Chapter Eighty-Nine: Rescuing Baron Sol (Part II)

This set of tactics is simple, but it is very effective, and the troops under the command of Baron Thor have been easily hit by them by this style of play, if Baron Thor is brave enough and has an extremely elite hoplite under his command to open the way, he will not have a chance to break through to the small dirt slope to defend it.

"Captain, do you want to have a few rockets first?" Du Yonggang looked at the enemy cavalry troops that were divided into three waves and pressed head-on, and proposed on the side, after all, the rockets had not been used in actual combat after they were made!

Ye Tianlong vetoed Du Yonggang's proposal after observing for a while, after all, the accuracy of those rockets has always been a big problem, and they can only be used to hit those relatively large enemy forces.

At the moment, the size of these enemy forces is barely enough, but because they are all cavalry, they move very fast, and it is difficult to lock on and aim, and it is difficult to hit them if you use those rockets.

Because the rockets were very large, he only carried a total of twenty this time, so he didn't want to waste them here, and then use them when he encountered the enemy's large-scale infantry or siege of the city.

At this time, the commander of the opposite side of the Swadia Kingdom, Count Harungos, was rapidly approaching the enemy army with his own cavalry troops.

In the process, he was also observing the reaction of the enemy army, after all, not everyone could continue to hold on to the spot without changing his face in the face of the charge of more than 800 cavalry.

Some of the motley units with relatively low morale were frightened into scattering and fleeing without even waiting for the cavalry troops to rush in front of them. Only those regular elite soldiers can still calmly respond to the charge of cavalry with more troops than their own.

And the group of enemies in front of him should be this kind of elite, because Count Harungos found that in the process of his cavalry troops getting faster and faster, and rapidly approaching, the enemy troops on the opposite side also seemed very calm, and none of them showed signs of fleeing.

What Count Harungus didn't know was that although the earliest batch of soldiers under Ye Tianlong's command was less than a month old, they had already experienced two major battles, and they were all neat and tidy victories.

As a result, these soldiers were confident in the power of their firearms, and did not feel that the enemy forces that were still using cold weapons would be able to defeat them.

Soon, the cavalry troops, whose speed had been completely raised, narrowed the distance between the two sides to within five hundred meters, so in the vehicle formation on Ye Tianlong's side, those artillery pieces opened fire one after another.

Unfortunately, these small-caliber guns not only had far less range and power than heavy guns, but even their accuracy was very poor, and only seven or eight shells of twenty guns successfully hit the enemy knights after a salvo.

However, this cannon is a cannon, and although it is a little less powerful, it is still more than enough to bombard people, even if it is aimed at Svadia knights who are all armed with sturdy sleeveless plate armor and wear barrel helmets.

After being hit by a cannonball, these well-armored hoplites could not avoid being smashed to the ground and dying on the spot.

One of the Svadia knights was hit in the waist by a cannonball, and his upper body was directly cut off by a cannonball carrying huge kinetic energy, and after falling from his horse, he was quickly trampled into a pile of flesh by the hooves of his comrades who rushed after, while his lower body was still riding on the war horse, following most of them to continue to charge.

Because the damage caused is not much, and some more powerful ballistas can also cause similar effects, so Count Harungos was not too surprised by the casualties of this round of shelling his own side, but felt a little curious that the opponent's weapon could make such a loud explosion when it was fired, and wanted to wait until the battle was over to capture a few to study.

Because the impact speed of the cavalry troops was too fast, even the small-caliber artillery designed by Luo Chenguang, which could achieve rapid bursts by replacing the sub-guns, was only barely three rounds when the opponent approached within 100 meters of his own vehicle formation.

Fortunately, at this time, those flintlock muskets can be regarded as entering their effective range, in fact, if they are facing those lightly armored or even unarmored enemy targets, the flintlock rifles can cause effective damage when they are 150 meters away or even 200 meters away.

But the problem is that the enemy army Ye Tianlong and the others are facing this time are well-equipped heavy cavalry, so it is safer to put them within 100 meters, otherwise the distance is too far, and the power of the bullet is reduced too much, and they may not be able to break the enemy's defense at all.

With the continuous sound of gunfire, the Swadia knights who rushed to the front soon burst out of blood and fell from their horses screaming.

More than 300 flintlock riflemen lined up in a dense formation, and after raising the rifle in their hands to shoot at completion, they quickly handed the fired rifle to their comrades behind them, and then took a flintlock rifle that had been loaded with bullets and continued to shoot forward.

This style of play made the flintlock musketeers under Ye Tianlong's command fire extremely fast in the first few dozen seconds, and the loud gunshots were one after another. Because of the dense position, the bullets fired are also very dense, which increases the hit rate, and every salvo will be shot, and twenty or thirty Swadia knights will be hit.

As a result, after a few rounds of shooting, the casualties on the side of the Swadia Kingdom exceeded more than 100 people, and most of them were the most elite Svadian knights.

This made the Earl of Harongoth, who led the team, twitch in heartache, after all, it is really not an easy thing to cultivate such a heavy knight with horse armor!

This time, in order to successfully get rid of Baron Thor, the enemy general, he brought a third of his Svadia knights, and if they were all lost here, even if he could escape afterwards, he would probably be killed by the enraged King Harlaus and other nobles.

However, at this time, it is not a way to lead the army to retreat, which will only make the casualties of his soldiers more heavy, and it will not be able to cause any damage to the enemy army.

So Harungus could only grit his teeth and continue to lead his cavalry to charge, and at the same time he was worried about the enemy's long-range weapons that could easily shoot heavy cavalry, and prepared to capture some more samples and bring them back after defeating this group of enemies, so that his domestic craftsmen could copy them.

And just when Harungos was still thinking about capturing some more long-range weapons of the enemy, Ye Tianlong's artillery on their side was also reloaded, and this time it was still loaded with scattered bullets.

At this time, the enemy cavalry also rushed to a distance of less than fifty meters from the vehicle formation, and had already entered the effective range of the artillery scatterfire.

As a result, the twenty guns were quickly ignited, and then a series of cannon sounds rang out one after another, and a large area of scattered steel balls also sprayed out from the muzzles of the guns, forming a fan-shape, fiercely strafing the many enemy cavalry in front.

With a loud and miserable shouting of horses, the Swadia knights in the front were almost swept away, and the Swadia heavy cavalry in the rear also had more than 200 horses swept down, and a large number of human corpses and horse corpses instantly blocked the way forward, so that the speed of the cavalry in the rear was greatly affected, and it was impossible to rush to the front of the enemy at high speed to launch a cavalry charge.

And Ye Tianlong's blow on their side was not over, and soon hundreds of soldiers with relatively strong strength selected from the army came to the front of the formation with the newly improved grenade, and threw the grenade in their hands into the enemy formation.

After more than a hundred grenades fell, there was a violent explosion in the enemy's cavalry group, and a large number of heavy cavalry were killed by the company with their mounts, although some of the war horses were not directly hit, but the loud sound of the explosion and the dazzling fire also made them fall into a panic, and they no longer listened to the instructions of their masters, but only knew how to flee in various directions in a panic.

The commander of the Swadia Kingdom's side, Count Harungos, was not spared in this round of explosions, and was directly thrown off his mount by the air wave of the explosion, and then was trampled on the body several times by the two cavalry horses behind him, spurting blood from his mouth, and died miserably.

After two more rounds of grenade bombardment and a volley of flintlock rifles, through the fading smoke, Ye Tianlong found that there was no longer a single enemy still standing in front of him, so he ordered his soldiers to stop continuing to attack.

Then Ye Tianlong opened a passage behind the side of the car formation, and he rushed out of the car formation with more than a dozen of his personal guards and master Li Rufeng and other masters, and went to check the casualties of the enemy army.

What made Ye Tianlong breathe a sigh of relief was that the enemy's more than 800 cavalry seemed to have been completely annihilated, at least he couldn't see a few enemy soldiers who were still alive in his eyes, under the fierce fire of his own side, the enemy soldiers were seriously injured even if they were not dead, and they completely lost their combat effectiveness.

What made him a little sorry was that most of the enemy's war horses died under the attack of their own dense firepower, these are all strong war horses that can charge in armor! There are really only a handful of good horses like this in the Nord Kingdom, he used to have nowhere to buy them even if he wanted to, but now he has directly killed hundreds of them, how could Ye Tianlong not feel distressed.

After confirming that the enemy cavalry unit had really been completely wiped out, Ye Tianlong asked his soldiers to come over to clean up the battlefield, and at the same time took his personal guards to start collecting the enemy horses that were still alive.

Because these war horses were all touching muskets and artillery for the first time, they were all frightened at this time, neighing and scurrying around on the battlefield, Ye Tianlong and they spent a while to finally gather up the dozen or so war horses that were still alive.