Chapter 92: Rescuing Fort Rudb (Part II)

As the fuses burned out, the twenty rockets erupted from the tail and swooped out from the launcher.

However, just as Ye Tianlong expected, the trajectory of these rockets began to be unstable after flying not far away, swaying left and right, even if the enemy army in front of him covered a large area in front of him, Ye Tianlong also tried his best to aim these rockets at the center of the enemy formation, but when these rockets flew out of more than 2,000 meters and finally landed, there were still five rounds that failed to land in the enemy formation.

However, the fifteen rockets that successfully fell into the enemy formation finally caused a lot of damage, after all, the charge of these rockets was sufficient, and after the violent explosion, they could basically lift all the enemy soldiers within a radius of thirty or forty meters. Fifteen rockets killed at least more than 200 enemy soldiers, including more than 50 heavy cavalry.

The most important thing is that the loud noise and fire generated during the explosion caused the morale of the enemy to drop greatly, and the formation caused a lot of confusion.

However, the war on the continent of Calradia has been raging for many years, and the quality of the regular soldiers of these countries is indeed good, which is enough to directly scare some cold weapons into collapse, but the rocket bombardment has not had much impact on it, under the reprimand of the officers, the chaos was quickly quelled, and the remaining more than 1,700 soldiers continued to slowly approach Ye Tianlong's side.

In the process of advancing, the several nobles of the Swadia Kingdom who led the team found that the enemy army did not fire that kind of weapon again, so they guessed that there were only a few enemy troops with that extremely powerful weapon, and there were no more of them when they were finished. This made these leading nobles breathe a sigh of relief, after all, these regular soldiers were armed by them at a great cost, and if they were all killed by the enemy, they would all die of distress.

Not far from the opposite side, Ye Tianlong didn't expect those rockets to be able to blow up the enemy army to a complete collapse, the reason why he used those rockets was just to take the opportunity to test the performance of these rockets in actual combat.

And after actual combat testing, the power of these rockets is enough, but this accuracy is too stretched, the enemy's military array range is so large, these rockets can have several misses, it's really outrageous! It seems that after inviting those firearms experts to join his team, in addition to developing the flowering bomb, he will have to let the other party improve the rocket.

By the way, there is also the combat airship, although they built one by themselves according to the design drawings found on the Internet, but all kinds of small problems continued, at most it continued to fly in the sky for about half an hour, and it was impossible to put it into actual combat at all, and then it also had to continue to improve.

However, because he knew that the potential of the airship was limited, Ye Tianlong was actually hesitant to wait until the manufacturing level of his territory was improved to develop the aircraft directly.

And this time, after seeing the tragic situation of Baron Thor being betrayed by his colleagues and then ambushed, Ye Tianlong felt that he still had to have an air force in his hand as soon as possible, so that even if he couldn't help the battle, it was very useful just for reconnaissance. In the future, if the enemy wants to ambush him, the airship will be able to see it all clearly from the air as soon as it turns around, and the enemy will have nothing to hide.

Just when Ye Tianlong was deep in thought, more than 500 hoplites at the front of the enemy army had already entered the range of artillery, and the artillery pieces in the formation suddenly began to roar.

Ye Tianlong was also awakened from his contemplation by the sound of the cannon, and when he looked up, he happened to see a Swadian nobleman wearing a delicately made full-body plate armor whose head was blown off the head by a cannonball, and the headless corpse fell from his horse.

After the other Svadian nobles saw the powerful power of the artillery, they hid behind their own soldiers, and they couldn't help muttering in their hearts, thinking that if this weapon was completely popular on the Calradian continent, then the armor would become a pile of useless ornaments! After all, even the strongest full-body plate armor was vulnerable to that weapon, not to mention the other armor!

At the same time, in order to minimize the number of times the troops were artillery, these nobles also let the cavalry troops speed up, the war horses changed from the original trot to a fast run, the speed quickly increased, and the hooves of hundreds of war horses quickly knocked on the ground at the same time, making a rumbling sound, and the power was amazing.

It's a pity that Ye Tianlong, who has already destroyed the heavy cavalry of the eight hundred Swadia Kingdom, is not panicked at all, Zhou Jiale even has the leisure to discuss with Ye Tianlong how to reduce the casualties of the enemy's war horses in the battle, after all, those excellent war horses are really greedy! These gadgets are hard to buy with money. This is true even in the real world.

In the real world, because technology is very developed, people go out and drive, so there is not much to raise this thing, most of the horses are now racing horses, specially cultivated for speed, the legs are thin and long, it is easy to use for competitions, but it is not good to use combat horses, after all, the legs are so thin, the load-bearing capacity is definitely not good, and it cannot be used as a war horse for heavy cavalry, and this endurance is not very good, and the real good horse still has to find a way to get it from the two countries of the Swadia Kingdom and the Kugit Khanate!

Unfortunately, before he and Ye Tianlong could discuss what to do, the enemy's cavalry had already suffered most of the casualties under the repeated greetings of their own artillery and flintlock rifles, and then as a large number of grenades were thrown, the rumbling sound of horses' hooves before disappeared in an instant.

The enemy's infantry and crossbowmen who had not yet entered the range of artillery saw that their more than 500 cavalry were gone in minutes, and they were all dumbfounded, and some people even retreated in their hearts, after all, those heavy cavalry were so well-equipped that they were vulnerable in front of the enemy's firearms, and they estimated that they would be given in vain!

However, at this time, the Count of Sweden, who led the team, felt that perhaps the enemy's firearms were as limited in number as the previous rockets, and maybe they would not be able to continue fighting after these few rounds! So he stubbornly continued to advance with his troops, thinking that he would always have to inflict some casualties on this enemy reinforcement when he came out with so many troops! Otherwise, if an enemy retreats to the camp without killing or wounding, it will not increase the morale of the enemy army and destroy his own prestige in vain!

And Ye Tianlong saw that the enemy's infantry and crossbowmen, who were more numerous, continued to press up after the cavalry was wiped out, so he immediately signaled with his eyes that it was not the time for everyone to relax, and they had to send away the more than 1,000 infantry and crossbowmen first!

Perhaps because most of the country's elites were transferred to the frontal battlefield by King Haraus to resist the main army led by King Ragnar, Ye Tianlong noticed that in addition to those Svadia own soldiers, there were also many mercenaries in this enemy army.

Compared with the regular soldiers of those countries, the equipment of those mercenaries is very messy, from armor to weapons, and many of them are self-made by those mercenaries, the most conspicuous of which are those who are equipped with bows and arrows, after all, Svadia itself only has crossbowmen, no archers. This is also the reason why Ye Tianlong was able to determine that these guys were all mercenaries.

However, although these mercenaries have a little more variety of weapons and equipment, they also seem to be very strong, after all, they are all professional soldiers who specialize in helping others fight wars to support their families, and these mercenaries are even stronger than the regular armies of various countries in terms of pure combat skills.

And the enemy commander on the opposite side, Count Teswed, was gambling after all, so just in case, he let the more than 300 mercenaries in the army go to the front at this time, so that if the enemy's firearms can continue to fire at that time, these mercenaries will be the first to die, and he can quickly take his own soldiers to escape when he sees that the situation is not good.

Those mercenaries naturally saw that the Swedish Count was asking them to explore the way to be cannon fodder, but what could they do! There were more Svadia soldiers than them, and they were staring at them from behind as if they were overseers, and they didn't have a chance to escape even if they wanted to!

In the car formation not far away, although Ye Tianlong sympathized with the plight of this group of mercenaries, he was also not merciful, and ordered to open fire as soon as these mercenaries entered the range of the artillery.

Immediately, a burst of cannonballs burst out of the formation of the carts and smashed into the formation of the mercenaries.

And the Swedish Count of Nat withdrew with his troops almost as soon as the cannon sounded, and he didn't mean to care about the cannon fodder mercenaries at all.

Seeing this, those mercenaries quickly began to retreat, and they did not retreat towards the camp on the side of the Swadia Kingdom this time, after all, they were also afraid of being used as cannon fodder for the second time! There's one and there's two! They haven't lived long enough! I don't want to continue to be sent to death as cannon fodder.

Because the enemy troops withdrew very decisively this time, Ye Tianlong and his side only had time to fire two rounds of artillery and killed more than 20 mercenaries, as for those Swadia own soldiers, none of them were injured.

This made Ye Tianlong feel very depressed, so he led the troops, lifted the car formation, and began to continue to approach the camp of the Swadia Kingdom. As for the mercenaries who were slipping away in the other direction, he couldn't care about it for the time being, as long as these guys didn't continue to stand in his way, he didn't bother to hunt down these poor people who begged for a living.

And when the Count of Sweden saw that the enemy reinforcements were still continuing to chase over, he felt extremely angry in his heart, and at the same time, he also accelerated the speed of retreat, wanting to retreat to the camp with his troops as soon as possible before the enemy pursued.

In this way, under the watchful eye of Count Olaf, the two armies outside the city continued to get closer and closer to Rudburg between chasing and fleeing. In the end, one of the two armies retreated to the camp outside the city, while the other temporarily halted its advance a few hundred meters from the camp and began to regroup. Obviously, when the reinforcements have regrouped, they will attack the camp in the Swadia Kingdom.