Chapter 14 The flying dragon rides on the face...don't be a jerk!
At noon, two companies from the recruit training camp arrived at Lake Town. The scout cavalry reported that the pirates still had not gone far. After gathering all the men and horses in the plan, the whole army had a feast. Paul Grayman announced that he was heading in the direction of the pirates.
In the evening, I finally saw the pirate team. They actually left a camp by the river. The people inside were cooking over a fire. There seemed to be four to five hundred people in total.
He secretly thought: "We don't have much advantage in numbers! But we have the bonus of modern army training methods, how can it be compared to this bunch of rabble."
"Line up. Shape!" The officers of each company began to direct their soldiers to change the column into a horizontal formation.
The pirates also discovered the slowly approaching army, picked up their weapons and ran out of the camp, facing this side in full formation.
A bearded man walked out from the middle and shouted: "Little boy of the Graiman family, are you ready for what grandpa wants? You can't wait to come here to pay your respects?"
After saying these words, the pirates around the bearded man burst into laughter.
Bryce asked: "Sir, what should I do? Do you want to attack?"
Paul thought regretfully: "Hmph! It would be great if we brought the big firecrackers here, I guarantee that They have a drink.”
The "big killer" made some time ago, after a period of experiments, it was found that the effect was not very satisfactory. At first, gunpowder was filled into the hollow iron ball and the grenadiers were asked to throw it hard, but the projection distance was quite unsatisfactory. .
After the explosion, it still poses a threat to the throwers. Many people were injured, and the misfire rate was extremely high. No wonder the grenadier's bomb-dropping function in "Total War" was designed to be so useless. Not many people will be killed by the grenade.
Later, the amount of medicine was reduced and it was filled in clay pots. It could be thrown farther, but the power was reduced. The craftsmen racked their brains and put iron nails on the pots, which made them look a bit like the tribulus fireballs of the Song Dynasty.
After many modifications, in his eyes it was still a useless artillery piece, far from the hand grenades in the modern army, but a batch was still made for emergency purposes. But for such a batch of useless weapons, when I sent people to the recruit training camp overnight last night to recruit people, I forgot to inform them to bring them.
After grumbling in his heart, he raised his riding whip towards the pirates and proudly said: "Destroy them."
"Hold your weapons!!! Advance!!!" Bryce ordered loudly after receiving the instructions. Rows of horizontal lines formed a square formation, and the soldiers began to slowly advance forward.
Looking at our side's phalanx with uniform uniforms and fairly neat steps, it really looks like a strong army. Looking at the pirates, it is loose, uneven and has no formation. It is simply a regular army encircling and suppressing rogue bandits. In the scene, how could the flying dragon lose?
At this moment, the bearded man among the pirates opened his eyes and suddenly shouted: "Kill these noble lackeys!!!"
Then all the pirates collectively "Roar——" he shouted and rushed towards this side desperately.
The territorial soldiers were able to advance steadily at first, but as the pirates got closer and closer, the soldiers in the phalanx were obviously in a panic, especially the recruits who were participating in the battle for the first time. A little unsteady.
Then something very unpleasant happened. Some guy in the first row shouted loudly to cheer himself up: "Go!"
This sentence "Go" is like a signal. All the soldiers seemed to have been tightened and then suddenly loosened. They screamed and started to rush forward hysterically. After a while, the originally tight phalanx was in pieces, and the officers also Being carried forward, only Bryce and the inner guard soldiers dared not leave the earl.
Soon, the soldiers and the pirates fought in a melee, leaving a dumbfounded Paul muttering to himself on his horse: "Things shouldn't be like this! It was fine just now, Why did it become a pig?"
Bryce scolded: "These idiots can't support the wall."
The pirates are all extremely vicious and have lost the support of their formation. Soldiers with basically no actual combat experience were obviously no match for this group of desperadoes. Within half an hour, the balance of the battlefield began to tilt toward the pirates.
As expected, one soldier finally tried his best to block the opponent's weapon, then turned around and ran away.
Then, the second and third time, gradually all the soldiers began to run back with a roar. The officers shouted to stop them, and Bryce ran over and whipped them back with a riding crop. Broken troops. However, all efforts were in vain.
"My lord, retreat! I will lead the troops on horseback to break up the rear." Seeing that the situation could not be restored, Bryce had to return to the little earl and suggested retreat.
The earl stared hard at the bearded pirate who was still chasing the defeated soldiers, bit his mouth tightly and loosened it for a moment, and reluctantly said: "The cavalry has retreated, retreat! ”
Then he turned the horse's head and whipped the horse hard. The painful horse began to run wildly in the direction it came from.
"Everyone who is still riding a horse, follow me to cut off the rear!"
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Bryce, who was cut off from the rear, gathered up the broken troops while retreating, and finally got rid of After being chased by the pirates, they caught up with Paul about an hour later. After counting the number of people, they found that including the missing soldiers, the troops lost more than 30 people and more than 50 people were injured.
“What a shame!” The earl was about to cry without tears. In addition to his father’s failure, this was the second time he was defeated by pirates. If word spread, his family would probably be destroyed. It will become a laughing stock in the Northwest Bay.
He gritted his teeth: "Find those two bastards!!!"
Bryce asked in confusion: "Those two bastards? Which two?"
"The one who didn't listen to orders Just call the charge! Who else retreats without authorization! I will let them dig in the mine for the rest of their lives!"
"Yes, Lord Earl"
"Go back to Lake Town first. Let’s sum up the lessons learned from this operation!”
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That night, each officer was asked to write a summary of the battle, and then the little earl returned to his bedroom and closed the door. While the officers were racking their brains and scratching their heads, Butler Philip heard the sound of banging and banging things coming from the lord's bedroom, but he did not knock on the door to ask. The young master really needed to vent.
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The next day, as soon as Paul came to the lobby, he met Bryce who looked excited.
“Lord Earl, look who is back!”
I saw two people standing next to him, one was an old man who was about 50 years old and very energetic, and the other was a young man who looked very young, probably about 20 years old. Both of them saluted him.
"Who are these two?"
"Sir Schroeder and his squire Joyce, Owen Schroeder. You saw him when you were a child. Oh, yes "You didn't remember anything at that time."
The old man said slowly: "Please allow me to introduce myself..."
Which reader can give me a comment? Playing single player is so boring. (╥╯^╰╥)
Of course it would be better if you have tickets. \(^o^)/~
(End of this chapter)