The Rhapsody of Mounted Blade Players

As the fuses burned out, the twenty rockets sprayed a large amount of flames from their tails and flew out from the launcher.

However, just as Ye Tianlong expected, the trajectory of these rockets began to become unstable after flying not far away. They swayed left and right. Even though the enemy troops in front of him covered a large area in front of him, Ye Tianlong tried his best to use these rockets. Aiming at the center of the enemy's formation, but when these rockets flew more than two thousand meters and finally landed, five of them still failed to land in the enemy's formation.

However, the fifteen rockets that successfully fell into the enemy's position finally caused a lot of damage. After all, these rockets had a sufficient charge. After a violent explosion, they could basically kill all enemy soldiers within a radius of thirty or forty meters. Fly away. Fifteen rockets killed at least more than [-] enemy soldiers, including more than [-] heavy cavalry.

The most important thing is that the huge sound and fire produced by the explosion greatly reduced the enemy's morale and caused considerable chaos in the formation.

However, the continent of Calradia has been raging for years, and the quality of regular soldiers from these countries is indeed good. This is enough to scare some cold weapons to the point of collapse, but the rocket bombing has not had much impact on them. Under the scoldings of the officers Next, the chaos was quickly quelled, and the remaining more than [-] soldiers continued to slowly approach Ye Tianlong.

During the process of advancing, the nobles of the Kingdom of Swadia who led the team discovered that the enemy did not fire that kind of weapon anymore, so they guessed that there were only a few of the enemy with that kind of extremely powerful weapon, and after they were released, there would be no more. . This made the leading nobles breathe a sigh of relief. After all, they spent a lot of money to arm these regular soldiers. If they were all killed by the enemy, they would be heartbroken.

Not far from the opposite side, Ye Tianlong didn't expect those few rockets to blow up the enemy troops until they were completely defeated. The reason why he used those rockets was just to take the opportunity to test the performance of these rockets in actual combat.

After actual combat testing, these rockets are powerful enough, but their accuracy is too low. The enemy's military formation is so large that several of these rockets can miss. It's really outrageous! It seems that after inviting those firearms experts to join his team, in addition to developing explosive ammunition, he will also have to let the other party improve the rocket.

By the way, there is also the combat airship. Although they built one according to the design drawings they found online, they had various minor problems and could only fly in the sky for about half an hour at most. There was no way to do it at all. After putting it into actual combat, we still have to continue to improve.

However, knowing that airships have limited potential, Ye Tianlong was actually hesitant before whether to wait until the manufacturing level in his territory improved to develop aircraft directly.

But this time after witnessing the tragic situation of Baron Saul being betrayed by his colleagues and then being ambushed, Ye Tianlong felt that he still had to have an air force in his hands as soon as possible, so that even if it could not help in combat, it could only be used for reconnaissance. Very useful. If the enemy wants to ambush him in the future, the airship will be able to clearly see everything in one circle in the air, and the enemy will have no way to hide.

Just when Ye Tianlong was deep in thought, more than [-] heavy cavalry at the front of the enemy army had already entered the range of the artillery, and the artillery in the vehicle array suddenly began to roar.

Ye Tianlong was also awakened from his meditation by the sound of the cannon. He looked up and saw a Swadian noble wearing exquisite full-body plate armor having his head blown off by a cannonball. The scene of a dead body falling off a horse.

After other Swadia nobles saw the powerful power of the artillery, they hid behind the soldiers and couldn't help but murmur in their hearts, thinking that if this kind of weapon became completely popular on the continent of Calradia, Then the armor becomes a bunch of useless decorations! After all, even the strongest full-body plate armor is vulnerable to that weapon, let alone other armors!

At the same time, in order to minimize the number of times the troops were bombarded, these nobles also asked the cavalry troops to speed up. The war horses changed from trotting to trotting, and the speed increased rapidly. The hooves of hundreds of war horses were tapping rapidly at the same time. The ground made a rumble with astonishing power.

Unfortunately, Ye Tianlong and the others, who had already wiped out eight hundred heavy cavalry of the Kingdom of Swadia, were not panicked at all. Zhou Jiale even had time to discuss with Ye Tianlong how to reduce the casualties of the enemy's horses during the battle. After all, those They are really greedy for excellent war horses! These goodies are hard to buy if you have money. This is true even in the real world.

In the real world, because technology is very advanced, people drive when they go out, so there are not many horses anymore. Most horses are now racehorses, bred specifically for speed. Their legs are thin and long. It's good for competitions, but it's not very good for use as a war horse. After all, the legs are so thin and the load-bearing capacity is definitely not good. It can't be used as a war horse for heavy cavalry. In addition, the endurance is not very good. A really good horse is still We have to find a way to do it from the Kingdom of Swadia and the Kugit Khanate!

Unfortunately, before he and Ye Tianlong could discuss any solution, the enemy's cavalry had already lost most of their casualties under the repeated attacks of their own artillery and flintlock rifles. After that, a large number of grenades were thrown, and the previous The rumble of horse hooves completely disappeared in an instant.

The enemy's infantry and crossbowmen who had not yet entered the artillery range were dumbfounded when they saw that more than [-] of their own cavalry were gone in a matter of minutes. Some people even wanted to retreat. After all, those heavy cavalry were gone. The cavalry is so well-equipped that they are vulnerable to the enemy's firearms. It's probably all for nothing!

However, at this time, the Earl of Sweden who led the team felt that maybe the enemy's firearms were limited in quantity like the previous rockets, and maybe they would not be able to continue fighting after these rounds! So he bit the bullet and continued to lead the troops forward, thinking that if he brought so many troops out, he would always have to cause some damage to the enemy reinforcements! Otherwise, if an enemy retreats to the camp in despair without killing anyone, wouldn't it in vain boost the enemy's morale and destroy one's own prestige?

When Ye Tianlong saw that the enemy's infantry and crossbowmen continued to press forward even after the cavalry had been eliminated, he immediately used his eyes to signal to everyone that it was not time to relax yet, and that they had to deal with the more than a thousand infantry and crossbowmen first. Just send the crossbowman away!

Perhaps it is because most of the country's elites have been transferred to the frontal battlefield by King Haraus to resist the main army led by King Ragnar. Ye Tianlong noticed that among the current enemy army, except for those soldiers from Swadia, In addition, there are many mercenaries.

Compared with regular soldiers from various countries, the equipment of mercenaries is very messy, from armor to weapons. Many of them are self-made by mercenaries. The most conspicuous ones are those equipped with bows and arrows. mercenaries, after all, Swadia only has crossbowmen, not archers. This is why Ye Tianlong was able to determine that these guys were all mercenaries.

However, although these mercenaries have a variety of weapons and equipment, they all look very capable. After all, they are professional soldiers who specialize in helping others fight to support their families. In addition to the morale of these mercenaries being a little worse than that of the regular armies of various countries, In terms of pure combat skills, it is even stronger than the regular armies of various countries.

The enemy commander on the opposite side, Earl Turswe, was gambling after all, so just in case, he asked more than [-] mercenaries in the army to go to the front, so that if the enemy's firearms were If he can continue to fire, these mercenaries will be the first to die. When he sees that the situation is bad, he can quickly flee with his own soldiers.

Those mercenaries naturally saw that the Count of Sweden was asking them to explore the way and use them as cannon fodder, but what could they do! There were more Swadia soldiers than them. At this time, each of them was staring at them from behind like a war supervisor. Even if they wanted to escape, they had no chance!

In the car formation not far away, Ye Tianlong expressed sympathy for the plight of this group of mercenaries, but he was also merciless and ordered to open fire as soon as the mercenaries entered the range of the artillery.

Suddenly, rounds of artillery shells quickly shot out from the vehicle formation, slamming into the formation of the mercenaries.

And almost as soon as the cannon sounded, Earl Natt Sweden withdrew with his troops without saying a word. He had no intention of caring about the cannon fodder mercenaries.

Seeing this situation, the mercenaries quickly began to retreat, and this time they did not retreat towards the camp of the Kingdom of Swadia. After all, they were afraid of being used as cannon fodder for the second time! There are two of them! They haven't lived enough yet! I don’t want to continue being used as cannon fodder and sent to die.

Since the enemy troops retreated very decisively this time, Ye Tianlong and his side only had time to fire two rounds of artillery, killing more than twenty mercenaries. As for the soldiers from Swadia, none of them were injured.

This made Ye Tianlong feel very depressed, so he then led the troops, lifted the vehicle formation, and began to continue approaching the camp of the Kingdom of Swadia. As for the mercenaries who were running away in the other direction, he couldn't care about it for the time being. As long as these guys didn't continue to block his way, he wouldn't bother to chase down these poor people who were looking for a living.

Seeing that the enemy reinforcements actually continued to chase after him, Count Tresweden felt extremely angry and at the same time accelerated his retreat. He wanted to lead his troops back to the camp as soon as possible before the enemy came after them. At that time, relying on the dozens of heavy catapults and dozens of large crossbows in the camp, our own side may not be incapable of fighting!

In this way, under Count Olaf's gaze, the two armies outside the city continued to get closer and closer to Rudburg, chasing and escaping. In the end, one of the two armies retreated to the camp outside the city, while the other temporarily stopped advancing a few hundred meters away from the camp and began to reorganize their formation. Obviously, when the support army reorganizes its formation, it will launch an attack on the camp in the Kingdom of Swadia.