1109 Artillery Contribution
Li Zicheng quickly issued a series of orders. In addition to the old camp horse team, he divided all the troops into six batches, each batch of about 40,000 people.
The first four batches were all refugees. Their task was to rush forward at any cost! It was enough to cover that the soldiers behind could approach the official army! As long as the soldiers of the rebel army could lean over, they could also see these official army defeated by their numerical advantage!
Li Zicheng also placed the supervision team behind the refugees and asked the supervision team to clearly tell all refugees that after the battle, the proportion of those who survived to enter the old camp increased by 30%! The desperate refugees felt some hope, gritted their teeth, and prepared to charge with red eyes.
This time, it can be regarded as a major move by the rebels! As long as the refugees can go into battle, all men and women are sent out! This is also a move to put pressure on the other party. After all, there are a lot of women in the enemy opposite, and many official soldiers cannot do it! As long as the weapons in their hands slow down, the rebels will have the chance to get close to them!
Such a large team adjustment cannot be hidden from the opponent. Liu Pei easily discovered Li Zicheng's actions and guessed his thoughts. So he immediately ordered: "Pick a few good gunners and specifically attack the supervision team. Use the fastest speed to shoot the refugees' artillery. You must defeat them and not let him get close to us."
The officer understood it. Liu Pei raised his telescope and continued to watch the other party. His original sympathy for Li Zicheng has turned into resentment! Because people like Li Zicheng who only know how to destroy but do not know how to build are really too dangerous for this country!
Soon, Li Zicheng's troops began to move. Although there were tens of thousands of refugees in the first batch, he could not push all tens of thousands of people to the battlefield in one go. He also had to rush up in batches.
The leader of the rebel army commanding the refugees roughly divided the people into three batches, each with a short distance between them. He finally added weapons to the refugees. Even so, only a few refugees who obtained the weapons were. Many people could not even find thicker wooden sticks, so they had to go into battle with bare hands. Perhaps they were also hoping to pick up the weapons of their dead companions to use.
After the attack begins
After a long time, before they entered the range of artillery, the soldiers in the Liu Pei camp's camp quickly reported a series of numbers to the artillery. Although the current smoothbore gun cannot accurately hit a certain position, it can be launched densely at a certain rough position and cover fire.
When the refugees at the front were about to enter the range, the artillery did not wait to fire. Instead, they fired several shells on the open space in front of the refugees. These shells did not expect any damage. Their only purpose was to intimidate the first group of refugees, make them afraid, and thus slow down their pace.
Then the first batch of people will be mixed with the second batch of people, and the number of people will become more dense. Then the shells will have stronger lethality!
Sure enough, when the refugees saw the shells bounce not far from them, the first group of refugees couldn't help but slow down! After all, no one was afraid of being hit by the scorching iron ball! So every time the gun sounded, the refugees would slow down a little.
Soon, the first and second batches of people were mixed together, and the third batch of refugees also approached their companions. These people were mixed together and wriggling forward like an ant colony!
After the artillery commander felt that it was almost done, after repeatedly confirming with the rangefinder, he immediately ordered the artillery to be fired!
The densely placed cannons fired in an instant! At the same time, several artillery were specifically aimed at the team of Du Team to hit them. However, the people in the supervision team were arranged very loosely and could not hit them at all. More of the shelling of their locations, letting them know that I could hit you!
This time, Liu Pei knew that the enemy he was facing was very large, so he brought all the cannons he could bring! There were 120 flying dragon cannons and 40 large-caliber mortars! This is Liu Pei's artillery production in the past year.
At present, Liu Pei's artillery factory is still being expanded, and if you want to achieve the maximum output, you can only wait until the second half of next year. The main reason is that skilled craftsmen are trained very slowly. If Liu Pei had not had unified standards and measurement tools, it would have been trained even slower!
120 cannons fired together, and the momentum was quite majestic! The huge sound of cannons even scared the refugees.
For a pause!
Just as they looked up and looked for the source of the sound, shells rushed over and instantly opened 120 flesh-and-blood alleys from the first group of refugees!
The big cannonballs hit the crowd, bringing up a piece of broken limbs and arms! Blood splattered on the human face and the flesh hit the human body, scaring the uninjured refugees screamed loudly! They squeezed desperately behind the people next to them!
Although the shelling was fierce, it was still a drop in the bucket for such a huge abortion! But this round of artillery did play a role! The refugees around the artillery landing point were obviously panicked, causing the speed of progress to become slower!
As the artillery fired continuously, the shells brought bloody storms among the crowd! Every round of shells landed will cause fear and chaos among the refugees!
You should know that during the Cold Weapon War, an army was injured by more than 20%, and this army was basically about to collapse! Not to mention undisciplined and organized refugees!
When the new batch of shells landed, these refugees finally collapsed! The broken limbs and splashed blood scared these refugees! They ignored the existence of the supervision team and began to flee wildly, trying to escape from here! They even dispersed the supervision team!
But the supervisors did not give up. They tried their best to drive the refugees to escape to both sides. Fortunately, there were many people among the refugees who had been in the battle. In addition, with the supervisors' killing and driving them, the refugees finally retreated with their parents crying for their parents.
After the first group of refugees retreated, two horse teams immediately ran out of the camp of the rebels to intercept them and wanted to collect everyone back. This is a fixed common practice, and the rebels are very skillful.
At this time, the second group of refugees took advantage of the opportunity of the opponent's artillery temporarily pausing and moved forward quickly. Although they advanced for a long distance, the bombardment of the opponent's artillery arrived soon!
Chapter completed!