Chapter 134 The Battle of Tangshan (Part 2)
This time, the Tangshan defenders gave the official army eight rapid fires!
The whistling shells drew arcs across the barbed wire, and also crossed the official army's chariot formation, landing on the heads of the infantry following behind.
The screams resounded all over the world again!
In front of the solid shells shot, the flesh and blood body was exactly the same as a piece of paper, and could not stop the ballistic castration at all. One shot could penetrate more than a dozen soldiers like a candied haws, leaving a shocking flesh and blood alley on the ground...
Amid the endless whistling sounds in the sky, the shells were poured down like rain, and I don’t know how many officials and soldiers were killed. Soon, the ground was covered with broken limbs and bodies. This time, it was much more than the artillery camp. There were blood flowing like a stream on the red ground...
Fortunately, the grenades developed by Institute 00 are not mature and cannot fire at such a long distance. Otherwise, after this round of artillery, there would be almost not many of these 10,000 officials in a dense formation that could stand.
However, at this time, Zhang Chen showed valuable courage!
He knew that one move would decline again and again. If he retreated again this time, the battle would be impossible!
Now is the victory or defeat!
"Don't lie down!" Zhang Chen pushed away his personal soldiers, rushed to the front line, and joined the ranks of pushing cars. He yelled while pushing: "Everyone follows me, if you get close to their shells, you can't turn the corner!"
Zhang Chengyin also followed his father to push the side van! Inspired by his father and son, the soldiers also plucked up their courage to step forward and help push the cart forward together!
The soldiers behind also discovered that the more they moved forward, the safer they seemed to be, so they rushed up.
But that's an illusion...
The new round of artillery adjusted the firing angle, and the shells followed like shadows, reaping the lives of the official army in rows.
Moreover, the side van will disintegrate after being in the cannon, and the axle will also be broken...
After two hundred steps forward, half of the side vans have been paralyzed.
Behind the trench, the entire artillery position was covered with thick smoke. Although it was cold and frozen, the gunners took off their arms, exposed their strong muscles, and loaded and fired at the fastest speed!
The militia in the trench were very nervous, but it was no matter how you said that you were not afraid, it was fake. Even if you could win a great victory, but you had no eyes on the guns and cannons. Can you be lucky to survive?
But at this moment, they all forgot to be afraid, holding guns one by one, and their mouths were wide open like a martyr. One was that they were dumbfounded when they were shooting guns, and the other was that this could prevent the eardrum from being damaged...
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Tang Hulu was also attracted by the sound of cannons and appeared next to Zheng Yiluan by taking advantage of the opportunity to deliver lunch to the front line.
After shouting for a long time, Zheng Yiluan noticed him. He took off a rubber earplug from his ear, and Zheng Yiluan shouted: "I'll have lunch so soon?"
Tang Hulu took out his silver pocket watch and showed it to him. It was already 12 o'clock.
"Time flies so fast..." Zheng Yiluan smiled and asked again: "How about it, don't worry now?"
At present, Du Tong's route has retreated in the three official troops. There is still a route. Wang Huaxi is in a way that he is the head coach and it is difficult to retreat too quickly, but he has also begun to work hard in the face of huge sacrifices.
Only Zhang Chen is still persisting all the way. Brother Northwest is real...
"I didn't expect that the gap in strength was so big..." Tang Hulu nodded embarrassedly and said, "It's me that I know nothing about our strength."
"But the General Zhang on the other side is also very admirable." Seeing that after suffering huge losses, Zhang Chen still led his subordinates to continue to move forward and advance-
"When you are too behind, the braver the army may be, the more severe the casualties will be." Zheng Yiluan stretched out his hand expressionlessly, and his personal soldiers immediately handed over a loaded Wanli-style rifle.
The gun has the word "Ar" engraved on the body of this gun, and the sight is pressed, proving that this is a special item that can be used for sniping.
Zheng Yiluan skillfully set up a gun at the shooting port, aiming with three points and one line with breath.
"Pray that we will never be the backward side!" After saying that, he pulled the trigger.
In the gap between the pause of cannon sound, a crisp gunshot sounded like a girl's cry!
The launching drug in the gun chamber exploded, and the gunpowder gas instantly hit the cork at the tail of the bullet, suddenly stretching the tail of the bullet. The conical lead bullet tightly sealed the barrel and concentrated all the impact force on itself - the bullet spiraled along the rifle at an extremely high initial speed!
Eight hundred meters away, an officer pushing a cart suddenly fell to the ground...
The soldiers of the inner guards were basically sharpshooters. When they heard the captain fire, they also used the high-precision Wanli rifled rifles in their hands to accurately snipe the official army pushing the cart.
Next to each archer, there were two militiamen with admiration on their faces, and each shot to reload ammunition for him.
After the shooter fired a shot, he exchanged with a militia. After all, he had been touched for several years. He was not accurate in shooting, and he was very familiar with the gun...
Of course, even ordinary Wanli rifles can only ensure accurate hits within 500 meters, not to mention the Longqing style with an effective range of less than 200 meters.
So the militia and workers' guards could only hold their own Longqing style and watch them enviously.
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Zhang Chen soon discovered that his subordinates who were pushing the cart beside him were shot and fell to the ground.
This is five hundred steps away! The official army's cannons cannot be that far away, but the rebels' muskets can hit the target accurately.
Is there any truth in nature?
How can I fight this battle?
Even though he was brave enough to win the three armies, his heart was as firm as iron, and he still felt like he was about to collapse...
The old general's eyes were bloody and his eyes were turned around and he was about to open his mouth to give an order, but suddenly his shoulder was as if he was hit by a heavy hammer. He twisted his body and fell to the ground.
"Father-in-Law!"
"Master!"
Seeing Zhang Chen being shot and falling to the ground, he burst into screams. Zhang Chengyin and his personal soldiers quickly surrounded him to prevent him from being trampled.
"Retreat..." Zhang Chen tried his best to squeeze out a word from his lung duct, and fainted after saying it.
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On the No. 9 Lookout Tower, Cai Liang breathed a sigh of relief as he finally retreated to the camp this time...
A distance of 600 meters can be used to fire grenades.
Five hundred meters, grape bullet.
Four hundred meters, shotgun...
Compared to solid bullets with more destructive power and insufficient lethality, the three things behind are the killing weapons that can harvest lives.
If the official army continues to rush forward, it will not be surprising to kill a group.
After seeing the bravery of Zhang Chen's troops, he became increasingly reluctant to see this rare iron army, and he consumed it meaninglessly...
"Let everyone have a meal." Cai Liang lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, calming down his complicated mood.
The citizens who came to deliver the meal had been waiting for a long time, so they happily carried the load to deliver the meal to the soldiers. The anxiety when delivering breakfast was a world of difference.
Lunch is even simpler, pork stewed with vermicelli with white rice, and a large bowl of old hen soup full of meat...
Nothing new. But it's better than eating canned beef or canned pork elbow, at least it's hot.
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The meal here is lively, but the government troops there are so sad.
Not only the first battalion of the Central Army, but the other two routes were also wilted by the fierce artillery fire of the rebels.
In the camp of the left army, Wang Huaxi, the general of the anti-threat army, sighed and couldn't eat.
Although he was performing in the second half of this journey, more than 2,000 soldiers were killed and killed in the first half alone...
The losses were actually acceptable, but in the face of the rebels' firepower that was completely beyond imagination, the officers and soldiers were desperate.
The morale in the camp is colder than the weather now...
He ate a few bites of food, and then called several staff members and confidant generals to discuss for a long time. He found that no matter whether it is strong or smart, he was very good at taking advantage of this opponent he had never met before.
They now know that the five barbed wires were not to stop them from attacking during the day, but to prevent them from attacking at night.
The rebels were really thinking too much. In fact, after the long winter lacking vegetables and fruits, most of the officials suffered from night blindness...
What, why don’t you eat meat, eggs and milk? Haha…
In short, the conclusion is that if there is no good news in the other two groups, you have to withdraw your troops as soon as possible.
What's the use of more soldiers? Who is willing to die in vain?
Even the fight is played.
What's even more ridiculous is that it doesn't take long. Maybe in a few days, the main force of the rebels will land...
The more people were talking, the more they became more and more discouraged. The personal soldiers reported that the messenger of the Central Army had arrived.
Wang Huaxi's expression was refreshed and he felt lucky and said, "Transfer it quickly!"
But when General Wang and others saw the dead expression of the messenger, they knew they were thinking too much.
The messenger told him that the middle army had lost more than 4,000 people, including fifty of them above the general manager, and even Zhang Chen was seriously injured.
"Why did so many officers be lost?" Wang Huaxi and others were shocked. Although they knew that the officers of the Central Army led the way, the proportion was too high.
"When the Left Army attacked, did not meet the sharpshooter who specialized in killing officers?" the messenger asked back.
"Oh, I met..." Wang Huaxi coughed awkwardly, and immediately felt that he was quite wise to withdraw his troops early.
He ordered his personal soldiers to take the messenger to rest, and then make a decision after the news of the right army arrived.
It was getting dark and the messenger from the right army arrived.
Du Tong suffered the least losses on this road, only a thousand people were lost. Although the messenger strongly expressed how brave the Baoding soldiers were, Wang Huaxi asked, they did not know the existence of the sharpshooter.
Eighty-most of the ones named Du are playing tricks...
"I heard that Du Tong was originally from Kunshan, and his father had just moved to Yan'an Guard." After the messenger went down, an aide said quietly: "Many of his ancestors are still in Kunshan. The Jiangnan Group is used to being able to pull people into the water, so how could he let him go?"
"Oh, don't talk nonsense." Wang Huaxi waved his hand and said, "The Jiangnan Group is not that amazing, so I have never won over me."
"That's because he knows that the commander will not be bribed!" The aide touched him and said, "But the Southern Barbarians are thieves. Even if the Du surnamed did not look at each other before, after today, he would probably remember that he was from Kunshan, right?"
"Oh." Wang Huaxi shook his head and said nothing. No matter what, the right army should not count on it.
The Central Army even used its own tragic losses, and it would not work if it was forced.
"Oh..." Wang Huaxi couldn't sleep all night and thought about it all night, but finally decided to do it according to his heart and preserve his strength for the emperor.
Chapter completed!