Chapter 429: The Death of the Samurai
Cavalry, especially heavy cavalry and knights, has always been the king of the battlefield, even in the early days of the era of thermal weapons, cavalry is still active on the battlefield, and is regarded as a force to be reckoned with until the trench system and heavy machine guns are thoroughly developed, cavalry gradually withdrew from the battlefield, only as reconnaissance, behind enemy lines or honor guards existed, replacing them with tanks, this kind of steel "cavalry" in a certain sense to continue to fulfill their combat significance and even have more combat capabilities and tactical applications.
During the period of the Meiji Restoration, the Shogunate had a new army with modern military training and a Makqin heavy machine gun purchased as a foreign product. It was only the new firearms and the new army training methods that defeated the shogunate army, with the samurai as the main combat force, and laid the foundation for Japan's modernization; and now it is not the Maxim heavy machine gun that is quite primitive and still needs to manually control the rate of fire that is pouring lethal bullets on the Japanese samurai who were brave and good at fighting in the past, but the MG42 general-purpose machine gun, which is not very inferior in modern times in terms of comprehensive technical content, so that the Japanese samurai on horseback who were huddled together were shot and fell down one after another.
Accompanied by the sound of ultra-high-speed continuous firing like tearing cloth or chainsaw, a large number of 7.92 mm machine gun bullets smashed on the heads and bodies of the Japanese samurai on horseback like a storm, and many Japanese samurai on horseback were shot dozens of times even by men and horses, and they fell to the ground without even having time to scream.
"Keep shooting! Shoot alternately to make sure you rain down on them at all times! Don't forget to change the barrel as soon as you finish firing 400 rounds!" While pulling the trigger of each MG42 general-purpose machine gun at hand and knocking down the Japanese samurai who seemed to be close at hand, the Teutonic artillery squad leaders gave orders to their subordinates in their own voice as loud as possible, while the Boghall riflemen, who were by their side and acted as ammunition suppliers, saw that someone's MG42 general-purpose machine gun had run out of chains or the barrel was red and stopped the terrifying roar, and they immediately skillfully connected the long new chain or replaced it with a new barrel, and then the MG42 general-purpose machine gun that had been stopped before roared again。
In the face of this kind of unconventional weapons that completely crossed the level of at least one era, the Japanese samurai on horseback had no power to fight back: they were completely live targets in the loopholes of the various defense lines of the first line of defense, and the Japanese samurai on horseback with bows on their backs were beaten into a sieve by the dense rain of bullets before they could even pull the bow and string, and the rest of the Japanese samurai on horseback were not only beaten to a pulp and a large amount of blood flew out of the horses, but also the weapons in their hands were interrupted or broken by 7.92 mm machine gun bullets from time to time, turning into rotten iron and falling to the ground.
Just as the previous fire interception by the Boghall riflemen using the Mauser 98K rifle was a barrage, then the fire coverage carried out by the MG42 general-purpose machine gun used by the Teutonic artillerymen was completely a barrage: the MG42 general-purpose machine gun itself was a barrage of fire. The powerful firepower, high reliability and high cost performance were famous in World War II, and the model of the gun itself and the model of the machine gun bullet used are still in service in many countries today, and it is more than enough to deal with these horseback Japanese samurai who are completely at the level of the cold weapon era and are not at the peak level: in just a few minutes, the mounted Japanese samurai who were crowded in the holes in the first line of defense were all shot and fell to the ground, and even if the guy who had been shot several times and got back up after falling from his horse, he was soon covered in blood and fell to the ground again by the rain of bullets that followed, and could not get up again。
"Stop shooting!" saw that the mounted Japanese samurai in the various holes in the first line of defense were completely exhausted, and the various Teutonic artillery squad leaders stopped pulling the trigger and shouted loudly.
The sound of super-high-speed continuous firing soon stopped roaring, and the sound of the MG42 general-purpose machine gun firing that had filled the ears as if tearing cloth or chainsaw-activated silence fell, and there was quite silence in the three lines of defense for a while, except for the loud breathing of the Teutonic soldiers and the intermittent moans of some seriously wounded Japanese samurai who had not yet breathed in the holes in the first line of defense.
"Reload the ammo, and change the barrel!" the Lich Mage, who had been standing in the second line of defense and watched the battle with a cold eye, suddenly cast an amplification spell and shouted to all the Teutonic soldiers, apparently using them as a medium through his deep soul connection to deliver his latest command, "Reload the ammo!" and change the barrel! The Boghall riflemen and the Teutonic artillery were divided into two teams of half against half, one Boghall rifleman with a chain and a cylindrical magazine and a Teutonic artilleryman with an MG42 general-purpose machine gun, one team remained in the line to be on guard, and the other team entered the battlefield to support our brothers with the terrible roar of the MG42 general-purpose machine gun in your hands!"
"Yes, obey your orders, Your Majesty!" the Teutonic artillerymen and Boghall riflemen replied violently, and when they were usually training and resting, they also came into contact with the Guard Knights as instructors and the occasional Lich Mage, and naturally gradually learned that the controller of these deceased was Feng Longde, who was usually silent but actually very easy-going, and sometimes he wanted to pass on his orders and it was inconvenient for him to speak in person, so he would use the Guard Knight or the Lich Mage as a medium. At first, the Teutonic soldiers were not less frightened by this situation, and thought that their instructors or those elusive lich mages had schizophrenia or personality problems, but over time they got used to it, because Feng Longde's style and tone of voice had their own unique characteristics, which were quite easy to distinguish.
Under the orders passed on by von Longde through the lich mages, the Boghall riflemen and the Teutonic artillerymen formed a two-man squad, half of them staying in the second line of defense to guard the line of defense, so as not to let any fish slip through the net to break the idea of attacking the place, and the other half of the people rushed out of the holes in the first line of defense, strode into the battlefield, and began to take the roll call of the infantry Japanese samurai they saw with the MG42 general-purpose machine gun that had just been replaced in their hands and was not hot.
In fact, the Teutonic artillery with the MG42 general-purpose machine gun is about 30 people, and there are less than 120 Boghall riflemen who did not form a squad with them, and they also stay in the second line of defense to be responsible for garrisoning the line: this situation does not mean that there are only about 30 MG42 general-purpose machine guns in the entire Teutonic camp, in fact, there are more than 30 MG42 general-purpose machine guns on the wall of the first fortress of the Teutonic camp as a fixed fire point for heavy machine guns, not to mention the MG42 general-purpose machine guns that can be moved out and put into use at any time, their number is a three-digit start, and the reason why only so many MG42 general-purpose machine guns are put into use on the battlefield, It's because you dare to take too much MG42 general-purpose machine gun, then bullet consumption can make people worry, and now the machine gun bullets that are fired out are at best painful, if the MG42 general-purpose machine gun really reaches the level of all Teutonic artillerymen, this pain is not bone pain, it is a direct suicide
This is the most important reason why Feng Longde will not put these quasi-modern weapons into battle when it is not necessary: such as the Mauser 98K rifle, the shell gun and the STG39 wooden-handled grenade, the current production technology and production scale of the Teutonic camp can fully withstand their large-scale consumption, and in the face of large ammunition consumers like the MG42 general-purpose machine gun and other German weapons of World War II, unless all the military factories in the Teutonic camp carry out another large-scale expansion, Having a large number of technicians and ensuring more sources of materials, otherwise if you want to use these quasi-modern weapons to fight, then you can only rely on hoarding daily production In a sense, this is also a thousand days to make money and spend a day, but the situation in the Teutonic camp is far from so exaggerated, but this time the machine gun bullets and barrels that were fired out are enough for the military factory in the Teutonic camp to work overtime for at least half a month to replenish it
So don't think that with quasi-modern weapons, you can beat the enemy whose weapon level is lagging behind you, even if you can indeed rely on these quasi-modern weapons to hang the enemy for a while, then once the replenishment and production and maintenance can't keep up, then the next person to be beaten is yourself, and it is likely that you will be beaten for a long time, there are too many specific cases in the history of human civilization in this era, and you don't even need to list them one by one, but anyone who has learned history in junior high school and understands it well and can get a passing score can find examples casually.
To get back to the point, when the Teutonic artillerymen armed with the MG42 general-purpose machine gun and the Boghall riflemen with bullet chains and cylindrical magazines on their backs and Mauser 98K rifles entered the battlefield, the Teutonian soldiers, who had begun to dominate, eliminated all the infantry Japanese samurai they could see at a higher speed: even the most brave and skilled Japanese samurai were as soft and weak as a sponge in the face of the MG general-purpose machine gun spitting high-speed flames, and a large number of infantry Japanese samurai were knocked to the ground by a dense rain of bullets before they could even get close to them, and the Boghall pikemen and Acropolis legionnaires are quick to provide cover and coordinate with their comrades who have a strong firepower output to effectively eliminate non-own personnel on the scene.
"All Teutonic soldiers, charge with me!" Feng Longde, who was in the super-long spear solid phalanx composed of Boghall pikemen led by Abe Takakazu, shouted angrily at the flag bearer standing in the queue carrying the flag of his company.
"Understood! Your Majesty!" the flag bearer nodded vigorously, pulled down the cotton chain armor mask on his face with his right hand, and blew vigorously while holding the horn: "Uhhhh
Accompanied by the muffled sound of the trumpet, the companies or detachments of the Teutonic troops on the battlefield who were fighting separately or cooperating with each other sounded the same horn or sharp whistle one after another, and at the same time the undulating howls of the Teutonic soldiers broke out from everywhere, which was the cheers of the Teutonic soldiers after hearing their own horns.
For the armies of each nation, only their own unique things can make their blood boil, if it is not a part of their own national culture, then even the sacred is useless: just like taking the most sacred true cross of the European medieval crusaders to the East for the use of the Chinese army of the same period, perhaps with the characteristics of the ancient Chinese army, it is not impossible to make the real cross into a large slingshot or the main support of the stone thrower.
When Feng Longde rushed out of the super-long spear solid phalanx formed by the Boghall pikemen led by Abe Takakazu with his bare hands, ready to face the Japanese samurai in front of him with his fists wearing plate armor gloves and his feet with plate armor steel boots, a familiar horse neighing and soul fluctuations were transmitted to his ears and soul heart at the same time.
Looking at the source of the sound and the source of the soul fluctuation, Feng Longde saw a neatly draped undead war horse crashing all the way through the foot Japanese samurai who was blocking its path and running towards him, the eyeballs in his eye sockets flashing with a strange red light.
"It's only now being healed by the Lich Mages? It's too slow. But it did come just right. Seeing that it was the immortal war horse that he was specially riding, Feng Longde shrugged his shoulders, punched the stomach of the walking Japanese samurai in front of him, knocked him down, and ran to his immortal war horse, took off a lot of weapons from it, and put them on himself one by one.
Holding the axe-shaped halberd in both hands, the familiar grip made Feng Longde confident: now he was back to the state of wearing a knight's sword and a mace on the left and right on his waist, and carrying a steel iris shield on his back, and he couldn't feel better.
"Forward!" At the same time that Feng Longde swept into the enemy group with his axe-shaped halberd, the company commanders and detachment commanders of the Teutonic troops also gave their own orders, and then in the sound of a low horn, all the Boghall pikemen, Boghall two-handed swordsmen, Acropolis legionnaires, Teutonic tomahawk rangers, and the Boghall riflemen and Teutonic artillerymen who formed a two-person squad launched a final charge against the infantry Japanese samurai in front of and around them.
"This is going to be the end" Looking at the dwindling samurai on the battlefield around him, the large number of enemy personnel who began to surround his position, the remnants of the samurai who kept moving closer to his position, and the enemy Ashigaru who shot the samurai with strange bursting iron cannons like almost slaughter, Shiogetsu River hung his two katanas to the ground in a dejected manner, and his whole person seemed to be ten years old.
"The Death of the Samurai, this is the Death of the Samurai" (To be continued.) )