"Whoosh...boom..."
After the violent explosion, the low hedgerow wall was blown away by the artillery shells. Mud and branches flew everywhere, and were hit from the air. More artillery shells flew over, and there was a strong scream from the flying artillery shells.
Overwhelming everything, there was a deafening loud noise, and the violent shells continued to make explosions of boom, boom, boom.
When the soldiers in the trenches heard the "whoosh" sound coming from far away, they hurriedly pressed their bodies tightly against the trenches and buried their heads in it. Rows of shells were exploding, the ground was shaking, and the sky was shaking.
Dust was flying. The trenches were immediately filled with the choking smell of gunpowder smoke.
"Whoosh...hoo...whoosh...hoo..."
The whistling sound of artillery shells and the sound of explosions are completely different. The sharp one is the sound of the shell fired by the Krupp field gun. Its speed is high-pitched, while the low sound is the sound made by the mortar. The power of the field gun is average, but the mortar is very powerful.
Complete.
Although mortars were spread to Europe, like many countries, the Prussians did not choose this kind of artillery, which had a range of only about 1,300 meters and was very accurate. They chose another type of artillery - the rifled mortar.
Compared with the smoothbore mortar, the 1867-style rifled mortar manufactured by Krupp has a caliber of 150 mm, a range of 3,000 meters, and a shell weighing 30 kilograms. Although the gun body is much heavier, it is definitely powerful on the battlefield.
Powerful weapon.
Occasionally, a heavy mortar shell fell into the trench, and the shell weighing tens of kilograms would immediately cause a bloody storm in a certain section of the winding trench.
"Where's the cannon? Where's our cannon... Damn it, won't the artillery fire back soon?"
The soldiers hunkering down in the trenches to avoid shelling were shouting loudly.
However, artillery shells fell like raindrops near the trenches, and shrapnel flew over the trenches. Even the soldiers hiding in the anti-gun bunkers felt like they were on the sea, swaying in a swaying boat.
With.
They were waiting for the end of the artillery bombardment, and only a few people were left on the position to monitor the Prussian army that might attack, while the others were in anti-artillery bunkers.
As an army that is good at using artillery, the Nanhua Army has been hit by the "enemy's" superior firepower in all its exercises. It was also during the exercises that they learned how to protect themselves. Although from receiving orders to constructing buildings
The fortifications only took half a day, but they still dug trenches and fortifications as much as possible. The only problem was that the trenches were a little shallow.
"These artillerymen haven't fired yet! They must be waiting for the opportunity. In an artillery battle, whoever fires first will have the upper hand."
Bent over and squatting in the bunker with his rifle in hand, Wang Taisheng said to the soldiers. He had just been promoted to squad leader and was no longer the recruit he was last year.
He is a veteran, so he naturally knows what the artillery is waiting for.
"That's right, that's right, brothers, maybe our artillery is waiting for those foreign devils to finish shooting the artillery, and then open fire. This is called,...well, first lure the enemy to expose, and then do it again...
Damn it, when our cannons fire, we will knock out their artillery. By then, without the cannons, those foreign devils will not be targets for us men. Apart from anything else, it will be our barbed wire fences.
The foreign devils must cost him thousands of lives..."
Squeezing next to the squad leader, Li Mingdou took out a cigarette and handed it to the squad leader, and then started smoking like this. Although he seemed relaxed, as soon as he took a puff of cigarette, he was hit by a shell near the bunker, and there was a violent explosion.
, the bunker shook, and grains of soil fell into the steel helmets above their heads.
"This iron hat is so damn heavy..."
The steel helmet is a new type of equipment that has just been equipped with the expeditionary force. The shape of this helmet is completely imitated by the M35 helmet. The reason why the steel helmet was developed was ultimately due to the Prussian cannon - after all, as far as Zhu Xianhai knew, the Prussians could defeat the Prussians.
War relies on cannons! Steel helmets can give soldiers a certain degree of protection from artillery fire. Even this kind of plain carbon steel helmet is much stronger than a cloth hat. The only problem is that it is much heavier than a cloth hat.
Li Mingdou loosened the laces, and just when he was about to take off his hat, a piercing whistle sounded from outside the shell-proof hole!
"Quick, quick, the foreign devils are coming, the foreign devils are coming..."
Amidst the whistles and shouts, the soldiers ducked out of the gun holes one after another, ducked and ran to their positions. The soldiers immediately picked up their rifles.
"Quick!...Quick! Everyone get into position...Everyone, hurry up!"
As soon as Wang Taisheng led the soldiers into their positions, he heard the shouts of Captain Jiang Shanyue of the company. The captain's voice sounded a little anxious. When he picked up his rifle, Li Ping saw almost eight hundred people in front of them.
At a distance of meters, there are groups of seemingly scattered blue figures.
It's a Prussian!
They crouched down and charged towards them with rifles in hand.
"Attention everyone, keep a distance of 800 meters, let go..."
As the company commander shouted, a burst of rifle fire immediately erupted from the position, and a Gatling gun pushed out from the bunker also began to roar.
There was also the "bah-bah" sound of rifles and the "click-click" sound of machine guns.
Wang Taisheng placed the rifle on the parapet in front of the trench, turned on the safety, and pulled the trigger. The rifle fired violently toward the back seat. At this time, there was only one voice in his mind:
"Shoot forward!"
Like everyone else, he kept loading bullets into the barrel of the gun, lying in the trench and shooting non-stop. In order to speed up the shooting, he even took out five or six rows of bullets and placed them on the parapet of the trench. After emptying the bullets,
Just reload quickly and shoot again.
Bullets were fired one after another. Wang Taisheng, who was lying in the trench, could see that with the muzzle light, the blue figures that kept coming towards this direction fell one after another.
However, those figures who did not fall continued to approach the trenches. For Wang Taisheng, this was the first time he had experienced such a defensive battle. He was a little nervous. He was afraid that the enemy would rush up to him, so he even used the training ground to
Bullets were fired at unprecedented speeds.
Aim, shoot, pull the bolt, shoot...
It's like being on a shooting range, but now, every time they hit the "target", those blue targets will bleed, die, and scream in pain.
Suddenly, several white clouds of smoke were heard from behind the Prussians.
"Bombardment!"
Amidst the horrified shouts, an explosion occurred not far from Wang Taisheng and the others. The soldiers in the trench were directly thrown into the air by the shells. The soldiers who were blown away were twisting in the air like puppets, which looked very weird.
"Cannon, cannon, they brought the cannon up..."
This chapter has been completed!