Chapter 622: Crisis
As the men and horses of the Houjin Army officially came to the first rammed earth wall of the Lushun defense line of the Huaxia Army, when they were busy, the soldiers of the Huaxia Army on the rammed earth wall also began to poke their heads out and shoot down.
The rammed earth wall built by the Huaxia army is not a straight line, many years ago when the Huaxia army was still a Xuan army, Chen Xin specialized in studying defensive systems such as fortresses because of the small number of troops under his hands.
Coupled with the continuous improvement of relevant experience, the defense line of the Huaxia Army was generally the kind of sinuous position that could maximize the firepower.
This is when the benefits of such a position come to the fore, and rifles are constantly firing in volleys from the rammed earth walls that occasionally protrude from the line of defense.
Under the rammed earth wall, the Houjin army was basically under the fire of three sides and a half surrounding, and under the volleys of the Huaxia army again and again, the Houjin soldiers crowded under the rammed earth wall continued to spew out pieces of blood mist.
Under this kind of firepower, as long as you are in the area of crossfire, no place is safe.
From time to time, one or two large grenades were thrown at the rammed earth wall, which increased the charge and was so heavy that the soldiers could not throw their arms across the first trench in front of them, but they could make it roll down the rammed earth wall.
The large grenade, which increased the charge and covered it with a layer of steel ball shell, exploded violently at the same time, blowing up the flesh and blood of the Houjin army below.
Under the rammed earth wall, there was a burst of chaos caused by the explosion just now, and in the thick smoke outside the range of the Huaxia Army's rifles behind, the Baya La, who was in charge of supervising the battle on the Houjin side, kept shouting loudly, strictly prohibiting anyone to retreat.
Jin Zhong had been following the back of the first wave of attackers, but he would not fall on the knife edge of the overseers behind, so he had not passed through the passage stacked with dirt frames by this time.
The smoke from the explosion in front of him drifted in the breeze, blurring the area on this side of the trench, and at this time, another rifle salvo came from the rammed earth walls on both sides, and Jin Zhong screamed and fell towards the trench in front of him.
A few Houjin armored soldiers held long wooden poles, and there were two fire thunders hanging from them. They stood far away from the fire-gathering area, and after lighting the fire thunder, they pushed the wooden poles over the rammed earth wall with all their might.
The fire and thunder tied to the pole naturally exploded on the side of the rammed earth wall, and then the Jin army took advantage of this gap and rushed up two steps to put a row of short ladders on the rammed earth wall.
The Houjinjia soldiers, who had already arrived under the rammed earth wall, immediately began the official battle with their teeth with short weapons such as Shun Knife, Cloud Ladder Knife, and Waist Knife.
The people below them tried their best to press the ladder hard, so that the ladder would not be pushed down by the soldiers of the Chinese Army on the rammed earth wall.
Seeing that the ladder had been successfully set up in front, a large number of Jurchen armor soldiers suddenly poured out of the trench behind. There were also a lot of archers who also entered the area of the barrage ditch and shot at the soldiers of the Huaxia Army on the rammed earth wall of the salient of the Huaxia Army's defense line.
The walls of the Huaxia defense line resounded through the fields, and they seemed to have discovered that this was the main direction of attack of the Houjin army, and they were warning all the personnel.
The shouts of killing on the rammed earth wall shook the sky, and the soldiers of the Huaxia Army, who had no time to reload, clenched their rifles with bayonets on them, and continued to poke out the movement of retraction on the wall.
After that, the soldiers of the Jin Army kept waving their small shields and short weapons to resist. Those who can survive the first round of bayonet assassination can jump on the chest wall of the earthen rampart and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Chinese soldiers above.
On the Houjin side, the Jurchen armor soldiers behind them were still rushing here, and then followed the ladder to the rammed earth wall, and the two sides carried out this bloody battle on the rammed earth wall, which was not too wide.
Cold weapons such as short knives, bayonets, daggers, bows and arrows, and gunpowder weapons such as rifles, bird guns, Francophone cannons, grenades, fire mines, and revolvers are dancing in the hands of their respective masters, constantly playing the role of murder weapons on the rammed earth wall.
As time passed, the Jurchen auxiliaries under the rammed earth wall finally dug down two sections of the rammed earth wall, and the last wave of armor soldiers and Bayala also jumped over the trench and rushed towards the collapse of the rammed earth wall.
Laizi hid in the barricade that Jin Zhong had chosen for him, and before Jin Zhong left, he pressed a Tartar corpse on his body as a cover.
Now, a group of Bayala wearing bright silver armor ran past him, and everywhere there were gunfire explosions, drums, conchs, trumpets, and trumpets, and various sounds were constantly coming out, and the death that could come at any time made Laizi's whole body tremble gently involuntarily, and there was a faint whining cry from his mouth.
Soon after, he himself realized that if he continued like this, he was afraid that he would inevitably be found hacked to death on the spot, thinking of this, Laizi forced himself to soak in the cold.
After trying hard for a while, Lai Zi stabilized slightly, so that his body no longer trembled, and then his vision was just able to see an open passage on the side, and not far from there, there was a gun emplacement of the Huaxia Army.
Lai Zi could see clearly that that kind of small cannon had hit the Jin army many times before, but it seemed that it had been hit by a red-coat cannon, and it had not been fired for a while.
After the small cannon ceased firing, it became a key area for the Houjin soldiers to attack, and in the thick smoke of gunpowder, those shiny armor were constantly shaking.
Then, these shining figures climbed onto the ruins of the two destroyed rammed earth walls in front of them, and slashed and stabbed them in the gaps in the rammed earth walls.
Lai Zi saw that one figure after another was falling down there, but because of the gunsmoke, the figures in the distance couldn't tell whether it was the Houjin soldiers or the Huaxia army.
I just knew that some figures would continue to appear there, but in the blink of an eye, Bayala in shining armor and some of the gray armor soldiers fought back.
Lai Zi couldn't see it really, but he could hear it from the urgent sound of the horn inside, and the situation of the Huaxia army on the rammed earth wall didn't seem to be good.
However, just when Laizi just thought so, there would immediately be a burst of guns, and then in a neat shout, the armor soldiers on the Jurchen side would be beaten back by the other party.