When the Ming army launched an attack, it used a 105mm howitzer for the first time. The power of the artillery fire was indeed extraordinary. The caliber of the shell was large and the charge was high-explosion charge. I thought that with this killer weapon, it would take only one round of artillery fire to knock the Qing army to a dizzy level, and then the infantry could easily take down the first line of defense with one charge.

However, the fact is not that simple. Although from a distance in the telescope, the Qing army was blown away and the fortifications were blown unrecognizable, after the artillery fire, the Ming army's charge did not make the expected breakthrough, and the first charge was repelled.

However, this was just a tentative attack. It was obvious that the Qing army was not a soft persimmon that could be pinched casually. It was obviously unrealistic to destroy the Qing army with a fierce gunfire.

So the Ming army then began to adopt the method of earthwork. This method of earthwork offensive was effective in the Huaihai Battle. It was the best offensive tactic for trench warfare for a period of time. Although this tactic was a little slower, the Ming army did not grab time now, and although it was a little slower to dig, it had fewer casualties and greater results when attacking, and often could break through the enemy front at the first time. It saved much time more than repeated charges and repeated setbacks.

The Ming army was no longer in a hurry to attack, but instead patiently dug up the traffic trenches leading to the Qing army's trenches. Of course, digging traffic trenches is also quite particular. You can't dig too straight, you have to dig into winding shapes. Everyone knows that the straight line between two points is the shortest, and the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty also understand this basic truth. However, the instructors and staff told these soldiers that you have to deliberately dig into a curved shape, otherwise the distance between the straight line traffic trenches you dug is the shortest, but the enemy's artillery fire will hit a line, which will only make you die miserably.

The Ming army was digging diligently. It was early June. Although the weather in Lushun is far less than that in Nanjing, it is also the hottest season. The bright sunlight shone directly, and the soldiers who dug the pits were sweating profusely, but the soldiers couldn't care about so many. Each squad of soldiers had to dig a specified distance before they could change to rest. Therefore, the soldiers did not care about their physical strength at all. In order to dig the specified distance as quickly as possible, the soldiers

I'll go out and sweat, no matter what, sweating is better than blood. Of course, the Qing army did not have so many cannons, but the crossbow-type thunderbolt throwers equipped by the Qing army were a bit overflowing. Although these simple things that could throw grenades three or five hundred steps were not accurate, one or two grenades would often fall into the pit dug by the Ming army. If not done well, they would be buried in the trenches they dug. Therefore, no one was willing to bet on life just to save some effort.

This idea was created by Chief of Staff of Bai Hengdu. The previous approach was to dig a section of pits regularly and then take shifts after the time was time. As a result, the progress of digging for each shift was similar. Some teams even deliberately slowed down after digging in front, and waited for the adjacent team to follow, and then continued to dig forward. Bai Hengdu thought about it, and then figured out the current method. Each team limited the length of the pit, and only needed a pre-determined rope, so that each team could measure whether the task had been completed by themselves. Although this idea was just a small trick, it undoubtedly greatly improved the efficiency of the Ming army's digging pits. It is impossible not to mention that the grenades that the Qing army flew over from time to time were each soldier of the famous army.

The ultimate motivation for sweating and digging pits, after doing this, the speed of each Ming soldier digging pit was more than twice as fast as the original speed. Chongzhen heard that he couldn't help but admire Bai Hengdu very much. Think about how people who specialize in industrial engineering specialize in later generations were studying how to improve efficiency, such as how to move their hands and how to design the production rhythm to make the assembly efficient. Some people have been studying this matter all their lives. From a professional perspective, Bai Hengdu is even more amazing than others who do industrial engineering. After doing this, the speed of the local work does not require the urge to supervise the officials. The original completion of the work in three days will be completed in one day.

Zarafonga has been paying attention to the situation in front of the Ming army. If someone shows his head, Zarafonga will try his luck. Maybe he can kill a Ming army and add a lot of military achievements to himself.

However, Zarafenga followed for a long time and did not see the Ming army showing up, but the Ming army was not idle. Zarafenga then saw sand rising continuously. When he looked carefully, he could see the flash of the shovel blade. At first, Zarafenga had not reacted, but later he realized that Ming army was digging a trenches.

Zarafona cursed disdainfully:

"Mingjun are all afraid of death ghosts and will only hide in ditches, or they will dig holes like marmots, these rats!"

The Ming army had been working underground and did not show any heads, which made Zarafeng's magic gun skill useless, which made Zarafeng's annoyed.

Orge next to him teased:

"No matter how accurate your gun is, it will be useless to deal with the rats in the Ming army. I'll see me now."

Orge is a thunder thrower, responsible for operating the Qing army's lightning thrower. The Qing army had no conditions to manufacture artillery on a large scale like the Ming Dynasty, but the Qing army took the use of the lightning thrower to the extreme. In theory, operating the lightning thrower in the trench would be greatly restricted, but the Qing army made a trench-specific lightning thrower based on the characteristics of the trench. This lightning thrower has only a simple base, which is directly embedded in the soil layer of the trench. A lightning thrower that can rotate at a small angle is installed on the base. A baffle should have been added in front of the lightning thrower, and in the trench, even this baffle is saved.

Then, the front of the trench was used as a baffle. The iron tools produced by the Qing army were limited, so even the ratchets were made of wooden. But no matter what, the function of the lightning thrower was to throw the grenades away. The Qing army's lightning thrower, which was so simple that it could completely meet the requirements. Moreover, this lightning thrower also has a certain direction and distance adjustment function. It looks like four pieces of wood, plus the animal tendon torsion spring, and a wooden ratchet device, can throw the grenades for three or five hundred steps, which is equivalent to a grenade cannon or a small mortar.

Orge's assistant Zathe skillfully shook the ratchet, shook the throwing arm, then Orge pulled out the safety of the fire-pulling grenade, put the grenade into the throwing bucket, and then hung the pin on the grenade. Then Orge began to aim, saying that it was aiming, that is, based on the feeling of the right direction, estimating the distance, then pulling the trigger, and the thunder-throwing arm flipped forward rapidly under the action of the torsion spring, and then hit the front edge of the trench. The grenade flew out at the same time and completed the fire-pulling action, and flew towards the Ming army's position quickly.

Most of the time, the grenades thrown by Orge exploded in the air. As for whether the Ming army was hiding in the ditch, Orge was not clear. However, Etuhun told him that shrapnel could be seen flying into the tunnel where the Ming army was digging in the telescope, which encouraged Orge a little. Of course, it is not a time to waste grenades. Orge only had to throw a grenade soon, so Orge always aimed again. Finally, even Zalafenga claimed that he saw the grenades flying into the tunnel of the Ming army. At least the Ming army was injured, because the section of sand that had been shoveled out was flying high. After the grenade exploded, it was silent for a while before it continued to shovel out the sand.

But what is frustrating is that the progress of the Ming army's digging pit was not affected by grenades. After most of the day, the Ming army's tunnel had reached about 200 steps. If they continued to dig like this, the Ming army would be able to dig the tunnel under its nose tomorrow.

Etuhun realized that his grenade was just harassing, and had little impact on the Ming army's pit digging operations. When the Ming army's tunnel approached, the Ming army might be able to break through a certain section of defense with its superior firepower and charge.

Etuhun was not a person who was waiting to die. He felt that he should give the Ming army some strength. In the end, Etuhun decided to take a counterattack and take the tunnel dug by the Ming army for his own use. Otherwise, he would dig a pit like the Ming army with leisure, and then suddenly pop out underground and kill his own positions. Even if one fights one, some of the Ming army fights, while one less of the Qing army's warriors can't afford it.

With the order of Etuhun, all the thunderbolts were exerted. This time, Orge and Zatehe went all out, one by one, one by one, and the cooperation was extremely smooth, and grenades flew towards the Ming army's position. In an instant, a piece of grenades threw out by thirty thunderbolts exploded here on the Ming army's position, and for a moment, the smoke of gunpowders filled. Taking advantage of the smoke of gunpowder, Etuhun led two hundred Qing troops to jump up and rushed straight to the Ming army tunnel.

Just at this moment, the machine guns on the Ming army's position sounded, and the Qing army in the front row was swept by the rain-like machine gun bullets and fell to the ground. At the same time, the Ming army's mortars also sounded, and the Ming army's tunnel was equipped with grenade launchers and threw special grenades. Explosions sounded, and the Qing army was killed and injured.

The Etu was so fierce that his eyes were red. Not only did he not retreat, he ordered him to continue rushing forward. The Qing army's fierce and fearless impact method seemed unstoppable. Even mortar shells and grenades could not stop the Qing army from rushing forward desperately.

Further forward is the tunnel of the Ming army. Etu Hunfang Buddha saw the dawn of victory.

However, Etuhun eventually attacked the Ming army's tunnel. The Ming army in the tunnel not only had shovels, but also lacked rifles and shotguns. The power of the Ming army's grenade was higher than that of the Qing army's copycat version. First, a piece of grenade was thrown over, and then waited to get closer. The Ming army's shotgun was a melee weapon, and the shotgun fired at the same time made a barrage. The Qing army suffered heavy casualties and had to retreat.

The counterattack failed, and Etuhun had to hold on to the trenches and requested support from Ajige.

The Ming army originally planned to attack again tomorrow. Now, seeing that the Qing army's counterattack was frustrated, the Ming army's commander was not a dogmatist, and he was about to attack ahead of schedule.

As a sharpshooter, Zarafong A did not participate in the round of counterattack just now, and the Orge Thunder Thrower did not rush out of the trenches. Zarafong A saw that the counterattack was not good, so he raised the rifle in his hand again. I believe that as long as the Ming army dared to pursue, someone would definitely want to die.

The Ming army did not pursue it. While the retreating Qing army was still breathing heavily, the Ming army's cannons rang out again.

A shell flew over with a whistle. Zarafona subconsciously lay down, and Orge and Zathe hurriedly fell down. But this time the shell was a fire bomb. Zathe was hit by the splashing flames, and his back immediately caught fire and tried it. Orge was stunned when he saw it. Zarafona reacted quickly, picked up a handful of sand and soil to cover Zathe, and then put out the fire on Zathe's back. But even so, Zathe's back was already burned.

When Orge looked at the lightning thrower again, the animal's tendons were burned and the rope was basically burned to ashes. This lightning thrower was declared scrapped.

After a while, the Ming army changed their tricks. This time they were hitting shrapnel. The shrapnel exploded in the air, and the shrapnel flew everywhere. Even if they were hiding in the trenches, people were injured or even died of death.

This time, Zarafona did not avoid the shrapnel, and a shrapnel hit Zarafon's right arm, causing Zarafona to temporarily withdraw from the sniper ranks.

Of course, this is not the worst case. Unexpectedly, the Ming army chose to launch a full-scale attack at this time. Before the artillery fire stopped, the Ming army in the tunnel used grenade launchers at the same time. This grenade launcher totaled only four kilograms and had a fast firing rate. It could be operated by one person, which was far from comparable to the Qing army's thunderbolters.

Afterwards, the Ming army in the tunnel rushed out in a swarm. The two armies did not fire a few shots or throw a few grenades. The two sides quickly met in close combat. At this time, it didn't matter whether you were a sniper or a thunderhead. Everyone met the Ming army as soon as possible and started a hand-to-hand combat.

In terms of personal fighting, the Ming army is not the opponent of the powerful Qing army. These Qing soldiers are veterans of a hundred battles, with swords stained with blood in their hands, so they are naturally not afraid of hand-to-hand combat. One-on-one, the Ming army is of course not the opponent, but the subsequent teams of the Ming army flocked to the top, often two or three Ming army against one Qing army.

Zarafenga was injured in his right arm and could only hold the knife in his left hand. But he met a good stinger in Ming Jun. Although the man's movement was simple, he was quick and powerful. He pushed him sideways and blocked Zarafenga's knife. Then he stabbed him hard and stabbed him deeply into Zarafenga's abdomen. It was not even tight, and the bayonet was still stirred in half a circle. Zarafenga was heart-wrenching in an instant, and then his pupils contracted sharply, expanded, and twisted his head and died.

Not far away, Etuhun killed one of them with one against three, but he was stabbed by two other Ming troops. Etuhun found that there were fewer and fewer subordinates around him. In the end, even Orge, a natural warrior, died under the Ming army's bayonet. Etuhun was angry. Although he was also seriously injured, he fought to death with his bravery and killed another person. Just as he was about to kill the remaining one, he suddenly felt severe pain from his back and chest and abdomen. Then Etuhun saw a bayonet exposed from his abdomen. Etuhun resented the plotter behind him, and felt that he had hit something. At this time, he could not turn back his head, drooped his head and fell down.

With the fall of Etukun, the Ming army finally broke through the first line of defense of the Qing army. Of course, the Ming army suffered a lot of casualties, especially in the final hand-to-hand combat, which dealt with Etukun more than 200 people. The Ming army relied on many to win, but still suffered more than 100 casualties.

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