"One, two...... Three! 1.2...... Three! ”

Outside the tall, imposing foyer of the manor's building, six French soldiers in cavalry helmets and riding boots slammed their arms against the gate, then retreated, gasped, run, and slammed into the heavy open door again. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 After a few times, everyone was blushing and sweating profusely, and the gate was showing a slight sign of loosening, but it was still not enough to knock it open completely, even if all these sturdy dragoons were exhausted.

In the field on the east side of the manor, Major Ngoi rode his horse and stood out of the range of enemy guns, watching the battle inside the manor with a telescope. The wall on the north side of the manor was the first to be opened by the French cavalry, and the dragoons who charged from that side were also the first to break through, but only a dozen horsemen finally broke through the wall under the strong resistance of German machine guns and rifles. After entering the manor, they immediately went around to the main entrance of the building, and first shot at the door lock with their rifles, but the German soldiers entrenched in the building obviously used something to resist the gate, and the French fired dozens of shots at the door lock to no avail, and the swords used by the cavalry could not be used as axes, so they thought of breaking the window and opening the door from the inside, and the dragoons who could enter through the window were sinking into the sea one by one, and the cavalry outside had to work together to hit the door.

Thanks to the building's built-in foyer, the Germans were unable to shoot the French cavalry from the window as they tried to hit the door, and the other two groups of cavalry rushing to the manor's façade from the east and south flanks provided strong cover with sustained fire, but this was not an option. Major Ngoy turned his head to look to the side, a small group of cavalry was dragging a 65 mm cavalry gun to the side facing the gate of the building, they stopped two kilometers from the outer wall of the manor, the gunners quickly deployed the gun mounts, moved the shells from the ammunition truck, and the sighters calculated the angle of fire, and it seemed that they would soon be able to fire.

Ngoy's gaze returned to the front, and the cavalry were still storming the gate of the building in the barbaric way of the Cold Weapon Age, and the persistence made people feel mixed feelings.

"Let Simon's soldiers get out of front of the gate!" The Major commanded with a blank face.

The signal soldier holds the flag in both hands and sends a flag signal to the cavalry in the manor. The French dragoons who rushed into the manor from the north side were not all banging on the door, some were in charge of keeping watch over the horses, and some were leaning on the corner of the foyer to prevent the Germans from jumping out of the window to attack. Since there were few obstacles in the manor that could be used for concealment, they had to lead their horses to the roots of the building's façade and pray that the Germans would not find out about their presence, otherwise a few grenades would have cost them dearly.

"First Serve...... Shoot! ”

As the French officer commanding the cavalry cannon shouted a loud order, the cavalry cannon with a short barrel and a rudimentary gun carriage sat down sharply in a loud roar, and at this moment, Major Ngoy seemed to see the senator's face turned the color of pig's liver because of annoyance, but as the executor of tactical strategy, he could not give up the battle because of such concerns, and he could only blame the man who chose this estate for combat deployment.

The shells whizzed across the battlefield, and although the shooting distance was very close, they failed to hit the target with a single shot, but landed on the grass more than ten meters away from the outer wall of the building, and a charred crater suddenly appeared on the grass that was as flat as a carpet.

The officer standing next to the cavalry gun shouted to his gunners: "Five points for the horizontal angle and two points for the elevation angle." Second ...... Shoot! ”

Ngoy knew how accurate the cavalry guns were, so when the second shell blew a very ugly gap in the sleek façade of the manor's buildings, he showed no obvious anger or frustration.

"Minus one point from the horizontal angle, one point from the elevation angle, the moment is coming for the elite of France, right on the bull's-eye. Third ...... Shoot! ”

The officer's high-pitched tone encouraged his gunners, and gave the cavalry who were waiting for good news around them a sense of anticipation. Unfortunately, in order to reduce the weight, this cavalry gun simplified the structure, especially omitted the long-range re-entry device, which is the most essential of the 1897 field gun, and after each shot, the position of the gun changed, and the gunners pushed them back into place, but it was difficult to completely restore the firing state it had just fired, so it needed to be adjusted repeatedly to hit a specific part of the building.

The third shell was so misdirected that it hit the dome of the manor building, instantly destroying most of it, and the entire building's exterior was catastrophic.

When the smoke cleared, the roof was littered with broken bricks, and Warrant Officer Wachevika, who was sitting on the roof overlooking the battlefield, was killed, his head was smashed by a broken brick the size of an egg, and the wound was bleeding profusely, and he was not the first person to be wounded by the German reconnaissance cavalry platoon. Before this, several shells had fallen into the manor, and not a single intact glass could be found in the windows on the north side of the building, and the French cavalry of all stripes continued to fire at the German cavalry fighting against the windows during the attack, and the battle has now been fought with 3 soldiers killed and 2 seriously wounded, and the minor injuries that did not leave the line of fire were not counted at all.

Seeing that the French were trying to blast the door open directly with their cavalry guns, Warrant Officer Wachervica knew that the French dragoons who had struck the door earlier had already left the foyer, and they must still be hiding under the walls of this building, but they were not sure where they were, and the easy use of precious and rare grenades would not be conducive to the battle that followed. So Warrant Officer Wachervica went down to the third floor with his head covered, and while he asked his companions to bandage his wounds, he mobilized his troops to deal with the ultimate attack of the French cavalry after blowing open the gates.

Moments later, the French cavalry cannon fired the fourth and fifth shells, and when it came to the sixth, after a bang, the combatants on both sides received the news from their companions: the door of the manor building was open!

The shell did not hit the gate directly, but hit the edge of the foyer, and the impact of the explosion "slammed" the door with far more energy than manpower, and more than a dozen dragoons, who were waiting for the opportunity under the wall, turned on their horses, drew their cavalry swords from their scabbards, and rode into the building according to Major Ngoy's battle arrangement. However, in the smoky hall, they did not see the fleeing German soldiers, a large number of motorcycles completely blocked the road from the hall to the second floor, and the dragoons had to go down the corridor, they found that all the doors on the first floor were closed, and the end of the corridor was blocked by a mess of tables, chairs and sofas. Some dragoons smashed open the door with the butts of their rifles and rushed into the room on horseback, but it was as empty as the hall and corridor.

Just as the dragoons hesitated to dismount and fight, the opponent appeared like a ghost, they opened fire from the second floor of the hall with light machine guns, rifles and pistols, and threw grenades from the stairs at the end of the corridor. No sooner had the second French dragoon rushed through the foyer than it was subjected to heavy gunfire in the hall, and the marble floor was transformed into a bloody slaughterhouse - and only two minutes later, the third French cavalry rushed in, waiting not for a hearty battle of revenge, much less for a one-sided slaughter of the enemy. If they meet in an open field, the French cavalry on war horses will probably use their cavalry swords to teach the Germans a hard lesson, but in the interior of the building, the German cavalry who have abandoned their motorcycles is completely advantageous, and all they need to do is constantly pull the trigger and reload.

With no hope of victory, the French cavalry trapped in the house either burst out on horseback or abandoned their horses to fight on foot. The French cavalry who had been lucky enough to evacuate brought the terrible situation to their comrades outside, and the dragoons who stormed the manor and prepared to storm the building decisively abandoned their failed combat deployment, and once slowed down, they quickly became the target of the German archers who were still crouching at the window, and the dragoons had to make a difficult choice between retreating and attacking.

"Attack! Don't stop! Go on the offensive! ”

Major Ngoy, who had galloped to the gates of the manor, roared at the dragoons who had stopped in their falters.

A non-commissioned officer with half of his sleeve soaked in blood crossed in front of him: "Can't go in, sir!" Inside is an ambush of the enemy! ”

"What?" Major Ngoy's eyes widened with an expression of disbelief.

The non-commissioned officer patiently explained: "The enemy had already designed it, the first floor was completely empty, they blocked the stairs and attacked us from top to bottom with machine guns and grenades, and many officers and soldiers died in vain!" ”

The whizzing bullets did not give Major Ngoy time to ponder, and from the overall situation, this dragoon unit was responsible for reconnaissance, vigilance, maneuver and other important tasks in the counterattack that the French army was scheduled to launch, and thinking that his side had cavalry guns, and the opponent was only machine guns and grenades, he immediately made a decision and ordered all to retreat.

Watching the French dragoons withdraw from the manor from behind the window, Warrant Officer Wachervica's heart hanging in his throat finally relaxed. Lack of combat experience sometimes means that the sky is not high, and when the weapons and equipment are not so different, it is not as easy to fight with one to ten as imagined. Although his cavalry reconnaissance platoon killed and wounded several times the French dragoons of his own, after all, it was on the premise of taking advantage of the defense, and the grenades on his side were exhausted, and there were few bullets left. If the opponent uses the remaining dozens of dragoons as infantry, as long as they are no longer careless, it is very possible to win in one fell swoop.

(End of chapter)