Chapter 1326: The Coordination of the Cossack Cavalry and the Black-Shirted Knights
The coalition commander thought well - as soon as the Cossack cavalry dared to ram up, they would be pierced into skewers by the spears of the spearmen......
However, the Cossacks of the North Sea State were different. Marin himself is a lewd ratio, and the officers under his command also like to develop obscenely. For example, Captain Jurgen is a lewd fellow......
Jurgen was a German Cossack who originally served in the 1st Regiment as a scout cavalryman. He grew up on a horse farm in the Alsace region as a young serf in charge of raising horses. Because he has been working with horses for many years, Jurgen has developed a superb riding technique.
It's just that Jurgen initially served as a scout cavalry of the First Legion, and barely became the squad leader of the scout cavalry. But the First Legion was mainly infantry, and even if there was cavalry, it was a half-armored lancer. Although Jurgen is a skilled horseman, he is not like those lancers who have practiced martial arts since childhood. So, in the First Army, he was not reused.
When Marin was in Jutland to build a Cossack village, Jurgen went there with his fellow countryman Alsace and served as a German Cossack officer.
In fact, Jurgen didn't have to do anything worse than his fellow Alsace. It's just that Alsace took advantage of the name. Because, Marin was a Warcraft player in his previous life, and he was too impressed by the great name of the Lich King Arthas. Then, with the convenience of his name, Alsace stood out from a group of German Cossack officers and mixed up as a regimental commander. Jurgen, on the other hand, became the commander of the 1st Cossack Cavalry Regiment after the commander of the regiment (the Cossack Cavalry Regiment did not have a deputy commander for the time being, and the position of the commander of the 1st regiment was higher than that of the 2nd regiment commander and others, and he had the highest status among the regiment commanders).
As a scout cavalryman, Jurgen's Cossack cavalry regiment's first priority was not to steal the guys and cut them down, but to kill and wound the enemy indecently, while paying attention to saving their lives. And this, too, is the habit of the scout cavalry. After all, it's important for scouts to stay alive so that information doesn't get through.
Jurgen's purpose of fighting is - if you can't see a advantage to take advantage of, you will never rush up and cut people easily. Unless, the commander-in-chief asks for desperate ......
Now, apparently, it's not time to fight hard. So, the three Cossack cavalry regiments seemed menacing, but when they came to the front of the enemy line, they slowed down. Then, the Cossack cavalry, which had been rushing straight to the front of the enemy, suddenly turned and rushed to the left, avoiding the spear formations of the enemy infantry......
But when he swept past the enemy's spear array, Jurgen shouted:
"Throw!"
Then, hundreds of slender inferior spears, which were used as javelins, were thrown at the spearmen in front of the enemy army......
Those half-crouched spearmen in the front row were still waiting for the enemy to collide. As a result, the enemy flipped a shot and did not hit it stupidly. Just when they were relieved, a "rain of spears" suddenly fell in the sky, and hundreds of spears flew like raindrops......
How powerful is the kinetic energy of the spear? Although the distance of throwing the spear is certainly not too far, the weight of the spear is there. When the spear fell from mid-air and pierced the back of the enemy's front row of spearmen, many spearmen who had no time to react were directly pierced by the spears thrown over. Even, some unlucky eggs were nailed to the ground......
"Puff puff ......"
"Ah......h
The sound of spears penetrating into the flesh and the screams of infantry with spears in the middle of the enemy positions was heard......
Passing in front and behind the enemy's infantry formation, these Cossack cavalry did not turn back and charge. Because, the spear array has not yet been broken. At this time, a strong rush is equivalent to death.
So, these Cossacks, in a circle, went straight back to the pontoon bridge. Of course, most of them just bypassed, and three or four hundred people remained, and they went around to the rear of the coalition infantry phalanx......
What do these people want to do? They are waiting for their opponents to move......
If the infantry phalanx shrinks there, you will be like a hedgehog, and it will be difficult to start. But once the hedgehog starts moving, there are more flaws......
Therefore, these three or four hundred Cossack cavalry were planning to wait for the enemy to move and then charge from the flanks and kill......
Obviously, the coalition commander was not stupid and knew that he could not move casually, so he had to continue to stay where he was.
However, the Cossack cavalry, who returned to the bridgehead, came over with a batch of inferior slender spears - apparently, they also wanted to throw javelins......
Of course, this move only works against the enemy infantry in front of you. Because, this infantry is mainly a levy, and there are no long-range weapons at all. There were no muskets, and no bows. Even the spears are inferior spears.
Therefore, Jurgen bullied the opponent and did not have long-range firepower, so he dared to throw the javelin with confidence. If he encounters an opponent with musketeers, he will never dare to waste like this......
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In front there were Cossack cavalry throwing spears as javelins, and in the back there were Cossack cavalrymen close to a regiment waiting for them to move and show their flaws...... The commander of the coalition forces, Varok, was aggrieved, but he just didn't dare to move......
If he had taken Marin's military class, he would have known that there was a saying called "arms fighting each other......
The three or four thousand levies he led were almost all spearmen (spears were the lowest-cost weapons and were very suitable for conscription). If the Cossack cavalry charged only with sabers, they would have been restrained by them. Because, the spear formation really restrained the charge of the melee cavalry.
However, the Cossacks also had a skill of throwing spears as javelins. Therefore, Jurgen simply used the Cossacks as javelin cavalry, and the enemy was powerless to fight back.
At this time, the black-shirted knights of Durm came with 1,000 men. Jurgen was overjoyed, and after throwing away all the spears in stock, he came to Durm and said:
"Lord Durm, please let your black-shirted knights cooperate with me in fighting this group of enemies!"
Durm asked:
"How to cooperate?" He had just crossed the river and was not very aware of the situation.
"That's right, the enemy army on the opposite side only has spearmen, no long-range weapons. I would like to ask your black-shirted knights to put their guns around the enemy line and aim and shoot the enemy slowly......"
"What if the other party rushes out?" Durm's black-shirted knights were no match for spearmen in close combat. After all, Montenegro's actual weapons are only carbines and sabers.
"It's okay, my Cossack cavalry will give your men a sweep on the side. If they dare to rush out, we will attack the opponent's flank......"
"Good!" Durm nodded in agreement.
Then, the 1,000 black-shirted knights, who had just crossed the river, began to reload their carbines......
Usually each knight in the black shirt has at least three short guns with clockwork and firing guns, or even five. So, it took a while to reload all the carbines.
When the black-shirted knights were reloaded, they followed Jurgen's instructions and came to the enemy's line dozens of yards away, and calmly shot the enemy's spearmen with the standard of muskets......
"Bang-bang-bang-bang-" Bursts of gunfire rang out, and many of the Coalition infantry fell......
At this time, Jurgen led three Cossack cavalry regiments on the flanks of the black-shirted knights and covered the black-shirted knights......
The black-shirted knights usually had five carbines, so after a round, they threw the finished carbine into the leather bag on one side, and took out another loaded carbine from the leather bag on the other side, and continued to aim slowly......
At such a close distance, how can there be a reason to stop and aim? Even if the smoothbore gun hit rate was low, by the time the 5,000 rounds of 1,000 black-shirted knights were fired, the coalition infantry had already suffered more than a thousand casualties.
"Ah, I can't stand it!"
When the black-shirted knights finished their second reload and came running to aim and shoot, some of the coalition spearmen finally lost their breath. They broke away from their positions, spears in hand, and rushed like madmen towards the Black Mountain knights dozens of yards away. Under their leadership, the already undisciplined Badge soldiers began to rush forward in a swarm, in a vain attempt to stab the hateful black-shirted knights to death.
However, they forgot that there were also Cossack cavalrymen playing soy sauce on the side......
"Good opportunity! Brothers, draw your sword and rush! With that, Jurgen personally took the lead, brandished his saber, and rode his horse to the enemy's flank......