Even in a contest in the sense of individual soldiers, the Qiong Navy is in a relative advantage, and the intensity and durability of the firepower that each soldier can project overwhelms the opponent, but it can't stand the opponent's large number of people, and the fighting consumption is at an absolute disadvantage, and there are no personnel to replenish. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Seeing that the soldiers in the frontal array were decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye, Huang Hansheng was so anxious that he had no other way to think of but the idea of artillery, so he shouted: "Call the battalion commander Zuo!" ”

Zuo Wuwei immediately rushed over, and Huang Hansheng said to him: "Let your men push the mountain artillery to the front, and I will ask the infantry to make some gaps for you, and let me use the cannon to blast the head of the Tartar!" ”

Zuo Wuwei was taken aback, thinking that he had misheard, and he tried to confirm: "Commander, you mean to let my artillery fire at a distance of sixty or seventy paces from Tartar arrows?" ”

"That's right. Need me to repeat it? ”

Zuo Wuwei was silent for a few seconds, and then replied: "Regiment commander, the general once said in the officer training class that artillery is a professional branch of the army, and every qualified artillery is a valuable asset, which cannot be easily pushed to the front line, let alone used as infantry. In order to be responsible for my subordinates, it is difficult for me to carry out your orders......"

Huang Hansheng grabbed Zuo Wuwei's clothes, gritted his teeth and said: "If we continue to fight like this, our regiment is in danger of collapsing, no matter how valuable your artillery is, it is also a member of the first regiment, and at a critical juncture, you must live and die with the officers and men of the whole regiment." I order you, immediately, immediately, to push the mountain cannon up and fire! ”

Zuo Wuwei let him grab his clothes, bowed his head and said: "If you do this, you will be held accountable by the Judge Advocate General......'s Department after the war."

The Judge Advocate General's Department was formed in accordance with Xia Nan's instructions when the Qiong Navy expanded the army, and the personnel were drawn from various units, and those veterans or officers who were fair, calm and experienced were selected, and the number was small, but it was very capable, and it was specifically responsible for maintaining military discipline and punishing those who violated discipline, and was also responsible for the review and reporting of military merits. Violations of military discipline on the battlefield are also within the jurisdiction of the Military Judge Advocate General's Department.

Huang Hansheng glared at Zuo Wuwei: "I know that the Department of Military Justice can manage this, if it is judged that I have made a mistake in command, I will not pass this pot on to others, but now you only need to carry out the order, otherwise you will first be responsible for disobeying the military order!" ”

Zuo Wuwei sighed: "Regiment commander, you are right, I have to carry out the order first, and it is not for me to judge whether there is a problem with the command." You let me go, and I'll arrange for someone to push the cannon. ”

Although Zuo Wuwei was very resistant to this order, he still carried it out to the letter, and in a short period of time, ten mountain cannons were pushed to the front line - this kind of cannon weighed only a few hundred catties, and a few people could easily push it. Under the command of company and platoon officers, the soldiers reloaded and fired while moving slightly to make room for the small guns.

Ten mountain cannons poked their heads out of the soldiers' side, and the black holes of the guns were exposed.

The armor soldiers of Houjin had already suffered a great loss from the artillery, and everyone was shocked to know that the appearance of these muzzles would mean death. Without the command of the officer, they spontaneously adjusted the direction of the arrows, concentrated on the location of the artillery, and for a time the arrows rained down, and all of them fell around the guns.

Before some of the artillerymen could load their shells, they were drowned in a torrent of arrows, shot like hedgehogs, and lay on the barrels covered in blood.

Huang Hansheng's loud voice sounded in the rear: "All of them, the infantry is closer, cover the artillery!" ”

After hearing the order, the soldiers crowded even closer, blocking the artillery with their flesh and blood, leaving only one barrel exposed, and some soldiers even leaned directly on the barrel, diagonally reloading and shooting.

Although Zuo Wuwei was heartbroken and died of the artillerymen under the arrows, he also knew that now was not the time to dwell on this problem, the infantry used the human wall as a cover for the artillery, and the casualties were even heavier, so he ordered loudly at the moment: "Brothers, the infantry brothers will block the arrows for us, we can't let their blood flow in vain, prepare for firing as quickly as possible, all the shotguns are loaded, and shoot freely!" ”

The artillerymen moved nervously, loading the shotguns and igniting them as fast as they could in their lives. This kind of distance, as Huang Hansheng said, is to fire the cannon against the head of the Tartar, and any shooting angle and aiming are floating clouds, and the cannon is flattened.

The fuse burned tightly, and the sparks traveled all the way before burrowing into the barrel of the cannon. After a short wait, "boom", the deafening sound was like a thunderclap on the ground, the cannon body suddenly retreated, the muzzle of the cannon spewed brilliant flames, and one after another swarthy cylindrical objects drilled out of the barrel. The soldier leaning on the barrel of the gun was ejected from the ground and lay on the ground with blood flowing from his nose, as if his internal organs had been wounded.

As soon as the barrel left the muzzle, it exploded, turning into countless tiny projectiles, and a heavy rain of metal flew towards the armored soldiers who were shooting arrows. Under the light of the flames, the faces of the armor soldiers could be clearly seen distorted by fear, and the movements of their hands were suspended.

Everywhere the shotgun passes, not a single grass grows.

At a distance of less than seventy paces, the shotguns fired from the ten cannons formed thousands of projectiles, swept through the dense crowd, and then exploded into a rain of blood. Broken bows, shattered chain mail scales, severed fingers, and flesh foam flew everywhere, whether it was an unarmored coat, a leather-armored foot archer, or a double-armored soldier, there was only one fate in such a metal storm: to be swept into a honeycomb.

The whole world fell silent.

When the smoke cleared, the soldiers of the 1st Regiment saw that the enemy in front of them had been swept away, and their vision suddenly opened up. Farther away, the Tartars, who had survived because of the distance, watched all this in amazement, bewildered, and their heads, faces, and bodies splattered with the blood of their accomplices.

In the center of the second regiment, everyone who witnessed this scene cheered, and Lin Weiye waved his fist excitedly, "Han Sheng is playing a trick with a bayonet on a cannon, it's really a beautiful job!" ”

Xia Nan asked curiously: "What do you mean by a bayonet on a cannon?" ”

Lin Weiye explained: "This is a tactic adopted in extreme situations, the artillery that was originally far away from the front line was pulled to the front, fired at close range within a few hundred meters or even a hundred meters, and used the cannon as a melee weapon, similar to the infantry fighting bayonet, so it is called a bayonet on a cannon." If you use this trick under certain conditions, it will work wonders. ”

"If it worked, why didn't you use it before? It's long overdue to shell! ”

Lin Weiye shook his head: "There should be no way out." If the artillery is arranged in the infantry array, it will destroy the integrity of the infantry formation, reduce the density of rifle fire, and if the distance is too close, the vibration, heat and other factors generated by the cannon will also interfere with the infantry, not to mention that the sound of the cannon is enough to cover up the sound of all orders and hinder the command. ”

Xia Nan waved his hand: "Whatever, as long as it plays a role at the critical moment." ”