Chapter 594: Inevitable Defeat
This time, although there were more than 2,000 defenders in the Beran barracks, in fact, those troops who had recovered their organization had basically gone out to hunt down Luo Ming or fetch water to put out the fire, and those who remained in the camp were scattered sand.
The total number of Schönbrunn troops who came in from the front of the camp gate was only 1,000 men, but they were always able to have a numerical advantage on the local battlefield, using hundreds against dozens or one or two hundred, and easily crushing wave after wave of enemies.
This wave of troops was not just Lockin's own roots—half of his most elite troops were by the river—but also the men of the Gartai mercenary regiment, especially their cavalry.
The Gartai mercenary group is a little less disciplined, but in today's melee situation, it is much stronger than the spearmen, and it is a pleasure to kill.
And the successive routs and screams terrified those enemies who had not yet engaged.
Although some small units gradually restored order, their leaders definitely did not want to stay here to die, or use the few men in their hands to block the enemy's footsteps as a car, so they simply organized soldiers to protect themselves and evacuate to join the large army outside the camp.
On the river, Beran's infantry charged at Lomin's position, while the cavalry outflanked from both sides.
The remnants of the mage group teamed up to unleash a spell of illumination, so that the charging men and horses did not have to worry about stumbling and falling in the night, and Beran's archers were also able to aim and shoot.
But it also created a better view for Lomin's soldiers, and muskets and artillery continued to fire with higher accuracy, first firing a wave of shotguns at the Beran archers, and then firing head-on at the enemy.
Next, before the Berans could approach the spear formation, they had already been knocked down in large numbers, allowing them to crash into the spear formation in a very loose and almost disorganized formation.
Originally, in front of the orderly spear array, even a fully organized elite division would have to spend a lot of effort to make a breakthrough, but now there is no hope at all.
Even the cavalry, at most, only rushed to the third row. But this was not even a third of the thickness of the spear phalanx, and rushing here could only be said to have trapped himself in a heavy encirclement, and was quickly killed.
Even the swordsman took the lead in the charge - Luo Ming stood on the high ground and saw a heroic knight with a glint shining on his body, about to rush into the spear array, so he directly swung the Heavenly Power Sword.
He didn't need a skill like the Sword of the Little Princes at all, in order to save energy, he almost pressed the power of the Heavenly Power Sword to the minimum, but this was enough to directly knock the knight off the horse, and then he was trampled by the cavalry hooves behind him a few times, Luo Ming felt pain for him.
Being trampled by a horse's hooves was no less than being hit by a war hammer, the swordsman staggered to his feet, seemed to be a little unconscious, shook his head, and then found that the cavalry around him could not break into the spear formation, and in order to avoid being entangled in the formation, he had to retreat first.
As a result, he was left alone in front of the spear array.
Sensing that there were two terrifying beings behind this spear array, he didn't dare to continue forward, and hurriedly ran away—and threw down the sword in his hand to reduce his burden.
This guy is lucky, maybe he has been tested by war in the Beran Federation for a long time, and he made a few twists in the process of escaping, although this is a means of dodging bows and arrows, but at the moment it is also useful for lead bullets, dodging a lot of shots, and finally with two blood holes on his back, he still returned to the front of the battle alive.
However, being injured by two buckshot shots is not a minor injury in any case.
And if he doesn't treat the wound carefully enough, and even a little bit of the fragments of the lead bullet remain in his body, he will slowly get lead poisoning.
Even if it is a swordsman, lead poisoning is by no means a pleasant thing, Luo Ming learned from Granty that there was a period of time in the history of this world when lead wine glasses were popular, and as a result, many strong people suffered from it, their intelligence declined, and it also affected fertility or something.
Luo Ming didn't even think he would live long enough to live to the day of lead poisoning.
And although the people of Belan felt that he had escaped death, the bloody wound on his back still reminded every Belan master that they still needed humility and caution on the battlefield of hundreds or thousands of people.
With an outlier among swordsmen like Luo Ming, and a genuine great swordsman like Grandi, no swordsman in Belan's army dared to charge alone for a while.
But they were still furious now, and they refused to give up, so they directly gathered five swordsmen to make spearheads together, and all kinds of magic blessings flashed on their bodies, leading a cavalry to continue to rush over!
Then, the cannon sounded, the aura was almost all extinguished, and the two swordsmen were directly beaten into a sieve by the shotgun, and the remaining three swordsmen were also seriously injured.
The spearhead of this round of charge was already half defeated, but it could not be retreated like this, and most of the Belans still had the courage to continue to rush forward.
At this moment, suddenly there were many shouts and screams from behind them, not one or two, not just a few dozens, but hundreds of people shouting together, so that the Belan soldiers couldn't help but look at the rear in shock.
Soon, the soldiers who escaped from the camp passed the bad news to the Beran army, and although the Belan army hierarchy tried their best to hide the news, as more and more deserters rushed in and spread the news quickly, it became an impossible task.
Before the second wave of shock launched by the Berans was exhausted, they heard the Chinese army blowing the trumpet of retreat, and although they were puzzled, most of them could only obey the order and retreat.
Luo Ming guessed that the original intention of the Berans was to gather mobile forces to deal with the army that had just finished the camp and was about to backstab them.
But this kind of move undoubtedly gave Luo Ming's side a respite!
Although the spear phalanx was very strong, it was naturally a little damaged by now, and at this moment they urgently reorganized their formation, and when they were roughly restored, they took up their spears and walked forward in unison to the shouts of the officers.
The musketeers divided into smaller phalanxes and followed behind the spears, stopping to shoot and then moving forward.
And Lormine Grant and the others led the cavalry, which had recovered a certain amount of physical strength, to rush out from behind the spearmen.
The artillerymen, although still in place, had switched to solid shell mode and began long-range shelling.
At this moment, the Meiquan Army has completely grasped the initiative on the battlefield, although the number of troops is small, but it takes the initiative to attack everywhere, the soldiers are sharp, and under the heavy punches, the Belan Army is overwhelmed.
And although the Beran people still have more than 2,000 troops, they are already like dizzy flies, and they cannot escape defeat!