Chapter 14 – Flying Dragon Riding Face…Don’t Piggyback!
Chapter 14 – Flying Dragon Riding Face…Don’t Pig Mutiny!
At noon, the two companies of the boot camp arrived at the town of Lakeside, the scout cavalry reported that the pirates still hadn’t traveled far, and after gathering all the planned men and women, the whole army had a full meal, and Paul Greiman announced the departure in the direction of where the pirates were.
In the evening, the pirate’s party was finally sighted, and surprisingly, they were away from a camp by the river, and the men inside were burning fires and cooking, totaling about four or five hundred men.
He secretly thought: “The number is not very dominant ah! However, our side has the modern army training method as a bonus, is it not comparable to this group of rabble.”
“Form up!” The officers of each company began to command their soldiers, changing the vertical formation into a horizontal one.
The pirates also noticed the slowly approaching army, and they all copied their weapons and ran out of the camp, waiting sternly on this side.
A bearded man came out in the center and shouted over here, ”Little brat of the Gladman family, is what grandpa wants ready? You can’t wait to rush over to pay your respects already?”
After saying these words, the pirates around the bearded man roared with laughter.
Bryce asked, “My lord, what to do? Shall we attack?”
Paul thought regretfully, “Hmph! If only we had brought the cannonballs here, we would have given them a drink.”
The “big killer” made some time ago, after a period of experimentation, found that the effect is not very ideal, at first the gunpowder will be filled into the hollow iron ball, so that the bombardiers to throw out, but the distance of the projectile is quite unsatisfactory.
After the explosion can still pose a threat to the thrower, many people were injured, and the dud rate is surprisingly high, no wonder the bomb throwing function of the bomb thrower in “Wheeljack: Total War” is designed to be so ribbed, a row of grenades smashed through the death of a few people.
Later on, the amount of medicine was reduced, and instead of using clay pots to fill them, they could be thrown farther, but then the power was reduced. Craftsmen racked their brains and put iron nails on the clay pots, so it was a bit like the thistles and fireballs in the Song Dynasty.
Change and change, in his eyes is still a chicken ribs cannonball, and the modern army in the grenade is far away, but in order to emergency or build a batch. But is such a batch of chicken rib weapons, last night even sent people to the boot camp to pull people also forgot to notify them to bring.
After an internal rant, he raised his horsewhip towards the pirates, and said with great vigor, “Destroy them.”
“Hold on to your weapons!!!! Forward!!!” Bryce, who was instructed to do so, ordered loudly, and rows and rows of horizontal formations were formed into squares as the soldiers began to slowly advance forward.
Looking at their own side uniform dress, the pace of the square is still neat, really a bit of a strong army, and then look at the pirate side, loose, not neat, not neat, there is no formation, is simply the scene of the regular army besieging the bandits, how to lose the Flying Dragon riding face?
At this time, the pirates in the bearded man, wide-eyed suddenly shouted: “Slaughter this gang of noble dogs!!!”
Then all the pirates collective “roar -” a sound, towards this side on the desperation rushed over.
The territorial soldiers were able to advance steadily at first, but when the pirates got closer and closer, the soldiers in the square formation obviously panicked, especially the new recruits who participated in the battle for the first time, the weapons in their hands were a bit unsteady.
Then the thing that made people feel bad happened, the first platoon don’t know which guy in order to give himself a boost, shouted loudly: “Charge ah! “
This “Charge” is like a signal, let all the soldiers as if being tightened the clockwork after the sudden release in general, mouth ah ah yell, hysterical began to rush forward, a moment of work, the original tight formation is scattered, the officers are also wrapped up in the forward march, only the remaining Bryce and the inner guardsmen do not dare to leave the earl! The only ones left were Blaise and the inner guardsmen who did not dare to leave the count.
Soon, the soldiers and pirates mixed together, leaving the stupid Paul, riding on a horse muttering to himself: “Things should not be like this ah! Just now it was fine, how did it turn into a pig’s mutiny?”
Bryce, on the other hand, cursed, “These rotten fools.”
The pirates were all vicious, the soldiers who had lost their formation and basically had no combat experience were obviously not the opponents of this gang of outlaws, and it didn’t take half an hour for the balance of the battlefield to start tilting towards the pirate side.
Unexpectedly, finally a soldier used his best efforts to desperately block away the opponent’s weapon, and then turned his head to run.
Then a second, a third, and gradually it turned into a situation where all the soldiers started running back with a huff and a puff, and the officers yelled to stop it, and Bryce ran over to them and lashed the retreating routed soldiers hard with his riding crop. Yet all the effort was in vain.
“My lord, withdraw! I’ll lead the platoon on horseback to break off.” Seeing that it was no longer possible to salvage the situation, Bryce had to return to the young earl and suggest a retreat.
Only to see the Earl-sama staring fiercely at the bearded pirate who was still chasing the defeated soldiers, clenching his mouth loosely for a moment, and popping out a sentence with great reluctance, “The cavalry breaks off the rear and withdraws!”
Then turning his horse’s head, he fiercely lashed his mount, and the horse that ate the pain began to run wildly in the direction it came from.
“All those still mounted, break off with me!”
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Breaking off the rear, Bryce retreated back while collecting the routed soldiers, finally getting rid of the pirates’ pursuit, about an hour later, they caught up with Paul, and after counting the number of people, including the lost soldiers, the troops lost more than 30 people, and more than 50 people were wounded.
“A strange shame!” Lord Earl wanted to cry, together with that defeat of his old man, this was already the second time he lost to pirates, if it was spread out, his own family would probably be reduced to a laughing stock in the Northwest Gulf.
He gritted his teeth, “Find those two bastards!!!”
Bryce asked in confusion, “Those two assholes? Which two?”
“The one who called for a charge without listening to the call! And which one retreated and ran away without authorization! I’ll have them digging in the pit for the rest of their lives!”
“Yes, Lord Earl.”
“Let’s go back to Lakeheart Town first! To summarize the lessons learned from this operation!”
……
That night, every officer was asked to write a summary of the battle, and then the young earl returned to his bedroom behind closed doors. While the officers were racking their brains and searching their stomachs, Butler Philip heard the sound of banging and slamming things coming out of the lord’s bedroom, but he didn’t knock on the door to inquire, the young master really needed to vent his anger.
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The following day, as soon as Paul arrived at the hall, he encountered an excited Bryce.
“Lord Earl, look who’s back!”
Only to see that there were two other people standing beside him, one was an old man who was probably around 50 years old and very hale and hearty, and the other was a young man who looked very young and was estimated to be around 20 years old, and these two people saluted at him in unison.
“These two are?”
“Sir Schroeder and his squire Joyce, Owen Schroeder, ah. You met him when you were a boy. Oh yes, you don’t remember then.”
I only heard the old man say slowly, “Allow me to introduce myself ……”
Which reader lord give some comments? Playing single player is so pointless. (╥╯^╰╥)
Of course tickets would be nice. (^o^)/~
(End of chapter)