Backed by the Chuanshuihe Canal, the five-headed Wang Shenzhi of the New Second Battalion of the Right Wing of the First Army held the long guns with sweat in his palms. This was a way out for him by his brother Wang Yanfu. And where the shortcut is.
Because according to his words, the traditional way of fighting with swords, guns and crossbows, they are soldiers who have a low starting point and are descended from people, and it is already difficult to get ahead with excellence in this area;
On the contrary, this newly trained firearms master is because when it was founded, no matter the system, tactics, and skills need to be further improved and incomplete, it is precisely these soldiers who stand on the same starting line regardless of the old and the new. , There is much to do.
Therefore, his elder brother Wang Shenchao did not hesitate to use it, and he accumulated the qualifications and training quotas he had accumulated, and he won the opportunity to transfer to the firearms class. The reason is also very simple. Wang Shenzhi is the only brother to marry. The real responsibility is heavy.
Although he is also a veteran who has a long history of battle and is familiar with all kinds of weapons, he is very attentive and redoubled in the practice of firearms. The calluses on his palms have been polished and re-grown, so he can be used to staring at the face The headless arrow that came over, while the eyelid leaned slightly to dodge.
But for the first time with this new type of equipment, he took the initiative to leave the city wall to seek opportunities in the field; after all, he was still in the same mood as most people, uneasy or insecure.
To be honest, although he held this kind of blunderbuss with spikes on the front, and repeatedly assassinated various targets and other living creatures, he still felt that the spears and sword cards held by the white soldiers in the front row were even more important. Be familiar and familiar with it.
I don’t know how long it took. Under the slanting afternoon sun in early summer, he only felt that the breath exhaling from his mouth was hot, and then it quickly converged to the front, back, left, and right after the many human activities began to emit. Sweat and heat are gone.
Therefore, in this tangible and intangible environment and atmosphere, Wang Shenzhi, who had already drunk water and urinated, still became dry mouth and swallowed saliva constantly, and a faint urge to urinate appeared in his lower limbs.
At this time, the constant sounding of the passwords and shouts of the team officers and veterans seemed to have become more frequent; during the period, they were also mixed with faint screams and hums, which were due to physical impatience and wanted to move or It was the result of the soldiers who turned around and were taught on the spot.
Wang Shenzhi could only think of ways to divert his attention to reduce physical discomfort and discomfort; for example, he recalled the situation of the pre-war deployment before he left the battle and the main points that he needed to pay attention to when he was in the battlefield.
Unlike the officers and soldiers he had taken in the past, the commands and rewards for the soldiers and soldiers were very simple and concise; in these first deployment arrangements of the Taiping military, it can be said that you can’t wait to be as detailed as possible about each team and each fire. degree.
As long as there is time, the generals will even take the initiative to explain the needs of the overall war, and the phased goals that can be achieved in the short term, and then carry out corresponding on-site encouragement and arouse morale several times.
For example, this time they took the initiative to fight, they were responsible for attracting, blocking and dragging most of the party wanderings that appeared in the south of the city, thinking that a large group of troops in the other direction in the rear would gain a buffer time to retreat into the city.
When Wang Shenzhi thought back so carefully, the long gun in his hand seemed to be less slippery and difficult to hold, and the clamor around the surroundings also seemed to slowly disappear, leaving only his vision. Through the densely packed human body and the gap between the swords and guns, a little bit of approaching smoke can be seen flying.
Until the small blue flag that stood in the front row was raised diagonally and suddenly swung down, the sharp blades of knives and guns filled with dense heads and gurgling helmets in the wind suddenly fell down in pieces; then they squatted down one after another. The front row of soldiers, Wang Shenzhi's back row gunmen suddenly widened their vision.
At this time, the whistle of preparation for the battle was blown, and the old soldiers led the singing of "Bunker Songs" and "Riding Songs" in unison. In the singing voices, Wang Shenzhi also pulled out a sub-bullet bag stuffed in the holster under the long-tempered reflex, and squeezed it into the open muzzle behind the gun tube.
Pressing down the sharp brakes again pierced the ammunition bag and spilled a little powder, re-repositioned and pushed the breech plug tightly closed; then pulled up the polished flint clip. With just a set of actions between a few breaths, the team that Wang Shenzhi was in was basically ready to go.
At this time, the smoke and dust rolled up by Hu Qi, who was rushing forward in the distance, was also approaching at an extremely fast speed, and it became between the series of gunmen before and after, distributing the loud reports in Yuhou's mouth:
"One hundred steps to prepare..."
"Fifty steps to prepare..."
"About thirty steps, two quarters of elevation angle, let go..."
Suddenly, the fierce whistle sounded suddenly before and after Wang Shenzhi, and then turned into hand halberds and small flags vying to wave down, and then submerged in a dense smoke that radiated like fried beans. And short and intense bursts into the noise.
At this moment, Wang Shenzhi, who was holding a long gun, only felt that his chest was suddenly pushed, and he almost didn't step back sideways, but he was supported by the soldiers on the back of the foot. , Pushed back with his shoulders.
"Hold down for a while and prepare..."
The drumbeats and the shouts of the old man resounding in his ears again made him react quickly and let go of the fingers he was holding tightly; he moved the thick handguard over the armpit and held the slightly hot body with one hand. , And the other hand pulled out the cleaning rod pinned to the thigh, and filled it up with the beat.
After just five or six breaths, the short drum beats turned into sharp contiguous whistles again, and the dense fire and smoke bursting out of the queue of squatting, standing waist-level and shoulder-over-shoulder gunners. .
And the recoil and shock after Wang Shenzhi’s second buckling of the long shots seemed to be less intense than before; and there were more relieved calmness and smoothness, which were formed in the reciprocating training. The deep-seated memory also recovered little by little in the choking smoke.
Only this time, only half of Wang Shenzhi’s two waist-level teams were able to successfully shoot out. The rest of the people either lost the cleaning rod in a mess, or loaded the medicine upside down, or It was simply too late to lift the flint. .
Despite this, they still used their hands, feet, and teeth in the drum beat, trying their best to complete a series of procedures of clearing the chamber, unbolting, loading, firing and resetting, and restored the long blunderbuss in their hands to the sent state.
However, the momentum of those billowing smoke and dust did not seem to have diminished any more, and a more vivid figure appeared. At this time, Hu Qi seemed to have approached them within a dozen steps; and the corresponding blows finally came to them. .
I could only hear the dull noises and screams of puffs, puffs, and screams from the front and back of the queue, but it was the short signs and arrows thrown and emitted by the party member Hu Qi, which inevitably caused the ranks of gunslingers. Casualties with uneven residuals.
And just in front of Wang Shenzhi, a crouching gunman was also pierced through his thigh by a short mark, and screamed and splashed a stream of hot blood on his ankle. Then he was startled half of his body in cold sweat, hurriedly stayed on the ground and vacated a hand to drag back with all his strength;
He was pulled over by the relay-like robes behind him again, and finally disappeared in the gaps that were let out by his side; then he naturally let himself squat down and couldn't make the gap; at this step, he could only remember Teaching during live training:
"Everything is done, try your best to trust your armor and robes"
However, not everyone has such deterrence as Wang Shenzhi. With the stimulation of increased casualties, sporadic radiological sounds rang uncontrollably, but most people were still in the midst of sudden casualties and controlled themselves. The formation and wild impulse.
At this time, Hu Qi, who had thrown the short mark, finally slammed in front of them. The wind and dust were wrapped in coarse gravel, and he almost hit their breastplates and rustled; and the whistle was radiating. The sound did not sound.
Looking at the moment when Hu Qi kicked up, who was almost a lot taller than himself, Wang Shenzhi couldn't help but feel his soft legs and feet, and his whole body was shivering. He could hardly hold the firecrackers in his hands; even if he knew that he could kill the opponent with the deduction, he It just lost this strength completely for a while.
"Is it really going to die here? It's a pity that Niang Mei stayed at home."
Wang Shenzhi between the sparks and flints was reluctantly meditating in his heart; then he saw the huge shadow covering his head and face, suddenly falling to the side completely empty;
But it was this cavalry soldier, who had been pierced by several spear tips raised at the same time, torn away a large amount of blood, and fell to the ground sideways, but it was the neglected ones in the first line of the battle. The leading white soldiers in the past began to stop the few Hu Cavaliers who rushed into the array one after another.
Then, the extremely long whistle that made people wait for finally rang; and the white soldiers who were in the fight also crouched down as if they were signaled, abandoning their spears and holding cards;
With a burst of sparse smoke blowing out, the Hu Qi who rushed in front of him was either jumped up on a horse, or was splashed by a sieve on the blood spring of Hongda City by a projectile close at hand, and he was competing with a sumo. On the ground.
At this time, Hu Qi, who came immediately after the second burst, also rushed within thirty steps; but Wang Shenzhi, who wiped away the blood on his face, still calmed down and completed it again in a shorter time than before. To prepare, and facing the figure in the leather coat and felt hat that broke through the smoke and dust, he did not hesitate to buckle the fine trajectory of the hair.
With this dizzying burst of radiation, Wang Shenzhi also seemed to accumulate pressure and fear, and some unknown emotions; all of them were faintly following this trajectory, as if the looming projectiles radiated together. Become more comfortable and fluent.
At this time, fierce collisions, neighing and fighting screams broke out in the array on the flanks; it was the mixed team arranged at both ends of them, and they had already begun to receive the enemy head-on. I don't know how long it has passed, and Wang Shenzhi's queue doesn't know how many rounds have been shot, and there are only a few empty bullets left in the leather ammunition bag.
The smoke and dust in the line of sight also gradually disappeared with a gust of turning, revealing the sparse Huqi behind the smoke and dust who are turning around and fleeing, as well as the piles here and there, falling to the ground, struggling and neighing in a pool of blood. At the same time, seriously injured the dying mount and the body of the party member.
At this time, the deformation horns in the array suddenly sounded; then the last three columns did not move in place, while the first two columns started to walk in small steps on the spot, and came diagonally.
In the interrupted call, the batch of long guns, which were still a bit irregular, was re-directed to those Hu Qi who had already entered the neighboring team, and the guns rose slightly with the whistle Qi buckled and radiated out.
This time the targets they hit were much denser and more conspicuous. It's like pulling an invisible dead line above the chaotic crowd fighting fiercely on the edge of the battle line, and it's like missing a bad wind of withering everything;
Those party soldiers who were still riding on their horses with sticks, long marks, and thick-backed machetes to slash, stab, and drive to trample from side to side, all of a sudden fell down like dominoes that were knocked down, and splashed the blood that splashed in the volley. In the crowd nearby.
However, the Taiping Army infantry teams that were smashed into it and showed their decay were almost unscathed because they were basically lower than the horse's head. The morale on the spot redoubled their efforts to fight and besieged. These sacked party members came here.
Therefore, Tuoba Sizhong, who was slowly pressing up with the team on the center line, was looking at the corpses at the junction in front of the line, and couldn't help but tremble and asked the unconcealed left and right subordinates:
"What kind of demon technique is this, where are my faculty lords... and my elders!!!"
At this time, there were faint drum horns on the head of Chang'an City. Correspondingly, a few miles away, the other two drove out a fully equipped army, and from east to west along the moat under the city wall, they rushed towards the Dangxiang Army’s main formation without stopping. come.
"For help, send out the signal immediately, and then send out many roads to ask for help..."
Tuoba Sizhong had no luck at this moment, and shouted in a stern voice:
"Zhongerlang will return to the camp with me to defend the imperial thieves, and must resolutely resist the arrival of supporters...!"
And beside the Qingming Canal outside Anhuamen, there are still jagged guns in the queue; Wang Shenzhi, who has many burns on his arms and fingers, is also sitting on the muddy ground with a general loss of strength. , Giggled for no reason;
But I don't know if I am fortunate to be able to survive and see his newly married wife again; or to lament the unexpected effect of killing the enemy with a firearm.
And the defeated and disintegrated party members in the distance seemed to be scared of their guts. Even though these peacekeepers have disbanded their formation quite loosely, but still no one dared to move in this direction and try. Breaking through and fleeing.
Therefore, in a sense, the characters in this blockade have already doubled their accomplishments, yet they had unexpected gains. (End of this chapter)