Princess Gina's surprised appearance and Marquis Stilwell's answer were actually expected by Duke, unless Marquis Stilwell's brain was broken, he would be stupid enough to ask for His Royal Highness in this situation, can or who is willing to die?

If it weren't for the current state of the First Legion of the Empire, it would be vulnerable to the Hans Imperial cavalry, otherwise Duke would not have chosen the queen of the palace, and would have run away with his storm army a long time ago.

"Hear it, hurry up and leave, otherwise when the Hans Imperial cavalry comes over, you won't be able to leave if you want to!"

Duke continued to speak angrily, and then waved his hand at Jina, women are trouble, I don't know if it's good to be naïve or stupid, I really don't have a sense of politics!

"Your Royal Highness Princess, let's go!"

In the face of the double persuasion of Duke and Marquis Stilwell, Princess Jina had nothing to say at this time, she could only look at Duke hatefully, and then ordered the soldiers of the First Legion of the Empire: "All the soldiers of the First Legion of the Empire obeyed the order and immediately prepared to retreat towards the defense line of the northern defense line. ”

At the same time, the Storm Army also took action, and immediately transferred all the wounded to the other 500 Storm Wagons, and the remaining 500 Storm Carriages began to form a circle and surround the Storm Army. The Storm Musketeers, on the other hand, were methodically loading their bullets and unconsciously pouring more gunpowder.

Because they all knew that with the current number and power of the Storm Musketeers, it would be impossible to annihilate the more than 20,000 Hans Imperial cavalry. There is only one way to defeat them, and that is to scare the horses with the loud noise of muskets, as before, and eventually cause confusion in their formation.

In order to make a louder sound, only by increasing the amount of propellant, the normal propellant is generally six to eighty percent of the shooting standard, which can slow down the loss of the gunpowder expansion gas on the barrel, and it is relatively safe.

But now these storm musketeers have basically placed twelve percent of the propellant, which will make the spear more powerful, used to penetrate the heavy armor of the Hans cavalry, and the sound of the musket will be twice as loud as before, and the war horse should be more easily frightened.

For their actions, Duke can only say that the quality of the muskets in Storm Castle is still strictly controlled, otherwise let alone killing the enemy, it is estimated that just the explosion can scare these storm musketeers into not even firing their guns.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the bird gun was because the explosion rate was so amazing, so that when the soldiers launched, they directly deflected their heads as far as they could, for fear that the enemy would not hit, but because of the explosion, they would die first.

In this way of shooting, don't think about the hit rate at all, so at the last moment, Daming's firearms are really not as good as burning sticks, which also leads to the Qing army behind looking down on Daming's firearms, and finally the firearms that are almost the same era as the European Middle Ages, are slowly thrown farther and farther away by the other party.

When Duke set up the storm wagons, the First Imperial Army on the other side was also assembled, and the wounded soldiers were concentrated on five hundred storm wagons, which was also half of the capacity of the Duke Storm Army. There is no so-called farewell and hypocrisy, the First Legion of the Empire must seize this last time and evacuate before the Hans Imperial knights are not pursued, otherwise once they are bypassed by the Hans Imperial cavalry, it will be a textbook pursuit.

All the First Legions gathered to evacuate, and they looked at the Storm Army standing behind the temple in place, and the expressions on their faces were very solemn, because they knew what it meant to take the initiative to ask the queen in this situation.

There is always a kind of sympathy between soldiers, and it has nothing to do with politics or camps, let alone the fact that the Storm Army has saved them before. The same is true for Princess Jena, she looked at the tall voice and shadow standing on the carriage, she never felt that Duke was so great, it can be said that Duke turned the tide this time and indirectly saved the entire French Empire. Otherwise, after the First Legion of the Empire was annihilated, it would be a disastrous consequence for the French Empire.

Just as Duke set up the array, ready to welcome the arrival of the Hans Imperial cavalry, he suddenly felt a slight vibration in the ground. Experienced veterans quickly lay on the ground at this time to determine the source of the shaking sound.

"Tell the lord, it's a massive cavalry coming!"

Hearing the announcement of the storm guards beside him, Duke had a look of surprise on his face, because this strong vibration represented the sound of a war horse galloping. And once the war horses gallop, it means that they are going to charge.

But the problem is that according to Duke's estimate, the Hans Imperial cavalry should not have arrived so soon, and it will take a while to form a formation when they see the large forces of the Storm Army. Cavalry is not like infantry, no matter what era, as long as it is not completely eliminated, a collective charge is indispensable, and the power and deterrence of scattered cavalry will decline in geometric multiples.

The Hans Imperial cavalry began to charge a few kilometers away? This idea came to Duke's mind, because of the terrain of the steppe, it was no problem to see ten kilometers from the widest place. And there is a small dirt slope in front of Duke's eyes, which is about three kilometers away.

The physical strength of the war horse is very precious, and the era of cold weapons will not start to accelerate the charge after such a long time of three kilometers, and the generals of the Hans Empire will not be so stupid. Then there is only one possibility to do this, they don't want to let go of the First Legion of the Empire, and directly start charging and surrounding?

If this is the case, it means that the Hans Imperial cavalry has made up their minds to annihilate this French Imperial legion at all costs. At the same time, the First Legion of the Empire, which was just about to set off, was also extremely pale, and their current situation was even worse than that of the previous camp in the Storm Army, and what they were most afraid of was facing the pursuit of cavalry without fortifications.

However, soon, some soldiers found that the direction of the trembling ground was not the grassland, but the position of the northern defense line of the French Empire behind them, and even a large area of dust could be seen, which should be a cavalry unit galloping from the French Empire.

The cavalry troops of the French Empire? Duke began to think in his mind, the cavalry troops of the French Empire are not absent, and the Imperial Northern Army has guards and lion troops. But the question is that Duke knows that the lion army has also been surrounded, how did this cavalry come from?