Chapter 20: The Battle of Port Louis (1)
With both the offensive and defensive sides lacking heavy artillery, it should have been the best time for mages and clerics to become firefighters on the battlefield, but this time the defensive battle, which is very important in history, did not happen. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The few mages in the Norman army had done their best to cast defensive magic, and the priests had exhausted too much energy to treat their wounds for days.
It's just even stranger that the allies were also not aided by mages and clerics, and even the fleet that remained in the harbor left after receiving an urgent order to leave some cannons.
Only Major General Philip and Princess Josephine, who looked confused, looked at the embarrassed herald in front of them, "You mean to say that we don't have spells and magic support?" The herald nodded, and replied helplessly: "That's what it means, my lord, except for a few alchemists on the side of the mage of Lorraine, there are no mages and priests here who can fight." ”
Ignoring the barrage of gunfire outside, the two commanders walked briskly to the occult user's residence, where they were greeted by the stench of rising and foul smells and the screams of the hapless guys.
"Come out of the toilet, I can't help it!"
"You stopped it with magic or magic!"
"Did you use it, oops, it hurts me."
"I can't help it, oh no......" The mage who said this suddenly turned relaxed, and some kind of yellow-brown mark gradually appeared on his robe, and a foul smell brewed from not knowing what the hell he had eaten directly smoked away the people around him.
"What the hell is going on! ×2”
After searching the entire camp, there was finally a priest who could speak, and after using the magic test with difficulty, he realized that these unlucky people were all greedy for seafood to cause this kind of scene, and they didn't care about the gastrointestinal discomfort that could be solved with just a little magic potion or healing, but they didn't care, and finally became like this.
The inland region may not be able to eat marine food for a long time, even if the invention of the magic guide machine in modern times has greatly developed the civilizations of all races, but if you can't eat it, you can't eat it, there are no aircraft, no railways, and no other cheap high-speed transportation, and those who can eat good things from all over the world at any time are aristocrats who use teleportation arrays.
Obviously, the only nobles who can be called nobles in Port Louis are Princess Josephine and Major General Philippe, the former has royal offerings and always eats when they want, and the latter's fief is by the sea, and it is also the sea kingdom, and the people of Liberia will naturally not lack seafood.
But the problem is that the mages and priests here are all from the civilian class, and they are reluctantly stuffed into the frontline team for various reasons, and they are already a little resistant, and the unpalatable dry food that has been gnawed for a long time is difficult to meet a logistics chef like Lorraine who is so good that compared to other chefs, his skills are simply good enough to break through the sky, and they really rarely eat seafood, so they naturally eat and drink wildly, and then it is embarrassing to grab the toilet.
"This can't be done, there are too many enemies, and we will definitely be defeated without the support of mages and priests." Josephine looked at Major General Philip with a serious face, but the adult touched his chin thoughtfully, and something suddenly flashed in his eyes, "Then why don't we do this, Princess Josephine, let Master Lorraine secretly bury those metal balls everywhere......"
At this time, Lorraine stumbled outside and ran in, "I said, two adults, why are you still here?" The enemy has already broken through the first barrier! ”
Once again, the two people who were shocked had to run to the front line, I have to say that the strength of the Norman army was really strong, three consecutive rounds of guns killed and wounded at least hundreds of people were still directly advanced by their engineers, and what was more serious was that those Koman volunteers seriously lacked tactical literacy, and they were only killed less than ten people and began to be unstable, and those officers actually ran over to ask for tactical guidance.
It is a pity that the scrap wood army that is about to collapse is still running with the infantry of the Riberians, and the trenches on the first line are almost useless and are lost, and the princess Josephine, who does not know how much ordnance the enemy, is there to ask for battlefield discipline, but thanks to the people around her to stop it, she can't do it, otherwise if she really let this upright princess hang a few officers, she will not want to command the ragtag army anymore.
Breaking through the front line with only a few casualties was simply beyond the expectations of Earl George, and even Croozus snorted coldly that the defending Confederates were a bunch of waste, and it was normal to be able to beat them down.
George didn't want to quarrel with the damn beast at this time, and he was right, the mudblood on the other side was indeed not as good as the miserable red-clothed army he had fought before, and he broke through the trench casually, I don't know if Reinhardt, the dragon knight, can get enough merit, "Order, let the prepared troops follow, and push the waste of St. Orlando into the town." ”
The adjutant took the order, and at this time, the defenders in the front line were constantly falling to the ground because of the Riberia, and the strength of the counterattack plummeted, and at first the Norman army still used ammunition sparingly, and then the row of guns did not stop for a moment, and the bullet storm completely suppressed the defenders' firepower.
Of course, the Normans did not have unlimited supplies, whether it was gunpowder or food, so the weapons, ammunition and all kinds of food discarded by the volunteers were captured by the other side, so that the morale of the enemy army is getting higher and higher, it is certain that if this offensive cannot be stopped, it is likely that the enemy will rush into the final line of defense today.
When another group of infantry was beaten by the other side and couldn't lift their heads, and had to leave their comrades behind and rush back to the rear crying, suddenly a group of soldiers ran from behind the position, and it was Lieutenant Colonel Kalinin who took the lead!
The commander of the Dawnblade Battle Regiment directly ordered the platoon to shoot, and there was no reaction at all from these deserters who were scared out of their brains, "Everyone listen to me!" Hold the front and live! Running away is death! "The threat of death and the cold orders of the lieutenant colonel have finally stabilized the increasingly weak front, and Kalinin is very relieved to see that this group of bastards can finally raise their heads and shoot, as for the hit rate or something, after seeing the equipment of the Volunteers a few days ago, he has lost hope, but fortunately he has the naval artillery unloaded from the cruisers that he doesn't know where to run for the time being!
The attacking Normans may not have seen it, but the dragon knight Reinhardt could see it clearly when he stood on the wooden platform, the bear-like strong lieutenant colonel led his men to first platoon of deserters, and then pulled out five cannons, and with good eyesight, he could even see that the opponent was loaded with chain bullets for the first time, which is suitable for naval warfare.
Although he really wanted to let his side of the artillery fire, it was a pity that those one-pound cannons had not been pushed up so far, and some of the heavy cannons captured in the Battle of Fontainebleau were also not pulled due to road reasons, so all the Dragon Knight could do now was to pray that the cannonballs would not aim at him, and that the cannonballs would not hit this side.
Then with a 'boom', the red-clothed army responsible for firing the cannon lived up to expectations and fired a salvo of five guns, and the fast-flying chain bullets had the same indisputable first right of way as any flying props on the battlefield, and all the friendly troops, enemy troops and innocent unlucky people who stopped in the flight path were unlucky this time.
This kind of tough ammunition suitable for tearing sails and even tearing masts to tear apart the human body is not effortless at all, the few surviving soldiers hiding in the trenches on the front line are okay, the attacking Norman queue directly tore five terrifying gaps, coupled with the ample power provided by gunpowder and the untimely reinforcement of Earl George, just one round of artillery fire pierced through two arrays, more than 500 people were confirmed dead in battle, and many more were injured or frightened and unable to move, creating five groups of elite gunners in an instant.
The whole battlefield was silent in an instant, and for a few seconds the battle continued, but the Normans obviously flinched a little, taking this opportunity, the artillery crew fired a group of solid shells and a group of grapeshot shells again, so that the enemy soldiers who were not suppressed by artillery cried and cried back to the starting place, as for those friendly soldiers who were injured by mistake, they could only comfort themselves that they were not hiding well, the country would remember them or something, of course, the dead soldiers must have a pension, if the bastards of the military department were not corrupt at that time.
When the last Norman was knocked over by the musket, the entire front-line trench was no longer able to continue the battle, except for a half-dead wyvern and its knight on a large plank, Reinhardt had a few musketeers around him, the problem was that they had just left the knight and fled, unfortunately they were torn to pieces by a rain of grapeballs flying from an unknown place, and they were now lying about twenty meters away from the big plank, covered in bullet holes and bleeding.
"I'm so stupid, I shouldn't have come to this hellish place if I knew I wouldn't have come, and you, a big lizard, accompanied me and couldn't even eat enough meat, and now I might be captured by the enemy, hey."
Indeed, such an unfortunate person was left on the battlefield, Reinhardt almost wanted to grab the ground with his head, the problem was that he did not dare to abandon the flying dragon given by His Majesty the Emperor, once it was found out, the consequences were definitely not something that ordinary people could bear, because dragons were always scarce in the Norman Alliance, and the number of dragon knights was a bit too much.
In any case, he had to protect the dragon, but the battle had stopped for about ten minutes, so how could he deal with the prisoners who didn't come to capture him? Since the enemy didn't come, those high-ranking officials on the front line sent someone to save me!
In this way, the hapless Reinhardt was very embarrassed to stay on the battlefield, and the generals of the two armies could not take care of the immobile dragon knights at this time, they still had more embarrassing problems to solve, otherwise it would definitely be a big joke waiting for them.