C287 Classic Boat Riding (1/2)
In the thousands of years of history of farming and cultivation, the Chinese nation was constantly threatened by the northern nomadic peoples. Those high latitude prairie cavalry always treated the Central Plains as a fat meat that they could cut at will. Once they encountered a natural disaster or something, their first thought would be to bring their troops south, and snatch however many they wanted.
In this long battle, the people of the Central Plains who lacked horses had accumulated a lot of fighting skills from the cavalry of the infantry, and as one of the high-ranking generals of the Heavenly Kingdom, Winged King Shida Kai knew a lot of these unique moves.
Right now, the first trap French cavalry encountered was to get into the pit of horses. Some people thought that falling into the pit meant digging out a huge trap and using it as camouflage. The truth was that it was very simple and very sinister to fall into the pit.
The soldiers had simply dug a fist-sized hole in the ground. It didn't need to be half a foot deep to do so. This kind of hole was very invisible. Even if you didn't cover it with hay, you wouldn't be able to see it from a distance. But once you discovered these holes, your horse wouldn't be able to slow down any longer.
As long as a horse's hooves were stuck in the hole, the huge forward force of the horse's charge would break the horse's leg, and it would be inevitable for the horse to topple over.
Right now, the French army had encountered a sinister attack. Within the blink of an eye, twenty to thirty war horses had been overturned and their entire camp was thrown into chaos.
The cavalrymen behind tried their best to avoid the comrades on the ground. In addition to the unknown number of ambushes ahead, they all pulled on their reins to reduce their speed. The smooth rhythm of their wave attacks was completely disrupted.
While you were trying to take your life, the new army hidden in the foxhole began to concentrate their fire. More than a hundred Spenser bullets rained down on the enemy as white smoke rose from all directions.
The seventh company's Spencer was the fastest weapon besides the Gatling. This metal storm caused the French to have no way to fight back, so after throwing away more than fifty corpses, the Cavalry Battalion turned around and retreated.
”Stop shooting... Save Ammunition... ”Hurry up and reinforce the fortifications now …” The new army did not have time to check on the results of the battle, let alone to celebrate the small victory. They knew that the French had suffered only a small setback, and that the onslaught would only get fiercer and fiercer.
”Old master, did we win?” Without knowing when, Hu Niu, Ping Er and the rest were also standing beside Xiao Letian, each of their hands covered the sky as they watched the battle in the distant hills.
”This is not a win. More than 50 cavalrymen have been killed, not even their bones have been damaged. The French are about to start the next wave of attack.”
”Dragon Lord... Don't stand guard by my side, nothing bad can happen to me with Prussian army protecting me. You should go and help King Yi and the rest.
Dragon Lord looked at the battlefield, then looked at Xiao Letian's surroundings. He was a little hesitant, but under the pressure of Xiao Letian's gaze, he could only clasp his hands together and rush to the battlefield.
”Dragon Lord, tell your highness to use the complex terrain well, you must not let the enemy spread it …”
Xiao Letian's warning was unnecessary, all the commanders of the New Army understood the trick behind this victory. It was that the cavalry regiment who was bullying the small paths could not move quickly, as long as the speed of the cavalry was restrained, let alone defending for half an hour, they would even be able to defend for a whole day.
However, the Forces nouvelles soldiers did not have the time to care about the chaos of the French Army. The mechs in their hands were moving up and down, and the single-soldier crater was being increased to the height of the shooting bunker.
Everyone knew that fighting with fewer people was definitely impossible if one wasn't able to defend themselves. When their lives were at stake, everyone would fight with everything they had.
Xiao Letian's binoculars gradually moved across the battlefield, and kept muttering to himself, ”Not bad, not bad, looks like they really understand the military theory that I've explained to them. If they can't do the war on earth in the future, it will be very disadvantageous for them …”
At this moment, a roar came from the distant jungle, followed by countless birds soaring into the sky. It seemed that the French attack had begun again.
This time the French changed their tactics. They did not concentrate their forces on the exit from the woods, the path, but fanned out into the woods and began to push forward with the great horsemanship of the soldiers.
France was at the heart of Europe. Thousands of years of human openness had consumed all the primitive forests, and now, although they were high in coverage, they were sparse.
However, they underestimated the insidious nature of these Chinese. Just as the horse was about to gallop out of the forest, a sudden change occurred and one of the cavalrymen's head fell from the sky, blood spurting out of his mouth.
”What's going on …” Before the people behind could react, the person who shouted suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest. The huge force directly pushed him off the horse, and when he tried to get up, he realized that blood was seeping out of his chest, and his strength was disappearing little by little with the blood.
”Sinister …” ”There's a wire …” Before he could finish his sentence, the sight before the soldier's eyes turned completely black. He had completely lost consciousness.
Tripping rope, which was also a common weapon used by infantrymen to restrain cavalry, used to be a tough hemp rope tied to a stump on the ground, specially used for tripping horses' legs, because they wanted to use weeds to keep people out of sight.