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Chapter 197 Crazy Artillery

From the name of Maishi Street, you know that it must be a very prosperous street, but now it is a mess and there are not many ghosts. Since the Russians came here, they have burned, killed, plundered, and committed all kinds of evil. Many people hate Russians to the core. Of course, traitors always exist.

The Chinese name in Uri is Huang Man, who belongs to the Manchu Zhenghuang Banner. He was originally a hard-core farmer and lived a very leisurely life. However, as soon as the Qing Dynasty was destroyed, he lost his source of income. Fortunately, the Russians fought over. Huang Man quickly relied on some information about the Qinge army and successfully surrendered to the Russians. With the appearance of the Chinese with yellow skin, dark eyes and black hair, it was much easier to detect information than Russian scouts. Although he could not enter the position to investigate, he could still see a rough idea with his telescope.

Andrew Jeff made a lot of money to these Chinese who were willing to help Russia, because very few scouts sent out could come back. The other party seemed to have set up secret whistles everywhere, and they would shoot and kill them when they saw the Russians.

Andrew Jeff set up 6 artillery battalions in Lishu Town, with a total of 76 artillery pieces of artillery, ranging from 47mm rapid-fire cannons to 120mm cannons, both made in Germany and made in France. Of course, most of them are made in China. The different calibers of artillery make it very difficult to supply, especially the 75mm cannons made by Germany and France are very easy to be confused with the 76mm cannons made by domestic manufacturers, because domestic manufacturers do not make any marks on the shells.

Siping Town, directly south of Lishu Town, is the territory of the Chinese. The Chinese arranged 30 artillery in Siping Town. According to the description of Chinese spies, it should be 77mm field artillery produced in Hawaii. Because of the large plains in the northeast, the Chinese people's front line is long, which is very beneficial to Andrew Jeff. In the mountains to the east, the troops deployed by both sides are relatively small, because it is undoubtedly very difficult to launch an attack in the endless mountains. Arrangement of two machine guns on some roads is simply a one-man who can pass through the barriers.

On June 1, the roar of the engine covered the cicadas, and airships slowly rose from various positions, and then flew towards the Russian positions opposite.

The whole world knew about Qin Ge using airships to airborne soldiers to kill Empress Dowager Cixi, the ruler in power in the previous dynasty. When the commander on the Russian position saw the airship flying towards him, he couldn't help but laugh: "Oh, do these yellow-skinned monkeys want to airdrop our supply line in the rear stage than soldiers? It's so funny. An airship can only hold about twenty people. Just these twenty people want to cut off our supply line? Hahahahaha..."

But unexpectedly, the airship only stopped for a while above the position, and then flew back. Some soldiers fired at the airship, but were stopped after firing two shots. The black gunpowder filled with the bullets of the rifle did not cause any harm to the airship that was hundreds of meters above the head. The airship stopped in the middle of the positions on both sides. The Russian laughed and said, "Hahahaha, it was broken! Look, it was broken!"

On an airship, Hook was watching several lines of data written by observers skillfully pressing the electric keys, and the telegraph machine made a sound of "Didi, Didi".

On the position, the data sent back by the airship was quickly handed over to the artillery commander. After the commander made calculations, he quickly commanded the artillery to adjust the elevation angle of the artillery and prepare to launch an attack.

Dibingshan is the general command of the Fengtian Provincial Army. Chen Yu closed his pocket watch and said to Li Niu and Qin Sen: "Are your people ready?" Since the Russian army did not take any action after a month, and neither Britain nor the United States had time to look east, Qin Ge decided to take the initiative. In fact, in another two or three days, the Russian reinforcements would arrive at the front line. Andrew Jeff would definitely launch an attack, but Qin Ge couldn't wait. It took a month to delay. Who knows what tricks Mao Xiong plays, and the offense is the best defense.

"You can attack at any time." Li Niu and Qin Sen said.

"Okay, He Liang, go and send a telegram to let all artillery troops bombard the enemy's positions at the same time in ten minutes." Chen Zhengdao.

"Yes!" He Liang saluted and ran out of the wooden house.

The artillery positions in various places have been moved forward for two or three kilometers. At this time, the artillery positions are within the range of 100,120 mm guns in Russia, so the Russian artillery positions must be destroyed first.

"Bang!" Li Ming closed his pocket watch and shouted: "Be careful with each gun! Ten rapid shots!"

As the artillery from a position sounded, other artillery on the front also roared one after another, and shells flew under the airship and accurately hit the Russian army's artillery positions, bunkers fortifications or barracks.

The person who was mocking the broken airship was stunned for a moment.

"What's going on!? Are we not outside the range of the enemy's artillery? Did the enemy move the artillery position? Damn it! That airship came to reconnaissance!" Colonel Toville suddenly realized that the enemy's airship was not broken, but was watching the show in the air!

"There must be radio on the airship, and the Chinese are such a luxury!" Vitor thought. Then he pulled out his command knife and shouted, "Ula~~~~! (Ula has many meanings, here is advance or charge)" In his dictionary, there is no word retreat.

Colonel Leonid Shaq must have set up more than 30 artillery pieces on the opposite side on the position. Look at the current offensive, at least 60 artillery pieces can be formed.

"Damn it, our artillery is gone!" Lieutenant Colonel Vajim came to report.

"Roar! Order the troops to rush forward!" Without artillery, rushing forward to exchange fire with the Chinese is the best choice. Retreat? Can you run over shells?

The enemy's artillery positions were the focus of care. Under the bombardment of hundreds of artillery shells, the unprepared artillery positions were plowed all at once. However, many small-caliber cannons were safe because small-caliber cannons were not arranged in the artillery positions.

Although they were in the midst of artillery fire, the Russians did not panic and formed a team to start moving towards the artillery fire. But soon the Russian officers found that the Chinese shells seemed to be unable to be completed, which was not a normal configuration at all. Generally speaking, the number of ammunition equipped with a cannon of ammunition was about 30 rounds, but now the whistling sounds of endless explosions were heard by the commander's orders. Moreover, every three or four minutes, the enemy's artillery could carry out a precise strike. Leonid Shak knew that it was because the airship on his head reported their position, so he had to order to spread out and advance.

What does it mean to bloom everywhere? This means to bloom everywhere! In just ten minutes, nearly 30,000 shells were fired in total. According to the cost price of one shell of $3, nearly 100,000 taels of silver were fired in ten minutes, which did not include transportation costs. Thirty thousand taels seemed a lot, but compared with the monthly consumption of the navy, it was nothing. The maintenance cost of an Oahu-class protective cruiser was more than this. Moreover, these nearly 10,000 shells destroyed a lot of Russian artillery, and at least killed more than 5,000 Russian troops, which was worth it.

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