Chapter 994: Blood for Blood
Thousands of horses galloped across the endless grassland, and the barbarian cavalry rushed down from the hills like a black torrent.
It's just that this torrent is full of flaws in Qi Guangyi's eyes, as before, the barbarians still rely on their personal bravery, and they have not improved the use of cavalry arrays.
"The next barbarian cavalry is ten miles away, it only takes thirty minutes for them to arrive, and within this time we will crush this cavalry and retreat at the same time!"
Looking at the approaching barbarian cavalry, Qi Guangyi said coldly, he has always been known for his meticulous actions in the army, and he was naturally fully prepared to use the lancer for the first time, otherwise he would be guilty of bringing this newly established cavalry into the abyss.
Therefore, in order to find out the situation of the barbarian march, he sent a large number of chasers to reconnoiter on the grassland, and soon he found out the dynamics of three cavalry ten miles apart.
After a little thought, Qi Guangyi understood the intention of the barbarians, in fact, in every war with the barbarians, they would always send elite cavalry to attack the rear of the barbarians.
Although the barbarians now have monoculars, their glass processing technology has been improving, and the magnification of the telescope is not comparable to the primitive monoculars in Europe, so they are still weaker when it comes to reconnaissance.
"Yes, Commander!"
After receiving the order, the cavalry general checked the time of the pocket watch, which was now the standard equipment of every officer, in order to coordinate the action.
"Kill ......"
The earth seemed to tremble in the sound of rumbling horses' hooves, and the barbarian cavalry brandished the scimitars in their hands, all with hideous faces, just as every person in the Great Chongqing hated the Golden Horde, and every Golden Horde hated the people of the Great Chongqing Kingdom, because this war was not only a war about land, but also a battle for the survival of two peoples.
"Five hundred meters!"
"Three hundred and fifty meters!"
"First row shooting!"
“……”
Qi Guangyi kept calculating the distance of the barbarian cavalry, and when the distance between the two sides reached two hundred and fifty meters, he ordered to shoot.
He could have avoided this encounter completely, but this time he chose to fight, and this self-confidence came from the recognition of these days' training, and the time has come for the Chinese cavalry to comprehensively suppress the barbarian cavalry.
"Bang ......"
After Qi Guangyi's order was given, the cavalry in a dense line raised their carbines and finished firing on their stationary horses.
The guns rang out, and the charging barbarian cavalry immediately turned on their backs, and the formation was chaotic.
After the first row of firing is completed, the soldiers in the front row immediately lie on their horses, take out their bullets to complete the reloading action, and the barbarian cavalry is exposed to the eyes of the second row of cavalry, they raise their carbines to shoot, and then they repeat the action of the first row of soldiers, and the third row fires.
Three consecutive shots were completed in just three seconds, and more than 20,000 rounds of bullets formed a barbarian cavalry that rained bullets and charged head-on.
Under such intensive firing, the barbarian cavalry facing the lancers fell down like fallen leaves in the wind, and after three rounds of shooting, more than 800 barbarian cavalry fell on the way to attack.
At this time, these fallen cavalry became an obstacle to the charge of the barbarian cavalry, and many of the barbarian cavalry tightened the reins to stop the horses to prevent them from crashing into the fallen horses.
This slowed down the barbarian attack.
Seizing this opportunity, the first platoon of lancers quickly completed their reloading and began the second round of firing, and the losses of the barbarian cavalry continued to increase under continuous firepower.
On the hill, Zack and the bald man's faces were pale, they didn't think that there were muskets that could be loaded on horses in Dayu Kingdom, watching their soldiers fall one by one, Zack rode back and forth restlessly.
A sense of extreme uneasiness grew stronger and stronger.
"Banner leader, this cavalry of the Great Chongqing State did not intend to encounter us, but came prepared." The bald man looked anxiously at the charging cavalry, he was a centurion and was now among the charging cavalry.
Zach stiffened his head and said, "It's too late to retreat now." ”
The bald man looked down at the hills, and under the second round of fire they had paid another eight or nine hundred casualties, and now the soldiers had rushed within a hundred meters.
Turning the horse's head within this distance would certainly cause great confusion, and their losses would be greater.
"Tharu ......" looked at the charging team, and the bald man closed his eyes.
While Zach and the bald man were worried, Taru in the cavalry raised his saber, and his brother was the captain of the goshawk tribe and was highly respected.
Because of this, he did not want his position as a centurion to be questioned, and was said to rely on his brother's prestige, so he always rushed to the front every time he fought Tharu.
It's just that this battle seems to be different from any previous ones, and the bullets sprayed from the muzzles of the soldiers of the Great Yu Kingdom constantly caused the cavalry companies around them to fall down with their horses, rushing from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain, and two or three bullets pressed against his cheek.
"Kill!"
withstood six rounds of fire, and they were only a hundred meters away from the cavalry of the Great Chongqing State.
At this time, they saw Da Yu raise the muzzle of their guns again.
"Bang ......"
Taru's voice stopped abruptly, his gaze froze at the moment when the muzzle of the gun erupted into flames, and a bullet struck him in the center of the eyebrow.
The horse carried the dead Tharu forward and continued to run ten meters, and Taru fell off his horse, and when he died, Taru's hand grabbed the reins, causing the horse to fall as well.
The cavalry behind didn't have time to dodge, and directly crashed into Taru's horse, causing chaos, and this chaos was also happening elsewhere, and the momentum of the entire barbarian cavalry charge was completely disrupted.
But this was not something that made them despair, and as they readjusted their mounts, they saw many black sticks floating in the sky.
The sticks exploded as soon as they landed in their midst, flames and shrapnel flew and large swaths of the cavalry fell, while many more horses were frightened out of control.
Qi Guangyi looked coldly at the chaotic barbarian cavalry, their horses had adapted to the sound of explosions in training, and now the chaotic barbarian cavalry could not form an effective impact on them at all.
Seizing this opportunity, he shouted: "Kill! “
With his order, the loud sound of the charge resounded through the grassland, and the lancers put their horses on their backs, drew their sabers, and took advantage of the confusion of the barbarian cavalry, and they rode their horses and rushed towards the barbarian cavalry.
"Bang!"
The lancer who rushed to the front raised his saber to kill a barbarian cavalryman whose horse was out of control, and then a barbarian cavalry on the left rushed towards him, and he took out a short-barreled musket from the holster on the horse's back with his left hand, and shot it at the barbarian cavalry a meter away.
The standard armament of a lancer was, in addition to a carbine, two short-barreled muskets and three grenades, and it can be said that they were armed to the teeth.
In the face of such a combat method of the cavalry of the Great Yu Kingdom, the casualties of the barbarian cavalry increased rapidly, and for a time the battlefield was filled with the sound of sabers, muskets and grenades.