Chapter 553: The Heavenly God Descends to Earth
Several behemoths suddenly appeared, and the frightened Horqin cavalry galloped wildly, they were already out of order, they didn't care about any formation, and they fled in many ways.
Even if they were surrounded by the enemy they had just killed inextricably, they couldn't care about it now, they just wanted to leave this place. Facing tens of thousands of Mongolian iron horsemen surging like a tide, Gao Qiang said in a deep voice to the people around him: "Let the artillery fire!" ”
"Bang...... Bang ......"
The three 2B11 120mm heavy mortars with the longest range were the first to fire, and the three 120mm mortar shells with a piercing whistling sound cut through three perfect ballistic curves in the air, and then roared into the cavalry group of the Korqin Division.
"Boom...... Boom ......"
The huge power of the 120-mm mortar is not a joke, every time the shell explodes, the Mongolian cavalry and war horses within a radius of dozens of meters will be swept away in an instant.
Countless scattered remnant arms scattered in all directions, mixed with endless pieces of minced flesh, staining the surroundings into a bloody color.
The sudden explosion made the fleeing Korqin cavalry even more frightened, and they all thought that it was the attack of those behemoths on them, which might be the punishment of the gods.
They beat their horses desperately, trying to escape the punishment of the gods, and they had to keep moving forward...... Forward......
Eight 2B14 82mm mortars were fired next, and the dull sound sounded one after another, and one after another 82mm shells continued to shoot into the sky, drawing perfect curves one after another, and then falling from the sky with a bang. Constantly smashing into the chaotic cavalry group, each explosion can take away a dozen casualties.
"Woohoo...... Woo Woo ......"
Two Type 35 12-barreled 107mm rocket launchers also roared, and the sharp whistling sound was accompanied by the overwhelming smashing of 107mm rockets, and the dense explosions sounded almost at the same time, tens of thousands of cavalry horses. Immediately, a large piece was erased alive.
When the 70-mm infantry guns, 75-mm mountain guns and 60-mm mortars opened fire one after another, the tens of thousands of Horqin cavalry who fled in a hurry on the opposite side seemed to fall into hell. The steppe has become a sea of blood.
However, Korqin's cavalry still ran wildly regardless of their lives, and rushed to the front of the field division's defensive line. With Gao Qiang's order, a water-cooled heavy machine gun also roared.
Countless hot bullets were poured on the Korqin cavalry like a storm, and the dense cavalry was cut away layer by layer, the Horqin cavalry was beaten to a thousand holes, and countless corpses were piled up in front of the defense line layer by layer.
The artillery fire of the Central Army has not stopped, even the Type 35 12-barreled 107-mm rocket launcher has fired three salvos, and mortars, infantry guns and mountain artillery do not know how many rounds of artillery fire.
The officers and men of the 2nd Brigade of the Field Division numbly continued to shoot and reload. Repeating the monotonous action, each shot can achieve a result. More than a hundred water-cooled heavy machine guns, all of which have changed their chains at least a few times, and the water in the cooling jacket has long been boiled. The heavy's hands were numb, and he clenched the trigger sluggishly, raining bullets frantically.
In the face of such a dense and ferocious firepower network, tens of thousands of Korqin cavalry scattered were also overwhelmed, and they turned their horses and tried to flee in both directions. But four cavalry brigades and two overseas brigades, which had long been ambushed on both sides, were killed.
The appearance of the main cavalry units in the Far East, arranged on both flanks, became the last straw that overwhelmed the Korqin cavalry. The frightened Korqin cavalry had no intention of fighting for a long time. In the face of the main cavalry of the Far East, who were waiting for work, they still had the determination to resist, and they dismounted and knelt on the ground, waiting for the arrangement of fate.
Many lucky people wanted to break out of the encirclement, but they were immediately chased by the fierce cavalry brigade soldiers and cut off their horses. Although they were all Mongols, the cavalry of the Mongol Cavalry Brigade was ruthless and would kill their opponents at the slightest resistance.
The few Horqin cavalry who broke out of the encirclement got into the net formed by countless Mongolian militias, which made the Horqin cavalry lose all their fighting spirit. Either killed or captured.
The fighting was finally over, and the carnage slowly stopped. Tens of thousands of elite Horqin iron cavalry threw down more than half of them in the battle just now, and only less than 20,000 of them were left with all beards and tails, and the rest were cleaned up by the Far Eastern Army even if they were lucky enough to not die.
Gao Qiang knew that the opportunity could not be lost, and with a wave of his hand, he ordered all the cavalry brigades, overseas brigades, and militia brigades to enter the territory of the Horqin Division, leaving the 2nd Brigade of the Field Division and the logistics detachment that caught up behind to clean up the battlefield.
The elite cavalry of the Horqin Department was almost wiped out in the battle just now, so Gao Qiang also changed his strategy and sent out the cavalry brigade, overseas brigade and militia brigade, and tens of thousands of cavalry spread out and scattered it to the Horqin grassland.
After these tens of thousands of elite armored cavalry of the Horqin Department were wiped out, there was no large-scale cavalry in the Horqin grassland at the back of the Xiliao River.
Li Ming sat in a huge Type 35 medium-sized four-engine airship and witnessed the massacre on the grassland just now. At this time, looking down from the air, a large grassland was covered with the corpses of the cavalry of the Horqin Division, and the air was filled with a faint smell of blood.
"I really didn't expect the battle to be so smooth, and the tens of thousands of Horqin's elite iron cavalry were wiped out, which also means that the Horqin troops can no longer stop a powerful counterattack. No matter how brave the herdsmen of the tribe were, in the face of the fierce Far Eastern cavalry, they could only end up being annihilated.
And we also have six airships to provide air support, I didn't expect these big guys to be so deterrent, they actually scared tens of thousands of Horqin elite iron horsemen so wolf, I thought it was a vicious battle, but in the end it turned into a round of unilateral slaughter, airships still have such a utility in the grassland, it seems that more airships will be produced next year. ”
Ding Weiguo said with a smile: "How have these turtles on the grassland seen any airships, in the face of the airships that suddenly appeared in front of them, it is strange that they are not chaotic." In fact, it is easy to understand what it would be like if we were in modern society, if several huge flying saucers suddenly appeared in the sky above the city. ”
In this era, the airship is really shocking, there is no need to fight at all, as long as it lands slowly and slowly presses down on the top of the enemy's head, even the most powerful army will collapse.
Especially in the steppes of this era, the Mongols were extremely superstitious, and in the face of something beyond their cognition, they would feel that they were gods descending from the earth. (To be continued......)
PS: Thank you for the support of Lao Zhou, Shui Tian Niu, and the monthly pass that is annoying to lose the name.