Chapter 909: Completely Crushed (2)
"Boom! Rumble! "The artillery of the Anglo-Spanish army opened fire on the position of the Ming artillery camp, intending to destroy the Ming artillery.
The shells exploded in the positions of the Ming artillery camps.
One Ming artillery after another was blown up, and the Ming soldiers were killed.
Although the artillery of the Anglo-Spanish alliance is not as powerful as that of the Ming army, and the accuracy is much lower than that of the Ming artillery, the salvo of more than 280 cannons of the Anglo-Spanish alliance army can still cause a lot of casualties to the Ming artillery, and no less than 20 Ming artillery pieces were destroyed in this round of shelling.
However, at the same time that the artillery of the Anglo-Spanish army opened fire, their specific location was also revealed.
"Three o'clock ahead!" The artillery battalion commander ordered.
The remaining Ming artillery immediately quickly adjusted the muzzle and quickly adjusted the book.
"Bang!" Shells into the chamber.
"Fire!"
"Boom, boom, boom----" The gunner struggled to pull the impact rope of the cannon, and the cannon was ejected.
The shells instantly crossed a distance of nearly a kilometer and exploded in the artillery array of the Anglo-Spanish forces, killing and wounding many Anglo-Spanish gunners who were urgently replacing the shells.
A shell hit a Spanish cannon directly.
"Ah----" In the violent explosion, the Spanish cannon was not only blown apart, but also several Spanish gunners operating the cannon next to it. Compared with the black powder shells of the Anglo-Spanish army, the power of the new high powder shells of the Ming army was much greater.
Often, the killing range of a Ming artillery shell can reach a radius of ten meters, while the black powder shells of the Anglo-Spanish alliance can only kill and injure a radius of five meters at most.
As soon as the cannon was fired, the Ming gunner immediately opened the breech of the cannon, quickly released the empty shells inside, stuffed new shells, and then closed the breech of the cannon, and the gunner continued to pull the ramming rope violently.
The interval between "boom boom boom -----" was extremely short, and the Ming army passed through another round of shelling.
Shell after shell continued to explode in the artillery arrays of the Anglo-Spanish army, and the artillery of the Anglo-Spanish army was constantly destroyed, and soldiers were killed and wounded.
The rate of fire of the Ming artillery was so fast that almost just after the second round of bombardment, another round of bombardment came.
The entire artillery array of the Anglo-Spanish army was shrouded in the fire of shells.
In just these three rounds of shelling, no less than 60 artillery pieces of the Anglo-Spanish army have been destroyed, and because the killing range of the Ming army's shells is extremely large, even if some cannons are not destroyed, the gunners who are suitable for controlling the cannons have been killed by shrapnel, and there are less than 200 Anglo-Spanish artillery cannons that can really fire artillery.
The surviving Anglo-Spanish gunners were all pale and trembling with their hands controlling the cannons.
After a long time, the artillery of the Anglo-Spanish army finally replaced the shells.
"Boom, boom-----, boom" Anglo-Spanish artillery fired again, but this shelling was much looser than the last shell, and because the gunners of the Anglo-Spanish coalition were too frightened and operated improperly, the muzzle of the cannon was slightly off, and the accuracy was much lower than the previous round of shelling, and almost only the first Ming artillery was blown up in this round of shelling.
However, the Ming artillery also opened fire again.
"Boom, boom, boom-----"
A succession of shells exploded in the artillery positions of the Anglo-Spanish army, and one after another Anglo-Spanish artillery was destroyed.
The artillery fire of the Ming army was too fierce, the shells were extremely powerful, and the rate of fire was extremely fast.
Almost every round of artillery shelling by the Anglo-Spanish coalition army, the artillery of the Ming army could fire four or five rounds, as if it was pressed by one-sided fighting, and the suppression of the gunners of the Anglo-Spanish coalition army was too great, not only the actual suppression, but also the psychological suppression.
Even if the Anglo-Spanish army had more artillery, they could not be the opponent of the Ming army's 150 cannons.
A British gunner was changing shells, when suddenly a shell exploded directly at his feet.
The shrenchnel directly tore the British gunner's body to pieces, and the blazing waves tossed his stump and severed arm into the air.
This tragic scene happened to be witnessed by several British gunners of another British cannon more than ten meters away, these British gunners were frightened, their hands trembled, and they could hardly continue to manipulate the cannon to change ammunition.
The artillery fire of the Ming army was too strong, and they had to endure as many as four or five rounds of artillery shelling from the Ming army before they could counterattack once, and they could not see the hope of defeating the Ming artillery battalion.
Soon, more than half of the Anglo-Spanish artillery was destroyed, and by this time, they had not even finished replacing the third shell.
The artillery battalion of the Ming army continued to bombard.
When the Anglo-Spanish army finished the counterattack by replacing the shells for the third time, there were less than 100 Anglo-Spanish artillery pieces that could open fire, and the speed of loss was too fast.
This is not an artillery battle of magnitude at all, even if their number of cannons is almost twice that of the Ming army, they are not opponents at all.
Boundless fear and despair spread among all the remaining Anglo-Spanish gunners.
Eventually, as the first Spanish gunner abandoned the cannon and fled, the entire Anglo-Spanish artillery camp collapsed, and all the remaining Anglo-Spanish gunners abandoned their artillery and fled backwards.
Without the artillery operated by the gunners of the Anglo-Spanish army, it could only be destroyed by the artillery of the Ming army.
"Boom, boom, boom ----" The cannons of the Anglo-Spanish alliance were overturned under the fierce fire of the Ming army and were blown into scrap metal.
In fact, the artillery battle lasted less than ten minutes, and the artillery battalion of the Anglo-Spanish army was completely defeated.
“no! Oh, God! The commander of the British army, Duke William, watched the collapse of his artillery array with a frightened expression, his own artillery array was defeated by the artillery of the Ming army, and without the support of the artillery array, it was even more difficult for them to resist the attack of the Ming army.
The commander of the Spanish army, Duke Tribwes, was equally angry and frightened.
The collapse of the Anglo-Spanish artillery array not only hit the two commanders of the allied forces, Duke William and Duke Tribweis, but also a large number of Anglo-Spanish soldiers, many of whom were demoralized and pale.
After the "boom, boom, boom and ----" destroyed the artillery position of the Anglo-Spanish coalition army, the Ming artillery continued to bombard the defensive positions of the Anglo-Spanish soldiers, and the entire Anglo-Spanish army was full of despair.
"Attack with all your troops!" Yan Yingyuan took the opportunity to order the army to attack.
"Rush!" The Ming soldiers, armed with rifles or machine guns, began to attack the Anglo-Spanish defensive positions in front.
"They're attacking, they're finally attacking!" The commander of the British army, Duke William, watched through the telescope and watched in horror as the Ming infantry finally began to attack them.
At this time, their artillery array had collapsed, and they could only stop the Ming army's attack through the flintlock pistols in the hands of the allied infantry in the trenches, but their artillery array was not the opponent of the Ming army's artillery array, and their infantry would be the opponent of the Ming army's infantry?
Regardless of whether the Duke of William and the Duke of Tribwes were still confident, at least the Anglo-Spanish soldiers were demoralized and full of despair.
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