In the past, the Huaxia Army had always directly delegated infantry artillery to the company level as a direct support heavy weapon for the infantry. However, with the expansion of the army and the expansion of the number of personnel, the number of artillery was insufficient.

The problem of the Chinese military at this stage is that the development of new infantry support artillery is slightly lagging behind, and it is unable to produce and equip new infantry support artillery in a timely manner.

At the same time, the old infantry artillery could not meet the operational requirements of the new stage, and the General Armament Department was not willing to place any more orders for the old infantry artillery and manufacture more old infantry artillery that would be eliminated at any time.

Naturally, after the expansion, the various units can only adjust the establishment of infantry artillery and reduce the proportion of infantry artillery equipment.

Just like the 1st Infantry Battalion of the 1st Mixed Brigade, this battalion, administratively, is subordinate to the 2nd Infantry Regiment, officially named the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Infantry Regiment.

This battalion is composed of four infantry companies plus one direct company, with a total of 5 infantry guns, but now, it has been divided into other battalions newly formed, and only two infantry guns remain.

There are only two infantry guns, equipped with 5 companies, and the company commanders below are not worried, they are making trouble all day long, and they are biased to whoever they are assigned to, and they worry about this battalion commander.

In the end, there was no choice but to take back the infantry artillery to the battalion headquarters to form an artillery platoon, which was directly under the jurisdiction of the battalion headquarters.

The platoon commander of this artillery platoon was squatting behind one of the shield carts at this moment, and asked the two artillery crew members to operate and fiddle with the infantry guns by themselves.

Suddenly, one of the infantry guns on one side suddenly let out a loud roar, and a solid, pointed bullet whistled through the iron-clad wooden gate on the opposite side.

The smoothness of the penetration was almost like papier-mâché, and the few coated captives who looked at it were stunned by the cowering.

At the south gate of Fuzhou City, which was penetrated by solid bullets, one of the doors shook violently, making an unpleasant sound of "creaking and rattling".

After a while, after the smoke and dust cleared, it was not difficult to see that a huge hole had been made in the opposite door, and the situation inside the gate could be clearly seen.

The artillery platoon commander quickly glanced at it, retracted it sharply, and said to a gun commander squatting on the side, "There is no earth and stone behind that door, it seems that it has not been blocked by the enemy, and the Houjin Tartar may not run out of here······"

Speaking of this, the artillery platoon commander groaned for a moment, quickly judged the situation in his mind, and then spoke again.

"Well, this door is too much of an eyesore, and it is not convenient for us to observe the enemy situation behind the door, and if the enemy is ready to rush out, there will not even be time to prepare. Keep shooting, smash that door to pieces for me. ”

The artillery platoon commander gave an order, and the two artillery groups naturally received the order, and each of the two guns fired two solid bullets in a row.

The firing distance was not far, and the infantry cannon was a direct-aim artillery, and the aim was absolutely top-notch, and four solid bullets in a row hit it, quickly tearing the stout latch behind the gate into several sections.

As the cannon stopped, one of the doors of the opposite city gate collapsed violently, and the other door leaf also fell crookedly, revealing the black hole of the city gate behind it.

On the ground in the hole of the torn city gate, there were still several broken corpses, and the backs of dozens of soldiers of the Houjin Army could be faintly seen.

They fled desperately to the back, and after running out of the doorway, they immediately hid left and right behind the city wall, and disappeared.

Immediately afterwards, there were quite a few people in tattered clothes, who knew at a glance that they were coated minions, and were desperately piling stones on the central street opposite.

At this time, the coated prisoners driven by the Huaxia army also threw all the sandbags piled on top of the trench car into the moat, and then pushed the trench car down.

The front of the wagon plunged into the moat, and a large splash of water flew up.

At this time, the gendarmes forced the captives to jump into the moat, and made them step on the sandbags underneath and remove the wheels of the trench wagons.

Then, the heavy plank was lifted up to the edge of the moat on the opposite side to form a temporary plank bridge that could be safely passed.

The water level in the moat was only about half of the water, which meant that after entering the water, the captives were covered by the edge of the moat, which was nearly 3 meters high.

Under this kind of cover, the Houjin army above the city, whether it is bows and arrows or bird guns, can not hit the coated captives. They're a little colder in here, but they're much safer than when they're outside filling in the moat.

But the captives did not have a leisurely time to stay in peace, and above the moat, the gendarmes in charge of the formation were shouting and swearing, urging them to erect the wooden bridge as soon as possible.

As a result, these coated captives, who had long been frightened by the bloodshed along the way, began to desperately hold the wooden planks and erect them one by one on the edge of the moat opposite.

In the Ming Dynasty, the habit of smoking had spread, and the gun platoon commander was also an old smoking gun, and he had smoked several cigarettes in a while.

He leaned his head on the front guard of the shield cart, feeling the constant vibrations coming from above, and still slowly humming a little song amid the chaotic shooting sounds like firecrackers around him.

"The shield carts on the front are responsible for continuing to fire at the enemy and trying to suppress the enemy's firepower, and the shield carts on the flanks are ready to cross the bridge." One of the officers leading the attack shouted a loud voice of command, and the growler rang out.

Immediately after that, a company commander of the 1st Infantry Battalion strode over and said to the artillery platoon commander, "Lieutenant, let your artillery crew shoot a few cannons towards the walls on both sides of the city gate. ”

The artillery platoon commander narrowed his eyes and asked in surprise, "Why, you don't rush from the city gate?" ”

The company commander shook his head, "The staff officer of the brigade headquarters came just now, saying that you should not rush in, the number of Tartars in the city is at least twice as many as ours." If you rush into the cave of the city gate, you may not know how many enemies are waiting.

You know, the 180-degree angle around the doorway over there is an angle that can attack us, plus there are bird guns and bows and arrows on the top of the head.

Therefore, the brigade headquarters means to dig the positions on both sides of the city gate first, and wait until the city wall is dug down and the width of the hole in the city gate is expanded, so that the situation inside can be seen clearly. ”

After the company commander finished speaking, he continued to walk forward, and the two infantry guns beside the artillery platoon commander also immediately turned their muzzles and fired continuously at the root of the city wall next to them.