Chapter 484 Cavalry vs. Chariot (Second update, please subscribe)
In the Prussian cavalry, many officers were from the Junker nobility. Captain Engel was also from aristocratic family. He had practiced horsemanship since he was a child. Under his control, the warhorse easily crossed the hedge obstacle, and behind him, hundreds of cavalrymen followed closely.
"The cavalry is coming!"
The driver shouted as he looked at the approaching cavalry through the gap in the armored windshield.
"Ignore them and keep shooting at the infantry!"
The company commander ordered Liang Chengwu to continue firing at the Prussians on the road. Compared with the hand-cranked Gatling gun in the past, the use of an electric motor as power not only made its firing rate faster, but also more stable and almost impossible to malfunction.
However, this also brought a side effect - the ammunition was consumed too quickly. A 1200-round belt could only last for one or two minutes. While the machine gun was still firing, Liang Chengwu shouted while shooting at the Prussians on the road.
"Bullets, bullets..."
Then the ammunition man dragged an ammunition box and connected the ammunition belt to the ammunition belt in the almost empty ammunition box, so as to ensure that the Gatling machine gun could fire uninterruptedly.
Gunpowder smoke and deafening gunshots echoed in the turret. The 7.5mm heavy-pointed bullet trembled on the ammunition belt. This copper solid bullet was specially developed for machine guns. The 13-gram boat-tail warhead and 3.5-gram propellant gave it extremely powerful performance. When it roared furiously, even at a distance of 3,500 meters, the bullet could easily penetrate anyone's body.
Driven by the electric motor, the machine gun made a "sizzling" sound. The sound of the gun was so special that in the eyes of Engel and others, it was not a gun at all, but an extremely special weapon.
What is it?
Engel didn't know, he could only see the flames coming out of the haystack.
During the machine gun fire, Zhao Quande, the commander, was observing the target with a monocular telescope.
"Cluster target at 10 o'clock..."
Zhao Quande, holding a telescope, was the machine gunner's observer. He kept providing target instructions to the machine gunner. The blue column, about one kilometer away, had now stopped marching. Although they were no longer walking, the scene was still full of dust - that was the dust stirred up by the bullets!
The color of the dust flying on the road is a bit weird, it is gray with red!
This is the color of blood!
When bullets hit the bodies of Prussian soldiers, they always created a cloud of blood mist. The blood and ashes mixed together in the air, just like the morning mist, hazy.
In the hazy blood mist, the Prussians tried to disperse around, but they could not escape the pursuit of bullets. The dense bullets were like raindrops, completely covering them.
"Quick, hide, hide..."
In this metal rain, the shouts of officers continued to be heard. Although the Junker officers were of high quality, they had never faced such a blow. Many of them were knocked down by bullets before they even had time to issue orders.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..."
Amid the whistling sound of bullets, the copper bullets could penetrate one soldier while still having the remaining force to penetrate another soldier's body. In the dense rain of bullets, one Prussian after another fell.
Some people had their heads shot through by bullets, and their white brains and blood flew out like ripe watermelons. Some had their arms, thighs, or chests shattered by bullets. Some had their necks broken, and blood spurted out more than a meter high like a fountain.
Everything is red here!
The red blood spurted like a fountain in Berlin Square, and it looked so beautiful under the sunlight.
Perhaps, this is the blooming of the flower of life!
This was the first time that the electric Gatling gun appeared on the battlefield. Such direct shooting within the field of view was extremely deadly to the infantry, and its combat effectiveness was also terrifying, so terrifying that it was even a little unbelievable.
Eighteen armored vehicles and eighteen Gatling machine guns fired thirty to forty thousand rounds of bullets in just one minute, and their attack did not stop.
"They were hiding in the haystack..."
Finally, when he crossed the last hedge, Engel waved his saber and pointed at the haystack and shouted. Just as he rushed forward desperately, the next scene almost blinded his eyes - the haystack moved!
The haystack that was originally fixed in the field actually started moving. The moment it started moving, the grass on the body of the truck also fell off.
"What is this...thing...car?"
Engel looked in astonishment at the armored vehicle coming towards him.
The green vehicle moved automatically without the help of a horse, just like a train.
But can a train leave the tracks?
Engel, who came from an aristocratic family, almost instinctively thought of another means of transportation.
"Steam car?"
But this steam car had no chimney and was not as large as a steam car. It just came like that, and at a very fast speed.
"Captain, the enemy cavalry is approaching!"
Zhao Quande didn't even pay attention to the driver's reminder, but gave the order directly.
"Leave him alone, just shoot the infantry."
While speaking, Zhao Quande had already stood up from his seat, holding a Type 62 Spencer rifle in his hand. He opened the hatch and aimed at the approaching cavalry.
"Bang!"
As the gunshots went off, the approaching cavalrymen were knocked down, and the wounded horses fell to the ground neighing. In the past, this was also the case when they were mounting their guns. The machine gunners only had to concentrate on attacking targets in the distance, and those that were close were left to the other people on the vehicle.
Relying on the advantage of the fast loading of the Type 62 Spencer rifle, Zhao Quande exposed half of his body and kept shooting at the approaching cavalry. Although the cavalry tried to fight back with revolvers, compared to rifles, not only did they have a shorter range, but it was also very difficult to hit a moving target on an overturned warhorse. Even if the bullets occasionally hit an armored vehicle, they only made a few crisp sounds and knocked off some paint.
"What the hell is this car?"
Engel roared angrily. The bullets hitting the car just made a "ding ding" sound. They could only watch the infantry being slaughtered.
At this moment, the armored vehicle suddenly accelerated. It was extremely fast, even faster than a war horse. It was only then that Engel thought of a vehicle he had heard of before - an automatic vehicle! Automatic vehicles using internal combustion engines were only available in the South.
"Sir, they're right in front of us!"
"Bump into it!"
Zhao Quande gave the order directly.
"Kill them!"
Under Zhao Quande's order, the armored vehicle directly hit the war horse. The cavalry, once the king of the battlefield, became fragile and vulnerable in front of the armored vehicle.
Engel almost watched those strange armored vehicles rushing towards him. Although he tried to dodge, it backfired.
The speed of the armored vehicles was so fast that it even exceeded that of the warhorse. They crashed into him directly. Before Engel could even react, the horse was knocked down. He was also thrown out, and then he was shocked to see that the armored vehicles actually crushed the injured warhorse directly.
Amid the miserable neighing of the warhorse, the armored vehicle crushed the horse into pulp...
(End of this chapter)
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