Chapter 622: The Decisive Battle of the Khan's Court (12)

The sound of artillery in the Apocalypse Guard camp had stopped, and all the artillery barrels were smoking, and the few that hit the fastest even turned dark red.

"Go get water to cool the barrel!"

A soldier shouted.

"Stop!"

When Guo Shengbao heard this, he immediately stopped loudly: "Damn, the cannon is overheated now, pouring the cannon tube with cold water is likely to deform the cannon barrel, and it will be easier to blow up the barrel if you fight again after a while, don't do stupid things if you kid still want to die!" ”

"Why did the cannon stop?"

As he was talking, Zhang Zuofeng and Lin Shaofeng rushed over.

When Guo Shengbao saw the two of them, he helplessly pointed to the reddened cannon pipe: "The artillery is overheated, and if you hit it again, it will explode." ”

Zhang Zuofeng frowned: "How long do you have to wait?" ”

Guo Shengbao spread his hands and said, "At least half an hour." ”

"So long?!"

Zhang Zuofeng's face changed.

"Report!"

At this moment, a scout rushed out from behind everyone and said: "Enlighten the generals, the steppe cavalry that has just retreated from the lookout post has been killed again, this time the enemy seems to be desperate, and all the people are full of heads, countless!" ”

"What?"

This time, it was not only Zhang Zuofeng, but almost all the people present changed their faces when they heard this.

"The artillery can't be used, what can I do?"

Zhang Zuofeng punched his palm and muttered to himself hatefully.

"Are there any more mines?"

Guo Shengbao asked.

Lin Shaodong shook his head: "Most of the inventory has been buried by Cao Siyuan in advance, not to mention that even if there is, it is too late to bury it now." ”

"How's that okay?"

And all the people were troubled.

Lin Shaodong looked at the hot air balloon in the distance, gritted his teeth and said: "It's already this time, and if you can't do it, you can only show our last hole card." ”

Zhang Zuofeng was surprised: "But we don't have the order of the marshal, this is ......"

Lin Shaodong said with a smile: "Don't worry, Dashuai kept this hole card for this moment!" ”

"What?"

Zhang Zuofeng and Guo Shengbao looked at him in surprise, only to see Lin Shaodong smiling and taking out a bag from his arms.

Guo Shengbao frowned and said, "Damn, how many tips did the handsome give you?" ”

Lin Shaodong smiled: "This is the last one!" ”

Zhang Zuofeng rolled his eyes and said, "You have said this at least three or four times." ”

Lin Shaodong said without changing his face: "This time it's true!" ”

This decisive battle of the Khan's court, which is enough to go down in history, lasted from morning to evening, and before the people sent by Uliji to send the herald arrived at the outer camp, Mr. Zou took a step ahead, gathered all his men, and launched the final onslaught towards the camp of the Heavenly Qiwei.

At this moment, there are still more than 100,000 main forces in the grassland, and the morale of the army has been weakened under the successive blows, but they still have the advantage of battlefield initiative, number and mobility.

For the temporarily lost artillery support for the Apocalypse Guard Battalion, the threat of this battle was very huge, and it was also the closest the steppe army came to victory after the battle.

But at the most critical moment, Apocalypse Wei also showed his final hole card.

A mysterious battalion was quietly opened, and the soldiers inside quickly entered the ring position and took over the task of guarding the battalion.

These soldiers don't seem to be anything special, except for a dagger, they are not equipped with the weapons of other Apocalypse Guards, but they are holding a pole to grab it!

It was a real semi-automatic rifle, Xu Rui was modeled after the famous Li Yingfeld rifle of World War I, and it was one of the two trump cards born at the same time as the hot air balloon.

This rifle was the best rifle of World War I, with a ten-round capacity, twice as many as similar weapons from other belligerent countries, and did not require frequent reloads.

Since the Lee Ingfield rifle uses a rotating pull-back bolt with a locking rear end, it only needs two or three fingers to complete the reload, and the reload speed is very fast.

Therefore, the British, who were armed with such rifles, invented the "crazy six seconds" tactic.

A seasoned shooter can fire ten rounds in six seconds, and such a fast rate of fire can even confuse the enemy, making them mistakenly believe that they have a lot of machine guns and have a lot of firepower, and then choose to abandon the attack.

The steppe people who had never seen a gun would naturally not be confused, but Xu Rui still asked the soldiers of a battalion to equip this rifle in advance and train the "crazy six seconds" tactic for a long time.

Because in the absence of a machine gun, a rifle with a faster rate of fire, a longer range, higher firing accuracy and greater power will completely replace the repeating crossbow and become a cavalry terminator!

When more than 100,000 steppe cavalry gambled on their last fighting spirit and launched the final blow to the Apocalypse Guard battalion, the rifle battalion that had entered the ring position in advance was already in full array.

With a dense burst of gunfire, for the first time in this world, there was a duel between cavalry and rifles.

It was as if the history of another world was repeating itself, and the mighty cavalry rushed to the position, and was immediately met by the fierce fire of a thousand Reaper rifles.

The two thousand cavalrymen in the front row fell to the ground in an instant, and they didn't even have time to let out a wail before they whimpered for their lives.

The cavalry that followed were held back by the corpses in the front row, and the speed of the charge was drastically reduced, making them more vulnerable to attack, and thousands more were killed in an instant after the second volley.

And that's just three or five seconds away.

The bloodshed of the First World War was that artillery and machine guns turned the area between the two armies' trenches into an absolute forbidden area of death, and there was even a horrific scene in which 60,000 people were killed in a single charge, and hundreds of thousands of casualties were killed in a day.

You must know that they are all well-trained ace armies in the hands of various powers, not steppe cavalry who are ignorant of modern warfare, or even unheard of.

When Xu Rui turned the war situation into a trench war similar to World War I, the steppe cavalry deeply realized what is called the war advantage caused by the weapon generation gap, which is the lack of hard power, and the gap that no tactics and strategies can erase.

Even so, the steppe cavalry was not not strong, they braved the rain of bullets and bullets and paid countless lives, and finally passed through the last two hundred meters and approached the circular position.

But what awaited them were hundreds of grenades and thousands of repeating crossbows.

The barrage of grenades and repeating crossbows continued to inflict heavy casualties on the steppe cavalry, and when the rifle battalion soldiers changed their bullets, a new round of slaughter began.

On the other hand, the brave steppe cavalry could not find any opponent, for their opponents were hiding in the narrow trenches, which were forbidden areas for horses and, of course, for them.

The enemy's weapons are extremely sharp, but they are beyond the enemy's whip, and there is no possibility of continuing such a battle.

After losing nearly 10,000 men, as well as almost all of their morale and fighting spirit, the army finally collapsed and fled in all directions.

At this time, the envoy with the order to retreat from Uliji had just arrived at the camp of the Chinese army outside the Khan's court, but he could only witness this desperate scene from a distance like Mr. Zou.

"It's over, it's all over!"

The messenger sat down on the ground in a state of despair, trembling.

Mr. Zou gritted his teeth and stared blankly at the battlefield in the distance and the fleeing army, not knowing whether to despair or shock.