"Hold on! Don't retreat, there are many of us, and victory will eventually belong to us! Give me ......."

Before the 'brave and fearless' mercenary captain could finish shouting, a lead bullet from nowhere shot into his left cheek, blasting a fist-sized hole in the right cheek, and even the whole person's expression was still in impassioned encouragement, and he had already stopped breathing......

As a result, the spirit of this mercenary projection unit that had just been lifted fell into a trough again, and the entire team fell into a riot with the death of the captain......

Feng Shui takes turns, and the mercenaries who used their swords to force the peasants to die at the previous moment have to face the real knights and the noble guards, and they dare not retreat, so they can only play the 'hurt each other' war game with the small number of enemies on the opposite side.

Commander Rostov naturally did this for a reason, because the war situation in this era has almost been set, as long as it is a head-to-head duel in the field, almost all the projection troops will come forward to shoot first, knock down the opponent's array or shoot out of the gap, at least to create a large area of chaos, and then let the melee hand-to-hand soldiers charge.

If you don't shoot out the 'deformed' military formation on the opposite side and let your own hand-to-hand combat troops crash head-on, you will undoubtedly have to pay an extremely high price, and more importantly, even if you pay a greater price, you may not be able to break through the enemy formation!

If your own projection troops are not powerful, the number of people is not as large as the opposite side, the firepower density is too small, and you can only accept your fate if you let the hand-to-hand soldiers charge, but now the strength of the main force of Rostov is several times that of Shu Zifeng, and the projection force has reached nearly three times the strength of the musketeers under Shu Zifeng.

It's a big deal that the commander-in-chief of Rostov is more ruthless, prepares more pensions, and forces the mercenaries to work hard for a while, and the commander-in-chief of Rostov does not believe that the musketeers on the opposite side can hold on!

If you look at it according to the traditional combat routine, Commander Rostov-on-Don's orders can definitely be called decent and flawless, but what he doesn't know is that the musketeers under Shu Zifeng's command are all die-hard ranks, and they can fight to the last person, and compared to the hand-to-hand soldiers in the back formation, I don't know how much stronger.

This kind of army, which fought to the last man, naturally did not appear in the impression of the commander-in-chief of Rostov, and even the most elite Moscow Guards would collapse if they suffered more than half of the casualties.

It is tantamount to a fantasy to convince a nobleman from an orthodox military officer that a little-known rebel bandit army can fight to the last man without collapsing.

Of course, the mistake made by Commander Rostov was far more than this, although he knew in his heart that the rate of fire of the flintlock pistol would have a great advantage, but because there had never been a flintlock pistol with a rate of fire that crushed the arquebus, the Commander of Rostov-on-Don, even if he knew that the flintlock pistol was fast, did not realize how serious the consequences would be if this 'fast' would be!

Any lesson needs to be bloody facts to be memorable!

The Rostov projection troops, which were three times larger than Shu Zifeng's musketeers, quickly fell to the upper hand in the counterfire, and the Rostov commander in the rear found through his own soldiers who were constantly falling that the soldiers on the opposite side wearing indigo standing uniforms were small in number, but their killing efficiency was far superior to that of their own troops.

10 minutes after the start of the shooting, the number of far more than the opposite Rostov projection troops were in a state of suppression, lined up in three columns of Swedish senior musketeers, although there were many dead, but the formation was not the slightest confusion from beginning to end, the people in front died and the people behind were replaced, and the dead people simply reduced several columns to supplement the integrity of the horizontal formation, and the entire shooting queue was like a machine, which accurately made the Rostov commander feel a chill in his heart!

"This ...... How were these musketeers trained?! How did they manage to keep their companions falling down, but turn a blind eye to them and calmly reload and shoot as if they were training to shoot a target?! Are they still human?!!! ”

The roar of the Rostov commander caused the surrounding noble generals to fall into an awkward silence, and they could not do anything about it, because the 'battle-hardened' noble generals had never seen or even heard of such an army!

They are simply the perfect war machines of legend, the best elite troops imaginary by the commander.

"Damn! After this battle, I must hang the guy in charge of intelligence, we don't know anything about this group of rebels, but the other side knows everything about us! ”

In the midst of the complaints of the commander of Rostov, a noble general next to him suggested in a low voice: "My lord, do we need to withdraw the projection troops in the front first, if these mercenaries are exhausted, the impact on our army will be very bad." ”

Among the mercenaries, they are proud of being loyal to their employers, but mercenaries are not stupid, they will also choose employers, if there is a scumbag lord who deliberately pushes mercenaries to the front line as cannon fodder consumption, the reputation in the mercenary industry will be stinking all over the street, and it will be difficult to recruit excellent mercenaries.

This is one of the reasons why the European countries gradually began to pay attention to the formation of standing armies in order to get rid of the shackles of mercenaries.

The great nobles and kings are all arrogant lords, and who wants to be bound by a group of lower-class warriors if it is possible?

After the end of the war, a large number of troops made up of ordinary people as veterans were directly absorbed by the kings of various countries as the foundation of the standing army, and they directly had combat effectiveness, and gradually squeezed out the dependence on mercenaries.

After hearing the suggestion, the Rostov commander thought cautiously for a moment, and just wanted to order the withdrawal of the troops first, but heard the noble generals around him shouting: "Oh no, those mercenaries can't stand it!" ”

The Rostov commander-in-chief looked down on him and raised his monoculars again......

At this moment, Bandak shouted an order to the iron-clad musketeers under his command: "Change to melee weapons and charge!" ”

At the same time, Leonidas, who had been waiting for a long time, roared at the battalion of more than 800 warriors watching the play: "The enemy has been defeated, warriors, attack with me!" ”

Even the cannon fodder of the first camp led by Baron Jamai also rushed towards the mercenary army that collapsed by the musket shooting, and it was still good for these people to fight with the wind.

All of a sudden, the battlefield was filled with the shouts of the soldiers under Shu Zifeng's command, and a large-scale cover-up was about to begin!