Chapter 248 – The Battle of Bitburg 4

Chapter 248 – The Battle of Bidor Castle 4
Chapter 245 – The Battle of Fort Bido 4
On April 2nd, 1991 of the Holy Calendar, the battle between the two major factions in the Northwest Gulf for Fort Bido was officially launched.

The sun had just risen when the coalition garrison was drowned out by the clamor. The sound of the officers’ roll call, reprimands, and whips, the sound of men and horses walking, and the clash of weapons and armor filled the entire camp with a tense and austere atmosphere.

It took more than two whole hours for the allied forces to get their formation in order.

Price Parker and the other generals stood in front of the entire formation on horseback. The old earl greeted the sunrise in the east and drew the sword at his waist and pointed diagonally towards the sky, the sword glittered under the reflection of the sunlight.

With a solemn expression, he shouted, “Target! Kent camp! Forward!”

“Roar!” The troops shouted in unison!
The squares formed by the various units of the coalition army began to move slowly, pressing towards the enemy camp located in the east.

For the sake of this battle, the coalition army, except for leaving more than a thousand men to guard Fort Bidor behind them, had put the remaining six thousand men into the battle through and through.

The camps on both sides of the battle were quite far away from each other, so in order to make sure that the hard-earned formation would not be messed up, the allied troops had to walk and stop, stopping every time they traveled a certain distance to reorganize their formation.

After all, the quality of the soldiers was generally not high, most of them were just recruited militia, not long ago they were still hoeing in the field.

This situation reminded Bryce of the first “parade” held by Count Gleiman when he had just succeeded to the throne. At that time, Arda’s army was just like the armies of the leaders on the march now, no matter how well organized they were at the beginning, they would be disorganized after a few steps.

The scouts who went to the front to spy returned to report: “Kent’s army is also moving this way in a strict formation, and the two armies will soon come into contact.”

Earl Parker raised a telescope to the east.

This was a gift given to him by Bryce under Paul’s authorization, and the old earl treasured this kind of sharp weapon that could view the enemy from thousands of miles away, and carried it with him every moment. Other lords and generals were eager to buy it from Bryce, but Bryce blocked them with the same reason as firearms.

In the telescope, smoke had risen in the east, indicating a large number of men heading this way.

Bryce steered his horse to Plath Parker and addressed him:

“Lord Earl, our army faces the sun, and the enemy’s back is to the sun; the situation is not favorable to our army.”

Earl Parker nodded and asked him, “Does Commander Alder have any strategy?”

Bryce raised his riding crop and pointed in the direction of the front east-northwest.

“The high slopes over there, if we can get a head start on them, we can offset the disadvantage of light to some extent with the advantage of the terrain, and the high ground is more powerful for our artillery.”

Although under the auspices of the old knight Schroeder, the Greiman military school fill in the duck type “speed” a group of officers, but some basic military common sense has been firmly burned in the brains of the Alda army at all levels of officers. Bryce is particularly sensitive to the terrain, before the start of the battle, let the scouts to the nearby terrain all over the map.

Earl Parker twirled his mustache and said with some hesitation, “The idea is good, just if we suddenly increase the speed, I’m afraid ……”

“Without bothering your lordship’s men, Arda’s army is willing to be the vanguard and grab the high ground ahead for the army.”

Earl Parker slightly pondered, “Good, I’ll trouble Lieutenant Colonel Alder.”

Bryce gave him a raised hand salute that was slightly unfamiliar to the crowd, then spurred his horse back to the front of his own troops.

“First Battalion of Infantry, Second Battalion of Infantry, Artillery Company, all hands on deck, target the high ground to the northeast, run forward!”

The Arda army moved quickly, running to break away from the coalition hordes, the artillery companies, each gun pulled by more than four horses and highly maneuverable, followed closely behind the two infantry battalions.

Although they were running, the Aldar army remained in fairly tight formation, and in the event of an enemy encounter, they stopped to straighten up a little before getting into battle.

Such high quality made the other lords of the allied army marvel. “It looks like it’s not a rumor that Gleeman has raised a standing army.”

The main force of the allied army, under the urging of Earl Parker, also slightly accelerated their speed to move towards the highlands to the northeast.

The 1st Battalion was the first to approach the heights and found that there were already silhouettes on it, the officer of the leading company judged the other side to be scouts from Kent’s army and immediately led his soldiers to charge up and discharge a few volleys of gunfire.

After several lives were taken by the unfamiliar weapons, the remaining figures withdrew from the heights in panic.

Panting, the soldiers of the two battalions climbed halfway up the slope of the heights and reorganized themselves into line-of-battle formation.

“Quickly! Have the artillery companies set up their guns and blast the marching Kent family army!”

Bryce anxiously urged, and through the binoculars, the Kent Family army’s marching direction was also slightly to the north, obviously coming towards the high ground.

Their movements must be delayed, and at the critical moment, the artillery did not fail to live up to their strict weekday training, and quickly constructed firing positions at the top of the heights.

Accompanied by roars and smoke, fourteen solid shells wrapped in large amounts of kinetic energy flew towards the marching Kent family army.

The present battery was armed with six 6-pounders and eight 4-pounders, all of which had been fitted with flint ignition, greatly increasing the efficiency of firing.

In this shelling, the battery tried for the first time the “artillery group tactics” – using all available artillery, concentrating on a major target or the enemy’s route of travel, anyway, it is difficult to hit directly, so simply bombard a certain point to replace the accuracy of the fire. .

Luckily, despite the distance, a few shells landed on the heads of House Kent’s army.

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“Maintain the formation! Anyone who disobeys military orders will be executed on the spot!”

Ja’esh shouted hysterically, the knights around him this this order spread around.

Jaice’s original plan was indeed to seize the high ground, but he didn’t expect that the allied forces had gotten there first, so he was furious and ordered to speed up his advance to make sure to recapture the high ground. The scouts reported that the number of allied troops that had rushed to the high ground was not many.

Unexpectedly, his own army had just marched a few steps when he heard a roar from the distance.

The sound was so familiar that it made Jaaius feel bad.

Sure enough, something shot through the air and slammed into the square of marching infantry.

“Ah!”

A soldier covered his stump and wailed in agony. He was the first casualty to appear.

The shells continued to harvest lives after bouncing off the ground. It made a mess of people and cries along the way.

Seeing such a terrible attack on friendly troops, the other squares stopped dead in their tracks.

An inexplicable atmosphere filled the army of the lords loyal to the Kent family.

(End of chapter)