Become a feudal king from today

"Boom boom boom..."

The howitzers of the Western-Turkish coalition roared.

One after another, spherical hollow artillery shells with wooden wedges inserted in the front flew into the sky, flew over a distance of more than 900 meters, landed on the trench position of Dasong's army, and exploded one after another.

There is no doubt that compared with the Dasong howitzer, which can drive shells about ten miles, the howitzers of the Western-Turkish coalition are still far behind.

However, due to the large number of its howitzers, the instant shelling caused several rows of trenches in front of Da Song's trench fortifications to be covered by explosions.

However, the Westerners would not have thought that their counterattack, apart from blowing up a piece of soil, did not cause any harm to the Dasong soldiers in the trench.

Because after comparing the differences in the guns and artillery between the two sides.

Qin Shan and Guan Tong made a bold decision. .

This is to dig two circles of trenches inside and outside.

The outer trench is the trench close to the Western-Turkish Allied Forces. It is about 900 meters deep, corresponding to the range of the howitzers of the Western-Turkish Allied Forces.

What follows is the inner trench.

Between the trenches of the outer circle and the inner circle, there is a blank area about thirty meters wide. Only twelve longitudinal trenches were excavated to connect the inner circle and the inner circle to facilitate the soldiers of the inner circle to enter the outer circle.

At the same time, machine gun teams were also deployed at the handover position between the inner and outer circles.

On weekdays, in order to confuse the Western-Turkish coalition forces, the outer circle is also defended by Dasong soldiers.

But before the Dasong army launched the artillery attack today, the Dasong soldiers guarding the outer circle withdrew into the inner circle.

Therefore, now the Western-Turkish coalition forces are really blown up.

However, even if the Western-Turkish coalition reacted and sent soldiers to occupy the outer circle, they were not worried at all.

Because the outer trenches were wide and shallow, as long as the Western-Turkish coalition troops came in, they would be bombarded.

Furthermore, when the soldiers in the outer circle evacuated, they laid mines and left marks in the trenches.

Even if they step on all the mines, the soldiers in the inner circle can quickly enter the outer circle to counterattack.

Moreover, since they had previously captured the high ground on both sides of the battlefield, they set up artillery and machine guns.

Supplemented by the flexibility of the Qin-style rifle and the powerful lethality of the machine gun, the outer circle will only be the graves of Western soldiers.

Of course, Qinshan and Guantong believed that the Western-Turkish Allied Forces would not take the initiative to attack.

The setting of the inner and outer circles is mainly to expose the position of the opponent's artillery.

Xitu also learned wisely after suffering the losses of Dasong's army.

The artillery was set up more concealed, and many of the cannons were covered with hay and covered with soil.

If the opponent does not fire, it will be difficult to find the location of the opponent's artillery.

"Hey, the position of their howitzers has been exposed a lot now." Looking at the outer trench covered by artillery fire, Guan Tong laughed twice.

At this time, he felt very relaxed, because the next few days would be a back-and-forth artillery battle.

They were not prepared to launch a charge until most of the Western-Turkish coalition's artillery was destroyed.

It's not necessary.

After all, due to the range advantage of artillery, they can bomb the opponent, but the opponent cannot bomb them.

Since there are advantages, it is natural to take advantage of them.

Qin Shan nodded upon hearing this and agreed with Guan Tong's statement.

Then, the two just stared at the battlefield with their arms folded.

at the same time.

In front of the field command tent of the Western-Turkish Allied Forces behind the trench fortifications, both Harriman and Wesley held up their monocular binoculars and stared at the area covered by the artillery fire of the Dasong army.

The difference is that Qin Shan and Guan Tong are relaxed, both of them have solemn expressions.

After the coordinated exercises of various countries in Calcutta ended, they led the coalition soldiers to the front line.

During this period, in addition to focusing on the trench fortifications at the border between Tianzhu and Piaoman.

They selected three strategic locations on the route to Calcutta that were easy to defend and difficult to attack, and set up three more fortifications.

Neither Harriman nor Wesley wanted to use these three fortifications, and they hoped to end the war here.

"Wesley, I'm starting to believe you. I'm afraid it's going to be a difficult battle." Putting down the telescope, Harriman was worried.

The fragmented friction during this period was not enough to make him feel the overall strength of Dasong's army.

But the current salvo of thousands of cannons made it impossible for him to deceive himself.

Standing in front of the tent, he could vaguely see the position of the artillery of Dasong's army.

They openly placed the artillery far away in the open ground, without concealing their position at all.

Normally when the two armies are fighting, they will hide the positions of their respective artillery to achieve the purpose of preserving the artillery as much as possible during the artillery battle.

Therefore, what the Dasong Army did was a naked mockery of them.

Because they could not pose any threat to the artillery of Dasong's army.

"Thank you. This is just the beginning. You will have a deeper experience later." Wesley said thank you, but he didn't look grateful at all, more like a mockery.

The elders in the parliament believed that his incompetence caused the failure of the Eastern-Turkish War.

Now Harriman could testify against him.

However, although he was dissatisfied with Parliament, Wesley still did not want this war to end in a disastrous defeat.

After thinking about it, he reminded Harriman, "Don't expose the positions of all the artillery. They will be quickly destroyed by the Dasong army."

"I noticed it. You don't need to remind me." Harriman was stunned for a moment, and then used anger to cover up his negligence.

As Wesley said, after they counterattacked, their artillery seemed to be targeted.

Howitzers were constantly being destroyed by direct fire from the opponent's artillery.

"What a bunch of bastards, let's see how long they can blow up." Harriman cursed again.

Then he immediately sent someone to ask the frontline commanders about the casualties in the shelling.

After learning that the casualties in the bombardment were 30% less than those in Malacca, he felt a little worse.

Apparently, their improved trenches had an effect, but not very much.

Because the conical artillery shells of Dasong's army can hold more ammunition, they are very powerful.

Many soldiers were not killed directly by the explosion, but were shocked to death.

These soldiers may have no wounds on the outside, but when they are discovered, they are bleeding to death.

"Damn it," Harriman cursed again.

In recent years, the British army has been rampant in the world. They are the only ones who use guns to bully others, and when are they bullied by others with guns?

Harriman simply couldn't accept the exchange of strong and weak status.

Therefore, it is the same as that of many Western generals.

He was feeling aggrieved now, and because of his arrogance in the past, he always believed that they could still defeat Dasong's army.

It was this belief that made them willing to endure casualties at this moment and wait for the fight between soldiers from both sides after the bombardment.

They have a large number of soldiers and are equipped with the most advanced rifled guns, which has narrowed the gap with Dasong soldiers.

They reinstated grenadiers, capable of countering the grenades of Dasung's army.

They also had indigenous troops provided by Tianzhu to serve as cannon fodder.

Although they have disadvantages, they also have advantages.

Who loses? Who wins?

Not necessarily!

Thinking this way, Harriman felt much better.

Then he looked up and saw something flying across the way.

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