The Last Frontier of Fire and Sword

The corpses of forty-six soldiers from the mercenary regiment and twenty-one Swedish soldiers lay neatly on the ground.

Cheerchen looked at these corpses silently. Fedot and others stood behind the head of the group and looked at each other. Although Cheerchen didn't speak, everyone could feel that the leader's mood was unpleasant.

In fact, although the mercenary group won, no one from Chechen to Yelishei was happy with this victory.

Yes, although they occupied the village, the mercenary group paid more than twice the casualties of the enemy, and was also escaped by most of the enemies.

In this repressive atmosphere, Viscount Hessen, the deputy captain of the Hessian mercenaries, became unconsciously unconscious.

The relative of the Earl of Hessen came to the mercenary group as an agent of the Earl of Hessen in the mercenary. The purpose of his existence is also to prevent the hirers from using Hessian mercenaries as cannon fodder. Originally, Cheerchen didn't let the Hessian mercenaries cause serious casualties, he should be happy, but now the Viscount came to Cheerchen, questioning Cheerchen's poor command that caused such a big loss.

Cheerchen remained silent as he listened to Viscount Hessian's words.

At this time, what Victor said to him during the opening of the mercenary group appeared in his mind: "Head, if possible, I really want to go to Warsaw with you. Because this unit is too immature. It takes more than a month. It can’t be changed. If your enemy is a soldier or a Cossack from Tsarist Russia, I’m not worried, because the overall combat effectiveness of these two enemies is not strong. And courage. Although they also have advanced guns and artillery, their organizational structure and training methods are lagging behind, and lagging behind the countries of Western Europe than the Republic. But the enemy you have to face is the Swedes, in this world The most powerful army. They are well-equipped, well-organized, and morale high. They can defeat even two or three times as many enemies. When they are our allies, we are lucky; but once it’s Become an enemy, then we have to be extra careful. Especially when they are on the defensive side, the Swedes have the richest defensive experience and architectural knowledge, which is the wealth they gained in the Thirty Years’ War. This This makes them a nightmare for all attackers. Therefore, the commander, if possible, you must not throw them on the battlefield after arriving in Warsaw. Let the soldiers observe more and know how their enemies are fighting. This is the only way to do this. The mercenary group will not suffer heavy losses in future wars."

It was also because of Victor’s entrustment that when he knew that there was only a small group of Swedish soldiers in the village, Cheerchen only allowed a few squadrons of recruits to launch an attack. The Hessian mercenaries with the strongest combat effectiveness were not sent to the war.

"Viscount Hessian."

Chechen suddenly interrupted Viscount Hessian's chatter.

"This battle is indeed my unfavorable command. I accept your criticism. The Hessian mercenaries have also suffered a loss today. Go to Ingrid to receive six hundred taylors, as a reward for the heroic fighting of the Hessian mercenaries."

Viscount Hessian laughed happily. He praised Cheerchen loudly, and then swiftly went to Ingrid for reward.

"If he is my subordinate, I will definitely want him to taste the flogging."

Watching Viscount Hessian walk away, Jan Sobieski said to Chechen.

Pedro and others also feel the same. They all think that the leader is too weak to do this, which will make this group of Hessians get an inch.

But Cheerchen didn't explain much. He clapped his hands and said to the deputy heads and squadron leaders: "Let's go into the village with me and take a look."

"I'm coming too."

Jan Sobieski yelled, and followed Cheorchen and the others into the village.

At this time, the gunpowder in the village has not yet dissipated. The mercenary group sent forty to fifty people to sweep and inspect the village. Under the leadership of a small team leader, Cheerchen and the others looked over one by one.

I don't know when these Swedish soldiers settled in the village. Every house in the village was transformed into a bunker.

The doors of all the houses were blocked, and the windows were half sealed, leaving only a small shooting port. In a remote corner of the house, Chechen and the others also found holes dug by the Swedes. These holes can only accommodate one person in and out. This made the Swedes deliberately retreat to another room after blocking the mercenary group in one room to continue resisting, and the mercenary group is likely to face the empty space after spending a lot of effort to break into a house. The house got nothing.

"Every time we break into the house, the Swedes inside have escaped from these small holes." A squad leader of a mercenary group explained to Cheerchen and the deputy commander and the squadron leader.

"Is there anything else?" Cheerchen asked after squatting down and probing the entrance of the cave.

"and also."

The team leader took Cheerchen and the others to the intersection.

"At every intersection, the Swedes blocked huge trees and dug traps behind them. Some of our soldiers accidentally jumped over, took them and fell into the traps," the team leader said.

"What about the Swedes? Didn't these traps slow their retreat?" Jan Sobieski asked.

"The Swedes put up a door panel on the giant wood~www.readwn.com~ and waited for them to pass and then pulled it away."

After listening to the explanation of the team leader, and looking at the entrances and exits and the huge woods and traps blocking every street, everyone finally knew why the recruits of the mercenary group would lose so much.

Although Cheerchen's training method is under the guidance of Gustav. But in the Gustav notes left by Christina, most of the big battles were recorded by King Gustav, and with such a hundred-man-level defensive skills, Gustav, as the commander-in-chief of an army of tens of thousands, is not Will not bother to record it in his own notes.

Cheerchen and the others are familiar with all the combat skills of the Swedish army such as the "Gustav Thunder", but they don't know how the squadron and squadron-level Swedish troops fight alone. Even the mercenary regiment once fought side by side with the army of General Robert Douglas.

It can be said that this small unit has made up for Cheerchen a lesson that Gustav did not teach.

After that, everyone watched the last place where the Swedes fought.

"It's here," the team leader said, pointing to a vegetable field. "Six Swedish soldiers are fighting with our people here. They lighted up the bullets in their rifles and drew short broadswords. But we didn't give them. Opportunity, they all killed them here."

"No one surrendered?"

"nobody."

Jan Sobieski sighed.

"Let all the squad captains take a look and see how our opponent fought." After seeing this battle relic, Cheerchen said to Fedot and other squadron captains.

"Let our generals also come and see." Jan Sobieski also ordered the horse by his side.

His soldiers were also temporarily allocated by the commander of Sapega, and most of the facades were recruits, just giving them a chance to learn.