Chapter 21 Breaking the City

In front of Sishui City, standing on the city tower, you can see the Iron Blood Army soldiers waiting for the battle beneath the city. The black steel helmets looked so cold-blooded, which made the soldiers on the city tremble one by one. Of course, except for some revolutionary soldiers, they were also indifferent, used to death, and no longer afraid.

In front of the Xicheng Gate of Sishui, five cannons were placed three or four hundred meters away from the city wall, especially one of which was three meters high and weighing 2,100 kilograms, which was the most eye-catching. Of course, this giant is just for China. China is now able to manufacture artillery in the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau. Of course, they are all small-caliber artillery. It is rare to see artillery in the melee of Chinese warlords, and it is even more difficult to see such a heavy artillery.

"Change the perspective and test fire." Wu Xiangrong, the artillery commander, was the first battle he had cast to Dunson. His gunners were all the brothers who had followed him before. In order to win over them, Dunson had sent people to pick up their family, making their loyalty to Dunson even further.

The cannon's wheel kept rotating on the gunner's hands, and the gun body also heard the sound of friction. The gun's muzzle first moved upwards, and then was operated downwards by the gunner.

"The perspective debugging is completed, you can load the bullets." The gunman adjusted the angle of the gun and shouted. The other soldiers behind hurriedly opened the bullet cabin. Two soldiers carrying the shells rushed into the bullets and rushed in, then retreated to the rear of the gun. The gunman pulled up the pole behind the gun and waited for orders at any time.

Wu Xiangrong put the thumb of his right hand into his mouth, then pulled it out, stretched it upwards, and tried the wind direction, and confirmed that the wind direction could be emitted, so he shouted to fire.

"Bang..." The 120 mm caliber cannon is not comparable to those small mountain cannons. The sound of the cannon alone is much stronger than the sound of several small mountain cannons.

Whether it is under the city or above, they all looked at the shells dragging their long tails, wanting to see how powerful the artillery that is so shocking to the world is.

The artillery was debugged very accurately, and a cannon hit a city wall on the north side of the city gate.

"Boom..." A violent explosion sounded, and the city wall, which was about five meters wide, suddenly sank by a shot, and gravel bricks and tiles flew around. Many soldiers around them were instantly flooded by fragments all over the sky, and they didn't even have time to scream. And those who were slightly farther away were shocked and almost fainted. Many of them were even bleeding from seven holes, which was very invasive.

"Run!" Some soldiers stationed on this section of the city wall shouted, and they became chaotic in an instant. The same was true for some revolutionary troops. The power of the artillery just now was really amazing!

"How could there be heavy artillery?" Wang Maogong could hardly believe that the other party had such a caliber, and it was a large howitzer. The battles these days had already left him with a deep impression of Deng Sen's Iron Blood Army. The excellent weapons, artillery, and well-trained soldiers were nothing like what a small warlord could do. In China, the armed warlords were often like servants in ancient times. Although they were brave, they were not necessarily good at fighting. Most of the army without faith would be destroyed after 30% of the casualties. However, the Iron Blood Army was different. They were not afraid of death than the revolutionary party, and they could even fight for victory.

"Okay..." Compared to the panic and screaming in the city, Wu Xiangrong was shouting loudly! Except for the time he was studying abroad and fired more than 120 mm of artillery at the test gun base in the military factory, this was the first time after returning to China that he could only have such powerful artillery.

"All artillery preparations, correct the elements, prepare for secondary shooting, this time it is a three-fire emergency shooting." Before the commander's stopping the artillery, the task of the artillery was to continuously carry out artillery attacks according to the predetermined base.

"Boom..." Five different sizes of artillery sounded at the same time, and the contrast was obvious at this time. The explosion of small mountain cannons could at most blow up a layer of bricks on the surface. The 88-mm cannon could blow up a hole in the city wall with a radius of two or three meters. The 120-mm cannon directly collapsed a section of the city tower, and from time to time some soldiers were covered by artillery.

"Notify the troops to enter the city immediately and start street fighting with the enemy. The city wall must not be defended." With such powerful artillery, what kind of city wall can be defended? Since the beginning of artillery becoming the dominant force of the war, the city wall has lost its original meaning.

After three rapid fires, the city wall on the north side of the city tower was blown up with a large hole of more than 50 meters, and the total length of the city wall on the north side was only about 300 meters.

"Artificial weapons should pay attention to the city wall. The engineers go forward to clean up debris so that the army can enter the city. If they encounter a blockage on the city wall, the artillery will fire immediately and extend the artillery in the enemy city before charging." Seeing that there are almost no enemy soldiers on the city wall, it is obvious that the enemy was scared away by the power of the artillery, but Tian Ding dared not risk the loss and sent people to clean up, because it would be very bad if the enemy blocked the city wall. If the artillery weapons were to be on standby at any time, they would immediately bombard the artillery fire as long as they saw the enemy's fire point.

At the end of the Sishui city, as Tian Ding said, the revolutionaries and some soldiers loyal to County Magistrate Zhao Yancheng hid on both sides of the city walls and even the roof behind the collapsed walls waiting for the arrival of the Iron Blood Army at any time. Hundreds of engineers scattered little by little under the guards of the soldiers, preparing to clear the gravel bricks and tiles.

The large group of people was getting closer and closer, and the enemies on the walls on both sides aimed their rifles, and only heard a snap... A few sounds, several Iron-blooded soldiers advancing in front fell down, and all the personnel fell down quickly. They were not afraid of the other party's shooting, but they knew that when the artillery behind saw that the other party had firepower points, even if only one person and one shot, they would shoot.

"The left side xx degree, 88 mm mountain cannon shooting." Compared with collective artillery, fixed-point elimination of artillery is different. This is a tactic that can only be used to occupy a complete position of artillery fire. It is also several war methods that Deng Sen made up in the army based on memory. Fixed-point clearance emphasizes that the opponent does not or only rarely threaten his own artillery and range, and the enemy fire points are shot under the infantry's push to reduce casualties. Of course, this is a tactic that can only be used by rich countries. Deng Sen is not many soldiers now and is precious, and it is also necessary to be fast.

Only by quickly annihilation of the enemy allowed to use such tactics. Wu Xiangrong was extremely smart and learned this tactic in a short time, but he did not agree with this tactic, because a shell was one or two hundred oceans, and the cheap one was worth dozens of oceans. A soldier was only the highest ten oceans a month. Compared to the fact that a shell was equal to several soldiers, this is also the current situation in the world. Sometimes he would rather charge with the lives of a soldier than wasting precious shells. A cannon fired a cannon, not only could he earn ten thousand taels of gold with cannons, but it also pointed to the preciousness of shells.

"Boom..." With a rumbling explosion, three artillery shelled both sides. For a moment, the city wall on the north collapsed several meters, and the city wall in the south also cracked a large crack. As for the soldiers on it, they were either bombed or shocked.

The cleaning work continued after the shelling. Although cold guns were often received from time to time, the cannons would spew out flames after the gunshots, causing the other party to scream.
Chapter completed!