Chapter 291: Facing the Enemy in the Wilderness
The dense shrapnel projectiles formed a barrage, and the surging crowd was like a wave meeting a reef, and the momentum was stopped. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info In the barrage, no one was spared, the people at the front were dressed in a sieve, plasma and meat scraps flew in the air, mixed with white brains, and the iron projectile passed through the body, castration unabated, and hit the crowd behind with blood.
The mountain artillery continued to fire shotguns, people fell in droves, and the people who were attacking in the rear could not get past the invisible wall created by the barrage, and at a distance of two hundred meters, they could not move forward. The metal projectiles continued to harvest life, and the corpses on the ground soon piled up.
Sun Tianbiao was already stunned in the rear, such a strength of artillery fire was beyond his imagination, a small team of 10,000 people, impacting the position of less than 1,000 people, the enemy was in front of him, and he couldn't advance an inch. Now rushing forward is also death, and going backward is also death, horizontal and vertical are a dead end, he began to tremble, is he going to die here today?
The shotgun fire continued for five minutes, and the artillery fire suddenly weakened.
Lin Weiye shouted: "It's not good, there are not enough shotguns." "I didn't expect to encounter fierce ground resistance in the shelling of Guangzhou City this time, and there were a lot of explosive bombs from the mortar guns, but not many with shotguns.
Sun Tianbiao saw that the opponent's artillery fire suddenly weakened, thinking that it was to cool the barrel, he was overjoyed, cheered up, and shouted: "The enemy's artillery is not good, and if you fight again, it will explode, rush forward, and we will win!" ”
The officers, soldiers and people suffered heavy casualties, and they had already had the idea of retreating, but now they rushed forward with a scream.
Huang Hansheng stood up and ordered: "The gunner stands back, and the rifle salvo is ready." ”
The gunners of both mountain and mortar guns withdrew to the rear, and the gun-wielding guards made up for it and raised their rifles.
The attacking crowd straddled the corpses on the ground and poured up.
"Everyone is free to shoot, no order, no stop!"
"Boom, boom", the sound of gunshots like bursting beans rang out, and the smoke of black powder enveloped the entire battlefield, neither the moonlight overhead nor the burning torches could penetrate the smoke, and the guards could only vaguely see the crowd on the opposite side falling one after another. Later, he couldn't see clearly, so he could only shoot at the opposite side by feeling.
Gunshots, screams and shouts of killing mingled, and from time to time someone came out of the smoke and was knocked down by a volley of gunfire. The team members were nervously loading their ammunition, and some people began to make mistakes, and the ammunition was not loaded and the guns were emptied. The crowd on the opposite side was getting closer and closer, and the nearest body that fell in front of the muzzle was only twenty or thirty meters away from the muzzle of the team members.
Xia Nan grabbed Lin Weiye's shoulders tightly, but he was nervous and speechless. Lin Weiye's whole body was stiff, and he was not much better than him.
Xia Nan watched a movie called Four Feathers, which tells the story of the British team born in the colony of Sudan at the end of the 19th century, and there is a scene in which the British army is ambushed in the desert and fights with the natives who are several times their size. In the film, the British army discharged a hollow phalanx and used a volley of guns to meet a large force of cavalry and infantry, and many times the British soldiers almost shot at each other's heads, and the scene was tense and shocking. At that time, he had no concept of queuing up to shoot, and while watching the movie, he felt that the British soldiers were too pedantic, and the enemy's sabres were about to be cut off on the head, and they were still shooting, loading, and shooting mechanically.
The scene at this moment is very similar to the scene in the movie, the enemy seems to be able to rush in front of him at any time, as long as a gap is broken, a large crowd of people pours in, and the number of people is too different, even if the assassination technique is well practiced, it will not help.
At this time, Xia Nan finally understood that the British soldiers in the movie were not pedantic, in the absence of machine guns and other continuous fire weapons, and even semi-automatic rifles, with the performance of flint guns, they could only rely on good training and strict discipline to choose such a mechanical way of fighting, and they could not stop, even if they were cut by the enemy, someone would fill the vacancy behind. Only by maintaining the formation can you survive the onslaught of several times the enemy and win. If even one person rushes out of the queue or retreats under pressure, the consequences can be catastrophic.
He is luckier than the protagonist in the movie, it is clear that the Weisuo army and the people who fight soy sauce, their will to fight is not comparable to that of the natives of the Sultan, and it is a miracle that they have been able to hold on to the present under heavy artillery fire and rifle fire.
The officers and soldiers of the guard station and the people of the people, all supported by the false fire generated by fear, have now reached a critical point. The shooting movements of the guards began to deform, and they were even more unbearable, seeing that the people in front of them were so dead that they couldn't rush into the thief formation, they gradually began to slow down, and no matter how Sun Tianbiao and the others shouted, they didn't want to step forward.
Finally, someone couldn't stand the pressure of death and turned around and ran back. When one person runs, more follow. People began to hula and run back, and Sun Tianbiao was also dragged backwards. In a few moments, all the enemies in front of the convoy ran out. The smoke cleared, the ground was littered with corpses, and only the crowd was seen in front of them.
The guards were still nervously holding their rifles and maintaining a shooting posture, not because they were afraid that the enemy would return, but because they kept shooting at a high intensity for a long time, so that their muscles could not relax for a while.
Xia Nan patted his chest and let out a sigh of relief, these Cantonese Yankees were like chicken blood, rushing up against the firepower, the scene just now was like Resident Evil, for a moment he had an illusion, it seemed that the zombies who rushed over were unconscious, and they would bite them to death after breaking through the line of fire, thinking about it, I was a little afraid that although the escort team had advanced weapons, good training, and combat effectiveness was much higher than the enemy, but after all, it was not a future soldier, this time less than a thousand people came to fight Guangzhou, it was indeed too risky.
Wei Lianheng looked at the surging city gate, and couldn't help but say to Xia Nan: "If you pursue at this moment and follow behind the defeated army, you can easily enter the city." ”
"What do you do when you enter the city? Will you occupy Guangzhou and establish yourself as the king, or will you burn and loot? Xia Nan looked at the towering city wall, "If you really occupy the city of Guangzhou, I'm afraid there will be no peace, the imperial court will not tolerate the fall of such an important town, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, and the armies of Nanzhili will be mobilized, even if I have 10,000 people, the artillery and ammunition are sufficient, in the face of a steady stream of imperial court troops, guarding such a lonely city, if you don't fight to death, you will be tired to death." It's better to return to Gao Sullen Wealth, and with enough strength, it's not too late to plot against Guangzhou again. ”
"The lord is right, when Taizu Longxing was prospering, he also used the strategy of building high walls, accumulating grain, and slowly becoming king, defeating people from all walks of life and seizing the world of Mengyuan. The gains and losses of one city and one pool are not important, it is important to have a stable rear, and the way to win is to cultivate obscurity and accumulate strength. Sima De agreed.