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bang bang bang-

The distinctive firing sound of the Garand rifle echoed continuously outside the Wu Zhao army camp.

The intense firepower kept the defending officers and soldiers inside the camp from even raising their heads.

The wooden fortress fence was battered by a hail of bullets, sending up layers of wood chips.

The Wu Zhao soldiers, hiding behind the fence, gritted their teeth, waiting for the Chu army to get close and engage in battle.

However, the Chu soldiers fired their rifles from a distance of more than an arrow's length away, showing no intention of taking the main camp any closer.

Moreover, of the 7,000 men in the two brigades, only about 1,000 were firing on the front lines, while the remaining 6,000 soldiers were setting up trench defenses in the rear.

"Quickly, set up the machine gun positions!"

"The trenches don't need to be too deep, just knee-deep, and they don't need to be connected in a continuous line."

"Hurry up and put up the barbed wire."

Meng Gong urged his soldiers to quickly set up a defensive line, not rushing to attack the city, in order to guard against the approach of the enemy's iron cavalry.

For ease of marching, no heavy firepower was brought on this expedition; only eight individual mortars and twenty-two light and heavy machine guns were used.

Without setting up appropriate defensive lines, the two brigades, with their current firepower, would inevitably suffer considerable casualties facing a massed charge of over a thousand cavalrymen.

Relying on battlefield fortifications and leveraging firepower to expand victories has always been Meng Gong's forte.

Now, we will use a regiment to lure the enemy's main force out for a decisive battle, and then annihilate them all.

This was Meng Gong's tactical objective.

Amidst the hail of bullets, the previously tightly closed gates of the military camp were finally opened.

"Brothers, let's fight our way out!"

"Kill!"

With a roar, Na Lai Shun led two thousand elite cavalrymen in a charge.

bang bang bang-

As soon as the vanguard cavalrymen stepped out of the camp gate, they were met with intense fire from the Chu army, and in the blink of an eye, more than a dozen riders fell.

These elite warriors of Wuzhao, who had cultivated for over a decade or two, were pitifully unable to withstand the roaring flames of the Gatling gun, despite their protective aura and heavy armor. They fell on the battlefield, horse and all.

"Retreat in an orderly manner!"

Wang Geng, the Chu army commander in charge of luring the enemy, decisively ordered a retreat while fighting, heading towards the rear defensive fortifications after seeing the enemy cavalry move out.

"Brothers, charge! Crush them!"

Na Lai Shun let out a loud roar, pushed aside the corpses of his comrades on the ground, and was the first to rush out of the camp.

The sound of bullets whizzing past my ears was constant.

Wailing cries echoed from both sides.

The two armies were three hundred paces apart; one side was retreating, and the other was pursuing.

However, the pursuing side suffered repeated defeats, while the retreating side maintained an orderly formation, occasionally turning back to fire a shot.

When the two armies were about 200 paces apart, at least 300 officers and soldiers of the military camp fell on the battlefield.

"Ah~"

As one of the soldiers saw his sworn brother fall from his horse with a spray of blood on his head, he let out a wild roar.

He then took out his carved bow and fired an arrow with all his might.

The arrow landed directly at the feet of a Chu soldier.

The soldier glanced at it, then raised his hand and fired a shot.

Bang~

puff~

After a gunshot, the crazed cavalryman was shot through the cheek and fell backward off his horse.

"Damn it, I was almost scared out of my wits. I'll shoot him dead, ptooey."

After glancing at the results of the battle, the soldiers decisively turned and retreated.

"Charge! Show no mercy! Kill them all!"

Na Lai Shun roared loudly, constantly whipping his warhorse to boost morale.

But when the two armies were less than a hundred paces apart, the Chu infantry, who had been retreating in the front, suddenly turned around and fired all the bullets in their guns at the cavalry.

Caught off guard, the vanguard cavalry, who were charging with all their might, were all shot off their horses, except for a few who reacted exceptionally quickly.

"spread!"

After emptying the magazine, Wang Geng gave the order.

All the Chu soldiers immediately retreated to the flanks.

"Give me……"

Just as Na Lai Shun was about to continue roaring, his heart sank when he saw the Chu army disperse and the rows of barbed wire.

"Oh no, we've fallen into a trap! Retreat immediately!"

Unfortunately, his reminder came far too late.

"shooting!"

Almost simultaneously, Meng Gong gave an order.

Da da da da da——

The roar of light and heavy machine guns instantly filled the battlefield.

In an instant, clouds of blood mist erupted from the charging Wu Ying troops.

Accompanied by the mournful neighing of men and horses, hundreds of people fell into pools of blood in an instant.

"Flanking maneuver, engage!"

Meng Gong gave another order, and two heavy machine guns, along with rifles, which were lying in ambush on the flanks, began to fire wildly at the unsuspecting cavalry.

In an instant, the battlefield was a scene of chaos and devastation.

The concentrated fire from the machine guns on the left flank, in particular, is more lethal than that from the front.

"Ah~"

Relying on his protective inner strength, Na Lai Shun braved the hail of bullets and rushed to the barbed wire fence, raising his long sword and forcefully slashing down.

In an instant, the barbed wire was neatly sliced ​​in two.

However, the destruction of a single barbed wire fence could not alter the overall situation on the battlefield.

When Na Lai Shun looked up, what appeared before him was yet another array of iron nets, and despair immediately filled his eyes.

Just then, a cavalry unit crashed directly into the iron net formation.

The sharp spikes on the barbed wire, along with the wire's own toughness, quickly entangled all the warhorses, leaving them unable to escape.

"Hit me!"

The Chu troops at each position immediately launched a one-sided attack on these cavalrymen who had walked right into their trap.

"You scoundrel! You scoundrel!"

Seeing his soldiers fall one by one, and knowing there was no hope of escape, Na Laishun cursed the Chu army's position without restraint.

"Do you dare to fight me fair and square for three hundred rounds?"

"What kind of hero relies on these strange and ingenious skills!"

"I refuse to accept this! I refuse to accept this!"

"Your Majesty, this servant has failed to live up to Your Majesty's grace."

The next moment, a dense hail of bullets rained down on him, turning him into a sieve in the blink of an eye.

"Cease fire! Clean up the battlefield."

"The Third Regiment will continue to approach the enemy camp and keep a close watch on them."

After the last cavalryman fell, Meng Gong immediately redeployed his tactics.

The outcome of this battle was a foregone conclusion. The Wu Zhao army was completely outmatched in every aspect, including the application of tactics and techniques, weaponry, and tactical concepts.

Even in terms of numbers, the Chu army held an absolute advantage.

Nominally, it was 7,000 Chu troops against 9,000 Wu Zhao troops.

But in reality, it's seven thousand against two thousand.

This is a problem of insufficient troops that occurred even when Wu Zhao was on home ground; such an abstract behavior is beyond description.

When the news of Nalaishun's defeat and death at the front and the annihilation of two thousand soldiers in the military camp reached Seng Qinlin's army, an atmosphere of fear and pessimism instantly filled the entire camp.

Seeing that the situation was hopeless and that the Chu army was gradually approaching, Seng Qinlin made a decisive decision.

He immediately abandoned 5,000 garrison troops and led the remaining 1,500 military troops from the outer vassal states northward to Quanzhou.

When the local generals saw that their commander had fled, they lost all will to fight and surrendered to the Chu army.

This two-hour encounter ended with a complete victory for the Chu army.

Meanwhile, in Jiankang, another battle between infantry and cavalry is about to break out.