Chapter 125 Tens of Thousands of Troops
Daily shooting and shooting when the enemy is rushing toward you are two different things. When a person is nervous, his head becomes confused, and many seemingly ordinary things cannot be done well.
At this time, the Alsatians began to move, but many cherry bullets fell behind because the shooter was nervous and did not calculate the advance, exploding into balls of red gypsum powder.
The cavalry began to trot, and the snow-white ground roared like thunder, like a wooden hammer hitting a drum hard, and it also hit everyone's hearts.
A new round of cherry grenades fell, this time half of them fell among the cavalry. Everyone was excited to find that there were fewer enemies.
The magic array of projection magic is installed on the cavalry armor and horse armor. It is divided into two layers, the inner and outer layers. Each surface layer is the size of a fingernail. After being damaged, the corresponding projection will make a falling action and then disappear. The referee team uses this to determine the effect of the attack.
Metzger and others were lying on the snow. The soldiers in the two rows behind were squatting and standing respectively. As the whistle sounded, the sound of pea gun shooting came one after another.
Many "Alsace" bodies were hit, and the projections became sparse in an instant.
When these cavalry began to charge ninety meters away, the number dropped to half of the original number.
The magicians on the company quickly cast spells, and rock thorns about one meter high appeared three to ten meters in front of the line.
The cavalry stopped in front of the rock spur, then ran towards the side holding the exit flag.
Frederick sighed in his heart. Although Richard Nall proposed a new tactic using trenches, the original phalanx tactics were too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the actual commanding officers still preferred the old method.
Then they suffered a loss.
The Alsaces were followed by more than thirty carriages, which contained iron buckets as big as water tanks.
They came to a place dozens of meters away from the front line with the help of cavalry, placed the iron barrels on the ground at an angle, lit the fuses, and ran away.
After the black powder exploded, small sandbags were sprayed into the sky, and then these sandbags fell into the position like goddesses scattering flowers.
The linen cloth used to make sandbags is thin and sparse. It contains fine sand and red mud powder. There will be a mark where it is hit.
Bobona's face was a little dark under the gas mask. He only fired two shots with his purple mushroom gun. Now he was hit by a sandbag on his helmet and was ruled dead by the referee.
Little Franz's face became even darker, the formation was too dense, and the magician didn't have time to cast the shield. At this time, he lost more than 20% of his troops, including a regiment leader.
"The temporary addition of subjects works well." Richard Nall said to Frederick with a smile: "It would be good to have a lesson."
Frederick nodded. The purpose of the exercise was to learn lessons. If the formation hadn't been too dense and the magicians' defense couldn't keep up, there wouldn't have been so many casualties. This was a lesson.
At this time, the sound of military bugles came from the bottom of the mountain. Everyone took off their gas masks, rested in place, and had lunch.
The soldiers spread out according to their formation, placed the luggage bags covered with tarps on their backs on the snow, and sat on them.
“That’s disgusting!” Metzger said while eating marching biscuits, “I didn’t even say anything would fall from the sky!”
He was full of resentment at this moment, and the sandbag smashed It still hurts a lot. I got two hits on my forehead just now.
The platoon leader of their platoon was right behind him. After hearing this, he turned around and said, "When you go to pick pigs from the pig pen, do you let them know that they will be stabbed with a knife later?"
"When fighting, the enemy will not tell you what he is going to do next. We have encountered so many situations along the way, can't you see the working style of those guys on the referee team."
"I used to During the war, I caught dozens of venomous snakes, put them in baskets, built a simple trebuchet in the forest, and threw them into the camp at the foot of the mountain. The mountain man didn't sleep well all night. ""So you are going to do it now. Take the time to eat, take the time to rest, maybe there will be an emergency meeting at some point."
Metzger thinks that the referee team can do this kind of thing. Immediately speed up eating biscuits.
This kind of marching biscuit is dry and hard, a little salty, a little oily, a little milk, egg and sage flavor. If you are lucky, there will be a little more chopped nuts. It is not very delicious but it is very resistant to hunger.
They turned on the water and put tea leaves in the kettle. The tea was still a little warm now, so it was just right to take a bite of biscuits and a mouthful of tea.
Not long after, the commander gave the order to count the ammunition, and informed them to replenish the ammunition in their magazines, and there was going to be a big fight in the afternoon.
Metzger took out the bullets from his luggage bag, and while pressing it into the magazine, he said to his comrades around him: "What are we going to do in the afternoon? In the morning we are shooting shadows. Will we be shooting later?" Snowman."
An hour later...
"Metzger, why didn't you just say that we were going to eat roast pig later?"
Five hundred meters away, countless piles of snow were rolled together by the strong wind, and a military formation gradually took shape.
The number of spearmen in the front rows is estimated to be four thousand, followed by about a thousand heavy infantry. The archers and magicians behind are invisible.
The important thing is the flanks. There are five hundred heavy cavalry in ice cans on each side. The total number is almost five times that of our own cavalry.
Richard Nall somehow invited Psyche, and she led the students from Weissenburg University to create this ice and snow troop of nearly ten thousand people.
And Richard Nall was already there, and the force was under his command.
When Franz saw that there were many enemies, he immediately issued an order to change the formation. He planned to form four battalions into a large hollow square to resist the opponent's attack, and then counterattack after the enemy's strength was exhausted. .
"I'll take command." Frederick came down from the mountain.
Little Franz's expression changed a few times in an instant. Commanding an army was no joke, but Frederick was the supreme commander of this army. He couldn't do it even if he had to do it. way.
Before he could find an excuse to refuse, Old Franz, who was sitting here to provide advice, gave his son a compliment. Young Franz immediately understood that it was an exercise anyway, letting him know that commanding the army is not that simple. Significant results.
At this time, Frederick directly issued an order: "Order Bernd, the whole regiment put on ice spikes, penetrate directly from the lake to the enemy's side and rear, and concentrate the cherry guns to specifically defend against the cavalry."
"Order Heinz , the whole regiment spreads out, attacks forward, must stick to the enemy."
"Order Jurgen to protect Heinz's left wing, and you can deal with the heavy cavalry in front of you according to the situation."
"Order Ged and the magician to follow Heinz and be under his command."
Frederick only gave the goals to be achieved by each ministry, and it was up to the commander of the troops to figure out the specific process.
He originally wanted Franz to lead two companies of chasseurs around from the nearby mountains to the enemy's rear, but in this way there would be no reserve team, and he had to give up in the end.
The messengers quickly conveyed Frederick's orders through bugles, flags and verbal notifications.
(End of this chapter)