Steel, Guns, and the Industrial Party that Traveled to Another World

In this battle, the Arda army deployed 10 six-pound cannons and 4 twelve-pound cannons.

According to Andrew's order, the artillerymen concentrated their firepower to bombard the middle part of the ladder-shaped team of the Skitarii Army in a volley.

The momentum of the volley of fourteen cannons was very large, and it resounded throughout the battlefield for a time, shocking everyone's heart.

The high-speed flying shells smashed into the Skitarii Army's square formation, bouncing happily on the ground, setting off waves of bloody rain. No flesh and blood could stop these metal spheres containing huge energy until their own energy was exhausted and they sank into the mud and stopped moving.

The Skitarii soldiers screamed continuously, and the shields in their hands and the armor on their bodies did not provide any protection. They were as fragile as cheese in front of the flying shells.

The Alda artillery aimed at a square as a target each time, and the first volley achieved a very impressive effect. The main reason was that after the enemy took the initiative to launch an offensive, the distance between the two armies was greatly shortened, which doubled the hit rate and power.

From the perspective of the Crusaders, the fifth square from the left seemed to be stabbed by several invisible giants with thick wooden sticks. A large number of soldiers were killed and wounded, and the standing soldiers became scattered, looking at their companions who were howling on the ground in panic.

Morale suddenly plummeted, and fear gripped everyone's heart.

And not long after, the Alda infantry moving forward in small steps and trotting brought them into the range of fire.

"Stand still!" The commander shouted.

Because of the rapid movement just now, the horizontal formation formed by the infantry had become irregular, but it still maintained the general formation. Under the order, it restored the neat horizontal formation within fifteen seconds.

"Aim!"

"Shoot!"

The soldiers executed the order in one go. The strict training on weekdays had long engraved these actions into their body memory.

Suddenly, there was another roar. To the soldiers of the Skitarii on the opposite side, it sounded like the sound of countless explosions when beans were fried.

Accompanied by the spitting flames and dense smoke, a large number of metal bullets that were too fast for them to see clearly shot into the square that had been destroyed by the shells. The soldiers standing in the front rows suddenly burst into blood mist and fell to the ground.

"Ah!" "Devil!"

The soldiers of the square shouted in fear and immediately scattered like birds and beasts.

Webster stared at the square that was intact just now, and suddenly there was only a pile of corpses lying on the ground and wounded who were unable to move because of serious injuries.

At the beginning of the battle, because of the long distance, the Alda artillery fired sporadically, and the casualties caused were still within the tolerance of the Skitarii.

But when the distance was shortened, the Alda army concentrated its firepower, and the artillery and muskets were continuously output, causing a sudden surge in casualties to them, and the impact on their spirit became huge.

In terms of the actual effect, the fire output just now caused only a few hundred casualties to a square formation of more than 2,000 people. Although this casualty rate was already very high for the army of the old era, it was not fatal to some elite troops with high morale and well-trained.

But the terrible thing is that this kind of casualties occurred in a fast, violent and irresistible way in a short period of time, rather than the casualties caused by the two armies' face-to-face attack and defense, and the slow fight with swords and guns. This is a big blow to the Crusaders.

Because of the collapse of this square formation, the Crusaders' trapezoidal oblique offensive almost stagnated, and a big hole appeared in the overall formation.

Webster, who reacted, was very angry and ordered people to wave the flags repeatedly, urging the team behind the trapezoidal formation to block the hole and concentrate on attacking the enemy soldiers holding flamethrowers and forming a thin horizontal column.

Although the Crusaders hesitated, they still executed the commander's order and approached the infantry column of the Arda army.

The commander of the Alda artillery immediately divided the artillery into two groups, firing at the enemies coming from the left and right sides respectively, which greatly delayed their movement, and the enemy troops approaching from the front were left to the infantry to deal with themselves.

"Aim!" "Shoot!" "Aim!" "Shoot!" In the intervals between the firing, the officers' commands continued to ring out.

In addition to a marine battalion sent to the left wing to support the army of Eaton and other countries, there were more than 4,000 Alda soldiers left here to attack from the front. The various units were connected head to tail and lined up in three rows, forming an extremely wide front.

Facing the enemy approaching from the front, the officers adopted a round-shooting tactic, causing continuous casualties to the enemy through continuous firepower output.

The Skitarii soldiers who had endured such a blow slowly moved forward holding useless shields, but seeing their companions fall to the ground one after another, they finally hesitated, and the hesitation quickly turned into fear. When the first person turned back, a large number of people immediately followed suit, and then the entire team retreated, until they retreated to a distance they thought was safe. They did not disperse in a hurry, but still maintained the team, but they did not dare to move forward after all.

Seeing the enemy retreat, Andrew certainly would not miss this opportunity, and immediately ordered his own army to continue to advance, and the artillery also moved forward to be ready for support at any time.

In this way, the original neat oblique trapezoidal formation of the Skitarii was greatly damaged and forced to split into two parts. Its original left wing, which was also the part located in the front, was still caught in the chaos of the Horn Bay mercenaries, while the middle part and the right wing were constantly forced to retreat by the Arda infantry, and the gap between the two parts became larger and larger.

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Webster had a premonition that he was about to lose control of the army. At the critical moment, he remembered that he still had a cavalry, so he immediately sent someone to notify Fedotov to return to support and attack the advancing Arda army from the flank.

In fact, he didn't need to notify him. Fedotov had already known the change in the situation. Feeling that the situation was serious, he immediately gathered the cavalry, gave up the fight with the army of Eaton and other countries, and turned to support the central battlefield.

"We can't let him succeed! Catch up with them."

Grand Duke Eaton looked at the enemy cavalry leaving and ordered his troops to pursue at full speed.

Risking the risk of the enemy cavalry's return attack, the armies of Eaton and other countries ran at full speed to the central battlefield.

Finally, with their efforts, Fedotov's plot failed. When he saw that his main force had been torn into two, he knew that he was powerless to turn the tide. Facing the Eaton army chasing from behind, he did not dare to risk being attacked from the front and back, so he led the cavalry to withdraw.

"Lost!"

The soldiers on the far left of Webster's oblique offensive, seeing that the friendly army was slow to come to support, finally realized that something was wrong, and they were defeated immediately. Some surrendered and some fled for their lives.

From this point on, the defeat spread like a plague among the Guardians!

Webster was both angry and deeply unwilling. He waved his flag, sent out messengers, and even went there in person, issuing one order after another to try to save the defeat, but what made him miserable was that no army would obey his orders.

Finally, he still lost control of the entire army. Now there was only one order he could issue and others would obey, and that was retreat.

Looking at the Protestant army approaching from the left, center, and right, Webster had no choice but to issue this humiliating order.