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Chapter 124 The Death Knight Charges Over
The sky was getting brighter, there was no wind, and the clouds floated to the ground, which was the white breath of the soldiers.

The ankle-deep snow covers the grass like a white carpet, and from time to time, pheasants, rabbits, wild boars and deer from the surrounding mountains come here to dig through the snow and graze on pasture.

Several dark gray lines appeared on the snow, and the animals fled in fright.

A wild boar the size of a van stepped on something while running, suddenly fell to the ground, rolled a few times, probably fainted from the head, and rushed towards the marching team.

The hunter company spread out in a horizontal line 300 meters in front of the main force. Most of their soldiers are hunters from the territory. They are good at fighting and tracking in the jungle. Units armed with live ammunition.

After a burst of gunfire, the huge wild boar fell to the ground again, and this time it never got up again.

Metzger swallowed when he walked past the wild boar carcass. It was a steel-haired wild boar. The hide was very strong, and the hair on it was very hard, especially the bristles, which could be used as brushes to remove rust from metal surfaces. Hunters would wear full-body leather armor made from the skin of this wild boar to hunt wolves.

Metzger was recalling the smell of his wife's wild boar stew with chestnuts when a bugle sounded from behind.

Then whistles sounded, and the team began to change formation under the leadership of grassroots officers.

Just now it was in the form of marching. Each of the two regiments advanced in double columns. The distance between the regiments was more than 200 meters. The hunting company was in front, and the cavalry company was on the wings and rear.

Frederick observed the team carefully on the mountain. The thick dark gray lines turned into sections of thin lines, and then scattered into small dark gray dots, and then these small dots were regularly scattered in the snow.

It is easy to see the arrangement of the army from the heights.

A battalion has four pea gun companies and two cherry gun companies, of which three pea companies form a horizontal formation and line up at the front, and one company has three platoons, two in front and one in the rear, and strengthens one cherry platoon and one in the rear. Pea companies lined up in three rows, together with a cherry company in the rear, formed the second line of defense.

According to the experience summed up in training by staff officers such as Richard Nall and Franz Jr., a battalion can control the width of the front from 600 meters to 200 meters, and the specific width depends on the firepower density required to destroy the enemy.

Today's training ground is limited in width, and the enemy is expected to be lenient. Each battalion is arranged according to the minimum width. Everyone stands shoulder to shoulder. The four battalions of the two regiments control a total width of about 800 meters.

On the left flank of the infantry, three cavalry companies also stood ready.

A cavalry company has three squadrons, and a squadron consists of three squadrons, a total of 72 cavalrymen, armed with bursting spears, sabers, pea carbines and revolvers.

Wesson's original plan was to form two cavalry companies and two magician companies. Now the magician company is the Wessenburg University militia company, so they have more money to form a guard cavalry company. When Frederick goes to the battlefield, they will Responsible for protection.

There are more than 100 people in the magician company. This number is currently a secret. After it is leaked, its deterrent effect is not much worse than that of Richard Nall.

It has been debated for a long time about whether the magicians should be used centrally or distributed in the army. It was finally determined that each company assigned three magicians to be responsible for the defense during the war, and the rest were used centrally.

Frederick watched the entire transformation process on the mountain, calculated the time, and was satisfied.

"It's great to be able to do this." Richard Nall said with great satisfaction, "They are still young and very talented. They have grown up after fighting a few battles, and no one dares to underestimate them in the future."

Frederick nodded. The officers in the army below the mountain are all second-generation knights in the territory, and their age is frighteningly young in terms of their posts.

Franz Jr., who is the commander-in-chief today, is 25 years old this year, Jurgen, who leads the escort cavalry company, is only 19 years old this year, and Andre and Lothar, who lead the other two cavalry companies, are only 20 years old. Commander Heinz, Bernd, and Gade, who commanded the mage company, are now 21 to 23 years old. Matthias, Oliver, Michael, Miroslav, and Stefan, who are in charge of logistics, are also 20 to 23 years old. between the ages.

The age of the soldiers is also not high, the range of conscription is between 18 and 23 years old, only the sergeants who manage the company and platoon are all mercenary veterans, and no one is younger than 35 years old.

The advantage of such a young army is that it has a strong ability to accept new weapons, and is flexible and good at thinking about new tactics.

But the shortcomings are also obvious. Young and energetic officers can easily suffer from the old fox on the battlefield. They have learned a lot in previous exercises.

Frederick had nothing to do about it. Except for a few geniuses, most of the officers needed experience. The most he could do was to build a military academy after a while.

At this time, a burst of white smoke suddenly burst out from the snow, rushing towards the army formation like a huge sea wave.

When the trumpet sounded, everyone in the army immediately opened the gas mask box on their waist, took off their helmets, and put on their masks as quickly as possible.

The cavalry company is a little more troublesome, they have to put on their mounts.

In the end, all the soldiers and horses put on gas masks before the arrival of the poisonous smoke.

This kind of poisonous smoke was provided by Friedrich. The main active ingredient is the juice squeezed from the tail of the tickle rat. If you inhale it, you will feel itchy nose and sneeze for a long time.

Metzger stood at the forefront of the battle line, his vision was blocked by the poisonous smoke, and he couldn't see the situation in the distance. He was a little nervous, and his hand holding the pea gun was shaking a little.

The comrades-in-arms around him are not much better. In the past, it was one thing to line up for shooting, but today it is another thing to have iron cans rushing into the battle. Who knows if those horses will stop 10 meters away as promised. .

"Don't worry, everyone!" Bobo said to his comrades, "The Heijiabao army is a well-trained army, and horse control is no problem... [Wesson collar swears]! What is that?!"

When the poisonous smoke dissipated, the whole army was stunned by the scene just like Bobo, and many people's feet were trembling.

No matter who it is, even Frederick, when he sees thousands of Alsaces riding invincible, holding Frostmourne, and fully armed in the distance, they will be scared when they are about to charge him.

Richard Nall couldn't bear to ask Frederick: "Could it be... a little cruel?"

Frederick smiled and shook his head and replied, "No, that's pretty good."

He naturally doesn't have the money to come up with such a luxurious lineup, but it is still no problem to use 59 to pretend to be M1A2.

There are only 20 cavalry in the imaginary enemy troops in Heijiabao, and 20 tin cans are unnecessary. They all use thick metal armor to protect the front of men and horses, and then decorate them with cardboard and tin. In front of the eyes is a palm-sized transparent magic shield, which prevents bullets from hitting the eyes.

Frederick also recruited a professor who is good at projection magic from the University of Wessenburg. A cavalryman made dozens of identical projections, and at the same time amplified the sound of horseshoes, and added some special effects to arouse smoke and dust. Models can't tell the difference at all.

Little Franz was also stunned. Like everyone else, he only knew that the imaginary enemy troops would imitate the cavalry charging. At first, he thought it was the 20 cavalry charging over and then stopping in front of the battle line. He didn't expect this to happen.

He calmed down quickly and immediately ordered the cherry cannon to fire.

(End of this chapter)