The group of Ketufu river thieves lined up at the river beach, and the distance from the hill fort was less than five hundred meters, and when they barely formed the shape of a phalanx, under the leadership of their respective centurions, they began to step towards the front in dense groups, and even many of the people in the front gradually trotted, and they had already formed this strange phalanx, and the sparse pulls in front of them did not form a formation at all!

At this time, even the Centurion of the Swamp Baron's personal guard under the command was already looking at the thin formation in front of him with excitement, clenching the scimitar in his hand, eager to use his superb knife skills to kill a vacancy alive, and then plunder this new type of town, and be rewarded by the Marsh Baron after returning. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

This was not a dream for him, because he could see that only the more than 300 people wearing light orange uniforms at the front were the main force of the battle, but even this main force was still listed in a ridiculous linear array.

As for the guys behind him who were wearing ragged and shabby clothes, and holding obviously logging axes and shovels in their hands, they were not taken seriously by these water thieves, they had already seen more than once, and they were just pulling over at work to make up the numbers, and it seemed that the guys who were part of the army, as long as they rushed over and killed a dozen people, they could make this group of guys run around in fear, and they couldn't form an effective counterattack at all!

They were easy, for they had this self-confidence, especially with the seemingly invincible victory that had preceded them, and with a ferocious howl, they rushed forward like a tidal wave, ready to use their numerical superiority to break the enemy's ridiculous line.

"Boom Boom-"

The dazzling firelight appeared, directly shining on this group of water thieves with a cruel smile on their faces, and even their eyes instantly locked on the sudden firelight, and before the huge explosion sound in their ears was transmitted, they had already given them the most direct warning.

It was a life-threatening fire, and the precognitive instinct from the creature also made the sinister smile on the faces of the water thieves begin to stiffen, because in the flames, there seemed to be some kind of black dot, and then in their eyes grew bigger and bigger, and finally formed a pitch-black one that was scorched by the flames, and the tail was still carrying gunsmoke, and it was tearing the air to bring some kind of screaming, solid iron ball!

It was the four 12-pounder bronze falcon cannons that fired instantly on the hill battery, and the eight 7-pounder cannons that had been placed on the fixed gun carriage in front of Levi's array, as the fire rope had already burned into the medicine room, the carefully blended black powder instantly expanded, and the power generated had given the heavy iron ball terrifying power and inertia.

"Puff p

The strong body is extremely fragile, even if it is a dense formation, it has become the best example of testing the quality of the solid iron ball at this time, the solid iron ball with terrifying inertia and the strongest kinetic energy is rotating at high speed, and the unparalleled strength simply ignores whether it is leather armor or chain mail in front of it, or a strong body or half of an arm and thigh, only knowing that along the original fixed line forward, it is hard to blast up pieces of stumps and blood mist!

This is the power of artillery, especially in the face of the powerful lethal effect of the traditional formation in the Middle Ages, it is simply as terrifying as heavenly punishment!

Why the dense formation in the Middle Ages was eliminated, and why the invincible pike-phalanx of the Spanish Empire on land was eliminated, everything came down to the development of artillery.

All the medieval troops that still stick to the dense formation have been bombed in front of the artillery, and the invincible phalanx that was once the original of the Spanish Empire has also become a fixed target in front of the artillery.

Stalin once said in World War II that artillery is the god of war, so even in modern times, before artillery has fully reached the shocking level of later generations, it has replaced cavalry as the strongest striking weapon, with that furious roar and unparalleled artillery fire, to smash any enemy formation.

So much so that later, a battle could be without cavalry, but it could never be without artillery, and it was precisely because of the combination of flintlock pistols and artillery that cavalry changed from the identity of the king of land warfare to an auxiliary class!

And how can this group of Ketuv river thieves be a well-trained army? They're a murderous bunch of bandits at best!

The close-range bombardment of the four 12-pounder bronze falcon cannons and the eight 7-pounder cannons instantly pushed out twelve blood paths in the dense line of thousands of people, and the water thieves with stumps and short legs were still wailing, and the lucky water thieves around them had already splashed the blood of their companions after being shot just now.

This shelling caused at least more than 100 casualties of the water thieves, and even the lucky ones who survived had become cripples without hands and feet, but now they could no longer enter the battlefield, they could only lie on the ground and wail incessantly, and were even directly trampled on the ground by their red-eyed companions beside them, which became a stepping stone for them to start running and charging!

The group of water thieves were already hideous, they didn't expect the power of this cannon to be so great, and the two sides had already lost more than a hundred companions before they even made contact, but they were not indignant, but their eyes widened frantically, and they began to accelerate towards the front with all their strength with a howling grin.

Because they knew that the dwarven artillery could only shoot once, and it would take at least a few minutes for the next shot to be fired, and in such a long time, they raised their scimitars and broad-backed short knives, which were enough to slaughter the group of dwarven muskets in front of them, and the guys in the line were like a joke, and they used their bravery to win the battle!

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh—"

The terrible scream also appeared, the sound of tearing the air almost drowned out the howling wind, but it was not the artillery at the hill battery, but the ballista on the pirate warship that was still docked on the river, and the target was the condescending artillery position on the hill battery!

"Bang bang

The stone bullet that was bigger than a fist smashed heavily on the hill fort, and even a few Spanish sailors who stood at the top and couldn't dodge, did not bring any steel helmets or other heads to contact the whistling stone bullets, but heard a dull sound, and the whole red and white liquid instantly spilled all over the sandbags beside him, which also brought about the gradual casualties of Li Weijun.

Because not only this one stone bullet, but a series of thirty or forty stone bullets has enveloped the entire hill battery, this ancient long-range weapon that has been used for thousands of years is still with its unwilling to sink the anger, smashing the Spanish sailors who have not yet retracted into the bunker with luck and dizzy, and even killed four or five people on the spot, only to wake up this group of sailors, so that the pride in their hearts can also be quickly reined in.

This is a war to the death, even if they are facing the enemy of the Middle Ages, if they carelessly despise the enemy and have the slightest slackness, even if the final result can be won, it will be a disastrous victory of killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 themselves, which is not compatible at all!

And the dense thousands of water thieves on the river beach have already launched a charge, they run quickly and don't care about the wounded under their feet, just look at the thin line in front of them with scarlet eyes, the cruel smile on their faces makes them have enough confidence, because they have come to within 100 meters, both sides can even see the distance of each other's facial expressions, it only takes three or five seconds, and the distance red line where the tragic hand-to-hand combat can happen!

They gathered together, on good terms and on good terms, scheming to put their companions in front, and those who wanted to prove their loyalty to the Marsh Baron also rushed to the front, watching it get closer and closer, almost a breath or two to a distance of fifty meters, and the sinister smile on their faces became more and more brilliant.

"Woo Woo T

But a burst of bean-like sound also appeared with Levi's fierce swing of the scimitar, and the front section of the thin line in front of him, which had opened a distance of a hundred meters, instantly appeared as thick as a mist, but before the bean-like sound completely entered the eardrum, the hundreds of water thieves who rushed to the front suddenly found themselves as if they had been hit by a sledgehammer to the body, and the original strength of the forward charge also suddenly stopped.

Then a sharp pain appeared in the body, and the Ketuf river thieves who rushed to the first two rows even ran two steps by inertia, and then fell to their knees with weak legs, watching the smoke that was almost within reach in front of them gradually thickened, and a stream of blood also rushed to their throats in an instant.

It was the dwarven musket, almost all the water thieves had this idea in their hearts, and the crowding and pushing behind also made the water thieves in front of them who were already a little afraid continue to run, they were still crowded and densely charged, because even the hundred guards who were still in the array, not under the slightest command and out of control, were also howling wildly, angrily scolding the sailors beside them to continue to charge forward.

Because in their impression, the dwarven muskets can only be released once, and after the group of guys who seem to be regular soldiers are all released, it is they who carry weapons and slaughter their opponents like pigs and sheep in hand-to-hand combat, which they are better at!

That is, in their impression, their plans and ideas, in their own opinion, are really good!

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