Emperor’s Battlefield: I, Zhu Houzhao, like to push horizontally

Chapter 123 The Showdown of the King of War

Zhu Houzhao's troops have been expanded, and the artillery that is used to attack the enemy has naturally increased its strength.

The artillery force expanded from a regiment to a division.

The number of artillery pieces in the entire division has reached 100, and one regiment has been fully equipped with 155 heavy howitzers, making the army more lethal.

As Xu Da issued the order to attack, a mixed division began to advance towards the mountain.

In order to ensure that both sides have combat effectiveness and that their own side occupies a favorable situation, when launching an attack on the enemy, Xu Da will use real troops to fight in a mixed manner with Zhu Houzhao's imperial battlefield troops.

There are many hidden rules in the attack and defense mode. Xu Da was worried that if he just let the artillery attack, after stopping, the system would judge it to be a wave of attacks.

In order to prevent this from happening, he directly asked a mixed division to arrive at the edge of the battlefield, and after the artillery attack was completed, he launched an attack.

In this way, even if you are in a wave of attacks.

"Sir, all artillery pieces are ready."

Lao Pao, who had been promoted to division commander, nodded to the soldiers reporting with a pipe in his mouth.

He picked up the field phone next to him and shook it a few times. His lazy expression immediately became serious, and he loudly reported to the phone.

"Report to Commander Xu, the artillery unit is ready, please give your instructions!"

Xu Da, who was on the phone, looked at Zhu Houzhao.

Although he is the commander-in-chief, Zhu Houzhao is the highest commander of the entire army, and the order to start the battle still needs to come from Zhu Houzhao.

"Let's start. Blast him for half an hour first. Tell Lao Pao'er that we have no shortage of shells now and ask him to make them for me."

"If he has the ability to blow up this mountain for me, not to mention heavy artillery with a capacity of more than 200, even a rail gun will be prepared for him."

Xu Da chuckled lightly when he heard this, and said to the phone: "Old Pao, did you hear what His Highness said!"

Lao Pao, who was listening the whole time, glanced at the distant mountain peaks and twitched the corners of his mouth.

"Forget about the rail gun. I think the current caliber is enough."

It may not be enough to blow up the mountain or move the nuclear bomb over.

After hanging up the phone, Lao Pao turned around and walked out of the tent, picked up a loudspeaker outside the tent, and shouted orders to the gunner facing him.

"Attention, all artillery, target the mountain peak position, bombard for half an hour, give me a hard time, fire!"

As the word "fire" fell, the gunners who had been prepared for a long time waved the little red flags in their hands vigorously.

"emission!"

"Boom boom boom..."

More than 100 artillery pieces were divided into three positions. Wild flames spewed out from the muzzles, and shells roared towards the mountain position.

"Artillery bombardment, enemy bombardment..."

After all, they were modern troops. When they heard the sound of artillery shells cutting through the air, they immediately judged that it was an artillery attack, and it was a heavy-caliber artillery.

The little Japanese melons waiting in the position heard the piercing scream and squatted into the trench without hesitation, or rushed to the tunnel in the distance.

Boom, boom, boom...

Smoke and dust covered the entire mountain, making it look like a solid stone building.

Under heavy caliber artillery bombardment, it collapsed and fell.

Some of the little Japanese melons that couldn't escape screamed and were smashed into pulp.

On the artillery position, the artillerymen were in high spirits, shouting slogans and sending out shells one after another.

As the artillerymen under Zhu Houzhao, they lived very frugally because the price of artillery shells was too high.

Many times, they have to calculate the reserves of artillery shells to fight, which makes them feel that their hands are tied.

But since the end of the last imperial war, they received good news.

The artillery shell factory in the production base has been built, and they will soon be able to shoot freely.

I didn't expect the surprise to come so quickly. There is no limit to the ammunition in this battle.

Think about it too.

When we were about to set off, the mountain-like pile of shell boxes made the logistics soldiers carrying the shells feel weak in their calves. You can only imagine how terrifying the scale was.

However, just after the battle, when the artillerymen were excited, there was an old man sitting outside the tent, watching the artillery fire, with a pipe in his mouth.

His ears suddenly twitched, he stood up and roared loudly.

"Enemy shelling!"

But the sound of the artillery fire was so loud that it suppressed his voice. Except for the cannon next to him, the other artillerymen didn't hear what he was shouting at all.

"Boom... Boom..."

Three artillery shells exploded in front of the artillery position, startling the artillerymen who were firing.

Have you been bombarded?

This was the reaction of the artillerymen after they were stunned for a while.

From the time they appeared until now, apart from the Night King's air attack, this was the first time they had suffered an enemy counterattack, and it was also an artillery attack.

"Damn it, you idiots, why are you still standing there? Calculate the opponent's trajectory and do it for me."

The usually taciturn old Pao'er got angry for the first time, pointing at the stunned artillerymen and yelling curses.

He was so stupid, he was used to fighting against the odds, but when faced with the enemy's counterattack, he didn't even know what to do.

Everyone's brains were as if they were filled with donkey dung, and they had completely forgotten everything the instructor taught them.

After the old cannon's scolding, the artillerymen reacted immediately.

There was no panic, but excitement.As artillery, their mission is to destroy enemy defensive positions and provide long-range attack firepower for attacking forces.

However this is only one of them.

Their other most important task is to fight against the enemy's artillery.

Knock the opponent down so that the other party has no ability to resist, or be beaten down by the opponent and make yourself unable to resist.

It's just that they have never encountered enemy artillery since their arrival, and they were suddenly hit by enemy artillery, which made them stunned for a while.

Now that they have reacted, everyone is extremely excited.

After being invincible for so long, someone finally dared to challenge their authority as the King of War.

Since he saw the power of Westerners, Emperor Meiji naturally would not ignore such important weapons as artillery.

It's just that because of the gap in time, their artillery attack range does not reach the range of the heavy artillery division.

The reason for not counterattacking for so long was to transport artillery so that the artillery could hit the enemy's artillery position.

Entering the battlefield this time, Emperor Meiji brought more than 30 artillery pieces, including 100 heavy artillery pieces with a caliber of more than 5.

That's right, it's heavy artillery.

The Japanese country is short of resources. For them, artillery with a caliber of more than [-] is considered a heavy artillery.

The five artillery pieces just now were actually fired at the same time.

In the end, only three of them touched the artillery positions.

Of the other two, one had a problem during transportation, and the shell exploded less than 200 meters away.

The other thing I don’t know is the reason for aiming, or what happened?

Even the little Wagua artilleryman didn't know where the shell flew?

"Quickly, quickly..."

In the outermost position, a group of small melons were desperately reloading the artillery that had been fired.

Knowing that their light artillery could not reach the enemy, the little Japanese melons only transported five heavy artillery pieces.

Others were left on the hill as long-range support fire against enemy attacks.

"boom…"

The second round of counterattack began again.

The shooting results were less than ideal.

Commander Xiaowogua, who was observing with a telescope, punched the stone next to him.

Although four artillery rounds reached the designated area this time, they did not hit the enemy.

"Reloading..."

With a fire in my heart, I ordered to reload.

"Woooooooo..."

But as soon as his order was given, a whistle sounded in the air.

The little Wagua artillery commander's heart sank, he gritted his teeth and roared at the artilleryman who was about to evade: "Don't worry, keep loading..."

Their location has been exposed, there's no point in hiding anymore.

Without artillery, how could they have the dignity to meet the Emperor?

It would be better to simply die on the battlefield.

"Hi."

Understanding the commander's thoughts, the little Japanese artillerymen who were about to evade shouted in unison, ignoring the incoming attack and continuing to be busy with the work at hand.

"Boom..."

Dozens of artillery shells hit him.

The two heavy cannons misfired on the spot.

Maybe the little Japanese melon really should burn incense.

One of the artillery shells fell into the ammunition storage point nearby.

Caused a violent explosion.

The huge explosion swallowed up the two nearby cannons.

In just one attack, Xiaowogua's five artillery pieces were directly lost to four.

The last one, facing the scattered shrapnel, pulled the gun rope in the commander's anger.

All the artillerymen looked expectantly at the artillery position opposite.

They knew in their hearts that they would not have a second chance.

Ignoring the whining sound that sounded again in the sky opposite, they looked at the opposite side nervously, praying that the shells that had just flown out would achieve some results.

"Boom..."

God gave them a cruel kick. The shell flew less than 500 meters, and for some unknown reason, it exploded in the air.

"idiot…"

The artillery commander roared and was covered in despair by the explosion.

(End of this chapter)