The Rhapsody of Mounted Blade Players

Although this set of tactics is simple, it is very effective. The troops under Baron Sol were easily and severely damaged by this method of play. If Baron Sol was not brave enough, he also had an extremely powerful army. If the elite heavy infantry were responsible for opening the way, he would have no chance to break out and defend on the small slope.

"Captain, would you like some rockets first?" Du Yonggang suggested from the side as he looked at the enemy cavalry troops that were divided into three waves and pressing forward. After all, they had not yet used the rockets in actual combat after they made them. Used it!

After observing for a while, Ye Tianlong rejected Du Yonggang's proposal. After all, the accuracy of those rockets has always been a big problem, and they can only be used to attack larger enemy forces.

The size of these enemy forces is barely enough at the moment, but because they are all cavalry and move very fast, it is difficult to lock and aim, and it is difficult to hit them with those rockets.

Because those rockets were very large, he only carried a total of twenty rockets this time, so he didn't want to waste them here and was prepared to use them later when he encountered a large-scale enemy infantry or attacked a city.

At this time, Count Harengos, the commander of the Kingdom of Swadia on the opposite side, quickly approached the enemy with his own cavalry troops.

During this process, he was also observing the enemy's reaction. After all, not everyone could face the charge of [-] multi-armored cavalry and continue to stand still without changing their expressions.

Some miscellaneous troops with relatively low morale would be frightened into fleeing without even waiting for the cavalry troops to rush in front of them. Only those regular elite soldiers can calmly respond to the charge of cavalry with more troops than their own.

The group of enemies in front of him should be this kind of elite, because Count Harengos found that as his cavalry troops approached faster and faster, the enemy troops on the opposite side also seemed very calm. No one showed any sign of escaping.

What Count Harengos didn't know was that although the earliest batch of soldiers under Ye Tianlong were less than a month old, they had already experienced two wars, and they were all crisp and powerful soldiers. win.

Therefore, these soldiers were full of confidence in the power of their own firearms, and they did not think that the enemy troops who were still using cold weapons could defeat them.

Soon, the cavalry troops, which had completely increased their speed, closed the distance between the two sides to within [-] meters, so the artillery in Ye Tianlong's car array opened fire one after another.

Unfortunately, not only were the range and power of these small-caliber artillery far inferior to those of heavy artillery, but their accuracy was also poor. After a salvo of twenty artillery pieces, only seven or eight shells successfully hit the enemy knights.

But this cannon is a cannon. Although it is a little less powerful, it is more than enough to blast people, even if the target is the Swadia knights who are all equipped with sturdy sleeveless plate armor and barrel helmets.

After being hit by cannonballs, these well-armored heavily armored knights could not avoid being smashed to pieces and died violently on the spot.

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

Because the damage caused was not much, and some more powerful ballistae can also have similar effects, Count Harengos was not too surprised by the casualties caused by this round of shelling. He just felt that the opponent I was a little curious that the weapon could make such a huge explosion when it was fired. I wanted to wait until the battle was over to seize a few of them and study them.

Because the impact speed of the cavalry troops is so fast, even the small-caliber artillery designed by Luo Chenguang, which can achieve rapid bursts of fire by replacing the muskets, can only be used when the opponent approaches within [-] meters of one's own vehicle array. I barely managed three rounds.

Fortunately, those flintlock muskets have entered their effective range at this time. In fact, if they are facing enemy targets with light armor or even no armor, the flintlock muskets will be within one hundred and fifty meters or even two hundred meters away. The rifle can cause effective damage.

But the problem is that the enemy Ye Tianlong and the others face this time are well-equipped heavy cavalry, so it is safer to fight within a hundred meters. Otherwise, if the distance is too far and the power of bullets is reduced too much, they may not be able to defeat the enemy at all. Army defense.

As bursts of gunfire rang out, many of the Swadian knights who rushed at the front soon had bloody flowers bursting from their bodies, screaming and falling from their horses.

At this time, the fusiliers huddled in the car formation were using the style of fighting with their guns moving without moving. More than three hundred fusiliers formed a dense formation and raised their rifles. After the shooting was completed, he quickly handed the fired rifle to his comrades behind him, then took a loaded flintlock rifle and continued shooting forward.

This style of play made the fusiliers under Ye Tianlong fire extremely fast in the first few dozen seconds, and the loud gunshots were heard one after another. Because of the dense positioning, the bullets fired are also very dense, which increases the hit rate. In each round of volley, twenty or thirty Swadia knights will be hit.

After several rounds of shooting, the casualties on the side of the Kingdom of Swadia exceeded a hundred people, and most of them were the most elite Swadia knights.

This made Count Harengos, who led the team, feel heartbroken. After all, it is really not an easy task to train such a heavily armored knight with both men and horses!

This time, in order to successfully get rid of the enemy general Baron Sol, he brought one-third of his own Swadia knights. If they were all lost here, even if they could escape afterwards, If he goes back, he will probably be killed by the furious King Haraus and other nobles.

However, leading the army to retreat was not an option at this time. This would only cause more heavy casualties to the soldiers under his command, and would not cause any damage to the enemy.

So Harengos could only grit his teeth and continue to lead his cavalry to charge. At the same time, he was also thinking about the enemy's long-range weapons that could easily kill heavy cavalry, and planned to seize more samples to take back after defeating this group of enemies. , let your own domestic craftsmen copy it.

And just when Harengos was still thinking about capturing more of the enemy's long-range weapons, Ye Tianlong and his side's artillery was loaded again, and this time it was still loaded with shotguns.

At this time, the enemy cavalry also rushed within fifty meters of the vehicle formation, and had entered the effective range of the artillery shells.

As a result, the twenty artillery pieces were quickly ignited, and then a series of gunshots rang out one after another. Large swaths of shotgun steel balls also sprayed out from the muzzles, forming a fan shape and fiercely strafing the many enemy cavalry in front. .

Accompanied by a loud and miserable cry of people and horses neighing, the Swadian knights in the front were almost wiped out. More than two hundred Swadian heavy cavalry in the rear were also swept down, and a large number of human corpses and horses were swept away. The corpse instantly blocked the path forward, which greatly affected the speed of the cavalry in the rear, making it impossible to rush to the enemy's formation at high speed and launch a lance charge.

But Ye Tianlong's attack on his side was not over yet. Soon, hundreds of stronger soldiers selected from the army came to the front of the formation carrying the newly improved grenades, and threw the grenades in their hands at the enemy. In the military formation.

After more than a hundred grenades fell, violent explosions soon occurred among the enemy's cavalry. Large areas of heavy cavalry were killed by the explosion, including their men and their mounts. Although some horses were not directly hit by the explosion, those The huge sound of the explosion and the dazzling fire also caused them to panic. They no longer listened to their master's instructions and only knew how to flee in different directions in panic.

Count Harengos, the commander of the Kingdom of Swadia, was not spared from this round of explosions. He was directly lifted off his mount by the air wave of the explosion, and was then hit by two cavalrymen behind him. The war horse trampled on his body several times, blood spurted from his mouth, and he died miserably.

After two more rounds of grenade bombardment and a round of flintlock rifle volleys, through the gradually fading smoke, Ye Tianlong discovered that there was no enemy standing in front of him, so he ordered his soldiers to stop attacking.

Then Ye Tianlong opened a passage behind the chariot formation. He led a dozen of his personal guards and his master Li Rufeng and other masters to rush out of the chariot formation and went to check the enemy's casualties.

What made Ye Tianlong breathe a sigh of relief was that the enemy's [-] heavily armored cavalry seemed to have been completely wiped out. At least he could no longer see a few enemy soldiers still alive. Under the fierce firepower of his own side, Under the blow, the enemy soldiers were seriously injured even if they were not dead, and completely lost their combat effectiveness.

What made him a little regretful was that most of the enemy's war horses died under the intensive firepower of his own side. These were all strong war horses that could charge in armor! There are really only a handful of such good horses in the Nordic Kingdom. Even if he wanted to buy one before, he had nowhere to buy it. Now he has killed hundreds of them at once. How could Ye Tianlong not feel distressed.

After confirming that the enemy cavalry units had really been wiped out, Ye Tianlong asked his soldiers to come over to clean the battlefield, and at the same time he led his guards to collect the remaining enemy horses.

Because it was the first time for these war horses to encounter muskets and artillery, they were all frightened. They screamed and scurried around on the battlefield. It took Ye Tianlong and the others a long time to finally bring down these dozen or so horses that were still alive. The war horses were gathered up.