Sure enough, the moment of tranquility just now was just a passing scene.

The infantry artillery group on the Tashan position stopped firing solid shells after realizing that the Houjin army had begun to attack, in order to open the box and prepare high-explosive shells.

After all, smashing people with solid bullets, small cannons of 40mm caliber is a little inadequate.

Moreover, it is not only because of the small caliber, but also because of the type of shells.

The solid shell of the smoothbore gun is in the shape of a ball, and after being fired, it will bounce and continue to roll for a distance when it hits the ground.

Taking the historical 12-pounder Napoleon run as an example, this smoothbore gun fired solid shells capable of smashing through an entire company's column, making it a powerful weapon against enemy groups.

However, 40mm caliber infantry guns, although they can also use solid bullets, they use pointed strip warheads.

This kind of warhead has a strong penetrating power when facing hard earth ramparts, city walls, steel plates and other objects.

But at the same time, it also has a huge flaw, that is, it cannot convert potential energy into kinetic energy again after landing.

It is against the laws of nature to let the long strip of warhead bounce like a spherical cannonball.

What's more, the Houjin army has also faced artillery bombardment many times, and it is impossible to put up a column of more than 100 people to let the artillery rage.

Therefore, when dealing with the enemy with rifled guns, it is better to change the type of ammunition.

I saw that the gunners, taking advantage of the gap between the advance of the Houjin army, used a crowbar to pry open two shell boxes marked with high-explosive shells, and then carried the shells one by one to the dug gun emplacement.

In general, this method of piling up a large number of shells together is wrong.

However, according to the specific situation, there is no artillery that can threaten the artillery group in the hands of the Houjin army that is now facing.

In addition, on both sides of the built gun emplacement, there are also thick sandbags composed of protective measures, which can resist the enemy's arrows.

Therefore, in order to be able to fire the most shells in the shortest possible time, the members of the artillery crew took the risk of piling up shells around the artillery.

The artillery crew is changing shells, what about the infantry?

The scouts of the 0601 battalion have already fired all eight rounds of ammunition in the chamber of their guns in a continuous round of over-the-horizon firing just now, and are now seizing the time to reload their ammunition.

Moreover, Zhao Qingyu had already seen that the Houjin army on the opposite side was also bottomless and ready to make a desperate bet.

Therefore, he ordered the 1601st Battalion to let the enemy troops pass through the barbed wire fence and wait until the enemy forces were close before annihilating them together.

So, this time the scouts chose the deer bullet.

And the rangers of the 1502nd Battalion have also entered the preset valley position, waiting for the appearance of fighters at any time.

As long as there is a good opportunity, they will rush out with the speed of the wind.

The charge of the cavalry, in fact, is also very knowledgeable.

The correct use of cavalry is always to look at the gap and attack the enemy's soft underbelly, either by flanking the enemy's flank, or by backing the enemy's back, or taking advantage of the confusion of the enemy's formation to break up the enemy's formation.

Even if it is a powerful cavalry, it will not directly hit the frontal phalanx of the enemy army who is waiting for it, it is not cavalry, it is a lack of heart.

Facing the charging spear phalanx, the kind of cavalry, either appears in literary works to set off the greatness of a general, or, it appears in a loser who talks on paper and does not put the lives of his comrades in his eyes.

Anyway, this kind of cavalry is absolutely impossible to appear on the real battlefield.

Especially in the Huaxia Army, all the officers are either high-achieving students who have been told thousands of times in the martial arts hall, or old fritters who have escaped death after a hundred battles, and it is impossible for the kind of bastard officers who do not tolerate the lives of their comrades.

Therefore, Zhao Qingyu just stood on the hillside and carefully observed the enemy team that was charging on the opposite side, even if his own cavalry was ready, and saw the black pressure on a group of figures rushing towards the Tashan position, which was only more than 100 people, he did not have the slightest idea of rashly attacking.

As the members of the infantry artillery crew emptied the two boxes of shells and made preparations, they began to bombard again under the wave of the commander's flag.

One after another, one after another, high-explosive bombs continued to explode in the enemy array that rushed to kill.

In the midst of the flying flesh and blood, although the charging enemy troops did not stop, the formation slowly began to become less dense.

Fortunately, the infantry artillery is only 40mm caliber, and the explosion radius of the high-explosive bomb is only less than 5 meters.

However, explosions continued to occur around them, and the stump and broken arms and loud noises constantly stimulated the charging enemy troops, even the officers in the Houjin Army did not notice that they were being slowly separated by an artillery.

Looking from the sky, you can find that the infantry gun will choose to bombard a node continuously every 20 meters, and continue to extend the longitudinal shelling towards this node.

After the high-explosive bombs bombard the unlucky enemy in the middle, the surviving and surrounding enemy forces will involuntarily disperse to both sides.

And when the enemy is separated and a huge gap is exposed in the formation, the artillery will change to the next bombardment target 20 meters away, and so on.

Just when the Houjin army rushed to a distance of 70 meters under artillery fire, the scouts of the 1601 battalion immediately poked their heads out of the trenches and raised their guns to aim.

With a sharp whistle, 117 scouts fired a salvo, and thousands of lead bullets formed a barrage and flew towards the enemy line, and the first row of men and horses in the Houjin army's charge immediately fell to the ground.

Blood, screams, wailing, crying, crying, cursing.

Together, voices turned that enemy front into a living hell.

And the Houjin army, who followed behind, was also frightened by this round of volleys.

However, in the process of fighting with the Huaxia army, the enemy also learned a lot of things, for example, lying on the ground in the face of firearms, the effect is much better than turning and running away.

So, under the power of a few examples, the Houjin army, which was still charging with artillery just now, all lay on the ground.

Moreover, the bird-screws, blowing up the dim arquebus, began a less uniform, but no less deadly, shot.

Seeing that most of the Houjin troops who were charging towards him fired the only lead bullet in the bird's gun, Zhao Qingyu laughed and turned around and went down the hillside.

This is the time he was waiting for, the bird gun is an arquebus, and every time it is fired, it needs to be reloaded with ammunition, and this time, it takes at least 30 seconds.

And now the enemy army is pressed by the reconnaissance battalion and artillery and cannot raise its head, and its movements are not smooth, and the natural state time is even longer.

After turning over and getting on the horse, Zhao Qingyu shouted, "Comrades, rush with me." ”

As he spoke, he drew his saber and charged out first.

The tall dragon horse, mighty, and the rumbling sound of horses' hooves resounded throughout the valley.