Dark Sand: My Players Are All Actors-Chapter 557 - 281: The Giantization Rankings_2

But the internal space of the Divine Machine was peculiar, thus these problems did not occur.

So theoretically, players could carry a dozen firearms loaded in advance without needing to bring any tiger squat cannons, and in actual combat, they could fire off a dozen shots consecutively.

However, the cost of high-precision Flintlock rifles was also significant, and the players had a lot of daily expenses— not every player could afford to play with ten Flintlock rifles just for that tremor on the battlefield.

Considering the immense role of the tiger squat cannons in battle, few players would choose this method.

Even so, after adding in the tiger squat cannons, players could still carry three rifles.

These three guns allowed the players to first fire three shots in unison before entering into a three-stage loading cycle.

The vanguard of demonic cavalry was rapidly approaching, and the players were holding their rifles at the ready, only firing decisively when the demons came within guaranteed hitting distance!

"Bang!"

"Bang Bang Bang..."

The dense sound of gunfire was like exploding beans, and clouds of smoke rolled upward!

The firearm skills of the Divine Machine players were enhanced by their innate talents, and given the close range between the two sides, it was nearly point-blank shooting.

Each bullet traveled at high speed, piercing through the horse’s armor and the cavalry’s heavy armor.

One shot was enough to make many demonic cavalry fall to the ground, completely incapacitated!

If it were arrows, only a crossbow like the Divine Arm Bow could effectively damage the cavalry, but the power of the firearms was unreasonably strong.

The demonic creatures’ eyes darkened with rage, clearly brewing anger.

They believed that the salvo was over and continued advancing.

However, the gunfire didn’t cease but instead became denser!

Players fired one rifle and then picked up another, continuing until all three were empty, then they calmly began to reload them in a three-stage cycle.

In the demons’ view, this was practically cheating.

They had originally thought their cavalry was about to overrun the players, only to blink and find the players’ cavalry had slipped into defensive positions.

Defenses or not, to the demons, there was no difference in killing cavalry players or other players.

Massive devastation befell the demons’ vanguard due to three rounds of cannon fire from tiger squat cannons.

The demons thought the barrage would end after three cannon rounds and continued their charge, not expecting another three rounds of gunfire.

After three rounds of gunfire, the players could still continue the loading and shooting cycle!

These players were like cheating in a game—my turn, my turn, still my turn!

Even if the demons were suffused with a surplus of Demonic Qi, they couldn’t keep taking hits like this.

Finally, the rear ranks of demonic cavalry under ceaseless sacrifice by the front ranks managed to reach close to the players’ formation.

By then, the front row of players had switched to bayonet sleeves mounted on the front of their rifles.

They then squatted uniformly on the ground, with the rifle butts driven into the soil, forming a long spear formation!

Compared to a true long spear formation, this arrangement, made of rifles with bayonet sleeves was clearly a weakened version.

Especially in terms of length, it lacked considerably.

Yet, even so, rifles equipped with bayonet sleeves could still provide some defense against cavalry. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

The front row of players were either warriors or Ranger players with robust physical capabilities; these were the ones who had initially failed to obtain cavalry positions and had turned to try for a Divine Machine rank instead.

The long spear formation they established was enough to block a wave of demonic cavalry charges.

A spent bolt couldn’t pierce thick cloth.

During the charge, the frontline cavalry was repeatedly cut down, first by tiger squat cannons, then by Flintlock rifles, their corpses heavily slowing down the following cavalry.

Moreover, the players primarily targeted the front-line heavy-armored cavalry, so many of those who reached the players were less well-defended light cavalry.

With both offensive and defensive capabilities reduced, the densely formed players could effectively thwart the demons using just the front row’s bayonet sleeves.

The real killing blow, however, came from the players continuing to load firearms in the rear.

If the cavalry failed to break through the long spear formation of bayonet sleeves in the first charge, the gunfire from the back rows would ring out continuously, cutting down all frontline demonic cavalry again.

And as the demons furiously charged the players’ formation, chaos suddenly erupted in the rear.

Many demonic cavalry, their eyes radiating black Qi, looked backward only to realize that the players’ cavalry had circled around, flanking them from the rear in cooperation with the Divine Machine players!

This was a cavalry tactic taught by Emperor Taizu of Sheng, where cavalry attacking from the rear flank during a clash gained an absolute advantage, completely overpowering the opposition.

Just like in a dogfight between fighter jets, once you’re bitten on the tail, what follows is a one-sided beating.

With the players’ firearm formation steadfast in front and their cavalry furiously charging from behind—caught in a pincer attack—the demon’s cavalry instantly collapsed, shifting to every man for himself!

Although the demons were fearless in death, surpassing the typical Jin soldiers or barbarian fighters in combat will, they would not disperse en masse. Yet in melee combat, once the formation was scattered and cohesion lost, it still plunged their side into an irreversible predicament.