Chapter 962

The bronze guns of the firearm troops took the lead in playing. The sound like thunder fluctuated with each other, and the open plain echoed like lightning and thunder.

The smell of gunsmoke permeated the artillery position. Due to the distance, the artillery after a round of firing can only see the confusion of the enemy at the artillery position within the visible distance, so it is difficult to judge how much effective damage has been caused to the enemy.

"Why didn't you fire the shell just now?"

Li Tan came to the artillery position. Out of his identity, he knew the type of shells. He found that he was firing solid shells and raised questions.

At present, there are not many kinds of shells. The main types are solid shells and flowering shells, and the other is close combat defensive shrapnel.

Solid bullets are distinguished because of the proportion of materials such as iron and lead. If you want the range to be far enough, you can see the matching proportion between materials.

Flowering bombs are generally divided into shrapnel and projectile, and there is also a category called incendiary bomb (grenade).

No matter what shell it is, it looks like a black thing that tends to be round in general. There is no other device for solid projectile, and if there is charge inside the projectile, a fuze device will be added. At the same time, when firing different shells, the bore will also have different installation AIDS. For example, flowering shells need a booster device.

The artillery captain answered Li Tan's question.

Shells containing iron beads are too expensive. The cost of firing one shot is more than 100 times that of ordinary solid bullets. They believe that the number of guns for firing is enough, and solid bullets can also play enough lethality.

"In addition, the enemy is already scared. In order not to cause unnecessary waste, they still don't launch special bombs."

Li Tan didn't know how to evaluate the artillery captain's concept of saving money.

The Han Empire was a country with poor civil affairs and no poor army. The institutions belonging to the state should be the richest army.

"Even your artillery think that if you can save, you can save..." Li Tan joked: "it can be seen how expensive the firearms force is."

The artillery captain was completely speechless.

Take the firing of that kind of iron ball shell for example. The value of one shot can make more than 30 long guns. If it's not expensive, it's really lying. However, looking at the power just played, it can never be said that the cost is huge and worthless. It should be judged as value for money.

The sound of guns continued, and the grassland coalition forces that were shelled were completely stunned.

They haven't seen similar weapons. At first, they thought it was thunder. But although there are clouds in the sky, there are not many clouds and they are all white clouds. This kind of rolling thunder should not appear.

If it was only the sound of rolling thunder, it would scare people and horses. However, they constantly found that there was a broken sound on the surrounding heads, and saw that their nearby companions were hit or swept by something.

The object hit or swept by the solid bullet, whether it is a man or a horse, is a tragic picture of flesh and blood flying in an instant. It's okay to die immediately. If you don't die, you have to cry with your broken arm or leg, or even sweep your body into two parts and die in despair.

Tens of thousands of grassland allied forces were completely in chaos, and the people and horses at the core crowded and fled everywhere, killing and injuring countless people trampling on each other; Those grassland allied forces in the periphery, without even thinking about it, will leave this place with water like hell.

The grassland coalition forces located on the river beach, regardless of the depth of the upper riverbed and the rapidity of the water flow, even if the people in front still have scruples, they will be crowded into the river by the people behind.

"What a spectacle!"

"Tut Tut, it's so miserable that it can't be described in words."

"The river will soon be blocked by corpses?"

"I don't know if it will be blocked. The fish and shrimp here will certainly become very fat."

"Dare you eat?"

"Think about all disgusting, still eat?"

It is indeed an extremely sad scene. When those grassland people enter the river, they will soon be washed down by the turbulent river. When they are impacted by the water, their heads float and sink. As soon as the number of people is large, they are all undulating in the horizontal plane with their heads and hands, which is like the scene of hell on earth.

"I don't pity them at all." Doua said expressionless, "think about decades ago, our people jumped into the river under the coercion of Hu Lu, and tens of thousands of women were driven into the river."

That's what really happened. It happened in the early days when the Jie nationality ravaged the Central Plains.

On more than one occasion, the Jie people drove Han civilians to various rivers, and then massacred on the bank. When they were tired, they first asked the living Han people to throw their bodies into the river. Finally, the Jie nationality drove the Han people who had not been killed by weapons into the river and drowned.

The Jie nationality has a tradition of marching and fighting together to catch women. Women use it to commit adultery at night and cook it when they want to eat it. When they were defeated and forced to retreat, they usually chose to drive the captured women into the river.

At present, the Jie clan has been removed from the world, but what they have done will not be forgotten, and the action of Han people chasing and killing the Jie clan continues.

In the scene on the grassland battlefield, the grassland coalition forces were forced to jump into the river. There were no so-called innocent people among them.

Soldiers who go to the battlefield and are hacked to death are also dead. Being forced to jump into the river is also dead. The moment they go to the battlefield is to enter the stage of "either you die or I die". No death method is important.

Forcing civilians to jump into the river? In a broad sense, there are no innocent people, but only the sadness of the weak.

How to look at a killing depends entirely on what position you are in.

Contemporary Han people do not reject killing. It can even be said that they have a strong interest in killing other races because of their previous tragic experience.

There is only one reason why the Han people like to love killing. Looking at any alien, they feel that they will invade themselves one day. It is better to leave those aliens as a threat or kill them first.

On the battlefield, the grassland coalition army in the South was not organized, and those who wanted to escape began to rush to the periphery regardless of everything.

The Han Army on the left and right wings can no longer be a mere spectator. They are also happy to join the killing of the grassland coalition army.

"Those grassland people are really unfortunate." Keshias did not know what kind of mentality it was, and said, "their misfortune is that they are too close to the Han Empire and are regarded as a threat by the Han Empire."

Gambisis knew that kexiyas was in a mood now. It was nothing more than seeing the grassland people slaughtered, giving birth to a sense of sadness like a rabbit dead and a dog cooked.

"We know a lot about the nomads in the northern Xinjiang of the Han Empire." Gambisis said in a depressed mood, "there have been many overlords here, and each overlord has threatened the Han people."

"The Hun empire once existed under the pressure of the Han people. Now the Huns left have been digested." Looking at the killing on the battlefield, keshias said, "the Huns who migrated westward can show off their power all the way, and even destroy countless countries all the way westward."

"The nomadic cavalry has always been good. Don't look at how easy the Han people are to deal with..." gambisis is also witnessing the killing: "if tens of thousands of nomadic cavalry are in other places and face opponents like jidoro, it will be a different scene."

What they were curious about was how the Han army drove and surrounded tens of thousands of grassland coalition forces to this beach.

You should know that simply annihilating an enemy and driving the enemy to their desired position will face different difficulties in two different situations. It will be less difficult to annihilate.

"We may be able to destroy a nomadic cavalry of tens of thousands of people." Keshias sighed: "but we can't drive them to the desired position."

Seemingly simple things are infinitely difficult to operate. We need a commander who can grasp the overall situation at all times and an absolutely elite army.

The role of the commander is to move the troops to the right position at the right time node every time, and at the same time, master the appropriate attack to force the enemy to rout in the direction they need.

"It was Li Tan, the general of the northern expedition of the Han Empire, who commanded the war?" Keshias had to praise: "what an excellent general!"

The good general, he had left the artillery position and reached the flank of the rifle line.

Riflemen who have been forming a linear array and advancing forward, they also face more or less impact each time.

"This is called rolling shooting?" Li Tan looked at the rifle line: "the name is very appropriate!"

The riflemen formed a line of riflemen. After shooting, they stopped in place to clear the bore and reload. The paoze in the back row stepped forward into the shooting position to fire, rolling and moving forward in this rotation.

Doua also came to the flank. He happened to see Li Tan and came to meet him.

"The formation of riflemen looks very thin." Doua compared the personnel gap between the cold weapon army array and the firearm army linear array: "Nearly 4000 riflemen form two straight lines, each line is lined up, and three rows of riflemen fire in rotation. Although there is still a second column that can be filled up at the critical moment, if the enemy's horses can not be frightened, it is difficult to ensure that the cavalry will not rush in front of them with this thin formation and the shooting speed of riflemen."

Li Tan saw this just now. He also wanted to see what the riflemen had against the cavalry. Unfortunately, the grassland coalition army did not pose enough threat to the riflemen line array.

"The enemy has completely collapsed." Doo ah said in a suggested tone, "do you want to surrender?"

Of course, Li Tan knows that it's easy to make the grassland coalition army surrender. It's not enough for the firearm troops to kill the enemy.

Anyway, today is the first time that the riflemen of the firearm army participated in the war. Without enough blood, how can they pour out a loud reputation?

"Wait." Li Tan pondered for a moment, smiled and said, "when the enemy has less than 10000 left, we will recruit and surrender."

Doua didn't say anything that might force the enemy to jump over the wall.

Many times, even if the dog is forced to jump over the wall, it also depends on who is blocking the dog. The dog will struggle violently in despair, but if it has the strength that a stick can knock it to death, it doesn't need too much fear.

The forward speed of riflemen's line array is not fast. It is a situation of shooting in rows and advancing slowly step by step.

Standing in front of the riflemen line, no matter what people or horses are doing or want to do, few people and horses can stand in place after a row of fried beans.

Gradually, the riflemen stepped into the field full of corpses and wounded. They were still shooting in rows like an infinite cycle machine. There were some riflemen with bayonets in each column.

What the riflemen with bayonets do is to mend the enemy's knife on the battlefield, regardless of whether the enemy is lying on the ground motionless or moaning and wailing. Anyway, the bayonet is stabbed into the heart or head, so that the enemy must really die.

Riflemen marched forward and then forward. I don't know when, and no grassland coalition army launched an assault on the rifleman line.

The artillery fire on the battlefield did not stop, nor did the riflemen stop firing because the enemy stopped charging, and the one-sided massacre continued.

The prairie allied forces with complete mental breakdown tried to break through but could not do it. After the initial wool blowing stage passed, although there were still companions dying around them, the living people seemed numb... Or lie down, kneel, lie down, or stand, stay in the original place in different positions, and accept all the fate they were about to face.

"Killing is meaningless. Why didn't the Han Army surrender?" Julian had no compassion, but was confused: "is the Han Empire no longer short of slaves?"

"Those grassland people are still alive, but they are also dead." Flavis did not see at least 15000 people waiting to die in place: "in fact, not many Chinese soldiers were killed. More grassland people died in trampling on each other and killing each other. They were completely desperate. Their body and mind had admitted that it was useless to struggle any more."

"All right." Julian nodded and admitted, "those grassland people really don't even have the qualification to be slaves. They have been completely abolished."

The bystanders of the great powers are actually good. They can make a few comments.

Other people born in small countries are not a few who see their pants wet directly, and there are even people who can be scared out of their minds just by watching.

On the battlefield, the shelling stopped first.

For a time, there was no rolling thunder of shelling, and both the enemy and ourselves were not used to it.

In the back, the riflemen also stopped shooting.

There was no more movement on the battlefield except screams and wails and the neighing of war horses.

"It should be less than 10000 enemy troops?" Li Tan glanced at Dou ah and asked, "your troops go up and down?"

Dou a thought and promised.

The undead grassland coalition army found that the Han Army no longer continued to attack. First, they howled, and then they cried. They felt that they were really miserable, or that kind of unprecedented misery. There was no exchange of weapons with the Han Army in the whole battle. Only the Han army was constantly "roaring" and "popping", but the people on their side were almost dead.

"Because of the emergence of firearms." Julian said very heavily, "war has become completely different from what we understand as war."