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Chapter 1429 Defeat like a mountain

King Charles witnessed with his own eyes the strength of an infantry regiment he believed in with full confidence. Under the artillery attack of the opponent for three hours, he voluntarily gave up two forts and fled to Newcastle.

He felt that he couldn't hold his face anymore. Before starting the bombardment, he vowed to military adviser Sun Chuanting that the infantry regiment led by Colonel Lunsford would definitely be able to hold out for three days, but only three hours passed!
Because Colonel Slumford's infantry regiment broke up and the river bank became undefended!

A team of Covenant musketeers seized the two forts, while the Covenant artillery on the north bank changed the focus of their shelling to the artillery positions of the King's Army and the Monk infantry regiment responsible for protecting the artillery positions.

The drastic changes in the battlefield situation suddenly made the situation tense, and the king's army must make a timely response to minimize losses!

"Wilmott, you lead the cavalry to disperse the Covenant Army who tried to seize the fort, and protect the artillery unit to retreat to Newcastle." Sun Chuanting temporarily took over the command, ignoring the frightened King Charlie.

Sir Wilmot, who was in command of the cavalry, froze for a moment, then hurried down to lead the cavalry to charge the Covenant Army.

"Your Majesty, get ready to retreat to Newcastle." Sun Chuanting turned to King Charles again.

"What?! Don't we have a chance to turn defeat into victory? Mr. Sun, you were able to defeat even the notorious Mamluk cavalry during your expedition to Egypt. You must have a strategy that can turn the tables, right?" Charles I panicked and sent the only The most hope is placed on Sun Chuanting as a military adviser.

"Mr. Sun, we have a treaty of alliance with your country, and we should advance and retreat together. If you have a strategy that can turn defeat into victory, please let me know." The Earl of Stratford and several nobles also asked Sun Chuanting for King Charles.

"Everyone, I'm not a god, and I really don't have the ability to turn things around. The problem is that your soldiers have no fighting spirit, and no matter how you dispatch them, they will collapse at the touch of a button. Why don't you retreat to Newcastle and look at your plan..."

Sun Chuanting reluctantly shied away.It's not that he is incompetent, but that the militiamen recruited to fight don't want to fight the Scots at all, and they can't withstand the three-hour bombardment of the other side with their fortresses. How can they fight?Even if Napoleon took over such an army temporarily, it would be another Waterloo!

Originally, Sun Chuanting was willing to help make deployments and did not know the thoughts of the soldiers of the King's Army, but when he fought against the Covenant Army, Sun Chuanting fully understood that the King's Army did not have much combat capability at all.In the state of the king's army, it's better to hide in the city and defend it.

Sun Chuanting spared Charles I a little bit of fluff, so he didn't directly tell him that the current king's army is a mess.

The cavalry unit led by Wilmot launched a heroic charge. They began to draw the long swords at their waists, and the sound of horseshoes made the ground tremble!
However, Leslie, the commander of the Covenant Army, had already predicted the possible cavalry charge of the opponent, and the musketeers and spearmen of the Covenant Army were sent to seize the fort.

Almost the same phalanx as the Swedish army, with fewer pikemen protecting the musketeers while rows of musketeers fired furiously.The flames flickered, the smoke spread, and the sound of musketry was frightening.

Under the rounds of fire from the musketeers, the brave knights fell from their horses one by one.This cavalry was unable to turn the tide of the battle as expected by Sun Chuanting.

There are at least 5000 English infantry who were not involved in the battle behind, but most of the infantry fled to Newcastle in panic because of the victory of the oath army...

An army that completely lacked the will to fight collapsed on its own with almost no losses.

In fact, even including the cavalry lost by Wilmot and the musketeers damaged in the shelling, there were only a few dozen people.

If such a thing happened to the troops led by Sun Chuanting, Sun Chuanting would probably kill himself with a knife, but this is the king's army.

The main infantry fled, and the cavalry led by Wilmot saw that the infantry was fleeing and could not break through the musket line of the Covenant Army, so they had to retreat behind the infantry.

Seeing the sudden one-sided situation on the battlefield, King Charles and a group of nobles had to flee to the city of Newcastle under the protection of their guards.

The entire battlefield was in chaos, and the lack of fighting spirit of the king's army was almost defeated. Only Lieutenant Colonel Monk successfully controlled his infantry regiment and retreated safely with the artillery regiment.He dutifully fulfilled the task Charlie entrusted to him to protect the artillery, and kept the precious artillery for the king's army.

"No one is allowed to pursue the fleeing Englishmen, so as not to cause unnecessary casualties. Those who dare to pursue them will be deducted from all military pay."

When the King's Army was defeated, General Leslie, who commanded the Covenant Army, ordered the Covenant Army not to pursue them.

The situation on the battlefield became a little weird. The king's army frantically fled towards the city of Newcastle, and the winning side took no action other than occupying the two fortresses, and did not chase and defeat the retreating king's soldiers.The Covenant Army formed a siege of Newcastle from the north and south banks.

"Commander, now is the time to expand the results of the war. Why don't we completely wipe out England's effective forces? Their actual losses in the battle just now are really limited, and they will be able to make a comeback soon." The Swedish mercenary following Leslie asked puzzled road.

"What do you think is the source of our easy victory? Weapons? Soldiers' quality? No, our Covenant Army has many more militiamen with no combat experience than them, and our weapons are not advanced. It takes a year of training to have a little combat effectiveness. And this advantage is not the root cause of our victory, the root cause is that the soldiers on the opposite side don't want to fight us at all."

"If the English on the opposite side are now not on their own land, but in the Netherlands, they will make us pay a higher price. In fact, the English are active in various battlefields on the European continent, especially in supporting the Netherlands and the Netherlands. The Spanish wars have experienced a number of officers and soldiers with combat experience. They collapse because of their sympathy, so they can't hunt down the fleeing English, and they can't do them great losses, otherwise it will cause discomfort to the English. Arouse their fighting spirit for a decisive battle. If their people continue to sympathize with us, we can negotiate with the king."

"Don't fight for war's sake, think about something other than war. This war, to put it bluntly, we have won. A solution to the conflict within the United Kingdom at a very small price is what England and Scotland would like to see results," Leslie said.

(End of this chapter)