Rise of the Empire Total War

"Fire! Fire!"

"Xu Jin shoots!"

bang bang bang—

After a series of gunshots, the Kuyawi soldiers who were shooting bows and arrows on the opposite side suddenly fell down. The arrow clusters they shot before they died also shot down several line infantry in chaos. After recovering their armor, the arrows from the enemy The threat of arrows to the soldiers of the Holy Roman Empire has been greatly reduced, but some unlucky ones were shot in the face without protection and fell down.

After the ammunition in the barrel was fired, the line infantry in this row stopped advancing and loaded ammunition on the spot. The soldiers standing behind them passed through the gap between the soldiers in the front row, walked to the front, and raised their guns. shooting. A company changed from three platoons to five platoons, and these five platoons formed a continuous firepower network, causing the enemy to complain endlessly.

The Kuyavians obviously didn't intend to let the line infantry continue to load and shoot comfortably. Amidst the sound of the horns, the soldiers in armor and holding shields roared across the infantry line formed by the front row of light infantry and rushed towards Holy Rome. The soldiers of the imperial army, in the face of this menacing enemy, they stopped in a hurry, stopped advancing, returned to normal formation as quickly as possible, and then...turned around and retreated?

The line infantry retreated without hesitation. The Kuyawi soldiers were stunned and stopped their charge. The soldiers glanced at each other, not knowing whether to continue chasing. Maintaining the retreat posture of the formation, gritted his teeth, decided to take a gamble, and took the lead in chasing up.

With someone taking the lead, the rest of the team also rushed forward, and the situation on the entire front was instantly reversed. The commanders watching the battle from behind did not doubt that he was there, and directly labeled the enemy as fearful of melee combat. However, for the sake of caution, they still sent messengers to call back the pursuing army. Although the enemy was afraid of close combat, their long-range firepower was very fierce. If they fell into a trap, it would be over.

Their idea just came up, as if to verify their idea, the retreating line infantry had just crossed the line of defense abandoned by them, and a large number of soldiers protruded from all nearby places where people could hide. Hold the musket in front of you, and shoot fiercely at the chasing enemy troops.

The chasing Kuyawi army was caught off guard, and was overturned at that time. The officers who rushed to the front were killed on the spot, and the remaining soldiers without leaders were at a loss. They retreated, and before they had a consensus, they saw a large number of cavalry waving carbines rushing out from the side.

"Cavalry! Roman cavalry!"

"This is indeed a trap!"

"Retreat! Retreat! Run!"

The Kuyawi soldiers screamed,

They all turned around and ran back. In order to reduce the load, they dropped the shields that were in the way on the ground, and ran with their feet spread, but no matter what, two legs could not run faster than four legs. The carbine cavalry who chased after them first raised They fired a volley, and then put away their muskets, drew their swords and rushed into the crowd, slashing wantonly.

Screams, screams, cries, and curses resounded through the retreating crowd, until the Kuyawi archers started shooting to cover the rout, and the carbine cavalry, who had won many victories, turned their horses and retreated. went back.

...

Although this is just one of the outbreaks of battle on the long front, it can be said to be a small microcosm of the entire front. Under the offensive of the Holy Roman Empire army, neither the Kuyawi nor the Burgundian army could occupy it. The benefits, especially the Burgundian defense line, were basically directly broken through. By the time their army arrived, the enemy had already established a firm foothold, relying on advanced weapons to repel them.

Not only that, the second brigade of the third army cooperated with the friendly forces of the third brigade to firmly attract the main force of the Burgundians, so that they could not withdraw to support other battlefields, and the third brigade took advantage of this time to cross Burgundy The main force of Dia, surrounded it from the side and rear, and after the Burgundian general reacted, he was shocked to find that the surroundings were full of troops from the Holy Roman Empire, and they had nowhere to escape.

As mentioned earlier, most of the Burgundian army is mobilized from all over the kingdom. The morale of the Asian soldiers was shaken, and a feeling called despair hung over everyone's heart.

The chief officers of the two brigades did not plan to attack immediately. They communicated with each other and unified their opinions, and then sent envoys to persuade the commander of the Burgundian army to surrender, and fought with them through the information passed by the spy network The commander-in-chief of the army is not King Glass himself, but his military commander, which is why the two brigade commanders agreed to persuade them to surrender. The Marshal was more likely to agree to surrender than the king himself.

And the fact is true, although the person who fought them was the military chief of the kingdom, but he was not a loyal king, and he was also afraid of death, so after listening to the words of the persuading envoy, he agreed to surrender without saying a word up.

The surrender of this army was faster than the two brigade commanders had expected. The chief general of the army, the military chief, directly summoned all the soldiers in the army, and publicly expressed his decision to surrender. The soldiers and officers did not express any objection to this. . It's no wonder that so many soldiers were killed in just a few days of war. If the fight continues, everyone will probably die under the enemy's guns.

On the second day after deciding to persuade the troops to surrender, the army of the King of Burgundia officially put down their weapons and lined up to surrender to the army of the Holy Roman Empire. After a whole afternoon of statistics, a total of more than 16,000 prisoners were accepted, more than 3,000 horses were captured, and armor and weapons were not recorded.

The total of the two brigades of the Holy Roman Empire Army that accepted the surrender was only about 16,000 people. This can be said to be a soldier guarding a prisoner of war, but in fact, they only need to leave one regiment to perfectly deter them. these prisoners of war.

A few days later, when the news of the surrender of the main force reached Brad, the capital of the Burgundian Kingdom, King Glass Moses, who heard the bad news, was so angry that he vomited blood and passed out. Half of the 30,000 troops mobilized before the war were taken as prisoners of war by the damn military chief, and thousands of people died under the enemy's guns. The remaining combatable soldiers in the kingdom were less than eight Thousands of people!

After the enraged King Glass came to his senses, he directly ordered the whole family of the military chief to be imprisoned and all his property to be confiscated. This could not dispel his anger, but he did not dare to execute all the family members of the military chief. Because it would make him a tyrant.