Chapter 213: Head-on
A large thick dark cloud floated over the sky of the Yinshan grassland, and a low roar like thunder came from the sky. Under the eastern horizon, an iron-gray ocean slowly appeared, like a boundless grass wave on the vast grassland, covering the sky and the sun, constantly expanding, swelling, thousands of horses' hooves trampled the earth, gray and yellow sand and dust entrenched under their feet, and the wind rolled up the gray battle robes, like a large flying eagle! The fine war horses, the hard armor, the bright swords and guns, the flags are like the sea, the swords are like forests, and the iron gray everywhere is overwhelming, gradually covering the entire grassland, and people who have not experienced it can not experience such a magnificent scene.
Two days later, the Turkic Jieli Khan personally led 100,000 Turkic cavalry to the slope of the mountain where Xia Xue was stationed.
In the cold wind, the slim Xia Xue stood quietly on the hillside, the blue cloak fluttered in the wind, holding the telescope in his hand, and his eyebrows were slightly wrinkled.
The morning sun is like fire, the blood-red light is transmitted to the heads of everyone, those mottled light and shadows, like fire clouds in the sky, sprinkled all over the Yinshan grassland, the wind blows, the sand and dust in the sky are scattered one after another, in the confused sand, the iron-gray Turkic army is like a silent flood, covering the entire grassland, towering spears, snow-bright scimitars, black pressed human heads everywhere, everywhere is vigorous horses' hooves, there is no end in sight. It was like suddenly falling into an boundless nightmare, flashing bloodthirsty arrows everywhere as far as the eye could see, stretching for more than ten miles in front and back, strong cavalry, archers like forests, elite Turkic warriors, and the endless and countless black shadows coming from behind......
The overwhelming Turkic army made the angelic warriors have dry throats, pale faces, numb scalps, disobedient hearts beating wildly, and some warriors even have their legs trembling uncontrollably.
However, when they saw the queen's calm demeanor, the fear and tension in their hearts could not help but slowly weaken. The queen's slender figure is now as majestic as a mountain in their eyes, making them feel at ease and down-to-earth. As long as the queen is there, they have the backbone! As long as the queen is there, they are not afraid of any enemy!
"It looks like it's going to be an unusually brutal battle! The storm is coming! Xia Xue slowly put down the binoculars, and there was a hint of heaviness on her beautiful face.
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"Rush, brave and invincible Turkic warriors, go and kill these angel dogs! Remember, capture their queen alive! Kill! The Turkic Jieli Khan looked at the angelic army hiding on the hillside, and contemptuously ordered the whole army to attack in batches.
He felt that under the iron heel of the Turkic army, there was no army that could sustain him for an hour, and he was already ready to drink the celebration wine of destroying the enemy army in the golden tent in the rear.
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
The earthquake trembled, the horses' hooves roared, and the dust flew, and the first batch of more than 10,000 Turkic vanguards rushed to the angel position.
The Turkic vanguard, which entered the open area, was getting closer and closer to the positions of the Angel Army, 2000 meters, 1000 meters, 800 meters, 700 meters, 600 meters, 500 meters......
Suddenly, a cannonball fell with a strange roar, and with a "boom", the fireball suddenly burst up, and the Turkic warrior Battle, who was charging on horseback, rose into the air and turned into pieces in mid-air. The flesh and blood of the two Turkic cavalrymen near him were torn to pieces by sharp shrapnel, and they were scattered on the battlefield in a shower of blood and mud.
It was as if the shell had opened Pandora's box.
"Boom-Boom-Boom"
"Boom-Boom-Boom"
"Boom-Boom-Boom"
More shells followed, whizzing down from the air.
In the blink of an eye, the Yinshan grassland turned into a surging sea of fire, thick black and red flames rose into the sky, sharp shrednel tore at the fragile flesh and blood of the assault cavalry, and with the blood mist flying in the sky, many people were cut into scattered stumps.
There were bursts of earth-shattering explosions, and the Turkic cavalry that rushed ahead were blown up into the sky one after another, and the stumps flew sideways, including the stumps of people and the stumps of war horses, which were unbearable.
The explosion of the cannonballs pierced the eardrums of the Turkic cavalry, and the powerful shock wave shook the ground, making them feel like their internal organs were about to spit out of their mouths.
Before the Turkic cavalry could react, many metal shells fell from the dense cavalry ranks, which exploded in the Turkic vanguard like a metal rainstorm hail, and there were bursts of earth-shattering explosions one after another, and the earth shook violently like a sieve. The Turkic vanguard turned on their backs and exploded into a sky full of minced meat, and the frightened horses scurried around, collided and trampled on each other, making a mess, and suffered heavy casualties. The flesh and blood that were blown up flew everywhere, and the scene was terrible.
Then there was a dense burst of gunfire, with bullets flying.
"Bang Bang Bang",
"Da Da Da",
The body of the Turkic cavalry burst out with clouds of blood mist, just like the wheat harvested in the summer, falling down one by one, especially the gun that made a "da-da-da" sound If it was shot, it would basically "hit the eye and fly out of the hole", either dead or disabled.
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The 10,000 elite Turkic cavalry were wiped out in less than a stick of incense, and none of them could stand up. The open field in front of the angelic army was full of the corpses of Turkic soldiers, the corpses of war horses, and rivers of blood.
The gunfire stopped, and suddenly there was an eerie silence on the battlefield.
The Turkic Jieli Khan and the Turkic army were stunned by the silence caused by the blank mind of the Angel Army, the silence after being shocked by the power of Xia Xue's latest semi-automatic Angel rifle and machine gun that could fire continuously.
Six years of development has made the angel country develop by leaps and bounds in science and technology, economy, industry, agriculture, shipping, military and so on. The Angel Firearms Legion not only now has one Angel rifle per person, one war horse per person, one Tang knife per person, and 10 rounds of ammunition per person, but each infantry squad is also equipped with two newly developed Angel machine guns, with a total of 1,000 pieces; The Angel Cannon is equipped with 100 guns in the whole regiment, which is a world of difference from only 6 guns five years ago.
The Angel Army's riflemen and snipers are now equipped with semi-automatic rifles newly designed by Xia Xue, which is a self-loading rifle with ZI bullets. It eliminates the need to pull the bolt once in one shot like the previous non-automatic Angel rifles, and the rate of fire is doubled.
After the semi-automatic rifle bullet is fired, the recoiled force is used to unload the cartridge case and the ZI bullet to be automatically loaded and ready to be fired again. But only one ZI bullet can be fired per trigger pull.
Why did Xia Xue not design and manufacture a fully automatic rifle, it is because as long as the automatic rifle is pulled and does not let go, it can shoot continuously until the ZI ammunition in the gun is exhausted, which consumes too many ZI bullets, and the hit rate is lower than that of semi-automatic rifles, which is not suitable for troops far from the rear base camp. The Angel Army is now basically fighting far away from the mainland, so, after careful consideration, Xia Xue decided to equip the whole army with semi-automatic Angel rifles.
The Angel machine gun designed by Xia Xue is a light machine gun powered by Huoo medicine gas, which is fully automatic and can be fired quickly and continuously, and can form a machine gun team with two people, which can provide fire support within 1200 meters, is equipped with a bipod, and can be carried by individual soldiers. An infantry squad is usually equipped with two. The use of a chain feed allows the barrel to be quickly replaced to maintain continuous firing capability. Weighing only 9 kilograms, the gun shares ammunition with the Angel Army's rifles, and this machine gun can fire both fire and strafe, making it very effective against enemies that are numerous and scattered. The wounds caused are 'small in imports and large in exports', and the in-entry is the eye and the flight out is the hole, which is very harmful to the enemy. Because of its light weight, it can be used in the shooting mode of horizontal shooting, kneeling shooting, standing fire or strafing with a gun, which is very suitable for the equipment of the expeditionary force.
In the face of such powerful equipment, no matter how brave the Turkic cavalry was, it was in vain.
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In less than a stick of incense, 10,000 Turkic warriors were wiped out, which was a fiasco that had never been seen in Turkic history. The Turkic tribal leaders were equally dumbfounded.
"What kind of weapon is this from the Angel Army? How is it like thunder and lightning? It's terrible, our war horses are all frightened and uncontrollable, this can't be done! "The Turkic tribal leaders are all as pale as the earth.
The Turkic Jieli Khan was also shocked in his heart, and his spine was cold. But after all, he is a battle-hardened Great Khan, and in order to stabilize the morale of the army, he must also pretend to be calm and composed.
The Turkic Jieli Khan walked out of the tent majestically, quietly took a few deep breaths, calmed his pounding heart a little, and said to the Turkic tribal leaders: "Don't panic, this is just the angel army's kitsch Y skill, I have a way to deal with it, come here, take all our war horses that are ready to charge with cloth and silk. Blindfolded, plugged the horse's ears. In this way, you will not be afraid of the thunder and fire of the angel army. ”
The Turkic Jieli Khan confidently shouted to the tribal leaders and Turkic soldiers: "We Turks are the descendants of werewolves, and we are the strongest and fearless; Our Great Turks are the most powerful force in the steppe, invincible and invincible; Soldiers, let's cut off the heads of all these cowardly angel dogs and make them into a magnificent Jingguan! The Great Turkic Khanate will win! Long live the Great Turks! ——”
The Turkic Jieli Khan was not the leader of the Great Turkic Khanate, and in just a few words, the bloodiness and cruelty of the originally frightened Turkic army were aroused again.
"The Great Turkic Khanate will win! Long live the Great Turks! - "Thousands of Turkic soldiers shouted in unison, and the sound shook the sky, and the mountains and rivers were magnificent.
"We're going to break all the angel army into pieces!" Amid earth-shattering shouts, the Turkic Jieli Khan regained his confidence in victory. In the earth-shattering shouts, the anger that the Turkic Jieli Khan had been suppressing could finally be vented, and the heavy loss just now had already made him angry, and he was beaten by the angelic army, making him almost crazy.
The blue tendons on the forehead of the Turkic Jieli Khan were exposed, and he roared hoarsely: "Attack, the whole army attack, no retreat, I don't believe that my 100,000 brave Turkic warriors can't step on the position of the Angel Army!" Kill! ——”
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
The Turkic soldiers were indeed fierce, and in the face of such a fiasco, they did not lose their morale like other armies, but inspired them to be more ferocious and wild, worthy of the title of steppe wolf.
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
Blindfolded war horses. The Turkic cavalry, with their eyes and ears, rushed fiercely and comprehensively towards the position of the angelic army, the hooves of the horses roared, the mountains shook, and the sound of killing shook the sky.
Xia Xue's headquarters in the middle of the hill watched the fierce Turkic cavalry rush towards the angel position like locusts and tide with binoculars, and not only sighed: "The Turkic soldiers are indeed fierce! "However, the more fierce and not afraid of death, the better, what Xia Xue needs is the madness of the Turks.
She gave the order to Zhao Ning to start shelling, starting from within 1,000 meters of the Turkic soldiers. "Whoa!" Zhao Ning took the order and left.
She ordered Zhao Feng to start shooting at a distance of 700 meters when the Turkic soldiers entered, shoot freely indiscriminately, just shoot as many enemies as possible, and there was no need to waste time to find the leader of the Turkic soldiers, the Turkic soldiers seemed to be fearless of death, and no leader would continue to charge.
Now the sniper team led by Zhao Feng has 100 people, all of them are sharpshooters, the semi-automatic rifles used have a longer range and higher accuracy, and all of them are equipped with scopes.
"Whoa!" Zhao Feng also took the order.
She ordered Zhao Quan to all riflemen to shoot and kill the Turkic soldiers at a distance of 300 meters, improve the hit rate, save ZI bullets, and try to kill a Turkic soldier with one ZI bullet. If the enemy enters a distance of 50 meters, it is possible to throw a handful of hoop shells. "Whoa!" Zhao Quan also took the order and left.
She ordered the commander of the newly formed machine-gun battalion, Ling Hujian, to wait for the Turks to enter a distance of 300 meters before shooting, and try to create a fire net within 300 distances that the Turkic cavalry could not pass through.
"Whoa!" The heroic and resolute Ling Hujian also took the order.
Xia Xue finished arranging them one by one, took a sip of water from her cup, and raised her binoculars to look at the battle-filled battlefield.
The Turkic army was surging, and after entering a distance of 1,000 meters, it was seen that a cannonball fell into the dense cavalry ranks, and the flesh and blood were blown away with a roaring explosion, but the Turkic cavalry forcibly controlled the frantic war horses and continued to charge forward.
All the Turkic soldiers used cloth and silk to plug the ears and blindfold the horses, so as to prevent the horses from being frightened by the sound of explosions and fire.
Entering 900 meters, 800 meters, and 700 meters, there was not only bombardment by artillery shells, but also gunfire from bullets, and many Turkic soldiers fell off their horses one after another.
Zhao Ning divided the cannons into 8 groups, each 10 cannons were responsible for a distance of 100 meters, 1000 meters to 900 meters had 10 cannons dedicated to shooting, and 900 meters to 800 meters had another group of 10 cannons responsible for shooting...... All the way up to 300-200 meters, the last group of 10 cannons was responsible for firing. After 200 meters, it was handed over to the machine gunners and riflemen to solve.
Therefore, the Turkic cavalry army, since entering 1,000 meters, no matter how far it rushed, there were shells that kept greeting, and there were heavy casualties.
The earth-shattering explosion sounded, and shrapnel flew sideways under the sweep of the air waves, and many Turkic cavalry were blown up in a pool of blood, screaming and twitching.
"Boom Boom",
"Bang Bang Bang",
"Da Da Da Da" ......
In front of the angel army, especially after entering 300 meters, it is like a meat grinder, like a death vortex, constantly turning the Turkic cavalry into dead corpses and meat paste.
The Turkic soldiers who rushed within 150 meters also began to shoot arrows with bows one after another, and some of the Angel soldiers were killed or injured by arrows, but most of them were unscathed because of the anti-arrow canopies built above their heads.
Some of the Turkic cavalry finally rushed into a distance of 50 meters, and immediately threw thousands of hand-fired bullets from the first row of trenches, sending these closest Turkic cavalry into the western sky.
The first trench of the Angel Army is in the most forward position, and it is also the trench with the longest distance and the largest number of people, and the Angel Army soldiers in the trenches above the second line will generally give their hand liu bullets to the soldiers of the first and second trenches, because they are a little far away from the forward position, and because of the slope on the top of the first two trenches, they are worried about accidentally throwing hand liu bullets into the first two trenches, so the last four trenches are not allowed to throw hand liu bullets.
The Turkic cavalry was indeed fierce, and although they suffered heavy casualties, few of them retreated and fled for their lives, and most of them kept charging forward numbly and ferociously.
Shells whistled and fell on the battlefield, and a continuous cloud of black smoke rose from the ground, and before the billowing smoke had dissipated, another row of shells fell, exploding a thick black and red flame. The Yinshan grassland turned into a surging sea of fire, thick black and red flames rose into the sky, sharp shrenchnel tore at the fragile flesh and blood of the assault cavalry, and with the blood mist flying in the sky, many people were cut into scattered stumps.
The ravaged Turkic armies were ploughed over and over again by steel and fire, and that's not even counting the rain of zigzag shells that rained down on the Turkic armies.
The screeching of the shells and the whistling of the shells were mixed, and where the bullets rained, countless blood sprays were mixed between the flying sand and rocks.
The screams of the battlefield, the neighing of horses, the sound of horses' hooves, and the sound of gunfire are constantly played over the battlefield like hell rock.
The battle lasted until dusk, and the barrels of many rifles, machine guns, and cannons of the Angel Army were red and could no longer shoot.
On several occasions, the Turkic cavalry rushed to the first line of trenches, and some of the Angel Army soldiers were killed or wounded by the sabers, spears, or bows of the Turkic cavalry, and the first line of trenches had the most casualties.
Xia Xue hurriedly dispatched reservists to quickly replenish the first line of trenches, and carried those casualties to the rear by the health workers and logistics soldiers to rescue them.
The battle was indeed extremely tragic!
Everyone was red-eyed, the Turkic soldiers and the angelic army were red-eyed, and they entered a state of extreme euphoria, forgetting tiredness, forgetting hunger, forgetting thirst, forgetting death, forgetting everything, and only the thought of killing, killing, killing in their hearts.
The sound of artillery rumbled and the flames soared into the sky, the beautiful Yinshan grassland trembled violently under the bombardment of artillery, and the soil swept into the air by the shells fell like rain from time to time above the battlefield.
The cannonballs of the Angel Army continued to fall in the ranks of the Turkic cavalry, and the fireballs rose into the air one after another, and the explosions were continuous, and the billowing flames scorched the grass. Despite the cold of spring, the flames on the battlefield made it feel as if it was a hot summer day.
The attacked Turkic army suffered heavy losses, and the air filled with the smell of gunpowder was filled with the pungent smell of blood and the burning of corpses.
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Towards evening, the clarion call for retreat sounded in the large camp in the Turkic rear. The Turkic soldiers, who were desperately rushing to kill, turned their horses and retreated, leaving behind countless corpses of soldiers and horses.
The blood in the open field could already drown people's calves, and the corpses were all over the field, miserable, like Shura's hell.
On this day, most of the 100,000 Turkic cavalry were lost, and more than 60,000 were killed and wounded, and they were completely disabled.
The Turkic Jieli Khan had no choice but to give the order to retreat, because if he continued to fight like this, the leaders of the various Turkic tribes would probably want to break him to pieces, because after all, the dead and wounded were the clansmen and relatives of the leaders of these Turkic tribes.
The next day, the Turkic forces did not attack again. In the golden tent with the banner of the golden wolf's head, the tribal leaders were arguing fiercely with the Turkic Jieli Khan, and some of the tribal leaders with more casualties wanted to return to the tribal garrison and no longer participate in the attack on the angelic army behind.
On the grassland, only strength, strength, and the victor are recognized. The Turkic Jieli Khan knew deeply in his heart that if he could not destroy the Angel Army this time, he would lose so many Turkic warriors, and his position as a khan would be difficult to protect. He has no way to retreat now, and only by continuing to attack and destroying the Angel Army can he save his prestige and the throne of Khan. But the remaining Turkic remnants, of less than 40,000, were really unable to attack.
He had no choice but to temporarily stabilize the tribal leaders, saying that after the destruction of the Angel Army, the tribal leaders would be rewarded heavily, and for the tribes with more casualties, a large number of slaves, horses, cattle and sheep, and property would be allocated to compensate for their losses, and the official positions of the tribal leaders would be promoted.
After the establishment of the Turkic Khanate, its official system was 28 ranks. Its officials include Ye Hu, She, Special Service, Xianwang, Dagan and so on. Because of the nomadic nature, the Turks practiced a policy of integration of military and political affairs, so the Turkic officials were largely a combination of administrative and military officials. Therefore, some officials still have a lot of power, and they are still very tempting to these tribal leaders.
These promises of the Turkic Jieli Khan finally stabilized the tribal leaders, but he knew that the less than 40,000 Turkic cavalry could no longer destroy the angelic army. So he sent a number of heralds, carved wood into letters, and attached a golden arrow, to various distant tribes and Turkic territories to gather people and horses, as soon as possible to gather here in Yinshan, ready to raise the power of the Turkic nation, must destroy the angel army.
For the next five days, the Turkic army did not attack at all, and camped 3,000 meters away from the Angel Army's position, which could basically block the Angel Army's way. Because behind the position of the Angel Army, that is, to the west, is a hundred-meter-high cliff, and there are mountains with complex terrain to the north and south, which are not suitable for war horses to walk. Only the front, that is, the east, there are fast, wide and flat river valleys and grasslands that can be galloped on horseback. The Turkic Jieli Khan knew that the angel army wanted to escape, and if they did not rely on war horses to travel long distances on the steppe, then it would be a dead end.