Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 640 Fierce battle on the embankment

The situation of the battle was as expected by the staff department.He Ming thought.But the Ming army was only defeated for a while, the opponent's flag was not disturbed, and there was no sign of wavering. Judging from the sound of drums and the movement of the military flag, the enemy was stepping up the deployment of troops.This time, the enemy will definitely mobilize the elite main force to attack with all their strength.

"The enemy is mobilizing new troops." The observation post kept sending new information, "The enemy is transporting things out of the city!"

He Rubin dispatched troops and generals, actively preparing for the second attack.In order to resist the firearm advantage of the thieves, a large number of chicken busses from the firearms battalion and the supply battalion were gathered together, and many bags and straw bags filled with sand were piled up on them, all of which were wet with water.Some cars were equipped with a large number of heavy door panels dismantled from the county town, and even several thick iron-covered gates in the county government were dismantled.According to the order of the Chinese army, Liu Jingxuan personally took the yamen servants to dismantle wooden boards, collect carts and bags, so as not to "delay the military plane".The carpenters and blacksmiths in the army hurriedly carried out the modification.

No matter how thick the door panel is, even if it is covered with iron sheets, it will not be able to withstand the shells. He Rubin still understands this basic truth. What he goes alone is the enemy's blunderbuss.

Judging from the several battles that started yesterday, besides the guns of the Kun bandits, the shotguns are also very "sharp". The power of killing people at a distance of [-] steps alone can make soldiers frightened.No matter how many guns there are, they are only twenty or thirty. Compared with a single blunderbuss in each hand, the threat is not too great.

The soil bags and door panels are used to cover the soldiers and resist the lead during the charge, and they can be used to cross the trench when they are under the trench.With the help of a telescope, He Rubin could see clearly: the embankment of the bandits was very wide, but not high, at most no more than two feet high, and there was no fortification on it except a low wall made of sandbags.As for the towers built with wooden poles, they are too thin to be equipped with cannons, and there are at most a few gun shooters, which do not constitute a big threat.

While watching the movements of the Ming army, He Ming ordered to distribute high-calorie dry food and water to the soldiers-the battle in the afternoon is likely to be very intense and last for a long time.

"Hurry up and eat, prepare to fight!"

The second attack was launched in the afternoon, and it was the elite of the Ming army who launched the attack. The center was Fubiao's [-] standard battalion soldiers, commanded by the guerrilla king Daoji known as the fierce general.On his left wing were Li Guang's [-]-standard fighters, and his right wing was Wang Xi's [-] soldiers from the training guerrilla.

As soon as the guns sounded, only the wheels were rolling, and hundreds of rooster carts were either piled up with dirt or erected planks to open the way ahead, followed by the officers and infantry in long columns.

The officers and generals have already seen the superiority of the Fubo army's artillery fire. This time, they no longer use a dense formation to surge up together, but let people and horses disperse into a relatively sparse team. A thief can create a flesh and blood alley with one shot.

Wave after wave of people and horses surged forward amidst the sound of military drums, smoke and dust billowed, generals rode horses and yelled loudly in the ranks, driving the troops forward, with flags fluttering behind them, surrounded by varying numbers of people The soldiers and family servants, one by one, drew their knives out of their sheaths and put their arrows on the strings, ready to protect their masters and fight against the enemy or deserters at any time.

The cannons on the embankment fired again.The thick smoke and flames from the firing of the cannon shocked all the generals and officials of the Ming army. They already knew that with the thick smoke and flames, something useful would happen to the people who were running forward in the open space. Soldiers will be on him.Everyone is staring at the battlefield with breath-holding.

The black shadows of the cannonballs made a terrible whistling sound, falling one after another in the queue, and nothing could stop these black dancing iron balls.Once they fall into the line, there will be a burst of screams and wailing.The smoke dissipated, leaving only piles of corpses and broken limbs on the ground.When the shell was about to fall to the ground, its speed was already so slow that it seemed that it could be received by reaching out.A reckless general raised his iron gun and swung it violently like an arrow, desperately trying to knock the shells to the ground.The shell broke the tip of the spear, and a huge force was transmitted to his arm through the barrel of the gun, tearing half of his body apart.Some people turned around and wanted to escape, but they were instantly hacked to death by the officers behind them.

"Go forward, go forward!" The generals were giving orders, and they themselves were not safe. In addition to the shells that would kill them regardless of their position, some people would suddenly fall off their horses from time to time, and some people rode horses and circled around. Pretentiously waving a sword and roaring, but he never moved forward.

As the team got closer and closer to the earth embankment, the firing of artillery became more and more intensive.As the Ming army rushed to a distance of 500 meters, the artillerymen began to fire shrapnel and grenades. The shells either exploded in the air or exploded on the ground, and fragments and iron bullets knocked down rows of soldiers.

"Rush! Rush!" The officers waved their knives, "Rush down the embankment!"

The soldiers howled loudly, rushing forward like dying beasts.The black formation rushed towards the earth embankment.The gunners of the Fubo Army took off their shirts and tried their best to fire shells quickly.The sound of gunfire came and went, and the entire embankment was completely covered by white smoke, only the watchtowers protruding above floated above the smoke like attics on the clouds.Below the clouds are the approaching crowd rolling like stormy waves.The snipers on the sentry tower have lost the leisurely energy of reloading slowly at the beginning, finding the target in person, aiming and shooting carefully, shaking their heads or nodding, and then drawing a mark on the wooden board beside them.Everyone quickly pulls the bolt to aim and fire, and then rushes to find the second target.

"Target 300 meters, shotgun!" Zhang Bolin finally called out the command to load the shotgun.The battle has finally entered the level of melee combat.A dozen cannons were quickly loaded with cannonballs and fired.

"put!"

27 shotguns ejected with every beat of the muzzle, forming a dense barrage.Many soldiers were shot before they even got close to the trench.

"Infantry shooting!" He Ming saw that the officers and soldiers had already approached the trench regardless of the artillery fire.Some soldiers have thrown soil bags, chicken cockroaches and the bodies of fallen soldiers into it to fill up a road.Although they were quickly killed by pieces of shot, but the follow-up troops are pouring in continuously.

"The ruler is 150 meters, let it go!"

The smoke from the artillery was too thick, and no one could see the target clearly, so the infantry set up their scales and fired row after row without aiming. The crisp gunshots rang out one after another. When he was close to the trench, he was shot and fell down. Some people retreated, but He Rubin had sent 2000 more troops to rush over, and the rolling crowd once again filled the battlefield.The front team swooped forward against the back team.

"Come on! Kill the trenches to reward five taels of silver, and climb the wall to reward ten taels!" Several officers led their soldiers on horseback and galloped along the already chaotic ranks of officers and troops, shouting to encourage morale.

"Give it to Lao Tzu! The Kun Slayer Bandit will reward you with two taels of silver for the first class! The leader of the Kun Slayer Bandit will reward you with 50 taels of silver. If you are timid and retreat, beheaded!"

Wang Daoji took the lead and rushed to the front. Half of the servants and soldiers around him were killed and injured, and the flag officer also changed two people, but he was still the first to lead the team to the edge of the ditch.Some archers have already stretched their bows and arrows by the side of the trench, firing dense arrows.The first wave of casualties appeared on the embankment.The three-eyed gunner also fired the three-eyed gun.

Tian Liang was standing on the right side of the company, his ears were almost deafened by the sound of gunfire.He saw the company commander -- desperately jumping onto the low wall, waving the command knife in his hand and roaring, his voice almost suppressing the firing of the entire company's platoon guns.At this time, five or six feathered arrows shot out from the smoke, and one of them hit the company commander. He snorted and fell off the embankment, and was immediately decapitated by the officers and soldiers.

The soldiers were so stunned that they forgot to shoot for a while.Tian Liang was so surprised that his commanding knife almost fell to the ground—the company commander was always at the top of the military training and assessment, and the person who dared to fight and rush died like this!
"Hurry up, Second Lieutenant Tian, ​​it's your turn!" Seeing that Tian Liang was still in a daze, the company chief quickly pushed and shoved him to the company banner.

Tian Liang almost forgot the password he shouted for a while.Discovering that the company commander of the battalion was killed in battle, You Huo, who ran over to supervise the battle, kicked him hard:
"What a shock! Shoot!"

Only then did Tian Liang react.His command knife swung down sharply.

"Salvo! Release!"

A gust of sea breeze blew away the thick gunpowder smoke.A red fire snake flew along the earth embankment, and when they reached the edge of the ditch, the soldiers who were firing arrows to fill the ditch fell down in the ditch under the firepower of the left and right wings, but the second group of people rushed over again.

Fu Sansi held the SKS rifle carefully, and while paying attention to the situation of the entire battalion, he picked up the gun and fired a few bullets from time to time.He specialized in shooting soldiers like trench officers and archers.His marksmanship is very accurate, and he is not affected by the outside world when shooting, basically one shot at a time.

Seeing that several sections of the trench had been filled with corpses and sandbags, more and more Ming soldiers rushed to the wall of the village. Although they avoided the frontal firepower, the rifle firepower fired from the other slope still drove them into groups. knockdown.

However, casualties on the embankment also increased as a large number of archers and gunmen rushed to the side of the trench to cover fire.Feeling that the time had come, Fu Sansi picked up a grenade from his hand and dropped the grenade in one go.

"Drop the bomb!" he ordered loudly as the grenade popped out of his hand.

"Drop the bomb! Drop the bomb!" A series of orders were passed on the earth embankment.The soldiers who were shooting arrows and filling the ditch could only see many small iron bumps left on the earth embankment.

The grenades exploded one after another. Although the grenades filled with black powder had mediocre killing effects, the power and momentum of throwing many grenades together was astonishing.Then the second row and the third row of grenades were continuously dropped. At this distance, the shotgun could no longer play a role and could only be fired in depth.Grenades became the best weapon.Crowded beside the trenches, the officers and soldiers under the embankment had almost nowhere to hide under the rain of grenades, and fell to their deaths one after another.

The former group hadn't fallen yet, but the latter group had rushed over driven by the generals. Soldiers fell to death one after another in the open space between the salient fortresses. Like a sickle, they quickly harvested the lives of a group of people.Smoke hung over the embankment, and people in the distance could only see the fire of rifles and artillery.

The number of casualties on the embankment was increasing. Many infantry soldiers were hit by arrows and iron shots from three-eyed muskets, and the health workers kept pulling away the fallen casualties.The infantry line on the embankment began to weaken, and the firepower was also sparse.

The first batch of officers and soldiers took advantage of the lack of firepower and had already pulled out and cut off the standard bamboo sticks inserted obliquely on the slope. Although some of them kept being shot and rolled down, the people behind still came in batches.They have already climbed up with ladders or simply with hands and feet. They were immediately dealt with by infantry bayonets, but more and more people climbed up, and some three-eyed gunners also climbed up. This heavy iron tool was used as an iron rod. Many officers and soldiers rushed to the village and threw burning fire pots on the earth embankment while climbing. Although the ceramic fire pots could not explode, the flames and smoke after landing caused some confusion for the defenders.The infantry began to be forced to retreat step by step, in chaos.One jumped up on the embankment so violently that his long knife cut off the rifle of an infantryman and stabbed him down.Then he cut down another infantryman who rushed forward.The two militiamen who rushed forward with spears retreated repeatedly under the momentum of his slashing with knives.Seeing more and more officers and soldiers coming up behind him, he became more and more courageous. He rushed a few steps and pushed back the defeated militiamen. He reached out and inserted a military flag on the earth embankment.The morale of the Ming army above and below the city was greatly boosted, and at the same time, they let out a burst of fierce howls, rushing here risking their lives, and they were about to open a breakthrough on the earth embankment.Lin Shenhe, who was still holding a gun of the civilian version of the semi-automatic M14, let out a loud cry, and rushed over with the M14 with a bayonet attached in his hand. Seeing that the two sides were about to fight in close quarters, he dodged to the side, and everyone Shout: "Let go!"

A typewriter mounted on a trolley behind him immediately let out a loud roar, and the dense hot lead bullets swept away all the officers and soldiers who climbed up the embankment. How fast it has become.Those who were lucky enough not to be hit also scrambled and fled down the embankment.

Breaches appeared everywhere, but the militiamen and the reserve teams of each battalion kept closing the breaches, and beat down the officers and soldiers who broke through the embankment of the occupied territory. And the platoon gun is still spewing flames and thick smoke non-stop.

The place where Tian Liang was located was exactly the place where Wang Daoji's servants and personal soldiers hit the breakthrough and swooped with all their strength.The company under his temporary command had already suffered one-third of its casualties.The officers and soldiers took the opportunity to climb up the earth embankment and started hand-to-hand combat.His command knife fell out of nowhere during the fierce battle. After the revolver ran out of bullets, an officer rushed towards him before he could reload it. In desperation, he slammed the revolver into the opponent's face and picked up one. The three-eyed firecracker turned around and hit the enemy's brains.

It was too late for him to look for weapons, the officers and soldiers had already rushed in front of him, he had forgotten all his military regulations at the critical moment of life, and just relying on a desire to survive, he waved this heavy iron guy left and right and smashed it. Invincible.At this time, a feathered arrow pierced his thigh, and Tian Liang screamed and fell to the pile of corpses on the embankment.An officer and soldier saw that he had a scabbard hanging around his waist, and knew that he was an officer. He jumped over and brandished his waist knife to cut off his head, but was immediately stabbed to death by the infantry who rushed to save his acting company commander.The two sides fought back and forth at the place where Tian Liang fell.

The staff officers on the command platform began to lose their composure. They saw more and more enemies boarding the embankment and started hand-to-hand combat—some battles started right next to the cannons.

"Join the reserve team." Zhu Quanxing came to ask for the battle in person
"Wait a little longer, and hold on." He Ming picked up the binoculars and carefully observed every breach on the embankment.It is true that the officers and soldiers boarded the embankment in many places, but every gap was fought by the Fubo army and militiamen. He firmly believed that the soldiers who had undergone strict training could repel the few officers and soldiers.

In the battle, Youhuo gave full play to his role of being called "one tendon". With a roar of joy, he rushed into the breaches one by one, hacked randomly with the long sword of the frontier army, and attacked a large number of people. He almost cut off his own head while killing the officers and soldiers, but his madness boosted the morale of a large number of militiamen and infantrymen. They rushed up to follow him, slashing and rushing, closing one breach after another.Facts have proved that officers and soldiers are far less resolute in one-on-one hand-to-hand combat than the well-trained infantry of the Fubo Army.It often happened that three or five infantry soldiers drove back a group of officers and soldiers with bayonets.

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, although Wang Daoji organized the onslaught again and again regardless of the casualties, the soldiers were hit by shells beside the trench, causing many casualties.The defense on the embankment also gradually became elastic.The militiamen filled the gaps in the casualties of the infantry, poking down the officers and soldiers who barely climbed the embankment with their spears, and the typewriter played a vital role in the battle to seal the breach.This terrifying burst of monsters completely destroyed any determination to occupy the breakthrough on the earth embankment, and the lead bullets pouring like raindrops wiped out the officers and soldiers who poured in.The artillery shooting cut off the follow-up troops from time to time, and the officers and soldiers who boarded the embankment could not receive timely reinforcements and could not open the breakthrough, so they were driven down one by one.

Wang Daoji was still yelling to ascend the village, when a bullet from the Minie rifle hit him.He staggered and fell off his horse.The soldiers finally couldn't hold on any longer, and ran away with a howl.

(End of this chapter)