Iron Powder and Spellcaster

Lauzon lost his second horse.

The sun was setting in the west, and in the wilderness to the north of Hehehe Village, the cavalrymen who had kissed the flags with the same pattern and sworn allegiance waved their sabers and short spears and fought desperately.

The church bell tower spire with the four-quadrant battle flags disappeared behind the ridge of the mound. People there could not see the collision of the main cavalry, and the cavalry had no way of knowing the battle situation on the main battlefield.

Maybe the battle has been decided, maybe the gunfire in Riverdale Village has dissipated, but that doesn't matter now, because everyone in the melee is struggling for their own survival.

The desperate counterattack of the Leiqun County cavalry greatly exceeded the expectations of the cavalry dispatched from the newly cultivated land.

The Leiqun County cavalry, who were being hunted down like prey, suddenly turned their heads and charged towards them desperately. The half-turn tactics that the cavalry dispatched from the new land had spent a lot of time and energy practicing had no chance to be used.

The cavalry of the New Reclamation Army under Sarnell was born out of the remnants of the cavalry of Plato's standing army. It later absorbed four squadrons newly recruited by Adams, and eventually expanded to the size of thousands of cavalry.

But its core strength is still the pistol cavalry force that was quickly armed after the coup of the Kings Castle. The Grand Council received the ordnance provided by the United Provinces, assembled the remaining standing army cavalry and local patrol cavalry, and assembled them.

Saner regarded it as the apple of his eye and the heart of his heart. He had kept it in his hand since the beginning of the war, and even allowed them to dismount and unsaddle him to rest. However, under pressure, Sanel had to put them into an unplanned battlefield.

The cavalry of the two armies hit each other like two huge waves. Only the sound of gunfire and tongues of fire were heard at first, and the rest were all the lights of swords and shadows.

It was during this initial period that Lauzon lost his second horse.

A parliamentary cavalryman who rushed towards him fired two shots at him. The first shot hit his breastplate, and the second shot hit the forehead of his horse under his crotch.

The shot on the breastplate left only a deep dent, but the shot that hit the horse's forehead killed the horse on the spot.

The saddle head blocked Luo Song from being thrown out. But the captain still fell off his horse and his vision went dark.

At a certain moment, Luo Song felt that it was better to just die. But there was something that made him force himself to wake up, force himself to open his eyes, force himself to stand up.

Luo Song's men, who rushed forward to rescue the captain regardless of their own safety, were mixed up with the newly dispatched troops who wanted to kill the enemy officers.

A Leiqun County cavalryman dismounted and gave up his mount to the captain without hesitation.

Luo Song didn't say any coy nonsense. He took the reins, raised his saber, and charged towards the nearest enemy again.

The battle was carried out in the form of a traditional cavalry battle. The Leiqun County cavalry, which was at the end of its battle, faced off against the newly-reclamated land dispatched army cavalry who was waiting for work. No one expected that it was the newly-reclamated land dispatched army cavalry who couldn't stand it first.

Backed by the arsenal of the United Provinces, the Grand Council of the Kings Castle generously equipped each cavalryman with two spring-wheel pistols and a saber.

What the cavalrymen of the New Reclamation Army had to do when they were dragged into hand-to-hand combat was to empty two pistols, put the pistols back into their holsters, and then draw their sabers to fight hand-to-hand.

However, even with these three simple actions, most of the cavalrymen of the New Reclamation Land Dispatch Army failed to complete them.

Because the hand-to-hand combat happened so quickly, the two pistols were not empty, and the enemy had already rushed in front of them.

The cavalry dispatched from the new land had no time to draw their sabers. Many of them had to use their expensive spring guns as awkward hammers to barely fend off the saber-wielding Leiqun County cavalry.

After changing to the third war horse, Luo Song made the three enemies incapacitated in a few back and forth.

He mechanically slashed with great force, and the enemy in brown clothes would raise his short gun to block each time, but he could not block the power of the long knife every time.

The blade pushed the gun body downward, scraping out sparks, and finally landed on the enemy's unprotected shoulder without any suspense.

Luo Song also received two gun butt hits, and the iron-wrapped gun butt hit his arm and the armor on his back hard. It hurt, but it was nothing compared to the pain in other parts of my body.

A round of shooting before the charge of the brown cavalry knocked many Leiqun County cavalry off their saddles, but after entering hand-to-hand combat, they quickly fell into a disadvantage.

Luo Song looked around. The cavalry of the two armies were fighting each other. In the end, the only ones left on horseback were his own men. The cavalry war chief focused on horsemanship. In the captain's opinion, the enemy's horsemanship was really poor.

The cavalrymen dispatched from the newly established land, who had fired two short guns, all wanted to get rid of the enemy, reload their ammunition and then fight back.

Get out of the fight, reload, and come back. The pistol is their most effective weapon, but it also makes them become too dependent on the pistol.

The behavior of some pistol cavalrymen of the New Reclamation Land Dispatch Army trying to get rid of the enemy and reloading caused more cavalrymen of the New Reclamation Land Dispatch Army to break away from the battle.

When everyone was avoiding hand-to-hand combat, a temporary retreat turned into a retreat, and the retreat turned into a full-scale retreat.

This is cavalry warfare, explosive and rapid, coming quickly and ending even faster. When one side chooses to withdraw from the combat zone, the other side has almost no way to stop it and can only choose whether to pursue it.

The brown cavalry came up like a tidal wave and fled like a flock of crows. The battlefield was like a forest washed away by a flood, with only the Leiqun County cavalry and Baishan County cavalry remaining like solitary trees.

Lieutenant Lejeune from Baishan County approached Captain Lauzon immediately.

The blood and sweat on the lieutenant's face had turned into something like mud.

"Want to chase?" asked the lieutenant.

"Withdraw." The captain's answer was simple and straightforward.

The Baishan County cavalry and Leiqun County cavalry who were still able to move only spent a little time collecting the ownerless horses, and then retreated with the wounded.

They had neither time nor strength to take away the remains of their comrades, so they could only abandon them on the battlefield together with the corpses of the enemy.

…

[a quarter of an hour later]

"The Leiqun County cavalry needs to attack again." Colonel Bode said to Captain Lauzon.

Luo Song said nothing. Standing on the top of the clock tower, the situation on the battlefield was clear at a glance.

The cavalry units of Leiqun County and Bianjiang County withdrew to the west bank intact, but the infantry units of Leiqun County and Bianjiang County were trapped on the east bank and could not escape.

The two infantry brigades of the New Reclamation Army Expeditionary Army, supported by the Chinese Army on the right wing, are constantly pushing the coalition's left wing northward, forcing them to retreat step by step away from the valley village.

The battle line of the coalition's left wing has been squeezed to the point of bending and deformation, and is about to shrink from a line into a circle.

Only the silver-edged military flag floating in the smoke proved that the troops of Bianjiang County and Leiqun County were still fighting hard.

The right wing of the coalition forces was also out of touch with the central army, for the exact opposite reason as the left wing - the troops from Baishan County invaded the east bank and caught up with the three left-wing phalanxes of the parliamentary army that retreated alternately.

The fighting broke out on the edge of the farmland on the east bank, leaving Vale and the Union right flank with a huge opening - and the same for the Parliamentary forces.

"The battle has reached this point." Colonel Bode said to the captain: "It is no longer about who can win, but who loses first. We and they are all waiting for a signal, a signal of total defeat."

Luo Song pursed his lips: "My cavalry alone is not enough."

This sentence sounded very cowardly, but Colonel Bode knew that the captain was simply stating the facts.

"So I have prepared a new force for you." Colonel Bode's eyes were blazing: "The last new force."

…

Luo Song mounted the stirrup on the fourth horse.

He put on his helmet and cracked his whip, as if saying something completely ordinary: "Let's go!"

The last Leiqun County cavalry and Bianjiang County cavalry galloped down the slope blasted by the cannon, roaring towards the battlefield to the north.

The Second Infantry Battalion of Baishan County, the Sixth Infantry Battalion of Baishan County, and the Second Infantry Battalion of Leiqun County followed closely behind them.

Just when the coalition forces dropped their last force, at the southernmost end of the entire battlefield, a force that had never appeared before appeared on the horizon.

[It’s not yet dawn...Q_Q]

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