Chapter 278: 278 Stragglers
Chapter 278 278 Stragglers
“Boom!” Compared with the artillery fire preparations of the Gemelin Kingdom, the artillery fire of the Beiling troops was obviously more intense.
Terrifying artillery fire covered the entire position, with black smoke rising everywhere, steaming craters everywhere, and collapsed trenches everywhere.
The soldiers of the Kingdom of Gemelin thought that the artillery fire they used when attacking the border defense line of the Kingdom of Wright was already the most powerful firepower in the world, but only now do they realize their ignorance.
It turned out that they lacked imagination. The ferocious bombardment in front of them completely subverted their imagination.
Beiling's troops had 30 cannons. These cannons were new types of artillery with higher rates of fire, better accuracy, longer range, and more powerful shells.
Although the Kingdom of Gemelin has a 130mm caliber anti-tank gun, its firing rate of every few minutes and its ridiculous weight make it impossible to provide timely and effective fire support.
Hitting some fixed targets on the border is okay, but once it needs to be accompanied by troops to attack, it becomes complete rubbish.
Now, Beiling's barrel-retracted 105mm caliber breech-loading howitzer is the real king on the battlefield.
“Boom!” Another high-trajectory artillery shell landed almost vertically on the position of the Gemelin troops, raising a cloud of dust and shaking the earth.
The aggrieved Gemelin soldiers could only huddle in the hastily dug trenches, tragically waiting for the enemy to end the shelling.
In fact, their trenches only scratched the surface. They were probably only equivalent to digging trenches on the ground, and the protection effect was almost zero.
However, they have obviously learned a lot compared to when they launched the attack in the border areas. At least, they would no longer crowd together and form a square formation to confront the enemy head-on on the plains.
It is a pity that the Beiling troops on the opposite side did not seem to intend to use traditional tactics to fight them. After a round of intensive artillery preparations, the Beiling infantry began to attack.
Following a harsh, heart-stopping whistle, orders were shouted one after another from the position: "Attack!" "Attack!"
All the soldiers of the Gemelin Kingdom are waiting, waiting to use the techniques they have just learned to crawl and shoot in the trenches to give the soldiers of the Wright Kingdom on the opposite side a head-on blow.
What they were waiting for was a shocking sight: the Beiling troops on the opposite side did not form a square formation to attack at all, but dispersed their formation as soon as they came up, like a group of stragglers.
However, these **** stragglers...are indeed not that easy to target. They were divided into small groups, covering each other, some firing from behind temporary bunkers, and some bending down to attack, without any so-called courage in sight.
Finally, he aimed at a target, but the target quickly ignored his appearance and lay down in the dirty dirt, never to be seen again.
"Damn, what kind of attack is this?" A veteran of the Gemelin Kingdom finally fired a shot, but missed the target and complained angrily.
The opponent has obviously been trained in this area. They are running an S-shaped route with no rules at all. In most cases, they are simply crawling on the ground.
Soon, many soldiers on the defense line of the Gemelin Kingdom also understood the opponent's tactics. A soldier, dumbfounded, asked his companions: "Are they all crawling on the ground?"
"Damn...we can't even see them!" Another soldier fired a hasty shot, retreated into the position, and reloaded his rifle while cursing.
Loading needle guns is actually very troublesome, after all, they have to clean the barrel. This weapon actually has obvious shortcomings, it's just that it's much more advanced than a flintlock gun.
These poor Gemelin soldiers have never fought such a strange battle, and they have no experience in dealing with the situation at hand.
Some smart people realized at this time that the original way to deal with the trench system attack was to disperse the attack like the enemy in front of them...
It is a pity that they have no way to experiment with this kind of thing in reverse, because they must first repel the enemy in front of them.
"Over there!" A sharp-eyed soldier from the Gemelin Kingdom shouted excitedly when he saw the enemy army leaping up and rushing forward two steps in the distance.
When he and the soldiers around him moved their guns and pointed them at the target over there, the enemy soldiers who jumped up fell to the ground again, and then they were no longer visible.
“It’s rising over there again!” On the other side, the soldiers of the Gemelin Kingdom in the trench shouted again.
With his shouts, the Beiling soldiers who had hunched over and rushed nearby fell down again, leaving no trace.
In front of the position are craters made by some artillery shells. As long as these soldiers rush into these natural bunkers, the opponent will no longer be able to deal with them.
The Beiling soldiers in the crater very skillfully poked their heads out from the edge of the crater and looked at the enemy trenches that were already close at hand. "Mount the bayonet! Prepare for hand-to-hand combat!" In the enemy trench not far away, the Gemelin officers had already begun to give orders to prepare for hand-to-hand combat. Their orders were crystal clear, crystal clear.
"Visually estimated to be about 24 meters! Within the coverage range!" The Beiling soldier who retracted looked at his comrades on standby behind him. While expressing his judgment, he made a fist gesture and raised his thumb. , swung forward suddenly.
All the soldiers nodded in unison, and then they took out the wooden handle grenade from their waists, unscrewed the safety cover, pulled out the fuse inside, and gave each other a look.
When everyone was ready, they pulled the fuse fiercely together, then sprinted forward and threw the iron lumps in their hands.
In the horrified eyes of the Gremelin soldiers, a small black dot suddenly flew in front of them, and then these small black dots grew larger in their sight... and fell to the ground.
They lowered their heads and saw an iron lump with a wooden handle hitting their feet, with light smoke floating at the end.
Before they could react, these iron lumps exploded, instantly engulfing everything nearby in the trench.
The huge explosion continued in the trench in darkness, and smoke pillars rose into the sky one after another from the left and right of the trench.
The ground seemed to be shaking, and the soldiers in the trenches were staggered by the brutal shock wave. They had just been preparing for a hand-to-hand battle, but the enemy used a completely new tactic that was completely unreasonable and kicked off the offensive and defensive battle.
The Gemelin soldiers, who were suppressed by a burst of grenades, were dizzy at this moment. They didn't know why, but the enemy's artillery fire suddenly became ten times more violent.
The huge explosions were all concentrated near the trenches, and some grenades that happened to be thrown into the trenches caused huge casualties to these Gemelin soldiers in an instant.
The soldiers who were knocked to the ground by the explosion saw a figure jumping into the trench where they were before they had time to get up.
Immediately afterwards, they heard intensive gunfire—the opponent's troops were equipped with a large number of revolvers, which were much easier to use than lever rifles in small trenches.
Of course, this does not mean that the Northridge troops are not equipped with lever rifles. On the contrary, the squad commanders of the Northridge troops all use lever rifles.
The intensive firepower instantly overwhelmed Gemelin's troops. They originally thought they were the most powerful troops in the world, but now they knew they were wrong.
The opponent's firepower was so intensive that the Gemelin soldiers were knocked down by the oncoming bullets before they could even raise their hands.
In fact, the average Northridge soldier equipped with a KAR98, a K3 rifle, is not much slower than a lever rifle in terms of rate of fire.
They use metal fixed-loading ammunition, which is much better at continuous fire than a large number of ordinary Gemelin soldiers equipped with needle guns.
“Bang!” The Northridge soldier holding a rifle knocked over an enemy soldier who was rushing towards him with one shot in the trench, then flashed his bright bayonet and knocked another soldier to the ground.
Then, he pulled out a grenade stuck in his belt, fired it and threw it. Three Gemelin soldiers with bayonets rushed over from the other side of the trench. As a result, the grenades that rolled to their feet exploded, and the flames instantly engulfed the three poor men.
After the gap was created, the follow-up troops of the Beiling Army began to fill the gap with all their strength. These rigorously trained Northridge soldiers attacked both flanks along the trenches, expanding their results.
With the help of grenades and lever rifles, trench clearing work was faster than imagined. The troops of the Gemelin Kingdom quickly collapsed, and sections of positions were quickly occupied by the Northridge troops.
The trench defense line that blocked the Gemelin troops for several days was not even able to hold on for an hour before it was breached by the Northridge troops.
Once the defense line was breached and the two sides fell into a melee, the combat prowess of the Beiling troops was immediately more clearly displayed.
Beiling troops, who seemed to be better at inserting small groups of troops, basically used squads or platoons as combat units, quickly expanded their results, and penetrated into the rear of the Gemelin Kingdom's defense line.
Those villages that were used as command points, or ammunition storage locations, or makeshift camps were all attacked at the same time.
The entire battlefield was in chaos, with defeated Gemelin soldiers everywhere. There were more than 3,000 people in the two legions. Only less than 500 were wiped out on the battlefield, and the rest became defeated troops and were wiped out in the fleeing and routed troops. On the road.
The command has failed. The commanders of the Gemelin Kingdom didn’t even know what was going on. They heard the news of the defeat on their own side.
Then, the rout across the entire front began.
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There is a supplementary update today, which will be delivered later, probably after 12 o'clock.
(End of this chapter)