Rise of the Empire Total War - Chapter 551

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“charge!”

Faced with the violent charge of hundreds of heavy cavalry, even the bravest soldiers would feel terrified. The soldiers hiding behind trenches or dirt walls stared at the Vychinia heavy cavalry who put down their lances and charged over. Fear instantly tore through the psychological line of defense and overwhelmed their fighting spirit. The soldiers screamed and turned and fled, forgetting their mission, exposing their fragile backs to the enemy’s iron hoof!

In the next second, the heavy cavalry, all in armor, roared over the trenches and breast walls, knocking down all objects along the way that blocked their charge. Although the line infantry were systematically trained soldiers, they still retained the most primitive human heart. Fear, and therefore, caused them to rout unconsciously when the heavy cavalry charged.

“Run! Run!”

“Oh, God-“

The rout soldiers were pierced by the lances that came after them when they fled, and then threw them on the ground with their lances like trash. Even if they were not slammed by the lances, they were knocked to the ground by the horses. Then the heavy hoof stepped on the body, stepping on a pool of fleshy flesh.

In the chaos, several soldiers raised their guns and fired at the incoming heavy cavalry. The lead bullets easily penetrated the heavy scale armor on the knight’s body, leaving a few blood-colored holes in it. When they fell down and saw this, the soldiers instantly gained confidence and quickly filled their guns with ammunition. But at this moment, several knights rushed towards them, and the soldiers hurriedly raised their guns to meet the enemy, but the gun body was cut off by the sharp knight sword, and then the long sword slashed through the soldier’s skin along the inertia, and blood spewed out suddenly. .

The other soldier escaped by the long sword and stabbed the bayonet on the gun with his backhand, but to his surprise, the bayonet stabbed on the knight, but was slid away by his scales, and a slight trace of it was swept away. Sparks, the soldier didn’t have time to withdraw the rifle, and the knight roared and chopped off the long sword, directly splitting his body from head to crotch.

These heavy cavalry rushed in the barracks as if they were in no one, beheading a large number of rout soldiers. The line infantry wanted to counterattack under the call of the officer, but was dispersed by the heavy cavalry before the hollow phalanx of anti-cavalry was formed. , Although the soldiers’ uniforms were lined with a chain mail, the sharp knight sword forged in the land of the hammer slashed away like fragile thin paper.

Bang bang bang—

The chaotic battle situation was mixed with a few crisp gunfire and heavy artillery from time to time. The close-range shot was enough to penetrate any armor. These arrogant heavy cavalry suddenly suffered a lot of casualties, but this could not save the battle. The Chinia infantry had already swarmed in along the torn line of heavy cavalry, and fought with the imperial soldiers scattered everywhere. The latter was naturally retreating steadily.

Seeing this chaotic situation, the commander of the second regiment, Norman, had a pale face, and sensibly told him that he should immediately order the withdrawal, but the pride of being an imperial general made him unwilling to withdraw in such embarrassment.

Bang bang bang—

The soldiers in front of him fired a volley and killed the heavy cavalry and soldiers who rushed towards them. The deputy commander of the regiment shouted in a hasty tone: “Norman, order the retreat. If we do not retreat, we may be annihilated. That’s it!”

“But…” Norman hesitated. He looked around the battlefield. The line infantry in military uniforms were still resisting stubbornly, relying on the terrain in the camp to shoot at the enemy. Some of the auxiliary army also resisted with the regular army. But more people voluntarily surrendered when the Vichynia soldiers hit their heads, willing to become prisoners.

“Norman! Withdraw!” the adjutant roared loudly, almost grabbing his collar.

Norman seemed to be awakened. He immediately followed the adjutant’s words and shouted: “Retreat! Retreat!”

The surrounding soldiers sighed with relief, and while firing at the approaching enemy, they also shouted to retreat. More and more soldiers heard the order to retreat and covered each other’s retreat. However, the soldiers on the artillery position were unwilling to retreat. They looked at the twenty artillery pieces behind them, not wanting them to fall into the hands of the enemy. They were still relying on the fortifications to fight back. The ranks of infantry made it impossible for the Vecyas to rush up for a while.

The comrades were fighting back, and the remaining artillery didn’t care about the distress. They picked up the nails and hammered them into the fire door of the artillery. As long as the fire door was blocked, even if the Vichynians captured the artillery, they couldn’t use them. , After all, the artillery is fired by the fire door.

This kind of iron nail is also very long. It can be pierced from the fire door all the way to the wall of the gun. Not to mention the Vecnias. Even if they want to take out this kind of nail, it is impossible. They can only return the artillery to the furnace. Build, and build a new batch of artillery out.

Seeing the enthusiastic counterattack from the artillery position, Norman wanted to go back to rescue his soldiers, but he was powerless, because the Vecnias divided out part to pursue them, and partly to besiege the artillery position. He wanted to go back and rescue. The enemy chasing behind must be defeated.

This is pure dreaming.

…

After Norman retreated with the remnants, the soldiers on the artillery position resisted for a while with the fortifications, but in the end they were beaten up by the enemy by virtue of their number advantage. At the last moment of their lives, the defending soldiers ignited the gunpowder on the position. Die with the enemy who rushed up. The power of a large amount of gunpowder detonated can almost shatter everything around. Whether it is a humble light infantry or a noble knight, it is blown to pieces and turned into dust at this moment.

People are so contradictory. When confronted with danger, they will follow the fear in their hearts and run away, but when there is no way to escape, they will fight hard to the last moment, and even choose such a tragic way of death, and die with the enemy. .

…

When they evacuated to the village set up as a supply point in the rear, Norman and the remnants stopped. They ignored the enquiry of the remaining soldiers in the supply point and counted the number of people immediately. This investigation almost made Norman vomit blood. Originally, he had 1,800 regular troops and nearly a thousand auxiliary troops, but after retreating here, there were only more than 500 people left. Not only did he lose the precious twenty artillery, he also lost all the war horses and everyone’s body. There are only two rounds of ammunition on average. Fortunately, they withdrew to the supply point and could supply them on the spot.

Norman knew that his military career had basically come to an end. As long as the news of the defeat was passed back to Amatlia, the news that came again might be an order to dismiss the military on the spot. If it was in peacetime, he might still be able to Because part of the guilt was reduced during the battle, but now that the emperor’s daughter has been looted, the entire high-level has not been relieved, he will definitely be implicated by the angry emperor.