The Rhapsody of Mounted Blade Players

Through the gap in the city wall in front of him, He Cheng could vaguely see the enemy cavalry running back and forth outside the city. Unfortunately, the sky was starting to get dark at this time, so he could not see clearly how many enemies there were. All I could hear was the sound of horse hooves coming in and out.

"Flare!"

As an officer yelled, a flare was fired. As the flare continued to glow as it fell from the sky, the situation of the enemy cavalry could be roughly seen clearly.

"Just a few hundred cavalry! Fire for me and repel them!"

Seeing that there were not many enemy cavalry, He Cheng's company commander immediately ordered.

So He Cheng and the others leaned out from the gap in the city wall and opened fire at the enemy cavalry outside. Even their company's only heavy machine gun was moved over and joined the battle.

Compared with He Cheng's single-shot rifles that require re-pulling the bolt to reload after firing a shot, the rate of fire of this machine gun is much faster. In a burst of gunfire, the bullets fired are It was like a flaming whip that swept towards the enemy cavalry. No matter how fast they ran, it was difficult to avoid the machine gun fire.

Unfortunately, it is precisely because these machine guns fire so fast that there are not many of them in the army. Otherwise, the bullets from this machine gun alone would probably have to be loaded on dozens of vehicles to barely be enough.

Just as He Cheng fired a bullet, someone from the cavalry on the opposite side shot an arrow at him. Fortunately, the steel plate armor on his body was strong enough. The arrow hit his chest and only spattered a few sparks before he was killed. Bounced open.

Perhaps they also found that it was difficult to defeat the Qinglong Empire soldiers with their unprofessional long-range attack methods, so after dozens of cavalry were shot and killed, the enemy cavalry quickly retreated.

Because the sky was getting darker and darker, after repelling the enemy cavalry, in order to avoid being ambushed by the enemy at night, the superiors did not order a pursuit. Instead, He Cheng and the other soldiers were asked to go back and rest.

So He Cheng and the others quickly returned to the fire and continued to eat dinner while warming themselves up.

After eating and drinking, He Cheng prepared to sleep.

As a result, they had just finished cleaning up a private house in the city, and the sound of horse hooves came to their ears again.

At this time, the sky had completely darkened and the temperature had become even lower. He Cheng and the others did not expect that the enemy would attack again at this time.

However, Ye Tianlong felt that the enemy should have specially chosen this time to launch an attack.

During the exploratory attack in the evening, the enemy should have tested out the updated version of their own firearms, and the firepower was stronger than before.

Therefore, in order to weaken our own firepower advantage as much as possible, we deliberately chose to launch the attack again after the night had completely darkened.

In this case, even if one's own side can continuously launch flares for illumination, the soldiers' vision will definitely not be as clear as during the day, which will give the other party an opportunity to get close to one's own soldiers.

If Ye Tianlong guessed correctly, the opponent would definitely send a lot of troops this time, and they would not send out only a few hundred people like the last exploratory attack.

Facts have proved that Ye Tianlong's guess was correct. The enemy sent tens of thousands of troops this time, including cavalry, many infantry and crossbowmen, and even some firearms soldiers equipped with muskets and artillery.

However, the Kingdom of Swadia has obviously not made great progress in firearms like Ye Tianlong. It still uses the same matchlocks as before. Not only are the range and accuracy of these matchlocks far inferior to the rifles of the Qinglong Empire soldiers, but they are also less lethal. Many of them, unless they hit the weak points of the armor, will not be able to penetrate the steel plate armor of the Qinglong Empire soldiers.

Under the leadership of the company commander, He Cheng came to a defensive position that the engineers had built not long ago with soil and gravel. He lay down behind the low mound, held the rifle in both hands, and stuck his head out to observe. Enemy situation.

As a result, he found that there were so many enemies coming this time. They were all over the mountains and plains, and he didn't know which one to fight first.

But soon, the sound of gunfire made him recover from the shock, and then he quickly locked on an enemy soldier closest to their defense line and pulled the trigger of the rifle.

Unfortunately, due to poor visibility at night, He Cheng's shot missed, so he could only pull the bolt, quickly reload the ammunition, and aim at the enemy again.

This time, He Cheng did not fire immediately. Instead, he first observed the enemy's route and predicted the enemy's possible next direction before pulling the trigger again.

After the bang of the gunshot, the enemy's body suddenly staggered, and even the two-handed sword in his hand fell to the ground.

Just when He Cheng thought he had successfully shot the enemy, the opponent quickly stabilized his figure, then picked up the two-handed sword from the ground again, and continued to rush towards He Cheng and his team's defense line. .

After He Cheng saw this scene, he was slightly stunned and quickly realized that these should be the demonized and lycanthropic warriors that the instructors had mentioned to them. These guys' vitality was far more powerful than ordinary human soldiers.

After knowing that the opponent might be a monster like a demon or a lycanthrope, He Cheng specifically aimed at the opponent's head this time. After all, even those demon and lycanthrope warriors, as long as their strength did not break through to the second level, , the head is still the key point, if the head is hit, there is a high probability that you will die.

After another gunshot, the enemy's helmet was blown away by He Cheng's shot, and half of his Tianling Cap was shattered by the powerful rifle bullet. He Cheng could see the opponent's face from a distance. Brains splashed out from the wound.

This shot obviously caused serious damage to the enemy. The opponent's tall figure shook and then fell heavily to the ground. Although he twitched a few times from time to time, he was obviously unable to stand up again and charge.

Company Commander Dong Lian, who happened to see He Cheng's outstanding performance from the side, immediately patted He Cheng on the shoulder and praised: "You are really good! This is your first time on the battlefield. You calmed down so quickly and spent the training." The excellent marksmanship you have developed has come into full play! I think you have the talent to become a sniper!"

Facing the company commander's praise, He Cheng seemed a little embarrassed, but then he secretly observed other comrades in arms and found that the performance of the recruits in the same period as him seemed to be far inferior to his own, and some even hid behind the earthen wall. Behind him, he stuck his rifle out of the earthen wall and fired randomly without looking, as if he was afraid of being hit by the enemy's long-range firepower.

But in fact, according to He Cheng's observation, most of the enemy's long-range weapons such as crossbows and crossbows are unable to break through the steel plate armor on them. Only weapons such as matchlocks and some heavy javelins can break through the defense, but the matchlocks here The number of guns is small, the accuracy is poor, and the chance of being hit is also very small. Another type of heavy javelin has a range of less than a hundred meters. Almost no enemy can successfully rush within a hundred meters in the face of its own powerful firepower.

Therefore, those soldiers who were hiding behind the earthen wall and did not dare to poke their heads out to aim and shoot were simply a bit unfounded.

Fortunately, in addition to these new recruits, there are some veterans in each company, and the heavy machine guns are all controlled by veterans. Under the ferocious firepower of the heavy machine guns, enemy soldiers fell in pieces.

In addition, there are artillerymen further behind who are constantly firing artillery shells at the enemies emerging from the night. Although the accuracy has dropped a lot due to poor light at night, when enough artillery shells are fired continuously Under the bombing, nearly half of the enemy was killed directly. He Cheng and the infantry only had to deal with the remaining half.

Ye Tianlong was also on one of the artillery positions at this time, commanding several heavy artillery beside him, focusing on attacking the enemy's cavalry units.

After all, he also knew that this time there were many recruits without any combat experience among the troops under his command, and the cavalry was a great deterrent to the recruits.

Therefore, in order to prevent the new recruits from being frightened and collapsed when faced with the charge of the enemy's heavy cavalry, Ye Tianlong specially ordered the artillery to focus fire on the enemy's cavalry.

Under the bombardment of these heavy artillery, the enemy's cavalry indeed suffered heavy losses. The few remaining cavalry were unable to form an astonishing group charge, and most of them were shot dead by heavy machine guns afterwards, and they did not rush to our own defense line at all. Opportunities before you.

Ye Tianlong observed with a telescope and found that after the enemy cavalry was almost wiped out, although the remaining infantry continued to charge without fear of death, the thick snow caused the infantry to charge. The speed was not fast at all, and the veterans under his command basically used rifles and grenades to deal with them before they rushed to the position.

But just when Ye Tianlong felt that the overall situation was decided, a scream suddenly came from behind. Ye Tianlong turned around and saw that a group of enemies had appeared in the central square of Fort Dechio at some unknown time. His own soldiers were caught off guard and were attacked from behind by these guys, causing some confusion.

After handing over the command of the front line to Luo Chenguang, Ye Tianlong quickly rushed to the rear with his brow-tip knife in hand, preparing to direct the soldiers there to eliminate the enemies emerging from the central square.

As the distance got closer, Ye Tianlong could already see the appearance of several enemies clearly. He found that those enemies had many characteristics of rat creatures, and rats were very talented in digging holes.

This also allowed Ye Tianlong to quickly understand that the enemy should have dug a tunnel and appeared there to attack his own rear. He just didn't know if there were second-level masters among the enemies who came through the tunnel. If there were, he would still be very powerful based on his strength. Difficult to fight.

However, Ye Tianlong also noticed that masters such as Shi Wengong, Lin Chong and Yang Zhi were also rushing here. If there were any second-level masters, he would avoid them and leave them to his generals to deal with them.

At this time, Ye Tianlong had already rushed to an enemy not far away. The lycanthropic soldier had a mouse head, and a pair of well-developed incisors in his mouth were so long that his lips were protruding. He looked slightly yellow and very... nausea.

At this time, the opponent was holding a two-handed scimitar and was about to chop down one of his own soldiers who was responsible for carrying ammunition.

When the soldier saw this, he wanted to drop the heavy ammunition box on his body to defend himself. Unfortunately, the enemy moved too fast. Before he could drop the ammunition box, the machete almost hit his neck.