"Little cubs, show your courage.Hold your steel guns, victory will be ours after all.Kill" Zuo Zongtang commanded the battle of the southern city wall, raising his arms and shouting."
Kill, kill, kill," the soldiers shouted with a hiss, and the walls were filled with majesty.Li Chendian personally commanded at the south gate, he knew that the artillery of the Huaxing army was powerful, and he did not use artillery when he came up, but it was completely brave to carry the ladder and hit the wood to attack.The artillery was covered up by straw, pulled into the firing range and placed properly, wanting to give the Huaxing army a surprise blow at a critical time.When the New Han army rushed to within 300 meters, a dull cannon sound sounded on the city wall.Shells whizzed past and smashed down on the position."
Boom, boom, boom."
Explosions suddenly rang out on the battlefield, and dust flew and gunsmoke filled the air.Many of these new Han soldiers are still on the battlefield for the first time, and although they have experienced some battles before, they are all fighting hard with swords.Now in the face of such intensive bombardment, I was so frightened that I hugged my head and avoided it again and again.But with such a dense shock formation, where is there a place to dodge.A single shell smashed down, and the burst fragments were enough to kill more than a dozen people.Fighting a war is to fight in one go, then decline, and then exhaustion.As long as the rumbling war drums did not stop, no soldiers and horses dared to retreat without permission.Surrounded by the crowd of chargers, the two sides were only 200 meters apart in the end.The soldiers with rifles on the ramparts had been waiting impatiently, and as soon as the commander gave the order, they all shot forward."
Boom, boom, boom" The gunshots burst continuously, as if firecrackers had been ignited.The bullets converged as if they were swept by a storm.The New Han army that rushed to the front was completely weak and weak, and the rows were beaten into meat sieves by bullets.As soon as the soldier carrying the ladder fell, the New Han Army would be back up and continue to attack."
Are these people crazy" Zuo Zongtang looked at the crowd of people who were firmly blocked by the rain of bullets not far away, and secretly exclaimed in his heart.He can be regarded as a cross-battlefield, but he has never seen such a crazy scene today.Every meter that the New Han Army struck forward, the ground was dyed red by one meter.The Huaxing army on the city wall skillfully pulled the bolt of the gun and pulled the trigger.Pull away again to grab the double, and then pull the trigger.Until the five rounds of ammunition are finished, change the ammunition and repeat the same operation again.The longest time to reload was no more than fifteen seconds, and the copper bullet casings that popped out were already covered with a layer of yellow ones.Zeng Guoquan has never attached importance to the upgrading of armaments, but still prefers the use of cold weapons.At the beginning of the siege of Nanjing, the firearms held by the Taiping army were not known to be much better than those of the Hunan army.A considerable part of the Xinhan soldiers are still newly recruited recruits, not to mention foreign guns in their hands, but they can't even take out a decent big knife.Half an hour later, the Xinhan army was blocked two hundred meters away, unable to move forward.As long as he broke through the distance of 200 meters, he was shot by the Huaxing army on the city wall in batches.Outside the southern city, the more than 20,000 Xinhan troops were suddenly reduced by half, and the remaining soldiers were obviously scared.No matter how tempting the bounty is, it has to be famous.No matter how the generals urged behind, the soldiers lay behind the corpses, but they didn't dare to rush forward.Li Chendian had expected this result a long time ago, although he was a little disappointed, but he was not very desperate.Because by this time the artillery sound of the battlefield had stopped, and no artillery strikes were used on the city walls."
Herald, inform the artillery battalion.Give Ben Shuai a hard blow towards the city wall, and all the shells will be gone. ”Li Chendian looked at the city wall, and a sneer appeared on his face.He didn't care about these dead soldiers, all he cared about was how to take the city in front of him.A horn suddenly sounded on the battlefield, and the heralds waved the order flag in their hands to the front line at the same time, conveying Li Chendian's military orders."
The commander has an order, start shelling the city wall" "The commander has an order, start shelling the city wall" "The command finally reached the artillery battalion that had already arrived at the position.At a position three hundred meters from the city wall, the artillerymen brothers hurriedly pulled the straw covering it.The black barrels were exposed, and they spread out in order.Slowly adjusted the lower angle, and then stood by in place."
Ready, ignite, shoot," the artillery chief roared, and quickly waved the command flag in his hand."
Knock, knock, knock, knock" The barrels of the guns one after another suddenly erupted into a violent roar, and the huge roar startled Zuo Zongtang, who was directing the battle on the city wall."
Oops, careless, really careless."
Zuo Zongtang chuckled in his heart, just now he had ordered the mortar company to shoot all the shells, and now he had no chance to fight back.It's too late, it's too soon.I saw one side of the city wall, like a dark cloud pressing down on the realm.The dense black dots temporarily blocked the sunlight, and finally turned into iron balls and smashed down."
Herald, immediately order the soldiers of the Eastern Front to withdraw to the city and form a formation to defend."
Zuo Zongtang let out a loud sigh calmly, no longer expecting that the city wall two meters behind could withstand the impact of the Taiping Army's cannonballs.The iron ball, which weighed more than 20 catties, collided with the stone wall with extremely fast acceleration.Suddenly, it was like a meteorite falling, the gravel splashed, and the earth shook the city.The lethality of solid shells was not high, and the main thing was to destroy the city walls.So after a burst of bombardment, most of the city walls were cut off, but the Huaxing army did not suffer many casualties.At Zuo Zongtang's order, all the soldiers on the eastern front retreated into the city for defense.Li Chendian deliberately wanted to open a gap on the Eastern Front and concentrate artillery fire, so only the Eastern Front was seriously damaged.Fortunately, the accuracy of this artillery was not high, fifty shells fell, that is, a dozen fell on the city walls.But the three-meter-high city wall was not only slashed by the impact of the iron ball.The rapid impact horn of "Woo, Woo, Woo" echoed again in the New Han Army, and when the soldiers saw the Eastern Front being blown up, they all hissed excitedly."
Brothers, victory is at hand, rush into the city, the commander is rewarded" The generals all got up from the pile of corpses with bright eyes, brandished their knives and roared in the direction of the eastern city wall."
Rush" and "kill" The soldiers were broken just now, and now that the east city wall has collapsed, they all seem to be returning to the light, venting all the stuffiness in their stomachs.The crowd surged, and tens of thousands of people all bypassed the western wall and converged towards the east.Zuo Zongtang calmly dealt with it, leaving only one regiment of troops on the city wall to defend.The rest of the men and horses all set up two layers of gun arrays at the east city wall, 100 meters away from the gap, forming an oval to enclose the gap, and the gun array was more than 1,000 meters long.The soldiers were spaced less than half a meter apart, and there were more than 3,000 people on each floor.All of them were reloaded with bullets and waited for the Taiping army to storm the city.Suddenly, dense footsteps hit, and the shaking ground shook a little."
Prepare" Zuo Zongtang calmly gave an order to the herald.The "preparation" was very fast, and the sound of the command spread throughout the gun array.The city was quiet and solemn, and the sound of the "click, click" bolt was left.When the first wave of Taiping troops stormed the city, everyone's eyes widened and their fingers pressed on the trigger.But Zuo Zongtang did not give the order to shoot, even though everyone's hearts were beating, but no one dared to pull the trigger."
Commander, give an order quickly" The right brigade commander saw that the Taiping army was surging more and more, and thousands of people rushed in.hurriedly reminded Zuo Zongtang, and cold sweat broke out on his head."
Don't worry" Zuo Zongtang waved his hand, still staring at the New Han army that not only poured in.The Xinhan army divided into two routes, climbing up along the broken wall all the way, in a vain attempt to cooperate with the soldiers outside the city to attack the western city wall, and flank the Huaxing army.All the way to the brave direct impact into the semi-circular gun array, all of them were startled, but they did not stop.They firmly believed that as long as they rushed over and fought hand-to-hand, they would definitely be able to defeat the Huaxing army."
One hundred, eighty, sixty meters" is closer, a little closer.The Xinhan army didn't know why Huaxingjun didn't shoot now, and when they saw the bright bayonets on the wall, they thought that Huaxingjun had run out of bullets and was ready to fight with themselves with bayonets.Everyone's hearts are shouting excitedly, constantly measuring the distance."
All have an order, shoot" When the New Han Army hit fifty meters, Zuo Zongtang finally waved the saber in his hand."
Shoot" the herald roared and passed the order on."
Bang", the first gunshot slashed through the city, followed by crackling and dense gunshots.Each soldier of the Huaxing Army pinched a cold sweat, looked at the Xinhan Army close at hand, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.At this time, five or six thousand New Han troops had rushed in the oval, and the crowd was crowded and there was almost no space to advance forward.With such a dense formation, there is no need to aim at all.Every shot went down, and even because of the huge penetrating force, it was able to kill two people.The New Han Army was like an onion, peeled back layer by layer by bullets.After some soldiers were shot, they did not hit the vital parts.But as long as it rolls on the ground, it will soon be clumped into a pulp by the crowd behind it."
Machine gun team prepare" Zuo Zongtang gave the order again, and the ten machine guns in front of him had already loaded their bullets and were eager to try.At this moment, they all focused on the front, and their fingers were also pressed on the trigger.Because the production process of expeditionary machine guns was still extremely complicated at this time, each division headquarters was equipped with only one machine gun company, with a total of 50 expeditionary machine guns.Because there were not many soldiers in the east and west high and low defenses, Zuo Zongtang only left twenty troops at the south city wall.There are ten on the east wall and ten on the west wall."
Shoot" Zuo Zongtang waved his saber and almost roared out.He specially let the New Han Army in, just to break down the psychological defense line of the New Han Army in one fell swoop.Otherwise, fight for a while, rest for a while.If you get into a stalemate with them, it will be far from affordable for the Huaxing army.The characteristic roar of the "Rush, Rush, Burst, Burst" expeditionary machine guns burst out from the muzzle of the guns, and ten machine guns were arranged ten meters apart.As soon as the first machine gun was fired, all ten machine guns let out their roars.The muzzle of the gun hovered like a fire dragon, and the bullets flew like raindrops
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