Chapter 402: Fighting Tianjia Town Again (Part 2)
The Wu army was puddles of rain for a long time. The most typical time was on the battlefield of Songjiang. When the Wu army in Shanghai was fighting with the Taiping Army, it suddenly rained heavily, wet the paper-shell bullets of the Wu army's main battle rifle firing gun, resulting in the defeat of the Wu army. Not only was the Taiping Army raided all over the ground, but it also paid the life of Yiliang, the governor of Liangjiang at that time.
Later, on the battlefields of Yunnan, Guizhou, Henan and Sichuan, the Wu army was also troubled by rain many times. They were either forced to postpone the war plan, give the enemy or a chance to escape, or were forced to retreat and escape by the enemy taking the opportunity to counterattack. Today, it was finally Wu Chaoyue's turn to be full of evil deeds!
The sudden rainfall started to not be heavy, and even the clothes were difficult to wet. However, as time passed, the drizzle gradually turned into continuous rain, gradually soaking the clothes, shoes and socks of the soldiers on both sides of the war, and gradually wet the flint gunpowder of the muskets on both sides, soaking the paper shells of Wu Jun's bullets, causing the gunshots on the battlefield to gradually drop and the firepower density to drop rapidly.
In response to this, the Qing and Russian coalition forces, which were overwhelmed by the Wu army's high-fire firing needle gun, were of course cheering and loudly thanking Jesus Christ and the Buddha of the Three Pure Land for their blessings. The powerful Wu soldiers all cursed and hated this inappropriate rain.
"Ula! God bless me, my luck is so good!"
The person who cheered the most was of course Alepov, the Russian commander who had been helpless in taking the Wu army's position. Then Alepov did not rush to launch an attack, but asked the Qing soldiers to seize the time to build more bridges. At the same time, he withdrew the two companies that had been fighting before, let them take a break and serve as reserve teams, and then sent the other two combat companies to the battlefield and attack the Wu army's position defense line again.
Amid the loud military singing, two Russian soldiers in the company carried sharp bayonets and lined up in four rows of densely straits. It was not until they were about to enter the range of the Wu army's grenade launcher that the Russian soldiers suddenly dispersed and pulled each other far away, and gradually began to charge in the popular strait formation on the Western battlefield.
During this period, the Wu army's grenade launcher was firing desperately, smashing bitter sour shells that were not afraid of water at the enemy group. However, the effect was not very effective. It was difficult to kill and kill the loose-formed Russian soldiers, nor could it stop the charge of the Russian soldiers. It was only after the Russian soldiers entered the throwing range of the grenade bombs that the Wu army soldiers killed the enemy in large quantities with the densely dropped grenade bombs, but they still couldn't defeat the enemy's charge. The tough and tenacious Russians continued to step across the bridge and rushed to the wall of the Wu army's sheep and horse.
"Kill all the yellow-skinned monkeys!"
Amid the unpleasant roar, the first Russian soldier jumped onto the wall of sheep and horses. Although he was immediately stabbed by Wu soldiers with bayonets, more Russian soldiers still rushed to jump onto the wall of Wu soldiers with chest-high breasts. Seeing this scene in the telescope, Alepov's face also showed a smug smile on his curly yellow hair, and blurted out: "Win!"
"Win!"
The Russian soldiers on the front line also thought so, because they had just rushed to the wall of sheep and horses, and the Wu soldiers under the wall of sheep and horses had already fled, scrambling to escape in the left and right directions, and almost without any obstruction, leaving the Russian soldiers out of the way to enter the camp. Seeing this, the Russian soldiers were of course even more proud and yelled, "The yellow-skinned monkey is afraid of fighting for bayonets! Young men, follow me!"
Cheering, the Russian soldiers rushed into the Wu army camp and seized the positions within the Wu army camp. The Russian soldiers behind them also shouted that they rushed faster than the other. In less than a long time, the Russian company that was fighting the vanguard had all rushed into the Wu army camp, and many Qing soldiers rushed in.
It was also at this time that the Russian soldiers realized that something was wrong. The Wu soldiers who had voluntarily abandoned the Sheep and Horse Wall defense line did not escape far away. After retreating to the left and right, they lined up again, picked up bayonets to prepare for battle. At the same time, a Wu soldiers with unique clothing and equipment suddenly appeared in front of them.
The situation seemed to be a little wrong and it didn't matter much. The Russian soldiers, who were very confident in bayonet fighting, relied on their own physical advantages to adjust their formation slightly, shouted and launched a charge directly, holding the bayonet to attack the Wu army soldiers who suddenly appeared on the opposite side.
Russian veteran Kappenov rushed to the front with a bayonet, roaring the most vigorously. Although the storm was heavy, it still could not cover up his roar like a bear. However, after a few roars, Kappenov suddenly laughed out loud, because he clearly saw that the Wu army opposite actually lined up the shooting formations of squatting forward and back standing in the heavy rain, and raised his rifle to aim.
"Yellow-skinned monkey, are you fools? The rain is so heavy, can your rifle be fired?"
"Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang!"
Kappenov's crazy laughter was interrupted by the sudden burst of gunfire. In the continuous gunfire, Kappenov saw incredible that all the gunfires of Wu soldiers were spewing flames and smoke. Kappenov's lower abdomen and thighs were hit by two bullets one after another as if they were hit by heavy hammers. As blood splattered, Kappenov blurted out and screamed: "How is that possible?"
Kappenov couldn't believe that his eyes were still behind. After one round of shooting, the Wu army soldier on the opposite side did not do any loading. He pulled the trigger again and fired another wave of bullets. This time, a sinful bullet hit Kappenov's throat, which made Kappenov fall directly on his back, and blood and mucus gushed between his neck, helpless rescue.
"Am I dreaming? Can I shoot in heavy rain or shoot continuously without loading? There are such rifles in the world? The yellow-skinned monkey has such a good rifle?" This was the last thought in Kappenov's life, full of countless puzzled questions.
The poor Russian veteran Kappenov was just puzzled, but his even more pitiful companion was completely scared. In the storm, the strange rifles in the hands of Wu soldiers seemed to have no need to load bullets. They fired bullets one after another, and fired five or six bullets in succession without stopping. The Russian soldiers who were charging with bayonets were overturned, with casualties and injuries. Almost a large area of them lay down in the blink of an eye.
He had already shot seven or eight times, but the strange rifles in the hands of the Wu army soldiers were still pouring bullets. Russian soldiers who had never seen such a terrifying rifle were all scattered and screamed, "Devil! The devil's rifle! The rifle used by the yellow monkey was invented by the devil. You can shoot continuously without loading bullets!"
At the same time, after hearing the sudden and dense gunfire sounds in the Wu army camp again, Russian commander Alepov was also a little surprised at one time, not understanding why the Wu army could shoot in the rain. Then Alepov suddenly woke up again and thought that the Wu army soldiers were hiding in the tent of the house and firing. He also said with a smile: "The progress is good, and you will hit the tent of the yellow-skinned monkey so quickly. Let's set fire and turn the yellow-skinned monkey into a roasted pig."
The imagined flame did not rise in the Wu army camp. On the contrary, Alepov soon saw that his brave and fearless subordinates began to flee backwards. Not only were the soldiers who were climbing over the sheep and horse wall turning around and fleeing, but even the soldiers who had already rushed into the Wu army camp jumped on the sheep and horse wall again and escaped from the Wu army camp, panicking like a devil beast chasing behind.
Seeing this scene, Alepov, who was confused, immediately sent someone to find out the situation, but the messenger brought back an answer that made Alepov even more stunned. "Major, the Qing rebels suddenly used a devil rifle, which was not afraid of rain, and could still fire continuously. The bullets seemed to be unable to be completed. Our soldiers could not resist and could only retreat!"
"The devil's rifle? Not afraid of rain? Can it still be fired continuously?"
Alevov suspected that he had heard it wrong, and even more so that he was dreaming. Fortunately, Alevov soon knew whether his soldiers were lying. The Wu army soldier holding a strange rifle jumped onto the wall of sheep and horses and shot, and shot the fleeing Russian soldiers like a name, and they were really firing directly in the rain! It was really like there was no end to bullets!
"My God! There is such a devil rifle!" Alepov screamed at the top of his lungs, and he almost yelled without thinking, "Retreat! Retreat immediately! We can't beat such a devil rifle!"
After this battle, the Henry Pearl Spear equipped by the Wu army soldiers added a loud name to the Russian team - the Devil Rifle! The Qing army called the Henry Pearl Spear in horror - the Wu thief ghost spear!
Of course, the Qing and Russian coalition forces paid a heavy price to help Henry become famous in one fell swoop. Under the pursuit of Wu Chaoyue's personal barracks, the Russian team threw down more than 500 bodies before fleeing to the bank of the Yangtze River to obtain protection of naval artillery. All eight field artillery pieces of the artillery company were seized by the Wu army, and more than half of the Qing army were killed, dozens of people surrendered and captured, while the casualties of Wu Chaoyue's personal barracks were - zero!
The land defeat also affected the water battlefield. After receiving the news of the disastrous defeat of the mainland division, the shocked Russian commander Novosiliski did not dare to continue the attack and chose to retreat and reorganize the army. The Qing navy suffered heavy casualties but was futile. Wu Quanmei roared angrily, but he was helpless.
After the defeat, the Qing and Russian joint fleet took two days to collect intelligence to find out the truth about the disastrous defeat in Xin'an Temple. It was caused by Wu Chaoyue's personal military battalion. Unfortunately, the specific situation of the strange rifle used by Wu Chaoyue's personal military battalion was that the Wu army had excellent confidentiality work and did not know much useful information because the Wu army had excellent secrets and did not collect much useful information. The Qing and Russian coalition only knew that there were not many such rifles in the Wu army, and that this rifle might have come from Daye.
Faced with such a situation, Wen Xiang, the imperial envoy sent by the Qing court, was of course worried that the Russians would choose to withdraw their troops, which led to the futility of this expedition. However, what surprised Wen Xiang was that after a careful discussion with several staff members for a long time, Novosiliski actually found him and demanded to launch another attack, directly breaking through the Tianjia Town defense line of the Wu army with force.
"Mr. Novosiliski, aren't you afraid of that kind of Wu thief ghost gun?" Wen Xiang asked in surprise.
"Mr. Wenxiang, are you an idiot?" Novosiliski said angrily: "Although the devil rifles used by your Qing rebels are powerful, can that kind of rifle threaten our warships? Can the rebel soldiers using devil rifles block a shell from our fleet?"
"That's, that's it." Wen Xiang quickly complimented and said, "Novosiliski is right. No matter how powerful Wu Zhe ghost gun is, it cannot stop a shell from the steamship."
"Continue the attack." Novosiliski said coldly: "First destroy the main force of the rebel naval division, then destroy the rebel's industrial base, and seize the rebel's production equipment."
Wen Xiang quickly nodded and bowed his promise again, but Novosiliski said again: "Remember, all the rebel devil rifles seized on the battlefield must be handed over to us!"
The key reason why Novosiliski had the courage to continue attacking was of course that the Qing and Russian joint fleet still had absolute advantages on the water surface and could directly break through the Tianjia Town defense line of the Wu army without fighting land. This is true. When the Qing and Russian coalition learned lessons, they no longer took advantage of the situation and chose to break through the water route, the Tianjia Town defense line of the Wu army was no longer able to withstand it. Not only was the firepower of the artillery baton severely suppressed by the dense firepower of the Qing and Russian coalition forces, but as many as ten iron chain defense lines were gradually broken through one by one by the enemy, gradually showing signs of defeat.
Although the tactics of the Qing and Russian joint fleet only break through the water surface were correct and effective, the side effects were expensive. In the fierce battle again, more than 30 single Qing army ships were sunk or mines destroyed by the Wu army's fortress, and more than 1,100 soldiers were killed and missing. Although the Russian fleet shamelessly continued to watch the fire from the other side of the river, it was not until more than half of the Wu army's fortress was destroyed by the Qing army's navy before it joined the war. However, the Russian generals such as Novosiliski immediately discovered that the Wu army in Tianjia Town actually retained one hand, specifically used to entertain their fleet!
"Rocket! Let it go!"
Amid the roar, more than three hundred improved Congrif rockets flew out, and rushed to the river, landing on the head of the Tsarist Russian fleet, blew up the side of the ship, ignited the sails, and fell on the deck and exploded. The shrapnel flew across the river, and the Russian sailors caught off guard were killed and injured, and the screams rang out in the sky.
"Good fight! The dog-good Rakshasa foreign devils!"
"Fight! Fight! Fight to death! Kill all these Rakshasa foreign devils!"
"Brothers from Hubei, come on, fight to the death! Avenge us!"
Such a voice sounded in the Qing army's naval army, and many soldiers from the Qing army's naval army roared directly. However, the Qing army generals, including the Qing army's naval chief Wu Quanmei, pretended not to hear it. Looking at the Wu army's rocket position that was still being launched, Wu Quanmei's eyes actually contained a hint of gratitude and said intimidatingly: "After all, they are our own people, and they didn't attack us."
Chapter completed!