Kai Fu Han

Chapter 605 Death and Injury Record
Fortunately, this situation had already been rehearsed by the staff. The sandbags prepared long ago were picked up and they quickly ran over and poured the sand on the newly lit fire.

The open fire on the pontoon was quickly extinguished.

"It hasn't been tested yet?"

"It's coming, it's coming." Several staff officers next to Sun Li were writing furiously, calculating the location of the enemy's trebuchet through auxiliary lines, coordinates, etc.

"Tell the artillery battalion that Already 13, Already 15, Already 16, Already 14, Already 17... are all suspicious locations, and they can all be bombed in order."

These four areas are calculated based on the location of the artillery battalion and can correspond to fixed shooting elements.

The Tiger Crouching Cannon is responsible for cleaning up the long-range weapons in the city. It has a high parabolic trajectory that other artillery does not have, and can directly shoot targets in the city over the city wall.

The number of squatting tiger cannons is eighty times that of Jingyan's three-year-old heavy artillery. 160 squatting tiger cannons can take care of at least four targets at the same time.

As the Tiger Crouching Cannon was added to the shooting unit, the explosive shells crossed the city wall and exploded in the city, and the number of oil tanks shot out of the city was reduced a lot.

Counting Jingyan's second-year-old artillery, 260 artillery pieces poured shells at the city wall of Lianshui City slowly and slowly. At first, Lianshui City could still resist some, but in the end, the city seemed to be empty, and there was no reaction at all. No.

"I guess Han Zhong must be confused now. If I were on his side, I would either run away or raise the white flag long ago." Liu Xinjun joked.

The word "bewildered" was learned from Liu Xinqi. Liu Xinqi brought many new words from later generations to the Xinghan League. Although these words are unreasonable, they all have one thing in common: they are very exciting to say, and everyone who has heard them is confused. Consciously remember and use it.

"I don't know if he's confused or not. I guess Han Zhong must be halfway across to attack." Sun Li guessed.

When your own side enters the city, artillery fire near the infantry attack route will stop, otherwise there is a high probability that your own people will be accidentally injured. At this time, a melee bayonet fight is inevitable.

In other words, Han Zhong believed that he still had a chance.

"Brigade commander, the pontoon bridge has been erected." The commander of the logistics support battalion of the third brigade came over to report.

Sun Li stopped chatting with Liu Xinjun and looked up. Sure enough, the wide pontoon bridge had been connected to the other side of the moat.With Sun Li's eyesight, he could see that there were soldiers from his own support battalion on the other shore fixing the pontoon bridge.

"Let the first regiment of the third brigade go up first?" Sun Lida said.

"Okay, you can arrange it." Liu Xinjun waved his hand.

The soldiers of the first regiment were quickly prepared. The first two rows were filled with sword and shield bearers holding giant shields. These sword and shield bearers were temporarily rerouted from musketeers when they put down their muskets. Their skills were pretty good, and they could at least protect themselves. Very strict.

As our own soldiers continued to advance, the heavy artillery in the rear stopped first, followed by the Jingyan [-]nd-year artillery. When the vanguard soldiers crossed the ruins of the city gate, the Tiger Crouching Cannon aimed at shooting near the city gate also stopped. .

"Go straight ahead, target the south gate!" the leader of the first regiment shouted loudly, thinking that there were tiger squatting artillery guards on both sides of the marching route, so there was no need to worry about being attacked by surprise.

But the reason why Han Zhong left his name for future generations naturally has his merits.

As most of the soldiers of the first regiment entered Lianshui City, suddenly, many Southern Zhao Imperial Guards came from both sides of Lianshui City North Street (the main road from the North Gate to the Bell Tower). These Imperial Guards seemed to have emerged from the ground. , The soldiers of the first regiment were beaten and failed to take any measures.

You know, as of now, the Tiger Crouching Cannon outside the city has not stopped shooting. There is a continuous roar from the neighborhoods on both sides of the main road, where the shells they fired fell.

"Kill the enemy!" The regiment leader ordered directly without having time to give detailed instructions.The grassroots officers of the Xinghan League have all gone through a round of training. These officers are all of high quality. After discovering that their side was ambushed and raided, they immediately organized a squad and a platoon of their own to form a small defensive formation for siege and move towards the oncoming target. shooting.After one round of shooting, it was too late to replenish the ammunition for the second round. The Xinghan League soldiers took out the bayonets hanging from their waists, fixed them on the muzzles of the muskets with a "click", twisted them to the right, fixed them firmly, and then raised them. He raised his bayonet and stabbed the charging Southern Zhao Imperial Army.

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"No, the forward has been ambushed. Quick, send your reconnaissance company out to help." Sun Li sent Liu Xinjun, who was talking to his staff, and pointed at the warships in the city.As he spoke, he asked his men to immediately send out the reconnaissance company of the third brigade.

Liu Xinjun turned around and looked towards the city. Since the command platform was as high as one person, he could barely see across the ruins that a regiment entering the city from his side had been surrounded by the Southern Zhao Forbidden Army.

The second brigade is rushing forward desperately, intending to meet the first regiment.

"Quickly, let all our reconnaissance companies go and help." Liu Xinjun ordered directly. After the arrangements were made, he asked Sun Li: "Where did these forbidden troops come from? The Tiger Crouching Cannon didn't stop. How could there be so many of them suddenly? Man, did he come out of the ground?"

"Maybe it really came out of the ground. The Crouching Tiger Cannon is too weak, so it's actually very easy to avoid it." Sun Li replied.

Trench tactics have become a required training item for the Xinghan League's field army, in order to prevent the enemy from imitating the Xinghan League's muskets and prevent the war from turning into a game of queuing to kill.

If you can think of trenches on your side, it's entirely possible that the enemy can think of them too.

This is not a difficult defensive tactic, it just requires some cleverness.Moreover, the Xinghan Alliance had already used trenches during the Battle of Huangshui, and now that battle was no longer a secret to the surrounding forces.

As the second regiment, the third regiment and two reconnaissance companies entered the city, the siege of the first regiment was finally solved.

Sun Li and Liu Xin both also breathed a sigh of relief.

"report!"

"Say." Sun Li responded.

"Captured some Southern Zhao forbidden troops, and preliminary interrogation revealed that after arriving in Lianshui, the Southern Zhao general Han Zhong immediately arranged for soldiers to dig trenches of various sizes. During the previous shelling, they were all hidden in the residential areas of Lianshui Army. Inside." Detective Hui reported: "When the first regiment entered the city, these forbidden troops emerged from the trenches and caves and raided the first regiment."

"It really came out of the ground." Liu Xinjun said with some surprise.

Sun Li was also surprised, but he was first concerned about his own casualties: "How are the casualties of the first regiment?"

"I haven't found the specific number yet," the spy replied, "but when I passed by the first regiment before, I found that there were quite a lot of dead and wounded soldiers."

"We must catch this Han Zhong this time." Sun Li said bitterly.

"Fortunately, the battle situation is back under our control. Let's go into the city next." Li Xinjun comforted.

The casualties of the first regiment this time are likely to break the record of casualties of soldiers in a single battle of the Xinghan League.

Disappointed.

(End of this chapter)