435 Black Hawk Charges
In the era of cold weapons, the queue is the standard for measuring the combat effectiveness of the army, and the same is true for the queue forward, once the queue is dispersed, facing the opponent's dense queue phalanx, it is basically like facing a steel hedgehog, and you can't find the next chance if you want to start.
This is the result of habit and tactics, in the eyes of Duke, such an attack is simply stupid, but in the eyes of the tacticians of this world, being able to attack and retreat in a neat queue is the sign of an elite army!
It was precisely because of this neat queue that they once again suffered what is called mowing the grass. The three-stage platoon gun is basically a perfect fit for the advance queue of the Black Hawk Army, and in just a few tens of meters, nearly two thousand Black Hawk soldiers have fallen, and it can be said that the Black Hawk Army has stepped on the corpses of their comrades along the way.
This scene really made Duke see the cruelty of war, and also saw how powerless backward fighting methods are in the face of advanced wars. In fact, in modern times, Duke also experienced one such war, that is, the Gulf War of that year.
With thousands of tanks and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi troops, everyone thought that the Gulf War would be as heavy a loss to the U.S. military as the Vietnam War and the Korean War. But the actual situation is that in the face of digital warfare, all tanks have become steel coffins, and when hundreds of thousands of troops finally collapse, the enemy's casualties have not exceeded 100, and the final casualties are basically fought by ground security warfare.
It is an irony that the regular army is inferior to the guerrilla security war. But if they told other empires on the continent about the situation in front of them, even the Holy See, it is estimated that they would not believe that the powerful Black Eagle Army would face such a slaughter scene, and they would not even arrive in front of the enemy.
It is even no exaggeration to say that even in the previous forbidden wars, as long as there were enough precautions, such a tragic scene would not occur. This is not war, it is a one-sided slaughter!
Rounds of gun shooting, the smoke of gunpowder has even filled the entire Storm Army's position, the Storm Musketeers at this moment are like demons from hell in the eyes of the Black Eagle Army soldiers, and they no longer have the courage to rush forward less than thirty meters away from the Storm Army, because they can clearly see the fire and smoke of the guns, as well as the expressionless face of the Storm Army brought by the slaughter!
Seeing the fear of the Black Hawk Army, Duke also stood on top of the carriage with a cold face at this time, then pulled out the long sword in his hand, pointed the sword in the direction of the Black Hawk Army and said: "Warriors of the Storm Army, it is time for them to see who is the most powerful warrior on this continent!"
Duke didn't choose to let the Storm Musketeers continue to shoot, but planned to let the soldiers of the 1st and 3rd Regiments of the Storm Army feel the battle between iron and blood. This is not because Duke is arrogant, thinking that the current Black Hawk soldiers are no longer vulnerable, but because of the long platoon shooting, the barrels of the storm muskets are now red, and many storm musketeers are reloading with scorching heat and burns.
This is not the most important thing, because a long shot will cause the rigidity of the barrel to plummet, and there is a risk of exploding. Duke didn't care about the casualties caused by the bombing, but once the massive bombing was discovered by the Black Hawks, then the greatest deterrent would be gone.
In fact, so far, the real killing and wounding of the Black Hawk infantry should not be more than 3,000 people, which is not an exaggerated figure for the Black Hawk Army of 10,000, and it is a small casualty for the Black Hawk Army with a base of 50,000.
But the psychological shock brought by the musket has far exceeded its lethality, at least Duke can clearly see the dazed and fearful eyes of the Black Hawk Army on the other side. If it weren't for the fact that the Black Eagle Army was an elite border army, which had experienced countless wars and had flowed out of the mountains of corpses and blood, it would have collapsed long ago.
Therefore, this deterrent force cannot be broken, at least not at this stage, fear is contagious, as long as the Black Hawk Army of 10,000 is defeated, the last 30,000 Black Hawk Army besieging the First Legion of the Empire will also be frightened by the mysterious object of muskets, which is Duke's biggest trick.
Moreover, the Black Hawk Army, which has now lost its combat effectiveness, just happened to be used to train with the Storm Army, and the army that has not faced blood and death has never faced blood and death, and the pressure resistance of this army is absolutely impossible to be high. Before complete industrialization, it is impossible to leave everything to the musketeers in the future, and there will be a moment of brutal hand-to-hand combat.
Even if it enters the era of industrialization, there will be bloody war scenes, so it is impossible to make the first and third regiments of the storm army completely treat them as bystanders, and blood will be seen when they come out of the sheath!
With Duke's order, the heavily armed Storm Heavy Infantry Regiment began to assault the Black Hawk Army in front of him. At the same time, in order to avoid excessive casualties, some of the Storm Musketeers were still shooting at the rear positions, cutting off the reinforcements of the Black Hawks.
The Storm Army of bright silver plate armor was like a tidal wave, oppressing the Black Eagle Army in black iron armor to retreat. At this moment, the casualties of the Black Eagle Army began to increase instantly, after all, the number of three thousand Storm Army far exceeded the number of one thousand Storm Musketeers.
At the same time, as the storm army charged, the Black Hawk Legion began to inevitably collapse and retreat. When he saw this scene, Duke knew that the time had come, so he immediately gave the order to attack, and let the Storm Army drive the rout of the Black Hawk Army and charge towards the encirclement of the First Legion of the Empire.
Generally, in the situation of ancient cold weapons, there are pressure players, and the meaning of their existence is to kill some rout soldiers who escaped from the battle. However, this time the attack of the storm army was sudden, plus the number of five thousand storm troops, and there were fifty thousand troops on his side, which still needed to suppress the battle, it is estimated that Duke Blair would feel that it was an insult to himself.
But many things in this world are like this, 10,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry, not only have they not fought the 6,000 Storm Army, but they can't even inflict any casualties on the other side. The only few people the Stormtroopers killed before the raid were all wounded by stray arrows.
With the rout of the Black Hawk Army's infantry regiment, it directly hit the Black Hawk Army's camp besieging the First Legion of the Empire. In the face of these own people, it is impossible for ordinary soldiers to kill them, so they can only let them rush into the camp.
Some of the Black Eagle Army generals are also in a state of complete confusion, isn't it the Storm Army attacking. On the scale of 5,000 people, how could such a scene occur?