Chapter 1120: Great Ottoman's breakthrough asks for support)
When the Turks approached the barbed wire, the soldiers in the bunker immediately waved their wine at them, intensive bomb rain. However, in just a moment, a body lay down near the barbed wire. Even so, the Turks still stubbornly cut the barbed wire and then rushed towards the Ming army.
Without any hesitation, almost after the Turks broke through the first barbed wire, the officer guarding the trench ordered.
"retreat!"
Without any hesitation, the soldiers immediately retreated along the traffic trench to the nearby stronghold, which was located behind the first line of defense. In fact, the Ming army's defense line did not look like that, it was just a trench and a chest wall in front of the trench. There were many circular defense systems composed of trenches, earth cages and barbed wire between the defense lines. There were artillery fortifications in the fortifications. Even before the Turks attacked, the main force of the Ming army guarding the frontier was deployed in these circular fortifications. The trenches deployed in the front line were only a part of the guard forces.
Such a defense system was the result of the Ming army's continuous exercises and improvements over the past years. Now it has just been applied to the battlefield. Although this defense system still seems extremely primitive, it is an epoch-making defense system for this era.
These defense systems that connect the strongholds with trenches cleverly constructed the frontier defense system of the Ming army. Even if the frontiers fell, the Ming army retreated to the strongholds could hold on within the strongholds.
While the Ming army retreated, the field cannons and mountain howitzers in the stronghold immediately splashed ammunition at the Turks at the fastest rate of fire, accompanied by bursts of rapid and thunderous sounds!
Dozens of field guns and mountain grenades suddenly fired! Dozens of iron cans were bombarded out of the cannon chamber in the bursting flames. After the air fell off, the iron cans containing the cannons released countless lead projectiles. The six-month-weight projectiles swept like raindrops and rushed to the Ottomans like tides, knocking down the so-called Sudan Guards one by one. After a rain of shotguns, the guards swarmed immediately fell down, and the ground was covered with bloody corpses and wounded soldiers!
However, at this time, no one could stop their attack.
But in just a moment, groups of Turks rushed into the trenches of the Ming army.
"Breakthrough, break through... Hurry up, notify Vizier immediately, we have broken through the Chinese position!"
Just as he broke through the Chinese defense line, Kuchukpasha, who was commanding the legion, immediately asked the messenger to tell Davich Ahmed Koplulu about the good news. He personally commanded the feint attack troops on the right wing to attract the attention of the Chinese. After the Chinese fell into a trap and transferred the reserve team to the right wing, the guards he commanded successfully broke through the Chinese defense line!
As of now, it seems that the tactics formulated by Ahmed Copruil and the generals have basically been achieved.
In their opinion, there was no doubt about this. After all, the Chinese had a thin defense line and their troops were limited. After mobilizing the reserve team, their defense on the left wing had to become very empty. After absorbing the experience of fighting on the right wing, Kuchuck concentrated nearly 200 mortars to bombard the Ming army's positions violently, and then the Ming army showed signs of collapse. The brave and warlike guards took advantage of the situation to launch a fierce attack!
Although they were also bombarded by Chinese people and precise rifled guns while attacking, they were hit by another shotgun at close range, and the losses were not small!
However, the offensive of the officers and soldiers of the Guards was not broken. These brave soldiers shouted slogans and rushed into the Chinese positions regardless of the rounds with all kinds of ammunition. Then they launched the hand-to-hand combat they were best at, and finally won the victory and drove the Chinese out of the position... In fact, this was what he guessed, after all, he could not see the Chinese being voluntarily withdrawing from the front line here.
"It's time to expand the results!"
Seeing that the Chinese had already broken through the position of the Chinese, the ecstatic Kuchukpasha immediately ordered the Tatar cavalry to launch an attack to expand the results of the war.
With a command, a team of Tatar cavalry riding thousands of people rushed out of the Turkish positions like a flash of lightning. The scene when they were rushing on the ground was shaken by the mountains, and the dust raised by the ground with iron hooves continued for several miles.
These Tatar cavalrymen carrying horn bows rode their horses and made deafening roars, and the world seemed to be shaking with the horse's hooves and their roars.
Hundreds of years ago, the ancestors of these Tatar cavalry, the Mongols, fought all the way from the East to Europe. For the Europeans, they were a nightmare and of course they were also a confidant of the Ming Dynasty. Hundreds of years later, they once again launched an attack on the Han people.
It seems that at this moment, some kind of coincidence occurred in history.
In the Turkish battle sequence, the Tatar cavalry from Crimea have always been a special existence, and they often play an extremely critical role in field battles. Now they are trying to create the glory of the past again, like defeating the Europeans, defeating the Chinese.
A distance of only a few hundred meters was just a blink of an eye for the cavalry. They rushed over. When they rushed over, they threw the guard infantry behind them. When the guard infantry saw the Tatar cavalry rushing towards them, they all shouted excitedly.
The moment of victory has arrived!
Just as the world was shaking, and only the sound of horse hooves and people were heard in the air, the cavalry that rushed like waves saw a scene that made them feel a bit strange. There was also a circular fortification composed of earth cages, trenches and barbed wire mesh at the back.
The endless Tatar cavalry did not hesitate. They stubbornly carried out Pasha's order to expand the results in depth. When they approached the strongholds, they suddenly bypassed the strongholds and rushed directly to the rear.
Almost at the same time, the cannons sounded, and the cannons in the earth cage bunkers sounded, and nearly a hundred smoke balls exploded from the earth cage gun window. Then the entire front was instantly covered by shotguns, and the sound of horse hooves that shocked the world and the shouts were replaced by the sound of cannons.
Amid the deafening sound of cannons, thousands of shotguns enveloped the Tatar cavalry like raindrops.
The cavalry that had no time to dodge fell down in large numbers. When the war horses were knocked down, the Tatar cavalry following behind skillfully rode their horses over the corpse and rushed forward, but some unlucky guys were trampled into meat paste under the horse's hooves...
But even so, it could not stop the cavalry from advancing deeper. He nodded to Kuchuk, who had been paying attention to the battlefield, and then pointed to the Chinese position with pride and smiled.
"The Chinese are simply vulnerable!"
As the officers under his command laughed, the Sultan soldiers who had been robbed of the "first achievements" by the Tatar cavalry immediately shouted and launched an attack on the Ming army's positions.
The soldiers who had just retreated were aiming, shooting, loading and fire hats in an orderly manner in the face of the enemy's attack, as if they were training on the training ground. Although the bullets fell on the Turks like raindrops, they still made a deafening cry and charged at the Ming army's stronghold with bayonets.
These are just a few inconspicuous small strongholds, and they can take them off with just one charge. There is nothing big deal.
Just as the Turks rushed towards the stronghold like a tide, the officers in the bunker with hot eyes stared at the Turks and seemed a little quick to breathe. Behind the shooting hole of the bunker, the machine gunner holding the tail handle of the machine gun in his left hand, holding the rocker in his right hand, staring at the front.
Suddenly, the officer yelled.
"put!"
The officer's roar made the machine gunner tremble all over and immediately turned the handle. As his rotation machine gun sounded, compared to ordinary machine guns, its gunshots were rapid and dense, and continuous gunshots came from the cover, and flames were swung out from the cover like death's sickle, and swept across the Turks' bodies. Groups of Turks were constantly knocked to the ground like wheat.
The machine gunner who shakes the handle maintains the rate of fire as much as possible. Although this hand-crank machine gun is powerful, in war, as the enemy approaches, the shooter is affected by tension when operating the hand-crank machine gun, which may not only cause a jam, but may even cause a blast, affecting its efficiency.
Therefore, in addition to relying on machine gunners to master the rate of fire, sergeants who command machine guns will also remind the machine gunners to reduce the rate of fire according to the gunshots.
When the machine gunner was strafing, the ammunition hand on the side was nervously replenishing the ammunition belt for the ammunition belt. Although the bullets of the hand-cranked machine gun were universally flammable and fixed-loading paper-packing bullets with the Type 13 rifle, it had a steel ammunition sleeve. Its function was similar to the shell of the sub-gun bullet. It was connected with a canvas ammunition belt. After the ammunition belt was shot, the steel ammunition sleeve was still on the ammunition belt. The ammunition hand needed to load the bullet and fire cap for it.
Although it seems cumbersome, if it is properly cooperated, one or two hand-crank machine guns can even suppress an army of thousands of people. The expeditionary army is equipped with more than two hundred hand-crank machine guns! These machine guns are deployed in various strongholds behind the defense line, and each stronghold has an average of more than eight machine guns. The crossfire network they cooperate with is undoubtedly extremely deadly to the Turks.
Bullets like raindrops roared into the Turks' chests. The lead-made bullets with a diameter of 14 mm would drag away a large piece of flesh and blood when they penetrated their bodies, and a ball of blood mist splashed in the air. In the blood mist, the twisted and deformed bullets disappeared from the body of another Turk. The bullets knocked the man to the ground like a heavy hammer.
For the Turks, they might have just experienced the precise firepower of the Ming army's rifle rifle, but compared to the machine gun strafing, they now feel that they are simply in the Dead Sea.
This Dead Sea was "cast" by lead bullets. The tide was like a rushing Turks were completely shrouded by this lead rain. The lead rain fell into the crowd and kept rising red blood mist. In the eyes of the Ming army officers and soldiers in the trenches, the Turks were like mice falling into traps. They wanted to charge forward, but were covered by oncoming bullets and chased them. They could only struggle hard in the dense rain of bullets.
In this rain of lead-cast bullets, the guards officers and soldiers who were already excited and shouting could only shout in despair. These guards who had received strict training since childhood could even watch the bullets sink into their chests.
As for those lucky people who were alive, they were also lucky not to go there. Even when a piece of flesh hit his face, Aubr lay on the ground in horror. He lay directly on a corpse. He could even see the man's wound, which was still seeping out blood.
Blood!
Blood was everywhere, and bullets whistled in the air, tearing apart the bodies of one person after another. The bullets dragged out large pieces of flesh and blood from their bodies, and sometimes even brought out bones. For all this, Aubr could only pray there tremblingly, praying that everything would end soon, but now, time has become so long, and even everything around it has become slower and slower, one person after another has fallen, and there are screams of despair everywhere, and people are screaming in despair everywhere!
As the machine gunner turned the handle, the water temperature in the cooling water barrel of the machine gun barrel continued to rise, and some water vapor began to emerge along the water replenishment hole. However, when the machine gunner continued to shoot, the empty ammunition belts were scattered on the right side of the bolter, and in just a few minutes, they fired thousands of bullets.
In front of them, there were corpses everywhere. The Turks, who were rushing like tides, turned into cold corpses under the dense firepower of machine guns.
However, in just a few minutes, everything changed. The Turks who were originally aggressive and wanted to charge and take down the Ming army's position were completely stunned by the dense firepower. However, in just one encounter, the yelling Turks turned into a pile of corpses. In front of the Ming army's position, the Turks left thousands of corpses, and the air was full of blood. The corpses scattered everywhere made people frightened to see. Between the corpses and corpses, miserable screams kept echoing in the air, and the wounded were screaming in despair. The living people turned into targets and were knocked to the ground by the infantry in the trenches like a rabbit.
Chapter completed!