Iron Powder and Spellcaster

Colonel Bode looked down at both sides of the river valley from the church bell tower. The thick smoke turned the distant scene into a blurry afterimage.

But it didn't matter, because the full picture of the battlefield was already in his mind. Thousands of humans and war horses seemed to be a huge living body, and Bode Gates clearly listened to its pulse:

To the south, the Baishan County army under the command of Colonel Geza Adonis was advancing in full swing. The vanguard Centurions were like an awl piercing the river, seizing the enemy's garrisoned coastal farmhouses one after another;

To the north, the troops of Bianjiang County and Leiqun County commanded by Colonel Scull were fighting fiercely with the enemy. Scull's battle line surrounded the enemy's flanks, and the enemy's reinforcements also surrounded the troops of Bianjiang County and Leiqun County. flank.

The two sides are like a pair of ouroboros, tearing apart each other's remains like crazy, just to see who can bite the other side first, causing pain, fear, and death;

As for the most intense battle, it was on the hillock to the east where the enemy's artillery was set up. There is no longer the desolate look of wild grass there before, and the horses' hooves have plowed the ground all over. Looking around, there is no green anymore, only black mud and red blood.

The Leiqun County cavalry surrounded the enemy and launched attacks in turn. The enemy formation, almost submerged in the horses and smoke, seemed to collapse in the next second, but it refused to collapse.

South, north, and east are three battlefields where desperate battles are taking place. No matter where the result is determined first, it may determine the outcome today.

The most "unimportant" thing is the valley village located in the center of the whirlpool.

Captain Lauzon did not have the overall perspective of Colonel Bode. In the crazy fighting, he gradually became only instinct. He feared nothing and desired nothing. He roared loudly, swung his knife vigorously, split his chest and cut his neck.

A lead bullet flying from nowhere hit Luo Song's mount. The horse whined, fell violently, and then fell to one side. If the captain hadn't reacted quickly and retracted his leg in time, his tibia would have been crushed in just one move.

There was no time to mourn for his beloved horse. Luo Song, who had just pulled out his right leg from under the horse, rolled on the spot to avoid the thrusting spear. The tip of the spear slashed across his back, leaving a shallow mark on his armor.

The captain roared and rushed towards the enemy who drew his spear and wanted to stab him again, but he felt a huge force clamping down on his arms and shoulders - a sergeant pulled him onto his horse and then whipped him away. .

The two of them withdrew until they were out of the range of the muskets. Other Leiqun County cavalry also gradually got rid of the enemy and retreated to regroup.

The sergeant brought back a war horse that had lost its owner to the captain. Lauzon took the reins and put the stirrups on the saddle.

"Saber." The captain gritted his teeth and took off the sword spike from his wrist.

The sergeant found the captain an uncurled saber. When handing the saber to the captain, the sergeant noticed that the captain's arm was shaking unconsciously.

"Line up."

The rallying horn sounded again, and the Leiqun County cavalry who were still able to fight re-arranged themselves. The cavalrymen who still had swords drew their swords, and the cavalrymen who lost their swords picked up the enemy's discarded spears and rode towards the enemy's formation again.

However, even if the Leiqun County cavalry still had the fighting spirit to launch a new round of charge, their horses were exhausted from the non-stop vigorous exercise.

No matter how the riders used whips and spurs, the horses could not sprint at full speed like they did at the beginning, and could only canter at a long stride.

Riding a tired war horse, the charging interval of less than two hundred meters was as long as one kilometer.

In the phalanx at the other end of the killing field, the joint provincial school officer jumped onto the carriage, shouted and waved the military flag, motivating his men to continue fighting.

Sparse red flames burst out from inside the spear wall, and the enemy was no longer able to organize the musketeers to launch a disciplined volley.

However, out of the corner of his eye, Lauzon caught sight of something strange happening in the corner of the phalanx: the gunners in the rear were pouring gunpowder into the detonators, and the enemy spearmen in the front row hurriedly gave way to shooting space.

Another enemy cannon was loaded.

When the Leiqun County cavalry repeatedly charged and killed, the four enemy cannons that were not destroyed were also firing rapidly without interruption. They caused more casualties to Lauzon's men than the musketeers of the two phalanxes combined.

Now, the lead rain of death is coming again.

"Spread out!" Luo Song raised his hands and shouted: "Spread out!"

Just then the cannon opened fire.

Luo Song only felt a wave of heat rushing straight to his face, and the air flow cut his cheek. Luo Song thought he was dead, but the sergeant beside him was killed first.

The sergeant's left arm was cut off by a cannonball to the shoulder level, and blood gushed out from the short wound with his heartbeat. He gave the captain a painful look and fell off the horse.

In the fierce fighting, the enemy learned new tricks.

They hid the artillery inside the human wall so that the attackers could not see the reloading progress of the artillery. They did not disperse the spearmen in the front row until just before firing.

The sudden bombardment plowed a gap in the charging formation of Leiqun County's cavalry. However, the screams and wails coming from the enemy's formation were more miserable than the screams of Leiqun County's horses.

There was a tragic scene around the heavy artillery that had just sprayed rain of fire, with broken human bodies and wood chips everywhere.

There was a terrifying tear-shaped gap at the tail of the heavy cannon. The metal stripped from the cannon body turned into deadly fragments, directly blowing up a corner of the phalanx that was already on the verge of disintegration.

"Get on top! Get on top!" the school official shouted wildly.

"That's it!" Luo Song's blood surged, and he raised his knife and pointed directly at the location of the exploding heavy cannon: "Follow me!"

Leiqun County's heavy cavalry roared and charged into the last enemy formation on the hillock, rampaging and trampling on the brown-clothed infantry, causing everyone inside the phalanx to turn upside down.

The spearmen in the front row of the parliamentary army in other directions either fled or turned to fight. However, as soon as they wavered, the light cavalry of Leiqun County, which was patrolling outside the range of the muskets, also rushed over.

Amidst the sound of horse hooves that resounded in the sky, no matter how the Union Provincial Colonel took the lead, no matter how the Union Provincial Colonel encouraged and spurred the last parliamentary formation on the artillery position, it was still like an ice block hit by a heavy hammer, helpless. Fallen apart redeemably.

In the rebellious army, Luo Song searched murderously for the federal provincial school officer, but he couldn't find the light blue federal provincial military uniform.

Luo Song reined in his horse and looked around at the scene around him: the soldiers in brown clothes were fleeing in all directions in a panic, and the Leiqun County cavalry was chasing behind them and killing them like crazy. Both the fleeers and the pursuers were completely in a state of frenzy.

"Blow the call to arms!" Luo Song shook off the blood dripping from his saber, turned his head habitually and shouted to the trumpeter: "Send the order to everyone! Gather and reorganize!"

No one responded to him. His trumpeter had been killed in the charge.

Luo Song pursed his lips and galloped towards where the flags of the third and fourth squadrons were, looking for the trumpeter of the light cavalry squadron.

Just then, Luo Song heard the familiar sound of horse hooves.

It’s not the chaotic roar of thousands of horses galloping, but the sound of hundreds of horses moving forward in unison with the same gait—the sound of charging horses.

Luo Song looked back in horror and saw that the enemy cavalry, which had been resting at the southernmost end of the battlefield, had completed preparations for the attack at some point.

The three cavalry squadrons of the New Reclamation Expedition Army were fully deployed on the field, forming a huge net and sweeping towards the hillock where the artillery position was located.

Luo Song immediately galloped under the flag of the light cavalry squadron, and the shrill callback signal immediately sounded through the hills. The Leiqun County cavalry gave up chasing and fleeing the enemy. Following Captain Lauzon's flag, they withdrew their artillery positions from the west like an ebbing tide.

Luo Song wanted to take his troops to the outside of the battlefield to reorganize, but the cavalry of the New Reclamation Corps did not intend to give him this opportunity.

They bypassed the hillock from the east, and after briefly disappearing from Luo Song's sight, they appeared again behind the Leiqun County cavalry.

The cavalry of Leiqun County were already at the end of their strength, and many of them were still carrying wounded soldiers and comrades who had lost their horses. On the other hand, the cavalry of the New Reclamation Expeditionary Army have not been involved in combat so far.

The two sides moved slowly and quickly, and the distance between them was quickly shortened. Leiqun County cavalry kept falling off their horses while galloping, and disappeared under the hooves of the pursuers.

Luo Song's war horse was full of saliva, its nostrils were constantly flaring, and it was wheezing violently like an old bellows. No matter how Luo Song urged the horse, it could not run faster than the pursuing horse.

As soon as Luo Song gritted his teeth, just when he was about to issue the order to "turn around and fight", a reinforcement force that he had not expected broke into the space between the Leiqun County cavalry and the pursuers.

In the order of the four-county coalition, the cavalry in Bianjiang County is poorly equipped, has inferior horses, and has little training. It always takes on the "chores" that the cavalry hates most, instead of being regarded as a force that can determine victory like the cavalry in Leiqun County. Negative power.

But this time, it was the cavalry from Bianjiang County who saved the cavalry from Leiqun County.

Lieutenant Lejeune, the commander of the Bienjiang County light cavalry, noticed that the battle situation had changed, and immediately gathered all the men he could gather and quickly came to support.

Lieutenant Lejeune seized a perfect attack window, which was beyond the expectations of both friendly forces and the enemy. Although the enemy cavalry tried their best to adjust their formation to deal with it, they were still intercepted by the Bianjiang County light cavalry.

"The people of Bianjiang County have held back the puppet army!" The lieutenant commanding the light cavalry of Leiqun County caught up with Luo Song and shouted at the top of his lungs: "The Tusche Field is ahead!"

Captain Lauzon turned his head and looked back at the friendly troops in Bianjiang County who were fighting hard in the smoke and dust - their number was too small, and they were also exhausted because of the task of covering the battlefield. All they can do is delay the enemy.

The lieutenant of the Leiqun County Light Cavalry repeated again: "We are only on foot!"

"Stop!" Luo Song jerked the reins, causing the horse to stand upright. The captain drew his saber and shouted an order: "Turn around! Meet the enemy!"

…

At the same time, at the other end of the battlefield, Geza Adonis easily captured the east bank of the upper reaches of the unknown creek.

When the two enemy brigades deployed on the river bank used muskets to shoot at the Baeksan County troops across the river, the fighting was quite vigorous. Once you get into hand-to-hand combat, you can immediately run away.

Like dogs chasing rabbits, the sword and shield men of Baishan County cleared out the brown-clothed soldiers from the small farms on the east bank.

However, Colonel Gesa's feeling of uneasiness became stronger and stronger - the enemy's combat effectiveness was completely inconsistent with Colonel Bode's pre-war predictions.

The three enemy brigades deployed in the rear did not take any action. They sat back and watched the friendly troops defending the river bank being repulsed.

Since he couldn't figure out what Saner was up to, Colonel Geza Adonis wasn't going to think about it anymore. No matter what tricks Saner has up his sleeve, it will all be revealed with one punch.

"Drum roll!" Colonel Gesa shouted: "March!"

Just when Gesa decided to fight head-on, Saner also rushed to the left wing of the parliamentary army.

Colonel Sanel Karoi - the nominal commander of the parliamentary army - rushed straight into the central square of the three square formations on the second front, and shouted sternly and fiercely at another officer in uniform. Soldier in uniform: "You still don't move?!"

The scolded colonel glanced at Saner coldly: "You and I are of the same rank, Colonel Saner, I am not your subordinate."

"Okay! Okay!! Okay!!!" Saner said "ok" three times in a row. He suppressed his anger and gritted his teeth and asked: "When will you be willing to attack? Najib-Colonel!"

"When the time is right, I will give the order to attack."

"Plans have changed! It's too late!"

"The Sixth Legion is the ballast stone of the Republic. It is precisely because of the existence of the Fifth and Sixth Legions that the young people have to bend their knees and serve. If the Sixth Legion loses too much power here, the Great Council will not accept Plato's support. The rule will be shaken." The colonel known as Naji glanced at Sanel and said flatly: "As for your people, it doesn't matter if you die a little more."

Saner almost shouted: "All my people are dead, and your people will not survive!"

"Really?" Colonel Nagy looked normal: "I don't think so."

After saying that, he nodded slightly and ignored Saner.

Saner stood frozen for a long time, and finally roared angrily and rode away.

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