Chapter 17: A Great Victory

Chapter 17 A Great Victory
Listening to the sounds of killing coming from the front, Paul’s heart slowly tensed up.

This time, the soldiers’ performance has improved compared to last time, there is no adventurous charging, because there is a company that stays by Paul’s side as a reserve, and Bryce and other high-ranking officers also charged up, although Paul’s heart is against high-ranking officers personally going into battle, but this does make the morale rise a lot.

But the situation is still gradually bad, their own side gradually show the decline, the two sides of the war slowly move towards the lake town side.

Paul was anxious: “Let the reserves take the top.”

Schroeder shook his head, “Not yet.”

Just then, someone came to report that suspicious figures appeared at the trestle bridge on the other side of the town, like another group of pirates.

Schroeder said, “Let the reserves go over there.”

Paul sighed, “It’s a good thing we kept the reserves just now, otherwise it wouldn’t be good to let another group of pirates rush into the town.”

The company that was in reserve began to move at a quick run to the other side of town.

It didn’t matter if the reserve team shifted, the soldiers who were fighting in front of them thought that the leader was going to leave them behind and secretly withdraw, and many of them immediately broke away from the battle and ran towards this side.

“Without blowing the retreat horn, all of you come back!!!”

Bryce and the other officers saw that some people had run back, and shouted furiously as they recruited the enemy. Some of them returned to the battlefield, but there were still many who didn’t listen.

The disadvantage on their side became even more obvious ……

Just then, the old knight Schroeder moved.

He galloped his horse over and quickly approached a deserter, drew his sword and swung it.

Almost a split second, didn’t even see his movements, and when Paul reacted, the deserter’s head was no longer on his body, and gurgled and rolled underneath his horse after falling to the ground.

The body that had lost its head fell to the ground with a thud, the blood spurting from its neck quickly staining the ground red.

The soldiers fleeing backward and Paul and the others were stunned by this raw maneuver.

At this moment, the old knight’s eyes widened in anger, veins popped up on his reddened neck, and those who were not far away from him could almost feel something pushing the air to pave the way.

“This is what happens to deserters!!!”

A majestic roar like angry thunder recalled on the battlefield, fiercely thundering on the hearts of every single person.

“Pickets listen to the order, those who dare to retreat will be dealt with accordingly, shoot on sight!!!”

All the picketers were frozen, you looked at me, I looked at you, not knowing how to respond.

“Didn’t you hear my order?” The knight turned his face to look at this them, and his squire Joyce immediately drew his sword to go at the still dazed picketers.

Just one look from the old knight made the still unaware picketers’ livers crack, fear made them quickly recall what they should do after receiving orders from their superiors, “YES!!!” The crowd shouted in unison before raising their spears at the retreating deserters.

If they didn’t obey the order, I’m afraid that the next one to die would be themselves.

“Fight the pirates!” I don’t know who was the first to shout, the routed soldiers returned to the front line to fight with the pirates. Anyway, retreating back is also a death, it is better to go back and fight with the enemy, kill one is enough, kill two earned. If you are unfortunate enough to die in battle, you can also leave your family a large pension, Count Greiman is still a man of his word.

The battle line finally stabilized, although by the old knight’s tactics a big shock, Paul still breathed a sigh of relief.

Officers have shouted, gathered the soldiers under their command, each company gradually restored the formation, on the number of people, equipment, and the degree of organization, the army’s advantage was already steadily pushed the pirates head to head, and now everyone has the heart of the battle, and immediately caused not a small number of casualties to the pirates.

The results of the previous training is reflected, the soldiers in the command of the officer, platoon as a unit to form a spear formation, slowly but steadily advancing, and gradually press the pirate side to the water’s edge to retreat.

“All men on horseback close in on me!!!” Schroeder shouted while and Joyce steered their horses and rushed into the battlefield, after gathering all the knights first circled around a corner to quickly get out of the battlefield, and then turned their horses and cracked their whips so hard that the horses ate the pain and desperately rushed towards a group of pirates.

Rapid impact of the cavalry almost the pirate team split in half, a large number of unlucky children in the way was knocked down and trampled to death, which became the last straw to overwhelm the pirates, has revealed the defeat of the pirates dispersed, have fled to the shore, and some directly threw away their weapons, kneeling down and surrendering with their hands raised.

“Run forward!” Dismounting and stepping, Bryce ordered, and the soldiers kept their formation while accelerating their steps, quickly pressing towards the water’s edge. Seeing the guards coming after them, the pirates immediately pushed their boats away from the shore and jumped into the water to climb towards the boats.

“The opportunity is not to be lost.”

Seeing that nearly half of the pirates were off shore, Paul immediately ordered the bugler to blow the charge horn.

“Drip~drip~drip~drip~drip~drip~drip~drip~drip~drip~drip~drip~”

The loud and clear sound of the bugle rang out on the battlefield.

“Charge!!!”

In the eyes of the retreating pirates, the territorial guards suddenly accelerated their running speed as if they were suddenly pumped with chicken blood, each one of them sprinting towards them without regard for their formations and furious eyes.

“Get out of the way!” “Let me go first! I’ll go first!” “Fuck you!”

For a while the lake was filled with pleas and shouts of curses.

Before the bearded leader also do not know where to go, the group of leaderless pirates naturally will not have a Jedi counterattack a class of ideas, only left to push and shove each other shouting and cursing, afraid that they can not climb on the boat.

Seeing the soldiers rushed to the shore, the pirates already on the boat began to row up the pulp, all the boats are farther and farther away from the shore.

“Wait for me!!!” “The guy who gave birth to a son without an asshole!” “Shall not die!”

The pirates who had already jumped into the water before they could get on the ship cursed their companions who had left them behind, while some swam desperately in the direction the ship had left.

There were also some minions who stayed on the shore, and after resisting for a while, they were either killed or surrendered.

At that moment, a group of soldiers rushed to the shore, which were the firearms soldiers sent to beat the dogs.

Six musketeers had already loaded their ammunition and raised their guns to fire in the direction of the pirate ship, while the other soldiers took out and blew up bamboo fire tubes, pulled out grenades and started to light them.

Although the accuracy of the smoothbore rifles was rather touchy, for one thing, the ship hadn’t sailed too far yet, and for another, the ship they were aiming at was packed with people on top of it, so the shooting achieved good results.

As the white smoke from the gun rose, a mist of blood suddenly rose from the four pirates on a pirate ship, and the huge kinetic energy of the lead bullets caused two of the pirates who were shot to immediately fall into the lake, not knowing whether they were alive or dead.

The remaining two people, one was hit in the chest, and there was only air left on the spot. Another pirate was hit in the arm, the whole body’s strength seemed to have been drained in an instant, followed by a huge pain.

“Ah~~~!!!” He howled miserably in spite of everything.

The people next to him immediately checked their companion’s injuries, they had never encountered such a situation, the enemy did not shoot an arrow or use a crossbow, how did they injure someone, they peeled off the injured person’s clothes, then they all sucked in a breath of cool air.

“Witchcraft! Magic! This must be black magic! The son of a bitch noble used evil black magic!”

Then something even better happened, something round came flying from the shore, each with a “sizzling” burning rope floating on it, and knowing with their asses that it couldn’t be anything good, the pirates mustered up all their strength and paddled to get out of there.

The first grenade that arrived was thrown quite accurately, just thrown to a ship in the air, only to hear a loud bang, not quite fall on the explosion, the pirates next to the point of explosion was blown to a bloody mess, the whole ship of the pirates at once on the explosion of the pot.

If the musket because the number is too small has not attracted too much attention, the grenade made a big noise, although there is a small half fell into the water, but the remaining half is enough to make the pirates as if in hell, a grenade exploded one after another, the debris and nails shot in all directions, the explosions on the surface of the lake and pirates wailed and wailed one after another.

“Blow up you sons of bitches!” Makarov laughed out loud while throwing a grenade towards the pirate ship, today’s victory had swept away the gloom of the last defeat, and he was finally out of his misery.

The pirates forced themselves to endure the explosions while rowing desperately, finally getting away from the firearms.

At this time just went to the other side of the town of the reserve team sent to report, another set of suspected pirates simply watched for a while, presumably to see the reserve team is more people and early preparations, did not launch an attack, after seeing the failure of the bearded side also immediately disappeared, so they were ordered to continue to keep watch.

After a great victory, all the officers and soldiers were very excited, the battlefield cheered endlessly, and the pessimism that had long pressed on the army finally dissipated. Seeing that the enemy had disappeared from view, the Lord Earl ordered the battlefield to be cleaned up, and had the picketers proclaim two orders: that all captures were to be returned to the public, and that no prisoners were to be ill-treated privately.

At the suggestion of the old knight Schroeder, two cavalrymen set out in the direction from which the pirates had retreated to reconnoiter the enemy and prevent a possible counterattack.

(End of chapter)