Chapter 1109 Mood

"Boom boom boom..."

The howitzers of the Western Turks coalition army roared.

One by one, hollow spherical shells with wooden wedges in front flew into the sky, flew over a distance of more than 900 meters, and landed on the trench positions of the Dasong army, exploding one after another.

There is no doubt that the howitzers of the Western Turks coalition army are far behind the Dasong howitzers that can fire shells about ten miles.

However, due to the large number of their howitzers, the instantaneous bombardment caused several rows of trenches in front of the Dasong trench fortifications to be covered by explosions.

It's just that the Western Turks would never have thought that their counterattack would not cause any harm to the Dasong soldiers in the trenches except for blowing up a piece of soil.

Because after comparing the difference between the muskets and artillery of both sides.

Qin Shan and Guan Tong made a bold decision. .

That is to dig two inner and outer trenches.

The outer trench is the trench close to the Western Turks coalition army, with a depth of about 900 meters, corresponding to the range of the Western Turks coalition army's howitzers.

The inner trench is the next one.

Between the outer and inner trenches, there is a blank area about 30 meters wide. Only twelve longitudinal trenches were dug to connect the inner and outer circles, making it easier for the inner circle soldiers to enter the outer circle.

At the same time, a machine gun team was deployed at the junction of the inner and outer circles.

On weekdays, in order to confuse the Western Turkic Allied 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.

So now the Western Turkic Allied Forces are really bombed out of nothing.

However, even if the Western Turkic Allied Forces react and send soldiers to occupy the outer circle, they are not worried at all.

Because the trenches in the outer circle are wide and shallow, as long as the Western Turkic Allied Forces come in, they will be bombarded.

Moreover, when the outer circle soldiers evacuated, they also buried mines in the trenches and left marks.

Even if they stepped on all the mines, the inner circle soldiers could quickly enter the outer circle to counterattack.

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

With the flexibility of the Qin-style rifle and the powerful lethality of the machine gun, the outer circle will only be the grave of the Western Tu soldiers.

Of course, Qin Shan and Guan Tong believe that the Western Tu coalition will 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.

After suffering a loss from the Dasong army, the Western Tu also learned to be smart.

The setting of the artillery is more concealed, and many artillery are covered with hay and covered with soil.

If the opponent does not fire, it is difficult to find the position of the opponent's artillery.

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

At this time, he was very relaxed, because the next few days will be artillery battles between you and me.

Before most of the artillery of the Western Tu coalition is destroyed, they are not going to launch a charge.

There is no need for this.

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

Since there is an advantage, naturally take it all.

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

Then, the two of them just crossed their arms and looked at the battlefield.

At the same time.

In front of the battlefield command tent of the Western Turks' coalition forces behind the trench fortifications, Harriman and Wesley both held up monoculars and looked at the area covered by the artillery fire of the Dasong army.

The difference was that Qin Shan and Guan Tong were relaxed, and both of them looked solemn.

After the coordinated exercise 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 important places that were easy to defend and difficult to attack on the route to Calcutta, and set up three fortifications.

For these three fortifications, Harriman and Wesley did not want to use them, and hoped to end the war here.

"Wesley, I'm beginning to believe you. I'm afraid this will be a difficult battle." Putting down the telescope, Harriman was worried.

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

But the current thousand artillery firing made it impossible for him to deceive himself.

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

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

When the two armies normally fight, they will hide the position of their artillery to achieve the purpose of preserving artillery as much as possible in the artillery battle.

Therefore, the Dasong army's doing this is a naked mockery of them.

Because they cannot pose any threat to the artillery of the Dasong army.

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

The masters of the parliament believed that it was his incompetence that caused the failure of the war in the East.

Now, Harriman can testify for him.

However, although he was dissatisfied with the parliament, Wesley still didn't want the war to end in a disastrous defeat.

After thinking for a while, he reminded Harriman, "Don't expose the positions of all the artillery, they will be destroyed by the Dasong army soon."

"I noticed it, and you don't need to remind me of this." Harriman was stunned for a moment, and then covered up his negligence with anger.

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

Howitzers were constantly destroyed by the enemy's direct artillery.

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

Then he immediately sent someone to ask the commanders on the front line to find out the casualties in the shelling.

After learning that the casualties in the shelling were reduced by 30% compared with the Malacca, he felt worse.

Obviously, their improved trenches were effective, but the effect was not very obvious.

Because the conical shells of the Dasong army could hold more ammunition and were very powerful.

Many soldiers were not killed directly by the explosion, but by shock.

These soldiers may not have wounds on the surface, but when they were found, they died of bleeding from all seven orifices.

"Damn it." Harriman cursed again.

In recent years, the British army has been rampant in the world. Only they bully others with guns and cannons. When have they been bullied by others with guns and cannons?

The exchange of strong and weak positions made Harriman unable to accept it from the heart.

So, like many Western generals.

He is now aggrieved, and because of his previous arrogance, he always believes that they can still defeat the Dasong army.

It was this belief that made them willing to bear casualties at this moment, waiting for the fight between the soldiers of both sides after the bombardment.

They had a large number of soldiers and were equipped with the most advanced rifles, which had narrowed the gap with the soldiers of Dasong.

They had restored the grenadiers and could fight against the grenades of the Dasong army.

They also had the indigenous troops provided by the Indian state as cannon fodder.

Although they had disadvantages, they also had advantages.

Who would lose? Who would win?

It was not certain yet!

Thinking of this, Harriman felt much better.

Then he looked up and saw something flying up on the opposite side.

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