C523 slaying of prisoners (1/2)

The God Archer that Maylor had mentioned previously, was a name that Xiao Letian called a sniper. Everyone here was familiar with this name, but the term ”sniper” did not exist in the nineteenth century.

In fact, in the seventeenth century, when sophisticated optical instruments were invented, humans had already tried to connect them with firearms to form weapons that could accurately fire.

However, because the weapons at that time were all musket s, no matter how accurate your aim was, it didn't mean that the bullets would always travel in a straight line. Therefore, this technique didn't garner much attention in the past 200 years.

Until the middle of nineteenth century and during the American War of Independence, only then did some smart American soldiers begin to make small modifications to their guns. They wrapped the bullets with deer hides soaked in fat, and then carried out a long sneak attack and a long distance sniper attack, successfully killing many senior officers of the British Army at a distance of more than 300 meters.

At that time, there was even a new English word to describe this elusive group of sharpshooters, Sharp's archers. By the time the Civil War began to systematize the study of accurate shooting, there was another term for it, the Mask Man.

The origin of this word was another characteristic of snipers. They had been lurking around for a long time with the gun's butt close to their cheeks. As a result, marksmen usually wore headgear, which was a form of protection.

It wasn't until World War II that the two words converged into one English word, and Sniper was a modern sniper.

In Xiao Letian's memory, German optical instruments were renowned throughout the world. Before the First World War, Germany had already started to form a secret sniper unit, and the Alliance suffered a huge loss on the battlefield. The fact was that the combination of the optical instruments and the linear gun could be considered a perfect combination, and as long as a sniper was present at a distance of 400 meters, none of the Allied officers would dare to pop their heads out of the trenches.

He had the wireline gun, and the optical instruments could be imported from the United States. He would buy German goods in the future, and the rest of his work would be to choose soldiers with mental fortitude and train them.

In Xiao Letian's plan, if he was willing to waste a hundred thousand rounds of bullets on a single person, what kind of good archer could not be trained out? If it wasn't because the sniper team was formed too late, Xiao Letian really wanted to bring them to the European battlefield.

How good it was to use the life of a European to practice a spear. However, they did not expect that the dozens of snipers who did not manage to make it to the Great Pu Ao War would actually attack the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty.

The Industrial Zones's concrete wall was nine meters tall, and although it was not as spacious as the city wall, it was still enough for two people to stand side by side. Furthermore, there were many wooden platforms built on top of the walls, allowing snipers to calmly fire at them.

To increase the accuracy of the shots, the snipers abandoned Spencer and instead chose the better single-shot Henry Rifle, the advanced Winchester M1866. It was a musket from the American Civil War, with neither firepower nor reliability.

The rifle that was manually equipped with scope did not look that beautiful, but the effects of using it did not matter. The group of Qing Dynasty Cavalry soldiers were swaggering around 30 metres away from the wall.

”Saving ammunition... Shot to death... This was a rare opportunity to fight in actual combat … ”Kill their standard-bearer …” With the command of the officer, the wall was filled with gunfire and white smoke.

This group of snipers were really evil. Bullets were specifically aimed between the eyebrows and into the heart. As long as they were shot, they would die without a doubt. After a round of gunshots, cavalry regiment left over a hundred and fifty corpses.

Maylor was already scared to death, he shouted loudly: ”Withdraw … Protect me from retreating... You are all dead! ” In the midst of the shout, the flag bearer beside Maylor was hit, and the banner representing Maylor fell to the ground.

”Maylor is dead … The enemy's marshal is dead... ”Everyone shout together …” The entire battlefield was in an uproar.

They could only look at the actions of the flags, and once they flipped the flags, they immediately went into chaos. And among Xiao Letian's new army, the flags were mostly formed as proof that the soldiers were following the orders of the military officers, only the sounds of the horns were orders.

Maylor regretted it now. If he had known earlier that there were such powerful archers on the wall, he wouldn't have charged forward. Without a second word, without a single trace of hesitation, he flapped his horse and ran towards the primary matrix, shouting as he ran: ”I'm not dead, all of you stay in the back, hold on for me …”

At this time, who would listen to him. The infantry in the trenches were afraid that their parents would give them less than two legs, so they all started to crawl out of the trenches while crying for their parents. Behind them, the new soldiers were like candy gourds piercing through their bodies.

All the Europeans stopped. They looked at the brutal massacre of cold weapons as they drew the cross on their chests. ”Oh God bless them. This is too cruel. This is the cruelest war of the Middle Ages. What a pity …”

Sometimes, the westerner can be very merciful too. Just a moment ago when you were being splashed with feces, you guys were so angry that you started killing people. Now that you see too much human blood, why are you shouting 'God'?

Tie Toutuo who was in the trench was annoying the Europeans because of this. He looked at them with contempt, jumped out of the trench and formed his hands into the shape of a horn.

”F * ck, why the f * ck are you guys acting!” Wasn't it just a telescope on the gun? What was there to be proud of? Show me how you guys got shot to death? ”

”How did the Prime Minister educate us? The most important part of the war is hitting the morale of the enemies, not how many people are killed in the competition. ”A bunch of trash …”

The brothers on the wall didn't like it, so they refuted, ”General, how do you think we should fight?” Did we even make a mistake in killing them? ”Draw a passage for us, I want to see what good idea you have …”

”Pah …” Tie Toutuo spat blood on the ground. ”Shoot, cripple them and create more casualties for the enemy. This is the most effective way to strike their morale!”