Chapter 429: Praying Mantis Catches Cicadas (2)

The soldiers of the first company were calmly waiting to make their own artillery fire.

The Mughal army began to attack, but the direction of their attack was not the 101st Division, but Kandahar, which was guarded by the Persian army.

It was a complete coincidence that the Mughal army launched an attack on Kandahar at this time, and the Huaxia army did not know anything in advance, but it was okay to do so, so that the blow to them was more sudden, and Cao Wenzhao decisively gave the order to attack.

"Our cannon has fired!" Shen Fulin, the leader of the platoon, said excitedly.

Company commander Zhao Tongchao reminded: "Pay attention to the enemy's movements and prepare to charge." ”

The shells of the 101st Division whizzed over the positions of the company, and one shell after another exploded in the Mughal army, and the elephants that were assembling in Area 4 were completely blinded by the artillery, and in fright, they ignored the training of the instructors and rampaged through the enemy positions, knocking the enemy's charging formation to pieces.

What's even worse is the artillery position of the Mughal army, the intensive artillery fire of the Huaxia army covered their position at once, this time it's good, I don't know whether the shells of the Huaxia army are exploding, or the shells of the Mughal army are exploding, in short, on their positions, explosions are repeated, clouds of black smoke are rising, at first you can still see the soldiers fleeing in all directions, but later you can't see anything, only see the black smoke that rolls out, and the flames of flowering.

"Company commander, look!" The platoon commander Shen Fulin pointed in front of the direction filled with gunsmoke and said anxiously.

Zhao Tongchao had also seen that there were dozens of elephants frantically rushing towards the side of the company, Zhao Tongchao knew that these elephants were part of the elephants that had been blown up, and once the elephants were frightened, it was impossible to obey the command of the elephant trainer, and they would run aimlessly.

"Avoid the elephants and knock the elephant riders down!" Company commander Zhao Tongchao decisively gave the order.

Platoon commander Shen Fulin received the order and immediately led the whole platoon of soldiers to the right to avoid, and the soldiers held their loaded guns in their hands as they walked, ready to shoot at the elephant herd at any time.

Zhao Tongchao calmly looked at the elephant herd that was rushing over, at this time the elephant herd was eight hundred meters away from them, his soldiers had enough time to avoid the impact of the elephant herd, his own position was a small dirt slope, he was sure that the elephant could not impact him here, he held a mini gun, waiting for the elephant to arrive.

The dust kicked up by the elephant herd mixed with the smoke of artillery fire, and from a distance it looked like a black whirlwind, pressing down on a series of positions from the front.

At this time, the shelling of the Huaxia army stopped, which meant that the first company had to be sent to charge.

But the elephant herd is getting closer and closer, Zhao Tongchao can see the bloodstained elephants without a telescope, these elephants are all heavy shells, and their wounds are still bloody.

The elephant trainers also seemed to have gone crazy, they could not control the elephant, and they could not get down, so in order to calm the elephant, they frantically hit the elephant's ears with the iron rod in their hands, and the soldiers sitting on the elephant's back were unlucky, and most of them were thrown to the ground, but the elephant only knew how to rush forward regardless of it.

When the soldiers of the first company saw this, they did not shoot, they let the elephants go, and the elephants passed like a whirlwind, leaving behind a foul smell of elephants, mixed with the smell of carrion.

Zhao Tongchao stood on the dirt slope, and he saw that the first and third platoons had already launched a charge, and only the second platoon had delayed the charge in order to avoid the elephants. He shouted, "Rush! ”

The soldiers who remained behind echoed the shouts of the company commander and rushed towards the front where the smoke had dissipated.

The company that rushed to the front, at the moment of contact with the enemy, pulled the trigger one by one, and fired bullets out of the chamber one by one, and the sound of "pop" when the bullets hit the enemy's body was clearly heard.

Zhao Tongchao also rushed up, and he took a mini gun and aimed at a Mughal officer on a horse in a crouching position, but he didn't pull the trigger, and he saw that the officer was still organizing his soldiers in the queue.

What's going on?

Zhao Tongchao glanced up, and immediately understood, it turned out that they were in formation, these old-style troops, they could only attack when they were in formation, this kind of old style of play had long been abandoned by the Huaxia army, Zhao Tongchao pulled the trigger without hesitation, "Bang!" His shooting skills were top-notch, and the bullet hit the officer who was directing the formation in a straight arc on the silver pointed helmet, and the bullet pierced the helmet, and the officer fell off his horse.

Assembled in front of Zhao Tongchao was a light infantry of the Mughal Kingdom, numbering about 5,000 people, among which there were many wounded soldiers, who had just been baptized by the artillery of the Huaxia Kingdom.

After the commander fell, the enemy's formation began to become chaotic, not to mention organizing an attack, and even the ability to defend was gone.

Zhao Tongchao was not in a hurry to order the troops to charge, he ordered the whole company to shoot forward and destroy as many enemies as possible in front of him.

The light infantry of the Mughal army was also armed with a small number of arquebuses, which were far less powerful than the Mini guns of the Chinese Kingdom, and the rate of fire was surprisingly slow.

The Chinese army had a mini gun in their hands, and the gunfire of "soldiers banging" hit the Mughal army in a mess of porridge, and those unlucky soldiers fell to the ground one after another.

"Company commander, the enemy's cavalry is coming!" Shen Fulin, the leader of the platoon who was fighting in front, turned around and reported loudly to Zhao Tongchao.

These cavalry were the heavy cavalry of the Mughal army in the rear row, and these heavy cavalry saw that the elephant soldiers and light infantry were broken, so they killed them from behind.

It has to be admitted that these heavy cavalry are lethal, especially when they attack in formation.

Zhao Tongchao immediately made a decision and ordered a company to shrink its defense and form a dense firepower to deal with the cavalry.

In the arquebus era, the cavalry relied on a neat queue and a strong impact to completely defeat the arquebus, which had nothing to do with whether the flint was flint or not, and whether it was three stages or not. No matter how powerful your spear is, it won't stop the fast-moving cavalry from rushing in front of you and slashing you with their sabers.

The Chinese army is equipped with the most advanced Mini gun, the Mini rifle is a rifled front-loading rapid-fire gun, compared with the old arquebus, the rate of fire, accuracy and range have been greatly improved, the infantry firepower has been raised to a level that is difficult for cavalry to surpass, especially in the face of dense infantry formations.

"Company commander, good fight!"

Zhao Tongchao heard the familiar voice of the regiment commander, he looked back and saw that the regiment commander had already brought reinforcements up, and he shouted loudly to his soldiers: "The regiment commander has arrived with reinforcements!" ”

A group of men and horses that were bringing the whole group followed behind the first company, and the first company let the dozens of elephants go and landed right in the circle of fire, and all the elephants were killed.

When the enemy's cavalry began to charge, the regimental commander led the whole regiment to reinforcements.

The number of these cavalry was not large, only more than a thousand horsemen, and the bullets of the Minnie spears poured down towards the cavalry formation like a torrential rain, and the cavalry who rushed to the front fell to the ground one after another, and the cavalry formation was in chaos at once.

Company commander Zhao Tongchao was sharp-eyed, he saw the enemy's green military flag planted behind a standard-bearer, this standard-bearer was behind the enemy formation, riding a horse and dangling, he was the sharpshooter of the whole regiment, he raised his gun, aimed for a moment, pulled the trigger, and only listened to "Bang!" With a bang, the flag-bearer in the distance fell.