MTL - Heroes of Silver Moon-Chapter 611 : a river of blood

Creaking, the heavy castle gate opened, and the Rosen family's army filed out.

Simon, who heard the news here, quickly asked Harris to take command. The copper whistle sounded one after another, and the new army quickly set up their formation and entered the fighting state.

There are three hollow phalanxes, one large, two small, arranged in a zigzag shape. The larger one is an infantry phalanx, with infantry as the main body, and only a small number of artillery and rotary machine guns are deployed in the front row.

The two small phalanxes are artillery positions, the main body is artillery and machine gunners, and the infantry is only as a protector.

But the embarrassing thing is that even if the new army got the news temporarily, they have already completed the battle preparations, but the Rosen family has not yet adjusted their formation.

Due to the limitations of the battlefield, Earl Rosen only sent 30,000 people, and another 15,000 people stayed at the castle, waiting for an opportunity.

It took a lot of effort before these messy soldiers lined up.

The cavalry is in the middle. There are more than 100 heavy cavalry and more than 800 light cavalry. The total number can be over a thousand. Earl Rosen personally commanded them.

The nearly 30,000 infantry were divided into left and right wings. The left wing was commanded by Earl Rosen's eldest son, Bo Yang, and the right wing was commanded by a powerful lord, the Earl of Chanel.

From the sky, the overall formation of the Rosen family is like a roc spreading its wings.

"Hmph, I'm really confident!" Earl Rosen snorted a little dissatisfied when he saw that there were no preparations for trenches or fences, and the new army was simply responding to the enemy on a flat ground.

He felt that this Marquis Simon was a little too contemptuous of them?

"According to the original plan, I will lead the cavalry to disperse the enemy first, then the light infantry on the two wings will quickly press up, and the heavy infantry will finally make the final decision!"

Earl Rosen asked the messengers to send orders, and then began to rectify this group of cavalry troops jointly composed of various families.

Of the 1,000 cavalry, only half belonged to the Rosen family, and the rest were brought over by allies.

"Land! Wealth! Women! As long as you defeat the enemy on the other side, the Rosen family will give you everything you want, for the glory of the knights!"

Earl Rosen held his long sword high and shouted back and forth on his horse, all the soldiers looked greedily at him.

To support the Rosen family, not only the lords fulfilled the covenant, they were also eager to go to war.

You know, war is not free.

They fought for the Rosen family, and the Rosen family had to pay their due reward, otherwise, they didn't mind taking it by themselves afterwards!

Of course, the premise is to win this war...

Compared with the turbulent soldiers on the Rosen family's side, the new army is much calmer here, and Simon will not make any promises to the soldiers.

Because they are a standing army, not militiamen or aristocratic retinues, they receive high salaries on weekdays, and even food, clothing, housing, transportation, weapons and equipment are provided by Lord Simon.

The new army of 6,000 people spends tens of thousands of gold coins every year. Under such circumstances, if Simon is required to promise rewards, then what is the point of him wanting this standing army?

It's better to cultivate a traditional army!

However, hearing the cheers of the enemy soldiers, the soldiers of the new army couldn't help showing envy.

Although the treatment of the new army is good, there are really many rules. It is fine to ask for orders and prohibitions on weekdays, and looting of the people is not allowed in wartime.

Even if they win the battle, the stingy lord will not reward them with anything, at most they will hold a banquet.

Dissatisfaction and complaints have already spread in the new army...

"Soldiers, pay full attention and follow me!" Earl Rosen pulled down the visor of his helmet, and under the airtight wrapping of the plate armor all over his body, his whole body was like an iron can.

With the spurs on the heels, he lightly kicked the horse's abdomen, and the horse suffered from pain and ran quickly.

The cavalry behind followed Earl Rosen, and quickly approached the new army's position at a neither fast nor slow speed.

The stamina of war horses is limited, especially for heavy cavalry, it is necessary to calculate the charging distance, otherwise, once the horse is exhausted during the charge, it will easily cause the rider to fall deep into the enemy's line.

In this case, the entire cavalry unit will be wiped out!

The infantry arranged by the Rosen family on both sides also set off immediately and walked towards the new army's position.

For the same reason, the infantry's physical strength is also limited, and only in the last one or two hundred steps can they rush to the enemy with all their strength.

Otherwise, holding a weapon weighing more than ten kilograms, some people are still wearing armor, and rushing at full speed for more than a thousand meters to come to the enemy, no matter how strong your physical strength is, you have to become a soft-legged shrimp.

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The large hollow infantry formation was commanded by Simon and Harris, and the two artillery positions were commanded by Alyosha and Galken respectively.

At the beginning, the five Guys went to the capital to go to school with Simon. Guy chose to stay in the capital to take care of his wife and children, but the other four followed Simon to open up the territory.

Now among the four, Siegel is the deputy battalion commander of the cavalry battalion, and he is following Simon's order to eliminate those robbers who dared to rob the people.

Boulder, who had just been released from the mine, served as the deputy head of the first regiment, and stayed in the territory together with Graton, who was the head of the first regiment.

Only Alyosha, who has always been relatively honest, was kept by Simon's side. The main thing was that Simon was worried and let this guy with no opinions take care of himself.

The same is true for Galken. He is the grandson of the Knight of Silver and a retainer of the Hawke family. He has never been to a military academy, and he is basically from a mud-legged background.

Although by luck, he got into the position of the third regiment leader all the way, but Simon was not at ease to let him be alone, so he stayed by his side.

"The artillery is loaded and fired!" Seeing the Rosen family's army start to move, Simon also gave the order decisively.

Now the distance between the two sides is only 1,500 meters at most, which is completely within the range of the smoothbore artillery.

Harris blew a short whistle, and the well-trained gunner quickly began to load ammunition.

"Well, what is the other side doing?" The horse walked quickly, and Earl Rosen on the horse couldn't help feeling puzzled when he saw the new army soldiers manipulating strange weapons.

The speed of the war horses is very fast, even though the distance between the two sides is still a thousand meters, but at most one minute, they can reach the appropriate charging distance.

In such a short period of time, if the opposite side does not quickly form a hedgehog formation, or erect a large shield to defend, it will not be able to withstand the impact of the cavalry.

Why are you manipulating those weird weapons?

Then again, this kind of army is really strange, not to mention the weird weapons, even the clothes on their bodies are ugly and uniform.

Accompanied by a sharp whistle, the artillerymen of the new army position yanked the tether back.

Boom boom boom! The flintlock sparked, and the gunpowder in the barrel was ignited, making a deafening sound.

boom! A shell flew past Earl Rosen, smashing the entourage wearing fine chain mail into pieces, and Earl Rosen's mind went blank.

Not just an example, the horses kept leaning up and neighing, and the cavalry who were advancing at a fast pace fell into chaos under the attack of the shells.

The armor that the riders were proud of was completely paperless in front of the shells. Whether it was leather armor, scale armor, chain armor, or plate armor, they all looked the same when hit, and would only turn into pieces of meat.

"Charge, charge!" Earl Rosen decisively decided to fight to the death before he had time to think about it.

It was difficult for the cavalry to turn around, and now they were already caught in the enemy's attack. Retreating at this time was completely courting death. Only by going forward bravely could they gain a chance of survival.

The spurs on the heel pierced the horse's abdomen fiercely. The horse, which was already panicking, forgot the previous training under the pain, and galloped desperately.

The deafening sound, the blow beyond imagination, and the tragic death, facing the artillery attack, most people's horses have already lost control.

There are more than a thousand cavalry troops, and less than a hundred can follow in the charge.

"Not good, my lord father!" Bo Yang, who was in command of the left-wing infantry, saw his father in danger, so he immediately ordered the soldiers to rush towards the new army's position.

Seeing this, Earl Chanel, who was in command of the right-wing infantry, could only order his infantry to charge, hoping to save the out-of-control battle situation.

"Machine gunner, fire!" Simon ordered with a frosty face.

The machine gunners released the safety and turned the wheel on the right rear of the machine gun. On the Blue Star, the already quite ancient rotary machine gun began to spin and spray flames, once again announcing the demise of the crowd tactics to the world.

The infantry of the Rosen family rushed to the new army's position like a tide, but fell down in pieces like wheat.

Bo Yang, who was wearing a full body of plate armor, rushed in front of everyone, and the Luan-shaped shield in his hand had been smashed to pieces. Every moment, he felt as if someone was hitting him with a sharp-nosed hammer.

The excellent enchanted plate armor will become pitted in a short while, as if it will be broken in the next moment.

This is not over yet, the enemy's cavalry is no longer a threat, and the artillery positions have also shifted their targets, and began to aim their muzzles at the infantry on both wings.

Every cannonball can slide a wave of blood in the enemy army. It used to be a dense formation on the battlefield, but now it has become a reminder.

"No! No! This is not a battle, this is a massacre!" The private noble army, which was already loosely disciplined, could not experience such a tragic battle, and turned around and fled towards the castle.

Before the two armies even came into contact, the tens of thousands of private troops gathered by the Rosen family were completely defeated.

"Ah!!" Earl Rosen didn't dare to be distracted at all, he just kept charging forward, and didn't notice the cavalry who was still charging at this moment, it seemed that he was the only one left.

Earl Chanel mixed among the fleeing soldiers, using the soldiers' bodies to avoid bullets, and at the moment he loved and hated the plate armor on his body.

What he loves is that he has excellent defense power, and hundreds of bullets failed to penetrate it. What he hates is that it is too heavy, which seriously hinders his escape speed.

It wasn't that he was timid. He used to be a good fighter in knightly competitions. He also fought bravely against the orc navy who landed. It was because the enemy's weapons were too terrifying that he was powerless to resist.

"Huh?" Simon frowned suspiciously. Why didn't the enemy cavalry fall down?

It was Earl Rosen who was still charging. He seemed to be wearing some kind of magic equipment, and the bullets fired at him would be ejected to other directions.

Even a few shells failed to hurt him, Simon saw.

"No, go and stop him!" Seeing Earl Rosen rushing towards the artillery position on the right, Simon's expression changed immediately.

The only shortcoming of the new army is its weak melee combat ability, which is especially reflected in the high-end combat power.

At present, not counting the soon-to-be-merged Alpine Territory, nor the church members like Cirillo, the new French Territory has only one master professional, Simon.

In this battle, the new army has only two master-level combat powers, namely Simon and Cirillo.

People like Squirrel, Quick Arrow, etc. were all arranged by Simon to stay in the territory.

Cirillo received the order and quickly rode his horse to stop it.

It's a pity that it's still a step late...

Under the full-speed charge of the heavy cavalry, the hedgehog formation formed by the soldiers of the new army with rifles and bayonets was a complete joke.

Earl Rosen, who broke through the hail of bullets, broke through the defense of the position in an instant, messing up the artillery position on the right.

Alyosha, who was sitting in the artillery position on the right, commanded the soldiers to siege and kill, but with little effect.

The soldiers of the new army are basically ordinary people, and the only professional is Alyosha himself.

In the case of muskets not working, facing a master warrior wearing enchanted plate armor, there is no resistance at all.

The artillery position of 500 people was killed by Earl Rosen in a daze, and the casualties were heavy. It was not until Cirillo came that things changed.

But Earl Rosen, who was out of danger, didn't get entangled with Cirillo at all. The horse under his crotch drew an arc, and circled back to the direction of the castle in a flash.

Seeing that his father was out of danger, Bo Yang, who had been injured by bullets long ago, also hurriedly mixed into the rout, wearing plate armor weighing tens of kilograms, and running faster than anyone else.

On the city wall, looking at the scene of the army being defeated like a mountain, Rock, the eldest grandson of Earl Rosen, closed his eyes in pain.

Let the grandfather be right, that Marquis Simon really didn't take them seriously, how could a group of rabble face such unreasonable opponents.

Who the **** has seen a cannon that can smash a knight in plate armor into a mess.

Who the **** has seen a rotary machine gun that can make soldiers fall down like cutting wheat.

The Rosen family lost this battle from the very beginning, they were not opponents at the same level.

"Hmph, change formation, pursue in three formations!" Simon, who was in a bad mood seeing the enemy's complete defeat, gave the order to pursue.

As he expected, in a world with extraordinary power, the advantage of thermal weapons is not as great as imagined.

The charge of Earl Rosen alone caused nearly half of the casualties in the artillery position on the right wing.

Originally, he planned to resolve the battle with zero casualties.

The artillery positions did not move, and the left and right sides of the large hollow infantry formation were deployed, and the infantry on the rear went up to make up for them, and then the narrow and long front began to be segmented.

In the rhythmic beating of the waist drummer, the infantry marched forward at a regular pace, stopping every ten meters, and shot at the fleeing enemy troops.

"Ah! Let us in, let us in quickly!" At the gate of the castle, the soldiers had already huddled together, and they all wanted to escape back to the castle as soon as possible.

Under the support of the family soldiers, Earl Rosen and Bo Yang struggled to go in~www.novelbuddy.com~ Yes, they just went in. into the castle.

"Quick! Close the gate!" Seeing that the two had come back safely, Earl Chanel, who had fled back to the castle a long time ago, quickly ordered the soldiers to close the gate.

Marquis Simon's army is getting closer and closer to the castle...

"Don't! Don't!" Seeing that the city gate was about to close, the soldiers who hadn't entered the castle suddenly ran away, drew their swords and began to slash at the soldiers inside the city gate.

But the soldiers left by the Rosen family at the gate of the city are all well-trained standing troops.

In addition, the defeated soldiers who had already entered the castle did not want the enemy to take advantage of the situation to attack the castle, so they also began to block the defeated soldiers who did not enter the castle.

The original friendly army was fighting more fiercely than anyone else at this moment, and the gate of the castle suddenly turned into a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood.

Finally, under the despairing eyes of these soldiers, the heavy castle gates slowly closed, leaving them to face the terrible enemy.

Simon didn't let the soldiers of the new army show mercy, nor did he accept the prisoners. Their manpower was small and they didn't have the spare energy to take care of this group of soldiers who might cause trouble.

The desperate soldiers wanted to fight to the death, but they couldn't even reach the soldiers of the new army, so they were shot through by bullets, and the corpses fell one by one.

The afterglow of dusk shone on the battlefield, making the already **** battlefield even more desolate. Carrion vultures circled the sky, waiting for an opportunity to rush down to taste the delicious food.

Afterwards, at Simon's request, the soldiers of the new army began to clean the battlefield.

The main purpose is to clear the remnants of the enemy and dispose of the corpses. Except for the corpses within the bow and arrow range of the castle guards, the rest of the corpses are all burned.

Of course, it is still the old rule, the spoils of war must be handed in uniformly...