Chapter 395 The cavalry of the Salvation Army was too perfunctory
The ecstasy brought by the reinforcements probably only lasted less than a second, and the hearts of everyone in Xiaochi City were raised again.
They couldn't believe their eyes. If they saw it correctly, the Salvation Army only had reinforcements of thirty or fifty people.
The extraordinary knights at the city gate have at least ten teams and more than 120 knights.
The militiamen who had been cheering just now saw the Holy Gun Cavalry, which was obviously half the number of knights, but their cheers seemed to have been suddenly stuck in their throats, turning into a high-pitched sound of air leakage.
When the Holy Gun Cavalry approached in a loose formation, the militiamen who were still fighting bloody battle at the city gate couldn't help but despair.
These holy gun cavalry don't wear brimmed hats and helmets. They only have a half-body armor or even a vest and breastplate. Many of them don't even have lobster-arm slat arm armor, let alone thigh armor.
They did not hold up their lances, but had two strange wooden sticks stuck in their knee-length riding boots. They only had a slender saber and a hammer and spear hung on both sides of the saddle.
Seeing this scene, the militiamen's hearts finally died. The reinforcements from the Salvation Army were too perfunctory.
The thirty or so retinue knights could not think of any adjectives except for their courage.
"It turns out it's the peasant cavalry." The leader of the extraordinary knights, an old knight, pretended to use a stereotyped peasant accent while laughing loudly.
Amid the laughter, the citizens and craftsmen present became increasingly heavy-hearted, and some even began to ask desperately, "Holy Lord, do you have to treat us like this?"
"Holy Lord I will not stand on their side. Only if you give up yourself will the Holy Lord give up on you." Martin shouted at the questioner.
Looking at the shaken hearts, Martin gritted his teeth and stood on a box on the ground, shouting: "Cheer up, fellow believers! Even if there is no assistance, won't we resist? Ours Our home is behind us, where can we retreat? "
Under Martin's call, these militiamen finally stood firm and were no longer as wavering as before.
Armand calmly directed the natural priests to load their guns, and once again aimed their guns at the knights in front of the door.
The old knight looked at the scene at the gate of the city, and then looked at the Holy Gun Cavalry running quickly and made a quick decision: "Crix, you stay with forty knights, don't let them Close the city gate, the rest of you, follow me.”
According to the calculations of the old knight Maurits, forty knights are enough to ensure that the city gate is not closed.
He led a mixture of eighty serious extraordinary knights and retinue knights, and it was not a problem to defeat the more than thirty retinue knights in front of him.
The sound of hoofbeats rumbled at the city gate, and more than eighty knights suddenly left the crowded and narrow area in front of the gate and killed towards the Holy Gun Cavalry not far away.
The remaining forty knights dismounted and began to shoot with bows. They used the Kush people's natural archery skills to accurately shoot at the militiamen who were trying to close the door.
As for the knights led by Maurits, they sat upright on their horses, tucked the tail end of their lances under their arms, pointed at the charging Holy Gun Cavalry, and leveled the lances in their hands.
In the cavalry charge duel, the Kush knights rarely used bows and arrows, because both sides were riding on horseback and charging wildly.
Ten arrows on this high-speed moving target may not be able to hit even one. Even if it hits, it is estimated that it will not cause too much damage.
More than eighty knights straightened their backs, their yellow, red and blue woolen trousers were exposed from the gaps in their armor, and their huge feathers as long as their forearms fluttered in the wind.
The wrought iron spear head roared out with a roar that broke through the air. The solid lance that needed to be held in one hand was more than five meters long. Only these knights with extraordinary strength could control it.
Looking from the sky, the Kush knights looked like a long black river rushing through the fields. They opened their mouths, exposed their fangs made of lances, and headed towards the Saints, who were neatly arrayed with three teams of twelve. The gun cavalry rushed forward.
"Change from attacking to running! Prepare to launch the holy wind!"
Jeanna's cold roar sounded. Although it was a girl's voice, the beast-like holy gun cavalry released it obediently. Slowed down.
Different from infantry combat, gun cavalry does not issue orders to decide when to release the holy wind.
Compared with cavalry warfare, which places more emphasis on personal bravery, the timing of firing is controlled by the individual.
However, most of the Holy Gun Cavalry will still fire their guns at a distance of about twenty to ten steps in strict accordance with the rules. This distance is exactly the distance where you can see the other person's face clearly.
"Bang! Bang bang bang!"
The messy gunshots sounded one after another.
An extraordinary knight who was charging felt a pain in his waist and abdomen, and warm blood mixed with his internal organs gurgled out from the holes in his armor.
The lead bullet, which weighed 30g, easily broke through his plate armor and tore his body apart, leaving a shocking bloody hole.
Because mounted combat is more dangerous than infantry combat (battles are closer and more frequent), and it is almost impossible to load a holy gun on horseback.
So every Holy Gun Cavalry carries two cavalry guns, which are pre-packaged and can be wound and fired before the battle.
This means that the Holy Gun Cavalry can only fire two guns on the battlefield, so there will be a surplus of Holy Power corresponding to the Infantry Holy Gun.
In order to exert maximum power, under the design of Haimoting, the orichalcum spring content of the cavalry reed gun is more than twice that of the ordinary infantry gun.
This means that the orichalcum springs of the cavalry and infantry have been twisted ten times, but the lead ejection speed of the cavalry gun is 70 to 80% higher than that of ordinary holy guns.
At a distance of ten meters, even four millimeters of plate armor will be easily broken.
Amidst the continuous sound of gunfire and the explosion of sparks from the rotation of gears, blood burst out from the bodies of the extraordinary knights and war horses that were running fast, and their organs and flesh dyed the grass and blades on the ground dark. red.
The war horse whose body was torn by lead bullets could no longer control its direction. It collided with other knights, and the horse hair, skin and armor were squeezed and torn each other.
The knights fell to the ground one after another. The fallen knights slipped and stood up in the bloody water, pushing away the heavy bodies of their horses.
The remaining knights tightened their reins in embarrassment, as if they were waves hitting the rocks, bypassing the friendly troops on the ground and continuing to charge towards Jeanne.
These devil's gadgets only killed seven or eight knights. Although the speed was reduced, these cavalry were still no match for them as long as they got close.
"Spirit of the Holy Father above! Give me thunder!" Jeanne's voice was still that of a girl, but it sounded like thunder in the ears of the extraordinary knights.
There was real thunder, and the dazzling white light made the cavalry at the head couldn't help but squint their eyes.
The electric snake cut through the air, bypassed their bodies, and instead crashed into the war horses beneath them.
The aroma of horse meat, with the smell of rotten eggs and burnt meat, floated in the wind, and the limbs of the five horses that were originally agile and prancing suddenly straightened.
The huge weight carried on the back turned into an impact force on the straightened horse's leg joints the moment the horse's hoof touched the ground.
White bones pierced the flesh of the forelimbs, and the war horse's head hung low with its black and pink tongue spitting out, and it hit the ground heavily.
The five most heroic knights in the front row even squinted their eyes as they inexplicably slid down the horse's neck and sat down on the grass like a slide.
The five knights were holding on to the ground in embarrassment and trying to stand up. When they looked up, they saw that the iron glove under the arm armor was holding a gleaming hammer spear and smashing it down.
This kind of hammer spear is a newly-made six-sided hammer with a wrought iron spike on the front of the hammer head. It can not only deal blunt damage through hammering, but also penetrate armor through the spike.
The heavy hammer spear hit the helmets of the fallen knights, and the high-speed moving horses provided the hammer spear with an incomparable impact.
The moment Jeanne swung, the face of the knight who was hit in the head was completely dented. He even flew backwards for more than one meter under the huge impact before rolling to the ground.
Led by the Holy Grail banner, three squads of Holy Gun Cavalry penetrated the loose knights.
(End of this chapter)