The Rise of the Empire

Chapter 109: Meat grinder 2

   After rushing out of the blocked area of ​​artillery, they prepared a whole group of attacks under the organization of low-level officers!

But at this moment, there were waves of slightly long sounds coming from the air. The speed of these shells was very slow. As long as people looked up, they could see the "two brigade forces" falling in the air. It's enough to smooth out Jiulian City," said Li Jian Shangwen, looking at the small city in the distance. Under the cover of a small amount of artillery and hand-cranked Gatling guns, the two brigade groups launched alternate attacks. Each time the attackers were in two brigades, about 1,500 people!

The six 75MM rapid-fire guns in the rear are constantly spewing out bullets, but Mackensen directly uses the artillery for direct-pointing operations. Schmidt’s artillery is deployed in the rear, and then by controlling the delay of the fuze, the cannonball is in the air. Explosion, this kind of earliest "air bomb" shell is naturally not as powerful as the later VT fuze shell, but relying on a relatively curved trajectory and super high rate of fire, it still caused great damage to the attacking Chinese and Japanese troops!

  Because of the restriction of the terrain, the attacking front of the Japanese army was relatively narrow. Within about 600 meters of the position, the attacking surface was quickly narrowed, and all the artillery locked the attack area here! A shell exploded in the air from a few meters to tens of meters from the ground, and countless steel **** fell from the air like raindrops. These steel **** formed an oval kill area on the ground. In this area, whether you are standing or Hidden will be penetrated by hundreds of steel **** per second!

Standing from a high place, dense artillery shells raged back and forth in the attack area like a rolling firestorm. As soon as the Japanese army entered the starting position, they were swept down in patches and turned into a pile of broken meat under the fierce blow. .

The remaining Japanese artillery did want to cover their infantry and tried to suppress the artillery at the head of the city, but the super slow rate of fire and the disadvantages of the terrain made their attack futile. The gunners of the Blue Legion only had to see the opponent fire. Then you can easily calculate the distance and the elevation angle of the artillery by comparing the calibrated map. After a few minutes of rapid fire, the opponent’s artillery was either destroyed or forced to evacuate!

From the assembly of the Japanese army to the offensive, they will move forward in bullets every step they take. Once they are driven to the battlefield, they will be attacked regardless of whether they advance or retreat. In this case, the Japanese survival instinct can make them Forget the fear for the time being, when most people fall off the cannonballs, but the rate of fire of these artillery guns seems to be faster than that of rapid-fire guns! A shell quickly exploded next to the Japanese army that had just assembled. The fragments made of cast iron forged projectiles are no worse than steel balls. These cheap shrapnels easily blow up a squad of Japanese soldiers in half, while the rest are lying on the ground trembling and letting the officer beat them Not standing up!

   But even so, the Japanese offensive is still advancing steadily step by step. A steady stream of reinforcements from the rear rushes to the opponent's position with the front team. At a distance of 200 meters to 300 meters, the Japanese army has encountered the most severe test!

   If the Kataro on the flanks encountered sporadic machine gun fire blockade, then in the frontal attack, the Japanese troops of the two brigades faced a combined fire attack of machine guns, mortars and grenadiers! The fierce firepower of more than a dozen machine guns shot a piece of blood in the assaulting Japanese army. 8 80MM mortars and dozens of grenades fired by grenades sent a large amount of shrapnel to the top of the Japanese army every minute!

The Japanese troops in the group were first taken care of. After a series of grenades fell, a platoon of Japanese troops quickly disappeared in the smoke and flames. Perhaps the number of shrapnel was relatively small, but the impact caused by the oversized charge of the mortar grenade was even greater than that of the shrapnel. The steel ball is even more terrifying!

The flames and high-pressure air with a breath of death hit the unprepared Japanese army like an invisible wall. A simple shock wave can cause serious damage to the internal organs through clothes and skin, and the high-temperature air and picric acid in the smoke burn The poisonous gas after that completely destroyed the lungs of the remaining soldiers! Many Japanese soldiers were not directly hit by shrapnel, and they still lost their combat effectiveness even under the impact of the air waves. They tore their throats frantically, trying to inhale more air, and the hot air made their lungs hurt more! Finally fell on a foreign land.

   When the Japanese army rushed to the last 150 meters. Firepower from all directions flooded like a tide, and the Japanese army, who could see success, was completely blocked in front of the trench! The intensive rain of bullets from various flanking and knock-down positions easily harvests lives, and the bursts of semi-automatic rifles are also unfolding at the same time. Although they are not as easy to use as submachine guns, these semi-automatic rifles are still sharp weapons in close combat!

   Often 3 semi-automatic riflemen can block the Japanese army pigs in 2 squads! The three soldiers took turns firing, swiftly shooting out the bullets in the magazine, a series of bursts of gunshots made the last hope of the Japanese army vanish! Even if some agile or lucky guys can use a bayonet to deal with the opponent, they will soon be sieved by bullets flying around.

"The number of Germans is very scarce, and the arrangement of the multi-layer defense line further reduces the density of troops! But their firepower makes up for the disadvantage of the number! Their firepower of a squad can easily suppress one of our platoons! The bravery and bayonet of the Imperial soldiers It is useless under a rifle that can be fired continuously! Except being knocked down by dense bullets~lightnovelpub.net~ It is useless to pile up the corpses outside the trench! The frontal Germans don’t invest more than a thousand troops. , But it blocked 4 large-scale attacks from our two brigades!"

   I saw Shang Wen smelling the strong **** smell mixed in the gunpowder smoke, watching the corpses lying on the ground in the distance, and the weapons still spitting fire. He completely succumbed! This battle cannot be fought! If the fight continues, what if the Japanese troops of the two brigades can capture here? How can the division whose skeleton is directly interrupted continue to fight? You know, crossing the Yalu River is only the first step! There are more battles behind!

When it was 4 p.m., the Japanese attack finally stopped, and the Blue Legion as the defensive side was exhausted in the battle of this day. Baron Schmidt admitted that if it were not guarding a supply station, it would almost With the wireless hanging of ammunition, the Japanese army can push away at least the two layers of defense outside, and then launch an attack on the city! In this day, the Blue Army killed more than 300 people, of which more than 100 died in battle. The casualties paid by the Japanese army on the opposite side were at least 7 times this number!

"At least one Japanese brigade was beaten miserably! And tomorrow, we will get a Russian support from a regiment! As long as we can hold on for one night, then the Japanese will have no chance!" That night, Mackenson specifically returned Command, discuss the next battle plan with Baron Schmidt.

"At most 2 days! We must evacuate!" Schmidt's comments shocked Mackensen and others. Although their losses were not small, most of them were the Qing and Russian forces. Today's battle has collapsed. Why should I leave the Japanese with a tooth?

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