industrial lord

Chapter 215
Frederick circled around at low altitude and came to the command post on the hill north of the ranch. He picked up the binoculars to observe the enemy's movements and asked Helmut: "How is the enemy doing?"

Helmut replied immediately: "The enemy's cavalry is useless, and now they are rescuing the wounded and collecting the corpses."

"They marched all day during the day yesterday and didn't sleep all night. Now they have been attacked on a large scale. It is estimated that they are exhausted physically and mentally."

Frederick nodded and said, "You will command from now on, I'll take a look, and don't speak until the critical moment."

"Yes!" Helmut became excited all of a sudden. He got the command of such an important battle after joining the Wesson Army for only a year, and he felt the commander's trust in his heart.

Frederick pulled a Maza by the observation port and sat down, quietly looking at the enemy's barracks below.

It was almost noon when the Piast army finished cleaning up the scene. No one dared to be lazy. Even if they couldn't help, they had to stand by and do their work, so as not to become a punching bag for His Highness the Crown Prince.

Casimir's face was terribly gloomy, and he stood there silently, like a pressure cooker with no movement on the fire. There was huge pressure inside, and he didn't know when it would explode.

According to the statistics, there are less than half a hundred of the thousand winged cavalry who are capable of fighting, and there are more than 300 of the two thousand light cavalry that can be used.

"Collect all the horse meat that can be eaten." Casimir ordered in a deep voice, "Everyone eats the horse meat at noon and sleeps, and eats the same in the evening, marching at night!"

The surrounding nobles and generals hesitated, but no one dared to refute.

Seeing them like this, Casimir said: "Such weapons can't be bought with thousands of gold coins, and if you have money, you can't buy a lot of them. Don't worry about them continuing to use them."

"Duke Wesson didn't want to make enemies with us from the beginning, he just killed the horse and threatened us to let us leave, otherwise such weapons will fall on your heads, your tent is easy to recognize."

"Now we and him are more resolute in our actions. It is now the 6th. As long as we rush over, we will win if we rush to the city of Hanma on the 10th!"

"I originally agreed to give you three days of free activities in Hanma City, but now I have decided to give you ten days. I will deal with Danma Kingdom!"

This battle has been a miserable loss for him so far, and now there are two ways to go: one is to stop the loss in time and retreat immediately, but in this way, the alliance agreement with the Danma Kingdom will be over, and this loss He can't accept it; the other way is to continue to go on, as long as he can take down Hanma City with the Danma Kingdom, the economic losses can be recovered, and the political benefits after forming an alliance with the Danma Kingdom are even greater.

It was very tempting for those lords from all over the world to be able to grab things for seven days in the wealthy Hanma City. They also accepted the view that the number of such magic weapons is limited, and quickly accepted Casimir's order .

Casimir was right about one thing. Frederick didn't have much of this kind of magic incendiary bomb, but he didn't know that Frederick had other things in his hands.

He also made a mistake in not sending scouts to the surrounding mountains to conduct reconnaissance because of the open surroundings of the camp.

At noon, a smell of boiled horse meat could be smelled on the top of the mountain, and Frederick and others soaked instant noodles, flavored with tomato and beef.

Frederick ate silently, watching Helmut eating and making deduction next to the map, he shook his head slightly in his heart.

The original plan for this battle was to launch an attack when the enemy began to break camp and prepare to leave, or to rest and sleep for an hour, and Helmut gave the order.

Just now, when the Piast army was onlookers and rescuers around the bombing site, many people gathered together. If an attack was launched at that time, the enemy would cause heavy casualties, and it might become the last straw that broke their nerves. Hull Mutter didn't take the opportunity.

From Frederick's point of view, Helmut was good at planning, and he did a good job step by step, but he was not good at grasping the timing of the battlefield. He could be a staff officer but not a commander.

At 11:6 on November 13, the Wessen Army began to enter the position.

At 13:10, Casimir was woken up by the adjutant.

"Duke Wesson is here? He only brought 800 people?" Casimir rubbed his head. It seems that he has been lying down for half an hour. Could it be that he is dreaming?
The adjutant replied: "He did come, indeed he only brought eight hundred people with him."

Casimir remained silent. Although his side had suffered heavy losses, he still had a hundred thousand troops. Why would that few people be enough?

"He's here to negotiate?" Kasimir said, "Forget it, I'll take 1 people out and scare to death..."

At this moment, he suddenly woke up, a flash of light flashed in his mind, he shook his head and said, "Oh... I was careless, I didn't send scouts, maybe he sent troops here from somewhere."

"I remember that they had a group of people holding a competition in the north. If they were called over, I would not be able to bear a sudden charge from behind."

"No wonder we can't find these people if he takes care of the giant eagle knights. We can't put out the fire if we take care of the mage group. We can't stop those knights if we take care of the cavalry. It turned out to be a calculated plan."

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this was Frederick's plan. These hundreds of people were actually a cover, and it looked like they were negotiating. In fact, the team of heavy cavalry might be hiding somewhere for a sneak attack.

The heavy cavalry of this era are the winners and losers of a war, and a single charge may determine which side the balance of the war will be tilted.

"The whole army goes out!" Casimir immediately ordered, "Form a tight circle to prevent the heavy cavalry from raiding."

The best way for infantry to deal with heavy cavalry is to stop them in a dense formation, and then cut off the horse's feet first and then the people.

The soldiers who had just fallen asleep were called up again, when Frederick and Helmut made a mistake in their judgment.

They thought that the enemy's morale would plummet at this time because they were tossed over and over again. They didn't expect these people to hear that Duke Wesson, who threw horse dung from the sky, was coming, and his morale was +100 under the bonus of getting up.

Frederick was taken aback by the reaction of the Piast army. At first, he thought that the opponent would only send out a few thousand or at most 1 people to scare him, but he didn't expect that all of them came out, not even recruiting farmers.

These people put up an all-directional defense circle and waited. They looked very cautious, and coupled with their particularly high morale, Frederick's evaluation of Casimir improved a lot.

Tony asked Frederick in a low voice: "The deputy chief of staff asked if the operation was carried out as planned?"

Frederick was very depressed. There is no need to ask in this situation, so he said calmly: "The group of people who set the fire, do it immediately!"

He decided in his heart that Helmut should develop in the staff system.

Casimir saw Duke Wesson riding the winged unicorn and standing under the banner of the golden double-headed eagle. There were indeed only [-] people lined up around him, some of them were standing on the two-winged carriage. Looking at something, the big eye mask reminded him of certain rumors.

He glanced at the surrounding army, and ordered the army to press down slowly.

In his previous life, Frederick saw 10,000+ people gather in the square in front of the train station during the Spring Festival.

One minute later, there was a whistling sound from the mountains around the pasture. The first thing to fire was a rocket with black powder as the propellant and angina drugs as the warhead.

These rockets are the size of a human leg, loaded with 5 kg of powder, and equipped with tail fins to control the direction, and fly towards the enemy with a puff of white smoke.

This time Bruce brought 20 sets of 12-pack launchers, each with 5 salvos of ammunition.

In less than 15 minutes, 1200 rockets fell on the Piast army.

The rockets had limited accuracy, but achieved an even distribution effect. The huge orange-red fireballs and the shrapnel that swept across all directions created blood-stained spaces in the army formation.

At the same time, the rear of Frederick and his platoon flew out a series of super-caliber mortar shells, joining the massacre of the enemy.

According to the original plan, Frederick himself drew out the head of the enemy and then bombarded and beheaded him with mortars. At the same time, rockets attacked the camp.

Huge casualties caused Piast's army to fall into chaos in an instant. Frederick made a decisive decision and ordered the mortars to extend their fire.

The triple-mounted pea guns brought here from Wessen State are all mounted on carriages, which can be quickly deployed to the enemy's side and rear to pour firepower.

The unprecedented violent blow made Kasimir's mind go blank, and he didn't know whether to advance or retreat for a while.

A mortar shell exploded not far from him, and the shrapnel was blocked by the guards around him, but was stunned by the shock wave.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the guard who was still alive immediately pulled his horse back.

Endless death The morale of the Piast army collapsed, and almost at the same time, everyone turned around and ran back.

They have only one goal, to run eastward, towards home.

Frederick led people to keep driving in the rear to prevent them from gathering.

The few who stayed behind wanted to launch a counterattack, and were quickly knocked down by cherry cannons and pea guns.

The defeated army fled all the way east, and fled to the Elbe River in the evening.

The pontoon bridge on the river was destroyed by the cavalry company that came first, and the defeated soldiers could only swim across the river.

Now the river is very cold, many people did not have a good rest, and ran for a long time, went down the river because of leg cramps and lack of energy, and finally sank, only a small half of the people were able to cross the river.

At night, the North Sea began to rise in tide, and the sea water began to flow back from the mouth of the sea. The nearby river suddenly rose. Not only did the river widen, but the floating corpses stopped floating down.

Fortunately for Casimir, they crossed the river safely on horseback.

When Casimir woke up, he saw the corpses floating on the river and passed out again.

Frederick was also having a hard time. He had to lead his men to drive out those who had fled into the forest overnight, otherwise the specialty of Wessen would be bandits.

(End of this chapter)