"Hmmm! This group of guys actually only sent more than 20,000 cavalry, which is too underestimate us! After seeing the movement of the enemy army on the opposite side through the telescope, Zhou Cang couldn't help but muttered to himself in surprise. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info In his heart, although the 50,000 horses on his side seem to be quite thin, this is the 50,000 soldiers of New Carthage! The combat effectiveness has completely exploded those small countries, and the other party actually thinks that they can defeat them with more than 20,000 cavalry, which is really naïve. Although the more than 20,000 cavalry seemed to be carefully selected by the other party, they were basically equipped with chain mail or cuirass, which was barely a heavy cavalry.

"Isn't that just right! Everyone else can rest first, and the 20,000 cavalry will be handed over to my musketeers!" Ohama was glad to see this, the group of enemies was not too numerous to warm up his boys.

"Uncle Obama, that's more than 20,000 cavalry! Can you eat with the five thousand musketeers under your command? Hearing that Obama was going to encircle this group of enemies alone, Zhou Cang asked him with some surprise.

"Nonsense! Of course I can eat it. His Majesty and I don't know how much effort we have put into this musket unit, and if we don't even have the ability to do it, what are we going to do with it! After saying this, Ohama ignored Zhou Cang, and ran to his men in a hurry, and asked the musketeers to come forward and prepare to meet the enemy.

Zhou Cang watched all this from behind, but he still felt a little unsafe, and secretly ordered his subordinates, ready to step forward to support as soon as he saw that the musket troops of Obama could not withstand it. Although both his teacher Shi Jinshui and Obama blew the musket unit very badly, after all, this was the first time that this unit was used in actual combat after its establishment, so he was really not sure if this unit could show its true strength. As for the so-called new musket, he had actually seen it, but in his opinion, this thing had not improved much in other aspects except that the loading speed was a little faster than the old musket, and it was still so insufficient, and the range was not much higher than that of a heavy crossbow. Unless it was a sharpshooter like Obama who had been playing with guns for many years, if these muskets fell into the hands of ordinary soldiers, it was estimated that they would be within fifty meters, and those soldiers would not want to hit the enemy with this burning stick.

Shi Jinshui and Obama naturally knew about the shortcomings of the lack of accuracy of the early musketeers, so at this time, the formation of these musketeers was extremely dense, and when the time came, a whole row of musketeers fired at the same time, using a dense barrage to make up for the lack of accuracy.

After Zhou Cang saw this dense formation of the musket troops, he also figured out its intention, but he was not very optimistic about this style of fighting, after all, once the enemy was not completely defeated and those heavy cavalry rushed into the queue, the musketeers who were lined up so densely would it be difficult to even turn around and escape at that time, and they could only wait to be slaughtered.

On the other hand, Okuhama, as the commander of the musket unit, was full of confidence in his soldiers, and he arranged his 5,000 musketeers into four teams according to his usual training, using a three-stage shooting method, with the last platoon as a reserve. Now he waited for the stupid enemy to rush up and send him to his death.

Since this musket unit had just been formed and had not even participated in the parade, the group of enemies on the opposite side did not know this new branch at all, and they only felt inexplicable when they saw the enemies with weapons that looked like burning sticks. Then, at the urging of the generals, they all started to charge with strange screams.

Soon after these cavalry launched a charge, the artillery on the side of New Carthage first began its own roar, but due to the haste of coming out, Zhou Cang only brought five artillery pieces this time, and the damage caused by these few cannons was too small for this huge number of enemy troops, and it was impossible to stop the momentum of its charge.

Seeing this situation, Zhou Cang could only silently say to himself in the back: "I hope this musket unit is really as powerful as the teacher and Uncle Obama said!" Otherwise, this battle will be really difficult to fight. ”

On the other side, the musketeers in the first row, under the command of Obama, had raised their muskets in unison, aiming their muzzles at the enemy cavalry who were getting closer and closer to them on the opposite side. This is also fortunate that Shi Jinshui has long had the foresight to let his soldiers have been trained in the same adaptation training for cavalry charges as the earliest batch of barbarian mercenaries, so even in the face of more than 20,000 cavalry charges, these musketeers are still not panicked at all, and can carry out the commander's orders well. Then, with a wave of Oba's hand, the musketeers fired their first shot of the battle in unison.

Zhou Cang, who was behind, only heard a burst of gunfire like fried beans, and then saw the group of enemy cavalry rushing to the front, as if they had hit a transparent wall, and they all screamed miserably and planted their horses. Even some of the war horses were beaten on the spot and splashed with blood, neighing and falling to the ground.

Seeing the huge lethality displayed by the musketeers, Zhou Cang couldn't help but shudder. And the reason for this situation is actually very simple, that is, these musketeers under Obama are still using the extremely primitive lead bullets, not the copper-shelled bullets of later generations, after all, it is now BC! No matter how powerful Shi Jinshui is, he can't raise the level of science and technology to the point where he can mass-produce such a copper-shelled bullet with extremely high requirements in all aspects. And this primitive lead bullet has a great impact on the shooting accuracy, range and penetration of the musket. However, it finally has the only benefit, that is, the lethality is large enough, as long as it is hit by these bullets, then these soft lead bullets will immediately deform and roll in the bodies of those enemies, tearing and expanding the wounds, and finally making a mess. So now, as long as these enemy cavalry are hit by a bullet, they will immediately be seriously injured and lose their combat effectiveness, and even those war horses, once they are hit by a few shots, they will die on the spot.

The group of heavy cavalry of the multinational coalition on the opposite side, who were the first opponents of the musketeers, were also stunned by this round of muskets. They originally thought that with their shields and armor, they should be able to reach most of the enemy's long-range attacks, but just now those enemy troops with strange weapons just fired a salvo, and they put down hundreds of their cavalry at once.

Without giving the enemy on the opposite side time time to react, on Obama's side, after the first row of musketeers finished firing, they immediately retreated to the back to reload their ammunition as they had been trained before, and then the second row of musketeers stepped forward and, after roughly aiming, pulled their own triggers.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Another dense rain of bullets swept by, and hundreds of multinational cavalry at the forefront were knocked off their horses. In this kind of rapid charge, even if he was not killed at that time, after falling off his horse, he could not escape the fate of being trampled to death by the war horse behind, so this was equivalent to defeating the cavalry and being killed.

What's more, after two rounds of shooting, the corpses of those war horses and cavalry on the road have caused a lot of trouble to the subsequent advance of other cavalry, if it is only the corpses of those cavalry, you can still hit it hard by gritting your teeth, but if you hit the corpses of those war horses that are much older than the same age, then it will be unlucky, and it is likely that you yourself will follow in the footsteps of those unlucky people in front of you, and be trampled to death by your own people's war horses under the horse.

The second row of musketeers stepped back and reloaded, and the third row of musketeers strode forward and fired a third round of bullets at the cavalry of the multinational coalition.

With the end of these three stormy salvos, the multinational coalition army that was originally rushing towards the New Carthage army was already beaten into scattered formations, demoralized, and on the verge of breaking up at any time.

However, although it has not yet dispersed, just looking at the bloody faces of those multinational coalition cavalrymen, you can also see what kind of psychological impact these guys have suffered in just a few seconds, just a few seconds! More than 1,000 cavalry were killed, which was almost equal to more than half of the military strength of some small countries. For a while, the cavalry of these multinational coalition forces couldn't help but slow down the speed of their charge, and hesitated about whether to continue to attack the enemy on the opposite side.

Zhou Cang saw this situation in the back and smiled contemptuously: "Hehe! A rabble is a rabble, so hesitating to suffer such casualties, it seems that the jackpot of Uncle Obama's musketeer unit is decided! ”

On the contrary, the commander of the cavalry of this multinational coalition army was so anxious to jump to his feet when he saw this situation, and finally after killing several cavalrymen who wanted to escape with his own hands, he finally temporarily stabilized the morale of the army and resumed the charge.

But their side had just resumed their charge, and the first row of musketeers, who had finished reloading their ammunition, strode forward and fired another volley at the enemy on the opposite side.

Unfortunately for this time, the commander of the enemy cavalry, who wanted to set an example, was shot off his horse on the spot because he rushed too far ahead. It doesn't matter if he was dead or wounded at the time, but once he fell off his horse, he was trampled by thousands of troops and horses in the rear, and he was never lucky.

The death of the commander was a huge blow to this cavalry unit, but because of the huge inertia of the war horse charge, this cavalry did not stop immediately, and was still charging forward under the impetus of inertia. But at this moment, the cavalry of these multinational coalition forces did not have the slightest confidence in whether they could defeat the enemy on the opposite side.

Under the horrified eyes of the Multinational Coalition cavalry, one row of musketeers stepped back, and another row of musketeers who had finished reloading strode forward, sneering at them and striking the terrible metal storm again. Then they could only watch as these bullets, which were so fast that they could not be caught by the naked eye, opened huge and hideous blood holes in their bodies, and finally were torn off by the huge kinetic energy carried by the bullets, fell into the dust, and waited for those comrades in the rear to trample them into piles of flesh.

Just continued to rush more than a hundred meters to continue, and the heavy cavalry unit carefully selected and pieced together by the multinational coalition army collapsed in a desperate howl. Who told them to think it was an easy war! All they were thinking about how to loot more gold, silver and jewelry, and they didn't think that they would face such huge casualties, so now the musket unit under Obama fired a few volleys, and this group of guys who looked like robbers more than soldiers were scattered.

The commander-in-chief of the multinational coalition was also completely stunned when he saw that the heavy cavalry unit that he had placed high hopes on had collapsed so quickly. He couldn't figure it out at all, he hadn't been able to officially fight the enemy on the other side! Why did it fall apart! Even if the enemy on the opposite side had a little more long-range firepower, it was impossible to rely on long-range firepower alone to defeat this heavy cavalry force of more than 20,000 people!

"You, go and stop a few cavalrymen for me, and ask them what the hell is going on?" I couldn't figure it out in my heart, and the commander-in-chief of the multinational coalition could only ask his subordinates to call a few of his own soldiers who participated in this attack to come over and ask.