Xiao Letian's two mixed battalions, plus all the officers, the total strength is only about 700 people, this amount of strength is not even a bubble in the entire Sadowa campaign, if General Moltke Lao merges them into the main attack queue, then these two mixed battalions can play a very small role.

However, no matter how weak the chess pieces are, as long as they are placed in the right position, they can also play a huge role, just like the pawn crossing the river in chess, sometimes it can play a role or even reverse.

Today, the chess piece of the mixed battalion was placed in the right position by Xiao Letian, and Shiqiao Heights was destined to become a place where Xiao Letian and his iron-blooded army became famous.

The distance of 60 meters will not even take ten seconds for the sprinters of later generations, but for the stragglers who are charging now, no matter how difficult the mud under their feet is, even if the comrades around them are fetters, 20 seconds can easily rush over.

In the plan of the old earl and the brigade commander Pengka, the first wave of more than a thousand stragglers who charged was actually going to die. They had carefully calculated with their staff officers before the battle, and this wave of stragglers began to suffer casualties when they rushed to about 100 meters, and the casualties reached the highest when they rushed to 60 to 50 meters, and if the power bonus of the rifles newly equipped by the Prussian army was included, the casualty rate should reach 60%

The huge casualties were exchanged for the remaining 40% of the troops rushing into the trenches for hand-to-hand combat, and the forty percent of the troops were far from being able to win hand-to-hand combat, and their sacrifice was actually to buy time for the subsequent skirmish charges.

After the first wave of skirmishers rushed to a distance of 60 meters from the trench, the second wave of 1,000-man stragglers began to slowly enter the battlefield and gradually trotted to accelerate.

By the time the first wave of skirmishers began hand-to-hand combat, the second wave of skirmishers basically rushed to more than 60 meters in front of the trench, and the second wave of stragglers was very lucky, without the rain of bullets to block, more than ninety percent of this wave of stragglers could rush into the trench to join the hand-to-hand combat.

Not only were there the second wave of stragglers who charged, but the old earl also arranged for the third and fourth waves, adding up to five thousand men who were thrown in.

In the plan of the Austrian army, there was no word for failure at all, and in the countless deductions of all the staff officers, the greatest possible casualties of the Austrian army were the first and second waves of the two groups of charging stragglers.

The casualties of more than 2,000 people are like a drizzle for the Thorn Flower Master, and they are not broken at all. As long as the Stone Bridge Heights can be taken, as long as the second army of Prince Karl can be blocked for an hour's march, the task of the Thorn Flower Division will be considered a successful completion.

But...... But no one thought that this must-win battle would turn into a puddle of mud.

The old earl trembled his hands, the frame of his glasses was deeply imprinted in his flesh, and his mouth whispered unconsciously.

"How so? Why didn't the high-density artillery cover have the intended effect? Why did their rifles have such a fast rate of fire? Even a breech-loading rifle could not have such an unnatural rate of fire."

"What's going on, who's going to tell me what's going on?"

No one could answer the old earl's question, because the Austrian intelligence agencies did not know the specific parameters of the Mauser rifle, and they did not know that the Mauser rifle was all fixed ammunition with cartridge cases.

In Count Tarbres's mind, even if you use a rear-loading rifle in Prussia, you should load your ammunition in two steps, and you can't always load the projectile and gunpowder together, right?

In the old earl's mind, the main advantage of the rear-loading rifle is the shooting position, the rear-loading rifle can be reloaded lying down, or half-kneeling, or it can be hidden behind the cover and sitting on the ground to reload, which is the advantage of the rear-loading rifle.

In fact, at that time, many military experts regarded breech-loading rifles as special guns for cavalry and skirmishers, and they never realized that one day all soldiers would popularize this new weapon.

It is because of this conceptual misunderstanding that the thorn flower master has suffered a lot.

Now it was not only the old count and baron who were dumbfounded, but all the officers and soldiers watching the battle on the entire battlefield were dumbfounded, and their jaws were about to drop in horror as they watched this one-sided massacre.

The charging army formation of more than 1,000 people seemed to have been invisibly slashed by the sickle of death in a few seconds, and countless soldiers were shaken by the rain of bullets and fell to the ground, and the entire charging line was screaming.

Bullets poured out of the trench one after another, Mauser rifles rested on the dirt pile, sparks bloomed from the muzzles, ruthless soldiers silently pulled the trigger to harvest one life after another, and the distance of sixty meters became an insurmountable gap between life and death for the Austrian army.

"Very good...... Everyone keeps the rhythm...... You don't need to think on the battlefield, you just need to calmly pull the trigger......"

"You rookies, let you see the blood today, and you can brag about being a veteran in the future...... Why are you standing so high? Are you a live target for the enemy?"

"All the grenades are ready, the enemy is already close to thirty meters, wait a little longer and let them get closer...... Blow them up......"

All the New Army officers in the trenches calmly gave orders, their aura infected all the Hamburg New Army present, and the enemy on the opposite side was swept away by their own side in pieces, at this time every soldier had infinite confidence in his heart.

More than 600 Mauser rifles, plus more than 100 Spencer's several volleys, caught the Austrians by surprise, and in just ten seconds, the Austrian attrition had reached sixty percent, and the remaining forty percent were not lucky, when they rushed to twenty meters of the trench, a grenade blew up their last bit of luck.

Boom Boom Boom ...... The battlefield was filled with fire and smoke, and the terrifying scene stunned the second wave of charging stragglers, and countless soldiers subconsciously stopped, and even the officers in the team forgot to command.

The silence of the whole battlefield was like death, everyone couldn't believe their eyes, the war scene they saw today was completely beyond their imagination, and even those officers who graduated from the Higher Military Academy were at a loss in their hearts, such a form of combat has not been recorded in a military textbook in the world.

The sound of gunfire, explosions, and people's shouts of killing gradually faded away, and I don't know when a breeze rose on the battlefield, blowing away the smoke from the explosion of the grenade.

It was only at this time that people saw that the huge charging formation, which had just stretched for hundreds of meters like a rainbow, had now been cut down like a dead snake.

From the sixty meters onwards, the ground is littered with corpses, and the layers are shocking to watch. More than 20 meters away from the trench, there were some survivors standing scattered, they either stood alone in a daze, or gathered in groups of three or five to look at the enemy on the opposite side in horror, and hastily counted the lucky ones together, there were only one or two hundred people.

At this time, the battlefield was shrouded in a strange atmosphere, these little two hundred lucky people had long lost their will to fight, they had been drained of their souls by this killing, their eyes were full of confusion, they stood in place stupidly and even forgot to flee for their lives.

The Prussian soldiers in the trenches also stopped shooting at this time, they looked at the half-stupid Austrians, dead or alive, and the officers of the New Army did not give the order to fire, Xiao Letian's education hoped that they were a group of brave iron-blooded soldiers, not a group of murderers.

Daniel in the living treasure trio, raised his head and looked at an Austrian soldier more than ten meters opposite, I don't know how to get it, in Daniel's eyes, this Austrian veteran in his forties actually looked a little like an uncle of his.

"Shhhh Shhhh Are you stupid? We don't shoot anymore, why don't you leave? You're left alone, and you're still......"

Speaking of this, Daniel suddenly felt a little hot in his back, and when he looked back, he found that the squad leader Zhao Yidao was glaring at him, but it was strange that the stern squad leader did not stop him from speaking.

Daniel didn't have any scruples at this time, he suddenly roared loudly, "Run... You stupid hats, all of them are gone, why don't you run away? Waiting to die......

With Daniel taking the lead, then Steven, Grant, and even more soldiers clamoured in the trenches to "run... Why don't you run...... You are the victims of this wave of charge, and you stupid birds are the victims......"

The roar finally woke up the frightened Austrians, who looked at the rows of black holes on the opposite side, and then looked at the stumps and severed arms around them, and the frightened souls finally flew back.

"Fuck you, even if you shoot me, I won't wait......" The Austrian soldiers ran back, no matter how loud the snare drums charged in the army formation behind them, and no one looked back.

This was only a small episode in the battlefield, and after a short period of shock, the Austrians quickly resumed their offensive rhythm, and the second wave of charging skirmishers began to accelerate, and the officers in the ranks were shouting frantically, cheering for the soldiers.

In Xiao Letian's eyes, this second wave of thousand-man stragglers is much smarter than the first wave, they have learned from the previous failure experience, this time the stragglers queue is longer, the thickness of the military formation has also increased a lot, and the distance between soldiers and soldiers has also been widened.

"Clever, Austria is indeed one of the European army powers, and it has found a way to deal with it so quickly...... Faced with such a rapid firing frequency, they have no other good way to do it than accelerate and reduce the density of their charges......"

Xiao Letian gently twisted the focus of the telescope, and said with a sneer, "It's a pity, it's a pity, even if you temporarily adjust your tactics, you can't change the outcome of defeat...... Because on the battlefield, it's not just you who have been tempered and improved..."

Xiao Letian was right, at this time, the two special battalions under his command, a hand-to-hand combat, an artillery battle, and a positional battle, had perfectly integrated into the state of war, and they were already familiar with this unique atmosphere on the battlefield.

Once again, the Mauser rifle rang out in a dense manner, and grenades were dropped one by one on the heads of the charging soldiers, and the sound of gunfire and explosions echoed in unison.

The soldiers of the task force no longer panicked, and everyone shot calmly, and the bullets rained down accurately and ruthlessly. But this time the Austrians were really desperate, and all the soldiers shouted the slogan "Long live the king" and ran forward with bayonets in hand.

This time, even the salvo at 50 meters was spared, and more than 1,000 people crashed into it like a bull. Bullets took lives, grenades blew up figures, and every step in the charge was filled with human lives.

It was not until the end, when the Austrians had paid seventy percent of the casualties that they approached the trenches, at which point all the Austrian officers who were still alive shouted "charge" like madness...... Charge...... Rush into the trenches and kill them......"

And Count Tarbris, who was standing in the rear, almost fell off his horse in excitement, "Hurry up...... What about the third wave of stragglers? Why don't they speed up...... Seize the fighter, you must seize this opportunity, this is an opportunity to fill in with your life..."

......Directly in front of the old earl, the third wave of thousand-man stragglers let out a collective roar and rushed towards the high ground like a torrent.

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