Steel Dynasty - Chapter 881

[Chapter 879 Flat push]

“Shoot, shoot!”

Yao Hongtao shouted hoarsely from the city wall. The parliamentary soldiers pointed their flintlock rifles at the trench and kept shooting. However, the helpless accuracy of the smoothbore flintlock gun made it difficult for them to suppress the use in the trench. Royal soldier with breech-loading rifle.

The parliamentary soldiers on the city walls continued to fall in pools of blood, but the soldiers below the city suffered few casualties.

But this was just the beginning. During the shooting of the royal soldiers, cannonballs rose from the trenches and fell on the city wall in a parabolic shape.

These shells are mainly divided into two types. One type explodes directly when it falls on the ground, while the other type turns into white powder smoke.

Regardless of the type of shell, it caused a large number of casualties to the parliamentary soldiers on the city wall. Under the fierce firepower, the soldiers were suppressed and could not raise their heads at all.

At the same time, the artillery of the Royal Army began to fire back at the artillery on the city gate. In just a short time, more than a dozen artillery pieces on the east wall were destroyed by the exploding shells of the Royal Army.

Yao Hongtao commanded in a panic, and now he had lost his composure.

Outside the city, Lu Fei looked at the effect of the attack with satisfaction. They could only use artillery to bomb the opposite city wall indiscriminately until all the walls and gates were destroyed.

“Today’s war is still a war of artillery.” Lu Fei sighed with emotion.

Guo Ming said: “Even so, if the opponent has a rifle with the same range, our artillery will be in danger.”

Lu Fei nodded, and he looked at the soldiers who were shooting in the trench.

Today’s soldiers no longer need to use complicated procedures to load ammunition. They only need to take out a paper-cased bullet from the armed belt on their body, insert it into the breech, and then close the shot.

Moreover, their movements do not have to remain rigid as before. They can flexibly dodge and shoot in the trenches with their rifles.

Although the suppression of artillery turned Songzhou City into a sea of fire, it was the rifles that killed the most soldiers.

“Hey, this Falcon rifle is really powerful. This is the sixth one.” Lu Fei, a soldier, couldn’t help shouting excitedly as he walked by.

The companion beside him was also surprised and said: “I am already the fifth one, and I will catch up with you soon.”

After that, he raised his rifle and aimed at an exposed parliament soldier on the city wall.

Pulling the trigger, the soldier fell down with a gunshot.

Lu Fei smiled and said loudly: “That’s right, boys, if you don’t want to spend the night in the trenches tonight, just capture Songjiang City.”

The two of them didn’t notice Lu Fei’s arrival at all. After realizing that it was their commander, they The two immediately performed a military salute, shouted “Yes.”, and

continued to walk through the trench. Lu Fei and Guo Ming arrived at a slightly spacious place in the trench, where the mortar soldiers were constantly firing towards the city gate. shooting.

The flames mixed with white lime powder on the city wall look like an ink painting, but behind the coquettish beauty are the blown-off limbs and blood donations of parliamentary soldiers.

Just when the two were about to stop and rest, there was a sudden “whoosh” sound, and a black solid bullet hit the soil above the two heads.

Dust splashed, and Lu Fei and Guo Ming were covered with dust.

“These bastards!” Lu Fei scolded, and he said to the mortar soldiers: “Hit them hard and don’t be afraid of wasting shells. If we capture Jiangnan, we will have money!”

“Yes, general.” The soldiers responded. Said, they stuffed the shell into the mortar, adjusted the angle, and a shell went towards the artillery that had just been fired.

Unlike direct-fire cannons, the parabolic firing characteristics of mortar cannons allow the shells to bypass obstacles and attack the soldiers behind them. With a violent explosion, several soldiers immediately flew away from the city, and even the clothes on the soldiers were torn to pieces by the shock wave. .

Lu Fei looked at this scene with twinkling eyes.

In fact, for the generals in the army, this war is a unification war from north to south. After all, the royal influence in Jiangnan is already very weak.

Whether it was the rise of the King of Chu or the merchant council, the fundamental intention was that the people only knew the vassal king but not the royal family.

Faced with this situation, they could only unify by force. Both the merchant council and the wealthy families were in the minority, and most of the people still wanted to live a good life.

At the same time as the war was going on, the secret guard’s propaganda team had entered Jiangnan, and they would describe the current prosperous scene in the north to the people.

“What do these businessmen want? Aren’t businessmen very free in Qingzhou? What else do they want!” Guo Ming said with some emotion.

“Rights!” Lu Fei looked at Songjiang City, “Everything he is doing now is just for his own selfish interests. For this reason, he will not hesitate to sell his interests to Western countries. If his conspiracy is really realized, Jiangnan will be completely reduced to A colony of a Western country.”

Guo Ming nodded, “Jiangnan belongs to the Chongqing Kingdom, and no one can take it away.”

As the two were talking, there was a sudden “bang” and the front wall collapsed under the fierce attack of artillery. .

Gray smoke and dust accompanied the collapsed city walls, obscuring the entire battlefield.

Lu Fei cheered up and said, “Blow the horn.”

As soon as his voice fell, the melodious charge horn sounded.

The soldiers in the trench climbed out of the trench one after another and shouted: “Charge!”

Suddenly, dense soldiers rushed towards the collapsed city wall in a skirmish line.

Under the fierce firepower of the Huben Army, the parliamentary army had long been beaten and unable to find its way north. Now, the high-pitched charging sound was like the voice of the devil, causing many soldiers to collapse.

Yao Hongtao’s body was covered with dust, and his forehead was bleeding from being hit by gravel, but he could no longer care about so much. Looking at the royal soldiers pouring into the city, he shouted: “Formation, formation!”

On the city wall There were also prepared parliamentary soldiers below. They quickly rushed to the collapsed city wall, stood in three rows behind the city wall, and pointed their flintlock guns at the gap.

When the Huben soldiers saw this scene, they immediately crawled down among the debris of the collapsed city wall, raised their rifles, and fired fiercely at the densely formed parliamentary army.

Because of sufficient accuracy, the Tiger Soldiers holding Falcon rifles could achieve the effect of a dense formation even if they did not form a dense formation, but the Parliamentary Army obviously did not expect this.

They waited for the royal soldiers to rush over, but they were greeted only by bullets.

In an instant, the densely formed parliament soldiers were shot by the tiger soldiers and fell down one after another. Finally, in hysteria, they completely collapsed.

There was a trace of despair in Yao Hongtao’s eyes. Now he finally understood the gap between the two armies. From the beginning, they were destined to lose.

Looking at the royal soldiers pouring into the city, Yao Hongtao smiled miserably. In his eyes, the bullets fired by the royal soldiers seemed to have eyes, and the fleeing soldiers were slaughtered like lambs.

He understood that Songjiang City was lost.

(End of chapter)