Chapter 250 The Battle of Biddeau Castle 6 Lining up for the Guns

Chapter 250 – The Battle of Biddleburg 6 Platoon Shooting
“Xu Jin alternate firing!”

“Ready!”

Bryce shouted as he rode alongside the officers and soldiers. Quite a few of the generals of the allied forces were on the battlefield with their own troops to fight, not that they were so brave, but they were afraid that if they were not present, the soldiers under their command would fall apart.

There was a loud clatter, and the 1,000-man Arda army lined up in three neat rows, and upon hearing Bryce’s order, the first row immediately leveled their rifles and pointed them at the Kent army in front of them.

At this distance, the Alda soldiers could already see the frowns of the soldiers on the opposite side.

Bryce raised his hand and heaved it downward, “Fire!”

From the viewpoint of Kent’s army, they saw a sudden burst of smoke from across the street, followed by the odd sound of explosions and the whooshing sound of something rubbing against the air.

The next thing you know, many people were out of luck! Especially the spearmen who stood in the first row to protect the archers.

When they saw the Arda people stop, they judged that the other side was going to fire “fire crossbows”, so according to their past experience in dealing with bows and arrows, they kept swinging their spears in order to knock down those things that might be similar to crossbows and arrows that were coming from the middle of the air.

But this had no effect at all in front of the deadly metal projectiles that shot over.

When the first volley of shots rang out, the spearmen standing in front of the archers planted themselves on the ground almost in unison. There were only a few scattered ones left dully continuing to wave their spears there now, they hadn’t reacted to what was going on.

The Arda soldiers equipped with flintlock rifles were lined up very tightly, and at a distance of 50 meters, the smoothbore barrels were able to ensure a certain degree of accuracy. Moreover, the spearmen on the opposite side of them were also lined up very tightly, even if the bullets couldn’t hit the target, they could still hit the people around the target.

Groans of agony soon resounded throughout the Kent army’s right flank line. The soldiers who fell on the ground twisted and struggled, there were also many who simply lost their breath after moving slightly.

“Shoot! Shoot!”

“Suppress the Arda at long range!”

The officers on the right flank of Kent’s army kept their cool and immediately urged the archers to counterattack.

As their opponents fell into panic, the first platoon of the Arda army stayed in place to load their ammunition, the two platoons behind them crossed over to their comrades in front of them, and then the new first platoon got ready to fire.

They took another shower of arrows, but this time it was much thinner and caused few casualties.

Bryce gave the order, “Fire!”

The battlefield was once again filled with gunfire, this time the unlucky ones were the archers of the Kent army, after planting many of them, they were scared, many of them started to retreat, hiding behind others, anyway, don’t let themselves stand in front of them. They have already seen, “fire crossbow” this kind of long distance weapon after firing is not a curve of parrying, but almost straight line to attack the target directly in front of them, so whoever is standing in the first row will have a higher probability of being unlucky.

So the right flank of Kent’s army slowly began to move backward.

But in terms of the overall situation of the battlefield, the form of the coalition army was not good.

The Kent army had more cavalry, more total numbers, and a higher armor rate, and the balance of victory was gradually tilting in their favor.

The Earl of Parker saw that the situation was not good, and demanded that all the generals who were proficient in martial affairs should go into the field themselves, and he, in spite of his age, led his own cavalry on the battlefield to the left and the right.

The generals on the field encouraged the bottom officers and soldiers, morale rebounded a little, just do not know how long it can be maintained, after all, the essence of the power contrast has not changed.

“We must finish the battle on the left flank as soon as possible, and then go to support the other friendly forces.”

Bryce, who had taken a look at the whole situation once, called out to Joyce to confer and made the above decision.

By now the Arda army had already fired four volleys, inflicting huge casualties on the Kent army on the opposite side. Surprisingly, the enemy hadn’t collapsed yet, they just ran far away, but the arrows they shot over were also much less powerful and scattered very chaotically and out of scale.

“Prepare to fire in unison!”

Once the order was given, the first platoon of soldiers immediately knelt on one knee, and the third platoon of soldiers pointed their guns at the enemy in unison.

“Fire!”

The three platoons of soldiers pulled the trigger at the same time. There was a loud ringing sound, so powerful that even the others on the battlefield were startled.

The two sides that were killing each other unanimously stopped and looked in the direction where Arda’s army was.

A scene of a group of lions fighting a rabbit was being staged.

The power of the three rows of muskets firing in unison was enormous, not only did it successfully sweep down a large number of archers who were bending their bows and arrows, but it also completely shattered the psychological defense of the remaining archers.

“Father in heaven!”

An archer cried out in a broken down manner before turning around and running, the companion who was standing in front of him just now was hit by a stray bullet and his head crumbled apart like an open watermelon, his skull hitting him backwards in one fell swoop.

This shout was like the last straw that broke the camel’s back, and under his impetus, the Kent soldiers around him also turned and ran backwards. Before, although they were also slowly retreating, but still maintained a basic order, but now it was all chaos, everyone hated not to grow two more legs.

Bryce drew his sword and pointed forward, “Assault!”

“Kill!”

The three rows of Alda soldiers suddenly erupted in a collective shout of murder, then rushed toward the routing Kent Army archers with their bayoneted muskets.

The few who still insisted on shooting arrows also quickly turned and ran when they saw the enemy charging.

The archers of the Kent army had long since lost the protection of their spearmen, and their own melee equipment was merely a dagger, which could not stand up to the bayonets of Arda’s soldiers, not to mention the fact that they were still in the midst of a rout, and no one had stepped forward to organize them to counterattack, and the officers’ own guts were so scared that they didn’t know where to flee to.

……

Jos, bayonet at the ready, followed closely at Sergeant Makarov’s side.

Previously, whether they were fighting against cavalry units or against archers, they had used their muskets to strike the enemy from afar. And this time, they were going to fight the enemy face to face …… well, actually face to back, because the enemy was now on the run.

Sergeant Makarov caught up with an enemy soldier and cleanly stabbed his bayonet into his back.

Several other enemy soldiers nearby, seeing that they were in hot pursuit, turned around and drew their daggers, one by one with a fierce look in their eyes.

“Yaaaaaahhhh!”

Not knowing whether it was to intimidate them or to bolster their own courage, the archers drummed and shouted strangely, then rushed over together with their daggers raised.

Markelov gestured behind him and raised his bayonet to block the foremost dagger.

Joss and another comrade took on the archer charging from behind, his comrade pivoted hard to dislodge the other’s dagger, and while the other stumbled, Joss stabbed his bayonet into his left ribs with unerring accuracy, just as he had been trained to do on weekdays.

There was no hesitation, no mercy, who would think so much in a life and death situation.

However, when the battle was over and remembered in detail, that was a different story ……

The other Kent Army soldiers who tried to counterattack saw that their companions who rushed in front were easily killed, their bodies softened and their daggers fell to the ground.

“Have mercy! We surrender!”

They knelt on the ground with their asses facing the ground, their bodies wobbling uncontrollably.

Similar scenes continued to play out on the Kent Army’s right flank.

“Congratulations, Lieutenant Colonel, a textbook rout!”

Joyce, the commander of the 3rd Battalion, said so to Bryce with satisfaction.

(End of chapter)