Plane Merchant Fancy Death

Chapter 243 Deserters
"Yeah, this sound sounds like something happened." Ye Junwen also nodded when he heard the sound of the cannon coming from the right.Compared with before, the number of artillery now sounds like an artillery battalion.Ye Junwen also specified cannons during the transaction this time, so he brought a lot back.Of course, there are relatively few guns. Ye Junwen didn’t bring a gun back this time, he just brought some ammunition, and the rest of the space was used for firing cannons. There are thirteen guns in total, and this time the cannons are all of the same caliber. , Ammunition is also easy to equip.

Not only the number of artillery pieces has been formed, Ye Junwen has also prepared a lot of ammunition this time, not only the quantity, but also the types.For example, what we are fighting now is tactical incendiary bombs.However, the area burned by this kind of ammunition is still very small. After all, ammunition with a large range is not allowed to be sold, and the notorious white phosphorous ammunition is even a forbidden weapon. It is not bad that Ye Junwen can get this kind of weapon.

The purpose of this kind of ammunition is not to burn people. The kind that burns people is not allowed to be sold. It is mainly used to destroy terrain.Right now.The so-called setting fire to the bottom of the mountain prison is a matter on the earth. Here, no one pays attention to any environmental protection issues, just burn it casually.

After a few shots, many fires appeared in the woods ahead. According to this situation, if it does not rain, the whole woods will burn quickly. This kind of fire cannot be extinguished by manpower, especially this kind of fire. When there is no water source on the side.

Although only a few shots were fired, the elves have already started to have a headache.Yes, these few shots did not cause any loss to their personnel, that is, a few people were injured, but the panic caused was far greater than the actual effect.The soldiers did not expect that the opponent could attack them from such a long distance. Although they had heard that the opponent had a new type of weapon, they didn't feel scared until they actually saw the effect.

How to deal with this? Now that the two sides are separated by such a long distance, the other party is attacking them. They can't be passively beaten all the time.Then rush out?The problem is that the terrain here is beneficial to them. If you go out, it will be the Great Plains. Who knows who the Great Plains are beneficial to. The elves don’t have cavalry. They are all in the forest. Cavalry is not a fool. Then they go out of the forest If so, isn't the opponent's cavalry unit completely defeated them?
Now they have finally experienced the aggrieved feeling when the Duke of Celeto defended the city before. They just forced you to come out to fight, and if you didn't come out, you would be beaten unilaterally. This is really a headache.

The captain of the elf army is named Osseth, a heroic elf general, but her war experience is not very rich, since she took over the supreme command of the elves, there has never been such a large-scale incident Fighting, this can be regarded as the first time she has experienced such a big battle.But just at the beginning, the opposite conductor gave her such a difficult problem.

"Osseth, shall we take the initiative to fight?" Another female elf general next to her came up and asked. It's a family, so they're still called Ossythe.

"The opponent is obviously forcing us to take the initiative." Osseth thought for a while and said, "This is planned by the enemy. If we dispatch, what awaits us will be a trap."

"Well." The other party obviously agreed with this statement, but quickly said, "But if we don't go out now, we can only be beaten passively. It's obviously not going to work like this. What should we do?"

"At the moment... we can only wait." Osseth thought for a while and said, "Although the opponent's weapon attacks are far away, the damage caused is not very large. We have natural protection, and the opponent cannot target our position, so At present, the threat is not very great, but the soldiers are more afraid. I think we should endure it for now and wait until the time comes..."

"When is the timing?" the female general asked.

"It's raining." Osseth said, "I heard that the opponent's weapon and musket cannot be used when it is raining, because it needs to be ignited, so we should wait for the opportunity of the rain, and launch an assault when the opponent's weapon cannot be used. , so that they can be crushed.”

"I see." The female general nodded, "I understand, now we must stabilize the soldiers' emotions."

There is nothing wrong with what Osace said, after all, the muskets in the other world cannot be used when it rains.Before Ye Junwen used firearms to fight, he also used them on sunny days, so Osseth felt that the opponent's muskets also had this weakness before seeing the real thing.

Of course, even Ye Junwen couldn't think of this, he couldn't even imagine that the other party could have such a misunderstanding. After fighting for a few rounds, Ye Junwen saw that the other party didn't move, and wondered what the other party was waiting for. He couldn't be passive all the time. Take a beating, he has a plan for the opponent to advance and retreat, but it is a headache if he does not advance and does not retreat. Is the opponent really planning to use up their ammunition?
"I really don't believe it." Ye Junwen said to continue bombing until the opponent came out.

So the artillery fire continued for a day, and it soon became night.And this night, Ye Junwen's artillery fire did not stop.Yes, it’s different from the last time. Last time, it was aimed at the city wall, so the artillery fire could not be used casually at night, otherwise it would be a waste, but this time there was no target. They really couldn’t see the enemy’s position, they just blew up trees. What else do you need to aim at, just blow it up and you're done.

However, considering that the artillery unit still needs to determine the position with the naked eye in order to train the landing point, and the soldiers on their side also need to rest, it is impossible to rest well after bombing all night, so Ye Junwen said that every two hours One round of bombing just reminded the soldiers to change shifts.

After one night, the situation in the barracks on both sides was different. Most of the soldiers on Ye Junwen's side didn't have a good rest. After all, although there was an interval, they were noisy every two hours. Many soldiers slept for 2-3 nights It's only an hour, and it's really a bit tired, but...they just didn't sleep well, and the elves were terrified.

There is definitely no way for the elves to sleep. It is necessary to beware of sudden enemy attacks. A round of bombing every 2 hours, who knows if they will fall asleep and die, so all the elves are not Sleep, stay up all night.

The next day, Commander-in-Chief Osses received bad news. In one night, their troops lost more than 5500 people.This is not a joke, but in fact, among the more than 5000 people, less than 100 were killed by shells, and the remaining attrition was due to deserters.

Yes, the soldiers of the elves ran away. This was a situation that Osseth didn't expect.Osseth also couldn't figure out what was going on with this group of soldiers, were they scared away by the enemy's artillery?But this artillery looks very scary, and the actual damage it caused is very limited. So far, many people have been injured, but less than 300 people have been killed in battle. What is there to be afraid of?

Osseth didn't know how fragile the hearts of these elf soldiers who hadn't experienced war for a long time were.Over the past ten years of peace, the elf soldiers have forgotten the battlefield. The elf soldiers who have experienced wars before have basically retired, and these newly enlisted soldiers are on the battlefield for the first time. What they have seen, especially the scene where their companions were blown to death and burned to death by artillery, they were so scared to pee.

Why did they come here to fight? Can't they eat and drink at home?These soldiers don't have the will to fight. They don't know who they are fighting for and why they are fighting. What is the purpose of coming here to die?Coupled with the psychological pressure brought by the artillery that they may be killed at any time, these soldiers discussed with their comrades, let's go, and make a wool.

This is about another disadvantage of the elf army, that is, they do not have a supervisory team.Yes, the human army has a supervising team. Once it finds that its own soldiers are about to run away on the battlefield, the supervising team will kill these deserters immediately. Unless the commander orders them to retreat, otherwise the soldiers can only move forward and not die at the hands of the enemy. Even in the hands of the supervising team, it is death, it is better to be a hero, of course they can only move forward.

However, the elves advocate peace and equality, and they are all brothers and sisters. If this is the case, how can their own people kill their own people?In their view, the existence of the human supervising team is completely barbaric and a bad habit.The elves have never had a supervising team, but in the past, the elves had the belief in fighting. They knew that they were fighting for the race, and there were very few deserters, so they didn't need to supervise the battle. The young elves of the era are not the elves of that time.

Ten years of peaceful life has basically made them forget about the war. The elves are not the nation that fights for the survival of the race. Their country is very stable and there is no problem of survival.In this case, they chose to run, no problem, no one would kill them anyway, at most they would be arrested, which is not a serious crime on the side of the elves.They are noble and harmonious elves, unlike those barbaric human races who kill people at every turn, they don't kill their own compatriots.

So under the impression of this situation, deserters appeared in all the troops in one night, and more than 5000 soldiers fled directly from the battlefield, which was 50 times more effective than the enemy's artillery attack.

Hearing this report, Osseth also frowned. She didn't expect to encounter such a situation. If it happened like this, it seemed that they couldn't afford it anymore.

"Let it rain soon," was all Osseth could say at last.

(End of this chapter)