wu Chuanchuan hurriedly yelled: "Anyone out of breath? Get up for me, put up the rifles and machine guns for me, the British devils are going to come up and kill me!"

While shouting, he ran around in the trenches. When he saw those Peshawar militiamen who were frightened by the shelling of the British army and couldn't get up for a while, he would go up and kick them twice, and then used the Pashto he had just learned. shouted twice: "The true God is great!"

Seeing that he went to the front line as if he was desperate for his life, the golden soldiers and Peshawar militiamen in the position also came up with courage. The Bess breech-loading guns and Suvorov rifles were all set up one by one, and the black hole The muzzles were all pointed forward.

At this time, Wu Chuanzhen was also lying on the wall of the trench, holding up a telescope with his left hand and looking towards the opposite side.It was still smoky at first, and I couldn't see anything clearly.All I could hear were shouts from the opposite side.Suddenly a gust of mountain wind blew away the smoke, and finally they could see the formation on the opposite side clearly. Everyone was surprised and happy.

The number of officers and soldiers of the Anglo-Indian-Sikh coalition army pressing from the opposite side is extremely large, and it is simply a sea of ​​people!Soldiers wearing all kinds of turbans rushed in like a tide, forming waves of dense skirmish lines on the open position!

The officers of the British Indian Army and the Sikh Army stood at the head of the line, holding up their command sabers to lead the soldiers forward. Rows of rifles undulated forward. On their starting positions, there was a steady stream of British and Indian soldiers The officers and soldiers of the army and the Sikh army came over the parapet.The entire battlefield was almost filled with soldiers in turbans!All kinds of heart-piercing shouts mixed together, making it extraordinarily noisy!

This kind of dense skirmisher line tactics is actually the mainstream tactic in the Napoleonic Wars on this timeline. At that time, breech-loading guns and breech-loading guns had just appeared, but the main equipment of various countries was still front-loading rifles and front-loading guns. There is no machine gun, but there is the unreliable revolver (Gatling) machine gun, and barbed wire has not yet appeared.

In that case, relying on concentrated artillery and dense skirmish lines, it is entirely possible to break the enemy's trench defense line.

But now, times have changed!
Wu Chuanzhen lay on his back in the trench, staring dumbfounded at everything in front of him: "Damn it, if there were no barbed wire and machine guns, I would be a loyal man today."

Thinking of this, Wu Chuanchuan pulled out his waist knife and ran around the trench line in big strides: "Don't fire! Don't fire. Wait until the enemy is blocked by barbed wire!"

He also ran to every machine gun fort made of sandbags, and the shooters were nervously preparing to shoot.Then I heard Wu Chuanzhen yelling at them: "You can only fire when the machine gun in my hands is fired, do you hear me?"

"Yes!"

The machine gunners are all veterans. Although they haven't seen the big scene today, they are all veterans who have seen blood in battle. They may be calm!

And as long as the machine guns on the front line can "hold on", it's no big deal even if the rifles in the hands of the Peshawar militiamen are firing indiscriminately.

Zhuge Weidao and the others also saw the Anglo-Indian-Sikh coalition forces rushing in like a tide from the turret behind them.Both Zheng Guoxian and Mu Junen, two army officers with professional backgrounds, gasped.

Colonel Mu Junen put down the binoculars and frowned: "This is the classic French shock. The French Republican Revolutionary Army used this tactic to repel the anti-French coalition forces!"

Zheng Guoxian over there also put down his binoculars, frowned and said: "At least two regiments have been thrown in the east, and about one regiment in the south. This is the firepower of India's human life. As long as the density of human life is high enough and the attack is firm enough, a breakthrough will be formed!"

"They can't break through!" Zhuge Weidao said in a firm tone, "The barbed wire will block them, and the machine guns will kill enough people! And they also have four six-foot howitzers."

As soon as he said this, the four six-inch cannons placed on the square below the castle suddenly trembled, and then burst into flames and made a violent bang!
Among the dense British-Indian-Sikh coalition ranks, clouds of smoke suddenly rose.The big turbans of the Anglo-Indian-Sikh coalition forces covered the entire battlefield like a big blue and green blanket, and the puffs of smoke scattered, and there was a gap in the big two-color blanket, which could still be seen faintly. Saw the human body stumbling around.But in a blink of an eye, more soldiers from the Anglo-Indian-Sikh coalition will come in!
These "Third Brothers" who took drugs are indeed much braver than when they didn't take drugs!
At the same time as the four six-inch guns began to roar, more than a dozen 60mm mortars also began to show off!The "natural enemies" of machine guns such as mortars also exist in the pure white British army, but the British and Indian troops do not have them.But the mortar is a company-level support artillery. It seems too extravagant to have a white-skinned artillery squad in a company.
With the blessing of more than a dozen mortars, Jin Bing's firepower became much more violent.The artillery fire plowed from the front of the team to the back, shrapnel whizzed and flew in all directions, and every time it exploded, a group of "third brothers" were brought down.However, the Anglo-Indian-Sikh coalition forces that have taken drugs are now in full swing, showing no signs of stagnation.In a blink of an eye, the remaining rejecting horses were already approaching, and the soldiers in the lead moved these rejecting horses one after another, and the impatient ones simply turned over from above and crowded forward.

At this time, the vanguard of the Anglo-Indian-Sikh coalition forces had rushed to a distance of only 400 meters from the trench line of the Golden Army, and the rifles could easily hit them.Wu Chuanfa has "occupied" a machine gun fort located in the center of the trench line, and personally controls a Taiping first-year-style water machine gun made in the Ming Dynasty-the other dozen or so machine guns deployed on the main position of the "Dui" brand will also Follow along and fire.And the machine guns on the "Qian" position and the "Kun" position on the flanks of the "Dui" position will fire together after the "Dui" position is launched!
These machine guns are held by the world's most elite naval airborne cavalry (they are actually cavalry), and of course they can execute the discipline of firing.But those Peshawar militiamen with rifles were not of that quality.

The layers of Jin soldiers' line of rejecting horses arranged in front of the three positions of "Dui", "Qian" and "Kun" are about 30 meters long. A lot of British artillery has been cleared, and the thinnest place is even less than ten meters. The "Third Drug Addicted Brothers" rushed up row by row, and they were about to break through the line of rejection.There were already Peshawar militiamen in the trenches, unable to hold their breath, and began to fire with the bass breech guns in their hands.On the position held by the golden soldiers, there were sparse flames one after another!
The marksmanship of these Peshawar militiamen is actually not bad. The "third brother" squeezed in the horse-rejecting line, from time to time, some people suddenly burst into blood, and then trembled and fell down.The screams rang out uncontrollably, and the team of the "Third Brothers" suddenly became chaotic.However, the white-skinned officers and Sikh officers who led the team were even more excited when they saw the sparse firepower coming from the opposite side.

The enemy is obviously firing indiscriminately-this is a waste of precious bullets (the infantry on both sides fighting on the Indian battlefield usually only carry ten bullets), and their firepower is very sparse, which shows that the shelling just now is very effective!
As long as one more charge, you can win!
Victory. Not only a lot of rupees, but also a piece of shit!

Under the urging of the officers, the "Third Brothers" all became excited—their casualties were not large, and they were still within the tolerable range.

Their team has become chaotic and denser. There is no longer a wave of skirmishers, but a "charge group" of hedgehogs. Of course, the speed of advancement has also accelerated. Everyone They all roared and rushed forward with their heads covered.

And those "third brothers" who failed to cross the Juma Line for a while, picked up the Bes breech-loading guns in their hands, and fired at the Jinbing position in an attempt to suppress the opponent's firepower.

At this time, all the rifles on the Jinbing position started to fire, and the bullets were shot out row by row, sweeping down the charging "third brother" piece by piece.But the "three buddies" who had already charged up couldn't retreat, their formation was too dense, and the comrades behind them were almost about to put their bayonets on their backs.And these "third brothers" also know that the white-piped supervisor team has already set up the machine guns, as long as they dare to retreat, those white-pipeds will not show mercy.

Seeing more and more "Third Brothers" have rushed to the front of the thin barbed wire with the firepower of Jin Bing, Hugh Goff, holding a telescope, said to himself: "Breakthrough is about to break through!"

His chief of staff, Charlie Brown, also smiled slightly: "There is still the last barbed wire line. If we rush over, India will still be ours, and it will always be!"

The so-called "last barbed wire" line is actually more than one line, but a line of defense composed of three stakes pulling the barbed wire.Hugh Gough had actually discovered these barbed wire fences, but he didn't have time to prepare vise for his men, so he had to get a lot of axes from the cooks and engineers accompanying the army and send them to the charging "third brother" to cut down the wooden piles. But those " "Third Brother" the ax soldier rushed to the barbed wire fence panting heavily, only to find that the thick wooden stakes deeply inserted into the ground were also wrapped with layers of wire, and it was difficult for the ax to cut the wood.

However, this group of "Third Brother Axe Soldiers" still performed their duties very faithfully, using their axes to chop wooden posts protected by wire in vain.Of course, this will have no effect, and even if it can be cut off, it will take a long time to cut it.And just as they were cutting the "wire stakes", the follow-up "Third Brother" soldiers had already rushed up like a tide, and in a blink of an eye, a large number of people had gathered in front of the barbed wire.Some of them tried to climb over the barbed wire, but the barbed wire was full of spikes, and they couldn't do anything. They wanted to push down the barbed wire, but the stakes were buried too deep.

Just when they didn't know what to do, King Dajin Pingxi, Minister of the Admiralty Wu Faxing, had already aimed the muzzle of the machine gun at them!
I only heard Wu Chuanzhen yell: "Fire!"

Then he pulled the trigger of the machine gun himself, and the flames spewed out!

The shooters in the other machine gun forts on the position saw that Wu Faxan's side had already fired, and they also pulled the triggers one after another.Dozens of tongues of flame spewed out from all the well-camouflaged machine gun bunkers almost at the same time!The sound of bullet casings popping up and colliding rang out, and dozens of streams of fire, like the call of death, flew towards the "third brother" who was so dense that it couldn't be denser.

Blood mist spewed out from the crowd immediately, flying in clusters among the crowd and permeating the air.Looking through the binoculars held by Zhuge Weidao, one could see the "Third Brothers" wrapped in various turbans twisting and falling down in a row in front of the barbed wire fence, blood spurting everywhere, death and checkmate Layers upon layers of human bodies, a large amount of blood flowed on the muddy ground, and soon dyed a large area of ​​land into black and red!
"Win, win!" Mu Zhongjun's voice suddenly sounded, "So this is what it looks like to win a battle!"

Zhuge Weidao looked at the scene of the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood, but said coldly: "It's started! It's started."

Zheng Guoxian, who was also shocked by the killing scene in front of him, heard Zhuge Weidao's words, put down the binoculars, looked at this former friend who "suddenly became stupid" and "suddenly became very scary", and asked curiously: "Daozi, what do you think?" What did you start?"

"The beginning of a new era!" Zhuge Weidao said, "In future history books, the Battle of Peshawar will be the prologue of a new era!"

(End of this chapter)