Ming Zuo

Chapter 411
A night encounter gave the new army a clear understanding of the fighting strength of the rebels.

Even in the weakest hand-to-hand battle of the new army, the rebels were defeated and lost. It can be said that the rebels have no hope of winning in this battle.

"The rebels will definitely attack tomorrow, tell the whole army, prepare to fight back."

Zuo Menggeng attached great importance to the report of the Fourth Regiment, and at the same time lost interest in the rebels.

Repel the rebels as soon as possible, and the Denglai area can be well constructed.

In the early morning of the second day, the two sides had breakfast, and the rebels pressed up again.

The situation has determined that the rebels must attack even if they lose two consecutive battles.Without retaking Dengzhou, their situation will not improve.

"How many poison bombs are left?"

Bu Shiren said quickly: "There are fifteen left."

Geng Zhongming was ruthless and said, "Fight them all out."

He was able to defeat Guan Ningjun before, thanks to the poison bomb.This time, Li Jiucheng and Geng Zhongming still pin their hopes on this magical cannonball.

Compared with yesterday's attack, today's rebels suddenly invested [-] people.

Divided into a dozen square formations, the whole line pressed against the new army's position.

Bu Shiren complied with the order and fired all the poison bombs in his hand to the new army's position.

Spicy poisonous smoke quickly filled the air, and many soldiers of the new army were immediately recruited.

However, the new army responded quickly, and they all lowered their bodies and retreated along the tunnel.

Poison fumes are lighter than air, so they float above.

Squatting down in the tunnel can greatly avoid the harm of poisonous smoke.Moreover, the tunnel can also play the role of a flue to help the evacuation of toxic fumes.

Therefore, the damage caused this time is far from comparable to the battle of Shahe.

But in the end, the new army will let the position out.

Kong Youde was so excited that he waved his hand, and the second-tier infantry also quickened their pace and kept up with the forward.

This time, the rebels had pliers in their hands, and soon broke several openings in the barbed wire.

On Mount Weiyang, Zuo Menggeng, who was holding a telescope, saw the rebels rushed into the position along the broken barbed wire and entered the tunnel, with a sneer at the corner of his mouth.

He waited patiently until almost all of the rebels' forwards entered the tunnel, and when the second wave was about to approach the barbed wire, he immediately ordered: "Fire and counterattack."

The artillery, which had been hidden since the beginning of the war, finally got a chance to use it.

When the red flag on the top of the mountain was waved continuously, Jia Yunzhi jumped up and shouted: "Heavy artillery, target enemy follow-up troops, three rapid fires! Infantry artillery, cover according to the original standard artillery fire!"

The heavy artillery and infantry artillery of the new army immediately roared.

The artillery units of the new army were trained in full accordance with the standards of later generations. When the battlefield was set, they had already included the battlefield in the shooting report.

Therefore, after getting the order, there is no need to aim at all, just aim at the fixed coordinate and fire.

The heavy artillery troops were behind the mountain, and the enemy could not see the smoke produced by dozens of artillery pieces at all, and could only hear the thunderous vibrations.

Then I saw dozens of black spots in the air smashing with sparks, giving the rebels no time to react, and they all fell into the array.

The rebel soldiers thought that if they avoided left and right, they would not die under the shells.But I never thought that after these shells landed, they did not roll over, but exploded on the spot.

The air within dozens of meters was torn apart rapidly, as if countless blades were spinning crazily, and the flesh and blood it touched immediately shattered and flew away, exuding the aroma of cooked meat.

The heavy artillery of the new army will form a storm of about [-] to [-] meters near the landing point of each shot.Coupled with the casualties caused by the rolled-up dust and gravel, the second wave of the rebels' array was immediately lost by a third.

In this era, people's cognition of artillery is still solid bullets.In the face of the new army's explosive bombs loaded with gunpowder, there is no protection at all.

the most important is……

The shells fired by the new army this time contained collodion.

With nitric acid and sulfuric acid, it was easy to make cotton wool under the guidance of Zuo Menggeng, an arms expert.

The Battle of Huang County became the first testing ground for collodion explosives.

In fact, the effect is terrifyingly good.

The power of the cotton wool is very obvious compared to the black powder. The explosion pit on the ground is more than full circle, and the explosion coverage has more than doubled.

Although collodion is better as a propellant than explosives, under the current limited conditions and beyond the times, this deficiency is irrelevant.

The new army was very satisfied with the new gunpowder, but the rebels collapsed.

No one has ever seen such a weapon, whether it is Li Jiucheng, Kong Youde and other generals, or ordinary rebel soldiers.

As soon as a large piece was blown up, there were no bones left, and the sturdy shield car was blown up, which did not play a protective role at all.

The surviving rebels completely lost their minds and immediately turned around and ran.The generals who were mixed in couldn't stop it at all, and they didn't want to stop it. They escaped very quickly.

However, with advanced artillery technology, their actions are useless.

The artillery observers lying on the commanding heights of the Liujia Mountain quickly reported the data.

"Target 546, rear sight 334, direction 1-12, high and low plus two!"

The artillerymen below immediately followed the instructions, finished reloading, and hit the coordinates, which were on the route the rebels were retreating.

The rebels still gathered together, not knowing that evacuation was the best way to avoid the shelling.

Once again swept away by the steel flames, nearly a thousand rebels became dead souls under the cannon.

The place where this happened is not far from Li Jiucheng, Kong Youde and others.Feeling the power of the new army artillery at close range, the rebel generals all collapsed.

Li Jiucheng shouted: "Open the cannon, open the cannon, let me kill the cannon on the opposite side!"

Bu Shiren wanted to cry without tears.

"Master, the artillery on the opposite side is behind the mountain, five miles away, and our artillery can't hit it!"

Li Jiucheng was stunned, and asked naively, "How do you shoot a cannon behind the mountain? What cannon can shoot five miles away?"

But thinking of the strange and terrifying damage of the new army's artillery, he also knew that this was a weapon beyond his cognition.

Covered with just two rounds of artillery fire, the will of the rebels was wiped out.

No one dared to speak, and once again organized the army to go out to support the forwards who had entered the new army's position.

At this time, the new army also began to launch a counterattack against the insurgent front.

The rebels' vanguard entered the tunnel only to discover that there was a lot of mystery in it.

The tunnel is low in the front and high in the back. It is very convenient to stand in the tunnel and shoot in the direction of the rebels. However, if you shoot backwards, no one can do it with a two-meter-high earth wall without foot tools.

With such a high slope, it is difficult even for people to climb up, especially in the case of armor.

When the follow-up of the rebels were repelled, the new infantry began to counterattack.

They rushed to the top of the tunnel, and instead of entering, they shot down and shot inside.

In the face of the attack from behind, the tunnel has almost no dead ends, and it is impossible to resist.

And some of the firearms in the hands of the rebels can't compare with the new army's firearms.Often a fire gun, it is necessary to face more than ten flash cap guns.

The asymmetrical battle resulted in an extremely exaggerated battle damage ratio.

While there were many points where the rebels gathered, the new army soldiers simply greeted with grenades.

Although the tunnel is very good at defending against artillery shells, it can't defend against grenades.And the narrow tunnel makes it easier to harvest the shrapnel of the grenade, which can take away several lives in almost one blow.

In front of the new army, the fortifications that gave the rebels a headache and fear were less defensive than the pretty widow's window.

The rebels who were trampled on by the new army and wantonly harvested finally couldn't stand it anymore, and they all fled backwards.

The fortifications of the new army have been decided. It is not easy for the enemy to enter, but it is still very easy to return.

When they found that they could easily jump out of the fortifications, the rebels rushed out like crabs who had discovered a loophole in their fishing nets.

They jumped out of the fortifications, opened their legs, and fled frantically.

Unfortunately, there is still a hurdle in front of them.

That's barbed wire.

When the new army attacked before, the new army did not stop it, so the rebels cut a few gaps in the barbed wire, and they could enter calmly.

But now it is time to run for their lives, and everyone is like a lost dog.

The narrow gap can only allow a few people to pass through each time, but there are more than hundreds of people running.

Everyone wants to hurry through the barbed wire and get away from this horrible place.So people crowded people, people pushed people, all jammed on the edge of the barbed wire.

The people in front were shoved wildly, unable to stand still, and their bodies were hanging on the barbed wire.

The barbed wire was full of barbs, piercing into their flesh and blood, tearing them to shreds, leaving only the wailing of fear, but nothing could be done.

Behind the fleeing rebels, the new army soldiers have never had such an easy shooting opportunity.

All they had to do was hold the musket flat and shoot straight ahead.Almost without missing a shot, every shot can kill a rebel.

In front of the barbed wire, the rebels did not become the crabs that broke through the fishing nets, but became the fish that were caught up in one net.

(End of this chapter)