The second cavalry group rushed to a distance of fifty meters. At this time, the infantry was loading. The artillery was also loading.
The cavalry's horse speed has reached its maximum, and they can rush up almost in the blink of an eye.
At this time, countless wooden barrels rolled down.
These barrels are all Navy specifications.
The Yang Mansion's navy uses oak barrels to load supplies. These oak barrels are made of oak wood produced in Northeast China. They are slightly narrower at the top and bottom and thicker in the middle.
The main reason for using barrels to carry supplies is that the barrels can be rolled and can be easily moved up and down the springboard.
Navy sailors can easily roll wooden barrels onto the ship. If it is a wooden box, it needs to be carried. That is too tiring and even requires several people to lift it up on poles.
The Navy has unified standards for ordering wooden barrels of several specifications from large to small. The production volume is large, and the cost naturally comes down. The Navy orders hundreds of thousands of wooden barrels every year, so the wooden barrels in Vladivostok
The competition among factories is fierce and the prices are very cheap.
There were many savages who were rounded up in the mountains and forced to naturalize into civilized society. After they were caught, they were sent to factories for labor reform and had to work for one to two years to get familiar with society.
Therefore, labor costs are very low.
After these savages can work skillfully, they will have the ability to survive independently and integrate into society. Workers are a disciplined group, otherwise the factory will not be able to organize production.
As long as they can integrate in language and work, they will become new workers. They will become regular employees. They will receive salaries and benefits in the future.
Under the capture of Li Huaishu, the tribes of these natives in the northeastern region were disbanded one after another, and everyone became workers.
Generally, after working for two years, they will obtain formal household registration and status bronze medals. Once they have legal status, they can take out a loan to buy a wooden house, marry a woman and start a family.
Night entertainment here is also lacking, and diesel lights are not cheap.
The only thing they can do is to create new and more labor force for Mr. Yang.
These wooden barrels are very easy to roll, and they roll down the hillside very quickly. Some of them will fly when they hit the rocks. Some even fall and scatter, and the black powder powder and particles are blown everywhere by the strong wind.
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Some barrels are time fuses. The fuses are cut according to the time scale and then ignited. The fuses crackle and burn and roll toward the cavalry.
Where the terrain is flat, there are some barrels connected to each other by ropes.
A dozen wooden barrels rolled down together, with a distance of more than 20 meters. Once they hit the cavalry, these connected ropes would become trip wires. The cavalry was tripped, and the ropes were broken by the impact of the cavalry.
The tension caused by the break of the rope will ignite the fire tube in the barrel, and then detonate the barrel.
Each barrel was filled with twenty kilograms of black powder. Outside the black powder tied with cowhide, there was a layer of steel slag.
The fiftieth captain of Cewangbrama saw a round thing rolling past his horse.
He didn't take it seriously, thinking it was something like a rolling log or stone. Hitting the horse would break its legs. Since it didn't hit his horse's leg, it was fine. He didn't pay attention.
At this time, many cavalrymen tripped over the rolling barrels and were trampled to death by the cavalrymen behind them.
"Master, look, the gunpowder barrel has entered the enemy group. This time it will definitely blow them up." Xiao Niangpi waved her fist excitedly and said happily.
"Even if they can survive this time, we still have no backup. But I don't think we can use it. The current measures are enough to defeat them." Yang Fan said with a smile.
At this time, fifty trolleys came up and stopped higher on the hillside.
On each trolley, there is a three-barreled 7.92mm Gatling gun.
Yang Fan knew very well that what really drove the cavalry off the battlefield was not artillery or flintlock muskets, but machine guns.
It was an early 18th-century six-barreled Gatling gun with paper-shell bullets and a canvas belt. This guy with two huge wheels and as heavy as an artillery piece was a nightmare for cavalry. During the Civil War, it caused great harm to cavalry.
suffered huge casualties.
Xiao Niangpi looked back and found that at some point, the Gatling gun brigade on the trolley above had arrived. This time Yang Fan went out with a Gatling machine gun brigade. There were fifty Gatling light machine guns in total. The brigade
Equivalent to a battalion, it consists of five squadrons, each with five machine guns.
Each machine gun is mounted on a wheelbarrow. The wheelbarrow and machine gun are usually dismantled and transported by steam trucks or animal-drawn caravans. When they arrive on the battlefield, the components are assembled, and then the soldiers push them onto the battlefield.
One cart is a machine gun, and a group of five people is responsible for one cart. There are four carts of ammunition carts, which follow to form a team. There are also some individual soldiers equipped with flintlock rifles, responsible for protecting the safety of the machine gun group.
The little girl smiled and said: "It turns out that the master has made complete preparations, now I feel relieved. Just now I saw them charging so fiercely, I was a little worried."
While he was talking, most of the first wave of wooden barrels below had rolled to the middle of the team.
Because the ground is uneven and covered with stones, some are fast and some are slow, the barrels are also far apart.
But when the time came, the lead burned to the end.
Boom boom boom!
A huge explosion suddenly erupted from the cavalry group.
These wooden barrels are not ordinary explosive bags. They are filled with twenty kilograms of black powder. When the black powder reaches twenty kilograms, it is no joke. The power is very terrifying.
Orange-red fireballs suddenly rose, and then dense steel slag swept around like a torrential rain. The cavalry flew away in this devastating explosion, like a small boat in a Category 12 typhoon.
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The one near the center of the explosion was torn to pieces.
The cavalry in the middle part of the explosion was turned into a ball of bone and flesh.
The parts outside the middle distance were affected by the shock wave, limbs flew across, and internal organs were shattered. The limbs of the war horse flew up.
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Although there were no external injuries, the internal organs were shattered. They were all shocked to death.
The ladies were frightened by the huge explosion and screamed. They rushed into Yang Fan's arms one after another. They hugged Yang Fan one by one and screamed.
This was the first time they had seen such a tragic and large-scale explosion at such a close distance.
Humans and war horses, in an explosion of this level, are nothing more than a pile of meatloaf.
The strong wind blew from far away, and their hair was flying.
Xiao Niangpi buried her head in Yang Fan's arms and pinched Yang Fan's arm tightly. Chen Xi's face turned pale, and Mei Xiang almost cried out of fear. Lin Yueru was fine, but her legs were shaking.
Xiao Niangpi is a martial arts practitioner, and her hands are very strong. Yang Fan grimaced in pain. His skin was probably red from the pinch.
However, Yang Fan had no choice but to comfort them, "It's okay. We are far away and can't be exploded. Don't be afraid."
All the other officers and soldiers in the trenches, even though they were already squatting on the ground with their toes on the ground, were still shocked and fell to the ground. The floating soil on the trenches fell with a puff, and their heads and faces were covered with dirt.
After the explosion, they shook off the floating soil, got out, and lay on the edge of the trench to look down.
Their mouths opened in surprise, and there were big pits underneath.
Each gunpowder barrel exploded into a large crater more than one meter deep and seven or eight meters in diameter.
In addition to the steel slag it brought as shrapnel, the surrounding mountains were filled with rocks that were blown around by the strong wind. These rocks were also blown into pieces, and the debris flew everywhere, which further increased the lethality.
The impact of the three cavalry groups has been completely contained.
The people in front were all stunned by the explosion. They rode their horses in circles as if they were stupid, and looked back to see what happened behind them. The middle part was completely blown away.
The people further behind also stopped attacking as if they were stupid, and looked at the open space in the middle that was blown out in horror.
All the war horses were frightened and started running around.
Yang Fan looked at the situation on the battlefield and knew that Orchitu Khan had been defeated. He completely defeated Orchitu Khan without even using his trump card.
"All the three-pounders opened fire, and the flintlocks fired three rounds at once. Then the whole army rushed out and killed them with bayonets. The Sauron infantry regiment mounted, the servant regiment mounted, follow me to kill them."
Yang Fan's infantry army was also mounted infantry.
When they marched, they rode horses, one person and three horses, but they only dismounted to fight.
The Sauron Infantry Regiment also has one man and three horses. However, they are already very good at riding and shooting, and they are very good cavalry. They are just used as infantry.
As long as they mount their horses, all of them can shoot the tiger bow. They have excellent swordsmanship and their riding skills are also very good.
In fact, the Mongols, especially the Mongolians in the Desert, could not defeat the Saurons in mounted combat. This was already proven by the Qing Dynasty.