Chapter 483 Armored Troops, Attack (First Update, Please Subscribe)
The armored vehicles were driving in the wilderness. Although they were not four-wheel drive off-road vehicles, they were still quite smooth to drive in the fields. Even if there were bushes and hedges, they could be easily knocked away.
According to Zhu Sihai's plan, one battalion took the initiative to attack and set up an ambush position on the road that the Prussian army had to pass. His reason was very simple, that is, to use a battalion's motor vehicles as fixed turrets, to take the initiative to attack by setting an ambush, to attract the attention of the Prussians, and when their attention was attracted, he led three battalions to attack from their flanks.
The ambush target was the Prussian soldiers. They would launch a surprise attack when they were off guard, create chaos, and then they would take advantage of the situation to fish in troubled waters.
In fact, if possible, they would prefer to fight on the Pampas, where there is no cover and armored vehicles can turn into cavalry and attack the enemy at will. However, in northern France, there are hedges and villages everywhere, and these obstacles seriously affect the mobility of the troops.
In fact, the 1st Cavalry Brigade was originally a gun-carrying unit, but now the gun-carrying units have become armored vehicles with greater mobility and more powerful firepower.
"Sir, the Prussians are coming."
Although he didn't use a telescope, machine gunner Liang Chengwu still saw the Prussians. The dust raised by their massive army was very conspicuous.
"Watch for the signal!"
Zhao Quande's fifth company was placed on the westernmost side of the ambush position, which was the direction from which the Prussian army came. His ambush position was placed in a forest two kilometers away from the village, which was a must-go place for the Prussians. The trees on the road side of this forest were very lush, and there were also several shrubs and hedges. This was a natural ambush position. They could clearly observe everything on the road, but the troops on the road could not detect their presence at all.
Moreover, their armored vehicles were camouflaged, so even if Prussian reconnaissance cavalry passed by, they would not notice the haystacks. Who would notice a few haystacks?
ambush……
To ambush tens of thousands of troops, at least several divisions must be deployed!
"Keep hidden and let them pass."
Zhao Quande held a telescope and looked at the road.
The Prussian army had already appeared in his sight, with a team of scouts in the front, who were advancing quickly while searching all around. The Prussians also dispatched cavalry units on both sides, but they obviously did not expect that the haystacks in the fields were the enemy, and their attention was now mostly focused on the air. After all, for the Prussians, what frightened them most was the airships.
No one was interested in these haystacks. It had nothing to do with luck. To put it bluntly, it was all about arrogance. Who would have thought that just a dozen armored vehicles would dare to challenge the Prussian army of tens of thousands?
Behind the outposts were the infantry, who marched in neat columns, many Prussians, and even Schneider found that there were many horse-drawn carriages and artillery carriages in this army. The mighty army filled the entire road. The dust raised by the people and horses even blocked their vision.
The Prussians in Prussian blue uniforms and pointed helmets formed a long blue dragon and marched on the road. The cavalry troops on both sides of the road kept alert, marching at a moderate speed on both wings of the infantry.
This is a typical cavalry-guarded infantry marching column. The biggest threat to the marching column is the enemy's cavalry. On the way Napoleon retreated from Moscow, the French army, which lost the protection of the cavalry, was hit hard by the Cossack cavalry again and again.
With the protection of cavalry, when the enemy cavalry used their mobility to launch a surprise attack, the cavalry on both wings could directly engage in combat and prevent them from attacking the infantry.
The Prussians marched very quickly, which was the biggest advantage of the Prussian army in many past wars. They marched quickly, bypassed the enemy's rear many times, and surrounded the enemy. It was precisely because of their marching speed, which far exceeded that of other countries, that they won time and time again.
This blue infantry unit appeared in Zhao Quande's field of vision in a mighty manner. Looking at the troops in the dust, his eyes burst into a desire for battle.
Perhaps because the vanguard troops had passed safely, this troop was completely unguarded. They marched on the road in a swaggering manner, and no one realized that danger was approaching.
"aim!"
Following Zhao Quande's order.
The machine gunner immediately raised the butt of the Gatling gun and swallowed his saliva as he looked at the Prussian army in front of him. As long as he fired a round of Gatling, he could kill at least a few hundred Prussian soldiers. Their marching columns were so dense that one bullet could even penetrate one and then another.
"call!"
Taking a deep breath, Liang Chengwu tried hard to suppress the desire in his heart to open fire. He was waiting for orders. A good hunter would never destroy the trap they had carefully prepared.
In fact, the eighteen armored vehicles were scattered on a long battle line of nearly two kilometers on the left wing of the road, which was why the Prussians did not discover them. It was just a pile of hay common in the French countryside.
After a few minutes, when the enemy's front team was about to disappear from the end of sight, suddenly, a burst of gunfire was heard in the distance.
"Fire!"
Without the company commander's order, Liang Chengwu pressed the button. The motor ran idly for nearly a moment, and suddenly gunshots rang out.
“Sizzle…”
The sound of the gunshot was like the sound of cloth being torn. This was because its firing rate was too fast. The firing rate of 2,400 rounds made the sound of the gunshots almost continuous.
The moment Liang Chengwu pressed the button, accompanied by the sound of cloth being torn, hundreds of 7.5mm machine gun bullets whistled towards the Prussian column like raindrops.
7.5mm machine gun bullets are completely different from rifle bullets. They use a pointed cone-bottom copper unjacketed bullet. The bullet is heavier, has a longer range, and is more lethal. When these bullets weighing 13 grams whizzed over, the Prussians who were marching didn't even have time to react before they were caught in a dense rain of bullets. When the heavy bullets penetrated people's bodies, they would not only break their bones and internal organs, but would even drag out chunks of flesh and blood. In just a moment, the road was covered with a red mist.
Accompanied by dense "whooshing" sounds in the air, a small storm seemed to blow up on the originally dusty road. From time to time, smoke and dust several inches high were raised on the dirt road. The dust raised by the bullets mixed with the red blood mist, reflecting dazzling brilliance in the sun.
The cavalrymen on the flanks didn't even have time to gallop before their horses were hit in the abdomen by bullets. Amid the horses' neighs, both the men and horses fell to the ground.
"There's an ambush!"
As soldiers continued to fall in the hail of bullets, Engel rode on his horse, squeezed his legs against the horse's belly, pointed in the direction of the gunfire and shouted.
"Buch, the enemy is there, rush over with me!"
After that, he rode his horse in the lead, galloping towards the direction where the gunshots came from. Although there were bushes and trees blocking the road, the Hanoverian horses under them could easily jump over the bushes and rush towards the enemy...
(End of this chapter)
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