Chapter 167: Night Attack by the Enemy
After arranging the manufacture of the two new weapons and sending off the genius technician, it was almost dark. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
By the time it was completely dark, all the men and supplies who needed to unload the ship had been piled up in the makeshift camp by the dock, and the seasick soldiers and horses had all eased up.
At night, the soldiers who had eaten dinner were resting and entertaining in the tents, playing cards, chess, etc., as long as it was not gambling, it was not forbidden in the army.
It was quiet all around, and suddenly a low "whirring" threatening sound came from the mouth of the military dog, and the soldiers on the night vigil looked at the dwarf military dog, which was facing the outside of the camp, and kept "whirring" in its throat, turning its head from time to time to signal to the soldiers that there was a situation.
The soldier did not dare to slack off, beckoned another soldier next to him to prepare the bazooka, and then turned around and went down the watchtower.
The officer on duty was near the sentry post, and the soldier easily found the target.
"Sir, there's a situation, the vigilant military dog is signaling."
The officer on duty did not dare to slack off, and immediately ordered the entire company in charge of the reserve guard tonight to assemble at the breastwork.
During this period, there were constantly sentry posts from all over the country to report that the military dogs were sending threatening signals, and the officers on duty knew that these military dogs were highly trained.
At the same time, the herald was ordered to quietly inform the headquarters, the naval fleet, the squadrons, and the companies directly under him, and asked everyone to be ready for battle.
And Chen Xin sat in the military tent, holding a book, ignoring the various transfers outside.
Xuan Jun is a team pulled up by himself, and Chen Xin is full of trust in him.
Before the war, it was necessary to conduct meticulous and in-depth intelligence collection and data analysis, complete logistical support, accurately calculate the military, scientific, technological, and logistical forces of the enemy and us, and look for the enemy's weak points. This is already the basic principle of Xuanjun warfare.
Three companies of rangers attacked in four sorties to attack the enemy's group of villagers in the outer city, which was to weaken the enemy's mobilization ability.
The navy cruises in the waters of Kyushu to blockade the Kyushu region from the outside world.
The captain led the detachment to cut off the strongest Satsuma in Kyushu to prevent the enemy from having a chance to merge, and then they would seal the border and prevent Satsuma's army from escaping to the lands of other daimyos.
He led a large army to smash Huanglong, and had a decisive battle with the Shimazu family of the Satsuma Domain, completely defeating this force and completely occupying Kyushu Island.
As for the situation that may be encountered after the landing, various deductions have been made for a long time, and of course being attacked by the enemy at night is also among them, and corresponding plans have been made, and now as long as the officers at all levels follow the plan, there will be no problems.
Everyone in the camp went about their business in an orderly manner, the two squadrons were led by the officers to the breastwork, and the rest gathered and stood in the camp as a reserve.
As soon as he was getting ready, he heard a cannon fire outside the camp, and the shouts of the Japanese people were remembered all around.
The soldiers on several wooden watchtowers immediately lit candles, and then put them into a candlestick in the center of a "searchlight" with hundreds of small mirrors combined at different angles, and the mirrors refracted light from each other, and finally converged into a bright light, which shone straight ahead.
Originally, under the cover of the night, the samurai of the Satsuma Domain, who approached within 100 meters of the outermost defense line, were directly stunned in place when they were illuminated by the strong light, and they raised their arms to cover their eyes.
How could the sentry on the watchtower give up at such a good opportunity, the bazooka in his hand had been ignited, aiming at the most dense place of the enemy, his hands kept shaking up and down, left and right, and one by one the rockets were launched from the round shooting frame, shooting out blood-red bright flowers in the crowd, and in a short time 120 feathered arrows filled with gunpowder had all been launched.
The ferocity of these people of the Satsuma Domain, which could be seen from the battle during the day, was also rushed within a hundred meters by them under such dense firepower, and now it was just a few bazookas, how could it be possible to scare them, with the roar of a mad tiger, the remaining samurai continued to charge.
Arquebuses continued to fire at them along the way, and after dropping hundreds of corpses, they finally approached the camp, and the samurai at the front were already less than 30 meters from the side wall.
The people of the Satsuma clan couldn't hide their laughter, in their opinion, the wave of enemies in front of them, more than 60% of them are iron cannons, once they are close, they are definitely not the opponents of the Satsuma samurai.
Just as they were fantasizing about how to kill after rushing into the camp, with a burst of exclamation, the feet of the people running in front collapsed, and the whole person fell into a trench covered with a thin cover, and some people in the back could not hold their feet and fell into it together.
The searchlight did not shine on the ditch, and some of the conceited and brave men, who reacted a little quicker, sped up and prepared to jump over the good dog, but when they landed, they found that they had jumped directly into the ditch.
The samurai of the Wakoku who were blocked by the ditch were unable to advance or retreat, and when they were unable to advance or retreat, they were constantly hit by scattered shells fired from two-year-style arquebuses and hand cannons, and the corpses on the side of the trench accumulated, and then the call of the samurai who had fallen before came from the trench below.
"Hurry down, it's safe here."
"These enemies are red deer, and there are no traps in this ditch, so hurry up and come down and hide."
At this critical moment, the samurai, who heard the shouts, where could anyone think about why there were no mechanisms in the trenches, jumped down one after another, and after a while, all the people who were still alive in the Satsuma army that attacked tonight jumped in.
It was only after going down that they were worried again, this ditch was dug too deep, and with the short size of the Japanese people, three people were stacked together, and the top person could show his head.
The lowly peasants couldn't even eat enough to eat at night, so the people who came to attack at night tonight were all samurai, which caused a problem, and the samurai, all wearing armor, couldn't get out by stacking the human wall.
The soldiers of the Xuan army do not care about the plight of the enemy, and according to the previous training content and military discipline, they can use grenades in the current situation.
Now Xuanjun's grenade is an improved version of the fifth generation, with a spherical body, 400 grams of granular black powder inside, and a 200-gram thin layer of high-carbon steel on the shell.
The total weight of the grenade is the same as that of the Type 67, which was widely equipped by the People's Liberation Army in later generations, which is 600 grams.
Type 67 is loaded with 38 grams of TNT, the power of black powder is about one-seventh of TNT, 400 grams of black powder is equivalent to 57 grams of TNT, the explosion effect is stronger than that of Type 67, and it can rely on the shock wave to kill enemies within a radius of 4 meters, while the grenade fragment can kill enemies within a radius of up to 10 meters, but due to the thin shell, the fragments will be less than that of Type 67.
Chen Xin named this kind of grenade as a three-year-style offensive grenade, which was manually thrown by the soldiers of the Xuan Army in positional warfare, which was powerful but had few fragments, was relatively safe, and would not accidentally injure oneself.
With the development and finalization of the three-year-old offensive grenade, Chen Xin ordered the ordnance factory to finalize and put into production a "coat" that can be put on the three-year-old offensive grenade according to the size of the grenade, and the jacket is evenly laid with 200 fine steel balls.
This "coat" can be worn directly over a 3-year offensive grenade when needed, turning a 3-year offensive grenade into a 3-year defensive grenade.
After the Type 3 Defensive Grenade explodes, the steel balls in the jacket will be carried by the powerful blast wave and shoot in all directions, with a critical safety radius of 30 meters each, which means that with the Type 3 Defensive Grenade as the central point, it may be killed within a radius of 30 meters.
Now everyone is taking out a Type 3 defensive grenade with a "coat" on it.
Everyone took the squad as a unit, and each squad sent two soldiers with the greatest strength and the best bomb throwing training results.
They chose their respective running distances, then unscrewed the lid under the grenade, gently pulled out the fuse, and put the ring on their fingers.
After the officer's order, they all started to run, and after reaching the bomb throwing distance, the arm threw out the largest arc, the grenade was thrown away, and the fuse on the finger was pulled away at the moment when the grenade was shot, and the grenade flew towards the wide and deep trench with the hissing primer burning sound.
At this time, there were no grenades, and most of the Japanese did not notice that the grenades appeared at their feet, and they were trying to escape from the trenches.
Occasionally, a few unlucky people were hit in the head, and immediately smashed through the head by a heavy grenade, and fell to the ground.
A samurai saw his friend suddenly fall to the ground, hurriedly went to help him, and between the tentacles touched a round piece of iron on the ground, and there were some blood stains on it, and the samurai guessed that it was a weapon thrown by the enemy, and it was this thing that hit his friend, and picked it up and looked at it carefully, trying to identify what it was.
With a loud "boom", the grenade in the samurai's hand exploded, and more than 200 steel balls and fragments of the grenade's shell shot into the surrounding crowd under the sudden explosion of firelight.
In order to ensure safety, there will be no incident of a grenade exploding directly in the hand, and the minimum time of the grenade's explosion can only be limited to more than 4 seconds, but with the current technology of Xuanjun, there is no way to accurately the explosion time to the unit of seconds, and in order to meet this standard, the current grenade explosion time is between 4 and 6 seconds.
So after the grenade was thrown, the explosion time was uneven.
Grenades exploded one after another, looking from the chest wall of the Xuan army, there were loud noises in the darkness, one by one bright lights flashed one by one, coupled with wailing and screaming, it was just such a person's eardrum, some Xuan soldiers involuntarily covered their ears.
"What are you covering, you put your hands down. Say what about you. ”
Seeing this, the officer on one side immediately reprimanded him, on the battlefield, except for the artilleryman who can cover his ears, other arms are not allowed to have this kind of action, because he will affect the soldier's hearing, so that he can't hear the order clearly, just like now, those soldiers who cover their ears can't hear the officer's reprimand at all, and the angry officer is a brain meltdown.
After reprimanding the soldiers, officers at all levels began to arrange for their top soldiers to go up to check on the enemy in the trenches.
The searchlights were all in the trenches as ordered, so that the soldiers could explore.
The top soldiers are all veterans of war, and they each have their own tricks, and they can detect the situation below without revealing themselves.
In some places, there were still Satsua samurai who had not died, and these soldiers did not bother to report it, so they took out a Type 3 defensive grenade, pulled off the pull ring, waited for two breaths, and then gently threw it down.
With a "boom", there was no sound in the 20 meters of this section of the trench, and the soldiers continued to explore other sections.
The whole battle was basically settled in less than half an hour, Chen Xin listened to the sparse explosion outside, smiled lightly, and prepared to make his bed to sleep, there will be a battle to fight tomorrow.