Iron Dynasty Chapter 990

“What is that sound?”

In the barbarian camp, Pang Duo and a group of banner heads suddenly looked up, and their gazes were all directed at the Great Yu Empire’s camp to the east. At this time, they were discussing how to encircle and annihilate the Great Yu Empire’s cavalry.

With the arrival of 160,000 cavalry, 200,000 slave soldiers, and four to five hundred thousand tribesmen, Pang Duo was becoming more and more confident.

He believed that even with a human sea, he could level the Great Yu Empire’s camp.

“It sounds like the Great Yu Empire’s firecrackers,” a banner head said. “A Great Yu Empire merchant once gave me something like this, and the sound is very similar. Usually, they only set off firecrackers when they are celebrating.”

The expressions of the other banner heads softened, and Pang Duo laughed, “It’s more like they are celebrating that they are about to die.”

“Hahaha…” The generals burst into laughter.

After a pause, Pang Duo said, “Now that all our cavalry are in place, we cannot wait any longer. The Great Yu Empire has sufficient food supplies, and they can continue to wait, but our cattle and sheep cannot go without eating grass. If we keep waiting, we will starve, so we will launch an attack early tomorrow morning.”

Bahe, Wotai, and the other banner heads all nodded. They even drove cattle and sheep as food on their way here. Now, with so many people gathered here, a huge number of cattle and sheep were needed, but if they stayed in this place, the young cattle and sheep would quickly eat all the surrounding grass.

Tomorrow, they would officially have a decisive battle with the Great Yu Empire.

The night was silent.

The next day, accompanied by the unique sound of the barbarian bugle, Niu Ben ordered the soldiers to quickly enter the trenches. Just as they had thought, the barbarians could no longer hold back and launched an attack first.

In the current situation, the barbarians’ supply was a major problem, so after losing the initial advantage, he was no longer in a hurry and slowly waited for the machine gun company to arrive.

“The same old trick, they haven’t made any progress at all,” Luo Quan said, with his hands on his hips. His gaze was fixed on the machine guns on the trench position. These killing machines would show their terror for the first time in a war.

Niu Ben nodded slightly, and then he made a gesture to the artillery position.

In this campaign, they brought 150 Imperial Guard artillery pieces. These artillery pieces were placed on a relatively high hill, from which they could see the entire battlefield.

Under his command, the artillerymen immediately opened the ammunition boxes in front of the artillery. One soldier pulled out the breechblock, another soldier put a conical shell into the breech from the back, and a third soldier put in the propellant. After the ammunition was loaded, the first soldier closed the breechblock again. At this time, the fourth soldier pulled the lanyard, and with a “boom,” a shell flew directly towards the densely charging barbarian slave soldiers.

“Boom boom boom…”

After the first shell landed, a series of shells landed in the charging crowd.

These shells exploded as soon as they landed. The surrounding barbarian slave soldiers were blown away by the shockwaves of the explosions, and the soldiers at the center of the explosions were completely dismembered.

“Boom boom boom…”

In the first round of artillery fire, more than six hundred barbarian slave soldiers died. The second round of artillery fire rang out again after a ten-second interval.

Barbarian camp.

Pang Duo and the banner heads could only watch helplessly as the slave soldiers were tragically killed by the artillery fire. The Great Yu Empire’s artillery position was in the camp, and if they wanted to destroy the artillery, they had to break through the trenches.

However, he did not feel any heartache for the deaths of the slave soldiers, because in their eyes, slaves were not human at all. What did it matter if they all died as long as they could win?

Anyway, as long as they won, there would be plenty of slaves in the Great Yu Empire, and they could go and capture them as they pleased.

The other banner heads basically had the same idea as Pang Duo. They quietly watched as the slave soldiers were driven to charge at the Great Yu Empire’s position. They hoped that these slave soldiers could exhaust the Great Yu Empire’s bullets and that the corpses of these barbarian slave soldiers could fill the Great Yu Empire’s trenches.

“These artillery pieces are more powerful and have a faster rate of fire,” Pang Duo concluded after observing.

Bahe’s eyes showed a hint of greed. “If we win this battle, all these artillery pieces will be ours.”

“Hehe, let’s all share these treasures,” Wotai was not to be outdone. Their cavalry had already assembled and were waiting for the slave soldiers to fill the trenches for them.

While they were thinking, a dense “bang bang bang” suddenly rang out, and Pang Duo was confused. This was the same sound they had heard yesterday.

The sound was now coming from the Changping-style machine guns.

The distance between the trenches of the two armies was actually less than three hundred meters. The barbarian slave soldiers quickly entered their firing range.

Facing the overwhelming wave of people, the Great Yu Empire’s soldiers began to counterattack. With so many people, they could not kill all of them even if they fought for a whole day. Although they had superior weapons, they were also under great pressure.

However, the arrival of the machine guns seemed to have solved this problem. At this moment, all thirty machine guns were firing at full force. The continuous tongues of fire swept towards the charging barbarian cavalry. With the addition of the soldiers’ shooting, the barbarian slave soldiers fell down in rows. The charging army seemed to be blocked by a torrent of bullets, and the corpses piled higher and higher at the boundary.

Under such fierce firepower, the hearts of the charging barbarian slave soldiers were gradually filled with fear. They had never seen a weapon that could kill so effectively.

Even though they charged forward with all their might, all they became was another cold corpse under this weapon.

As the small mountain of corpses grew higher, the despair in the hearts of the barbarian slave soldiers finally erupted. “Run!” someone in the crowd shouted, and the charging slave soldiers began to scatter.

Now, even if they were killed by the barbarians, they would not be willing to die in the artillery fire and rain of bullets.

Niu Ben and Luo Quan were also shocked by this scene. The thirty machine guns consumed 18,000 bullets per minute. From the time the barbarians charged until a mountain of corpses was piled up, they had been shooting continuously for an hour. Even if they only fired half the amount per minute, they had now consumed more than 300,000 bullets. According to Sun Changce, the Maxim could shoot continuously for four hours.

However, he obviously did not need four hours now, because in just one hour, at least 60,000 corpses were left on the grassland forever. Although the Falcon rifles also contributed, the machine guns were responsible for the majority of the casualties. After all, he could not put all the soldiers in the first row of trenches, so the infantry’s contribution was limited.

Luo Quan’s body trembled slightly. The barbarians’ outdated dense charge was simply asking for death in front of the machine gun. Looking at the densely packed corpses covering the grassland, he could not help but feel a chill in his heart.

What a terrifying monster Song Changping had created.

Compared to the shock of Niu Ben and the others, Pang Duo and the barbarian generals felt only fear. It was the first time they had seen the slave soldiers run back like crazy and vent their anger on them.