Alien Empire Total War - Chapter 212

On an unnamed plain on the side of the border of the Republic of Enkland, the battle continues.

After learning that enemy reinforcements were coming this way and that the distance was less than an hour away, the line infantry of the 2nd and 3rd Imperial Divisions stepped up their attack, under their attack. , The Enklan soldiers who were already in a hard fight accelerated their retreating speed. They reluctantly abandoned those comrades who had been shot and fell down, ignoring the latter’s groaning and calling for help, leaving their comrades to the advancing enemy.

The advancing Imperial soldiers ignored those enemy soldiers who fell to the ground and groaned. They directly stepped over the wounded without looking at them, and did not do what the Enkelans imagined to be stabbing the wounded with bayonets, in other words , their goal is only to defeat the enemy and win the battle. As for the wounded soldiers, if they can persist until the end of the battle, it is not impossible to treat them.

“fire!”

The artillery, which had been withdrawn by the Enkelans before the two armies fought, undoubtedly became the greatest threat to the imperial soldiers. When the infantry was retreating, the artillery still insisted on firing at the attacking enemy under the orders of the officers. Shooting, the solid shells fired from the muzzle are extremely accurate at close range, just like bowling balls, smashing the dense line of line infantry into pieces.

Enkland soldiers knew the importance of artillery on the battlefield, so in such a chaotic battlefield, they spontaneously retreated around the artillery after losing contact with the division commander, protecting the artillery and artillery from the enemy’s destruction, solid solid The bullet passed over their heads and smashed into the advancing enemy ranks. The soldiers watched this scene with excitement, and they could describe their mood at the moment with great joy.

However, their excitement can only last for a short time. The five artillery pieces kept in the hands of the Enkelans will not help the battle at all. On the chaotic battlefield, you can see the imperial soldiers and soldiers chasing in neat steps everywhere. The imperial cavalry roaring past with high sabres, most of the Enkelan soldiers screamed and kept retreating. Occasionally someone fired back, but they were quickly wrapped back by the crowd.

Behind them, the three artillery pieces in the hands of the 1st Brigade engaged with the 5th Division were directly covered and destroyed by the 5th Division’s superior artillery fire shortly after the outbreak of the battle. After that, dozens of artillery pieces of the imperial army shifted their targets to the infantry line of the 1st Brigade, which was waiting in line, and cooperated with the attacking infantry to defeat the enemy.

The battle has continued to this day, and the first brigade, which was already disaffected, was quickly defeated by the joint attack of the enemy’s infantry artillery. , the mentality collapsed in an instant. The reason why they did not flee immediately was due to the coercion of the officers that allowed them to barely stand on the spot, but waited until the enemy infantry brought them into the shooting range of the rifled guns and shot them at long distances. After that, the precarious pressure suddenly collapsed.

As the first soldier screamed and turned and fled back, as if opening a Pandora’s box, the entire front of the first brigade quickly fell apart, and the terrified soldiers joined the wave of defeat. The officers in the crowd tried their best to They shouted, trying to stop the soldiers from fleeing, but how could the soldiers who had lost their will to fight ignore the officer’s obstruction, they directly bypassed the officer and ran back, turning a deaf ear to the officer’s shout.

“Stop for me!”

“Don’t run! Go back and fight!”

“You **** cowards, don’t retreat!”

An officer roared and drew his flintlock pistol, aimed at the fleeing soldier in front of him, and loudly ordered the latter to turn back to fight, but no one paid any attention to him. He directly pulled the trigger and shot one who ran in front of him. The soldier, shouted again: “Go back to me! Otherwise, kill them on the spot!”

The other soldiers looked in horror at the unfortunate man who was killed. They stopped and looked at each other.

The soldiers who stopped hesitated, and seemed to want to turn around and go back, but one of the veterans rushed forward, smashed the officer to the ground with a gun butt, and shouted at the other soldiers: “Run! This **** it! The guy wants us to go back and die!”

After he finished speaking, he dropped his weapon and strode forward. The other soldiers looked at each other a few times, and quickly followed behind the veteran.

Similar situations happened in the first brigade that was defeated. The soldiers were unwilling to go back and die. Compared with the fierce imperial army, they would rather ram their bosses. After all, in this chaotic situation, anyone can change. After becoming a prisoner, the guilt of colliding with the officer will become a cloud after becoming a prisoner—it would be even better if the officer was directly stunned, made him a prisoner, and escaped smoothly by himself.

However, there are still a few officers who ask the soldiers to go back and die. More officers have well implemented the spirit of the more power the more afraid of death. Seeing that the defeat was unstoppable, they either directly joined one of the defeated soldiers and took the lead in fleeing. , or run back by the crowd, few people will resist.

The defeat of the first brigade directly affected the sixth division. Although the sixth division was also beaten and retreated, they were able to maintain an orderly resistance operation, but the first brigade was defeated, and their routed troops hit After the sixth division, deserters also appeared in the sixth division, whose morale was shaken by the beating, and the formation gradually expanded.

The well-protected sixth division commander, Harper, watched all of this in despair~www.mtlnovel.com~ The strengthening of the enemy’s offensive and the defeat of the friendly forces all made him feel hopeless. He thought that he was relying on his own. More than 13,000 soldiers could resist for at least one night. When the reinforcements arrived, the battle actually lasted for more than two hours. When it was still dusk, his troops had already begun to rout.

He didn’t guess that the enemy’s sudden increase in the offensive was due to the arrival of reinforcements. His habitual thinking made him think that this might be because the enemy wanted to finish the battle before the sky was completely dark, because this was also the decision made by most generals— -Once the sky gets dark, the shooting accuracy of both artillery and infantry will be seriously affected. They can only rely on the flames of the guns produced by the opponent to determine the enemy’s position and fight back.

Although the 1st Brigade was routed and the 6th Division also had some routed troops, they were still not routed, the night fell quickly, and in the rear of the Imperial Army, there were violent gunshots!

These violent gunshots did not escape the ears of Harper and the Enkelans who were still holding on. They looked at the enemy’s rear in surprise, and I don’t know who was the first to shout “Our reinforcements are here”, and then the force was severely reduced. There was a warm cheer in the army formation of the 6th Division, and the morale of the Enkelan soldiers who had been shaken was unprecedentedly improved at this moment!