Chapter 623: Trading Human Lives for Progress
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Outside the Lushun defense line, the horn of the Houjin army continued to sound, and the flag flew in the air like waves in the ocean.
At the foot of the North Mountain opposite the location of the southern city of Lushun, under the banner of Dolgon, the war drums rumbled, and the whole army of Houjin suddenly broke out into a chorus of shouts like a sea tide.
The shouts in unison can be called sonic vibrations, and the sound waves hit everyone's hearts one after another, and the momentum is extremely amazing.
Chen Xin nodded to the political commissar of the 1st Brigade of the Mixed Brigade, who was standing beside him, and the political commissar immediately asked the flag bearer to wave his political commissar flag.
The political workers scattered in the battalions and companies organized the soldiers of the Huaxia Army to sing their Chinese military songs, and the singing gradually sounded, from the messy at the beginning, to the chorus of 10,000 people.
"Onward! Forward! Forward!
Our team to the sun!
Stepping on the land of the motherland,
Burdened with the hope of the nation,
We are an invincible force.
We are the children of workers and peasants,
We are the armed forces of the people,
From fearless, never yielding, fighting bravely,
Until the reactionaries are wiped out,
Let the banner of revolution fly high.
Listen! The wind is howling,
Listen! How loud the revolutionary song is!
Comrades marched to the battlefield of liberation in full steps,
Comrades rushed to the borders of the motherland in full order,
Forward! Forward!
Our procession to the sun,
To the final victory,
to the liberation of the whole country!"
The majestic military song sounded, and the collective burst of power infected every soldier present, Chen Xin nodded slightly unconsciously, and sang loudly with the soldiers excitedly.
The neatly organized singing completely overpowered the roars of the grand but chaotic Tartars on the opposite side, and the soldiers in the Houjin Great Array howled hoarsely for a while under the whipping of the officers, but they still couldn't cover the neat singing of the Huaxia Army.
The military song of Huaxia resounded on the battlefield, clearly allowing all the people in this battle to hear, and the majestic momentum created by more than 10,000 people completely suppressed the Houjin army.
In the end, the shouting and roaring voices in the Tartar array gradually subsided, and only the Huaxia military song was left to sing loudly on the battlefield.
Many high-ranking members of the Houjin Army looked at the Lushun Defense Line standing in front of them with complicated expressions at this moment.
Most of them participated in many battles between the Later Jin and the Ming Dynasty, and they had seen the extremely tenacious small city of Changli, the bloody Xiping Fort to the last man, and the Sichuan army and Zhejiang soldiers during the bloody battle of the Hunhe River.
They have seen too many Han people, who would rather die than give in, be loyal and resolute, but they have never seen such a momentum in front of them.
It's just a song, although the lyrics are very straightforward and simple, it doesn't look like the poetry of this era at all, but the will it conveys is so strong.
It contains a mood that worries the high-level of the Houjin Army, and even Dolgon, the initiator of this battle, is very skeptical at the moment, whether there will be such a thing, no matter how hard he tries, there is no way to capture this fortress.
"Lord, lord, ······, it's not too early, shouldn't we attack!"
Next to Dolgon, Yueto's voice came at the right time, reminding Dolgon, who was in self-denial.
Dolgon closed his eyes for a moment, he knew that his own will, which had always been as firm as a rock, and had not even been shaken by Huang Taiji's humiliation and suppression, was actually shaken by a song at this moment.
This kind of thing sounds bizarre, but it is true. When he opened his eyes again, the shaking was gone, and the old perseverance appeared in his eyes again.
"Pass on the king's orders, and the whole army will begin to attack."
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More than 30 Houjin and red-coated cannons let out a deafening roar one after another, and the shoddy iron bullets, drawing an arc that was not the rule of Taiwan, flew towards the earthen wall built on the Lushun defense line, and smashed up one cloud of dust after another.
After a few rounds of artillery bombardment, just as the red-coated cannons were stagnant and cooling, the full shield carts parked in the Houjin Great Array began to come towards the rammed earth wall of Lushun like a tide.
This time, the front line was no longer as thin as before, and it was full of three-line shield carts, and in the center of the formation, it even had a full four or five layers of scale.
Chief of Staff Liu stood on the city tower, constantly observing the enemy situation with a telescope, and casually issuing one order after another.
When the array where the soldiers of the Houjin Army were located entered 1,500 meters, the rows of artillery erected at the head of the city, except for the 155mm heavy guns, all other smoothbore guns began to fire.
The heavy iron bullets turned the seemingly sturdy shield carts into scattered pieces of wood, and pulsed through the crowd behind them, creating killing after killing.
Today's battle between the enemy and us has been very fierce since the beginning of the battle.
The defensive tactics of the Huaxia Army, after the actual combat test a few days ago, tended to be more mature, and at the beginning of 1,500 meters, all kinds of field artillery and howitzers of the Huaxia Army opened fire in unison, and one after another shield vehicles were smashed and fell behind the team.
After the shield cart entered the pothole area composed of potholed horse traps and car blocking pits, the shield carts stopped advancing one after another, rushed out from behind the shield carts, and threw one after another dirt bags into the pits.
In this way, it was much faster than the pit filling action they had taken from the spot a few days ago, and they were filling in the pits while cleaning up the wreckage of the shield cart left over from the previous days.
Because of the obstruction of the wreckage of the shield cart abandoned by the Houjin army a few days ago, even if the Tartars have a new method of filling the pit, the speed of their shield cart is still very slow.
Behind the shield cart array, the coaters who were trying to push the cart, under the whip and scolding of the Tartar overseers, hissed and howled as hard as they could, pushing the shield cart forward desperately with all their might.
The spy platoons of each battalion of the Huaxia Army erected small benches in the trenches, popping up like marmots, shooting hard with pump-action rifles.
But behind them, a large number of bows and arrows and bird guns were holding up against them, forcing the flocks of Bao Yi to continue to rush out of the shield cart to the front to clear the obstacles and fill the pits without protection.
This is properly trading human lives for progress.