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Chapter 1494 The Injured Cromwell

In the dark, the artillerymen shelled with sporadic firelight, but they lost their aim even more. They just fired randomly, not knowing whether they hit the target at all.

The sound of musket guns continued, and Cromwell led the cavalry to shoot at the opposite side, and then drew out his knight sword and charged.They also chose tough Swedish tactics, intending to defeat the king's army at night!

It must be extraordinary courage to choose to start the battle at night!

Cromwell is leading a combined cavalry regiment composed of 4000 cavalry from the Eastern Union Army and Scottish cavalry. They confront the 3000 royal knights led by Prince Rupert head-on!
"What strange words are they shouting...Kill! Smash the king's army!" Cromwell led the cavalry to the front and confronted Rupert head-on!
Two people, one is the parliamentary army, the other is the cavalry general of the king's army. The two famous generals of this era are hostile to each other, fighting hand to hand!
"Wait for the enemy to get close before shooting!"

Sun Chuanting did not personally lead the cavalry to launch a charge. This kind of thing can be left to the younger and braver Prince Rupert.

In previous battles, the cavalry repelled the opponent's flank and won, but this time Sun Chuanting planned to defeat the opponent's infantry first and then win.

The infantry in the first two or three rows of the King's Army held advanced muskets made in the East, and they didn't need to light the fuse.

In the dark, the infantry of the parliamentary army was advancing, and their footsteps could be heard, and a few soldiers were holding torches to prevent the phalanx from collapsing during the advance.

Considering that the quality of each other's soldiers is not uniform, the infantry on both sides used a relatively conservative Dutch phalanx, at least 8 rows deep, with militiamen holding spears in the middle, and musketeers on the left and right wings.

According to the previous battle at Mount Edge, Sun Chuanting thought that after shooting each other, there would be hand-to-hand combat, and it would probably be another tragic battle.

In the dark, when the fuse of the matchlock gun was lit, Sun Chuanting knew that the opponent's infantry was very close!
"volley!"

When the opponent's fuse was lit, Sun Chuanting gave an order, and the guns in the front two or three rows began to shoot violently!

At such a close distance, the Dreiser rifle opened fire, and the soldiers of the parliamentary army who were shot fell to the wasteland without any movement.

The matchlock guns in the hands of the soldiers of the parliamentary army then opened fire, which also caused damage to the king's army.The two sides shot at a certain distance, trying to shake the opponent's army through the shooting of muskets.

When the two sides started queuing up to shoot, the parliamentary army found that the enemy's firepower was more ferocious than they had imagined!They don't even need to use the tactic of three-stage shooting, but two or three rows of fire at the same time, and the reloading speed is very fast!The continuous and violent musket shooting caused more soldiers of the parliamentary army to be shot and fell to the ground!

If the night hadn't covered up the casualties on both sides, maybe the parliamentary army had already begun to waver.

Sun Chuanting heard the sound of muskets. The sound of Dreiser's rifle firing was different from the sound of the arquebus used by the opponent. He could roughly tell from the sound of muskets whether the soldiers under his command had fired according to his instructions.

In order to make the infantry strictly follow his instructions to shoot, Sun Chuanting also set up a supervisory team. If anyone dares to escape or retreat without authorization, he will be executed by the supervisory team.

The most important thing on the battlefield is discipline. If these soldiers escape without authorization and cause trouble, then the problem will be serious.

The artillery bombarded the opponent's line aimlessly, but it didn't have any effect.

The truly tragic battles lie in the fighting of the cavalry on the two wings and the shooting of the infantry in the middle.This is a tragic hand-to-hand combat. Even senior commanders have to fight on the battlefield in person. Their lives are no more noble than ordinary farmers.

Although these nobles think that their status is higher than that of ordinary people, they have always regarded themselves as pillars, and they often charge forward in battles. Many noble children died in every battle.In the battle of Mount Edge, a large number of noble officers were killed in the Royal Army, and even Earl Lindsay was shot and killed by bullets.

The battle in the Marston Wilderness this time was equally tragic. Many noble officers fought bloody battles with each other on the front line, and the noble officers and knights fell down like civilians.

"But... Damn it!" Cromwell, who was swinging a sword on horseback, covered his eyes with his left hand. A bullet pierced his neck and passed by his eyes. He felt that the sight of his left eye began to change. Blurred, while there was warm blood on the neck and eyes.

However, he is not dead yet, nor is he bleeding heavily, he still insists on fighting on the battlefield, fighting with Prince Rupert's cavalry!

The parliamentary cavalry, Scottish cavalry, and knights of the king's army fought close to each other with knight swords or spears, and some knights were loading gunpowder and shooting noble knights coldly.

Although Cromwell and Earl Leven, who led the Scottish cavalry, were desperate, Prince Rupert and the knights who had been beaten to death were not much less willing to fight. The cavalry fought fiercely in the dark, not giving up half a step!

If they dared to take half a step back, they would probably be scolded by Sun Chuanting again after the battle.Their self-proclaimed noble knights can no longer lose this face!

There were 4.5 people on both sides together, fighting at night and shooting at the opposite side with firelight. The battle lasted for an hour. The cavalry led by Cromwell and Earl Living was still unable to defeat the cavalry led by Prince Rupert.

They selected the most elite cavalry from the Parliamentary Army and the Covenant Army, intending to break through from the left flank, but happened to meet Prince Rupert's elite knights from the King's Army. After winter training, these knights became more skilled at fighting. Nor retreat.

Just when Rupert was in a bitter battle, the soldiers of the king's army in the middle relied on their superiority in firepower to win successively, forcing the central army of the parliament to retreat.

At the same time, the knights led by the right-wing Wilmot caused a fierce counterattack to the cavalry of the parliamentary army, and instead crushed the right-wing cavalry of the parliamentary army who took the initiative to attack!

Under the counterattack of the king's army, the parliamentary infantry finally retreated behind the high ground where they had lined up during the day, and it was almost impossible to retreat.

After defeating the opponent's cavalry, the knights stopped chasing the enemy without authorization. Wilmot led the knights to detour behind Cromwell and Earl Leven, and launched a brave charge from south to north!

"There is nothing to be done, we retreat in time to preserve our strength!" Seeing that the situation was not good, Earl Levin led the Scottish cavalry to withdraw from the battlefield, and informed his comrades in England very loyally.

The cavalry on the two wings were defeated, and the infantry in the middle was suppressed by the opponent's infantry. The balance of the war had completely turned to the side of the king's army.

(End of this chapter)