Chapter 1142: Collapse
The shrapnel exploded for five minutes, and the white army's army did not know how many people were killed.
From Louis XIV's point of view, the battlefield was already covered with corpses. If killing a thousand people was a massacre, there were hundreds of massacres outside of Sben today. Even by the standards of the "Somme meat grinder" of the First World War, the deaths of nearly 100,000 people today are horrifying.
Crows hovered everywhere on the battlefield, and it is estimated that all the crows in Portugal had gathered. These black birds salivate over the dead bodies on the ground. But in the midst of the roaring artillery and the continuous explosions, they did not dare to fly down and peck at the corpses.
With a power beyond this era, the shrapnel showed the Europeans what absolute power is at once. If it weren't for the fact that the barrel of the Tiger cannon was so hot that it had to be stopped after five minutes of fighting, I am afraid that the Europeans would have been directly routed by the artillery.
Still, the soldiers of Europe showed great discipline and courage. More than 400,000 people continued to rush towards the position of the Tiger Ben Army despite the fact that nearly 100,000 people had been sacrificed and the battle loss rate was close to 20%.
The kings of Europe around Louis XIV watched nervously at the battlefield. At present, there are probably more than 300,000 people left in the European coalition army, and these more than 300,000 people are shooting at the more than 100,000 soldiers on the opposite side, and I don't know what the result will be.
Queen Christina of Sweden suddenly burst into tears. The Catholic made a cross on his chest and whispered, "Lord bless us!" ”
Louis XIV's body was still trembling, and he turned his head and glanced at the twenty-nine-year-old Queen of Sweden in a panic.
First of all, the soldiers of the principality of Prussia rushed to the range of the Mini rifle.
The Duchy of Prussia was one of the most powerful princes in the German region, and their soldiers were not all armed with Mini rifles. Before the war, the Netherlands supported Prussia with 10,000 Mini rifles at cost price, which was a generous deal. Prussia threw all of these new rifles into the Lisbon battle, so that about half of the Prussian soldiers on the battlefield now use Mini rifles.
The other half also used arquebuses and even spears.
Napoleon once said that the Prussians hatched from shells, and Li Zhi has an intuitive feeling today. Although the original position of the Duchy of Prussia was not the closest to Lisbon, the Prussian soldiers bravely charged under artillery fire and rushed to the firing distance at the first time.
When Li Zhi saw this scene, he pursed his mouth and expressed his recognition of the quality of Prussian soldiers.
João IV blinked at the sight of the brave Prussian soldiers. Now that the Prussians are within range, are they going to shoot at the Tiger soldiers here?
Once fired, there will be a lot of casualties. It seems that it is impossible for the Tiger Army to downplay the victory this time as it did before.
Zhong Feng looked at the Prussian soldiers, but snorted heavily.
"Dirt Chicken Tile Dog."
Joao IV looked at Zhong Feng in surprise, not understanding why he had such sarcasm. It seems that in Zhong Feng's eyes, the Prussians came up to send them to death.
But João IV's doubts were soon interrupted by the cacophony of gunfire.
"Dada
"Dada
Suddenly, gunfire rang out from the Tiger Army's position. The sounds came from a myriad of guns, so dense that they converged like a storm crashing on the ground.
The Prussian soldiers who rushed up from the opposite side fell to the ground one by one as if they had crashed into the Death Zone.
João IV opened his mouth wide again and looked in surprise at the position of the Tiger Army.
He saw thousands of Gatling guns, fire-breathing Gatlings.
Li Zhi also brought 6,000 Gatling guns this time. The new machine gun was an improved version of the Gatling gun on infantry fighting vehicles, requiring three people to operate each rifle and a theoretical rate of fire of up to 160 rounds a minute.
Six thousand Gatling guns took the battlefield by storm.
At a distance of two hundred meters, the machine guns were not accurate, but it didn't matter, the Europeans rushed up in large areas, and the machine guns only needed to strafe. The Heavy tilts the gun slightly towards the sky, allowing the bullet to be fired at the European soldier in the distance.
The Prussian soldiers who rushed to the front were stunned on the spot, and in just one moment, nearly a thousand Prussian soldiers fell under the machine gun guns. Where did the Prussians dare to rush forward? One by one, they all fell to the ground in a panic.
Soon, other European soldiers who rushed closer were also met head-on by machine guns. In fact, because he did not value accuracy, he only needed to maintain the density of firepower, and Gatling could even strafe Europeans of three or four hundred meters. The machine-gun bullet cut an arc in the air and fired into the front of the European armies from the upper front.
In the face of the density of fire from the Gatling guns, the European soldiers knew in an instant that they had lost.
A Mini rifle or flintlock pistol can only fire three rounds a minute. More than 300,000 European soldiers had depth, and it was impossible for all of them to enter the front-line firing positions. Even if the Europeans rushed to the position, only a part of the people in front had an angle to shoot at the trench. If one in five people find the angle of fire, the Europeans can only fire 3,400 rounds per second.
But the machine guns on the Tiger Army's side can fire 16,000 rounds per second.
The gap between the two sides in terms of firepower is too big, and this is completely a crushing of science and technology.
Countless European soldiers were suddenly hit by the raining machine-gun bullets and fell convulsively in pools of blood. Such machine-gun fire, combined with the shrapnel that was still bombarding the rear of the European coalition forces, could kill hundreds of soldiers every second.
Louis XIV's eyes widened as he stared at the roaring Gatling gun on the battlefield, and suddenly his body shook.
He suddenly realized that his unbeatable ambition had killed France alive. If this battle is lost, not only France will die, but I am afraid that Europe will also die. Even the Bourbon dynasty will become extinct, and it is not known how many Bourbon nobles will be slaughtered by Li Zhi.
Louis XIV fell to the left.
General Barthes, who was beside Louis XIV, went up in a panic to support Louis XIV, but he didn't catch it at once. The young king Louis XIV fainted among the kings of Europe.
The kings of Europe were stunned as they watched the King of France, who played the role of the organizer, lose his mind. Queen Christina of Sweden covered her mouth, looked at Louis on the ground, and bent down anxiously.
The European soldiers, who had managed to rush to the vicinity of the trench, could not move forward at all under the terrifying fire of the machine guns, and all lay on the ground to avoid the bullets.
But shrapnel and machine guns still continue their slaughter.
There is no suspense about the war anymore, and the only question now is whether to surrender, whether to escape, and if the Chinese surrenders, will Chinese torture and kill the prisoners of war?
Europeans could not believe that the Chinese would be merciful. The Dutch have done too many unconscionable things in China, and who knows if the Chinese will take revenge on the Europeans with these means.
The European soldiers of the Eastern European phalanx began to rout first.
About 110,000 Eastern European soldiers participated in the Lisbon campaign. At this time, Ukraine, Poland and other states had not yet been established, and Eastern Europe was still in a state of chaos with many princes. The princes were between Sweden, Austria and the behemoth Tsarist Russia, and they could be said to have survived in the cracks.
For these small countries, the survival of Europe is not particularly important to them. In fact, many Eastern European peoples have strong Eastern roots, such as Hungary, which has a complicated relationship with the Huns who invaded Europe.
For these Eastern European soldiers, there was no point in continuing this suicidal war.
They chose to flee.
The rout of the Eastern European soldiers destroyed the mood of the European coalition forces at once.
In the face of undoubted failure, no one will continue to die. Only a bang was heard, and the entire battlefield collapsed.