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Chapter 408 408 Inexplicable artillery battle

The goblin officer seemed very disdainful, and had no intention of answering the 1st Battalion Commander's question. The 1st battalion commander waited for a few seconds and found that the other party didn't seem to intend to answer his question at all, so he nodded.

He looked at the somewhat embarrassed officer of the 2nd Battalion, and said, "I'll give you a chance to call back..."

The officer of the 2nd Battalion said he was at least 1 meters tall. After hearing this, he looked at the goblin officer who was only about 78 meters tall, with a cruel smile on his face.

The goblin officer was taken aback, but before he could react, a fist grew bigger and bigger before his eyes.

Amid the exclamation of the remaining goblin prisoners, the goblin officer was punched in the face by the officer of the 2nd Battalion.

At this moment, his world was colorful, and only the chaotic images remained in his mind.He thought of his grandfather, and seemed to see his own ass.

After turning around in a circle, the goblin officer finally realized that he might have been beaten.But before he was ready to defend, he was punched solidly by another powerful uppercut on the chin.

His brain went into a shutdown state again, and his whole body couldn't stop leaning back. He backed up three steps in a row, but still couldn't stand still, and fell directly on the sand.

The goblin captives behind the goblin officer started to commotion, but the gleaming bayonet and the black muzzle of the gun brought them back to their senses. All of them watched helplessly as their officer was pressed to the ground and punched and repaired.

"How did you find us and deploy here in advance?" After randomly finding another prisoner, the commander of the 1st Battalion patiently asked the same question.

"We're not deploying in advance, we're switching defenses temporarily..." the goblin who was questioned glanced at the officer who was being pushed to the ground and beat him wildly from the corner of his eye, and replied after swallowing a mouthful of saliva.

"Temporary change of defense? How many people do you have?" The commander of the 1st Battalion vaguely felt that things were not that simple.

"A legion..." The soldier knew everything, obviously not wanting to be beaten.

"We defeated one battalion... This means that there are still two battalions of enemy troops nearby." An officer looked at the commander of the 1st battalion and reminded him.

“让2连配合3营的人，沿着灌木丛部署防线！准备抵御敌军新一轮的进攻！”1营长立刻做出了判断：“2营的人，帮忙把那门105榴弹炮架好！我们可能需要炮火支援。”

"Stop fighting! Wait for the commander to deal with it!" Looking at the officer of the 2nd Battalion who was riding on the opponent and kept shaking his fists, the 1st Battalion Commander stopped him aloud.

Standing up with his bloody fist in his hand, seeing that the goblin officer lying on the ground only had the strength left to grunt, the officer of the 2nd Battalion spat and turned around to assign tasks.

Soon, the troops on the landing site began to mobilize. Some people were helping to set up cannons on the beach, and soldiers with weapons began to set up defensive positions aimed at the direction of the enemy's charge.

As the commander of the 1st Battalion estimated, the mirage troops finally got some information from the rout soldiers, and they figured out that the landing troops were not Zheng Guoyu, who had been fighting before.

Zheng Guo's troops are weak in combat effectiveness, and generally dare not take the initiative to attack, and once they fall into hand-to-hand combat, they will often be defeated very quickly.

This is also the reason why Mirage's troops did not form a phalanx, but directly charged, trying to drive the Datang Group's landing troops into the sea by relying on hand-to-hand combat.

They were accustomed to hand-to-hand combat, so they tried to use the most familiar tactics to deal with the enemies in front of them.

But what they never expected was that this time they were not facing Zheng Guo's fish-bodied army, but the Datang army with powerful combat capabilities and fierce firepower.

It didn't feel good to kick this kick on the iron plate. The commander of Mirage Kingdom found that less than one-fifth of the battalion he sent out had returned!

A whole battalion of troops lost their combat effectiveness, and this made the commander of Mirage Kingdom feel the crisis.

Just as the captives said, this mirage army just happened to pass by, and they were transferred nearby to go into the mountains to search for the hiding Zheng country civilians.

As a result, someone saw the black smoke at sea, and then discovered the landing force of the Datang Group.Later, after confirming that there were less than 500 people on the beach, the commander of Mirage Kingdom sent out a battalion to launch a tentative attack while expanding his troops.

Who knew, this temptation, the temptation collapsed a battalion...

After realizing that the enemy's fighting power is very strong, the commander of Mirage decided to change his tactics.He has launched follow-up troops, and he still has the advantage in terms of strength.

But he was more afraid of the continuous gunshots mentioned by the rout soldiers. Almost all the rout soldiers described the opponent's gunshots as dense...

So, he made his own countermeasure - shelling!
Since the opponent seems to be very strong in terms of individual guns, let's use longer-range cannons to find the field first.

When the opponent is in chaos, then dispatch superior forces for hand-to-hand combat, defeating these idiots who don't know how to provoke Mirage in one fell swoop.

After thinking about the tactics, the shelling of the mirage army began.More than a dozen muzzle-loading cannons lined up, aimed at the direction of the beach, and exploded.

The solid shells suddenly passed through the bushes and flew across the beach, scaring the landing troops of the Datang Group.

The 1st battalion commander felt that the gods had played a joke on him today. Since he started commanding the landing troops, everything seemed to be going wrong.

It was originally a silent landing, without any consideration of encountering the enemy's attack. As a result, when the landing was chaotic, the enemy's troops counterattacked inexplicably.

The commander of the 2nd Battalion had a sudden whim and asked the soldiers to give up their luggage and weapons to ensure safety, so that at least one-third of the precious first batch of troops who landed had more "non-combatants" who could not participate in the battle, which further weakened the This greatly affected the combat effectiveness of the Datang Group's landing troops.

It's all good now, the defense line on his side has not yet been deployed, and the opponent's shelling has begun... Although it is only a solid bullet, it is still a shell after all!

Seeing a shell whizzing over the soldier's head and smashing into the sea, the commander of the 1st Battalion felt that he was not well.

"Where's the artillery? Can you fire back?" He looked at the adjutant beside him, pointed to the distance where the smoke started to rise, and asked.

"There is no parameter! Sir! You can't fight blindly, right?" The adjutant explained to the artillerymen in a difficult way.

They only have one cannon and can't do any coverage shooting, so the aim is very important.

After all, he doesn't even know whether the opponent's location is high or low, and the cannon blasting out probably won't have any effect.

The commander of the 1st Battalion, who also knew the reason, gave up the idea of ​​letting his own artillery participate in the battle, and began to think of another way.

The enemy's artillery fire was also not very accurate, it was completely blind.So it looks fierce, but in fact it has no effect at all.

Blind cats can't touch dead mice most of the time, and it's unlikely to miss high-value targets by randomly firing solid bullets.

Most of the shells didn't even know where they hit, except that a shell hit the beach, splashing gravel and making a group of soldiers who had just landed in disgrace.

"We can't let them fight like this anymore! In case of being shot in a daze, no one can afford the loss!" When a solid bullet crashed into the sea, the water column stirred up was only ten meters away from a small boat When the distance was less than 1, the [-]st Battalion Commander felt that sitting still was not an option.

"Even if it's to scare them, let the 105 howitzer fire!" He knew that although there was only one cannon, the high-firing and powerful Datang Group's cannon was completely incomparable to Cyric's muzzle-loading cannon.

Just when the adjutant was about to deliver the order, the goblin's artillery fire stopped just like that. The commander of the 1st Battalion was taken aback for a moment, and then realized...the opponent's artillery could not keep up with the loading speed.

"The enemy's artillery fire...stopped...then, shall we fight back?" the adjutant asked with some uncertainty.

"Huh..." Breathing out a foul breath, the 1st battalion commander thought for a few seconds and made a decision: "Wait first! Since their firing rate can't keep up, then wait!"

After he finished speaking, he issued another order: "Organize troops to investigate! Determine the location of the opponent's artillery..."

Before Battalion Commander 1 finished speaking, the sound of the air being torn was heard from above his head. The terrifying scream made everyone on the beach shrink their necks involuntarily.

More than a dozen shells whizzed past, crossed the beach, and landed on the other side of the small bush where the white smoke hadn't completely dissipated.

In the next second, the flames shot up into the sky, the ground trembled, and the air waves engulfed the broken branches and swept everything around, followed by explosions that resounded through the sky.

Those were the shells fired by the 150mm caliber guns of the naval cruiser. These shells crossed the beach, and also the mirage troops, and landed farther away, blowing up an open space.

It turned out that on the naval warship that had never known that there had been an exchange of fire on the shore, the observation post saw the white smoke left by the firing of the muzzle gun.

It was obviously not our own artillery fire, because most of our howitzers were still on the ship waiting to be unloaded.The startled navy realized that the covert landing might have turned into a storm, and that the troops ashore were being attacked by enemy forces!

As the supreme commander on the battlefield, Bernard immediately ordered the battleship to open fire to cover the landing troops, and because he was worried about hitting friendly troops by mistake, he temporarily decided to raise the muzzle a little bit...

As a result, these shells skimmed the beach, passed over the heads of the mirage troops, and landed farther away, blowing up a loneliness.

Fortunately, the naval guns on the naval battleships have semi-automatic loading machines with a high rate of fire, so they fine-tuned the muzzle and quickly fired a second round of salvo...
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