Chapter 497: Siege
It was the first time that the soldiers of the South Bank Army had truly experienced the power of their rifles, and the dense smoke of gunpowder on the city walls rose like a dark cloud, and invisible bullets rained down on these South Bank soldiers like hail. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info! fine / color. East. Fang/Wen. Learn M member ははかい�� Although the power of the rifle bullet at this distance of 500 meters is not particularly large, it can still bring damage to the person who is hit, although as long as it is not hit by the vital point, it will not die for a while and a half, but it cannot stand the large number of people, as long as the person who is hit is not steady, it is easy to be directly overturned to the ground by the people around him. Once these wounded soldiers are injured and fall to the ground, it is basically impossible to get up, and it is impossible for the people who walk by to them to stop and help them, as long as they do not step directly on them, it is already very humane, but even if the people in front get out of the way and do not step on them, the people behind are blinded by the crowd, and they can't dodge when they see the wounded on the ground, so they can only step on them. The wounded soldiers, who were already injured, were trampled on by countless footboards behind them, and were soon trampled to death.
For the people of the South Bank Army, there is a very troublesome thing about the large number of people, and at present, the Foreign Legion on the upper floor of the city uses a salvo method to shoot, and the target of the cluster is roughly aimed at the group, and then the gun can be fired. So many people below suffered heavy casualties in crossing the trench twice, and the formation without the command of the officers was unrecognizable at this time, and the formation that was formed at the beginning was long gone, and the soldiers were just walking forward in a pot of porridge next to me and me. Not to mention shooting at the crowd, the soldiers on the walls could have hit people even if they had roughly fired in that direction. In such a crowded situation, the forward of the South Bank Army suffered heavy casualties under the volley of rifle fire, and only one salvo was fired, killing at least more than 300 people, and there were still many wounded and undead people still screaming on the ground while dodging the soles of their comrades' feet.
The soldiers of the South Bank Army, who had advanced from 3,000 meters away to 500 meters now, had been beaten, and the closer they got to the city walls, the harder they became. The people at the front could clearly see that many of the firing positions on the city wall were still silent, and those silent positions were not unmanned, they could see that there were also people standing in those positions in the distance, and those people were just looking at this side excitedly, and from time to time they had to talk to the people around them. No matter how stupid people are, they know that these positions are not impossible to attack, on the contrary, these positions are exactly the positions waiting to be attacked. Although they couldn't understand what the machine guns on the formation meant, they could tell from the weapons that the troops with the blue Polaris flags on the opposite side had been firing that it could only be a more powerful weapon.
There are many reasons why these Annan soldiers joined the army, some were sent to the army for crimes, some were arrested and strong, and some were inherited by their fathers and continued to stay in the army, but there are certainly few who have the idea of sacrificing their lives for the country. Seeing that the person who easily grasped the power of life and death for himself was guarding the killing machine and watching coldly, no one would face such a situation calmly, many veterans had begun to slow down, and at the same time, the sergeants behind also began to wave their knives and guns to rush forward the cannon fodder that had fallen behind.
"Boom, boom!" As we reached 450 meters, the second minefield between the trenches was trampled by the soldiers of the South Bank Army. In order to protect the people on the city wall from the flames and poisonous smoke of white phosphorus, except for the first row of minefields, the rest of the area is laid with standard mines, and the enemy is not considered to be killed by poison gas and flames, so as not to injure one's own people by mistake.
"In the defense of the city, it is necessary to kill and destroy the enemy as much as possible." Wang Xiaojing said loudly to the main shooter beside him, "If you rest on the former Sino-Vietnamese border, all the places where people can walk will be minefields, and no matter how many enemies they are, they will not be able to rush in." ”
However, the main purpose of the minefield now is not to prevent the enemy from crossing over, but to kill and injure the enemy as much as possible and cause panic among the enemy. There are several kinds of these mines, ranging from large-charge black powder mines of the "underground earth-shaking thunder" type to jumping mines that can be swept up by the shock wave of the explosion to a height of three or four meters in the air for a second explosion.
The crowd on the city wall clearly saw mushroom clouds rising in the air more than 400 meters away, mixed with splashes of blood and severed limbs, screaming wounded soldiers flying sideways in the air or rolling on the ground, and occasionally a few who did not die ran around like headless flies in the center of the battlefield with their heads in their hands. In the next second, a new batch of bombs exploded in the air from a height of four to six meters, and these "two kicks" that were rushed into the air by the explosion of underground mines directly turned into a rain of steel in the air, knocking the undead enemies below to the ground.
Now that the South Shore Army's siege vanguard has lost all its spirit, there are still about 6,000 people in total, and about 2,000 people have been killed or wounded just by approaching a distance of four or five hundred meters, and the remaining 3,000 people have long been frightened by the extremely efficient killing weapons of the Foreign Legion, and they are all turning their heads and looking left and right to prepare to escape. The Judge Advocate Corps, who had previously been in charge of maintaining order, had been given priority to the salvo of rifles on the city walls because of their murderous spirit, and many of them had already been killed, and they fled faster than the troops who needed to be supervised. As the military court team took the lead in escaping, the soldiers who were beaten in front of them with blood naturally did not continue to rush forward with their heads bored, and began to turn their heads and flee backwards.
"Ran again?" Qian Longzhou was depressed, "This machine gun hasn't spoken yet, why did it escape?" ”
"Of course they're going to run." Someone next to him said, Qian Longzhou turned his head and saw that it was Ito. Ito was also wearing a Foreign Legion uniform at this time, he was still a cadet in the officer training corps, as an old man, to be honest, he was really a bit of a bully to study in the officer training corps, and Ito's days in the training corps were very tiring. But he didn't complain at all, since he began to study the command of the Senate infantry, only to find that although he used to be the commander of tens of thousands of troops, but in the military system of the Senate, even a battalion could not be commanded well, and the more he learned, the more he felt that he did not understand. Although Ito was the oldest cadet in the entire officer training corps, his attitude towards learning made the veteran officers in charge of teaching the course have to look at him differently.
The current Ito, as a member of the battlefield observation group, specially "observed" on the city wall, saw Qian Longzhou looking at him, nodded slightly at him and said, "If it is the usual way of fighting with soldiers to block the water and cover the earth, the armies of both sides are mainly fighting for attrition, morale, and training, and whoever is the first to resist will lose the battle." But at this time, these enemies have not been able to threaten us from the beginning to the present, and the casualties are extremely heavy, so naturally there is only one way to escape. ”
"So they're not going to attack again today?" Qian Longzhou had a somewhat lonely look on his face, if he only killed more than 2,000 people today, the battle rhythm would be in the hands of the South Shore Army, if they didn't dare to attack and just follow the Senate, it would inevitably affect the reconstruction plan of Zhancheng Port and a series of subsequent development plans.
However, Ito smiled and shook his head, "If I were in command, I would definitely take advantage of the rain to attack again." As he spoke, Ito pointed to the sky, half of which was already covered by dark clouds, and the howling west wind was blowing more dark clouds. With their knowledge, they would definitely think that these gunpowder weapons could not be fired in the rain, and with what they saw, they would definitely want to take advantage of the heavy rain to attack once. ”
Qian Longzhou nodded, and Maruyama next to him walked over and nodded at Ito, now Maruyama's military rank is a little higher than Ito, which makes the expression on Maruyama's face a little unnatural. Ito didn't feel uncomfortable, now Maruyama's military rank is indeed higher than his own, as a person who has held the power of the Ito army for a long time, he is definitely not very happy, but the development routes of the two sides are different. Ito, as the commander of the combat unit, has many years of practical combat command experience, and he must have been promoted faster than Maruyama in the Senate military system. Although Maruyama is one of the main brains of the entire Foreign Legion, it is a "one" after all. With the comprehensive expansion of the Senate army, the veterans of the military department in the existing system will inevitably not be enough to be assigned to the army below the division level, and will inevitably be mainly concentrated in the staff team. Therefore, Ito's military rank is temporarily lower than Maruyama, and in the long run, Ito's development prospects are far greater than Maruyama's.
Maruyama didn't think of these things at this time, he nodded and smiled with Ito, and then turned to Qian Longzhou, "The South Shore Army can't last long, and it must be a decisive battle today." ”
"Why is that?" The veteran of the military department next to him asked curiously, the soldiers of the South Bank Army in the distance were turning around and running backwards, scrambling to be the first to be the first to come, much faster than when the attack came, there were large areas of corpses lying on the battlefield, broken flagpoles, broken flags, damaged weapons all over the battlefield, and occasionally a few of them were not dead, but they were also crawling in the direction of coming in horror, hoping to escape from these terrible enemies quickly.
"It's very simple," Maruyama said, squeezing his beard, "they don't have enough food and grass, and according to intelligence, they don't even have the ability to feed every soldier today, and if they can't win today, they must flee quickly." Otherwise, even if we don't hit them, they'll mess with themselves. ”
"Aren't they running away now?"
"No," Maruyama was stunned for a moment, "yes, it's true that I'm running away now, but it's not completely gone, you see, the enemies in the distance are still trying to intercept these people." ”
Everyone hurriedly raised their binoculars to look west, and sure enough, there were quite a few people in formation near the entrance of the official road, intercepting the deserters.
The enemy is not far away, and the enemy is cold
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"Everyone! Stop now! Turn around and attack! Death to the defeated! A few people with loud voices were yelling at these people loudly, but the sound was faint, except for the people in the front rows, the thousands of people behind them couldn't hear it at all, and they were still pushing me forward and running away.
There were still a number of dead men hanging from the spears of the first row of overseers, many of whom had been pierced by more than one spear, and the pikemen were scrambling to try to get the corpses off the spears. The deserters who had not yet been pierced had been frightened by the scene in front of them, not only the auxiliaries and strong men who were originally cannon fodder, but also the personal soldiers under the various hundred households, most of whom knew what the consequences of escaping in front of the overseer team were, and they all stopped their steps and wanted to turn around and move in the direction of Shabak. However, it is not up to them to decide whether they can stop or not, there are thousands of routs behind them, and the routs behind them cannot hear the warnings from the front, and when they see that the deserters in front have stopped, they are shouting noisily, and they can't hear the roars in front of them.
In such a noisy and chaotic situation, many people who turned around were directly overthrown to the ground, and trampled under the feet of the crowd behind them. Once people are overthrown by the crowd, there is basically no chance of survival, and hundreds of people are lost for no reason.
After the land is far away, the hatred is by the cold department
"Shoot the arrows!" The officer of the Overseer roared viciously, waving his right hand downwards as he spoke. The archers behind him let go of their bowstrings into the distance, only to see hundreds of arrows fly up from the camp like locusts, and then land directly in the fleeing crowd.
The deserters were shot to the ground by random arrows, and many fell in an instant. A roar erupted from the Warlord's side, "Rush forward, dare to turn around and flee, kill no mercy!" ”
This pro-guard team is Zhao Ximin's personal deceased, usually eats the best food, and never lacks salary, and its morale has always been the highest and most well-trained in the entire army. And these deserters are mainly substitutes for the dead in Ruan Wei's army. Since Ruan Wei entrusted the legion to Zhao Ximin, Zhao Ximin has tried his best to win over the main backbone of the dead fat man's legion in line with the idea of having the right not to expire and invalidate. Those troops who were unwilling to defect to Zhao Ximin were sent directly to the front line of the siege, and the consumption was more, and when they received Ruan Wei's troops after the war, they would be able to receive Ruan Wei's troops more smoothly.
Now these soldiers of the pro-guard team who act as the overseer team naturally have no psychological burden at all when they start killing deserters, their equipment is much higher than these cannon fodder sent to death in front, and they have a lot of food in their stomachs - Zhao Ximin is still very concerned about the food of the pro-guard team, and those deserters can't break through the blockade of such a superintendent at all, so they can only turn around and stagger towards the direction of the city wall.
"Siege engine!" The lookout shouted loudly, and suddenly more than a dozen binoculars turned to the position of the entrance of the official road at the same time, and sure enough, a siege vehicle was being pushed by dozens of people towards the direction of the city wall.
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