Mauser is a very classic rear-loading needle prick rifle in human history, although the rate of fire of this rifle is not as good as that of the American Spencer, but his accuracy, range, and lethality are very good, if you consider it comprehensively, the score of the Mauser rifle is much higher than that of Spencer.

Originally, in Xiao Letian's memory, the Mauser rifle should have been heavily equipped during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, but later he learned that it was precisely because of his sudden appearance that the delicate balance between Prussia and France was broken, forcing France to strongly support Austria, which allowed Mauser, the secret weapon of the Prussian kingdom, to show its figure in advance.

High precision, long range, high lethality, simple structure and strong reliability, and even the bullets are produced on the assembly line of smokeless gunpowder, which greatly reduces the possibility of dumb fire and explosion.

Unfortunately, the Empire's finances were too tight, and now there were only more than 20,000 Mauser rifles in the entire Prussian arsenal, which were not equipped by the whole army at all, and most of the soldiers still used slightly backward Dreiser.

Although there are not many Mauser rifles, they can still ensure the use of Xiao Letian's friendly army, to be honest, Bismarck and Old Moltke are still interesting enough, the two mixed battalions led by Xiao Letian are all Mauser rifles, and the ammunition is also open to supply, for Xiao Letian's safety, Prussia can be regarded as having made a bloody investment.

Sure enough, when the Mauser rifle began to shoot, the Austrian troops on the opposite side immediately felt the pressure, and now the vanguard of the Austrian army has been devastated by Spencer and high explosives, and the entire charging army can no longer form a crowd in the first ten meters of the front of the formation, just a group of independent people.

What is even more terrifying is that the destructive power of high explosives on human hearing and perception is astonishing, and the momentum of charging forward to kill the enemy just now made the destruction of these 20-odd explosion points quickly dissipate like gunsmoke.

"Accelerate, accelerate...... The enemy can't have any more explosives, we have to attack......" The company commander, whose ears were already deaf, rushed forward in vain brandishing his command knife, unaware that there were no more brothers by his side.

"Ah...... Please give me a shot, my leg is gone......" The old soldier who was left with his waist touched the ground crawled helplessly on the ground, begging his comrades to give him a good time.

It was only now that the brethren discovered that the enemy on the other side was not a cowardly sheep at all, but a group of cruel and inhuman madmen, who attacked mercilessly, with accurate and ruthless marksmanship, and pounced on bullets like locusts, knocking down a soldier with almost every shot.

"Damn, what kind of weapon is this?What kind of soldier is this?What kind of battle is this......" The officer with a pained face vented his feelings with roars and angry scolding.

"Damn bastards, are your muskets scrap metal? Shoot, shoot at the enemy, it's all idiots......" Only then did the charging soldier realize that he also had a musket in his hand, and hurriedly aimed and shot.

After all, the Austrian army is outnumbered, this round of musket firing is extremely powerful, the gunfire is like thunder, the smoke of gunpowder is like a cloud, it looks really a bit elite, but it is a pity that there is no enemy standing on the opposite side waiting for you to shoot, more than ninety percent of the bullets fired in a straight line hit the bunker of dirt, and only a few lucky ricochets caused a slight result.

"Hahaha, what a stupid commander, if it's possible, I'll definitely visit him after the war...... Hahaha, what kind of stupidity is this to launch a full-army charge when the enemy situation is unknown? Do you think this is a group fight?"

Xiao Lotian shook his head and sighed with a wry smile, and he was in a good mood and became a volunteer docent for Jonas next to him.

"There are only three directions for the development of future wars, firepower, defense and mobility, and in my analysis, mobility will not change much in the next two or three decades, and railways and cavalry are still the main factors of mobility, so the top priority of our military innovation is in the two points of firepower and defense......

As soon as Jonas heard that Xiao Lotian was starting to do something, he quickly took out his notebook to record it, they knew that on the surface, Xiao Letian's words were meant for him, but in fact, he wanted to pass these words to the upper echelons of the empire through his mouth.

"Look at the foxholes on the forward positions, although I have only deployed 200 marksmen, but the firepower of these 200 marksmen is beyond your imagination...... Two hundred Spencers, pouring out 1,400 projectiles in ten seconds, how many lives do you have to fill with such dense firepower?"

"Let's take a look at those 20 hidden explosion points, the latest high-explosive developed by the Nobel Company has such great power, the amount of explosives at one explosion point is only three kilograms, but the power is unimaginable for the army accustomed to black powder......

"What a stupid commander is this, in the face of such a strange defensive formation of ours, he actually became contemptuous as soon as he came up, and he didn't even bother to use the most basic tentative attacks, and directly charged in groups......?

At this time, Shi Dakai, the winged king who was watching the battle, also spoke: "Yes, when any commander encounters an unknown enemy, he should choose a small force to carry out a tentative attack, and at the last time he will score three or four offensive waves, and launch an attack like a wave?

"Although war is always about death, how can a good commander be good at achieving the best result with the smallest casualties, so how can he not cherish the lives of soldiers so much......? What's the difference between this and driving out the homeless people to attack the city?"

The second half of the Winged King's words were so small that only he could hear them, and he was so immersed in the memories of the past that he couldn't extricate himself.

Jonas didn't hear Shi Dakai's words clearly, he looked at the Austrians advancing while shooting down the gentle slope, and asked nervously, "But the situation of the enemy has not changed, and now the enemy has no intention of retreating...... You see, they're starting to accelerate again......"

Xiao Letian glanced at his glasses and said with a faint smile, "It doesn't matter, what they have to face is a three-dimensional defense belt, the foxhole is just an appetizing dessert, and the big killing is still to come...... I'm just curious now, why hasn't this commander withdrawn his troops until now, and where is their artillery? It's so strange......"

Where would Xiao Lotian have thought that the enemy opposite him would actually be Viscount Alain, who was making trouble for him at the hamburger party, and the Prussian intelligence officer never thought that General Benedek would temporarily use this useless thorn flower division.

Viscount Alain was now insane, and if there was a pure Prussian army on the other side, then the regular regimental commander who had graduated from the military academy would still be able to make the right judgment, but today he met the enemy who had humiliated him in Hamburg, and his anger had already burned his mind.

"Attack, all soldiers continue to attack...... You stupid people, so many people have already died, and you still don't speed up the charge? Do you want to retreat and charge again, and be swept down by them again? Don't let your comrades die in vain, a distance of a hundred meters is not enough to defeat the elite of the empire......"

Alain was now furious in his heart, and the bloody stump and broken arm in his glasses made him even more nauseous, but he couldn't back down, definitely not back.

The defeat at the hamburger party has made Alain a laughing stock in Viennese aristocratic circles, and now the impression of the Chinese in the whole of Europe is rotten, backward, and cowardly, and you Alain actually suffered a secret loss at the hands of the Chinese, which shows that you have no power to what extent.

People are often like this, the son of a big family in the village can lose to the children of a stronger family than him, and he can lose to the descendants of those high-ranking officials and magnates, but he must not lose to Wang Xiaoer, who herds cattle for their family in the village.

The current Viscount Alain is like this, he has equated Xiao Letian's group of Chinese officers with lowly barbarians, if his noble nobles recognized by the Habsburg Dynasty are defeated here, he will simply go incognito to other countries in the future, and he will have no face to go back to Vienna.

"Attack, everybody attack...... Charge, give me speed...... There is only a hundred meters in front of you, what are you hesitating about?Cowards, they are all cowards......" Viscount Alain shouted.

At this time, an adjutant beside him really couldn't stand it, "Sir... Can't we fight like this, don't you see that the trenches on the high ground are getting deeper and longer? The enemy is very well prepared, and we can't afford to be brutal because we have suffered such a big loss just by a single outlying defensive line..."

"In half an hour at most, our regiment's direct artillery company will be able to arrive, and the twelve field guns equipped with sufficient shells can completely raze this small plateau to the ground, so why should we make unnecessary sacrifices......"

Before the loyal adjutant could finish his words, suddenly a black shadow flashed in front of him, and he heard a snap Viscount Alan whip on his face.

"Damn bastard, remember that I'm the supreme commander here, what right do you have to order me?"

"Hmm......" The adjutant snorted, and a red mark appeared diagonally on his face, "Sir...... I'm not ordering you, I'm just ......"

"Shut up, shut your mouth right now... Do you know who the enemy is on the opposite high ground? It's that nasty group of Chinese, it's the damn Xiao Letian..."

"You want me to wait for artillery support now? Don't you want to wait until the artillery arrives, won't the other main forces of our division be able to catch up? Do you want me to be embarrassed in front of my other colleagues? Let them see that we can't even hit such a small groundbreaking slope?"

"Get out of the way, I just want to win, I don't care what the price is, I just want to win...... Since the soldiers are in the war, they must be prepared to sacrifice, otherwise you are still soldiers..."

The adjutant looked at the commander who had fallen into a frenzy, and could no longer say anything, he just felt his chest block uncomfortably. Oh, yes... How can a soldier go to the battlefield to be immortal, but the road is so indescribable that you can't even bother to do it from the mouth of your commander?

You look down on the commoners from the bottom of your heart, you are a proud nobleman, and there is a kind of you who rush to the first and charge forward with the soldiers, and if you can do it, none of the soldiers will have the slightest complaint. It's a pity that you only call the shots behind your back, is our life just a string of numbers in the merit book in your eyes?

Just when the adjutant was indignant and cursed in his heart, suddenly the Austrian soldiers on the battlefield let out an excited roar "Charge, rush forward, these bastards retreat......"

"What? Retreated—" The adjutant couldn't believe his ears and turned his head to look at the battlefield.

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