Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Wings Rush The car enters the battle

The Ottoman Empire's elite Yenichaean Guards and Scipasi Guards were the absolute hearts and minds of the Sultans of the Empire, and in the past, they only used their killer weapons when it was critical. This time, the Sultan was a killer as soon as he came up.

The Yenichaean Guards marched forward in three phalanxes in unison, attacking together on the left flank of the Russian Imperial Front. Their phalanxes are firm and steady, and their momentum is pressing, so that the general army often collapses before they can make contact. But this time they were up against opponents as tough as they were. Although the Russian Imperial troops guarding the left flank were also nervous in the face of such an onslaught, they were all experienced in battle, familiar with the Ottoman Empire's style of play, and had studied the battle strategy beforehand. They knew that in the face of such a heavily armored cavalry opponent, ordinary bows and arrows were of limited use to them, and they were all dressed in heavy armor, and even the men and horses were protected by armor, as long as the bows and arrows did not hit their eyes, they had almost no effect. But their shortcomings are also very prominent, that is, they are slow to move and are inconvenient to dodge. Then there is the fear of being scattered, their individual combat is too clumsy, and the shortcomings of their unchanging actions are even more exposed.

The first trick of the Russians against them was a catapult.

The Russian Empire was ruled by the Mongols for more than two hundred years, and the army inherited a lot of Mongol combat skills. A stone thrower is one of them. Although the trebuchets were too old and cumbersome in armies where artillery muskets were already common, they were very practical, and although their power was limited, they fired at a much higher rate than artillery.

And then there is artillery, and no matter how hard the armor is, it can't stop the bombardment of shells. Although the shells of the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire were still black ** and their power was limited, it was still easy to blow up the horses and people. Horses and soldiers blown away by cannonballs cannot be protected by any armor.

Then there are the heavy arrows, which can be shot through a man with armor and a horse with a giant crossbow wound by several people.

However, according to the unified order of the tsar, now all artillery was to fire at the Ottoman artillery positions, and the Ottoman artillery, which was a great threat to them, was to be suppressed first.

Again, the commanders of the two sides are unanimously on this point. After firing at each other's lines, they all grasped the position of the opponent's artillery, and when they fired again, they were all aiming at the opponent's artillery position. No matter how the infantry cavalry battle, the artillerymen were taking care of themselves, and they were going back and forth in the artillery battle.

Faced with the approaching Ottoman heavy cavalry, the Russians fired the boulder first. The stone thrower, which was pulled up by dozens of people, smashed huge stones on the heads of the Russian defenders and smashed them down on the Ottoman phalanx. In the face of such a boulder attack, the heavy cavalry of the Janichaean Guards did not have time to dodge, and the orders of the army did not allow dodging. If a horse dodges in the entire phalanx, it will lead the left and right war horses to dodge, and it is easy to mess up the formation.

The Janichaean Guards are so strong that when a boulder hits a horse or a man, it will turn into a pulp. But they didn't dodge, they didn't stop, they didn't even change their speed, but after the cavalry in front was knocked down, the cavalry behind immediately stepped forward to fill his vacant position.

The Ottoman cavalry got closer, and the crossbowmen behind the Russian shield men fired heavy arrows. Heavy whirring arrows were fired at the heavy column of the Janichaean Guards. The shield in the hands of the heavy cavalry could not stop such a heavy arrow at all. Important hits will shoot through the shield along with the person, and the impact will tear the person off the horse. Some will also shoot through people and horses together.

However, none of this could stop the pace of the Yenichaean Guards, and such a disciplined and combative army did cause a great shock to the hearts of the Russian Imperial Army. But they know that only by being stronger than the enemy can they defeat the enemy. They also knew that this was a war that would determine the life and death of the Russian Empire, and they could not waver in the slightest timidity.

At this time, the archers who followed behind the Ottoman heavy cavalry also reached the shooting distance, and they also shot bows and arrows into the formation of the Russian Imperial defenders like a rain of arrows. Although many of the Russian Imperial shieldmen in front of them blocked some of the bows and arrows, many officers and soldiers were still shot by arrows. The archers of the Russian Empire, as well began to shoot at the Ottoman archers.

The Russian Imperial generals on the left flank knew that the shieldmen in front of them would not be able to stop the rushing heavy cavalry, and they would not fight hard with the Ottoman army, in which case the Russian Empire would soon be crushed. In the face of the approaching heavy cavalry, the well-trained shieldmen slowly retreated, while maintaining their formation.

The officers and soldiers of the Janichevian Guards are all professional soldiers trained by the Ottoman Empire since childhood, they are eager to fight, have a strong sense of military honor, and have very high fighting skills, although they have paid a lot of sacrifices, but they finally approached the Russian Imperial Army, and the commander of the general gave an order, and the slow-moving phalanx suddenly increased its speed and rushed towards those shield bearers. But the shield-bearers, who had been slowly retreating, suddenly retreated rapidly, and a large clearing flashed in front of the Janichaean guards.

The Janichaean Guards were like a punch in the air, and before they had time to get annoyed, they found that the place that the Russians had given them was full of weirdness. There are a lot of horses nailed to the ground in the open space, and there are many small pits. However, the phalanx of heavy cavalry charging up was difficult to hold. The phalanx rushed into this clearing, and the heavily armored war horses couldn't avoid the rejecting horses at all, so they crashed into the rejecting horses. Immediately the cavalry was thrown down. Those small pits are also even more fatal, the heavy armored cavalry is already inconvenient, and the war horse can't hide when it sees the pit, but the war horse that steps into the small pit will immediately break the horse's legs. Both men and horses fell at the same time.

These proud Janichaean guards were so angry that their nostrils were smoking, and they couldn't show their martial arts, and they screamed one by one. But they couldn't stop, and there were many troops behind them.

The Russian Imperial Army, not to watch the excitement, boulders and heavy arrows continued to shoot over. It can be said that the Ottoman army suffered great losses.

The mighty Ottomans paid a heavy price to come into contact with the Russian Imperial army, and the heavy cavalry finally played their invincible role, and many Russian shield bearers were cut down by the Janichaean Guards with their shields, pierced by their spears, and cut down by their scimitars.

The heavy cavalry of the Janichaean Guards smashed through the steel front of the Russian Empire like a heavy hammer, and a large number of cavalry and infantry followed suit.

The Ottoman Sultan watched the scene from a viewing platform built on a train, using a viewing mirror bought from the Ming Dynasty, and when he felt that his right-wing attack had broken through the left flank of the Russian Empire, he ordered his left flank to attack the right flank of the Russian Empire.

The 30,000 cavalry of the Sipasi Guards on the left flank of the Turks were absolutely personal soldiers fed by the Sultan himself with money, as well as 10,000 Serbian cavalry, plus more than 40,000 other cavalry, and 50,000 infantry. On the left flank, there were still five thousand muskets in formation. The power is also very powerful. The Sultan's idea was to put a strong pressure on the Russians by attacking from the right flank, attracting most of the army's support, and then suddenly attacking again from the left flank in an attempt to break through as soon as possible.

The Tsar of the Russian Empire was not an idle man, seeing that the left flank of the Ottoman Empire began to attack his right flank, they understood that they could not stand up to the beating, and immediately drove the Russian hoplites to attack the center of the Ottoman Empire. On the battlefield, which was eight kilometers wide, the armies of the two countries began to fight in full force. For a moment, the smoke and dust kicked up by the horses' hooves and personnel almost obscured the sun's rays.

Just when the left flank of the Russian Empire was broken through by the heavy cavalry of the Janichaean Guards, and the cavalry that followed it also began to join the battlefield of the Russian Imperial soldiers, the elite of the Russian Empire, the musketeers, suddenly rushed over. Large-caliber muskets, firing live ammunition at close range, each shot could shoot the heavily armored cavalry of the Janichian Guards off their horses. The impact of the large-caliber musket bullets was so great that they hit the helmets of the heavy cavalry of the Janichian Guards, and although they could not penetrate the steel helmets, they could break their necks.

The proud heavy cavalry of the Janichaean Guards, tenacious and strong, swore not to retreat, but no matter how strong the soldiers were, they rushed to the front of the three phalanxes, and after being dispersed by the Russians, they quickly disappeared into the chaos, and the cavalry and infantry behind them fought a melee, and the Ottoman army knew that its musketeers did not rush over, and they could not take advantage of it, so they had to retreat in order to reduce their losses.

In this battle, the Ottoman army made a big mistake, in order to stabilize the right flank, the musketeers did not fight. The Russians, judging the intentions of the Ottoman Empire, concentrated the use of a small number of musketeers and distributed them to the two wings.

While the Ottoman right flank attacking army was retreating, a fierce battle broke out between their left flank and the right flank of the Russian Empire. Soon, the middle line of the Russian Empire also rushed to the front of the Ottoman army, the tsar was different from the Ottoman sultan, this time when he attacked, but he used almost all his strength, in addition to the Russian heavy cavalry and two thousand musketeers to follow, followed by the tsar's absolute killer weapon, twenty modified cars.

The overall strength of the Ottoman Empire was still far greater than that of the Russian Empire, and the heavy cavalry in the middle of them was also the Ottoman heavy cavalry. These heavily armored cavalry in shining armor mingled together, and the battle was very tragic.

The heavily armored war horses and the cavalry also covered with heavy armor collided together, and the sound of the impact of weapons and the screams of the soldiers suddenly filled the battlefield. The cavalry on the war horse, as long as they fall off their horses, will surely die, and they will soon be trampled into meat sauce by the horses' hooves.

The Ottoman and Russian heavy cavalry rushed together and quickly annihilated each other, leaving the battlefield with a piece of flesh and blood. The hoplites in the back still rushed together without hesitation. At this time, there is no place to please, what is fought is strength and the courage of the soldiers. At a stalemate, 2,000 victorious Russian musketeers rushed into the battle, and they plunged into the Ottoman heavy cavalry phalanx like a sharp blade. Just as they were killing with muskets, the Ottoman Sultan sent 4,000 musketeers to meet them. Immediately contained the musketeers of the Russian Empire.

The Tsar of the Russian Empire understood that he could not fight with the Ottoman Empire with musketeers, and their muskets were twice as numerous as those of the Russian Empire. The horn whined, telling the musketeers to retreat, but the Ottoman musketeers then killed them. At this time, the Russian Imperial cavalry quickly dodged, and twenty cars full of sharp blades rushed over. Many Ottoman cavalrymen who were not in a hurry to dodge were even driven under the wheels of the cars with their men and horses, and some were not spared by the sharp blades on the cars. Those who were a little further away from the car were dismounted by the musketeers and archers in the car. The Ottoman phalanxes were quickly dispersed in the face of such a car onslaught. The brave Ottoman soldiers organized an army to attack the car, but the cannon on the car "boomed" and fired a large piece of debris at them, and the officers and soldiers fell in a large area at once.

The first appearance of the automobile combat vehicle on the battlefield showed its might.

The Ottoman Sultan, who was watching the battle, saw this scene, not only was not shocked, but smiled slightly, and said in his heart: "You have cars, we also have cars!" "Immediately ordered to send thirty vehicles to storm the Russians. He did not know how many cars there were in the Russian Empire and did not put out all fifty of his own.

The Ottoman army was overjoyed to know that their chariots were rushing over, these cars were kept absolutely secret, only a few high-ranking generals knew, the Ottoman officers and soldiers who fought had never seen the cars, they were afraid to see the cars rampaging on the battlefield, but the honor of the soldiers made them unable to retreat. When he saw his army car rushing up, he immediately boosted his morale and rushed after his car.

This is also the first time in human history that automobiles have been used on the battlefield between the two sides. Both sides first fired at each other with their on-board cannons. However, the cannons on the car fired live shotguns, and the other side strengthened the protection of the car, which had little effect. As the cars approached, they all adopted ramming tactics.

As a result, the Ottoman cars suffered somewhat. The armor and blades on the cars of the Russian Empire were welded structures. A lot of things in the Ottoman Empire were riveted with steel, and more often were wooden structures. The two cars collided head-on, and the Russian car pierced the wooden armor in front of the Ottoman car with a spear stretched out from the front. The two cars are at odds, because the spear blades on the Russian Empire are welded to the frame, which is very easy to knock the Ottoman cars into the air.

Cars entered the battle, and cavalry and infantry naturally joined the warband. For a time, there was a river of blood on the battlefield.

After killing for a while, the Russian Tsar saw that his five cars were already parked on the battlefield and could not move, and the Ottoman Empire also had ten cars parked there and could not move, and immediately ordered a retreat.

The Ottoman Sultan was able to spare such an opportunity and drive his troops in pursuit. The spontaneous combustion of the car was faster, and during the pursuit, the Ottomans took advantage of it and crashed three more Russian Empire cars.

In this way, the remaining seventeen cars, following the cars of the Russian Empire, rushed into the Russian Imperial Front, and when they reacted and found that their follow-up army did not follow, they knew that they had been fooled. At this time, the Russian Imperial cars that had fled backwards also turned around and rushed towards them, and many Russian shieldmen approached them with their soldiers, throwing burning oil-stained incendiary regiments at their cars. The car soon caught fire, but the Ottoman driver was really brave enough to die, and instead of leaving the car, he drove the car towards the Russian Imperial car and the soldiers. As a result, two more Russian Imperial cars and Ottoman cars crashed together. There were also many officers and soldiers of the Russian Empire who died under the wheels of cars and under the blades.

Despite the heavy price paid by the Russian Empire, all the Ottoman cars that rushed in were wiped out. The morale of the Russian Imperial officers and soldiers, greatly boosted, quickly repelled the Ottoman cavalry and infantry who had followed.

At this time, the left flank of the Ottoman attack, the right flank of the Russian Empire, the battle was over, and the attacking Ottoman army was killed and retreated.

The first round ended in a draw.

It seems that the two sides are back to the starting point, but the Russian Imperial Tsar knows that this battle has consumed too much strength, and if it continues like this, he will definitely lose. I thought that my killer weapon was the automobile soldier, but the Ottoman Empire had more cars than its own, and the only advantage was that its own car was transformed by the kiln gang people, which was much stronger than the Ottoman Empire. This does not compensate for the quantitative difference. But there is no way to do it if you don't fight.

In fact, in such a war, the Ottoman Empire also consumed a lot of elite forces, and the Ottoman Empire ate halal instant noodles bought from the Ming Dynasty, and scolded the Ming Dynasty people in their mouths. If it weren't for the fact that the Ming Dynasty also sold cars to the Russians, now their own cars are chasing and crushing those hateful Russians.

Both sides fought hard, and they had no intention of retreating, and they did not dare to retreat, so in this situation, the opponent launched an attack, and they only had one result of rout.

The battle between the two sides was suspended for a moment, and the battlefield was silent, and the occasional neighing of war horses was heard, making the battlefield appear quieter.

The sultans of the Russian Empire and the civil and military people watching the battle were also taking advantage of this moment of tranquility to enjoy the instant noodles of the kiln people.

The Tsar's viewing platform was also in a car, and the hot water bottles brought back from the kiln kept the hot water very well. The next person made a beef instant noodle for the tsar. It was a favorite of the tsars and a delicacy to show off for the Moscow aristocracy. Of course, the tsar also had to go with a bag of Sichuan's red oil mustard.

Sometimes, the tsar was also very angry, such a little food, not much raw materials in total, but the kiln people were able to make them so delicious. The small spice bag contains all kinds of condiments, as well as shredded shallots, soaked in boiling water, and after a while, he can soak the noodles even his chef. But the price is not expensive.

Maybe he was too nervous, he consumed too much food, and a box of noodles was not enough, and the tsar asked him to make a box of shredded chicken noodles. At this time, the visitor reported: "Your Majesty, an envoy of the Ming Dynasty has come to ask for a meeting!" ”