Traveler Major League

Chapter 140 White Tiger Ridge
Liu Ze was sitting in the middle with a ponytail, watching the battle. The so-called new company was composed of soldiers from the Ming army captured in previous battles. All of them were soldiers who volunteered to join the army. The officers were all locked up separately. Everyone still used the original weapons and armor of the Ming army, and mostly used bows and arrows as a supplement to the people's army. After all, although the rifles were good, they were too few in number to be used by them.

This is the first big battle of the newly formed company. The previous siege can only be regarded as a drill, which also has the meaning of a test.

With the sound of the rumbling guns, the village in front of the mountain road burst into smoke and dust, and the silence was like an empty city. The wooden female wall on the wall of the village was swept away by the explosion of the shells, and with a bang, a burst of dust flew up. open a paragraph.

There was still no cry of killing or wailing, "Could it be that there is no one? Comrades follow me." Li Kefu first took a platoon out and aimed at the top of the city for cover.

After waiting for a while, the soldiers of the People's Army set up the long ladder to climb up, and the news came back that the gate of the village had been abandoned.

Liu Ze turned to look at Wei Zi and said, "Is there no one?"

"It shouldn't be, we were stuck here before and couldn't get through." Wei Zi scratched his head, feeling deeply puzzled.

Putting aside his doubts, Liu Ze ordered: "Continue to attack, hit their main village and have a look, maybe they will fly."

With the sound of the suona, the people's army continued to move forward, this time for a shorter time, after a burst of gunshots, earth cannons, and shouts of killing.

The messenger came back and reported that the wooden fortress had been abandoned, but at the turn of the mountain road [-] meters away, there was another stone fortress lying across the road. Five or six people were killed or injured once they tried to attack. back.

At this time, the second cottage was full of strong men armed with weapons. The master of the Bai family commanded the removal of wood and stones. There were also a few earth cannons on the top of the wall. After the bombardment, several people were nervously reloading. There are several red-haired corpses left on the mountain road.

"Hurry up and load the medicine, those thieves are coming." Holding a blue rope-wrapped waist knife in his hand, Bai San commanded back and forth. Ling, after marrying Erya, people have been coming to join him in the past few months. Because of his experience in the People's Army, he got a leader position again. The so-called marriage and career have a good harvest.

Unexpectedly, this good day has only passed a few days, and the power of the people's army is getting bigger and bigger. Now it has begun to capture the county and kill officials to rebel. Those who obey the people's army will shrink back on the mountain when there are a large number of people coming, and when there are fewer people, they will go down the mountain to burn, kill and loot those poor people who have turned over. defected.

When more news about the people's army came, the Bai family knew they were afraid, but they were already on the verge of riding a tiger. At a position of [-] meters from the corner of the mountain road, this can be within the shooting range of the local cannon, and can offset the advantage of the number of people's troops. Even the first year rifle, at this position of [-] meters, it is difficult to hide behind the wall. people deal precise damage.

When the second attack started, the newly formed company that had been detoured to the sides of the mountain had not yet been in place, and was still trudging through the dense forest with difficulty. Chess is really slow enough.

In order to deal with the new village wall, he had to push the cannons behind it up. At the corner of the mountain road, Liu Ze stretched out his head and looked at the stone village in the distance and sighed: "This first wooden village was originally a decoration. Shitou village is the hard food."

Weizi was a little embarrassed, they had been dealing with Baihuling for so long, and they didn't know this way.

Seeing the black holes leaking from the walls of the village, Yang Zeming smiled and said to the people: "With their rotten cannons, broken bows and arrows are trying to stop us. It's really beyond our control."

When Liu Ze looked away from the wall and looked at the busy militiamen, in order to prevent being attacked by the earth cannons on the wall, he deliberately filled the rattan frame with soil in front of the emplacements of the two artillery, As a fortification against shelling, after the fortifications were completed, a dozen soldiers pulled the ropes and pushed the two artillery pieces that had been prepared to the artillery positions.

At this time, it was already too late to find any abnormalities on the walls of the village. The earthen cannon fired two rounds, and the iron eggs either flew high or low. Occasionally, one that hit was blocked by the rattan frame filled with soil. hurt.

The artillerymen first stuffed silk-wrapped gunpowder packs into the muzzle. These were fixed packs, and the number of packs was determined according to the distance. Even in modern times, silk packs are one of the mainstream gunpowder packs.

The material of the propellant package must have sufficient strength, wear resistance, stable chemical properties and not easy to react with the propellant, the products after combustion are less and non-smoldering, and the structure is loose to facilitate the conduction of sparks during firing, and the silk of raw silk just goes along with these Conditions, during this period of time a lot was seized, all of which were confiscated into the army as medicine kits.

The sighting hand adjusts the height of the muzzle up and down through the nut, estimates the aiming with the gun finder at the end of the barrel, and the other gunner waits for the loading to be completed, then pierces the charge bag with an iron cone at the fire door at the tail of the gun, and then loads it. Fire hat, wait for the command to fire and immediately fire the cannon.

A bursting bomb flew out of the muzzle of the gun and went straight to the wall of the stone village, and then exploded on the wall, "Continue to fire."

As the order was issued, the artillery fired two more rounds, and the smoke of black gunpowder immediately filled half of the village wall. The cannonballs in the city are mainly shrapnel, and they can't hit the wall at all. Even if the bricks and stones are broken, the soil inside can still maintain the stability of the wall.

The artillery platoon leader picked up the binoculars and issued a new order: "Fire at the wall of the village, mainly killing people."

The Zhuang Ding who were a little scared on the wall of the stronghold laughed and laughed, but this good mood did not last for a cup of tea, and the second round of shelling began again, this time on the top of the city. The mouth was also aimed at the top wall of the village wall. After three explosions, the stumps of the strong men on the wall flew up and fell down. At this time, the screams of panic came, mixed with the shouts of defeat and defeat. .

Bai San watched helplessly as half of the head of a coach who was usually called a brother was cut off, and the blood and brains were sprayed all over his face, and the Hebei spear he was proud of hadn't exerted any effect at all. At this moment, he Regardless of other things, he just wanted to take Erya and escape as quickly as possible, as far away as possible.

One hand grabbed Bai San's left arm violently, "San'er, follow me to the next checkpoint."

Bai San took a closer look, and it turned out to be the old man of the Bai family. His head and face were covered with black gunpowder smoke, and there were half-stretched intestines dangling around in the bandana on his head. Amidst the shouts of killing, the guards swarmed and followed the Bai family uncle to the next checkpoint smoothly.

(End of this chapter)