Chapter 1357 Pyramid Wars
"Don't be nervous, after experiencing this battle, you can be considered a real veteran." A musketeer with a bag on his back looked at the approaching Albanian warrior in front of him, still calm and had not raised the musket in his hand.
"Huh..." Li Dingguo participated in a land battle for the first time. He felt that not only his hands holding the musket were trembling, but even his whole body was shaking.
In addition to the certain shooting dead corners of the four corners, infantry phalanx can greatly resist the attacks of enemies from all directions. However, this also means that the forces on each side are divided into one quarter, and the edges of other phalanxes need to be relied on to form more dense firepower. At this time, the theoretical formation is as perfect as geometric figures.
The "edge" of Li Dingguo and his team's hollow square formation was the front battlefield. Because of insufficient manpower, he, a naval trainee soldier, was also pulled up to replenish firepower.
The artillery with the farthest range began to roar, and the whistling solid bullet fell into the phalanx of Albanian soldiers, clearing out passages like an iron plow! The soldiers hit by the shells were killed in an instant! The armor and protective gear on their bodies were no different from white paper in front of the shells, and the flesh and blood bodies were flesh and blood bodies after all.
The blood of a companion was splashed on the face of an Albanian warrior. When he looked at his companion in the aftermath, the other party was already in a terrible picture.
His breathing gradually became rapid. As the first column of the attack, he was likely to be destroyed by the opposite artillery!
When Pasha of Egypt saw the artillery of the Expeditionary Force exerted its power, he urged the artillery to advance the artillery forward.
When the infantry of the central army on both sides began to fight, the Mamluk cavalry all over the mountains were almost approaching the Venetian formation.
The Mamluk cavalry still used a barbaric charge formation, but they were equipped with a large number of long and short muskets, and shot at the Venetian phalanx during charge. Many Greek spearmen and Venetian muskets were approached by cavalry muskets and shot to kill them.
"Shock-up! Shooting!" The Venetian artillery officer asked the artillery to carry out the last round of artillery as the Mamluk cavalry was about to fight hand-to-hand.
The Venetian gunners had already replaced the shotgun. The projectiles in the shotgun splashed out when they exploded, causing a lot of damage among the Mamluk cavalry!
"Drink!" When the cavalry arrived, Greek spearmen stepped forward to form a spear formation to protect the employers behind them.
The speed of the Mamluk cavalry slowed down due to the obstruction of Greek spearmen. Some of the cavalry could not control their inertia and were pierced by the spears, and blood flowed down the spears!
The heavy cavalry with equipment was deployed at the forefront. When they were killed by Greek spearmen and Venetian musketeers, their impact also caused a lot of damage to the other side!
The condescending cavalry attacked with muskets and scimitars, leaving the Venetian formation in danger!
Ten thousand Mamluk cavalry could not fully unfold the crowded solid phalanx, and many cavalry were forced to rush into the passage between several phalanxes.
Among them, a cavalry broke into the passage between the Venetian square formation and the hollow square formation.
The machine gun team was peeking at the battlefield, and only one machine gun was deployed on the side of the hollow square array.
"Raise the shooting angle a little, don't hit our friendly forces."
The machine gunner carefully adjusts the angle of the machine gun, otherwise, with the range of the machine gun, metal stray bullets may shoot all the Venetian teammates opposite.
"Start the hunt!" said the commander of the machine gun team.
The machine gunner began to slowly turn the handle of the machine gun, and the speed began to accelerate as the machine gun chamber heated up!
Da, da da! The six-barrel chamber of the Gatling machine gun made a harsh sound, and metal bullets splashed out! The metal shell exited from the chamber and landed on the ground, making the soldiers around the machine gun team frightened!
Bang! When this Mamluk cavalry was about to attack the Venetian phalanx through the side, several cavalry suddenly fell from the war horses and splashed all over the ground!
Some Mamluk cavalry looked in panic in the direction where the bullets were shot, which was the side of the enemy's middle square formation.
Bang! Several more cavalrymen were swept down by machine guns, just like a god of death holding an invisible sickle in his hand!
In just less than a minute, more than a dozen cavalrymen were hunted by machine guns!
Not only machine guns, but also the Dresser rifle, which has a longer range than this era, opened fire under the command of the commander, and smoke filled the air, and more and more Mamluk cavalry were killed under the firepower of the middle phalanx!
They began to regret why they had to bypass the Venetian phalanx and break into the range of the middle phalanx with the most fierce firepower of the enemy! No! It should be said that they could not have thought that the range of the opponent's firepower would be so far!
The distance between the middle square formation commanded by Sun Chuanting and the passage between the left and right wings was relatively large, and the Egyptian Legion thought there was something wrong with the deployment of the Expeditionary Force.
They used the range of the mesh rope guns of this era to think about how big the distance between the phalanx and the phalanx, but Sun Chuanting's middle phalanx output was based on the Gatling machine gun and hundreds of Dereser rifles that were far beyond the mesh rope guns at least three or four generations. They were even afraid that the distance between the middle phalanx and the two wing phalanx would be too close and accidentally injured their friendly forces.
The misjudgment of the range of Sun Chuanting's troops destroyed the Mamluk cavalry who broke into the middle and right wing formations.
This Mamluk cavalry was completely stunned by the dense firepower. They rushed out of the middle passage quickly under the unfavorable situation of their companions being shot dead, and could not raise the courage to rush to the line of muskets with fierce firepower.
"Li Dingguo, don't be dazed, the enemy is coming soon! Get ready with a gun!"
Li Dingguo was a little distracted because of the sound of guns, artillery and machine guns on the battlefield, and was reminded by the veterans around him to lift the musket. On the front battlefield, he did not fight with the legendary ferocious Mamluk cavalry. The enemy in front of him was Albanian soldiers who also held muskets.
The enemy is only about one hundred meters away from them.
There were many soldiers like him in the line line, pointing muskets at the coming enemies, and a row of soldiers in the front line squatted on the ground and aimed at them.
"Come on, damn it!" Li Dingguo suddenly wanted to swear for some reason, as if he was too nervous.
The two Gatling machine guns deployed at the forefront have not yet been exerted. They are like dormant beasts, waiting for the most appropriate opportunity to pounce on their prey.
"There are eighty meters left, seventy meters left! Shoot!"
The two sides were getting closer and closer. When the Albanian soldiers entered a range of 60 meters, Sun Chuanting took the lead in firing a volley!
Chapter completed!