Armored vehicles were driving in the wilderness. Although they were not four-wheel-drive off-road vehicles, they drove fairly smoothly in the fields. Even if there were hedges, they could easily hit them.
According to Zhu Sihai's plan, a battalion took the initiative to attack and set up ambush positions on the only route of the Prussian army. His reason was very simple, which was to use a battalion's motor vehicles as fixed turrets and set up an ambush to actively attack and attract the Prussians.
Note that while their attention was drawn, he led three more battalions to attack from their flanks.
The target of the ambush was those Prussian soldiers, launching a surprise attack without them being prepared to create chaos, and then they would kill them and fish in troubled waters.
In fact, if possible, they would prefer to fight on the Pampas, where there is no cover and armored vehicles can turn into cavalry and attack enemy troops at will. But in northern France, there are hedges and villages everywhere.
Obstacles seriously affected the mobility of the troops.
In fact, the 1st Cavalry Brigade is itself a gun-mounted unit, and now the gun-mounted units have been transformed into armored vehicles, which are more maneuverable and have more intense firepower.
"Sir, the Prussians are coming."
Although he didn't use a telescope, machine gunner Liang Chengwu still saw the dust raised by the Prussians' mighty troops, which was very conspicuous.
"Watch the signal!"
Zhao Quande's fifth company was placed on the westernmost side of the ambush position, which was the direction from which the Prussian army came. His ambush position was placed in a woods two kilometers away from the village, which was a must-pass for the Prussians.
The trees on the road side of this forest are very lush, and there are also several bushes. This is a natural ambush position. They can clearly observe everything on the road, but the troops marching on the road cannot detect them at all.
The presence.
Moreover, their armored vehicles were camouflaged. Even if a Prussian reconnaissance ranger passed by, they would not notice these haystacks. Who would notice a few haystacks?
ambush……
To ambush tens of thousands of troops, at least a few divisions must be deployed!
"Pay attention to concealment and let them pass."
Zhao Quande, holding a telescope, looked towards the road.
The Prussian army had already appeared in his sight. At the front was a group of vanguard soldiers. They were searching around and advancing quickly. The Prussians also sent cavalry troops on both sides, but they obviously did not expect that in those fields
The haystacks are the enemy, and most of their attention is now on the air. After all, for the Prussian people, the thing that scares them most is the airship.
No one has any interest in these haystacks. It has nothing to do with luck. To put it bluntly, it is still conceited. Who would have thought that a mere dozen armored vehicles would dare to challenge the Prussian army of tens of thousands?
Behind the outposts were large groups of infantry, marching neatly in marching columns. Many Prussians and even Schneider discovered that there were many horse-drawn carriages and artillery carriages in this army, and the mighty troops crowded the entire road.
The dust raised by the people and horses even blocked their sight.
Prussian soldiers wearing Prussian blue uniforms and pointed helmets gathered into a long blue dragon and marched on the road. The cavalry troops were on alert on both sides of the road, and they marched on both sides of the infantry at a slow pace.
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This is a typical marching column of cavalry escorting the infantry. For the marching column, the biggest threat is the enemy's cavalry. On Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, the French army that lost the protection of cavalry was hit hard by the Cossack cavalry again and again.
With the cavalry escort, when the enemy cavalry makes a sneak attack with mobility, the cavalry on both wings can directly engage and prevent them from attacking the infantry.
The Prussians marched very fast, which was also the biggest advantage of the Prussian army in many wars in the past. Through fast marching, they detoured back to the enemy's rear many times and surrounded the enemy. This relied on far superior strength than other countries.
With their marching speed, they won every battle.
This blue infantry unit appeared in Zhao Quande's field of vision in a mighty manner. Looking at the dusty troops, his eyes burst with the desire for battle.
Perhaps because the forward troops passed safely, this troops had no vigilance at all. They just marched on the road in a swagger without anyone realizing that the danger had come.
"aim!"
Following Zhao Quande's order.
The machine gunner immediately raised the tail of the Gatling gun. He looked at the Prussian army in front of him and swallowed his saliva. As long as he fired a round with Gatling, he could kill at least hundreds of Prussian soldiers. Their marching column was really
It's so dense that one bullet can penetrate one and then another.
"call!"
Taking a deep breath, Liang Chengwu tried hard to suppress the desire to fire in his heart. He was waiting for the order. A good hunter would never destroy their carefully prepared trap.
In fact, the eighteen armored vehicles were scattered on a long front of nearly two kilometers on the left side of the road. This was the reason why the Prussians did not discover them. They were just haystacks common in the French countryside.
After almost a few more minutes, when the enemy's front line was about to disappear from sight, suddenly, a burst of gunfire was heard in the distance.
"Fire!"
Without the company commander's order, Liang Chengwu pressed the button, and the motor ran idling for nearly a breath, when suddenly a gunshot rang out.
"Zi..."
The sound of the gun is like the sound of cloth being torn apart. This is because its rate of fire is too fast. The rate of fire of 2400 rounds makes the gunshots sound almost continuous.
The moment Liang Chengwu pressed the button, hundreds of rounds of 7.5mm machine gun bullets flew toward the Prussian column like raindrops, accompanied by the sound of gunfire as the cloth was torn apart.
The 7.5mm machine gun bullet is completely different from the rifle bullet. It uses a pointed cone bottom copper unarmored bullet. The bullet is heavier, has a longer range, and is more lethal. These bullets weighing 13 grams roar out.
When they came, the marching Prussians didn't even react and fell into a dense rain of bullets. When the heavy-pointed bullets penetrated people's bodies, they would not only break their bones and internal organs, but even drag them out.
There were chunks of flesh and blood, but in just a moment, the road was shrouded in a red mist.
Accompanied by the dense "swish" sound in the air, a small storm seemed to blow on the dusty road. From time to time, smoke and dust several inches high were raised on the dirt road. The dust hit by the bullets mixed with the red blood mist.
Together, they reflect the dazzling light in the sun.
The cavalry on the flanks didn't even have time to gallop, but the horses were hit by bullets in their stomachs. Amidst the screams of the horses, both men and horses fell to the ground.
"There's an ambush!"
When the soldiers continued to fall in the hail of bullets, Engel rode his horse, clamped his legs under the horse's belly, pointed in the direction of the gunfire and shouted.
"Buhe, the enemy is there, rush over with me!"
After that, he took the lead and rode towards the direction where the gunfire came from. Although there were shrubs and tree weeds blocking the road, the Hanoverian horse they dismounted could easily jump over the tree weeds and charge towards the enemy.