433 Firearms harvesting
The huge casualties caused by the muskets were not enough to pose a great threat to the Black Hawk Army's array of tens of thousands of people, not to mention the entire Black Hawk Army now, and there were more than 50,000 troops.
But this kind of crushing style without fighting back is extremely traumatic for the Black Eagle soldiers. It was even more terrifying than magic, because they couldn't see a single element of magic, and when they heard a loud bang and smoke, they saw the person standing in front of them fall.
"Is this magic or the devil?"
"Death's harvest?"
"Great God of Light, come and save us!"
Some warriors with weak mental willpower began to cry out and even pray for the blessing of the gods. To them, these Storm Gunners are like the Grim Reaper harvesting lives, and they are completely defenseless.
Seeing this great change on the battlefield, Duke Blair's face was also full of shock, and he called the Black Shadow Cavalry Commander Kabu, who had dealt with the Storm Army before, and asked him: "Kabu, what is going on with the Storm Army, do they have such a strong strength?"
Kabu happened to see the scene of the last round of guns firing just now, and his face was also full of shock at this time, and he couldn't believe his eyes. He could only turn his head to Duke Blair and say, "I have been in contact with the Storm Army before, and I have not found anything special except that they are far better equipped than ordinary little lords. And Duke is the son of Duke Otto, and it is not unusual to have more equipment than the minor lord. ”
"But I've never seen these weird musketeers, and the dwarven musketeers have been missing from the continent for hundreds of years, where did the Storm Army get the technology? More importantly, from the historical records, the power of the dwarven musketeers is far less than that of the current Storm Army. ”
Kabu said what was in his heart, the scene in front of him was too amazing and unexpected for him, he didn't expect such a situation to happen at all.
Hearing this sentence from Commander Ka'b, Duke Blair knew that he couldn't ask anything. At the same time, Duke's Storm Wagon pressed forward again, and at the same time, the Storm Musket Team had finished loading, and under the command of the team officer, a second round of three-stage fire came towards the Black Hawk military formation.
This round of shooting began, and the disciplined Black Hawk Army no longer had the means to maintain a neat queue like before. After all, this kind of attack is too terrifying for them, they are simply standing still and waiting to die.
Some Black Hawk soldiers began to riot, and more people couldn't control their instincts and retreated behind them, and the entire Black Hawk Army's defense line could clearly be seen to be in a U-shape. Duke wasn't much surprised by this situation, on the contrary, he was more optimistic about the performance of the Black Hawks.
You must know that when the Middle Ages entered the age of firearms, many feudal empires faced the attack of this kind of hot weapons, which was basically a general scene of slaughter, as long as they heard the gunshots, let alone a queue, they all scattered and fled, and the Black Eagle Army could still insist on maintaining a formation in the face of the slaughter of unknown weapons, even if it was a row of falls, which can already be seen to be disciplined.
It's just that if this situation continues, the Black Hawk Army in front of them will be like lambs to the slaughter, facing a complete slaughter. Duke Blair also knew a little bit about the principle of the dwarven musket team, and understood that this situation could not continue any longer, so he said to Kabu beside him: "Kabu, you lead 10,000 Black Eagle Knights, and you will break through to the formation of the storm army at all costs!"
"Yes, Lord Duke!"
Kabu didn't hesitate at all, and directly led the order to start assembling the Black Hawk cavalry.
The only way to destroy the current one-sided slaughter was to rush to the past, the infantry marched too slowly, and now that the Black Eagle infantry had been frightened, forcing them to attack might have the opposite effect, and cavalry was the best means at this time.
The 10,000 Black Hawk cavalry is all the cavalry units brought out by the Black Hawk Army this time. This is not because the Black Eagle Army only has such a small number of cavalry, but because the consumption of cavalry is much greater than that of infantry of the same size, plus this time it is only an ambush and surrounding, and there is no need for cavalry to pursue, in order to reduce the pressure on logistics, so only this 10,000 cavalry was sent to deal with the need from time to time.
Therefore, the 10,000 Black Hawk cavalry is the new force of the Black Hawk Army at present, they have not participated in any battles, nor have they pursued the Guards Legion that broke through before, they are just waiting for this opportunity!
Duke in the distance was originally full of excitement, because this battle was far easier than he imagined, which could not be described as crushing, or even slaughter, after all, the Black Hawk Army had no room to fight back.
But when he noticed that the Black Hawk cavalry in the distance was starting to assemble, Duke sensed that something was wrong, and in the early stages of the muskets, the biggest nemesis was actually these cavalry. A distance of 100 meters is only a few seconds for the cavalry that has already charged, and in this era there is no machine gun like Gatling, and the fire of the platoon gun is completely unable to suppress the charging cavalry.
So the expression on Duke's face changed from a smile at the beginning to a serious one, and he knew that the most critical moment was coming, as long as he survived the cavalry level, the next time was when the Black Hawk Army collapsed.
This is not Duke's self-confidence, but a confused army, which inevitably needs to be trimmed in the face of unknown weapons. As a famous saying in later generations, what human beings fear is not ghosts, but the unknown.
The unknown is the source of fear for human beings, and if there are really any ghosts and gods in the world, as long as they are fully understood by humans, there will not be so many people in the world who are afraid of ghosts. Therefore, the Black Hawk Army will inevitably need a process of psychological transformation and understanding, if it is forcibly fought, it will trigger a large-scale rout of the soldiers, and the losses to the Hans Empire will be even greater.
"Allen, Karl, all on guard!"
Duke shouted at this time, in fact, he had a record of cavalry charges before. However, this record was originally not used to deal with the Black Eagle Army of the Hans Empire, but to deal with the barbarian cavalry, and now it can be used.
With Duke's order, the first to act was the Storm Logistics Army, who changed the carriage from horizontal to reverse, reducing the gap between the two carriages and ensuring that this gap could not allow the cavalry to rush in. At the same time, in these gaps, the Storm Army's spears were deep, almost like a steel hedgehog, firmly protecting the musketeers in the center of the camp! <