Chapter 927 Translator's Notes (2)
From the very beginning of the battle, the development was beyond everyone's expectations.
According to my knowledge of cavalry tactics, which is not very professional, I also know the mainstream tactics of the cavalry of the current Europa countries to charge.
At a distance of 200 to 300 paces (0.65 m in 1 step), the commander will give orders to prepare to charge, unsheath the sword, and march in small steps.
When you are 150 steps away from the enemy, the command will become: "Hurry forward~"
When it is 50 paces, the order to 'charge' will be completely issued.
In this way, the cavalry can increase the speed of the horse to the maximum when it is 20 paces away from the enemy; With the fastest speed, he entered the opponent's team.
It was only after the major of the 'Finn' cavalry regiment shouted the words 'ready to charge' came out of his mouth.
On the opposite side was a crisp gunshot, which knocked Mr. Major off his horse with a clean shot; The young man who shot really had an unusually accurate marksmanship.
Wrong! Because the young people who participated on the opposite side were all sharpshooters.
The next second later, at most about twenty rifles fired, and the 'Finn' cavalry regiment, which was slowly advancing, was immediately shot and fell from their horses.
Half of them are officers of all levels played by Yin people.
It has to be said that the Sikhs are really born with mercenary tactics.
Even in such a sudden blow, the Yin officers in the 'Finn' cavalry regiment were almost dead, but these people did not appear in the slightest confusion.
Even in a very short time, a perfect response was made:
They did not dogmatically continue to move forward slowly, but immediately whipped their horses to accelerate, intending to take advantage of the time gap between the opponent's reloading bullets and kill them in one go.
After all, Daqing's arquebus can fire three times a minute, which is a miracle.
After seeing this scene, I could even faintly hear the sigh of envy from the mouth of His Excellency Montauban.
Who told us that not only are our colonies not as numerous and vast as the Yin Kingdom, but there is also no such kind of warlike natives among them who can be hired to become a powerful servant army.
Soon after, however, Lord Montauban decided not to think so.
For after two seconds at most, the young men on the opposite side opened fire again, and in a burst of gunfire that seemed to be particularly crisp, fifteen or sixteen Sikh cavalry dropped their horses.
Then, the third, fourth, and fifth shots rang out in quick succession, at two-second intervals.
It wasn't what we expected at all, it would take at least twenty seconds to reload before a shot was fired.
Brother Su, what kind of magic rifle are they using, and why does it have such a terrifying rate of fire, as well as range and accuracy?
And under such a blow, in a very short period of time, the cavalry regiment of about 180 people of 'Finn' has already fallen off its horse.
Obviously, a Sikh cavalry at the front had already rushed to a distance of thirty paces in front of the green formation.
In great fear, the rest of the men desperately turned their horses' heads towards the left and right sides of the green man's circular trench, or simply turned around and fled.
Such an escape is tantamount to wasting the biggest fighter plane.
Because at this point, we saw the young men in the telescope, and began to reload the strange rifle in our hands that lasted for several seconds.
With a delay of a few seconds, more than fifty of the remaining Sikh cavalry escaped.
Only thirty or forty people at the back were killed from behind.
But even so, it is still equivalent to the number of Yin army killed in this battle, which has expanded by more than 100 people at once, an increase of as much as ten times.
But I was looking forward to watching the jokes of the Yin Army, but now I can't care about these things.
For everyone in the rear, the biggest shock in their hearts at this moment should be that in the hands of these young people, it is actually an advanced rifle that can hold five bullets......
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After a brief period of anger, General Grant of the Yin Army adjusted his mood and took the initiative to come over
Facing General Montauban, he said with great solemnity:
"Your Excellency, these young people are very strange, and I even have a strange intuition that I must destroy them as quickly as possible and at any cost.
So next, I'm going to invite you to join me and have all the cavalry rush up from the left, center, right, and three directions.
There may be a lot of casualties, but they must be killed; That strange rifle, we can divide it evenly and send it back to study. ”
"Okay, as you wish." His Excellency Montauban agreed with great ease; General Compmnon and the others around him did not have the slightest objection.
On this note, I'm pretty clear why:
Although we are extremely looking forward to seeing the Yin army appear in front of us with a good scene of humiliation and loss, everything is based on the fact that we can win this war.
We definitely don't want to see the scene of us fighting alone after the Yin army is completely destroyed.
So in the following time, with the addition of our 130 cavalry, about 700 cavalry, began to advance slowly from the left, center, and right directions.
In such a process, as the senior officers remained behind, I could see that the faces of the cavalrymen who had participated in the sortie were unusually solemn.
For this charge, no one will have the slightest doubt that the Yin and Law Alliance will be able to achieve the final victory.
The crux of the matter is that with the enormous threat of the opponent's strange rifles, there will be at least a hundred casualties on our side; There is no guarantee that they will be lucky to survive.
But everything that followed showed that those strange rifles were nothing in front of the other weapons that had been hidden in the hands of these people, and that they had not been used.
Those people have long prepared a killing feast waiting for everyone.
All the previous was just to drag them into the trap step by step, in order to drag them into the trap......
After learning the lesson of the battle just now, even if the rifles on the opposite side fired at an astonishing distance of 400 meters, they still had considerable accuracy and lethality.
The cavalry, who had attacked from the left, center and right, quickly drove their horses to trot.
By the time they reached a distance of four hundred and twenty meters, all the horses were already galloping, intending to rush over in the shortest possible time.
For a moment, the sound of dense horses' hooves pounded on the ground, a saber with a handle was raised high, and spears were brushed forward in unison.
Let's be honest! Although such a spectacular scene was dominated by yin people, I was going to cheer under the huge shock.
General Grant and Lord Montauban and the others all had a relaxed smile on their faces.
Those Qing only had about two dozen combatants, and in the face of the division of troops attacking from three sides, the strange rifles in their hands could not withstand such an attack no matter how fast they fired.
But at this time, an extremely terrifying thing happened.
In the left, center, and right directions, the green men suddenly lifted some branches and earthy yellow cloth, and underneath them were a strange gun surrounded by six pipes.
Or maybe it's a small artillery, and it's revealed in front of everyone's eyes.
The first time I saw this thing's thick barrel, I felt bad in my heart; I felt like a bad news was about to come.
Thinking of these cavalrymen who were rushing over, the uneasiness in my heart was even stronger, but it was too late.
The odd firearm, or the small artillery, under the simultaneous operation of the two men; One of them rhythmically shook the tail handle, turning the six thick barrels.
Suddenly, a dense stream of bullets poured out, forming a terrifying fiery snake.
When the green man who shook the handle slowly turned the muzzle of the gun, the fire snake writhed as if it had come to life.
As long as it is drawn by the fire snake, it doesn't matter whether it's a war horse or a human body.
Immediately a terrible wound appeared on their flesh-and-blood bodies.
If it hits the arms, neck, and head, it will be completely blown up and disappear after a blood-colored mist bursts out.
Suddenly, the warriors who rushed forward with their horses slapped desperately, and fell with an astonishing speed.
Brother Su is on top! It's not a battle at all, it's a massacre.
The other was holding a long box full of bullets, which was fed from the top of the bottom; It is when the magazine is changed that this terrifying weapon will stop for a short time.
But those rifles, which were currently firing continuously, killed one soldier after another on the spot.
Thankfully, even in the face of such terrifying firepower, the heroic coalition knights continued to move forward, and after paying a terrible number of casualties, they rushed closer and closer.
Three hundred meters, two hundred meters, one hundred and fifty meters.
In a bloody road paved with war horses and human bodies on the ground, all the way forward.
It wasn't until a loud explosion that a ball of cloth of about ten kilograms made a beautiful arc in the sky and fell into a group of cavalry.
Before the cloth bag could be completely dropped, a horrific explosion occurred.
In such an explosion, a dozen cavalrymen were blown up or overturned to the ground; Even thirty meters away, one after another war horses were fallen.
There were no external injuries on his body, but the horses and personnel vomited blood and couldn't stand up at all.
Under such a terrifying killing, the surviving knights of the coalition army finally lost the last bit of courage to fight in their hearts.
They turned their horses' heads around and fled desperately.
Let the bullets get in from behind them, and easily take them down.
In the sound of 'click~', I followed the sound and looked over, and I could see the telescope in the hand of General Grant, the commander of the Yin Army, and the lens fell to pieces after falling to the ground.
It's just that General Grant doesn't care about such a thing at all.
He stared at the battlefield in front of him with a blank look in his eyes, and muttered, "Brother Su, have you completely given up on us pious lambs, and why did you let us encounter this." ”
Lord Montauban and the others were better, but their faces were so pale......
(End of chapter)