rise of empire total war

Chapter 506 Battle of Karsi
Rumbling--

On the battlefield outside Kalsi, the fighting continued.

Although the Sotutal barbarians bravely charged the officers and soldiers of the third brigade one after another, the salvos of the line infantry were enough to curb their charge momentum, and the high-speed rotating lead bullets could easily tear apart the barbarians. Humans' skin is harder than ordinary people (perhaps because they are often bare-chested, have suffered many injuries, and have a layer of scars), and the flesh and blood under the skin are stirred into a ball of mud.

The three formations formed by the officers and soldiers of the third brigade provided continuous firepower for the battle. After a series of sparks bloomed in front of each row of soldiers, black barrages would fly out and penetrate into the running barbarian army. Those at the front were killed and wounded.At the same time as the musket salvo was fired, the forty guns deployed at the rear also roared deafeningly under the operation of the artillery, and solid bullets or explosive bullets rushed out from the muzzle smoking gunpowder, whizzing across the array. The line infantry fell into the dense mass of barbarians.

There is no reason for such a dense army of barbarians to miss the shot. In the next second, under the gaze of everyone, the heavy solid bullet smashed into the crowd, grinding out bloody roads inside, and all blocked the trajectory of the shell. Everyone was smashed to pieces, leaving no bones left; the flowering bombs also lived up to expectations, and exploded when they flew less than one meter above the heads of the crowd, and the flying shrapnel scattered the surrounding people like flowers scattered by a goddess. The barbarian soldiers were shrouded in it, and wherever the shrapnel hit, the barbarian's screams of pain could be heard. Their bodies were scratched by the shrapnel one after another shocking wounds, almost turning into a bloody man.

The projectiles fired by the long-barrel cannon can easily create bloody no-man's land in the crowd, but this no-man's land will not last long, and will often be filled by the barbarian fighters who followed after a few seconds .They didn't care about the corpses of the clansmen they stepped on, and continued to charge under the encouragement of the totems of their respective beliefs.

The infantry has been unable to charge through, and the performance of the barbarians on the cavalry battlefield has been unsatisfactory. The light cavalry they have hastily cobbled together should be called mounted infantry. The carbine cavalry who used the knight's sword were defeated. They wailed and rode their horses, left the battle, and fled to the outside of the battlefield. Naturally, the carbine cavalry would not let go of such a good opportunity to make meritorious deeds, and they also did not allow these routs to return to the battlefield. , so they all chased after them on horseback, driving the barbarian cavalry away from the battlefield.

When the cavalry was defeated, the morale of the charging barbarian infantry was finally exhausted, and they turned and retreated. They, who advocate close combat, were very depressed that they could not rush to the enemy to fight bravely. This depression was combined with the fear of mass death of the tribe Combined, they eventually forced them to fall back, refusing to charge again.Seeing the retreat of the barbarian infantry, the line infantry followed the steps of the standard bearers and officers after loading their ammunition. While advancing, they sang Richard's new military song loudly to boost the morale of the whole army !
Play the drum
officer growls

the flag rattles

Fluttering in the wind
recruits enlist
come to us
because it's a new world

·
tomorrow will be a new era
being a soldier is not sad
forget about our past

and yesterday's past

red sun rises

shines through the darkness of the forest

And tomorrow is the beginning of a new era

·
the night is still dark and dark
But our star shines
The fire burns fiercely and widely
light up the earth

the courage of soldiers
won't disappear in this world
Our hearts are strong and young
·
comrades let's go

Hardships can't stop us

Desperately in need of a new world

and it's coming
when the sun sets

illuminated the mountains

then we will rest
……

This is the Prussian military song "Playing the War Drums" of later generations. Richard happened to have heard it before, and after he came to the front line, he saw the soldiers marching silently, without the vigor that soldiers should have, so he used his memory to write The lyrics of this song were moved out and passed on to officers above the level of each regiment commander, and messengers were sent to bring the lyrics and melody to troops on other battlefields.

The passionate singing not only inspired the morale of the officers and soldiers of the army, but also greatly shocked the retreating barbarians. They could not understand the lyrics sung by the enemy, but it was not hard for them to hear the heroism contained in it. They were afraid, No matter how difficult it was for them to maintain their retreat formation, in just a few tens of seconds, the originally fairly orderly retreat fell into catastrophic chaos.

The barbarian elders in the rear tried to stabilize the army and restore their formation, but only a few followed their orders, and more people directly passed the elders, or fled into the Karsi city behind, or fled directly into the nearby dense forest. In the forest, they didn't deliberately want to disobey the elder's order, but the real danger has arrived, because the Roman cavalry who drove the barbarian light cavalry out of the battlefield have returned in mighty force!
Amidst the loud cheers of the line infantry, thousands of infantry surrounded them from all directions, and the carbine cavalry wielding sharp bloody knight swords also drove back the barbarians who were trying to escape into the forest.Those savages found desperately that they had no way out except to retreat to the city of Calci.In order to survive, they scrambled to escape into the city, and blocked the city gate for a while. Some of them saw the enemy getting closer and became more and more anxious, and directly swung the butcher knife at the clansmen standing in front of them. However, those clansmen who were killed couldn't figure out why they were killed by their own people, so they were caught off guard and died on the spot.

As if they had made a good start, the barbarian warriors blocking the city gate drew their knives and slashed and killed each other. Compared with the battle with the enemy, their internal fighting was no less bloody than the former. Many soldiers died in the city. Outside the gate, when the officers and soldiers of the third brigade arrived, there was already a river of blood outside the city gate, and corpses were everywhere. The dilapidated gate had been tightly closed, and only a few barbarian warriors were still standing on the city wall, preparing to resist the enemy's attack. city.

For the third brigade, the barbarians who fled into the city of Karsi were already a turtle in the urn. They only needed to divide their forces to block the escape direction of the defeated city and then launch an attack.And Richard Bono thought exactly this way. Following his order, the artillery deployed behind was brought up one after another, loaded with ammunition and ready to blast the city.The brigade also divided some troops and set up positions in all directions where the barbarians could escape. The carbine cavalry also wandered outside the city at any time. As long as the barbarians dared to leave the city without authorization, only death awaited them.

After the deployment was made, Richard Bono gave the order to attack the city.

(End of this chapter)