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Volume 2 A Different Village Chief Chapter 741 Heavy Rain

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    At this time, the movement of the bandits was even greater. Both the opposite platform and the platform were full of people. Looking at the flags and armor, it was not just the bandits from the right camp who originally attacked the south end, but also red and yellow flags.  , there are even white flags, black flags, and soldiers wearing blue armor.  There are more and more vehicles being pushed off the road on the opposite slopes, and you can see the dark traffic flow. There are still more people gathering on the plateau. The manpower advantage of the thieves can be said to be brought to the extreme.  Accompanying the vehicle were artillery pieces. A rough estimate was that there were 70 general cannons pushing down the slope, and about 150 small and medium-sized Folang machine cannons.  People are shouting, and there are more and more bandits in the ditch. Looking at the number of people they have arranged in the ditch, and the location where the military formations are assembled, it is clear that the direction of attack is No. 11 to No. 18 at the southern end of Yuanwang ditch. The main  They are No. 14, No. 15, No. 16, and No. 17, because these four lines of defense are almost connected together.  Of course, they did not give up the attack elsewhere in Yuanwanggou. Although it was a feint attack, if they relaxed their vigilance and were caught off guard, the feint attack might turn into a main attack.  Looking at the ferocious bandits coming with all their elites, the sound of trumpets and trumpets also sounded here on the plateau, and many soldiers from the new army camp also descended from the plateau to the slope. They were all wearing red armor, and smoke and dust rose up when they descended from the plateau.  A red tide.  The ravine at the southern end of Yuanwang Valley has a gentle drop, the bottom of the ditch is wide, and the slope to the plateau is also relatively gentle. Especially the first cliff, most of which just stand up from the flat ground, and the terrain is not dangerous, so the low walls here are densely stacked and common.  There are seven or eight lines of defense.  In the middle, the first and second low walls are the widest and have the most defensive troops. Originally, each defense line was defended by three New Army battalions, with a total of about 600 people, but now this number has increased to 1,000.  Moreover, the last few low-wall defense lines are ready to support, and there are many reserve troops on the plateau.  The rockets that had to be used sparingly were brought in piles and piles against the enemy.  At about midnight, the army formation of the bandits was ready, with dense vehicles and flags standing there.  Judging from their overwhelming crowds, the number of troops facing the No. 14, No. 15, No. 16, and No. 17 lines of defense was probably over 20,000, and their level of eliteness was unmatched before.  Suddenly the trumpets and drums sounded on the plateau, and all the bandits shouted together. Then, using earthen vehicles as cover, they pressed towards the low wall defense line layer by layer. As they walked, they were densely packed with human heads.  "Follow them all." Old Hu roared and ordered his men to drive the hungry people forward.  This time, Li Chuang had high expectations for attacking the southern end of Yuanwang Valley, so he concentrated many elite battalions. The mountain patrol battalion currently has 5,000 troops. This time, 1,000 elite troops were dispatched for this attack, with half of them being archers and cold weapons.  However, because Yang Shaofan's gun battalion participated in the battle, he did not bring out the two hundred gun soldiers in his camp. He only brought a group of bird gun soldiers to protect them. Each of them still had some rockets distributed by the old battalion.  At this time, they were moving forward under the cover of earthen carts. Each team of one hundred people had ten carts. About ten teams of people constituted one hundred earthen carts. Three people pushed each cart, which was three hundred hungry people.  If these hungry people are included, the number of people attacking the mountain patrol camp this time was 1,300.  Both sides of the mountain patrol camp are also full of such vehicles. Looking up, the ditch is filled with layers of vehicles and heads.  Old Hu looked in front and behind. In front of and behind him was a sea of ??blue armor, with layers of white flags and black flags floating in the air.  That was the flag of artillery and musketry. Both of them enjoyed the treatment of the old camp in the camp. At this time, even the earth-moving vehicles covering them were different.  Lao Hu's vehicle was a wheelbarrow, with just a few thick earth baskets mounted on it. However, the vehicles of these artillerymen and artillerymen were two-wheeled, stable and sturdy.  The earth bag can effectively prevent the cannons from coming and breaking the legs of everyone behind.  And this time, not only the artillery, but also the musket battalion came out in full force. It can be said that everyone who broke into the camp spent a lot of money.  However, only 3,000 musketry soldiers will press forward at that time, and 2,000 musketry soldiers will stay behind to guard the artillery.  Behind the infantry and gun soldiers were a large number of hungry people, each carrying earth bags, or every two people carrying a short ladder or wooden plank. When they came, they swarmed up, and countless short ladders and planks were erected layer by layer.  However, there is only one protective truck for every twenty or thirty of them, so no one will care about their lives when they break into the camp.  At the very end of the car formation are the three thousand veteran soldiers who supervise the formation. They are all sharp-edged and heavy-handed. In addition to supervising the battle, they are also prepared to make surprise attacks at critical moments.  "Move forward!" Old Hu shouted and urged. Although the bottom of the ditch was wide, it was not flat. Sometimes it was bumpy and difficult to push the cart, so the soldiers under his command whipped the hungry people hard, forcing them to use force and speed up their pace.  "Situations like the mountain patrol camp are common in every camp. Under their urging, the crowds of people are like a sea, and the dense formation of vehicles is only pushing forward.  Being in such a vast battlefield?There were densely packed heads all around, and there were all kinds of flags on the front, back, left and right. Many people could only be numbly crowded forward which inevitably made many people desire to overlook the earth and have the commanding heights of the battlefield.  In such a wide battlefield, the generals naturally cannot command every unit in detail. They can only make rough arrangements. For this attack on the camp, General General Fo Lang basically arranged for the machine gun to bombard one mile or so, and then the Fo Lang 200 paces.  The aircraft was bombarded by small and medium-sized artillery.  When approaching a hundred steps, rockets will be fired, bows and arrows will be thrown from one hundred to seventy steps, and fire blunderbuss will be bombarded from seventy to fifty steps.  Finally, the infantry rushed forward, with bows, arrows and firearms either projecting or direct fire to provide cover and support.  Seeing the right moment, the old camp suddenly came forward.  Even so, the specific situation depends on the command ability of the generals on the spot.  When the car formation was almost a mile away from the defense line, white smoke burst from the top of the opposite plateau, and the sound of artillery rolled in like thunder. Then, a shrill roar was heard, and the artillery shells, with traces of gunpowder smoke, landed heavily at the bottom of the ditch.  In the car formation.  Although the artillery can hit the plateau at this angle, the falling parabola is very high, and the dust stirred up is even more billowing.  However, there are very few ricochet caused by artillery shells. As long as you are not hit on the spot, there is generally no life-threatening concern.  But as the car array moved forward, ricochet bombs began to form. With a loud "bang", a several-kilogram cannon landed not far in front of Lao Hu's car.  After the plume of smoke and dust, it bounced up again and hit the earth basket on the right side of the earth truck hard.  A large amount of soil splashed, and the heavy force almost caused the entire dirt cart to topple, frightening the hungry people pushing the cart and Lao Hu and others behind him.  After walking for more than ten steps, another artillery shell whizzed over, accompanied by the ear-piercing sound of bones shattering. A hungry man pushing a cart not far to the right was hit by the artillery shell on the spot, and then he saw the remains of his body and pieces of meat were left on the ground.  The hungry people have no shape.  The remaining two hungry people in the cart had beads of sweat on their faces. The panic in one of them's eyes reached the extreme. Suddenly he screamed hysterically, dropped the cart, turned around and ran away. Then he was mercilessly chopped down to the ground by the archers from behind.  .  "Those who retreat will die!" Lao Hu roared, and he took a long breath. He saw that Bajiao around him was constantly wiping away cold sweat, and only Kong San looked calmer.  Although the anti-gunnery effect of the earth-moving vehicle is good, it does not mean that it will not cause casualties.  Of course, it was much better than before. Therefore, although the artillery came like rain on the plateau, the car formations that broke into the camp were still approaching closely. Unlike before, they were defeated many times by the artillery alone.  The artillery camp in front stopped after approaching for a mile, and then orders and urgings were heard everywhere. A large number of hungry people came from the rear carrying earthen bags and earthen baskets. They built seventy high, thick, wide, and deep bases there.  The earthen platform sandwiched the seventy General Fo Lang machine cannons. ????????????? Then shortly after, there was a sound of artillery, and a cannonball whizzed past, hitting the soil in front of the short wall and cliff, stirring up a large plume of smoke, but it was their artillery battalion testing the cannon.  "Obviously the shell was quite far from hitting its target, but then they fired three more times, and the last time the dust on the low wall was flying, it was obvious that it had hit, and then the gun stopped.  Old Hu stretched his neck and looked over there. He was waiting for the artillery battalion to fire, and he didn't know whether he was expecting it or not.  I don¡¯t know how long I waited, but suddenly there seemed to be lightning and thunder in front of me, deafening bursts of artillery fire, and large plumes of thick smoke were seen rising, covering that side¡¯s position. ??????? Lao Hu had a feeling of trembling with fear. He had seen the power of the Hongyi cannon in the Songshan battle, but he did not expect that the Folan cannon could be so ferocious. ?????????? And there is one thing that the Folan cannon cannot compare to the Hongyi cannon, and that is that it fires very fast and can take a long time to dissipate heat.  A skilled Franco gunner can fire one shot in twenty seconds. Since it is a loaded gun, he can fire at least ten or twenty shots before dissipating the heat. The seventy General Franco gunners in front fire at the same time, which can really rain down bullets.  Describe it.  Just listen to the explosion of artillery like fried beans, iron bullets pouring towards the low wall like a heavy rain, thick smoke keeps rising from the front, and the smoke fills the rear.  Old Hu's nose was filled with the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke, and the thunderous sound of cannons made his ears ring.  In the white smoke, the situation on the other side of the low wall was also vaguely visible. The smoke and dust dropped by the shells there had been stirred up, and there seemed to be blood mist in the flying dust.  The sound of cannons came one after another, and the storm-like cannonballs only went in that direction. The artillery on the plateau also kept stopping. Amidst the shrill whistling sounds, the same rain-like cannonballs poured down, and they were faster.  The current situation is that you hit yours and I hit mine. It seems that there were a lot of artillery on the plateau to bombard the camp-breaking artillery array, but because of the tight protection of the earth platform, the sound of their artillery did not weaken.  But it didn't seem to be ineffective. Lao Hu was surprised to see that after a loud bang,The people and cannons from the forts everywhere flew into the sky, and earthen bags and baskets flew all over the sky.  I don¡¯t know how long the artillery battle between the two sides had passed. When the sound of artillery fire from the front finally stopped, Lao Hu felt a buzzing in his ears.  Their vehicle array continued to move forward, but when they were about 200 steps away from the low wall defense line, the entire array stopped again, and then a large number of hungry people came forward, carrying earth bags and earth baskets, and built a hundred and fifty slightly smaller ones than before.  The slightly shorter earth platform sandwiched the 150 small and medium-sized cannons of the Folang machine.  Not long after, there was another violent bombardment. Lao Hu saw the smoke and dust rising from that side. He didn't know how many cannonballs fell on the front, back and middle of the low walls. He didn't know how the defenders inside could  Can't survive.  ??Bajiao stared blankly, he just opened his mouth wide, while Kong San gritted his teeth, looking ahead, with deep hatred in his eyes.  After an unknown amount of time, Lao Hu saw that the solid earth wall had been blown down in many places, and the shape was miserable.  After a long time, the sound of cannons stopped, and he breathed a heavy sigh.  ¡­ After the artillery bombardment stopped, trumpets and drums were heard from the rear, and the caravan formation in the ditch moved forward again, and soon they were approaching a hundred paces.  The defense line opposite the patrol camp is the defender's No. 15. The No. 14, No. 15, No. 16, and No. 17 here are not very far apart. The defense lines are separated by dozens of steps at most.  Therefore, the various battalions of the attacking camp were not very separated. There were such dense formations of vehicles on both sides of the mountain patrol camp.  They pushed the cart further forward, and a large group of hungry people were being driven up. Suddenly, there was a shout from the front, and a dense number of heads appeared on the low wall opposite.  Lao Hu was surprised that they did not die under such fierce artillery fire.  Without letting Old Hu think too much, he shouted again from the other side, and heard the hissing and whistling of rockets. Smoke filled the air behind the low wall, and numerous rockets roared over.  They broke into the military vehicle formation and immediately fought back. They also had rockets. They heard the roaring sound, thousands of arrows flying through the air, and fireworks blooming like flowers.  Smoke billowed from the formations on both sides, and the trajectory of the rockets was like endless fireworks.  For a moment, the sky was filled with rockets. Old Hu didn't know what was going on on the other side, but a few infantrymen on his side were shot over. It was the same on both sides of the car formation.  However, they continued to move forward, and after seventy steps, they stopped. Then under the officer's order, they took out their bows and arrows, opened their bows, drew arrows, and pointed them in the direction of the low wall.  With the sound of a trumpet and a sudden sound of bowstrings, dense arrows flew into the sky. They were like locusts all over the sky, pouring towards the low wall in front of them.  The archers who broke into the camp behind the carts fired one after another. Each time their arrows flew up, they seemed to cover the sky. They dropped so many arrows that the area around the low wall in front seemed to be covered with weeds.  The hungry people were driven forward and tried their best to throw bags of earth, but except for shooting arrows or setting off rockets, their musketry soldiers did not move inside the low wall. It seemed that they also knew that their main opponents were the musketry soldiers of the old camp.  At this time, the earthen carts from the gun barracks were also pushed up. Three thousand gunmen were behind the earthen carts, approaching the low wall layer by layer, slowly approaching fifty steps.  Lao Hu suddenly felt a little thirsty. He didn't have time to think too much when he heard the sharp swan sound from both sides' positions, and then there was a flash of fire between the positions, and the explosion of muskets was accompanied by bursts of thick white smoke.  The low-walled earth-moving vehicles on both sides were soon swamped.  Lao Hu saw billowing smoke and a row of fires flashing from time to time. On the other side of the low wall, blood mist arose from the bodies of defenders from time to time. Here too, musketry soldiers were shot and fell. The sound of muskets and screams were heard from both sides.  .  The sound of volley fire came one after another, each wave was shocking. This kind of volley fire battle was too Old Hu couldn't help but open his mouth to calm down his excitement, but he felt that the gun soldiers here were sharper.  .  At this time, the hungry people throwing earthbags rushed more, and the archers also kept throwing shots behind the gun soldiers to cover their shooting.  Suddenly there was another sound of trumpets and drums, and the shouts shook the sky. Countless hungry people carrying short ladders and planks left the cover of the earthen trucks. They shouted at the top of their lungs and rushed towards the low wall.  "Get ready to fight!" Lao Hu roared, and immediately the sword, shield and cold weapon hands of his mountain patrol camp began to prepare for hand-to-hand combat on the wall. Looking around the surrounding camps, it was the same.  At this time, the three thousand old battalion soldiers also came forward. They were ready with heavy swords and axes.
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