Chapter 101 artillery coverage
With a few stunned eyes, Wei Zheng continued to order...
"Heavy Folang aircraft and medium Folang aircraft are all replaced with shotguns and aim at the first eighty steps to one hundred steps in the position to shoot."
"The light Folang machine and the Tiger Cannon are all replaced with solid iron bullets. They will fire as long as the enemy starts attacking, destroying the shield chariots and shields that the Tartars may use to attack in the shortest time."
"All musketeers in the Musket Battalion will fire freely and shoot all enemies within range..."
Facing Wei Zheng with a calm face in front of him, Zhou Shuyuan continued to ask with concern: "General, can this work?"
"It's OK... just give the order as I said just now." Wei Zheng's calm face flashed with a hint of surprise and he answered firmly.
Thousands of people took action at the same time, and in less than half an hour, the earth wall that was more than three feet thick disappeared from the battlefield.
More than a thousand infantry soldiers followed, and three hundred Tartar archers jumped into the front line position that the Tiger and Leopard Army had just given up without any obstacles.
"Don't stop the troops, continue to attack forward... shield the shield and continue to attack the Tiger and Leopard Army positions." Facing the Tiger and Leopard Army positions a hundred steps away, the Tatar Niu Lu Zhang Jing ordered without caring about the fatigue on the faces of the infantry and soldiers around him.
Then, the three hundred Tartars began to show their hideous faces to the infantry and soldiers beside them, waving their big sword in their hands, driving them to climb out of the trench and continue attacking.
The densely packed infantry soldiers, holding shields, pouring out of the trench like a tide, forming a new attacking square formation on the battlefield. The dense shields also formed a tight wall of shields in front of the square formation.
Then, the vast infantry phalanx drove the Tartars behind him and advanced step by step towards the second-line position of the Tiger and Leopard Army.
Facing the enemy who was getting closer and closer to him on the battlefield, everyone on the Tiger and Leopard Army's position, except Wei Zheng, showed a heartfelt worry expression on their faces.
Just as everyone focused their eyes on Wei Zheng and waited for Wei Zheng's orders, a trace of ferociousness flashed away from Wei Zheng's face and shouted loudly to his subordinates.
"The artillery battalion fired all the artillery fire, covering the distance between eighty to one hundred steps in front of the position, let the enemy taste what the real artillery is, and taste the new way of shooting artillery."
"Boom boom boom..." A series of deafening guns sounded around him. More than 20 artillery types under the Artillery Battalion of the Tiger and Leopard Army, more than ten heavy Flang aircraft that had just won from the Tartar artillery team, fired the first round of bullet rains at the enemy who had just rushed out of the trenches.
Hot lead bullets flew out from the long barrel of the heavy Flang machine gun, quickly forming a fan-shaped bullet net at the muzzle. Then, they flew into the sky with a huge initial speed.
Like the arrows shot by the Tartars, these lead bullets drew beautiful arcs in the air, and then whistled through the sky and hit the enemy with a slight whistling sound.
The losses of continuous battles, coupled with the Tartars' belief that the Tiger and Leopard Army had no archers, could not strike themselves from the air.
The limited shields equipped with thousands of infantry soldiers were all concentrated in the front of the military formation to defend against the rain of bullets fired from the front by the Tiger and Leopard Army.
Therefore, as countless lead bullets roared down from the air, most of the infantry and soldiers hiding behind the shield wall had no defense at all.
Before he could react from his shock, the whistling lead bullet had already knocked the upper body of the Tartars within the coverage of the lead bullet into a hornet's nest.
At the same time, the Tiger Cannon and Light Folang Machine, which were smaller in length and barrel caliber, were not idle, and at the same time roared at the enemy on the battlefield. More than 20 solid iron shells with huge force, driven by a large amount of gas from the combustion of gunpowder, roared towards the shield wall standing in front of the military formation at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Bump...boom boom boom..."
The sound of the iron ball hitting the shield, and the roar of the wooden shield split into pieces had just reached everyone's ears. More than a dozen gaps in the bodies of the infantry and the soldiers quickly appeared on the enemy's tight shield wall.
The musketeers responsible for carrying out precise strikes on the enemy and covering artillery did not ignore this opportunity to kill the enemy.
After simple aiming more than a dozen notches, quickly pull the trigger of the mesh gun.
"Baopao..." After the harsh gunshot sound came out of the gun chamber, the black-hole barrel of the mezzanine gun quickly sprayed out a ball of white smoke from the burning of gunpowder.
The hot lead bullets burned by gunpowder flew out of the gun chamber with white smoke and flew towards the target.
Although the convex gun is not accurate enough to be described at a hundred steps, the blind cat also hits dead rats, not to mention that more than 300 convex guns are shooting at the same time...
More than a hundred lead bullets whistled through the gap in the shield wall and shot into the Tartar army formation.
Accompanied by a scream, the infantry and soldiers walking at the gap in the shield wall were cut to the ground by the lead bullets shot from the oncoming direction.
Thousands of lead shells falling from the sky, solid iron shells opened the gap, and several white lead shells followed by effective means of killing the enemy...
In just a blink of an eye, several gaps were made in the dense military formation of the Tartars. At least one hundred infantry soldiers were killed or injured and fell on the attack road, and their lives and deaths were uncertain.
Looking at his subordinates who were stunned by the huge battle results, he personally felt the calm facial expression on Wei Zheng's face, who had experienced the artillery fire in later generations, and continued to command.
"Brothers, you are good at fighting... Tell the artillery brothers to show me all their real skills, and try to shoot three rounds of shells at the enemy before retreating, rub a squeezing the arrogance of the Tartars, and be afraid of the infantry and soldiers driven away by the Tartars, so that they would tremble with their legs when they saw our Tiger and Leopard Army..."
"Boom boom boom..." Perhaps it was to respond to Wei Zheng's order.
Wei Zheng had just finished speaking, and the deafening sound of shelling sounded from the earthen wall beside him.
Then, the sound of a bean-like shooting of a melee gun also reached Wei Zheng's ears.
With the help of monocular telescope, Wei Zheng saw with his own eyes that the infantry officers lined up with dense military formations left the body on the ground again.
There is a saying that goes well, morale is all produced...
Faced with increasing results, counting white gunners seemed to take stimulants. On the cold and windy battlefield, they were shirtless and used themselves to clean the cannons as quickly as possible, load and shoot...
When the enemy attacked eighty steps and began to stoop the bow and arrow to counterattack, the artillery battalion unexpectedly shot five rounds of artillery shells at the Tartars.
Looking around, the Tartars' dense attacking military formations were almost half of their troops missing. The tight shield walls became incomplete.
Chapter completed!