Chapter 277: A River of Blood
After an hour passed, there was already a sea of corpses around the semicircular position of the angel army, the corpses were all over the field, the blood flowed like a river, and the corpses were piled up, stumbling many of the Tibetan cavalry behind them to the ground, and in the continuous surging cavalry tide behind, as long as they fell off the horse, it meant death, and they would soon turn into pulp.
Gar. Qin Ling saw that the corpses of too many war horses seriously affected the speed of the cavalry attack, so he asked the Tubo cavalry to suspend the attack, and ordered the general Denobu to arrange more than 1,000 people to go to the battlefield to clean up the corpses, mainly the corpses of war horses.
The Tibetan cavalry army paused its attack, allowing the angel army to breathe a sigh of relief. Just an hour, nearly two hours of crazy charge made some soldiers of the Angel Army suffocate due to lack of oxygen and physical exhaustion due to high tension and strenuous exercise, especially machine gunners and mortar men, many soldiers fainted, and some war horses in Tubo that rushed through the last line of defense, although the riders had been killed, but the frightened war horses still rushed to the position of the Angel Army like crazy, and the simple barrier surrounded by the baggage vehicles was not strong enough after all, and many chariots were overturned by the high-speed war horses, resulting in many Angel Army soldiers being sacrificed and injured.
Xia Xue asked the reserve team to send people to replenish the empty quota of the wounded and dead soldiers, and on the other hand, he asked people to rearrange the baggage cart that had been knocked over by the Tubo war horse, and at the same time ordered the machine gunners and riflemen to focus on the war horses, as long as the war horses were killed, then the riders would definitely die in the gallop of ten thousand horses. But if only the rider is shot, the mad herd of horses is still the deadly killer of the Angelic Army. At the same time, the snipers were ordered to hunt the Tibetan soldiers who were cleaning up the corpses on the battlefield, delaying the enemy's time to clean up the battlefield and depleting the enemy's living forces.
"Bang bang bang!" The crisp sound of gunfire echoed over the corpse-strewn battlefield. The Tibetan soldiers who cleaned up the corpses kept falling to the ground. Half an hour later, most of the corpses of the horses on the battlefield and the relatively complete corpses of the Tubo soldiers had been transported to the rear of the Tubo army, but the Tubo paid the price of nearly 3,000 people.
Gar. The flesh on Qin Ling's face was distorted with anger, and he shouted an order: "The whole army continues to attack, and Tang Ling. The army was all trampled into a pulp. Kill—"
"Kill-" The army of Tibetan cavalry rushed to Tang again. The army position launched a brave charge.
"Boom, boom, boom!"
"Boom, boom, boom!"
"Boom, boom, boom!"
"Da, da, da!"
"Da, da, da!"
"Da, da, da!"
"Bang, bang, bang!"
"Bang, bang, bang!"
"Bang, bang, bang!"
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The wilderness beach boiled again after a brief lull.
The muzzle of the gun erupted in flames, and the splashing zipe bullets swept towards the Tibetan soldiers in a fan.
Puff puff!
The bodies of the Tibetan soldiers erupted into clouds of blood mist, and the wounded Tibetan soldiers rolled on the ground, twitching, blood gushing out from their mouths and noses, and let out a terrible scream.
The sound of gunfire, shouting and killing, the neighing of horses, the screams of horses, the sound of war drums, the sound of horns, the sound of explosions, the sound of horses' hooves, ...... played a symphony of tragic and terrifying music.
The air was filled with the smell of blood, burning, gunsmoke, and dust, and the angelic army's semi-circular position had become a sea of death of blood and fire.
Two hours later, the battlefield that had been fiercely fought for more than four hours had exhausted both the angel army and the Tibetan army, the most fatal thing for the angel army was that the ammunition was about to run out, and the most fatal thing for the Tubo army was that there were too many dead and wounded.
The battlefield was full of corpses, piled up, rivers of blood, and the Tibetan cavalry could no longer pass. Qin Ling was already red-eyed, and he no longer let the attack be suspended and sent people to clean up the corpses, but just blindly ordered a continuous onslaught and an incessant attack. The cavalry units of the vanguard had no choice but to jump off their horses in front of the high corpse mountain, and turned into infantry to climb over the corpse mountain and continue to charge the angel position. However, after the cavalry turned into infantry, the attack speed was greatly slowed down, and there was no more crazy war horses, and the pressure on the Angel Army's position was greatly reduced.
The angel army has run out of incendiary bombs at this time, mortar. The shells have run out. In order to prevent the Tibetan war horses from colliding with the fragile baggage vehicle position, after changing the beating of people to fighting horses, each war horse often needs to consume dozens of machine gun zi shells, or even hundreds, so the consumption of machine gun zi shells is very large, and now it is basically gone.
Rifles are much slower firing than machine guns, so the average soldier now has about 10 rounds left. However, due to the thin air on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the cold and lack of oxygen, many soldiers have headaches, dizziness, and difficulty breathing, resulting in a decrease in shooting accuracy and a greatly reduced rifle hit rate.
In addition, the attrition caused by altitude sickness, the impact of war horses, and arrow damage has also increased greatly, and now more than 3,000 people in the Angel Army have lost their combat effectiveness, and the situation is very critical.
In order to save ZI bullets, in order to improve the hit rate, and in order to prepare for a hand-to-hand encounter with the Tubo Army, she ordered 3,000 angel soldiers who were good at riding and archery to hand over all the ZI bullets to the snipers, and then stepped on the war horse, pulled out the Tang knife, and was ready to attack at any time. Let all the riflemen who can still fight have bayonets in their hands, and be ready to engage in white-knuckle combat with the Tibetan army at any time while shooting. Machine gunners, artillerymen, logistics personnel, and hygienists also stepped on their horses, drew their Tang swords, and were ready to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Tibetan soldiers at any time.
Xia Xue also stepped on the war horse, pulled out the Tang sword, and was ready to lead the team to fight at any time.
"Even if we run out of ammunition and food, our angel army will never surrender, we will fight to the end until we fight to the last man!" Xia Xue said loudly on horseback.
"Never surrender, fight to the end!" The angel army soldiers roared in unison, and the sound shook the heavens and the earth.
The corpses of the newly killed Tibetan soldiers were poured on top of the corpses of the robes that had been killed in battle, piled up on top of each other, piled up as high as a hill, and the ground was stained with blood and a sticky mud.
After the bullets were concentrated in the hands of sharpshooters and snipers, the casualty rate of the Tibetan soldiers increased greatly, and they finally turned over the mountain of corpses, and they were either shot directly in the head, or they were shot in the vital point and rolled down from the mountain of corpses.
After fighting for most of the day, the Tubo soldiers suffered countless casualties, although they were afraid of the harsh military law of Tubo, but they were even more afraid of the devilish combat effectiveness of the angel army. Therefore, the Tibetan soldiers have long since lost the confidence of victory at the beginning, nor the passion for meritorious service, they just numbly and mechanically rushed forward and sent forward to die.
For the Tibetan soldiers, they knew that the closer they were to the angel army, the greater the general theory of death, and most of the day's fighting, they were already exhausted, so the pace of the battle became slower and slower, and many of the Tibetan soldiers did not dare to rise on the corpses of their companions, and some even pretended to be dead. They found that the armor on their bodies couldn't protect against Tang at all. The army's zi bullets, even some cowhide shields that can be very good against arrows, still can't protect themselves, oh my God, this group of Tang. What kind of weapon is the military, it's terrible!
The battle has been knocked out from early morning to dusk.
Under the gray sky, the air was filled with a strong smell of blood, blood gushing out of the wounds of corpses, and then seeping into the mud, the earth was blood-red, and the atmosphere was dull and oppressive.
Gar. Qin Ling looked at the corpses all over the battlefield, looking at the fewer and fewer Tubo soldiers, he didn't dare to count the casualties, but he knew that this battle had basically wiped out the last elite of Tubo, looking at the living people, every face had a decadent, wooden, and desperate expression, he knew that Tubo was going to end.
Dangar. As the commander of the Tubo army, Qinling cannot be decadent, he cannot despair, he must fight to the end for the great Tubo.
Gar Chinchin jumped off his horse and came to the drums of war to rest the soldiers who were beating the drums, he took off his helmet, took off his armor, and pounded the drums with his hands on the drumsticks.
"Knock knock!" The sound of the fierce war drums came from the rear of the Tibetan army.
Seeing the commander personally beating drums and cheering, the Tibetan generals and soldiers were full of enthusiasm, regained their strength, and once again launched a fierce charge towards the position of the angel army.
Due to the lack of mortars, incendiary bombs, and machine guns, the firepower of the Angel Army was obviously much worse than before, but fortunately, the corpses of the mountains hindered the charging speed of the Tubo cavalry, otherwise, the position of the Angel Army might have been broken through.
However, there were still many Tibetan soldiers shouting "Long live Tubo" who rushed down from the corpse mountain in groups, getting closer and closer to the position of the angel army, and there were many strong Tubo men with extraordinary strength, holding heavy and thick iron shields, who had rushed to within 50 meters of the angel army's position. This iron shield is very heavy, and the angel rifle can't penetrate it, looking at the Tubo strong man who is getting closer and closer, the angel army warriors are getting more and more nervous in their hearts.
"Hand play!" Xia Xue urgently ordered.
"Boom, boom, boom!" The soldiers of the Angel Army woke up from a dream and hurriedly threw their almost forgotten hands like bullets into the approaching group of Tibetan strong men.
Hand shells are generally used to deal with enemies within 10 to 50 meters on flat ground, but due to the blockade of machine guns, artillery and other large firepower, there are very few enemy troops who can rush to within 50 meters. Unexpectedly, now the Tubo soldiers rushed to the front, making the overly nervous Angel Army soldiers forget all the hand bullets that have not been used.
The killing radius of the hand liu bullet is about 5 meters, and the shrapnel after the explosion is also flying around, the Tubo soldiers did not expect the angel army to have this hand, for a while, after a dense burst of hand liu bomb explosion, the Tubo strong soldiers holding iron shields who rushed up bravely just now were basically all reimbursed. Even the Tibetan soldiers who followed behind were killed a lot, plus the shooting of riflemen and blockers, in less than a stick of incense, the Tubo soldiers who had crossed the corpse mountain were basically lying on the ground and not moving. Fear, like a contagious disease, spread rapidly among the Tibetan soldiers, and they turned around and fled to the rear.
Gar Qinqin saw that the attack of the Tibetan army had slowed down again, and that there were deserters, he was furious, stopped beating the drum, pulled out the golden Tibetan sword, and handed it to the general Denobu, "Denobu, you go to the front to supervise the battle, and if you see the fear, you will be killed; If you encounter a retreater, you will not be forgiven; If you encounter a runaway, you will be killed! ”
"Yes!" Denob respectfully took the golden Tibetan knife with both hands and went straight to the forward position.
Zhao Feng and 100 snipers sat on a tall wooden tower built with a large number of empty ammunition boxes in the center of the position, the tower has a total of 8 floors, and on each floor there are snipers sitting in three directions, facing the southeast, south, south, and south, holding sniper rifles to shoot the enemy accurately.
Now there are about 50,000 rifle bullets in the whole regiment, and Xia Xue asked to hand over all the ZI bullets to more than 100 people in the sniper team, all of them are sharpshooters, and the ZI bullets will not be wasted in their hands.
The rest of the people all stepped on their horses, drew their Tang swords, and had already moved several baggage carts away, ready to rush out at any time to fight the enemy in hand-to-hand combat.
The sniper squad specializes in hunting down the Tibetans who rush fiercely, rush to the front, like the leader officer, and hold the flag.
Zhao Feng sat on the top of a tall wooden tower, and he used his scope to look around at the enemies around him, looking for his prey.
Suddenly, Zhao Feng spotted through the scope that behind the corpse mountain, about 700 meters away from him, there was a general-like Tubo man, who was brandishing a golden Tibetan knife, urging the Tubo soldiers to attack. "Haha, I've found a big fish!" Zhao Feng felt a burst of excitement in his heart.
He quietly aimed the scope on the sniper rifle at the Tubo general who wielded the golden Tibetan knife, about 700 meters away, but within the effective killing distance of the sniper rifle. At a distance of 700 meters, there is a scope, and the human body seen is also very small, Zhao Feng suppressed his excitement, took a deep breath, and then tried to relax his whole body. Zhao Feng knows that long-distance attack targets will be affected by many factors, such as wind, parabola, etc., and the ballistics of the gun will cause errors in the impact point due to rifling, gravity and wind, and the more excited and nervous, the more difficult it is to aim at the target.
Zhao Feng breathed slowly, slowly relaxed his whole body, no longer thinking about anything else, his mind was pure and blank, only his own goal, Zhao Feng knew that he wanted to hunt this general, and there was only one chance to shoot.
Just when the Tubo general immediately walked out of the 700-meter distance, Zhao Feng decisively pulled the trigger, and with the crisp impact of the firing pin, the scorching Zi bullet flew out at high speed along the trajectory and swept towards the Tubo general.
"Bang!" A crisp gunshot rang out.
Denobu was standing more than 700 meters away from the position of the Angel Army, urging the Tubo Army to attack, and in front of him was a mountain of corpses, which had completely blocked his vision, and he could not see Tang. What is the current situation of the military position, he wanted to rush up and climb the corpse mountain to observe, but was desperately pulled by the adjutant, and the adjutant general said, Don. The army has very powerful weapons, which can be fought far and accurately, and the power is amazing, even if you wear iron armor, it is difficult to defend, so it is best not to climb to the corpse mountain and rise to the top. The adjutant general said that the general was in charge of the command, and there was no need to take too many risks, and Denobu did not listen at first, but he witnessed many Tibetan soldiers who had just climbed the corpse mountain and exposed their heads to be killed by the Tang. The army's weapons burst out of the head, and the brains burst. I couldn't help but feel a chill in my heart, so I no longer insisted on climbing up the corpse mountain, but supervised the battle behind the corpse mountain. Both Denob and Adjutant felt far away from Don. The military position is so far away, and there is a mountain of corpses in front of it, it should be very safe.
When he was swinging his knife to urge the attack, suddenly, Denob felt a shock in the Xiong department, and something small thing got into it fiercely, he looked down and saw that a small hole appeared in the iron armor on his body, and he was stunned for a moment, and a burst of pain hit him, and then found that blood kept gushing out from that small hole, Denobu's expression changed from inexplicable at the beginning, to incredible, "How is it possible, how is it possible, so far away, and there is a mountain of corpses to block it......" Denob kept muttering to himself, his face was full of unwillingness, Slowly softens to the ground. "General, General!" The lieutenant shouted anxiously from the side, a look of horror on his face......
"What, General Denob was killed by Don. The army shoots at a great distance! "Gar. Qin Ling was stunned, cold sweat broke out on his head, Denobu is the favorite general of Zampu Mangsong Mangzan, who has repeatedly made military exploits and is brave. Jun Xiaoxiao's little iron pill cost his life, which is too shocking.
"Lord Commander, I see Don. It seems that the army has no explosive bombs, no incendiary bombs, and no such dense bullets, and I think they should have no ammunition anymore, so we should send people to move the corpse mountain blocking the road in front of us a few passages, and send a cavalry army to carry out a brave attack from three directions at the same time, I believe that this time we will definitely be able to take Tang. Army positions! "The general Kundayan is in Gar. Qin Ling said.
Gar. After Qin Ling was shocked, he quickly calmed down, he thought carefully for a while, and agreed with the opinion of the general Kun Dayan. Three thousand men were sent to carry the mountain of corpses in front of them to open the passage for the cavalry.
"Heaven bless, may we succeed this time!" Gar. Qin Ling prayed secretly in his heart.
When the angel army saw that Tubo had sent soldiers to carry the corpses of people and horses, they knew that they wanted to open the way for the cavalry to charge, and they all looked solemn and clenched their Tang swords, they knew that a tragic hand-to-hand battle was about to break out.
Zhao Feng and the others were still sitting on the wooden box tower and constantly shooting the target prey they had locked, and some people in the Tubo army kept falling, but it still did not stop them from carrying the corpses and opening the passage.
An hour passed, and the three relatively wide cavalry charge passages in the northeast and south had been basically opened, and a low horn sounded in the Tubo army, and the Tubo cavalry corps began to assemble the whole team again, preparing to launch the final charge from three roads.