Chapter 89: Counter-Charge (3)
A small group of guards, escorting Raul and the magicians to retreat, and more guards, led by the captains of the guards and the officers at all levels of the guards, drew their swords, raised the spears in their hands, and bravely charged the soldiers of the National Salvation Army who rushed in, organized an array, and tried to delay the pace of the National Salvation Army.
The lowest rank of the guards is the ordinary soldiers, then the five soldiers have a captain, the ten soldiers have a captain, the hundred-man team has a centurion, the thousand-man team has a thousand-commander, and the ten thousand people are a legion, and the regimental commander is set up for the 10,000-person regiment. But no matter what kind of strength you are or how strong your martial arts are, you are unconditionally controlled by even the most junior magicians in the ranks, just because these people do not care about their military ranks, but commoners are commoners, and there is always an insurmountable gap between them and the nobles.
The so-called guards in the provincial city are only a little bit better than the salary, and they can't get any status.
However, the guards of these provincial cities more or less have their own persistence and have a more honest quality. If it weren't for the fact that they looked more or less rustic, trained harder, and were more able to endure hardships and crimes, they would not have been favored by these noble lords and selected to be guards in the provincial city of Montelj.
However, the inferior people can't be equal to the superior people after all, just like the black slave before Tsuneishi crossed, even if the black slave is high, he can't escape a slave word.
Raul ran away with his head without looking back, these magicians could still protect them to maintain the minimum dignity of the nobles when their lives were not threatened, but now, they would like to put on a pair of wings and run faster.
But these simple guards, under the leadership of the thousand-man captains and twenty centurions of the two provincial towns, stubbornly raised the cold weapons in their hands, and unswervingly unfolded an array towards the soldiers of the People's Salvation Army who charged over.
Bow crossbow, that's non-existent. The entire kingdom has a forbidden attitude towards bows and crossbows, and there is no need to use them as guards. Because the bow and crossbow are the only long-range weapons that ordinary civilians can use to attack magicians from a distance. Although the bow and crossbow can't hurt high-level mages, as well as mages. But for the level of a magician, it can still pose a threat.
The aristocracy belonged to the ruling class, and even the lowest junior magicians were nobles. Naturally, he will not give these civilians under his command a chance to rebel against him. But you have to ask why the commoners don't rebel against the magicians, just because the magician class naturally protects each other, and the magicians also come from the magicians. And the most basic magicians, such as Luther, let alone bows and crossbows, when the number of people is small, they can't help but hold a gun, and naturally ordinary people can't afford to resist the magic class. Because status is never an individual battle, when you are facing a class, a group, it doesn't matter how the minority is.
In the face of these guards armed with cold weapons, the People's Salvation Army did not hesitate at all. Those magicians just now took the lives of countless brothers in the People's Army. And now these guards are holding knives and guns, and their attitude is self-evident before the People's Salvation Army attacks the road.
The People's Salvation Army raised its rifles and advanced its own troops as they fired at the soldiers with swords and guns in a stubborn formation of infantry.
They loaded, fired, reloaded, shot. In a short period of time, the guards had fallen in patches, as if they were harvesting wheat.
The centurion, and even the thousand-torn, were shocked, they really couldn't imagine that these soldiers in front of them, who looked like them and couldn't use magic, could use the weapons in their hands to unleash such a sharp attack.
This attack, let alone armor, can't be stopped by a thick shield. The middle one immediately fell to the ground and lost his ability to fight, and soon died of exhaustion. Some of them hit the head without even making a sound, and their heads exploded like broken melons and fruits, losing all their vitality.
People are like this, if they are within the scope of their own understanding, even if it is fear, there is a degree. Just like these guards in front of him, even if they are slashed with knives, axes, and spears pierced into their bodies when they fight, they are as brave as centurions and thousands, and the scars on their bodies can crawl all over their backs, they will not frown.
But the musket, a weapon that was beyond their imagination and beyond their comprehension, was the one that really terrified them.
Finally, not only ordinary soldiers, but even the captains and chiefs of the ranks, seeing that the people around them could not even touch the figure of the enemy on the opposite side, lost their minds, lost all their courage, determination and honor, they threw away their weapons and turned around to try to escape.
And there is naturally a team of warlords behind him, and those who can be the team of warlords are naturally the most elite and loyal soldiers in the hands of centurions or thousands. They immediately slashed down some of the soldiers who tried to escape, trying to hold their ground. However, more and more soldiers tried to escape, and gradually they overwhelmed the warlords, and large swaths of guards turned their weapons towards their former comrades.
The soldiers of the People's Salvation Army also noticed this trend, and Tsuneishi and Hal immediately issued an order, and everyone under them moved closer to the central area to break through.
This move of the People's Salvation Army greatly strengthened the intensity of the attack on the array of guard troops who had not had time to react, and gradually, from one point, the entire guard army began to collapse, and more and more soldiers fled, and gradually the People's Salvation Army was beaten into an inverted bead curtain.
Discovering the collapse of the guards, Hal was excited, and commanded his troops to frantically harvest the lives of the guards, but Tsuneishi did not fall in love with the battle, he shouted: "Interspersed, each company is interspersed in a company platoon, interspersed, and chiseled out of the enemy's array." ”
The herald rushed up and brought Tsuneishi's orders to each company, and Hal naturally reacted and adjusted the strategy of his troops following Tsuneishi's orders.
Li Duoduo, who received the order, was finally ashamed, he desperately commanded his troops to shoot at the enemy, and then regardless of whether these enemies were facing him or turning their backs to him, he fearlessly ordered his soldiers to speed up their running. If you dare to stop it, you will shoot it when you raise your hand. Face to face, let alone aiming, just shoot a shot, with the current power and caliber of the rifle, there is a big blood hole directly on the enemy's body, and then fly out sideways.
On the field, I saw two strands of enemies entangled, one running desperately, the other desperately chasing among these fleeing teams, the guard troops of the provincial city of Montelgi, miles and miles of miles, leaving countless corpses.
The battle began in the early morning, and lasted until the afternoon, and then chased until dusk. Finally, before the sun sets, Tsuneishi and Hal give the order to stop the pursuit. They gathered the soldiers in their hands.
It's not that I don't want to chase, it's not that I don't want to chase the lives of those damn magicians who run away first, it's just that if I chase down again, the enemy has an ambush, and my group of people has been tired for a whole day and a night, and the ammunition is basically exhausted, which is really a devastating blow.
On the plains, not to mention the battalion company, even the platoon has been scattered in the pursuit. After giving the order to stop the pursuit, Tsuneishi Har wasted a lot of effort to reorganize the group, and then a group of soldiers who were not organized and simply lined up dragged their tired bodies back to the town of Chel, in the direction they had come.
On the way back, although the soldiers were tired for a day, their morale was still high in the end. Despite the great sacrifices they made. Although they were still a little helpless under the attack of the magician in the case of the sneak attack, no matter what, they were the eldest son of the provincial family after all, and they were as gray as lost dogs. After all, they raised their eyebrows and played their own prestige.
And unlike the People's Salvation Army, Raul, who fled for his life and didn't dare to camp at night, was indeed like ashes, and all the magicians behind Raul were like defeating a rooster. The use of magic is not without a price. If you overdraw your mana, or ignore your own level and play with your life's urging magic, it will bring backlash to the user of these spells. Now, with the exception of Raul, most of the magicians are in a bad situation. And the magician Luther, who was still majestic before, was now lying on a simple stretcher carried by the guards, and rushed towards the nearest city on the avenue of the plain. His face is like golden paper, and his breath is like a gossamer. With his full strength, the magic that can cover two thousand people is already the limit, after all, he is a junior magician, not an intermediate, or even a high-level magician, let alone a magician who can change the pattern of a country at every turn.
What's more, forcibly supporting and urging such a huge amount of magic, but it was blown up with an explosive bag by the Salvation Army, and the strong magic backlash almost killed the magician on the spot, and poor Luther, the old butler who tried all his resources to help Raul win the war, was disgusted by Raul at this time.
"Why, I knew that he was so useless, and he was desperately discovered by his father, and I had to borrow two guests from my father." Raul hugged him in his arms and scolded Trissy, who was complaining to him. Instead of saying a word to the poor butler, Tracey added fuel and vinegar: "Alas, people are really digging out their hearts and lungs for you. It's not like some people, who are bombed by those damn civilians like that, and just lie down and don't hold on. Tracy squinted in Luther's direction, as if hoping that Luther would die soon, so that she, as the owner of rare magic, could continue to improve her position in Raul's heart.
Although Raul understood that Triss was picking on him, there had to be a place to vent his anger, of course, he didn't care what Triss said, but he just let out air from his nostrils and snorted coldly.