Iron Powder and Spellcasters

   Chapter 445 The Great Alliance Moves Forward (Seventeen)

   What is a Heavy Shock Cavalry?

  The best armor, the best horses, and the best warriors.

   But these three things are too expensive, so whether in an empire that is constantly fighting, or in an alliance that has enjoyed thirty years of peace, the heavy shock cavalry is regarded as a relic of an old age.

  With the introduction of swift horses, busts and scimitars into the army, among the Republics, only Plato has traditionally retained the small-scale heavy shock cavalry—Lieutenant Colonel Chris Valley knew this.

   But the lieutenant colonel also knew something else—the heavy shock cavalry of the First Republic of Palatine had long since been exhausted by the Battle of the Wilderness and the Civil War.

  Valley, Sanel, Chloe... Any commander of the parliamentary army would never have expected that the "rebels" would throw such an unprecedented cavalry at this time and place.

Rolling thunder rolled over the battlefield. In Lieutenant Colonel Warley's vision, a cavalry officer with shining armor suddenly rushed out of the smoke on the south bank, rode his horse on the broken bridge that had been burnt to charcoal, and jumped at the end of the bridge deck. rise.

  As the rear hooves of the warhorse left the ground, the last bit of structure left by the wooden bridge on the west bank finally could not support it and collapsed suddenly. The cavalry officer's horse stretched its hooves with all its might and landed firmly on the east bank.

The coalition infantrymen who witnessed this scene burst out with cheers, and the appearance of the cavalry officer was just the beginning. Hundreds of cavalry officers, also wearing armor and holding long spears, followed the cavalry officer and emerged from the smoke screen. Filed out.

   They rode their dexterous hot-blooded horses to jump off the low cliff on the west bank, and rushed to the river beach on the east bank with their remaining momentum.

   Some cavalrymen fell off their horses in the process of going up and down, and they did not know whether they were alive or dead, but the cavalry behind them still did not hesitate when they jumped off the low cliff.

   At the sight of the amazingly long spears in the hands of the cavalry, Lieutenant Colonel Chris Valley almost clenched his silver teeth.

Although those strange cavalry were not heavy horses under their crotch, and although those strange cavalry were only equipped with half-armor and three-quarter armor, they were undoubtedly an extinct team that fought with devastating impact and was viewed as For the heavy-armed shock cavalry with a hammering ability, and a shock cavalry specially designed to deal with infantry phalanxes!

   "Turn the cannons around!" Lieutenant Colonel Valle waved his arms, trying to make the last resistance: "Turn the cannons around!"

   In fact, the lieutenant colonel did not need an order at all. The first time the old gunner saw the "rebel" heavy cavalry, he immediately called the gunners to turn the muzzle.

   But the eight old-fashioned cannons of the parliamentary army have no turning mechanism at all, and if you want to "turn around", you can only use thick and long wooden stakes to pry the gun mount a little bit.

  The gunners pressed their shoulders against the stakes, their faces turned the color of pig livers, and they tried to **** the milk, but they only moved the cannons every inch.

   To meet the first four charges of the "rebels", all the artillery on the artillery position turned to the north - the direction of the incoming enemy cavalry. Even all the musketeers and most of the halberdists were gathered into the large phalanx to the north.

  When the "rebels" finally showed their trump card, the southern phalanx, which bore the brunt, didn't even have a gun or a cannon to fight.

Near the Broken Bridge, the parliamentary gunmen who had just retreated from the West Bank fled. The officers of the 2nd Infantry Brigade of Leiqun County, who had just been ordered by Colonel Bode, saw the cavalry in their own county attacking, and they also led their soldiers into the river, shouting and following the cavalry to the east bank.

The "rebel" cavalry who forced the crossing of the river bay simply ignored the parliamentary gunmen who fled in the desert. Artillery positions on the mound.

   "It's over." Lieutenant Colonel Varley's rationality gave a ruthless judgment.

   "It's broken!" Colonel Sanel also changed his face, and he no longer had the leisure and calmness he had before, and shouted sharply: "Blow the horn! Let the cavalry mount!"

   On the top of the church bell tower, Colonel Bode tightly fastened the window frame and stared at the mound on the other side of the river without blinking his eyelids.

  The harsh sound of the trumpet, the flying lead bullets, the fire from the muzzle, the distorted faces of the soldiers...the thousands of scenes on the battlefield solidified into a picture scroll, as if a long time had passed, and it seemed as if it was just a blink of an eye.

   When the time flowed again, Leiqun County cavalry, holding spears and wearing plate armor, had already smashed into the phalanx on the south side of the artillery position.

   Under the mound and on the bank of the river, the heavy cavalry of Leiqun County who later crossed the river had already formed an assault formation. Under the leadership of Captain Losson, the sixth round of charge was launched towards the artillery positions of the "puppet government army".

The parliamentary army has also discovered a fatal rift between the right flank of its own front and the central army. The southernmost phalanx of the parliamentary army's right-wing front and the Chinese army's formation supporting the right flank are trying their best to move closer to each other, desperately trying to stop the "rebel" cavalry second. Cut through your own front.

   "Close up the formation! Pass through!" Luo Song took the lead, leading the entire charge echelon by himself.

The more than 160 cavalry in the charge echelon commanded by Captain    gathered up the formation while galloping, and before the enemy closed the gate, they again penetrated the enemy front from the gap of less than 20 meters between the two square formations.

  When the Leiqun County cavalry swept past the enemy's formation, the spears in the hands of the "pseudo-government army" soldiers could almost scrape their feathers and horses' tails.

The roars of    orders came one after another, gunpowder smoke spewed from the phalanx of the parliamentary army, and the musketeers opened fire on the "rebel" cavalry passing by.

   The two sides are too close to aim at all. With every shot, a Leiqun County cavalryman fell from his horse.

  The cavalry of Leiqun County all ducked on the horse's neck to avoid, but Captain Luo Song was furious.

   "Stand up your chest!" Luo Song roared like thunder: "That's a bullet! It's not a dung! Straighten me up!"

  The distance between the bank of the river and the mound is less than a mile, and it is there in an instant. After getting rid of the interception of the parliamentary infantry phalanx, nothing could stop the charge of the Leiqun County heavy cavalry.

   The light cavalry who launched the charge first had already endured the fiercest firepower of the enemy for them, and the heavy cavalry detachment charging in the previous echelon had also given way to them.

   When he was less than 150 meters away from the enemy's artillery position, Luo Song leveled the lance in his hand.

The    charge horn sounded immediately, and the Leiqun County heavy cavalry no longer deliberately controlled the speed of the horses, but stabbed the horses on both sides without pity, leveled their lances, and roared at the already crumbling enemy.

  The periphery of the artillery positions of the parliamentary army was full of fallen warhorses and mutilated human corpses. Their stomachs and bones were intertwined, like a tripwire made of flesh and blood.

  Losong tried his best to level the lance, and used his knees to control the horse to leap over the corpse.

  According to the specifications of the Union Army, the super long spears issued by the phalanx spearmen are five meters in length.

   And the length of the special spear in Luo Song's hand is one meter longer than the super long spear issued to the infantry.

   This means that the spear in his hand is extremely difficult to control, and Luo Song's legs have to clamp the horse's belly tightly to maintain balance;

  This also means that the spear in his hand will stab the opponent in the chest first before the tip of the opponent's spear stabs his warhorse.

The phalanx on the south side of the    artillery position had been devastated and almost disintegrated by the previous charge of the Leiqun County cavalry. The "hollow square matrix", which was originally a parallelogram, was also squeezed into a triangle in the continuous collapse.

  The artillery at the southwest corner of the position was exposed outside the phalanx, and a parliamentary lieutenant with a **** face was trying to regroup the soldiers who still had weapons in their hands.

  Losong jumped over the cannon mounts and the wheels, and after a moment of hesitation, he rushed towards the bloody-faced parliamentary lieutenant.

  Everything happened so fast that the lieutenant didn't have time to dodge and was picked up screaming. With a crackling sound, the spear in Luo Song's hand was also folded in two.

   At the same time, other Leiqun County heavy cavalry also rushed in front of the enemy.

   A Leiqun County cavalryman pinned the enemy in front of him to the ground with a special spear one moment, and the next moment his warhorse was also penetrated by the dense spear forest. The corpse of the warhorse remained unabated, even with the rider on the horse, smashing straight into the brown-clothed soldiers, sweeping away the last number of spearmen.

  Luo Song gave up the broken spear without hesitation, drew his sword and rushed into the gap in the enemy's formation. He stepped on two fallen enemies, slashed half of the head of the sergeant with a halberd, and slammed his body out, piercing the heart of another enemy.

   With the sound of "clang", Luo Song was hit **** the back. The armor dissipated his strength, but the pain still suffocated Lorson's breath, and the enormous momentum nearly knocked him off the saddle.

  Luosong glared angrily, turned his arms round and slashed back, slashing the arm of the enemy who had hit him with a musket.

   At this moment, another lead bullet hit Luo Song's protective face, the steel protective face was punched into a huge depression, and the collapsed iron piece flew into Luo Song's left eye.

  Luo Song's field of vision immediately fell into darkness, and the pain and blood made him unable to see with his right eye.

   He didn't know where the enemy was or where his subordinates were. He roared like a beast caught in a trap, slashing in all directions with his round saber.

   Accompanied by the piercing sound of gold and iron, Luo Song's saber was slashed heavily on an iron plate. Without any hesitation, he immediately closed the knife and chopped again.

   But a panting voice came from where the saber fell: "Senior! It's me!"

  Luosong recognized the owner of the voice, he endured the severe pain and opened his right eye, and saw a pair of familiar eyes wrapped under the helmet. He turned his head and looked around again. The three Leiqun County cavalrymen slashed and slashed to the left, trying their best to stop the enemy from outside.

   The other subordinates who attacked the enemy together also found the captain wounded and were approaching him desperately.

   A short melody came from outside the phalanx - it's a troop call!

   The next round of charge is coming soon, and the Leiqun County cavalry who are fighting must give up the battlefield to the next charge echelon as soon as possible.

  Luo Song used brute force, snapped the buckle, and ripped off the helmet that was already full of blood and sweat. Covering his left eye and opening his right eye, he looked around, raising his knife and pointing at the weak southeast corner of the enemy formation.

   "Go!" Luo Song shouted through gritted teeth.

   At this moment, an invisible string tied with a heavy weight quietly snapped.

The    Parliamentary Army soldiers had also reached their limit. A soldier in brown threw down his weapon and turned around and ran down the mound.

   Immediately after, like a fortress made of gravel was destroyed by the strong wind, the large phalanx guarding the south side of the artillery position of the Grand Council Army collapsed.

   [Not enough 4,000 words, sorry, Orz]

   [Currently, the primary goal is to ensure that it can be updated every day, so I can post as much as I write every day]

   [Some additional notes: Is a lance longer than a lancer's spear a super weapon that allows cavalry to break through the phalanx of lances? ][Answer: No]

   [First of all, it should be noted that [the lances of the winged cavalry were specially lengthened to fight the infantry phalanx] There is no real evidence. This is actually a scene from the Polish movie [torrent]

   [The lance of the Polish cavalry is about 5 meters long and has not changed much. The length of the infantry spear has changed with the development of the times, the longest is 6 meters, to 5 meters 5, to 5 meters, and then to 4 meters 4. So the Polish writers of the late seventeenth century would say, "The lance is longer than the lance of the infantry". But if we go back to the sixteenth century, this is not true]

   [But has there ever been an attempt to [use a super long lance to deal with an infantry phalanx] in history? Of course there are. Just like the war between the successor dynasties, the successor kingdoms continue to lengthen the already outrageous spears]

[The super-long spear used by the infantry phalanx itself is a product to deal with the length of the lance, and even the super-long spear keeps getting longer, because the lance is constantly lengthening, which is a spiral process] [Finally, the lance is eliminated Infantry pike, also eliminated itself]

[PS: [torrent] Another far-reaching influence of this movie is that the image of the winged cavalry in the mass media squadron has become [true · cavalry with wings on the back], but the real objects preserved in the museum, the wings are actually installed in on the saddle]

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