Chapter 624: Suppressing each other
The holes dug by the Huaxia Army were filled one by one by the Houjin Army's coats, and the shield carts were also moving forward little by little with the progress of the coats.
The artillery on the Huaxia side was still firing fiercely, and the artillery soldiers had been maintaining a rate of fire of about two rounds a minute, and continued to destroy those shield vehicles.
The field artillery on the north wall of the southern city of Lushun changed its target and began to bombard the echelon of Tartar soldiers behind the shield car, scattering their formations in order to find an opportunity for their own infantry to attack.
The soldiers of the Houjin Army insisted on admiring the huge casualties caused by the Chinese artillery fire and worked hard to advance.
Finally, after sacrificing a full land of clothed minions, the Houjin army finally advanced to a distance of about 130 meters in front of the first rammed earth wall.
Immediately afterward, as a long conch horn sounded from the Houjin side, thousands of light arrows rose into the sky in an arc, and then began to pour down towards the rammed earth wall when they reached the highest point.
On the hanging anti-arrow curtain on the rammed earth wall of the Chinese army, a dense "puff puff ······" sounded In an instant, the specially thickened quilt was as messy as weeds.
The overhangs on the rammed earth walls covered the soldiers, most of the feathered arrows thrown were blocked, and the warriors on standby behind the rammed earth walls hid in bunkers such as trenches.
On top of these bunkers, wooden frames with quilts were also hung, or the roof formed by logs was directly piled up.
These things effectively resisted the feather arrows thrown by the Houjin army, and the advantage of the defender was undoubtedly displayed at this moment.
Fortunately, the kingdom's magnet telephone system has begun to bear fruit, and it has begun to be used in large numbers in the Arthur defense line, and now, under this rain of arrows, the heralds do not need to run around to increase casualties.
It's just that the auxiliaries who are carrying ammunition and supplies to the front line still need to push the cart with the hanging household to move around, and if you don't pay attention to showing your torso, you may be shot.
From time to time, the high-ranking marksmen of the field troops and the armed garrison and above also popped up behind the breastwork to return fire, attacking the Houjin soldiers who filled the pits and the Houjin soldiers who showed their bodies.
At this moment, the two sides directly entered the stage of firing each other. Chen Xin sometimes wondered if it was time for the whole army to be reequipped with rifled rifles and let the army enter the era of smokeless gunpowder.
However, every time he thought of the number of elementary school students that the kingdom had invested heavily in for so many years, he regretfully rejected the idea.
An uneducated army cannot adapt to the kind of battle that requires a lot of calculations to hit the enemy. How can primary school graduates who do not have a certain base play that kind of war, I don't see that it is so difficult to train artillery now.
What's more, the primary school students of the kingdom are now feeding back the education system, how can they get it to the battlefield, and the smoothbore gun is not unable to win the battle, at most it is a little troublesome, and the battle time is just a little slower.
This price is still worth it in the face of Chen Xin's golden finger and the general trend that he is now slowly executing.
The north wall of Lushun South City is still cooperating in an orderly manner, and the observation posts on Cockscomb Mountain are constantly sending back information to this side, and the line of the magnet telephone is directly connected from the mountain to the city.
At the head of Lushun City, several wooden watchtowers have been erected high, and the non-commissioned officers on them are carefully observing the situation on the battlefield with large telescopes with high magnification, and constantly reporting to Chief of Staff Liu on all aspects of the military situation.
After Chief of Staff Liu got the information about Jiguanshan, he reported to Chen Xin: "There are about 7 or 8 small-caliber copper infantry guns in the direction of the Tatar Central Army, which are mixed in the shield carts in the back row.
The subordinates are ready to transfer the infantry artillery group of the first battalion to reinforce the middle road, and place it in the section of the rammed earth wall of B-37······"
Chen Xin stretched out his hand to interrupt Chief of Staff Liu's words, and said directly: "Just fight according to your own ideas, this kind of small-scale transfer, there is no need to ask for instructions." ”
Chief of Staff Liu immediately turned around and issued an order to the signal troops, and within a few minutes, he saw four wagons dragging infantry guns passing through the flat ground behind the rammed earth wall and moving to Lot B-37.
The artillerymen on it quickly turned over and dismounted, unloaded the gun truck, and pushed up the rammed earth wall along a gentle ramp.
The gun trucks were quickly put in place, and the sections of the rammed earth walls where temporary gun emplacements were set up were wider than those in other areas, in order to facilitate the movement of the guns under recoil, which was also specially summarized from the experience.
Chen Xinxin's telescope observes the enemy camp. The firepower of the Huaxia Army was very fierce, and the accuracy of the field artillery under the operation of qualified artillerymen was very high.
From time to time, there would be clusters of fires on the ground, and the sappers would lay mines, knocking the coats who had come to clear the obstacles to the ground one by one.
But even under such ferocious firepower, the shield carts in the Houjin army's array did not decrease at all.
One of the shield carts stopped after being hit by a shell, and immediately, another shield cart came out from behind and added to the front line.
There are also coated minions as if they are not clean, pouring out in an endless stream, the front coated has just fallen, and another batch of coated coats has been driven out behind the shield cart.
Gradually, the number of clothed minions carried on certain fronts was no longer sufficient, and even the people of the left and right wings of the Mongols and the outer Mongols were driven out, but these people were not used to using hoes, so they could only disperse a few dozen meters in front of the shield cart and shoot with bows and arrows in the direction of the rammed earth wall.
For the time being, the shield cart stopped about 100 meters to 120 meters away from the front of the first rammed earth wall, and countless coats worked desperately in front of the shield cart, piling up the remains of the shield cart left over from the previous days in front of the newly built shield cart.
Thousands of Jurchen soldiers behind the shield chariot and Mongolian archers drew their bows and threw together, and after shooting five or six arrows, they replaced a group of people to shoot, maintaining good physical strength and being ready to assault at any time.
Wave after wave of feather arrows are like heavy rain that will not stop, even if the Huaxia army has a hanging house and a roof, it can still suffer certain casualties when counterattacking and shooting.
The archers of the Jurchen Eight Banners, whose marksmanship was unusually accurate, kept suppressing several spy platoons that rushed into the front trench and fired at the enemy.