The Fourth Calamity never believed in the steel torrent!

Chapter 166 Why don't they step on the landmines they planted themselves?

"No, get down quickly!"

The comrade who was just chatting was suddenly shot in the throat by the enemy, and the other Black Hawk soldiers were immediately startled.

Looking into the distance, they noticed that a troop of cavalry had somehow appeared and was charging toward them, firing their muskets as they went.

What era are we living in? Why are we still using cavalry?
Do they really think their guns are just for show?

Since this Black Hawk unit was seeing enemy cavalry for the first time, and the soldiers who had fled earlier hadn't explained the strangeness of the enemy cavalry to them in detail, they didn't take it seriously at all.

It wasn't until after a series of exchanges of fire that they realized how difficult it was to kill those cavalrymen, and they understood the seriousness of the problem.

The machine gunner's forehead was slightly sweaty; it was the first time he had ever encountered such strange cavalry.

Although the cavalrymen moved with the same flair as the Cambrian motorcycles, he was certain that he had hit them.

So he really wanted to know if there were any warhorses in the world that could continue to gallop even after being hit by multiple machine gun bullets?
Meanwhile, the players who had just charged over on horseback were also complaining, accusing the enemy of being uncivilized for killing their horses!

Damn it! If their horses hadn't been killed, they could have reused them. These guys killed their horses, and now that they've respawned, we'll have to buy new ones to ride!
The more they thought about it, the angrier they became. Several cavalrymen came from different directions to flank the machine gun emplacement, and simultaneously pulled out grenades and threw them at the machine gun emplacement that had started firing.

A series of explosions rang out, and the world instantly became quiet; the deafening machine gun fire vanished in an instant.

After a volley of grenades took out several machine gun positions, the cavalrymen simultaneously pulled out their "Japanese Happy Sticks" and charged at the mechs behind them!
What a great opportunity! This is truly a great opportunity!

Because the troops had stopped earlier, the Black Hawk Empire's armored soldiers also came out of their mechs and began to maintain their armored vehicles on the spot.

As a result of this maintenance, when they were suddenly attacked, the armored soldiers were stunned when they saw the dismantled mechanical parts and the exposed motor engine.

Out of a sense of reason, they did not rush to activate their mechs immediately, but instead quickly hid.

In their view, the attacking enemy was just a small force, and they believed that even without their armored vehicles, the other soldiers could easily take care of them.

Instead of staying where they are, frantically piecing together the parts and then hastily starting the mech, they might as well hide first.

Otherwise, with them hanging there, they would be far too conspicuous.

Little did they know that their decision would make these half-disassembled mechs easy targets for the cavalry.

With the help of the Japanese-made "happy sticks," the cavalry launched a Kreigge-style charge. To the horror of a group of Black Hawk soldiers, the spiked grenades in their hands collided violently with the mechs.

The penetrating power of a piercing grenade in reality is quite mysterious. On paper, its armor-piercing capability is about 100 millimeters, but in actual use during World War II, even a small soldier couldn't pierce through it with a steamed bun.

Regardless, this item poses a significant threat to armored vehicles in the hands of players.

Since the Black Hawk Empire's Dreadnought mechs didn't have any special needs, they weren't equipped with very thick armor. Their 40mm armor was basically easy to pierce through with a single strike against these piercing mines.

Watching helplessly as the cavalry pierced through four mechs and drove off, the armored soldiers in the unit were practically driven mad with rage.

Are you kidding me! How could their armored vehicles be destroyed by the enemy in such an easy way?
They would have no complaints if their armored vehicles fell during the charge or in a collision with enemy armor. However, they were quite indignant when their armored vehicles, immobilized, were destroyed by enemy cavalry using some strange method.

When they saw the cavalrymen who could charge out unscathed after using the piercing grenades, they became even more convinced that these cavalrymen were cyborgs.

Otherwise, what if we replaced them with ordinary soldiers and let them take such an explosion right in their face?

Don't pretend nothing happened; he's lucky he didn't die!

"That's enough, that's enough. They've set up more and more machine guns, and the soldiers have realized what's happening. If we don't retreat now, we'll be at a disadvantage!"

Just then, one of the players suddenly shouted to the others.

The other players thought about it and agreed that it made sense, so many of them immediately rode motorcycles or horses back.

However, some stubborn players stayed behind to continue the fight. Although these players fought back and took away many enemy soldiers before they died, they were ultimately outnumbered and outmatched by the enemy's superior firepower.

After killing countless players, and glancing at the warhorses and tricycles lying on the battlefield, as well as the corpses of the Cambrian soldiers, no one could laugh.

Because they suffered far greater losses in previous attacks than they killed the enemy!

"Damn it, those damn bastards!"

"Soldiers, follow me and attack immediately! Remember their route from where they came, and head in the direction they came from and retreated!"

"I refuse to believe it. Could there really be landmines in these places?"

An officer, nearly driven mad with rage, brandished his sidearm and roared at the other soldiers.

Immediately afterwards, he jumped into a perfectly good military vehicle and led the soldiers behind him toward a country path in the distance.

Then... this unlucky guy's car was blown into the air with a loud bang, and the falling wheels almost hit the soldiers behind him.

"This doesn't make sense. How come they didn't step on any landmines before?"

The other Black Hawk soldiers couldn't understand why these guys were speeding around in cars and on horses, running wildly across the fields like a bunch of monkeys.

So how did they manage to avoid stepping on any of the landmines they had planted along the way?

Unbeknownst to these Black Hawk soldiers, in Andrei's game settings, all players could see the mines they had planted, and there was even a faint indicator light.

So, to them, the landmines buried in the soil and grass are not very conspicuous, but to the players, these landmines are as dazzling as light bulbs, just short of having an exclamation mark on them.

Unless a player's attention is completely off, it's virtually impossible for them to step on their own landmine while running.

However, the player's minefield was not able to hold off the enemy indefinitely, as a relatively efficient mine-clearing force from the Black Hawk Empire arrived.

(End of this chapter)