0715 Cowardly War Horse
The rumbling sound of horse hooves rang throughout the battlefield. This made the Japanese soldiers who had already lost their morale on the front battlefield muster up the courage again!
After all, in this era, cavalry means huge power and lethality. All Japanese soldiers hope that these cavalry can rush into the enemy's positions first to destroy artillery, so as to reduce their casualties.
Just as the Japanese cavalry accelerated, the mortar cannon joined the ranks of shooting. They shot five flowering bullets at the maximum range. The flowering bullets rolled in the sky and smashed towards the front of the cavalry queue. After they fell, five flames burst out at the front of the cavalry queue!
These five flowering bullets achieved magical results! These five flowering bullets exploded at the front of the cavalry. Because the huge body of the horses blocked most of the projectiles, only more than thirty horses and cavalry were killed and injured!
I won’t talk about the dead horse and the cavalry, but I just fell to the ground. However, the injured horses are now jumping around in the spot, trying to relieve their pain, but they throw the cavalry out of the saddle and throw it to the ground!
You should know that horses are herbivores. Herbivores have one common characteristic, that is, they are timid! They will jump around and bite them randomly when they are frightened! Therefore, the horses used by cavalry need to be carefully trained.
In addition to carefully raising war horses, war horses must also be trained by special personnel. Trainers should often beat drums and drums near war horses, blow trumpets and sound gold, so that war horses can adapt to the common sounds on the battlefield and avoid being afraid of going into battle.
Later, firearms appeared, and trainers also had to take horses to the soldiers' training ground to listen to the shooting sound of cannons and muskets, so that they would not be frightened and ran away when they went to the battlefield!
The horses of these Japanese cavalry may be accustomed to the sound of cold weapons fighting, but they did not adapt to the sound of artillery. Besides, there were flowering bullets and explosions around them! The huge explosion caused serious chaos at the front of the cavalry team!
While a large number of war horses died and fell down, the injured war horse began to go crazy! A horse's abdomen was cut open by high-speed projectiles, and its internal organs were directly removed and dragged to the ground! So the horse was messed up because of the stronger pain.
Jumping around! Not only did he throw away his cavalry, he also knocked over the horse next to him and stepped on another cavalry who was thrown away to death!
The miserable screams of the cavalry and the neighing of the horses made people feel particularly shrill! The scene set off was extremely chaotic! But the chaos had not reached its peak, and it was the real climax in a few seconds!
A total of more than a dozen war horses and cavalry fell to the ground, and the huge horse corpses became fixed obstacles. In fact, it would be fine if the flowering bullets killed the horses, but at most they would step on their bodies or jump over them. But there were still seventeen or eight horses jumping around in place, which was the source of chaos! The horses jumping around completely blocked the road of the cavalry behind.
But the cavalry behind had already started running and was running forward at full speed. Where could they hold the horse? Even if they tried hard to control the horse's slowdown or turn, they would not be able to sit there at this time! So the cavalry behind crashed into the crowd in front one by one!
The horse behind him was unable to turn at high speed, and directly hit him. A cavalry could not hold the horse, but he hit the side of a crazy horse with his man and horse! The crazy horse fell directly to the ground due to injury and impact, but the war horse that hit him broke his neck with a crack! The cavalry was thrown out and hit the pile of corpses. His neck was twisted into a strange shape, and he saw that he was not alive!
There were nearly a hundred cases like this in just over a dozen seconds! Human corpses and horses were actually stacked up! However, in addition to the people and horses killed by the flowering bullets, they were trampled and killed, and more injured people and horses! But one thing in common is that no matter whether they are alive or dead people and horses, they are all distorted and have hideous faces!
The cavalry behind finally discovered the chaos in front and tried hard to stop the war horses, so they did not rush into the chaotic vortex! Otherwise, there would be a few more dead bodies of people! Just as they looked at the chaotic scene in front of them in surprise, they forgot that a large number of cavalry stopped and gathered here, what a perfect target!
And those gunners who had already practiced shooting countless times sensitively seized the current opportunity and confronted them.
The round shotgun was fired! More than 300 projectiles swept through the crowd like strong wind! For a moment, countless blood spurted out of the cavalry group and the horses! More than 100 cavalry and horses were hit!
Human bodies are not as strong as war horses, so all the cavalry caught in the shooting screamed and fell off their horses! But war horses would not die so easily! The injured war horses neighed and jumped and threw the cavalry on the ground, completely ignoring that person was his partner, and just wanted to relieve their own pain. So the chaos not only did not stop, but continued to expand!
Masato Honda, who was running in front of him, miraculously did not suffer any damage. However, he and dozens of cavalry had already left the squad. Hearing the people behind him shouting and neighing, Jusato Honda looked back and was shocked!
The terrible scene was something he had never seen in the battle before! The horses jumping around and the corpses lying on the ground were covered with all the blood around him, forming a cruel picture!
Only then did Masashi Hirota realize that the opponent's firearms also had great lethality to the cavalry! This reminded him of the scene where Takeda Shingen's Akabashi was annihilated. Masashi Hirota knew that the attack had failed, but he was so smart that he did not immediately tie the horses, but pulled the reins to the left, and made the horses draw a circle and return to the cavalry.
He ran past the edge of the cavalry unit in chaos and shouted loudly: "Get out of here! Get out of here!"
The cavalrymen who had woken up in their dreams then rode their horses and followed closely. Just as they rode their horses away, five more flowering bullets exploded in the cavalry group! Dozens of cavalry fell to the ground with their horses!
Masato Hirota didn't care about the cavalry that was waving his arms to ask for help from them, and directly led a large group of troops to avoid the range of the artillery. He did not slowly pull the horses until he ran a few hundred meters away.
Chapter completed!