Some people have vividly compared human beings to being armed to the teeth, but I have never heard of anyone saying that they are armed to the hooves of horses. Whether it is the cold weapon age or the hot weapon age, the cavalry's hooves are very fragile joints and cannot be well protected. It will be the first.
Ancient classic traps such as tripping ropes are just as useful in this era. There are ropes and wires two to three inches close to the ground everywhere in the woods. Some are hidden in the snow and some are hidden in the withered grass. The fast-running cavalry cannot Just can't see it.
These unlucky cavalry fell down in the remaining snow one after another, and the rest did not dare to move forward and tightened their reins. Just as they were trying to save their fallen comrades, intensive gunshots rang out from all directions in the forest.
The rifle used by the Rakshasa Cavalry at the moment is the Berdan rifle designed by the United States. This is the most advanced weapon just installed this year. It is a single-shot breech-loading needle rifle that can fire fixed copper-cased bullets and paper-packed bullets. Judging from Tsarist Russia's current national strength, this is already the most advanced weapon.
Unfortunately, what they encountered was the army of the wealthy Xiao Letian. Each of the cavalrymen under Sister Wu was equipped with double rifles. One was a Mauser Type 1 with long range and high accuracy, and the other was the famous Spencer gun of the American Civil War.
The two rifles formed two dense firepower nets in the forest. The one that fired continuously and densely was the continuous-fire Spencer, and the one that fired far and accurately was the Prussian Mauser. The force of a battalion poured out. The enemy was suddenly suppressed by firepower and could not raise his head.
The commander watched as his comrade beside him was shot three times in the chest. Blood arrows shot out from his back and he fell down on the horse's butt. The tall horse in front was shot in the head and knocked the cavalryman to the ground. With a sound, his thigh was crushed alive.
There were miserable wailings and sad calls for help everywhere. Bullets hit the tree trunks and sawdust flew. Someone's head was smashed, and three drops of gunpowder sprayed on his face.
Even if a fighting nation is warlike by nature, they also know that we are outnumbered and cannot stay for long. "All retreat... We have completed the cover mission! Withdraw, withdraw to the ferry..."
The troops of the two companies only chased for more than two miles and left behind more than 60 corpses. Such losses were completely beyond their expectations. If they didn't run away, they would just wait to be wiped out.
"No, for the sake of God, take me away... take me away..." The soldier who was crushed by the horse screamed, and more wounded soldiers were also begging.
Just as the two company commanders leading the troops hesitated for a moment, they heard the volunteers on the opposite side roar, "Prepare grenades... to blow them up!"
Then more than a dozen smoking iron lumps flew out, boom boom boom... The fire of the explosion left ten more corpses. Now the commander did not dare to hesitate, "Withdraw, withdraw immediately..."
The Rakshasa ghost's cavalry withdrew from the forest, and then the volunteers began to clean the battlefield. Amidst the shouts and curses, the volunteers captured a total of seven prisoners who could still speak.
"Separately interrogate them...I don't believe that all of them are tough!"
Suddenly the forest was filled with screams, and all kinds of torture methods invented by the CIA were used. Some of these unfortunate wounded soldiers cried, screamed, scolded, and begged... Just as Sister Wu said, Not everyone can be tough, and soon the confessions of three prisoners overlapped, indicating that these three people had begun to tell the truth.
The pen rustled on the paper, and everything that had happened along the way from the Tsarist Russian Expeditionary Force's march to Central Asia was in vain. When Sister Wu heard that the 20,000 cavalry were just the vanguard, there were 30,000 cavalry behind them. After rushing over in a hurry, his face turned pale with shock.
"Buddha! Our volunteer army currently only has more than 40,000 people, and the enemy's reinforcements are only 50,000! How can we fight..."
"Damn Heilongjiang General Tepuxin! He actually opened the country's gate and let the enemy take our retreat..."
"Are all the Qing Dynasties pigs? How could they issue such a decree! Luring the wolf into the house! Don't the Chinese have an idiom called false road to destroy Guo? Let the enemy know the trends of mountains, rivers and human geography in your country. Isn't this seeking death... …”
People cursed one after another, but scolding could not solve the problem at all. The problem before everyone now is how to solve it. Time is more precious than gold. Maybe in the next hour of delay, the enemy's subsequent reinforcements will rush through the Songhua River Estuary.
Just as Sister Wu was thinking, suddenly a series of thunderous explosions came from the east, and a few clouds of gunpowder smoke rushed into the sky from the smoke.
"Let's take action! These Qing troops at the ferry are really smart. Sister Wu, you read them right..."
The ferry at Xiaotumen Village was guarding the upper tributary of the Wusuli River. This time, the Kirigakure kid not only left twelve carts of vegetable oil behind but also more than 800 kilograms of black powder for the defenders.
The gunpowder sealed in these jars was hidden under the snow on the ice and could not be seen unless it was close. When the vanguard cavalry troops stepped onto the ice, the soldiers who had been lurking in the snow finally lit the fuse.
Boom boom boom... chain explosions occurred one after another. The dimension here is lower than that of Heilongjiang and the Amur River, and the temperature is several degrees higher. These days, the ice surface is not as solid as it used to be.
The explosion spread cracks on the ice, and the loud crackling sound frightened the cavalrymen to pale, and even the horses realized the danger and retreated desperately.
It was too late. The more than a hundred cavalrymen who first stepped onto the ice had no time to retreat. The ice cracked, and the rolling river water emerged, and the men and horses fell down together.
The water in the river during this month was so cold that it could crack a person's bones. The soldiers struggling in the water saw the water droplets on their hair and eyebrows turning into ice crystals.
The furs and cotton cloaks were soaked in the icy water, and they sank as the soldiers fell. There were people on the shore who came to rescue them, but they never expected that the fallen soldiers would be so strong. Two good men finally pulled a fallen soldier. He even asked him to be taken down the river.
The captain on the shore was dumbfounded. The crack in the entire river was more than three hundred meters wide. Huge ice floes hit back and forth. The soldiers in the book looked at each and every one of them dying.
"Oh God! Qing soldiers actually have such courage? Did I go to the wrong place? Is this still the land of the Qing Dynasty..."
"Bypassing the crossing, we choose another place to cross the river... I can't believe that such a long ice surface can't be just this one road!"
But this really made him right. The river is very wide, but there are not many areas suitable for crossing the river. To be precise, there are very few areas suitable for large groups to cross the river.
It is ten miles upstream and downstream of Xiaotumen Ferry, and both sides are covered with dense forests and rocky hillsides. It is no problem for a small group of cavalry or hunting mountain people, but it will be troublesome for an army of tens of thousands to cross.
If you forcefully cross the river in such a dangerous place, just a few thousand people on the other side can be ambushed to stop them, and not even a single division of your troops can even hope to rush across.
"Damn! I have long said that these Chinese cannot be trusted. Even the trash of the Qing Dynasty cannot be taken lightly... Pass my order. Next time you encounter the Qing defenders, kill them directly and don't trust them!"
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