Chapter 67: The Real Battlefield, the Real War

Francis on horseback wore the uniform of the Duchy of Lucerne garrison, with the rank of major general on his shoulders, and he felt very good about himself as he watched the soldiers walking by him.

"Report!" a herald rode to Francis's side, "the enemy has spotted our army, and now they have abandoned their outposts and other positions, and they are all cowering near the manor, and seem to be preparing to fight our army to the death there!"

"Hey, hey, hey...... The mercenaries are really afraid of death, Master Francis, the enemy has retreated to the manor just in time for us to catch them all. ”

Francis agreed with the dog-legged man, and commanded loudly and in a high-spirited voice: "Speed up the march, and be sure to reach the manor when the sun rises!"

The five thousand soldiers of the garrison increased their pace of advance under Francis's orders, and finally arrived at Ouyang Yu Manor when the sun rose.

Ouyang Yu's manor was quiet, Francis couldn't see anyone walking around through the telescope, and couldn't help but feel a little strange, according to reason, he should have seen panicked mercenaries running around preparing to resist, but the whole manor was quiet and very strange.

"Master Francis, what do we do now?" asked one of the doglegs, the eerie silence of the manor unsettling them.

Francis thought for a moment and said, "Let some soldiers go up and check first, and if there is an ambush, they can also be lured out." ”

"Yes. ”

Soon a company of garrison soldiers with guns, under the strict order of the commander, walked towards the quiet manor, this more than 100 garrison soldiers are all on the battlefield for the first time, no, it should be said, the entire garrison of 5,000 people are all on the battlefield for the first time, the soldiers of the garrison don't look at the usual times are all good at bullying civilians, and now they are really scared on the battlefield.

Private Tom, a soldier in the garrison, now felt his legs trembling, and when he took two steps, he looked back, his company commander was standing behind with a pistol, and before leaving, his company commander said that whoever dared to run away would be shot on the spot, Private Tom glanced at his company commander with resentment, and continued to move forward with a gun trembling helplessly.

Because he was afraid, Private Tom couldn't help but get closer to his comrades-in-arms, and so did his comrades-in-arms, subconsciously getting together with acquaintances in fear, as if doing so could reduce the fear in his heart.

There was a distance of seven or eight hundred meters from the place of departure to the manor, and Private Tom walked a third of the distance tremblingly, but nothing happened, he and his companions looked at each other, and the fear in their hearts was a little less, and the courage was a little bigger, and the pace of his feet was a little quicker.

When he reached 600 meters, Private Tom felt as if he had stepped on something with his left foot, which was hard and very different from the soft earth, and he was very curious, and when he looked down with his left foot, he saw a cylindrical thing being bounced out of the dirt.

"Boom......!"

A **I-35 mine suddenly exploded, because the soldiers of the garrison were relatively close, and more than 10 people were killed and injured, among which the soldier of the garrison closest to the mine was blown into a sieve by the steel balls in the mine.

**The I-35 mine, nicknamed the Bouncing Betty, is the most famous of the jump mines, in which these mines are ejected waist-high before exploding, and shoot the shotgun horizontally at lethal speeds. The Type S mine is an anti-personnel mine developed by Nazi Germany in the thirties and widely used by German forces in World War II. This type of mine is designed to attack uncovered infantry in open areas. There are two types of S-type mines, which are designated I-35 and I-44 respectively according to the age of commissioning. There are only slight differences between the two types.

The sudden explosion frightened the advancing garrison soldiers, some hurriedly lay down, some turned around and ran, and some stood stupidly in place at a loss, but there was still no movement in Ouyang Yu's manor.

"Bastard, don't run, let me keep going!"

The commander of the garrison company at the back held a magic crystal pistol to force the fleeing soldiers to turn around.

"Go ahead, let me go, you guys drag the ones who aren't dead back!"

The soldiers near the wounded hurriedly lifted their comrades lying on the ground and sent them back as if they had been amnesty, and the rest of the soldiers had no choice but to continue to move forward.

Just a few meters away, another bounce Betty was detonated, killing and injuring more than a dozen people again, this time a soldier saw the willingness of the explosion, and shouted: "Underground, there is a strange bomb buried underground, who stepped on it just now will explode!"

At this moment, the remaining soldiers did not dare to go forward no matter how threatened by the commanders, they would rather be killed by the enemy with guns than die in such an unknown way, and ran back to the starting place in a hurry despite the threats of the commanders.

"This group of cowards, come on, arrest all those deserters just now, tie them up, let them explore the road again, if they are lucky enough not to die, they will be exempted from the crime of disobedience on the battlefield, and if they don't give my orders, they will all be executed on the spot!"

The group of soldiers who fled back were quickly pushed back to the minefield by their former comrades-in-arms with guns pointed at them, and the deserters who were tied up cursed Francis, cursed Ouyang Yu, and cursed everyone they thought of.

"Boom...... Boom......!"

The bouncing Betty mines were constantly detonated by the deserters, and the minefield temporarily arranged by Ouyang Yu did not have many mines, and the density and width were not enough, and most of the mines were detonated after paying the lives of all the deserters and more than a hundred soldiers, hahaha laughed and Francis, who thought he was extremely smart, ordered that he would no longer do any pathfinding and the whole army would press it together.

In the hidden trenches and machine gun bunkers near the manor, the soldiers of Ouyang Yu's army have been loaded, plus a total of more than 300 soldiers of Ouyang Yu's army are ready for battle, and more than a dozen MG-08 heavy machine guns in the dark fort are aimed at the soldiers of the garrison who are getting closer and closer.

Ouyang Yu in the manor house saw the situation of the enemy and us clearly through the command system, and when the soldiers of the garrison approached two hundred meters, she gave the order to attack.

"Chirp...... Boom......!"

A mortar shell fell into the garrison with a whistling sound, and then an even larger number of mortar shells fell from the sky and bombarded the position 300 meters away, using the explosion to forcibly separate the garrison in the first 300 meters and the last 300 meters.

"Dadada......!"

At the same time as the mortar shells landed, more than a dozen MG-08 heavy machine guns in the dark bunker opened fire together, more than a dozen fire chains were like the scythes of death quickly harvesting the lives of the soldiers of the garrison, and the other soldiers of Ouyang Yu's army in the trenches were not polite, Suomi submachine guns and Mosin Nagant rang out at the same time, and the dense bullets were accompanied by the grenades, and the grenades fired by the grenadiers assisted the heavy machine guns to eliminate a large number of enemies.

Ouyang Yu's fierce and accurate firepower hit the garrison with heavy casualties, many poorly trained garrison soldiers reacted too slowly, and before they knew what happened, they were torn to pieces by bullets, and the garrison soldiers who walked in the front fell in pieces, leaving a large number of corpses where the fire chain of the heavy machine guns passed.

Francis and his doglegs in the rear all widened their eyes, looking at everything that happened on the battlefield in disbelief, the real war is too different from their previous imagination, in their imagination the war is to compare the number of people on both sides, the more people there are, the greater the advantage, and then the two sides shoot each other for a while, the small number of people is all wiped out, the more people win, the advantage of equipment, terrain, They don't know the level of training or anything, and according to the words of the earth, Francis and the others are a group of military blind.

Now a group of military blind people were stunned by the truly tragic battlefield, and in just a few minutes, the garrison was wiped out by Ouyang Yu's powerful firepower, especially the garrison soldiers within the first three hundred meters, there was not one out of ten, and the surviving garrison soldiers were all lying on the ground and did not dare to raise their heads, for fear that they would be killed by the bullets that would be fired if they raised a little.

After reacting to the initial blow, the soldiers of the garrison 300 meters away threw away their weapons and turned around and ran, all wishing that they could have a few more legs and leave this hell on earth as soon as possible.

After more than ten minutes, the gunshots gradually listened, the smoke of the explosion dissipated, and what appeared in front of Francis and others was a bloody Shura field, corpses that had been beaten into a sieve, stumps and broken arms could be seen, blood stained the earth, some of the bomb craters even formed small pools of blood, the smell of blood could be smelled even from several kilometers away, and some garrison soldiers who were not dead were lying on the ground screaming loudly.

Francis saw some soldiers of Ouyang Yu's army come out of the hidden trenches, swaggered to the battlefield where there was still green smoke, and took out his pistol and walked to the side of the wounded soldiers.

"Bah...... Woo ......!"

After a not-so-dense burst of gunfire, there were no more screams of wounded soldiers on the position.

"Gross!"

Francis vomited, he got off the horse and knelt on the ground and vomited, even the jaundice water spit out, where has he seen the cruelty and blood on the battlefield, after spitting up, Francis's heart has long been free of the spirit when he set off, and the only thing left is deep fear, just now the soldiers of Ouyang Yujun's cold treatment of the wounded soldiers, that kind of disregard for life made him feel scared from the bottom of his heart, afraid that he would be treated the same.

Not only Francis, but all the soldiers of the garrison also felt frightened by Ouyang Yujun's method of dealing with wounded soldiers, this group of non-professional soldiers who had only fought in groups before finally saw the cruelty of the battlefield with their masters today, some soldiers who were afraid of death dropped their weapons and quietly disappeared into the woods that could be seen everywhere in the other world, and the morale and fighting spirit of the remaining soldiers were gone.