For the first time, the veteran hated his keenness to the battlefield situation.

His prediction was very accurate, and the Black Hawks did not let the battlefield silence for too long.

At that time, the needle was pointed at 8:20, which was one hour and twenty minutes before the first round of artillery fire of the Black Hawk Army. After half an hour of silence, the Black Hawk Army's overwhelming artillery fire was once again shrouded in.

This time the artillery fire lasted longer than the first time, as if the artillery fire could vent its anger. The Black Hawk artillery, which was frustrated in the first wave of attack, accumulated enough strength to bombard the artillery, and both time and intensity were more intense than the first time.

However, for the officers and soldiers of the 48th Regiment who have been tested for artillery fire, the losses in artillery fire are smaller than those in the first wave. New recruits who fail to avoid artillery fire are basically eliminated in the first round. The rest depends on who is better luck.

Although the field fortifications that took a day and a night were not perfect enough, they were enough to allow more than a thousand officers and soldiers to survive by luck. The soldiers who died in the second round of artillery fire would not exceed two infantry platoons.

The Black Hawks began to attack again.

Moreover, this time, in order to increase the success rate of attack, the two gunboats cruised 200 meters away from the river bank, and used the 80mm naval gun at the bow of the boat to conduct direct aiming at the shore. Whether it is a ship at sea or an inland ship, in order to pursue the accuracy of artillery shelling, the main gun is generally a cannon.

The addition of two cannons, only one mile away from the shore, undoubtedly a major threat to the firepower point on the opposite shore. Moreover, the two gunboats each equipped with 6 6.6mm heavy machine guns, which is equivalent to two steel fortresses that can move up and down.

The remaining 10 mortars were not exposed or the Black Hawks' mountain cannons were still exposed to their shelling behind the position. At least six of them were straightened and headed towards the center of the river where the rumbling artillery fire was fired. However, due to the night, the artillery observers at the forefront of the position could not know where the gunboat was in the river. They could only rely on the flames coming out of the muzzle to estimate the distance of the gunboat from the front position. Moreover, the gunboat was very cunning, and they moved their position immediately after firing a few guns.

Six cannons chased the target hidden in the night for ten minutes, but they failed to hit a single shot. They could only blew up the river water and a dead fish in the heart of the river in vain.

The cannons of the defenders on the kingdom side were unable to take them, but for the two gunboats of the Black Hawk Army, they were like fish in water. They discovered the flames of muzzles that were continuously firing at heavy fire points on the shore, and within thirty seconds their shells would be fired. It may also be that the cannons could not hit one shot because of the night, but the continuous number of cannons was enough to blow the fire within fifty meters around the fire point into black. Even if they could not use shells to bombard you, your heavy machine gunners would be frightened and could only hide them for the time being.

Even though the heavy machine gunners are very cautious, they also have anti-cannon holes around them to avoid artillery fire, the heavy machine gun is not a light machine gun of more than ten kilograms, and they can carry it to run by one person. The thing with a tripod is more than sixty kilograms, and no two or three people can move it. In addition, there are not many heavy machine guns, so these heavy machine gunners are almost desperate for their lives. When they see the Black Hawk Army's cannons targeting them, their first idea is not to hide in the anti-cannon hole to save their lives, but to fight to the death to get the heavy machine gun away, which has led to an increase in casualties.

In just seven or eight minutes, there were more than fifteen heavy machine gunners under two 80mm cannons of the two gunboats of the Black Hawks, and two heavy machine guns were blown up.

However, the four double-mounted machine guns were still not shot. However, Chen Sheng had already driven one of the main shooters of the machine guns off the fortress and sat on the machine gun operating chair himself. Around the machine gun was a circle of four-layer sandbags with a height of nearly one meter, and the long gun barrel was exploring out from the shooting port that was half a meter wide.

Yes, in order to ensure the safety of these four large killing weapons, Chen Sheng also took great pains to set up the most commonly used ring fortifications of the Kingdom Army around the machine guns, but also had four layers of sandbags with a thickness of more than two meters. Even if they were forced to get a cannon with a caliber of 100 mm, it would be fine. He also specially applied for the shooting authority of all machine guns to Xie Yunsheng. Without his order, the four machine guns arranged on the left and right wings of the position were not allowed to fire. Even the officers and soldiers on the position had already thought that it was at the most critical moment.

Since few officers and soldiers of the 48th Regiment, such as machine guns, have been fired by several officers and soldiers, so the total of four machine guns is basically provided by Chen Sheng's infantry company. Even if the two machine guns sent to the left wing are nominally commanded by the infantry company on the far left, they are actually obeyed Chen Sheng. Chen Sheng did not order shooting. Even if the infantry battalion commander pressed the gun on their heads, they would never pull the trigger. What's more, there were orders from the regiment headquarters.

Facts proved that Chen Sheng's decision was completely correct. It was precisely because during the offensive and defensive battle that the Black Hawk Empire Army believed that the Kingdom Guardian had used all their cards, and their gunboats unscrupulously approached the shore nearly 200 meters and became two movable turrets and firepower points. At this moment, they did not play too well. Whether it was the Kingdom Guardian's mountain cannons or mortars, they could only rely on the focal point, but they could aim at the firepower points exposed by the Kingdom Guardian.

The thick night color covered the Black Hawk Army's gunboats, which made the King's Qu-fire cannons useless, but the night color also hid the King's soldiers' four machine guns. Until now, no one knew that the King's defenders still had four machine guns that could shoot 2,000 meters in a flat range, and the 20mm machine gun that could penetrate 15mm steel plates within a distance of 500 meters existed.

The four machine guns were lucky. The overwhelming shelling of the Black Hawk Army did not fall into the ring fortifications of the machine guns. The 105 howitzer, the closest to the two machine guns owned by Chen Sheng's infantry company, also exploded fifteen meters outside the fortifications. The strong enough ring fortifications blocked the terrible impact of the air waves and protected the precious machine guns.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The Black Hawks gunboats ravaged for seven or eight minutes, but Chen Sheng did not fire the gunboats. That was him waiting, waiting for the Black Hawks gunboats to enter his shooting world. If you want to increase your protection, you must sacrifice the shooting world. After weighing the trade-offs, you must make the necessary sacrifice. The shooting port that is only half a meter wide is not enough to cover the entire river surface within the firepower range of the machine gun.

Chen Sheng finally had the opportunity to fire the gun. When one of the gunboats rumbled again, the flames at the muzzle exposed their position. Just within the range of the machine gun fired by Chen Sheng, Chen Sheng decisively pulled the trigger.

Ten rounds of bullet boards were quickly emptied in less than six seconds. The long-prepared archer quickly inserted the bullet board. In a few seconds, the shells were emptied again, and the bullet board was emptied again. In less than 20 seconds, Chen Sheng fired 30 rounds of shells in one breath. After seeing the unique thick chains of bullets fired by the machine gun, the other three began to shoot at the target that had been staring for a few seconds later.

The machine gun is not just a curve gun. The effective range of this thing is more than 2,000 meters. If the muzzle is facing upward and attacks with a parabola, the lethality is even more than 3,500 meters. Now, as long as the approximate position of the Black Hawk Army gunboat is determined, the error is as long as no more than 30 meters. It is not easy to hit the big guy who is fifty meters long?

Not to mention the machine guns, there were at least a dozen heavy machine guns on the shore who were shooting at the gunboat just now. However, the power of the heavy machine gun was too small, so there was not much help from the Black Hawk gun operators hiding behind the steel plate. At most, they would add some bullet holes to the hull or sparks would be fired.

As we all know, in order to resist the attacks of enemy naval guns, the thickness of steel plates of sea ships is terrible.

This is talking about giant ships on the sea, not these gunboats navigated in the inland rivers. In order to navigate in the inland rivers, gunboats weighing 250 tons and more than 50 meters must be shallow enough to navigate in the inland rivers, so they can only reduce the displacement. This armor protection can only be abandoned. Perhaps the armor on the side of the armour still has dozens of millimeters to withstand the attack of sixty or seventy millimeters of cannons, but the cabin plate on the ship cannot be so thick, it is good to be more than ten millimeters. As for the armor belt of the main gun on the head of the ship, it is even more optional. If it is hit by the opponent's 50mm caliber artillery, it will definitely be alive.

In other words, the gunboats equipped by the Black Hawk Army have sufficient defense against the power of the 20mm machine gun, that is, the ship's side, and the construction and gun positions on the ship can only be achieved by luck.

The main shooters of the four machine guns were all iron-blooded soldiers who had experienced the Battle of Four. In a few days, the machine guns and shells they fired were not 2,000 and 1,500. They were already very skilled in operating. No matter where they pointed, they could definitely do it.

When four precise shooters controlled the machine guns and aimed at two unscrupulous gunboats to fire, in the dark night, within a few dozen seconds, both gunboats were hit with more than forty shells respectively.
Chapter completed!