Chapter 2875 Battle of the Bend (Ⅲ)

As soon as Audrey said this, the "barbarians" below immediately shut up.

They just like to argue, they are not stupid!

The magazine capacity of the "Wind Gun" is ten rounds, and it can be fired continuously, and it can be fired within a minute.

If you switch to an old-fashioned rifle or a more primitive crossbow, the shooting efficiency is much lower than that of the "Wind Gun". After ten shots, will you still have time to retreat?

The docile recruits trained by the colonel guarded the first line of defense according to the pre-battle arrangement. When the Fizen soldiers in red uniforms came within a hundred paces, they heard Lieutenant Colonel Holden coming from the hillside behind them. Blow the horn, pull the trigger immediately!

Most of the recruits fired all ten rounds of ammunition within three minutes, and it was refreshing to see the enemy troops falling down in rows like cutting wheat.

The recruits with more nimble hands and feet changed the magazines, continued to fire and shoot, and had a good time before retreating!

However, most of the recruits obediently obeyed the orders of the colonel lady. After emptying the pre-loaded magazines, they picked up the gun of the wind and retreated along the passage dug in advance.

The officers and soldiers of the Continental Army guarding the two rear lines of defense knew before the battle that the recruits on the front line would retreat after ten rounds of gunfire.

With mental preparation, knowing that the rookies are retreating according to the plan, not a rout, they will not panic and run around.

The 2,000 officers and soldiers stationed on the second line of defense are all veterans of the Continental Army who followed Audrey from Forge Valley to the south. As early as the beginning of June this year, they installed air rifles purchased from the Far East. Running in, I am quite familiar with this weapon.

Audrey's orders to the defenders on the second line of defense are slightly different from those on the first line of defense. The veterans are required to keep suppressing the enemy's firepower until the gas cylinders indicate that the pressure is insufficient, and then they can retreat to the back to replace the gas cylinders. .

The gas cylinder of the Wind Gun can fire 40 projectiles continuously, and then it will prompt that the pressure is insufficient, and the gas cylinder needs to be replaced or inflated.

In fact, under the condition of insufficient pressure, it is not a problem to shoot a dozen more shots, but the range and accuracy will be reduced.

It is not a problem for veterans of the Continental Army to quickly change magazines on the ground. They also have spare gas cylinders in their satchels. However, the temporary replacement of gas cylinders is cumbersome and not everyone can do it quickly.

To be on the safe side, Audrey didn't ask them to change the gas cylinders before the battle. They could withdraw to the rear of the position after firing four magazines, change the gas cylinders calmly, and put the removed empty cylinders on the "military depot inflator", and then Come back to fight.

The second line of defense played the role Audrey expected, and the fierce battle lasted for half an hour.

The veterans of the Continental Army performed well, repelling three enemy charges one after another, causing nearly a thousand casualties. The corpses lay in disorder in the bushes, and the blood-soaked red uniforms looked bleak in the evening sun.

Feizhen's troops were stuck in a dilemma on the mountainside, and the heavy casualties made Winthrop's heart ache.

He was hesitating whether to order the troops to withdraw and temporarily give up storming the mountain, but the report from the frontline commander lifted his spirits!

The fourth wave of offensive organized by our side finally achieved results. The soldiers of the Continental Army guarding the second line of defense seemed to have run out of ammunition, jumped out of the trenches one after another, and fled towards the hillside like a swarm.

When little Winthrop heard the news, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that it should be stable now, right?

However, it was too early for him to take this "reassurance pill".

The reason why Audrey adopts this defensive method of layered resistance is to lure the enemy to go deep, not just to repel the enemy, but also to kill the enemy's vital force to the maximum extent.

After suffering more than 1/3 of the casualties, Winthrop Jr.'s troops struggled up the hillside with their last breath, but what greeted them was the third line of defense of the Continental Army, and a living nightmare!

The last line of defense is the Asa special training corps who received special training in the Far East and is equipped with advanced weapons such as "wind guns", grenades and grenades. Audrey has the strongest fighting force!

As in thousands of drills in the military academy, these slightly nervous Asa youths, under the command of Kanti, quickly loaded grenades and fired grenades according to pre-calculated angles.

The Feizhen officers and soldiers who were attacking the hill heard a bang bang sound from a high place, followed by a black grenade falling on their heads in an arc from three or four hundred yards away. The instinct of a professional soldier immediately fell down!

The moment the grenade touched the ground, it exploded violently, spraying out a large cloud of flames and countless shrapnel, covering the attacking side's front in a sea of ​​flames.

The grenade thrown by the grenade is equivalent to the "fireball technique" that doubles the killing radius. Although the accuracy of the projectile is far inferior to the "fireball technique" of fixed-point blasting, the destructive power of 200 grenades exploding together is still terrifying!

The officers and soldiers of Feizhen who were charging towards the top of the mountain were hit firmly on the ground by this unexpected blow, they were so frightened that they lost their formation, and they all hugged their heads in search of cover.

Conti led the army druid team and jointly released the "Wind Making Technique", setting off a storm on the ground, blowing away the gunpowder smoke covering the battlefield, and clearing the field of vision for his own officers and soldiers.

The special training troops stationed on the third line of defense eliminated the interference of gunpowder smoke, and could see the craters on the ground clearly through binoculars or just with eyesight, and confirmed how far the first round of test firings deviated from the calculated orbit, and then adjusted according to the deviation The angle of the projectile, the accuracy of the second round of throwing has increased significantly.

Then came the third and fourth rounds of bombing.

In just a few minutes, thousands of grenades were concentrated and projected on the narrow area leading to the top of the mountain, which can be called a saturated carpet bombing, almost plowing the ground, killing and wounding hundreds of Feizhen soldiers.

Facing the grenades that kept falling from their heads, the officers on Feizhen's side knew that staying here would be tantamount to death, and there were only two ways to survive.

Either retreat, or continue to rush forward-rushing to the front of the enemy, this curved grenade device will not be useful.

The horn from the bottom of the mountain was like a talisman, forcing the Feizhen officers and soldiers trapped on the mountain to stand up against the artillery fire and continue to charge forward with their guns raised.

After finally rushing through the fire coverage area of ​​​​the grenade, approaching within a hundred steps of the enemy's third line of defense, before he could breathe a sigh of relief, the defenders on the opposite side leaned up from the back of the trench, rounded their arms, and Spherical devices were thrown over with all their might.

"Far East Type 1624 Individual Alchemy Bomb", commonly known as "magic grenade", the fragments plus countless small steel balls embedded in the bomb, violently sputtered instantly after the explosion, blasting all the enemy troops within a radius of 20 feet into blood dripping The hornet's nest, although the actual lethality is not as good as the grenade, the visual effect is more tragic than being blown away by the grenade!