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Chapter 1359

The gunpowder smoke produced by the black powder filled the entire battlefield, and people were shot and killed every moment. This almost cruel volley tactics depended on whose soldiers were more well-trained and whose muskets were more sophisticated.

The Albanian fighters in Pasha, Egypt, paid a huge sacrifice and braved the bombardment of the opponent's artillery to advance to the front of the enemy. As a result, their last psychological defense line was torn apart by machine guns and more advanced rifles. Under the burst of machine gun fire!

The dense firepower almost collapsed the Albanian musketeers who were about to line up to shoot. Many of them were shot and killed by the opponent's firepower before they could fire a single shot!

Li Dingguo filled the breech-loading rifle in his hand with cardboard ammunition as he had been trained, and almost let the bullets come out of his hand because of nervousness.

When Li Dingguo re-targeted the Albanian fighters on the opposite side, the musketeers in the front three rows of the opponent were still pouring gunpowder into their guns in a hurry.

However, they were horrified to find that while they were still poking powder or bullets, the opponent's breech-loading rifle was aimed at them and started a second round of shooting!
This is a completely unbalanced gun duel!
One side has quantitative paper shell bullets, breech-loading rifles, the loading speed is amazing, and machine guns to enhance firepower, but the other side is still using a large number of backward matchlock guns, just filling gunpowder and lead bullets from the front of the musket It is a cumbersome process.

There was no suspense in the duel, the gunpowder was full of smoke, the Egyptian Pasha's guards were hit by fierce firepower, the soldiers in the front row suffered heavy losses, and the Albanian soldiers in the rear began to retreat when they saw that the situation was not good!
The phalanx in the middle suppressed the Egyptian Pasha's guards, and the battle between the Venetians on the right wing of the expeditionary force and the Mamluk cavalry fell into a fierce battle, and the two sides fell into a stalemate of close combat and musket shooting!
The Greek mercenaries and Venetian musketeers who were smashed out with gold coins by the Venetian merchants who once dominated the Mediterranean were not idle people. They bit the Mamluk cavalry hard, otherwise they would break their own phalanx.As long as the phalanx is not broken, their losses will not be too great!

The nobleman commanding the Mamluk cavalry was annoyed by the resistance of the Venetian army. Suddenly he caught a glimpse of the battlefield in the middle and found that the guards under the command of the Egyptian Pasha began to retreat, retreat!
"Why!" The Mamluk nobles who led the charge didn't know what kind of terrible firepower the Albanian soldiers were facing. They thought the guards were a group of cowards, and they began to collapse after a few rounds of gunfire.

"The Europeans in Albania are also a bunch of cowards, they started to retreat without informing us!"

"What the hell are they doing! As soon as they retreat, our flanks are exposed to the firepower of the enemy phalanx!"

The Mamluk cavalry is not the cavalry of the cold weapon era. They were weaponized because they were conquered by the Turks and their servants, and they also know the combat mode of the musket phalanx.

The infantry phalanx is not dead, but alive!
Sure enough, when the Egyptian Pasha's 5000 guards were beaten to autism and retreated, the hollow phalanx in the middle began to move forward, forming a trend of flanking the Mamluk cavalry with the four small phalanxes of the Venetians.

"retreat!"

The 17 Mamluk nobles were confident that they could take down the Venetian phalanx with 10000 firearmed cavalry. As a result, the Egyptian Pasha collapsed first, and their Mamluk cavalry was in danger instead.

Facing the encirclement of Sun Chuanting's phalanx and the Venetian phalanx, the heroic Mamluk cavalry withdrew quickly. They had horses, but they retreated neatly, leaving behind hundreds of cavalry and horse corpses.

"Every knight, the time has come to chase the heretics, follow me on my horse and fight!" Castella, the Grand Master of the Hospital Knights, got on his horse and pulled out the knight sword at his waist.

He also did not expect that the battle under the pyramid would be so smooth. He was ready to lead the descendants of the medieval knights to launch a heroic cavalry charge when the situation was unfavorable, but it seems that they have now become a cavalry squad to expand the results of the battle up.

Hannah put on the medieval knight's helmet and followed her brother, also holding the knight's sword high.

War horses burst out from the gaps in the phalanx, and knights returned to the indifference of the cold weapon era. Facing the retreating enemy, they did not need to use muskets that took time to reload ammunition, and the pursuit of knights with swords was more efficient. .

The 300 knights of the left-wing Papal Kingdom also realized that the situation had become one-sided. Armed with cold weapons such as knight guns, spears, and long swords, they also began to hunt down the defeated army!

Unlike the Venetians who faced the main force of the Mamluk cavalry, the Papal States and Sicilian troops faced the civilians of Cairo and a small number of Mamluk cavalry. They did not lose many troops in this battle.

"It's a pity that we didn't bring the cavalry here. We don't have the part to hunt and kill." Sun Chuanting couldn't help sighing when he saw the Knights of the Hospital and the knights of the Papal State chasing and killing the defeated enemy.

If he had a cavalry in his hand, he would definitely send cavalry to hunt down and expand the results of the battle.

"Is it possible that it was a trap set by the enemy?" Zheng Zhibao asked in the Zhongjun.

"The city of Cairo is behind them, and they have no room to maneuver if they want to lure the enemy in." Sun Chuanting was not too worried.

The battle on land ended extremely quickly, and the victory was won in less than 2 hours.Naval victories on the Nile came just as quickly, and Egypt's river fleet of backward galleys was easily destroyed by the expeditionary force's cannon-laden ships.

The soldiers of the conquered expeditionary army began to clean the battlefield. Many soldiers opened the door of wealth, full of joy. They found a lot of gold coins and jewelry on the corpses of Mamluk cavalrymen!Even some Greek mercenaries fought for these spoils, and were suppressed by the Venetian army commander Cornal.

"The power of your firearms is too great!" British noble officers were fortunate to witness the power of the Gatling hand-cranked machine gun in actual combat. It fell like a straw, shocking them who had never seen a machine gun before.

The appearance of the hand-cranked machine gun is already something. Under the blow of the machine gun, the line phalanx that has finally appeared now seems to be in jeopardy.If more machine guns are used, then the queue to be shot becomes the queue to die.

The only disadvantage is that machine guns are as bulky as artillery and require a lot of bullets as supplies, and they may get stuck at critical times.

(End of this chapter)