Three pairs of eyes looked at Wei Zheng at the same time and finally said, "Brothers, the opportunity to recapture Shaanxi from the rebels and turn Shaanxi into our Tiger and Leopard Army base again is right in front of us …"
"Shuai decided to command the living soldiers to cross the Yellow River to Shaanxi …"
"From the map, it is the most suitable and the closest crossing point to us is Fugu"
"But according to the news that Shuai came back from the scouts, we know that there are 5,000 traitors stationed in Fugu County on the other side of the Yellow River. If we want to cross the Yellow River from here, we must eliminate 5,000 traitors stationed in Fugu County."
"If we don’t destroy them, how many soldiers we cross the Yellow River will be shelled to death by them on the west bank of the Yellow River. You know, there are 5,000 rebels defending the west bank of the Yellow River, but these 5,000 rebels are equipped with a large number of tiger guns …"
"With these tiger guns, we will be devastated by the rebels when we land …"
"When crossing the Yellow River to the west, we mainly took the rebel artillery position on the other side of the Yellow River."
Wei Zheng just said that he was eager to kill Zhou Yuhong in Shaanxi, so he promised that "the rebel artillery position on the other side of the guard will be handed over to the last general …"
"The attack on Baode County, although we consumed a lot of flower bombs, will repeatedly ask us to have one thousand five hundred large-caliber mortars at the end of the flower bombs …"
"At the end of the month, I can confidently say that there is absolutely no problem for these flower bombers to destroy the rebels on the other side of the Yellow River and defeat them."
Wei Zheng smiled and asked, "Well … then tell Shuai about how to hit the bullet to the rebel artillery position on the other side of the Yellow River … As far as Shuai knows, there is a place where the width of the Yellow River exceeds two miles, and the effective range of our heavy mortars is only two miles …"
At this time, Zhou Yuhong was just confident and his facial expression became dignified directly.
Wei Zheng stared at a face of embarrassment and answered, "The guard … at the end of this question, I haven’t thought of it … at the end of this question, the Yellow River will be hundreds of steps wide here …"
"Then think about it now … you guys have to think about it …"
It’s time for a few people to move their heads quickly and think about countermeasures.
At the end of the WeiZheng and others a face of thoughtful way "guard … there will be an idea …"
"I have a water army besides infantry and cavalry …"
"As far as we know, the warships made by these water forces are equipped with a large number of guns … Those warships can be equipped with several thousand kilograms of red cannons, and we will certainly be equipped with guns when we cross the river."
"You know, the heaviest mortar in our mortar is only a few hundred kilograms. We will guess that it can be fired after it is equipped in front of the ferry …"
Faced with this almost identical idea, Wei Zheng’s face showed a smile full of approval and affirmed to Zhou Chen Everbright, "This method must be feasible and handsome, and this mortar ferry was named gunboat …"
A very important reason why Wei Zheng is so sure at the moment is that a picture of the battle of crossing the river hundreds of years later has already emerged in Wei Zheng’s mind …
In those days, the recoil of mortars was definitely much greater than that of black powder
When the battle of crossing the river was launched, our army could use mortars to move fishing boats as gunboats to attack the enemy on the other side of the river, which made it worse.
Without thinking, Wei Zheng ordered, "Shuai decided to do as General Zhou Chenguang said …"
"General Yu-hong Zhou has transferred scouts to the east bank of the Yellow River, and dozens of ferries have been found. Your horse will pick out the largest ten and move heavy mortars to test several shells."
"Don’t forget to lay a sandbag on the front of the mortar when installing it, so as to minimize the influence of recoil on the ferry … If possible, we will attack the rebels on the other side of the Yellow River at noon."
Five or six sacks filled with sand were sent to the ferry and the bow of the ferry was laid flat. After that, heavy mortars weighing several hundred kilograms were quickly carried by five or six gunners and sandbags at the bow were assembled.
In order to keep the balance between penetration and stern, seven musketeers also boarded the ferry.
Get ready to finish the thick bow and slowly leave the shore with a mortar ferry held high …
When it floats on the Yellow River, it is already ready. Mortar gunners quickly put propellant and ammunition into the gun bore and the matchrope to prepare for the gun.
After braving the fire of Mars and lighting the matchrope, several gunners quickly squatted next to the mortar, covering their ears and waiting for the flower bomb to be withdrawn from the gun bore by the propellant.
"Boom …" A violent explosion sounded at the bow, which could hold 40 or 50 people. The recoil of the ferry gun directly caused a shock, as if it were about to fall apart …
But what makes everyone feel lucky is that with the shells flying out of the gun bore and whistling, the Nuoda ferry is still intact and damaged the floating Yellow River.
Not only that, after a short flight, the bomb landed and exploded, but it was less than fifteen steps away from the target.
An excellent gunner squatted right behind the mortar, and Wen Junsheng knew very well that all such big hit errors must be caused by hull vibration.
So this gunner named Wen Junsheng relied on his own experience to quickly adjust the angle of the barrel regardless of the heating temperature of the barrel, and continued to order to the deputy in less than a cup of tea.
"Reload and continue the gun …"
"Boom …" The cannon roared out and the shells flew to the target again …
After Wen Junsheng’s adjustment, this flower bomb directly fell less than five steps away from the target. In terms of the lethality of the flower bomb, this flower bomb has already hit the target …
Chapter three hundred and twenty Crossing the river
Zhou Yuhong, on the east bank of the Yellow River, cried with excitement, "It’s really true that mortars move ferries …"
"Hurry up and move the remaining nine heavy mortars to the nine ferries that have just been selected and reinforce them … when you hurry, you must finish them before attacking at noon …"
"Report the horse to the guard and ask the guard to get ready to cross the river …"
An hour passed quickly, and ten items were prepared by Zhou Yuhong’s "gunboat" department.
At the same time, the first wave of crossing the river, a musketeer regiment of more than 1000 musketeers also boarded the remaining ferry to prepare for crossing the river …
At this moment, there is a greedy expression on Shaanxi across the river. Wei Zheng is less than 100 steps away from the river when a hill is waiting quietly.
At noon when the sun is strongest, Wei Zheng finally put a monocle on Zhou Yuhong’s side and ordered.
"Can General Zhou make it or break into Shaanxi … Shuai ordered to cross the river …"
"At the end of the general life …" With a full face of fanaticism Zhou Yugong brought life way.
Then he directly ordered the guards around him, "Ma sends a signal … to order the soldiers to cross the river …"
"All pass …" Three dull guns sounded behind several people quickly, and then three flares flew to the sky with a roar and exploded.
At this time, dozens of ferries have been lined up along the Yellow River, and the boatmen’s efforts are like leaving a string sword and rushing to the middle of the Yellow River …
The explosion of three flares told the Tiger and Leopard troops to cross the river and told the rebels across the river to prepare for the battle.
So when dozens of ferries left the east bank of the Yellow River, groups of rebels had rushed to the artillery positions …
A door-to-door artillery was carried to the gun position, and a flower bomb was stuffed into the gun bore to light the matchrope torch one by one, and the rebels shook hands tightly to prepare for the battle …
Although there were no guns and cannons on the battlefield in Nuoda, the atmosphere of the battlefield became more and more tense as the distance between the two armies got closer and closer.
On the west bank of the Yellow River, when the rebels were ready to fire, they rushed to the middle of the Yellow River. The Tiger and Leopard Army actually made a move that shocked and despaired all the rebels.
Mortars at the bow of ten covered ferries quickly showed their ferocious faces to the rebels.
At the same time, it has started a Martian fire and quickly ignited the matchrope extending from the tail of the barrel.
Dozens of gunners just squatted at the bow with their ears covered, and a series of deafening roar sounded at the bow.
Ten bullet flame packages quickly flew out of the gun bore and then roared to the rebel artillery position hundreds of steps away.
Because these gunners are all veteran Wen Junsheng’s request to lower the muzzle old saying by an angle, the ten flower bombs did not deviate too much from the target because of the shelling by the ferry.
Four of the ten bombs directly roared at the rebel artillery positions.
In the face of this unprecedented shelling method, the traitor gunner has not yet reacted from shock, but the bomb has exploded around him.
With the rise of orange fireballs in the battlefield, a large number of shell fragments produced by the explosion of fireworks quickly formed an impenetrable steel storm in the battlefield.
These did not even evade, but wait for a while still rebelled against the thief gunners in situ, just like mature wheat was cut to the ground by this steel storm.
In a blink of an eye, there was a thick smell of blood in the artillery position with hundreds of gunners and traitors.
Not only that, 100 gunners also lost more than half in a flash.
"How can you move the ferry with such heavy artillery … how did loyalist do it …"
"What are loyalist shells falling from the sky but also flower shells … how can their shells hit so far? Are they all red cannons weighing several thousand kilograms?" With the explosion of flower shells, all kinds of doubts and problems were quickly shouted out by the rebel gunners in the artillery positions.
However, the artillery positions full of blood and murder answered them with nothing but wailing.
At this time, the mortar has fired a second round of bullets at the rebel artillery position because the shelling speed of the fixed ammunition is twice that of the ordinary artillery.
With a sharp whistling bullet, it once again appeared on the top of the rebel gunner’s head when he was full of panic.
When a flower bomb explodes, it doesn’t know how to avoid the rebel gunner. It’s like floating on the sea overnight, and the boat is instantly submerged by a steel storm composed of fireballs and shell fragments.
Of course, the butch gunner who is still hundreds of steps away is not aware of the rebel artillery position.
They knew that the musketeers must shoot ten projectiles at the rebel artillery position before landing, which would be a devastating blow to the rebel artillery position.
Although there are not many gunners in the rebel artillery position in Sono, they are still exploding with death and whistling bombs.
After ten rounds of bullet shooting, ten mortar gunners quickly adjusted the muzzle and transferred the shelling target to the infantry in front of the artillery position.
Even the rebels who acted as gunners were stunned by the roar of bullets, and even the guns rarely saw ordinary infantry.