Chapter Seventy-Eight: The East Gate

At this moment, another wave of enemies rushed towards them, pushing several wheelbarrows with high door panels. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

The platoon commander knew that the Bird Gun could not penetrate the door panel from 50 paces away, and while signaling the Bird Gun to stand by, he asked the sentry standing on the roof, "How many layers of door panels are there in the enemy's car?" ā€

"Platoon commander, I only see one floor."

The platoon commander waved the flag to the infantry guns in the rear, and the members of the artillery crew came to the front of the line with the infantry guns in front and behind.

The platoon commander ordered "try the No. 2 shotshot"

The gun commander promised, "I'll reload right away." ā€

Because the ammunition has been loaded, it is very troublesome to remove the ammunition in the barrel, and it is too late now, so the gun commander pulled the gun rope without saying a word, and the No. 3 scattered bullet that had been loaded long ago shot out, and more than 100 small projectiles were all embedded in the opposite door panel in a burst of impact sound, and after a crackling sound, all of them were embedded in the wooden planks and the earthen walls on both sides of the alley, and they were dusty for a while.

The wheelbarrow stopped for a moment, and then a North Korean poked his head out to look at it, and when he saw that the shot had not posed any threat, he immediately shrank back.

There was a cheer of excitement from the North Koreans pushing the cart afterwards, as if they had won.

Immediately around the corner, a large number of North Koreans joined the attack of the carts, and the wheelbarrows slowly pushed again.

After the firing was completed, because of the urgency of the situation, the crew members did not clean the chamber of the gun, and immediately stuffed the prepared No. 2 loose ammunition into the barrel.

The gunner used the pusher stick to send the medicine bag into the bottom of the barrel, and the gun commander took out a fuse cable in a hollow nail from the small bag on his waist, smashed the nail into the ignition port with a small hammer, and the fuse was deeply inserted into the projectile bag, a series of actions were fast and accurate, and in less than ten breaths, the shooting preparation was completed.

As the gun commander pulled the arquebus again, twenty buckshot bullets weighing fifty grams flew out, piercing the door panel of the wheelbarrow, which had reached about 40 paces, with huge kinetic energy.

The cart came to a halt abruptly, the enemy seemed to be a flock of ducks strangled, and the battlefield fell silent instantly, taking advantage of this time, the archers began to throw fire, suppressing the enemy behind the wheelbarrow, and the infantry artillery began to reload again.

This time the infantry guns were a little slower to load, because this time the chambers had to be cleared.

There was already a lot of residue of black powder, and the residue of the burning thick cloth used for the fixed shells would also stick to the inside of the barrel, and two shells were fired, and the barrel was already covered with residue.

At this time, the barrel was already on the verge of danger, and the chamber must be cleaned first.

There is a risk of exploding the chamber if it is fired again without clearing.

Although a cumbersome step was added, the intensive training ensured that the crew members were skilled, and the various disassembly movements were accurate and smooth, and the reloading work was completed once again when the enemy dodged the rain of arrows and had not yet resumed the offensive.

After the cannon rope was pulled, this time it was no longer a scattered bullet, the first bullet was used in actual combat for the first time, a round iron bullet with a diameter of 40mm flew out suddenly, and accurately smashed into a thick door panel.

After piercing the door panel, the iron bullet rushed into the crowd with a large amount of wood dregs, and after penetrating three people in succession, it completely lost its kinetic energy and fell to the ground.

Some of the sprayed blood poured on the round projectile, which evaporated by the heat with a sizzling sound, but more blood kept pouring in, and finally completely submerged the iron projectile.

The back of the car was wounded by scattered bullets, pricked by sawdust, shot by bows and arrows, and several corpses broken in two by No. 1 bullets, centered on a 40mm iron projectile, forming a bloody Shura field.

Although there were not many casualties, the bloody scene shocked the North Koreans behind.

The members of the artillery crew were also bold, and when the enemy who wanted to escape was blocked by the Korean rebels who continued to rush into the alley from the rear, they reloaded their ammunition and advanced for a while, and at a distance of 10 paces, carried out another shelling of the gap that had been blasted open.

This time it was the No. 3 scattered bomb, and more than 100 projectiles entered through the gap, and suddenly cleared a large open space in the center of the crowd, and the wounded who wailed and screamed completely frightened these so-called Korean volunteers who rushed into the alley behind.

The killer squad also seized the opportunity to rush up and cut down the remaining few carts of the enemy, capturing the wheelbarrow, and then all the musketeers drove the enemy back again with a volley of guns.

At this moment, the Korean rebels, who were shocked by the corpses crippled by artillery, were reluctant to charge, no matter how urged by the overseers outside.

Those few overseers didn't dare to really offend the anger of the people, after all, they were all surrounded by hungry people, and they were alone at this time, just relying on the previous residual power to temporarily suppress everyone.

The leader of the platoon, seeing that there was an advantage to be taken, immediately ordered all the firearms to be loaded with ammunition, and all the bows that could shoot bows and arrows rushed out of the alley.

First, the bow and arrow were fired rapidly, and the seven archers fired directly at the crowded area.

Although it is a soft bow and light arrow, it is enough to deal with unarmored targets, and if the light arrow fails to hit the vital point directly, it will mostly hurt people, but the injured person is panicked and scurry, which adds to the enemy's panic.

If there is an enemy who dares to charge at his side, he will get closer, and he will be killed by a single blow of the musket, and the huge killing effect of the musket really deters some of the North Koreans who are about to move, and everyone begins to turn and flee.

The queue was shooting, and at the same time, it moved forward with steps in the whistle, the hungry people in the front row fled backwards, and those in the back did not know the situation in front of them, and they were still running at the city gate, and the two sides of the crowd crowded together, and began to stampede, and the situation became even more chaotic.

Until the archers shot all the arrows they carried, under the stimulus of fleeing, the crowd running back finally collapsed, waved the weapons in their hands, and killed their own people who stood in the way, they had only one thought in their hearts, they must escape, stay away from these killing gods, and save their lives.

The platoon finally moved slowly to the most chaotic, not far from the dividing line where the North Koreans were killing each other, and under the order of the platoon leader, a volley of flintlock muskets, a salvo of bird guns, and a salvo of three-eyed guns, after three consecutive rounds of firearms were fired, when all the North Koreans turned and fled, three killer squads rushed forward.

In terms of lethality, the current firecracker is definitely more than a cold weapon with a single blow, as long as it hits, it will either kill or be injured, and the wounded will basically not survive, and the poison of lead bullets can make the wounded die slowly in pain.

However, in terms of the speed of destruction, firearms that can only shoot 1 to 3 rounds a minute in this era cannot be compared with cold weapons, and the spears in the neat queue are constantly piercing and retracting, and the enemy falls in rows.

After chasing and killing a short distance, everyone returned to the city gate under the order of the platoon commander and continued to carry out Chen Xin's task of blocking the road.

The platoon commander proudly said to the people around him, "We are the first to arrive at the south gate, don't look at the fact that there are so many cattle in our squadron, but from today on, we are the sharp knives of the first squadron." ā€

But just when he was holding his chest high, he heard Kan Shu, who was on a crutch, weakly say, "Platoon commander, we are going wrong, this is the east gate." ā€

"What? This is the East Gate? The platoon commander exclaimed and looked up at the plaque at the city gate.

All the personnel heard the platoon commander's words and turned their heads together.

In an instant, everyone's faces froze.