Chapter 300: The Killer (10)

Cheng Wu, captain of the Armored Brigade of the First Army of the Fourth Army, with the rank of colonel, joined the army for three years, and was the second batch of graduates from Biquan Island Military Academy.

Originally, he was the deputy commander of the First Army of the Fourth Army and could be promoted to the rank of major general immediately. He had a bright future and no longer needed to lead the army to fight in person. However, a few days before he was about to be promoted to the rank of major general, the first batch of armored vehicles equipped with the troops were transported to him.

After several personnel from the Academy of Sciences performed the power of the armored vehicles in front of him, he was immediately fascinated by the steel monster in front of him. He couldn't wait to get into the car and forced the personnel to take him for a few laps. Then, he submitted the order to apply for transfer.

From the first sight of the armored car, he knew that in this life, his destiny would be connected with the monster in front of him.

The armored troops are brigade-level in a military army, and the brigade leader should be the rank of lieutenant colonel, but he took the initiative to apply to be the armored brigade leader of the First Army.

After his unremitting efforts, he finally became the captain with the highest rank in the armored brigade of the Fourth Army.

In the subsequent training, he led the way and personally served as the commander of the first command vehicle of the armored brigade, leading the entire brigade personnel to practice skills, making the armored brigade of the First Army ranked among the top in every armored troop competition of the Fourth Corps.

This time, Li Ming gathered all the armored brigades that the Fourth Army participated in the battle together. Cheng Wu naturally became the on-site commander who commanded the armored forces' operations.

The days when he was on standby at the scheduled location were Cheng Wu's most difficult days. He knew the power of the armored vehicles, but this was the first time he was used in actual combat. He could serve as the on-site commander of the first actual combat of the Tang Dynasty armored troops. There was no need to mention Cheng Wu's excitement. For several days, he stayed in his tank vehicle, anxiously waiting for the combat order. He looked forward to his armored vehicles being the first to rush towards the enemy, hoping that his armored vehicles could fire the first shell at the enemy's troops.

Cheng Wu was so excited when he thought of the exciting explosion when the shells hit the target on the training ground.

Finally, the long wait came to a result. His long-lost order came from the command center in front: "The enemy is approaching, start the armored vehicle and execute the butcher knife tactic."

Hearing this order, Cheng Wu's heart was suddenly filled with heat. However, the commander's duties made him send this order through radio to every armored vehicle without any hesitation: "Armored vehicle starts, butcher knife tactics!"

The butcher knife tactic is an additional weapon installed on armored vehicles based on the combat characteristics of the cold weapons era. This is a method to save shells and bullets when dealing with enemies holding cold weapons. Using this tactic, it is not allowed to fire shells and bullets.

Although he could not see the scene of shells blooming among the enemy this time, Cheng Wu was not completely disappointed. The result of the butcher knife tactic did not require the power of the shells to be poor. Therefore, after a brief disappointment, his blood surged back into his heart.

The roaring engine began to sound inside the armored vehicle, and the bright headlights shone in front of them in a clear view. Tens of meters ahead, enemy cavalry, densely packed without any gaps, were rushing towards them quickly.

"Get on the butcher's knife, keep the distance of the car at a speed of 30 kilometers per hour, and attack!" Staring at the enemy in the periscope desperately, Cheng Wu issued an order to attack.

With a command, the gunner and loader leaned against both sides of the car and reached out to move the handles on both sides.

With a crisp sound, two sharp guillotines bounced up from both sides of the vehicle and crossed across the vehicle. It looked like two long wings suddenly appeared on the armored vehicle. At the same time, the driver also moved the handle in front of him, and the guillotine located at the front of the car also bounced up from the front of the track, and under the illumination of the headlights, a cold light flashed.

The guillotine was thought out after Li Ming's test drive at the Academy of Sciences. It is a waste to use shells and bullets when dealing with enemies holding cold weapons. The armored vehicles have basic armor of more than ten millimeters thick, and are completely invincible when fighting against enemies holding cold weapons. Therefore, with the help of the heavy armored cavalry fighting method, Li Ming had an idea and came up with a way to install guillotines on the armored vehicles. In this way, there is no need to waste shells and bullets, and the enemy can be slaughtered completely. You must know that the cost of a shell is more than ten taels of silver. Save this money and can be used in the economic construction of the Tang Dynasty.

The guillotine is about two meters long and the back of the knife is fifty mm thick. It runs across both sides of the armored vehicle. The guillotine on the front of the vehicle is also two meters, so that it can sweep any enemy within a range of six meters. This method of combat from the heavy armored cavalry is much more terrifying than the heavy armored cavalry.

After receiving Cheng Wu's order, the armored vehicles lined up in rows started almost at the same time. Thick black smoke came out of the exhaust pipe at the rear of the vehicle and rushed towards the enemy.

The heavy armored cavalry of the Great Soviet Kingdom were completely unaware that they were about to fall down by the impact of the steel torrent in front. In their impression, no one was their opponent in fighting on such an empty plain. Even if they encountered the heavy armored cavalry troops of the opponent, they had the courage to fight with each other. However, they did not expect that the first thing they greeted was a row of headlights that suddenly made them unable to see anything.

The sudden lights of the headlights frightened them and the war horses under their climaxes, and their fear of unknown things made them want to stop. However, the huge inertia forced them to continue running. Before they could take other measures, the light with a huge roar rushed towards them. Then, many people felt their legs chill and fell to the ground. Then, many people were crushed under the wide tracks.

The guillotine is just above the track, with a height of about 1.6 meters. This height can just split the horse from the neck in half, and it can also split the rider from the thigh. The sharp guillotine, driven by the armored vehicle, passes through the thick steel armor without any obstacles, leaving behind one corpses after another. The current armored vehicle has completely become a steel monster that slaughteres arbitrarily on the battlefield. Any part of the body is a deadly tool, and even the long extended gun barrel has become a deadly weapon for the horse rider. Many cavalry were smashed by the gun barrel and died on the spot.

This is a real massacre. All the armored soldiers of the Tang Dynasty hid in the car. As long as they can control the armored vehicles carefully and maintain the distance between the vehicles, they don’t need to consider the others. As long as they keep driving the armored vehicles like this, the enemy will be slaughtered endlessly. This is a battle that is not on the same level. If this continues, the armored troops of the Tang Dynasty will completely eliminate the soldiers of the Su overnight.

On such a dark night, the command of the Great Soviet troops was also very difficult. Their generals were not going to the front. They did not have modern communication equipment. They passed commands in such dark nights entirely by war drums. The troops in the front that were instantly wiped out could not deliver the message to the rear. Moreover, even if they had time to pass the message, they didn't know what to do. This terrifying monster could not be described in words. Extreme fear made them unable to deliver the message correctly.

The armored troops advanced about a kilometer, cutting off a vacuum from the enemy's advance troops on a cross-section that lasted more than 20 kilometers. Unfortunately, all the soldiers of the Great Soviet Kingdom still don't know what happened.

While the armored troops were showing their might, the infantry ambushed on both sides of the armored troops also began their first actual combat shooting.

The cavalry troops of the Great Soviet Kingdom lined up more than fifty kilometers in the horizontal direction. This large-scale horizontal assault was not used by Li Ming before. With accurate intelligence, Li Ming could easily transfer his troops to the front of the enemy's advance. Therefore, the armored troops in the middle were located in the center of the enemy's troops. On both sides, the infantry troops of the four armies completely blocked the enemy's forward defense line.

While the armored vehicles were started, the infantry troops also received orders for battle.

Each of these infantry fighting at night had a small searchlight above their heads, powered by a battery hanging around their waists. After receiving the order, all the headlights were turned on almost the same time. Suddenly, the dark night turned into daylight in front of them, and the enemy cavalry dozens of meters away were completely exposed to them. Through the gaps in the horse-repellent piles in front of them, these soldiers who participated in actual combat shooting for the first time began to pull the trigger in their hands.

Most of the infantry used improved versions of Type 95 rifles. Compared with the first batch of imitated Type 95, the accuracy has been improved a lot. At a distance of tens of meters, these soldiers who had been trained for several months were almost every shot. The dense gunshots quickly covered the thunderstorm-like horse hooves. The running cavalry almost fell off one row after another. Two or three thousand infantry shot in a row, almost every shot can cause tens of thousands of people to the other side.

The loss was almost unnecessary to aim at such a close distance, and people could be killed with their eyes closed. Therefore, about fifty meters ahead of them, the bodies of the enemy cavalry quickly piled up to more than one meter. Although the war horses that lost their master still rushed forward, the horse-rejecting piles that were two or three meters wide made them unable to cross. In the open space in front of the horse-stake, there were more and more war horses, which eventually completely blocked the sight and shooting routes of the Tang Dynasty infantry.

In order to save bullets, the infantry did not shoot at these war horses. Therefore, the unowned war horses temporarily stopped the unilateral massacre. The Tang infantry who had been prepared for this had stood up one after another, stood on the earth platform they prepared in advance, and continued to shoot at the cavalry that was in chaos seventy or eighty meters away. The reason why they first lay in front of the horse-rejected stake was to prevent the enemy cavalry from having long-range shooting weapons such as bows and arrows in their hands. However, after shooting down a group of cavalry, they did not find the opponent's long-range weapons. Therefore, after their vision was blocked, they began to stand on the mound of earth and continue fighting condescendingly.

At this time, due to the blocking of the unowned war horses in front and the blocking of more than one meter-high corpses in front of them, the direction of the heavy armored cavalry troops was completely blocked. The horses flying behind collided heavily with the horses that stopped in front, causing serious injuries to many war horses and cavalrymen. This kind of impact was chain-like. In the dark night, the cavalry behind could not see the changes ahead at all. Therefore, in the depth of several kilometers, the cavalry troops were in chaos, and the cavalry on the horses were knocked down one after another. Many people were even stabbed by guns in the hands of the cavalry in the rear.

However, compared with the cavalry facing armored troops in the middle, the cavalry on both sides were still very lucky. The chaos in the front quickly attracted the attention of the cavalry in the rear. Under the orderly order of the officers, the advance cavalry gradually stopped. Therefore, the chaos in the cavalry on both sides was limited to those within a few kilometers in front.

The cavalry troops in front of them were in a mess that could not advance happened to become the living targets of the infantry standing on the mound. Under the illumination of searchlights, the distance within a hundred meters was as bright as day. In this distance, there were no more cavalry riding on horseback in just a few minutes.

Due to the limited illumination range of the searchlight, the enemy troops a hundred meters away temporarily escaped the shooting of the rifle. It was observed that the tragic cavalry general in front woke up as if he had stopped and quickly transmitted the information in front to the back. Soon, the well-trained heavy armored cavalry slowly turned their horses' heads and disappeared from the sight of the infantry like flying. On a length of dozens of kilometers, there were piles of cavalry corpses piled up.

The airship troops, which had been paying close attention to the battle situation above the battlefield, promptly reported the information to the command center. At this time, the armored troops had advanced more than ten kilometers forward.

"The armored troops stopped advancing and quickly returned to the car and left the battlefield. The artillery troops carried out three rounds of intensive shooting of the enemy troops within ten kilometers on both sides of the armored troops." Li Ming, who received the news, immediately issued another order.

According to the report of the airship unit, the artillery troops in the rear quickly adjusted the landing point of the shells, and then the rumbling sound of artillery shells enveloped the entire battlefield.
Chapter completed!