Chapter 72 – Confidence Doubled

Chapter 72 – Doubling Confidence
When the 1st Infantry Battalion arrived at the city gates, there was no longer any resistance here, and Angelo and the others and their men had all run away.

They quickly took over the area of the city gates, the residents of the city had long been scared to hide in their homes and shut the doors and windows, the whole small town was quiet. Bryce left one company to guard the gates, and commanded the other two companies to march towards the lord’s palace.

Paul quickly brought his staff and musket company to the city of Butua, he had already seen from his binoculars that Angelo and the others had run around the city walls without even returning to the city, it was just a pity that he didn’t have a team of cavalry to do anything about their escape.

Bryce sent someone to report that he didn’t encounter any resistance along the way from the west city gate to the lord’s mansion, a company of soldiers had already occupied the lord’s mansion, and another company had launched a search of the surrounding area with the lord’s mansion as the center to see if there were any remnants of the enemy hiding.

After arriving at the lord’s mansion, the place was already in a mess, after Alda’s army searched carefully, they didn’t find the participant of the conspiracy – the steward Miles, they must have sneaked away.

His subordinates and close friends – the servants and guards who were placed in the lord’s mansion by his hand, after learning the news of the failure of the chief sealer outside the city, they must have been afraid of being liquidated, and they also stole the valuable things they could find and absconded separately.

There were a few servants left hiding in the corners and shivering, and these people were temporarily detained by the soldiers.

One hour later, the second battalion finished collecting the prisoners and counting the battlefield, and also entered Butua City, they cooperated with the previous entry troops, conducted a meticulous search of the whole city, and occupied the other three city gates.

At this time, the lord’s residence was also briefly cleaned up, and Paul summoned the officers to enjoy dinner together in the hall.

The victory they had just achieved made all the officers excited, Alda’s army had defeated twice as many enemies as they had, which could be called an “epic victory” in such a frontier place as the Northwest Bay.

They did not eat properly, but shared their experiences of the battle with each other.

“I was in the front row of our company, you didn’t see what happened, a large group of Bairdine militia tried to attack our formation, a large group of people in the black. Luckily, they were holding either scythes or shovels, and we stabbed them with a row of spears, and those poor men who ran to the front were stabbed through and through, and a shovel cut a large chunk of skin from my shoulder. “

Company Commander Davide, with a bandage on his right arm, sputtered as he described his experience leading a company of spearmen to hold off a large group of Bairdian militia.

The battle began with the musket company on the left flank and his company on the right flank, with the enemy in front of them because they had no musket deterrent taking advantage of the mortar firing intervals to rush in front of them, and when all was said and done they could be counted as the only group to have engaged the enemy in melee during the battle.

“It’s still pretty scary to think about it now, the edge of that thing is still pretty sharp, if it cuts into my head ……”

“Here’s to you, let’s hope his shovel isn’t used to shovel shit.”

“Hahaha ……”

The crowd also repeatedly praised the artillery’s performance in the battlefield, if it were not for the artillery company’s astonishing one volley of fire, so that the enemy’s knights’ team was reimbursed as a whole, I’m afraid that many of the people in the audience would be more than a little bit fierce.

Winder, the commander of the battery, was risen from one to another by the other officers to pay his respects, and it is to be feared that he would have been made drunk to-night, had it not been for Paul’s strict prohibition of drinking at this time of the year.

There were others who felt quite a bit of regret about the battle, such as for example Bryce.

“Alas, it’s a shame we don’t have any cavalry! Otherwise we wouldn’t have let those few traitors escape.” The officers thought deeply, and not just because it was impossible to pursue Angelo and the others: Count Greiman was too cautious to let the enemy retreat and not let them be pursued, fearing that the teams would be too far away from each other and be penetrated and surrounded by the numerically superior enemy, and even more so, fearing that his precious artillery would be silently groped and taken out when they lost the cover of the infantry.

If there was a cavalry team, with their high mobility, they could expel the enemy troops that might appear on the flanks or in the rear in time, and could support the besieged friendly troops in time, there would be no need to be so fearful on the battlefield.

Paul comforted the crowd, “Don’t worry everyone, there will be bread, there will be milk, everything will be there.” Looking at the excited crowd, he himself was very excited inside.

At this time it was already dark, given that the army had traveled for a day and had just gone through a fierce battle, Paul didn’t want to toss anything else, letting the officers and soldiers rest as soon as possible was the right thing to do.

He explained a few things: one is to do a good job of vigilance, to prevent the destruction of the remnants of the enemy inside and outside the city of Butua; second is not to harass the residents, not enough barracks in the city on the street tent camping; third is to do a good job in the management of prisoners.

After the crowd dispersed, Paul arranged for someone to ride a fast horse back to the town of Lakewood overnight to report the news of the victory to the people who stayed behind, and asked Myron Garnard to leave the next day to come to Butua.

The guards packed a room for Paul to rest in, and after 10:00 p.m. he lay in bed but could not sleep for a long time, the excitement in his heart still could not be calmed.

Before the elimination of pirates is just a small test, that victory let him not have a great sense of accomplishment, a gang of outlaws only.

But this time the army is the first time he and the world’s old system of power head-on confrontation, although the system is only the tip of the iceberg, but this victory but let himself have the confidence to pry the iceberg, technological superiority so that he stood in the world in a sense of the peak overlooking the beings.

Firearms had shown great power in this battle. According to the description of the officers at dinner, thanks to the people of the northwest area of the people’s style of toughness plus a head of a muscle, a group of temporary conscription, training not a few days of militia, in the volley of musket fire and artillery bombardment under the successive strikes, even half of the people left to touch the other side of the heel, and even still able to drum up the courage and the enemy and the spiking, if you change the other places, especially those affluent regions of the pussy, it is estimated that a round of flanking fire will make the other side. If it were any other place, especially those pussies in the affluent areas, it is estimated that a round of flanking fire would have made them scatter in a huff.

In the future, they will further popularize firearms in the Alda army, manpower a musket, action neatly and uniformly with the officer’s command to play a row of lead bullets, the enemy has not touched the front of a group of groups to rest, the rear of the supporting artillery clusters wherever you want to hit, that scene think of exciting.

It is the romance of a man to be shot in a line.

There is also the cavalry unit mentioned by the officers, in this era without Maxim, cavalry can not be missing in any case. If you do not have cavalry and the other side has cavalry, then tactically it is too passive.

Of course, this requires money, money, money.

It was necessary to continue to expand the scale of the paper mill and porcelain factory, and he decided not to wait for the opening of the sea route, but to directly utilize the trade routes on land, and the sales of the new products were not limited to the northwestern part of the country, but to expand to the entire kingdom, to the entire continent.

In the past, he was always afraid of developing too fast to cause covetousness of the surrounding forces, but at this time, Paul’s confidence was doubled.

Victory, so that he is no longer afraid.

Thank you for the reward of “Purple fan Kui”.

(End of chapter)