Chapter 291: The Decisive Battle (Ask for Subscriptions, Ask for Collections, Ask for Tickets)
As the impact point of the shelling slowly extended into the distance, a whistle sounded from the position. The infantrymen, wearing breastplate armor and one-piece steel helmets, and holding wind spears, also trotted through the communication trenches to their combat positions and began to shoot at the cavalry that was in the way.
At the same time, the crossfire formed by the massive steam machine gun fire began to sweep down the cavalry who were caught in the fire trap one by one.
Suddenly, the Dothraki commanders in front of the position who were trying to reorganize their formation were swept away, and even when some of the commanders commanded their cavalry to try to reopen a bloody path, potato mines, exploding cherry directional mines, and freshly energized barbed wire made their movements difficult.
By this time, the cavalry at the forefront was in disarray, although they still had the will to fight. But this never-before-seen battlefield left them with no idea how to fight back.
Seeing this, the rear of the Dothraki began to draw their bows and arrows from the side of their saddles and counterattacked, but this hasty and scattered design was not very lethal to the armored soldiers hiding in the trenches. Only a few unlucky ones were carried down the traffic trench with arrows in their limbs. Soon the reserve staff filled their place.
By the time the seventh round of heavy artillery fire again blew up a large number of gaps in the reserve formation behind the cavalry, some of the cavalry of the little Karasa had begun to hesitate. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the infantry of Lazarin's army began to advance alternately along the communication trenches to the sound of whistles, under the cover of steam machine guns and small-caliber artillery, into the trenches that had previously been abandoned because of luring the enemy into depth. Include more enemy forces in your kill range.
In their fire, the enemies gathered together were peeled off layer by layer like peeling onions. Many of the cavalry of Little Karasa finally became impatient and began to flee backwards, and although they were quickly executed by Drogo's own cavalry, the decline of the Dothraki was already being revealed.
The cavalry behind them, who tried to line up and provide cover with bows and arrows, were quickly scattered by the artillery bombardment, and could not maintain their formation at all.
Finally, the battlefield was shrouded in smoke and dust. Ryan and the others can only adjust the direction of the fire projection based on the Rose Crystal's approximate mana perception of surface creatures when it flies over the battlefield.
Suddenly, the Dothraki cavalry began to slowly retreat, as if they were no longer able to attack. But Rose Crystal discovers that a large army is being assembled behind the cavalry line.
Is this going to be a return shotgun?" Ryan ordered the fire to be reduced and moved forward, while contacting each of the field priests through the Rose Crystal. Let them tell all the warriors to be on guard.
In this atmosphere of looseness on the outside and tightness on the inside, a new force of 10,000 people suddenly came out from among the retreating cavalry, led by a burly man with long hair and a shirtless sword brandishing a big sword. Both his men and his horses were larger than the other cavalry in the vicinity.
This man may have been the leader of the Dothraki people, and under his leadership, a number of disorganized cavalry joined the charge, kicking up billowing clouds of smoke and dust on the ground.
At the sound of the whistle, the cavalry had jumped out of the trenches on the way and pretended to be in pursuit, and then began to push away like water on both flanks, revealing a large line of soldiers waiting in the trenches behind, explosive cherry directional mines inserted in the soldiers' bunkers, and several medium-caliber steam cannons loaded with shotguns.
When the cavalry charged, many arrows clanged and struck on the cannon shields, which made the artillerymen hiding behind feel extremely nervous, and many of them had stiff facial expressions and numb hands and feet. However, under the fierce shouts of the priests and the threat of waving swords, they all resisted the urge to turn their heads and run, and did not do anything out of shape.
When this group of cavalry rushed to a place dozens of meters away from the position, dozens of flowers mixed with flesh and earth suddenly exploded in their formation. This was formed by the explosion of the potato mine that directly woke up the position of those cavalry after Lane felt through the front-line plants that most of the cavalry had entered the range of fire.
These explosions also served as a signal, and the soldiers in the frontal positions heard the screeching of shells coming from across the river behind them, and then exploded in the rear of the cavalry.
At the same time, the officers in the rear also began to wave the small flag in their hands, and then a long whistle sounded.
"Shotgun, extremely rapid-fire, elevation angle 0, put!" "With the order of the artillery commander, small and medium-caliber steam cannons on the perimeter positions joined the ranks of the firing. At the same time, the same order was given by the infantry officer.
The Lazarins were on their ground like a volcanic eruption, and all their weapons were added to the fire, pouring as much firepower as they could in a short period of time. In particular, those steam machine guns and artillery on the flanks showed their fangs for the first time in this battle.
The oncoming cavalry seemed to have crashed into an invisible wall and fell, and countless blood flowers burst out from both men and horses. In particular, the tall leader became the target of the fire at the first time, and in an instant, he fell to the ground with more than a dozen bullets in his body.
He was not the only cavalryman who fell, at the moment of fire. Many of the soldiers in Lazarin's army felt as if time had slowed down at that moment, and the cavalry in front of them fell to the ground in large numbers, and then they were trampled by the countless hooves of the rear cavalry.
But the Lazarin soldiers didn't have time to admire the eerie beauty in front of them. At the whistle and roar of the officers, they mechanically fired, loaded, and fired again according to the steps of the previous training, and the cavalry in front of them also fell layer by layer.
As the soldiers' mentality slowly adjusted, the frequency of shooting became higher and higher, and the smoke and dust formed by the explosion on the battlefield and the white steam steam leaked from the steam artillery filled the entire battlefield, forming a puff of smoke that could not be dispersed for the time being. This made the approaching cavalry seem vague, like monsters in the shadows.
I don't know how long it took, but two short whistles came from the position. It was only then that the soldiers came out of this mechanical firing state, and at the command of the military priest who carried the saber, drew a three-edged bayonet from the scabbard of the thigh and stuck it in their own guns. After that, the directional mines installed in front of the bunker were detonated in turn against the approaching cavalry.
However, after the continuous explosions, there were no imaginary cavalry rushing up, and only a faint noise could be heard in the fog. The soldiers could only look nervously at the fog in front of them, clenching the guns in their hands.
Finally, after a few minutes of waiting, the fog began to lift, revealing the empty battlefield in front of them. The corpses of men and horses fell on top of each other and fell to the ground, with only a few badly wounded Dothraki moaning there. In the distance, some of the fleeing cavalry turned into small black dots, and many steam robots carrying soldiers from both wings were chasing and killing.
"This, this is a victory?" said a Lazarin staff officer who saw this scene, a little confused, and he felt a little unbelievable about this victory. Because he saw through the binoculars that most of the nearly 100,000 Dothraki cavalry that appeared in the menacing crowd had turned into corpses and covered the entire battlefield, and the scattered Dothraki cavalry would not exceed 20,000, and it was still a mystery how many of them could escape under the pursuit of the steam robots.
The total population of the Dothraki people, including slaves, was about 300,000, and the army of nearly 100,000 here was equivalent to almost all of their young adults. It is now almost certain that the backbone of this nation has been completely broken.
"They...... Is it the end of it?, is it because the Dothraki have become weaker?" exclaimed another freed slave-turned-staff officer, who remembered how easily his fortress had been breached by these barbarians, so he really couldn't believe that a powerful people who had reigned for hundreds of years was over.
"As far as I know, most of the troops in this land began to break when they suffered 1/10 casualties, and the elite troops did not flee until 3/10 of the casualties, and these Dothraki suffered at least 7/10 casualties when they fled. They are well-deserved elites and have not become weaker. It's just that times have changed, gentlemen. Ryan stepped out from behind, and the staff officers raised their hands to him in a military salute. "Now let's rejoice, we have defeated the strongest cavalry in the known world. ”