Ming Zuo

Chapter 409 War with Generation Difference

The first to wreak havoc on the battlefield were the red-clothed cannons and general cannons of the rebels.

As the longest-range firearm of this era, the rebels knew how to use it to provide artillery support to infantry.

When the rebels opened fire, the artillery units of the new army remained motionless, as if they existed in a different field from the battlefield.

They even have a leisurely scrutiny of the rebels' artillery.

"Brigade commander, this artillery is too bad."

Jia Yunzhi held the binoculars to observe the effect of the rebels' artillery bombardment, and chuckled when he heard the words.

"Don't look at them. Their shells are either iron or stone. Unless they hit someone, they are wasted. How can they be compared with our blasting shells?"

"Brigade Commander, why don't we fire? Shooting Zhu Yuan has already been calculated, and it is guaranteed that a round of artillery fire will be able to bring these old antiques back."

Jia Yunzhi raised his face and said solemnly, "You obey orders, don't you know? When it's time for you to fire, no one can make mistakes for me."

Nor did the new infantrymen who were under shelling feel any nervousness.

A cannonball flew in the air and hit the earth wall behind the trench.Although a lot of loose soil was thrown into the air, all the potential energy of the cannonball was completely consumed.

A solid bullet without potential energy is useless.

Some soldiers saw the cannonball fall from the earth wall, and with a light touch of the butt of the gun, the cannonball fell into the trench and became a toy for the soldiers.

Seeing that there was no response from the new army, the morale of the rebels was boosted, the speed of advance was much faster, and they finally entered the minefield.

boom……

A landmine was crushed by the shield car, and the shock wave of the explosion instantly tore the people near the shield car into pieces, and even the people on and beside the car were covered in thick smoke.

Even the people within ten meters nearby have turned into blood gourds, and it is definitely impossible to save them.

"This mine..."

Kong Youde jumped up and stared at the effect of the landmine in disbelief, his eyes straightened.

Of course, he is no stranger to landmines, and the rebels also use them when they are fighting.Before the attack, the rebels also knew that the new army would lay mines.

The only thing I didn't expect was that the power of this mine was so powerful.

Although the mines of the Ming army can kill and injure people, the explosion range is only three or four meters, and it is absolutely impossible to penetrate the shield car.

Boom...boom boom...

One after another, the mines were triggered one after another. Visible to the naked eye, many shield vehicles and soldiers were affected, and there was a huge gap in the array of the rebels.

Fortunately, most of the dead were civilian husbands, and as we all know, in war, civilian husbands are not even cannon fodder.

It was impossible for them to run, because the rebel army was behind them.Once they dare to turn back, the rebels' butcher's knife will make it impossible for them to survive.

In desperation, the villagers continued to push their shield carts to the minefields while weeping.

After they passed the minefield of more than [-] meters, more than half of them died.

But what awaited the rebels next was barbed wire that they had never seen before.

As at Qingshuiguan, the barbed wire was [-] meters in front of the new army formation.

Why is it arranged so close?
The new army has now summed up the experience.

First of all, this distance allows the new army to effectively prevent the enemy from destroying the barbed wire. Whether it is a musket or a grenade, it can be lethal at this distance.

If it is farther away, the enemy only needs to erect a shield, and if the barbed wire is destroyed, the new army's musket cannot penetrate the shield, and the grenade cannot be thrown.

If the artillery was used, it would probably blow the barbed wire apart.

Therefore, the best distance for the barbed wire arrangement is the interval of [-] to [-] meters in front of the formation.

The rebels didn't take barbed wire as a thing at first, but when the shield car hit it and couldn't move forward, they found that they were in trouble.

The rebel generals immediately drove the civilians to get rid of the barbed wire.

But there were no pliers or other tools in Minfu's hands, and blood dripped from the barbs on the barbed wire just by his hands.

Some rebel soldiers cut with knives, but apart from a clattering sound, there was not even a single knife mark on the barbed wire.

There were also smart people who noticed the wooden stakes tangled in barbed wire and rushed over to pull the stakes out of the soil.It turned out that the stakes were so deep that they could not be pulled out by manpower at all.

Even if you want to cut the stakes, you can't do it, because each stake is as thick as a man's waist, and it takes a month to cut it with a sword alone.

When the rebels were blocked by the barbed wire, the sharp whistle of the new army suddenly sounded.

The soldiers in the first row of trenches stood up uniformly, their guns sticking out of the trenches and aiming at the clearly visible enemy.

bang bang bang bang...

Countless gunshots combined, like continuous thunder, and the soldiers of the rebel army who were concentrating on dealing with the barbed wire fell down in an instant.

Before they could react, after the second whistle, the soldiers in the second platoon of trenches appeared, and there was another platoon of guns.

In just two rounds, more than [-] rebels were killed.

The gunmen on the shield car hurriedly wanted to fight back, but before they picked up their guns, the soldiers of the new army had already retracted into the trenches to change their ammunition.

Then, after a strange and extremely fast air was torn apart, a bullet hole appeared between the brows of the fire gunman, and he fell from the car on the spot.

The people who were pushing the cart saw that the hand of the fire gun was dead, and finally couldn't hold it any longer, and they ran away one after another.

The gunmen in the rest of the cars still didn't understand what was going on, and the occasional sound of gunshots rang out, knocking them out of the car one by one.

There was a thick shield in front of them, leaving only a small hole more than a foot square for shooting.

Originally, such a shield car could keep the fire guns safe, but for some reason, on the battlefield today, they were killed one by one.

After more than a dozen firearms hands died, the rest of the people finally reacted and squatted behind the shields, daring to show their heads again.

On the high slope behind the new army's position, there are hundreds of meters away, and there are many people who are covered with weeds. They are the snipers of the special forces.

Their task is to deal with the gunmen of the shield car.

The small hole in the shield makes it impossible for ordinary soldiers, but in a sniper's scope, this is the best bullseye.

Even the gunners on the shield car could not survive, and the exposed soldiers were the training targets of the new army.

The accuracy and rate of fire of the flash hat gun have completely exceeded the understanding of the rebels.

Within twenty breaths, the new army fired five rounds of salvos from three rows of trenches, resulting in over [-] casualties for the rebels.

This time, not to mention the people's husband, the generals couldn't bear it, and they all ran back.

In the first wave of the rebel army's attack, the new army did not use artillery, and only relied on barbed wire, muskets, trenches and snipers, and achieved a [-]% victory.

Under the command of the rebel commander, Li Jiucheng, Kong Youde and others looked at each other in dismay.

"Who can tell this handsome, what is that?"

No one could answer Li Jiucheng's question, because they were seeing barbed wire for the first time.

Chen Yongfu, who led the attack, came back looking rather embarrassed.

"Young handsome, they are all handsome, that shit is quite weird. It can't be ripped off, chopped, or knocked apart. Our people are all stuck there."

Needless to say, everyone's eyes saw it.

Kong Youde stared in the direction of the new army with a burning gaze, and muttered to himself.

"What kind of army is this?"

Still no one can answer.

In short, after the first wave of confrontation, everything the new army presented was completely beyond the cognition of the rebels.

They didn't understand anything about the fast, urgent and accurate fire guns, the bizarre blocking fortifications, and the kind of landmines that exploded violently.

Cautious, the rebels did not attack again all afternoon.

In the evening, Chen sometimes came back.

"The cavalry under Zuo Menggeng is the same as the dog skin plaster. When I go there, they follow it there, and they can't find a gap to cross the river."

The intention of outflanking also failed, and the rebels were in trouble for a while.

"Do you have any ideas?"

Li Jiucheng was full of sadness and asked the generals.

But the generals were all silent, and no one could provide him with any good strategies.

In the face of things beyond recognition, people are always instinctively afraid.

However, there is one thing that makes the rebels have nowhere to go.

That is Dengzhou.

The rebels who cannot retake Dengzhou have no choice but to die.

When the mutiny was launched in Wuqiao, why did Kong Youde, Li Jiucheng and others travel all the way to Dengzhou instead of going north to join Houjin?

Because the land route passed, and the Ming Dynasty army hedgehogs gathered, they had only one dead end.

Only by capturing Dengzhou and using the ship of the Dengzhou navy can they have a way out.

Later, the repeated defeats of the official army made Li Jiucheng and others inflated their ambitions. They were no longer satisfied with defecting after Jin, but wanted to divide the territory and become king by themselves.

But in any case, Dengzhou must be held in hand.

Now that the new army is in front of them, and it has shown great strength, how should the rebels break the game?
(End of this chapter)