Chapter 273: It's a Massacre......
It is normal for the recruits in Marbury's army to have some commotion.
The formation of 30,000 elite cavalry looks boundless, and the appearance of the layers of arrangement can tell at a glance that they are all well-trained elites, which is really frightening...... The original enthusiasm of those Marbury recruits suddenly cooled down, and there was a little commotion.
Lieutenant Colonel Wang Xuanbin will not let the commotion continue!
He didn't wait for the persuader who was running back and forth in front of the front line to finish shouting, and casually pulled out his flare gun, "Smack! "Smack!" Two shots, two green flares fired into the sky.
Immediately a command rang out from the rocket and artillery positions.
Waste!
Waste!
Waste!
"Tom!" "Tom!" "Tom!"
A few seconds later, the mortar fired first...... This was followed by the whining of rockets...... Artillery of all sizes, large and small, placed on the front line of the Marbury army, also opened fire one after another!
The Marbury recruits had never seen a scene before, nor had they heard anything like it...... They all froze, and honestly lay on the sacks of earth on the ramparts and did not move.
Also stunned were the elite cavalry of the Sultan's army, whose horses began to jump slightly, but the cavalry ignored them, and they kept staring at the rising rockets...... What are those things?!
However, no one gave them an answer...... Mortar shells exploded first in the ranks of the cavalry, and the skins of dozens of shells bloomed with the flowers of death in the neatly arranged cavalry line!
Thanks to repeated measurements in advance, none of those shells missed, and all of them did their best to exert their own strength!!
The tissues of the cavalry and horses were flying in all directions......
This was followed by direct fire artillery of various calibers on the Marbury Front!
Those Marbury artillerymen are all elites trained by the Imperial Army's teaching company, they have already tested many times, and they have also participated in King Marbury's "unification" operation, but they are still frightened by this scene!
They did not expect that artillery could also be fired from behind them, and for the first time they saw rockets flying...... They trembled and set the cannon on fire...... Luckily, it didn't affect anything.
The shotguns of these direct-fire guns may hit more powerfully!
General Firuz Kargi's horse was startled, and it suddenly raised its front hooves, as if to tear its owner off his horse!
General Firuz Kargi was also a good rider, instinctively clinging his legs between the horse's body and grabbing the reins of the horse so that no matter how much the horse jumped, he could not get rid of him.
However, he was terrified because he saw with his own eyes that the head of one of his attendants suddenly shattered...... As soon as he remembered what the earth king had said, he wanted to shout to retreat...... Rockets fell from the sky and crashed to the ground, bursting into several bright red fireballs.
In an instant, General Firuz Kargi felt himself and his horse flying...... But before he could hit the ground, there was a fire in front of him, and he didn't know anything.
Mortars fire much faster than rockets, and the constant sound of explosions seems to have never stopped.
At this time, the Imperial Air Force scouts in the sky were also stunned...... They moved away from the point of the explosion and saw a fire first, followed by a rumbling explosion.
The entire battlefield was soon obscured by the smoke of artillery shells.
A full 30,000 cavalry scattered and fled, and no one thought of storming the line of Marbury's army.
The Imperial Air Force scouts saw a stream of four-wheeled chariots rushing out of their barracks to the east and west at the same time, followed by sabre-wielding Marbury light cavalry...... They were like two arms stretched out from the earth, reaching out to the scattered cavalry, trying to bring them together!
The impact points of the mortars and rockets slowly extended forward, accurately pursuing the routers...... This only makes them more disintegrated.
Immediately afterwards, the battle line of Marbury's army seemed to be jubilant, and the soldiers climbed over the half-human wall like a swarm of ants, and pounced on the scattered cavalry with their weapons in hand......
The defeat of the enemy gave them the courage to take the initiative to go to war.
The soldiers of the four battalions of the Federal Imperial Army ran out of the barracks in an orderly manner, and they were fully armed and rushed into battle in four trotters.
Lieutenant Colonel Wang Xuanbin on the watchtower always watched the battle with binoculars...... After he gave the order to start the official attack, he had nothing to do, and his officers had been directing on the spot according to the battle plan that had been drawn up in advance...... So far, there have been no errors.
While observing the battlefield, he mentally weighed the gains and losses of the battle plan.
It is correct that barbed wire was not arranged, and on such a flat plateau, the enemy could face each other in a different direction at any time, and was not afraid that the enemy's cavalry would flank from both sides...... In that case, his two-column fleet of four-wheeled chariots could turn into a head-on convoy!
But it suddenly occurred to him that what if the enemy cavalry bypassed the frontal battlefield far away and attacked from the rear of the entire battle line?!
Even if there is air force reconnaissance from high altitudes, even if it can be detected in advance, he will still fall into passivity...... This is a huge loophole, so be careful next time!!
Also, he should have planted tandem explosives on both sides of the frontal battlefield...... That would be even more lethal!!
That's a lot of questions......
However, he won this battle after all, and after defeating the enemy's elite cavalry, those infantry were not worth mentioning...... He sighed happily.
He wanted to see King Marbury's reaction, and when he looked back, the guy was gone...... Looking at it again, he was lying on the floor, completely kneeling on the ground, and his mouth was still chanting...... No one understood what he was saying.
At this time, a telegram flew into the distance from the copper and iron shelves planted in the barracks, informing the troops who had landed in the northern area to participate in the encirclement operation that they had completed the task of crushing the enemy cavalry and were now about to carry out a squeezing pursuit.
The Imperial Army's four-wheeled chariots and Marbury's light cavalry could pursue enemy cavalry, and in fact, the Imperial Army's infantry and Marbury's infantry could pursue them as well!
In previous battles for "unification", there were cases where infantry caught up with enemy cavalry.
Ordinary war horses can run up to ten to twenty kilometers in one breath on the battlefield, after which they must drink water and replenish feed...... Only two-horse, three-mounted cavalry can attack farther in a single operation, and this is done under the premise of sufficient preparation in advance...... Where do the scattered cavalrymen have such conditions?!
After fleeing for a while, they either had to abandon their horses and flee, or they hid their men and horses...... As long as the well-prepared infantry of the Imperial Army followed them unhurriedly, they would be caught up sooner or later!
The infantry of the Imperial Army, of course, would not pursue alone...... They quickly reorganized the somewhat scattered Marbury recruits, and let some of them watch over the captives and collect their horses, while others trotted after them.
The logistics units of the Imperial Army demonstrated their capabilities.
When the artillery positions and rocket positions stopped firing, they rushed to the military four-wheeled wagons, and the soldiers quickly loaded the vehicles with equipment, and then began to pursue with the infantry.
The military four-wheeled carriage still had supplies for the infantry.