We have fought to the Arctic Circle, and you want me to inherit the throne?

Kaibu Munezane looked in that direction, and through the misty rain and the lingering smoke, he saw a scene that shattered his heart and liver:

Behind the Fengtian Army’s position, the black muzzles of the guns were still spewing deadly flames, and the rain had no effect on them.

Every roar was accompanied by a tongue of orange-red flame tearing through the rain curtain.

Immediately afterwards, a heavy artillery shell, with a sharp scream, slammed into the Japanese army.

Every explosion instantly cleared a large area, leaving behind a bloody pit and countless wailing and rolling bodies.

Seeing this scene, Kaibu Munezane opened his mouth wide and let the rain pour into his throat, but no sound came out.

Like a dying beast, he slammed his fists into the muddy ground, splashing a turbid blood and mud.

"How is that possible? With such heavy rain, how could their artillery still be able to fire?!"

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

He couldn't understand it, it went against his understanding.

The Fengtian Army's muskets had clearly misfired, so why were their artillery still roaring in the rain?!

. . . . . .

Fengtian Army artillery position.

The rain poured down, hitting the cold gun body and splashing fine water droplets.

However, the gunners of the Dongfeng Army were not affected by the rain at all. They continued to move swiftly and cooperated well.

The gunners covered the key positions of the loading port and vent at the rear of the artillery with thick rainproof cloth coated with tung oil.

The edges of these rainproof cloths are fixed to the gun body with iron buckles, just like holding up a small umbrella for the gun, perfectly isolating the ignition mechanism from the invasion of rain.

At the same time, the soldiers responsible for carrying the powder barrels carefully took out the powder barrels tightly wrapped in thick wax paper from the wooden boxes covered with oilcloth.

The wax paper remained shiny even after the rain, and water did not get through.

The torrential rain did indeed destroy the Fengtian Army's musket line formation, but the artillery was not destroyed.

Li Che knew very well that gunpowder was most afraid of rainy days, so the Dongfeng Army conducted strict rainy day training to ensure that the cannons could be fired even in the rain.

These waterproof cloths were sewn by tens of thousands of female workers at Fengguo Weaving Factory, who worked hard day and night.

How can the will of Fengguo to unite be broken by just a rain?

This is what it means when man conquers nature!

The gunner skillfully tore open the wax seal, poured dry gunpowder into the barrel and compacted it, then put in the equally dry shrapnel, and pushed it to the bottom with the push rod.

"Loading complete!"

"aim!"

"Prepare—release!"

The gunner waved the command flag in his hand.

The gunner in charge of ignition used the ignition rod to reach the firing port protected by a rainproof cloth.

laugh--

boom! ! !

With a huge roar, the gun barrel suddenly recoiled, and the deadly shell whizzed out of the barrel again!

"Quick! Clean the barrel and prepare for the next shot!"

The gunner wiped the rain off his face and roared.

On the high platform, Li Che looked at the Japanese army under the cover of artillery fire, which was in chaos like an ant nest blown up, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

The Japs had a good idea, thinking that a rain could turn defeat into victory?

Little did he know that the devil is one foot high and the road is ten feet higher. When making the cannon, Li Che proposed that in addition to the stability of the cannon, the most important thing is waterproofness.

These waterproof measures are matched with the artillery and leave the factory together with the artillery. Each one has undergone rigorous waterproof testing to ensure that it can be fired even in the rain.

Li Che turned around and instructed Qiu Bai, who was also stunned by the sound of the cannon:

"Pass the order down. After this round of rapid suppression, have the infantry prepare to attack."

The first round of rapid artillery fire was only to cover the musketeers' retreat, and the next one was the killer move!

Thinking of the next tactics, Li Che's voice became excited:

"Go and order the gun crews to adjust the firing angles, calculate the extension, and prepare—"

Li Che paused, his eyes lit up instantly:

"Xu Jin Danmu!"

Hearing these four words, Qiu Bai became spirited and immediately took the order and left.

After a long time, the first round of rapid artillery fire finally stopped.

The battlefield was dead silent, with only the sound of heavy rain washing over the ground and the dying groans of the wounded.

The Japanese soldiers were terrified by the explosion, their ears were filled with sharp buzzing sounds, their brains were blank, and they lay dazed in the cold mud.

Someone struggled to get up from the pile of his companions' bodies, tried to wash the mud off his eyelids with his hands, and looked into the distance.

The gun smoke mixed with water vapor formed a gray curtain of death, making it difficult for the Japanese soldiers to tell whether they were in the human world or hell.

There seemed to be nothing in front of the Fengtian Army's musket troops, only a cloud of mist.

However, the dead silence lasted only a few minutes.

boom! boom! boom!

The sound of artillery fire rang out again with greater rhythm.

The flames of the explosions bloomed one after another in the rain, like the stairway to hell extending step by step towards Xiaguan City.

A surviving Japanese soldier was so frightened by the explosion behind him that he was at a loss as to what to do and subconsciously looked back.

"kill--"

The deafening shouts and cries of killing erupted from the rain and smoke in front of them like thunder.

The gray rain mist was torn apart, and countless figures wearing black armor and holding gleaming spears and swords appeared in the rain.

The Japanese soldiers opened their eyes wide and saw an endless stream of Fengtian Army soldiers before them, breaking through the fog and rushing into the Japanese front line where people and horses were in chaos.

When he wanted to see more, he felt his vision spinning and then falling rapidly.

In the end, he only saw his headless body lying on the ground. The Fengtian Army soldier who cut off his head stepped on the muddy blood and the aftermath of the explosion and rushed towards another of his kind.

The Fengtian Army infantry crashed into the Japanese army's chaotic line with overwhelming force.

All this, from the cessation of artillery fire to the infantry charge, happened in just a dozen seconds!

Infantry-artillery coordination is a tactic in which heavy artillery forms a fire network and infantry coordinates and advances rapidly.

From the enemy's perspective, the shelling had just ended when the Fengtian Army soldiers rushed up on the aftershocks of the artillery fire, leaving them no chance to breathe.

This tactic sounds simple, but it was extremely difficult to implement in ancient times when communication technology was so primitive.

Because the killing power of artillery shells has a range, and the accuracy of artillery shells also has a range, a large-scale infantry charge requires extremely strong organizational capabilities, and the coordination with artillery must be very precise.

If the enemy is slow to prepare, they will be killed by their own shells.

The following distance of the Xu Jin barrage is related to the training level of the infantry and the accuracy of the artillery shooting.

The most important thing is the coordination ability of infantry and artillery.

You have to know that the battlefield is not a game, everyone has a God's perspective.

Knowing the changes in artillery landing points, the marching positions of infantry and the positions they will soon arrive at are all very difficult and require a lot of training and planning.

At the same time, the overall organizational requirements for the army are extremely high.

In order to use this epoch-making tactic, the infantry and artillery conducted countless rehearsals.

Even so, the infantry-artillery coordination used was a youthful version, and it was impossible to launch a full-scale offensive as soon as the artillery fire stopped.

But it is more than enough to deal with these uncivilized Japanese beasts.