In fact, Gao Changgong has always believed that these muskets and artillery invented by Xiao Yao are some cross-era products, and they are new weapons that are many times more powerful than those swords, guns, swords, and sticks, as long as the Qi army is equipped with these weapons, then the Qi State can reverse the current situation of being backward and beaten among the three kingdoms of Zhou, Qi and Chen, and can become strong again, and even fulfill the long-cherished wish of his grandfather Gao Huan to dominate the world!

Therefore, he has been studying these weapons invented by Xiao Yao, not only in the face of Emperor Gao Wei's suspicions, he has mobilized a lot of manpower and material resources to study the formula of gunpowder and improve the technology of cast iron, but he is also very interested in the lessons that Xiao Yao has taught Zhang Dabao, and often asks Zhang Dabao to repeat the content of Xiao Yao's lectures at that time for him, and then dig out more secrets of these firearms from these fragmentary information!

And Gao Changgong was originally a very talented and very smart person, his understanding of thermal weapons can be said to be even more powerful than Zhang Dabao, not only can the number of Xiao Yao's artillery be calculated from the sound of artillery, but also can guess that the volume and weight of these cannons are much larger than those sub-cannons!

Therefore, the decision he made to use cavalry to attack Xiao Yao's position was still very correct a month ago!

Because as long as you avoid the frontal attack of the artillery, and then in the face of those less powerful musket shots, as long as you use a large number of cavalry to attack the sea of people, you can use the speed of the cavalry to break through the defense of the musket team and break into Xiao Yao's artillery position.

But that's no longer the case!

Because in this month, Xiao Yao created a hand-cranked Gatling machine gun, a weapon against the sky that was specially used to deal with cavalry, so now Xiao Yao deliberately only let the artillery battalion use those four bronze guns to intermittently shell the Qi army's position, and then lure Gao Changgong to send cavalry troops to charge!

Soon, the command of the Qi army raised a banner, so that the Qi cavalry team ambushed on the side of the Qi army's artillery position immediately mounted their horses, and then charged Xiao Yao's position.

"Commander, the cavalry of the Qi army is rushing over! And they seem to have seen the problem of the slow movement of our artillery, and the cavalry all avoided the direction of artillery fire and rushed to the sides of our position! Li Nong said nervously.

"What we're waiting for is their cavalry! Now Gao Changgong's artillery unit has basically been crippled by us, as long as we defeat this cavalry team again, then Gao Changgong will definitely be defeated today! Xiao Yao said with a sneer, and then shouted loudly: "Machine gunners prepare, as long as their cavalry comes into range, fire at me immediately!" ”

So, on top of a small hand-built dirt slope on both sides of the artillery battalion position, a wooden cart was launched, on which a Gatling machine gun was mounted, and then five sought-after men were responsible for controlling: one of them was a shooter, an experienced and psychologically qualified veteran, who was responsible for shaking the knob and shooting, and at the same time could turn the muzzle at any time to strafe within a range of 120 degrees; And next to the shooter, there are two ammunition men, one for the installation of the magazine, and one for the delivery of the magazine; Finally, behind these three people, there are two helpers who are responsible for pushing carts and carrying ammunition!

Of course, in addition to the five soldiers who are responsible for operating the shooting, Xiao Yao also equipped them with a musketeer of more than 20 people, after all, these two Gatling machine guns are very important to Xiao Yao, and there must be no accidents, so in order to prevent any fish from slipping through the net from suddenly rushing to their vicinity, causing them to be in any danger, Xiao Yao arranged this musket team to be responsible for protecting their safety throughout the process!

When the two machine guns were already in place, and the magazine containing a hundred rounds of ammunition was inserted, and the muzzle angle of the guns had been adjusted, the thousands of cavalry of the Qi army had already rushed to a place less than 500 meters away from the artillery battalion position!

And in the face of this group of Qi cavalry, which was already scattered, but still looked dense, the oppressive atmosphere caused by the rapid sound of horses' hooves and the murderous shouting of killing still made Xiao Yao's soldiers on his side seem a little nervous, and they couldn't help but swallow their saliva and regulate their emotions.

When the cavalry rushed into a distance of 100 meters, Xiao Yao waved his flag and shouted: "Fire!" ”

"Da Da Da!" The ten barrels of the Gatling machine gun turned around in a second and had already fired ten rounds at the opposite cavalry, and the trained shooter kept the rhythm of turning the knob while turning the muzzle of the gun to shoot at the rushing cavalry!

Suddenly, the bullets in the Gatling machine gun rained down like raindrops, shooting towards the Qi cavalry who were charging!

After ten turns of the handle, the bullets in the magazine had been fired, and all the 100 bullets had been fired on the body of the cavalry, and only ten seconds had passed! The ammologist immediately pulls out the empty magazine and inserts another magazine full of bullets, and the whole action is done in one go! The shooter continued to shoot at the cavalry, which was still charging.

Two machine guns, respectively strafing the Qi cavalry on the two sides, less than a minute later, the Qi cavalry in the rain of bullets had fallen at least a thousand people, and together with their war horses, they all fell to the ground together, and the blood flowing from the bullet holes on their bodies flowed on the white snow, which was even more dazzling!

Xiao Yao didn't shout to stop, so the shooter could only continue shooting!

Although the cavalry of the Qi State were a little overwhelmed by the scene in front of them, because all this happened very suddenly and almost instantly, even their commander did not have time to give the order to retreat, so these cavalry could only continue to charge forward on horseback, so they were shot to the ground by the oncoming dense bullets!

"What the hell is going on? How could Xiao Yao have so many musketeers? Just shot so many of our cavalry soldiers to the ground at once, and even the war horses were shot down together, how could Xiao Yao's musket have such a powerful power! Quick, get the cavalry back! Otherwise, our entire cavalry team will be killed by Xiao Yao's musket! Gao Changgong, who was in the command headquarters, saw that his two cavalry had not yet rushed to within thirty zhang of the opponent's position, and they had all been knocked to the ground, and even the war horses under their crotches were shot to death.

Hearing that the signal to retreat finally sounded behind him, the survivors of the Qi cavalry who attacked in two directions immediately turned their horses' heads, and then ran back to their own positions frantically, but those cavalry who were eager to make meritorious contributions and charged ahead, at least more than 2,000 people, lay dead on the snow together with their war horses!

"You're only half dead, and you want to run away? It's not that easy! Li Nong, have your artillery been adjusted, I will carry out a fierce artillery bombardment of these cavalry! Seeing so many dead people, Xiao Yao had already become a little red-eyed and shouted frantically.

"The angle of the artillery has been adjusted, the length of the woodpipe fuse has been set, and it is ready for shelling!" Li Nong replied loudly.

"Okay, let's shoot them hard with artillery!" Xiao Yao shouted excitedly.