Chapter 249 The Battle of Biddeau Castle 5 Lining up for the Guns

Chapter 249 – The Battle of Biddleburg 5 Platooned for Gunfire
Chapter 246 – The Battle of Biduo Castle 5 – Platoon Shooting
The artillery company’s fourteen guns continuously bombarded the enemy troops who were marching in a dense formation, hitting until the barrels of the guns were hot before stopping to splash cool water to cool down.

The Kentish army was initially disorganized and a steady stream of soldiers fled despite warnings from their superiors.

The cavalry team chased them everywhere, borrowing a dozen or so heads from the deserters to stabilize the situation.

“This is not the way!” Jaaius frowned tightly.

Although he had already informed the entire army the day before that the other party possessed the legendary Thunder Hammer, reminding the officers and soldiers to prepare their hearts. But after personally experiencing the strike of the Thunder Hammer, most of them still felt chills.

In fact, the casualties caused by artillery at this distance were not great, but mainly the power was too intimidating.

“Can our crossbows hit them?”

“My lord, I’m sorry ……”

The officer in charge of long-range weapons spread his hands helplessly.

“Keep moving!”

Jaaius waved his hand in annoyance, but he believed that with his side’s superiority in numbers and equipment, as long as he could get close to the enemy army, he would surely win, and although the 1,000 men from Alda’s army were tricky to deal with, their numbers were too small to play a decisive role.

Regaining their composure, Kent’s army continued to advance, but this time the formation thinned out quite a bit to avoid the long range kills from Alda’s artillery.

But it was no longer possible for them to retake the high ground, and after the Kentish army fell into confusion, Earl Parker saw this through his binoculars, and he immediately seized this opportunity and ordered the whole army to run forward.

By the time the Kentish army reorganized its formation, the Allied troops had already taken position on the slope, and if their state of confusion had lasted any longer, the Allied troops would have taken advantage of the opportunity to charge through.

“Are those Aldar located on the left flank?”

Jaaius scrutinized the position set up by the other side and adjusted the deployment of some troops in time.

The allied forces were also observing the enemy troops from a distance.

“They have a lot of archers ah, there must be more than 1,500 people at least …… Well, moved to the right flank.”

The generals of the allied forces discovered a new situation that had not been detected before.

The people vaguely thought of a possibility, could it be that the other side’s previous proposal to engage in battle two days later was to wait for these archers to arrive? Was Derek’s guess right?

Kent’s army infantry plus archers totaled more than 8,000 people, divided into four squares, three squares were located in the front line, one square in the back served as a reserve, and another cavalry team of more than 500 people was located in the left flank troops.

The coalition side had nearly 7,000 men, also divided into four squares, the deployment was generally the same as the Kent army, but nearly 400 men of cavalry were located on the right flank, and the opponent’s left flank cavalry was far away from each other.

When the Kent army was about 400 meters or so away from the coalition army, Earl Parker looked around at the crowd, saluted and said, “I’m counting on you all for the rest.”

“Take care Lord Earl!”

The generals returned the salute and then galloped back to their troops.

Bryce also returned to his own army, and Arda’s army was located on the left flank of the allied army, right in front of the Kent army’s adjusted deployment of archers.

“Woo-” Earl Parker ordered the horn to be blown, and the various squares of the allied army met the Kent army.

The first to make contact were the cavalry ranks of both sides, although there were more cavalry on the side of Kent’s army, the artillery company took focused care of Kent’s army’s cavalry, and under the artillery fire, Kent’s army’s cavalry was never able to assemble a dense charging formation, and had to charge towards the Union army in a loose formation.

The Union side, on the other hand, did not have this concern, and they set up a dense formation to charge at the enemy.

When the cavalry on both sides first came into contact, every Kentish cavalryman who took on the enemy would be up against several mounted lances at once, dodging one to avoid the other, and then being impaled on his horse.

Just after contact, the Union cavalry inflicted heavy casualties on the Kent cavalry.

But the Kent cavalry had the numerical advantage after all, and after the two sides mixed together, the Union army’s formation advantage no longer existed.

Looking from the Union side, the infantry squares of both sides were also facing each other in order from right to left.

Just both sides of the infantry are generally marching to the distance from each other about two hundred meters on the issue of a shout rushed up, with the same tacit understanding of the discussion in advance, after the melee to become a mess, before the surprisingly orderly formation no longer exists.

The only exception was the Alda army, who stepped on the drumbeat step by step and approached the other side unhurriedly.

Following behind were the Heller family’s infantry, after Derek led the team to send a wave two days ago, after gathering the remnants afterwards, there were less than a thousand infantry left. Since the Arda army in front didn’t charge, they didn’t charge either, there were people in the way anyway.

Against the Arda army were the archers of Kent’s army, it looked like they were specially drawn to the right flank to deal with the muskets.

As the Alda army marched, a shower of arrows was thrown at them, and on the way, people were constantly hit by arrows and fell down, the soldiers behind them continued to advance across their fallen comrades, their eyes always looking ahead.

When the infantrymen passed a place, someone immediately ran over with a stretcher, carrying those wounded by arrows to the rear and handing them over to the medics to treat their wounds. These people were the folk that Bryce had paid to recruit, in order to earn some money to support their families, there were still many bold people who dared to venture out into the battlefield.

The Potteries infantrymen following behind were shocked by the fortitude of the friendly troops, the frustration of the defeat two days ago was swept away, and an indescribable feeling arose in their hearts.

Earlier they had felt strange: why did the Aldar beat their drums in battle? Now their steps subconsciously went to the drums, and the formation at the time of departure was miraculously maintained.

It was not that the quality of the Potteries’ infantry was so high, but more because the enemy’s bows and arrows were basically “taking care” of the Aldar infantry in front of them, and not many of them landed on their heads. If they were in the front, they would have rushed forward like the rest of the army.

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The officer in charge of commanding the archers of Kent’s army was wondering, the distance was already close enough, why didn’t the Arda people fire their fire crossbows?
According to the description of those who had come into contact with the fire crossbow, this weapon was capable of hitting people at around a hundred meters. Lord Jaaius ordered the archers to take charge of shooting against the Arda people, pestering them and never allowing them to support the other troops.

But now the Arda were still striding forward, letting the arrows fall on their heads without any intention of fighting back.

When the distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer, the Kent army can see the things in the hands of the other side, “fire crossbow” upper end of the shiny bayonet attracted their attention.

Did the Ardar want to fight with them, but their “fire crossbows” were too short, and although the archers were generally armed with only daggers, they still had a line of lancers in front of them to protect them.

With this in mind, the officer commanded the archers to fire twice more, inflicting considerable casualties on the other side.

Finally, when both sides were about 50 meters away, the Ardar stopped.

Traveling on a business trip, it’s so difficult to code on a cell phone ……

(End of chapter)