Chapter 454: Shock
This kind of deployment and arrangement of the enemy army seemed to be a little different from the vast majority of opponents that Xiao Xuan's team had encountered in the past. Of course, it's not just the equipment that looks fairly complete by ancient standards, and even the cavalry-based team can have such a scale. What is more important is that they have such a huge scale of troops and even the superiority of troops, and they still make a lot of arrangements so cautiously and carefully in the battle against their own side, and they do not plunge into the full impact of the first blow as soon as many opponents who do not know and cannot really understand their own combat effectiveness like many opponents who do not know and cannot really understand their own combat effectiveness, until they are hit by the fierce fire of their own army, and they are bled or simply suffer a annihilating blow in the first battle.
If the enemy army is engaged in a large-scale attack and impact as soon as it comes up, the result in the face of the new pro-guard battalion and even the subordinate team is self-evident, but the fact that such a large opponent adopts such a cautious and cautious strategy still makes Xiao Xuan feel that the opponent is extraordinary.
However, Xiao Xuan did not hesitate for too long, it was obvious that in the face of cavalry as the main body, or such a cautious opponent, then the possibility of giving the opponent an annihilating blow in another battle would be much smaller. Today's combat objectives should be based on breaking through as quickly as possible after giving the most effective blow to the opponent, and making the opponent lose the confidence to engage in continuous entanglement with themselves with efficient and fierce firepower.
In the course of the Ottoman army's tentative offensive and even plausible fire preparations. The special observers in the artillery teams of the new guard battalion and even the independent artillery battalion also cooperated with sporadic test firing, and mastered the approximate location of many targets on the relevant tactical maps of each artillery team, and even used them as references.
With Xiao Xuan's order, the fierce blasting attack suddenly began. Under the heavy bombardment of the specially prepared blasting pits, at least two million pieces of ammunition totaling more than 200 tons were dispersed in all directions in all directions under the fierce blasting of dozens of tons of gunpowder. The Ottomans were also aware of some of the explosive methods that had been widely used in the western expeditions, so they launched sieges during the day rather than at night, and always maintained a distance of more than one mile between the front line and the enemy's position. However, they did not expect that this time the enemy's explosive attack method would be able to throw three taels of heavy shotgun shells to a distance of about one or two miles.
The daytime cluster blasting was not very effective against the relatively sparse cavalry-based target, but even so, under the blow of 2 million three-tael lead bullets, 50,000 horses and even nearly 40,000 Ottomans were concentrated in the heavy rain of bullets, and the opportunity suffered more than 30,000 casualties in an instant. If it weren't for the fact that this round of blasting attacks focused to a large extent on the artillery and even artillery units that had landed ashore, and the average casualties and losses of other teams were only about 10%, it was obvious that such a fierce blasting blow might have collapsed the Ottoman army of about 200,000 men.
By this time, many Ottoman officers and soldiers understood why they had to be so careful with their seemingly small opponents.
After a heavy blasting attack, the gunners of the New Guards Battalion began to bombard with a unique recoilless gun mount. According to the previous combat experience and some rules summed up in the drills and deductions in the past two years, when the recoilless gun is fired by soldiers, the accuracy of the shooting will always be greatly reduced due to personnel level problems or psychological interference. At the same time, scattered among every officer and soldier of the new guard battalion, the numerous recoilless launchers could not be carried out with maximum efficiency.
Therefore, the new guard battalion was also equipped with 500 light gun mounts. These recoilless gun mounts have specialized hammers and even horns. Telescopes are also widely equipped with each gun group, so that when the fire is deployed. Most of the people are only responsible for reloading the firepower or using the canisters that have been loaded for a long time, and the firing is carried out by a few people using more accurate firing gun mounts, and the accuracy of the attack is greatly improved.
In this way, 500 recoilless launchers and even hundreds of artillery crews fired 3,000 rounds of reloaded ammunition in just over a minute, and also fired about 3,000 reloaded fires, firing about 6,000 armor-piercing shells, mainly black powder shells.
Perhaps it was because the formation of the Ottoman Turks was more dispersed at this time, or perhaps the main target was a little too far away, and the curved trajectory fell into the ground at a limited distance when it fell into the enemy group when it bypassed the obstacle and fell into the enemy group, and these 6,000 black powder shells with very accurate attacks only killed and wounded less than 20,000 people, but the proportion of losses of the Ottoman officers and generals at all levels in this fierce blow was more than a quarter, and more than two-fifths in the key direction. Even many of Mudra IV's own bodyguards suffered casualties in the face of firepower, which seemed to be too good to resist no matter how good the shields and armor were, and managed to escape by luck.
If the last blasting attack can be explained as a premeditated preparation by the opponent, but this continuous fierce firepower is undoubtedly a firepower and strength that was unimaginable before. If it weren't for the fact that the supervising team in charge of the palace played a considerable role at this time, and the main Ottoman force participating in the battle this time did have a considerable level of combat effectiveness, I am afraid that it would have fallen into a rout under this kind of firepower.
Of course, at this time, after learning about the combat effectiveness of his army, Xiao Xuan didn't have too many worries, and began to lead a team of about 3,000 people from the New Guards Battalion and the Independent Artillery Battalion as the core, and about six or seven thousand people began to advance after leaving the previous fortifications.
At this time, Mudra IV only thought for a moment and made a decision: if an attack was organized at this time, although the risk of rout was still very high, if this situation continued, the entire army might quickly lose confidence under the fierce fire display and blow of the opponent, and some of the previous strategic arrangements would be difficult to carry out.
In this way, the truly elite cavalry was deployed in the rear, the cannon fodder force was in the front, and while the Ottomans controlled the retreat of their troops to the greatest extent, the horn of attack was also sounded at this time. The effect of the Warlords seemed to be like the waves of the sea, and many Ottoman troops who had experienced a big scene gradually stabilized their positions. Attacks were also approaching from all sides at this time.