The grenade directly destroyed the guard soldiers at the front.
They ran back crying, throwing away their weapons and even felt hats, clothes and weapons in an attempt to reduce weight.
The explosion of nearly a hundred grenades completely enveloped the enemy's front part in smoke. Dense fragments flew in at high speed from all directions. A large number of soldiers were shot and fell to the ground.
At this time, the camel cannon on the mountain wall opened fire. It used shotgun shells.
Boom boom boom! The camel cannon roared, and the iron sand was overwhelming and fell diagonally from above.
Different artillery positions are set up in different positions, but they are all designed to attack enemies entering the valley. The valley is narrow, and when marching at the bottom of the valley, once attacked by artillery fire, there is a serious lack of cover. You can only resist forcefully.
As soon as the artillery fired, the thorns and bushes in the shelter were shaken and fell down, exposing several gun emplacements.
As the artillery fires, the effect is immediately apparent. Even though it is a low-pressure Camel cannon, it is not comparable to a rifle when firing shotshells.
From a height of twenty to thirty meters, a shot was fired horizontally.
The shotgun shells sprayed out from the muzzle like a storm, creating a huge fan-shaped gap, which directly cleared the mouth of the team on the official road in the valley.
The ground was full of dead and wounded soldiers.
As the camel cannons on the mountains on both sides opened fire, the soldiers who entered the valley were decimated.
They couldn't retreat if they wanted to. The firepower of the volley in front was so dense that they couldn't get past them. Three or four seconds, which is less than a breath of time in this era, is enough for one round of fire from the other side. The other side kept firing, causing an attack here.
One party was very depressed.
At this time, six Gatling guns also opened fire.
Click, click, click! The sound of the hand-cranked Gatling gun was no longer the sound of a normal musket. It was more like the sound of tearing cloth.
Six huge flame whips were swung down from the mountain walls on both sides.
Every time the whip was whipped, dead bodies were left on the ground. Although it was a 7.92mm light Gatling gun, its rate of fire was very high and the bullets were very powerful.
The officers and soldiers who entered the valley were completely dumbfounded. They had never seen this kind of machine gun in their lives. Those flaming whips were sweeping away the dirty soldiers at the bottom of the valley.
Five hundred rounds of ammunition ensure an adequate supply of bullets. The rotating barrel machine gun has different barrels for loading, firing and ejection, so it is very heat-resistant, and there is rarely a problem that the barrel cannot be used due to firing.
The addition of machine guns was the straw that broke the camel's back.
There was a dense array of muskets in front of them, shooting wildly, and grenades being thrown out. The bombers were knocked upside down and couldn't rush forward at all.
Now the camel cannon on the side can clear out a section of the swarming soldiers on the official road at the bottom of the valley with one shot.
Gatling guns were added to the front, left and right, and they fired every three rounds of tracer bullets at the soldiers in the valley, regardless of the front or rear.
There was no longer a safe place in the entire valley. The artillery was spitting flames like crazy, and the machine guns were firing wildly from front to back. The soldiers in the valley fired back and huddled with the soldiers behind.
"Fix bayonets, everyone crosses the parapet and advances." Li Jike ordered.
After several rounds of fighting, the soldiers at the guard station could no longer bear it any longer. They ran back crazily. At this time, under the constant blows from various firearms, they were all hit and wounded in front, back and left.
The explosive bomb of the camel cannon exploded directly, sending flames into the sky, and the surrounding guard soldiers were blown away. The solid bomb would ricochet in the valley, and a lead ball was shot diagonally into the crowd at the bottom of the valley, and the shell rolled all the way at high speed.
As he moved forward, wherever he passed, his liver and brain were wiped out, and his limbs flew everywhere.
Machine guns chased the running crowd, and the line of fire swept back and forth. People were cut down piece by piece like wheat.
Finally, the fear reached its peak, and the three thousand people in the front completely collapsed. With red eyes, they raised their swords and guns, turned around and ran away towards the way they came.
The defeated troops in the front directly impacted the soldiers in the middle, causing the soldiers in the middle to become confused.
At this time, the artillery positions on the mountain also began to shift their muzzle pointing and began to bombard the center.
The soldiers in the central part also began to run away, and the officers were unable to stop them. They were dragged away and rushed backwards.
Tian Guang was surprised to see explosions and gunshots everywhere in the valley ahead. On the stone walls of the mountains on both sides, artillery pieces were exposed. There were also several unknown firearms that were firing fiercely.
These firearms can actually fire bullets continuously. I don’t know how.
Hou Shilu's face turned pale at this time. He could already see that he had failed.
The shouts of killing in the front are not from our own troops, and this is not the movement from our own troops.
Looking at the various troops in the valley ahead, they were overwhelmed by the defeated troops one after another, and these officers and soldiers were also bundled up and fled backwards.
Hou Shilu and Tian Guang looked at everything in front of them dumbfounded. They rushed into the valley with great satisfaction just now, but why did they suddenly become like this?
"Sir, let's go quickly. We are defeated in front. It's not fun to rush over with defeated troops." A personal guard grabbed the reins of Hou Shilu's horse, forced the horse to turn, and then pulled the horse and ran down the sand dam.
When Tian Guang saw that Hou Shilu had left, he felt confused and immediately drove away.
Seeing the general and deputy general running away with their own soldiers, the officers looked at each other, paused, and then suddenly realized what they were doing. One by one, they immediately turned around and ran away.
At this time, Hou Shilu ran in front with his soldiers, and officers at all levels ran behind with their servants. The battalion soldiers also fled backward. He hadn't run far yet. The surging crowd, like a tide, rushed over
After reaching Shaba, they took the road and fled.
Hou Shilu looked back at the galloping horse, feeling frightened for a while. Fortunately, he saw the opportunity quickly and knew that something was going to happen in advance. Otherwise, he would have been trampled to death by the defeated troops like those officers who ran too slowly.
After a large number of guardsmen escaped from the valley, more than a hundred cavalrymen rode on camels to chase them. These camel soldiers were the soldiers who had just blocked the attack.
At this point, since the enemy has been defeated, we should attack immediately without giving the enemy a chance to breathe.
These cavalry are riding camels. The speed of these creatures cannot be compared with horses. The speed is very slow. But even if they can jog, they are much faster than human legs.
The camel cavalry chased behind them, hitting the enemy with firearms from time to time. In this way, they drove the guardsmen and started a crazy rout mode.
Tian Peng also looked at it in a daze. He never expected that just these ten artillery pieces, plus six machine guns and more than a hundred riflemen, could hold off the enemy's attack for three days without any problems.
But now, the battle has only lasted less than an hour, and the enemy has been "moistened" immediately.
"Tell the troops in front to chase them five miles away. Don't be reluctant to fight. Our mission is to guard the mouth of the valley." Tian Peng said.
At this time, in the east official hall of Jiming Yi, Zhang Shize was sitting on the Taishi chair with his legs crossed, drinking tea from a covered bowl.
The group of people in front were almost going crazy.
"Master Zhang, please give me a word. We are willing to contribute one hundred thousand taels to subsidize the military. Let the army set off quickly."
Zhang Shize's expression was displeased, and he placed the bowl of tea heavily on the table. He wanted to touch me and Yang Fan for a hundred thousand taels. You guys are just begging for food.
This chapter has been completed!