The erected spikes stabbed hard into the palm of the war horse. The tall and strong Arabian war horse could not withstand such torture. The war horse almost lost its mind in pain, and the knight on the horse was thrown to the ground by them. Before he had time to escape from the seven

When Xun Ba Su woke up, he saw the bowl-sized hooves of the war horse behind him.

The triangular nail was leftover from a game many years ago. Li Hu got an explosive bag. After lighting the fuse, he threw it out with a trebuchet. The explosive bag exploded in the air or on the ground, and the triangular nail was naturally blown away.

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A dense layer was laid on the charging route of the Mamluk cavalry, ensuring that the hoofs of every horse that ran over would be severely pricked.

Joseph didn't know that the Ming army still had this thing. He just saw the horses running by, suddenly jumping and jumping like crazy, and then running rampant, messing up the charging formation of the Mamluk cavalry.

"How could this be?" Joseph rubbed his eyes fiercely, fearing that it was his hallucination.

"It's funny, my brother played with the rest more than ten years ago. It is said that Zhuge Liang invented the iron caltrops during the Three Kingdoms period." Li Hu was very proud. It seemed that these Mamluk cavalry, which were praised to the sky, were no more powerful than the Tatar cavalry.

go.

Joseph didn't know who Zhuge Liang was, but he remembered something called caltrops, and he would have to recommend it to his brother Napoleon after he returned. These days, not only did the Sultan of Egypt have cavalry, but the principalities in Europe also had them.

Traditional cavalry. In countries like Prussia and Poland, the cavalry was once very powerful.

Having no time to pay attention to Joseph, Li Hu looked at the battlefield excitedly. This seemed to be how Li Xiao dealt with the Jurchen cavalry of Houjin when he first established his army on Pidao more than ten years ago.

However, at that time, the men commanded by Li Xiao were still using guns loaded in the front. The accuracy was so bad that many people needed to line up in a row to barely improve the hit rate. Unlike now, the worst soldiers are Daba

grains. Even more ruthless, there are rifles like the Aka 47 that defy heaven.

Before Li Hu could be happy for a long time, he saw the cavalry reining in their horses one after another. This showed real skill. It was difficult for the charging cavalry to stop. If one of them failed, some people would stop and others would stop.

If you continue to run, the team will trample on each other in chaos and you will suffer a lot of casualties. Once the enemy takes the opportunity to attack, the consequences will be disaster.

I don’t know how the Mamluk cavalry did it. The charging formation of thousands of cavalry actually stopped in an instant. What Li Hu and the others didn’t expect was that after a short gathering, these cavalry actually divided into two waves.

The left and right wings surround it in a pincer shape.

"Holy shit!" Li Hu said an exclamatory particle.

"What are you doing standing still? Throw gunpowder packets to the left and right wings respectively." Li Hu kicked the messenger next to him, and the guy immediately ran to the side of the trebuchet as if he had an arrow in his butt.

The trebuchets also turned their directions and threw gunpowder packets on the left and right wings.

There was another burst of smoke in front of the two wing formations, but this time, the Mamluk cavalry learned the lesson. Before they entered the triangular spike area, they reined in their horses and stopped moving forward.

"Mortar, aim at the cavalry group on the left, fire three consecutive salvos." Li Hu accurately grasped the battlefield situation, and now he was going to take advantage of this short pause to break off one of the pliers on both sides. Even if it keeps breaking, it will still be broken.

You have to inflict heavy damage.

The people who controlled the mortars were all veteran gunners who fed the shells. After hearing Li Hu's order, they immediately adjusted the angle of the mortars. These old guys fired shells with terrifying accuracy within a thousand meters.

Almost all the artillery shells landed in the crowd and exploded. Before the smoke dispersed, gunpowder smoke spread. The smoke enveloped the entire left wing cavalry. The reason why Li Hu chose to attack the left wing first was because he had just seen that the cavalry on the left wing seemed to be stronger than the right wing cavalry.

There are many people.

He couldn't see the miserable situation of the Mamluk cavalry in the thick smoke, but Li Hu was very confident in the power of the mortar. Even Hou Jin's heavy armored cavalry couldn't bear it, let alone these Mamluk cavalry.

Three rounds were fired in succession, but no one came out of the smoke. The mortar quickly turned its muzzle, preparing to deal with the right-wing cavalry. As a result... the fox took a look at the cunning right-wing cavalry and actually... retreated.

This time it was Li Hu's turn to not be calm. He could quickly judge the situation during the attack and then make a decision quickly. And he didn't know how they conveyed the order. Thousands of people could do it in an orderly manner, which was incredible.

Damn it's scary. How are these cavalry trained? No wonder Joseph is so afraid of the Mamluk cavalry. These guys really have two skills.

The cavalry retreated, revealing the infantry following behind. The infantry were very numerous, rushing over like densely packed ants.

Thanks to the British, all the infantrymen under the Sultan of Kudu were armed with muzzle-loaded flintlock rifles. It is estimated that the British also had a lot of stocks, and they deceived the Egyptian Sultan and sold these stocks of "advanced weapons" for real money.

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The Sudanese soldiers shouted, held their flintlock guns high and howled as they charged.

Li Hu felt that these guys were just idiots. Running was a strenuous exercise that required more oxygen support. These heartless things were shouting like crazy while running, and they were not afraid of shouting.

After rushing within 300 meters, the Sudanese soldiers started firing guns randomly.

Li Hu felt bullets whistling and flying past fifty or sixty meters away. These unscrupulous things didn't aim at all, they almost fired with gestures. Moreover, they were running and firing at the same time, three hundred meters away. The muzzle of the gun was different.

Just one inch, and it would take dozens of meters to reach Li Hu.

No one on Li Hu's side fired. They all lay down in the trench, staring at the approaching Egyptians through the gaps in their sights.

The French soldiers seemed to be affected by them, and they all looked nervously at the rushing Egyptian soldiers.

The men rushed closer and closer, and soon occupied the 200-meter marking line. But Li Hu had not yet issued the shooting order!

"We are very close, give the order to shoot." Joseph swallowed hard.

"You have to go at least 150 meters before you can shoot. At this distance, a person's head is about the same size as a match head, and the bullets are not accurate." Li Hu didn't want to waste ammunition. After all, he didn't know how many people he would face after today.

The enemy needs to send people back to Singapore to supply ammunition.

"Okay!" Joseph's heart was in his throat, and he felt like his heart was going to pop out of his chest.

Finally, the Egyptians crossed the 150-meter ranging line. Before Li Hu could give the order, a ball of fire came out of the muzzle of a French soldier. Then, the French soldiers seemed to let go

He shot out the bullets from his gun like a firecracker.

They were also holding flintlock rifles. After firing a shot, they quickly loaded the bullets.

Few of the Egyptians on the opposite side fell, and the gunshots did not seem to scare them. The Egyptians continued to charge while firing guns.

When the Egyptians' footsteps crossed the 100-meter ranging line, Li Hu shouted loudly: "Shoot!"

Suddenly, there was a burst of gunfire from the Ming army's position. The domineering sound of the Akha 47 rifles spread far away, and the scorching bullets accurately passed through the bodies of the Egyptian soldiers.

The bullets with rifling marks were sent into their bodies by the huge inertial kinetic energy. The bullets quickly rolled and reversed inside the human body, cutting the muscles and crushing the bones. They were shot from the chest, and then carried a bullet from the back.

Large clumps of muscle, broken bones, and heart fragments flew out.

If the guy behind him is unlucky, the bullet may be shot into his body. However, since the kinetic energy has been released, the bullet will almost always stay in their body and will not penetrate out. This is almost equivalent to sentencing them to death.

There was no surgery in Egypt these days.

Joseph looked at the hit rate of these Aka 47 rifles in surprise, and they were also firing continuously. One such rifle could suppress ten flintlock muskets without any problem.

At this time, the trebuchet also began to throw explosive packets.

A ten kilogram package of explosives is wrapped with a layer of steel balls. After it is lit and thrown out, when the explosive package explodes, you can even see a white barrage visible to the naked eye! As long as this thing explodes in the crowd, it will blow up.

A large group of people. The power seems to be more powerful than mortar shells.

All the people near the explosion point were smashed into pieces by steel balls like bullets. When the French soldiers opened fire just now, only a dozen of the Egyptians fell. Now Li Hu gave an order, and in just a few seconds,

, the Egyptians who were charging in front were shot down by bullets.

But what puzzled Joseph was that the mortars were not fired. The artillerymen all looked at the battle as if they were watching the fun.

The Ming army and the French army brought by Joseph all stood in the trenches and fired. The exposed area was reduced a lot. The gunfire on the Egyptian side was as loud as fried beans, but there were only a dozen mercenaries and French soldiers here.

Wounded by a stray bullet.

Not even one of the Ming troops wearing steel hats was injured.

Joseph never dreamed that a thousand men against tens of thousands of people could achieve such an effect without using artillery.

The Akha 47 rifle continued to fire, and a soldier emptied the magazine. When he pressed the spring, the magazine automatically fell off the Akha 47 rifle. Then the Ming soldier took out another magazine from his body, "Click.

"After installing it with a sound, pull the bolt and continue shooting.

The continuous firepower caused the Egyptians to suffer a lot. At a distance of one hundred meters, almost every time a gunshot was fired from the Ming army, someone would fall to the ground. The most shocking thing was that those

The trebuchet, which looks inconspicuous and even looks down upon, can actually play such a big role. Now that we have this thing, why the hell do we need cannons for it.

The combat efficiency displayed by the Ming army made Joseph sigh with admiration. Suddenly he was shocked again. The British could compete with the Ming Dynasty. In other words, the combat efficiency of the British was not much different from that of the Ming army.

Britain and France are feuding overt and covert enemies. The two countries fought a war that lasted for hundreds of years. Although there were occasional cooperation between the two countries after that, in the hearts of the two countries, they both regarded each other as a thorn in their side.

If Britain freed up its hands to attack France..., Joseph did not dare to think about it anymore.

For the sake of France, the Ming Dynasty must be preserved. Only the Ming Dynasty can guarantee that France will not be invaded by the British.

"Master Hu! Look over there...!" The signal soldier next to Li Hu suddenly pointed behind him and shouted.

When Joseph turned around, his soul almost flew out of his body. There was a huge cloud of smoke and dust behind him, and the sound of horse hooves was rolling against the ground like muffled thunder. From the sound, it was clear that these guys were undoubtedly heavy cavalry.

"Fuck!" The exclamation particle floated out of Li Hu's mouth again.

These Mamluk cavalry were not afraid to go far away and launched a charge from behind Li Hu. It seemed that these bastards planned to use infantry to attract the attention of the Ming army from the front, and then the Mamluk cavalry inserted themselves in from behind like steel knives.

If this sword really penetrated, it would be fatal to the Ming army.

The Mamluk cavalry were charging, and suddenly there were explosions one after another in the cavalry team. You can see that some Mamluk cavalry were lifted up by the blast of air, including their men and their horses.

Shrapnel flew everywhere, and the heavy armor of the Mamluks could not resist the broken steel balls and various shrapnel.

"This is...!" Joseph didn't see anyone firing the cannons. He didn't understand why the charging Mamluk cavalry exploded.

"This is a landmine. It is best used against infantry, but not so good against cavalry. However, the Egyptians' formation is so dense, and the effect after the explosion is also very good." Li Hu held a telescope and looked at Mamulu, who was knocked upside down by the explosion.

Kill the cavalry.

These people were indeed fierce enough. After suffering heavy casualties, they actually rushed through the minefield. I don't know how many corpses were left behind. Anyway, the place that was just regarded as a battlefield has become a Shura slaughterhouse.

Of course Li Hu would not let them continue to charge forward. If that were the case, he, Li Hu, would have been eaten to pieces by Napoleon.

"Mortars and grenade launchers are ready." Li Hu knew that there was another artifact called a grenade launcher in the Ming Dynasty's arsenal.

"Let go! Following Li Hu's order, the mortar master immediately turned its muzzle, preparing to take maximum advantage against the Mamluk cavalry.

After a series of explosions, all shops within a radius of 800 miles were damaged. Some of them were because there was no intention to put meat or anything in the bombs.

The Mamluk cavalry in the attack were not afraid of death. They risked their lives to overthrow Li Hu in the charge! Li Hu was not idle here. There was no one in front, so he immediately transferred his firepower to the rear.

On the front, the people who had been attacking Li Hu just now were already lying on the spot. The corpses were piled on top of each other.
Chapter completed!