Commander-in-chief Liu Mingzhao glanced at the enemy's position opposite with a telescope and smiled: "At amateur level, their fortifications are not bad."

Peng Dechao, the commander of the First Army, laughed and said, "It's a pity that they met us. The Iron Blood Army is an expert in defense, so they are naturally good at breaking the defense."

Liu Mingzhao smiled and said, "Then you use your first army to be fully responsible for this attack. I will lead the Fourth Division to prepare for interception."

Peng Dechao smiled and said, "Deputy Commander, just look at it."

On that day, the Iron Blood Army did not launch an attack, but built artillery positions and seized time to rest. In order to shake the morale of the enemy, Peng Dechao asked his troops to attack only in the south, leaving a way for the defenders in the city to escape. The next morning, hundreds of cannons of the Iron Blood Army First Army raised their guns and aimed at the targets in the city.

Since the Iron Blood Army used all trucks, it carried a large number of heavy artillery. With the convenience of transportation, these heavy artillery also increased. Among the heavy artillery ranks, there were not only hundreds of 105mm howitzers, but also dozens of 155mm howitzers and 203mm siege heavy artillery. The attack power was absolutely very strong. Therefore, when the Iron Blood Army began to shell the shelling, the Cheng family army was immediately knocked out.

Cheng Feng, who had been waiting for the opponent to attack for a day and a night, was extremely anxious and was walking around the command post. When he heard the sound of cannons, he was shocked and finally started. If he waited like this, he would collapse. But then he realized something was wrong. The density of the opponent's artillery fire was too high, and the dense explosions on the front line even made Cheng Feng feel that all the artillery of the Cheng family might not have such a big momentum together.

Since the Xia family's regular army is a domestic regular army, they are very complete and have a lot of artillery. The Cheng family army, who has fought against the Xia family, habitually hides in the trenches to avoid the attack of the opponent's shells, but soon they know that they are wrong.

When the huge 203-mm shells roared, they hit the solid ground with a heavy blow, blowing the ground out of a deep pit with a diameter of more than 20 meters. Even if they were forty meters away, the soldiers of the Cheng family hiding in the trenches were shocked to death.

Only then did these soldiers of the Cheng family realize that although they were also shelling, the shelling was of weight, and the artillery of the Iron Blood Army was definitely the heaviest in the world, and it was no small part of the difference between the Xia family's 76mm cannon.

New recruits were afraid of artillery, and veterans were afraid of machine guns. When the recruits of the Cheng family army were hit with such fierce shelling and began to suffer casualties, their hearts were already panicked. Under the dense artillery fire, many new recruits were so scared that they climbed out of the trenches, threw away the rifles in their hands and fled to the rear.

However, such actions were even more dangerous. These deserters who had lost the protection of the trenches were quickly torn into pieces by the explosion of nearby artillery shells. On the battlefield, flesh and blood flew everywhere, people's broken limbs and arms, and their internal organs flew around, making the Cheng family's position like hell, and a large number of collapsed trenches buried many soldiers who were honestly guarding the trenches alive.

After half an hour of artillery attack, the Iron Blood Army's artillery began to extend its shooting. The Iron Blood Army soldiers who had been impatient in frontier positions began to charge under the cover of light and heavy machine guns and mortars.

Unlike the popular cluster charges in the world now, the Iron Blood Army's charges seem very well organized. They are divided into combat teams one by one, using all the obstacles that can be used to hide and slowly approach the other's position.

Before the revolt, the Cheng family army also secretly purchased some heavy machine guns from the Cossack Empire. Unfortunately, the heavy machine guns were not easy to move. So shortly after they opened fire, the snipers of the Iron Blood Army focused on these fire points. The machine gunners were knocked down one by one. After seven or eight machine gunners were replaced, no one dared to touch these life-threatening guys again.

The lower-level officers of the Cheng family army are still somewhat capable. Most of them are experienced veterans from the garrison camp. Unfortunately, the biggest sorrow of the Cheng family army is that the uniforms of the officers and soldiers are slightly different. The soldiers wear soft cloth hats, and only officers wear big blocks with hard edges. This little difference has caused the tragedy of the Cheng family army.

After clearing the machine gun fire point, the snipers of the Iron Blood Army found these officers with hard edges and big blocks. As a result, these officers would be killed as soon as they showed up. Soon no officer dared to risk his life to stretch his head.

The subordinate officers of the Cheng family army were unable to know the situation and lost their command ability. They soon suffered. When the soldiers of the Iron Blood Army touched dozens of meters in front of the position, they threw out the anti-infantry grenades in their hands.

Anti-infantry grenades filled with steel balls exploded in the trenches. The iron shells of the grenades flew everywhere with hot steel balls, causing a large number of soldiers to fall into the trenches. As for those cement bunkers that were not destroyed by heavy artillery, under the cover of machine guns, the explosives of the engineers were not vegetarians. The skillful blasting skills made Cheng's army cry and moan.

The soldiers on the second line of defense were blocked by the heavy artillery barrage of the Iron Blood Army and could not support the front line. They could only watch the Iron Blood Army rushing up with a bayonet. The Cheng family army, who was blown by the grenades, had no fighting spirit, had to surrender obediently. A few stubborn fighters were nailed directly to the ground by the Iron Blood Army soldiers.

The rapid advance of the Iron Blood Army scared Cheng Feng. Unexpectedly, after half a month of attack, nearly 10,000 casualties were captured, the Iron Blood Army actually charged and suffered a very small casualties. Cheng Feng knew that if he continued like this, he would not be able to defend for long, so he immediately ordered the artillery to launch artillery bombardment on the first line of defense.

The caliber of the Cheng family army was generally small, which was also a common phenomenon in pure infantry units before the emergence of trucks. It was impossible to carry large-caliber artillery long-distance marching with large-caliber artillery alone, and using too many horses to pull the cannon trucks can easily cause chaos in the army.

Large groups of horses are also very difficult to serve, so pure infantry troops generally carry various light artillery below 76 mm. Because these artillery are easy to move, they can also be carried by infantry even when crossing mountains and ridges, so many people call them mountain cannons or infantry cannons.
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