The moment the enemy troops rushed into the city gate, Jarvan realized Iron Skull's foresight.
He was right, neither the First Army nor the Second Army had the ability to fight the enemy in close combat.
This also gave Jarvan a better understanding of the orcs. He had always thought that the fighting ability of the mixed-blooded orcs was far inferior to that of the pure-blooded orcs. Now he knew that he was wrong. The mixed-blooded beings were more powerful. They were so powerful that they could defeat everyone in an instant.
To the point of suffocation.
An enemy soldier rushed up and bit Jiawen's right hand. He bit through Jiawen's armor in one bite. The severe pain made Jiawen throw away the musket in his hand. If it were an ordinary person, he would have struggled to death at this time, or perhaps
Use your left hand to attack the enemy.
But Jiawen did not lose his mind. He knew that it was useless. With amazing strength, Jiawen raised his arm and led the enemy into the wall. The violent impact made the opponent let go of his mouth, and Jiawen immediately pulled out his long sword.
, chop off the opponent's head.
Before he could see the enemy fall, another enemy soldier pounced on Jiawen's back. Jiawen barely stopped, grabbed the enemy's hair, and tore him off from behind.
This time he saw the enemy's face clearly. No wonder Iron Skull called them leopards. Dark green eyes, black nose, split upper lip and horizontal beard on the lip. This face was similar to the one he had seen in the Colosseum.
Gray-spotted leopards are exactly the same. This is the talent of hybrid orcs. They can become humans, leopards, or half-human and half-leopard monsters like they are now.
The enemy swung his sharp claws and grabbed Jiawen's arm. Jiawen barely dodged it. He wanted to fight back with his long sword, but the opponent jumped on him again.
Rolling, hitting, and wrestling, Jiawen struggled with the enemy in the most primitive way. After killing three enemy soldiers, he exhausted his energy.
A leopard man threw him down, and his sharp teeth were about to bite his throat. Jarvan desperately pulled the opponent's head, making a final resistance.
Such resistance didn't seem to mean much. The enemy's saliva had already flowed on Jiawen's face, and Jiawen even saw the barbs on his tongue.
Is it over?
Last night, he was still laughing at Chris as a fool, but he died in the hands of his enemies today. When future generations mention the first knight of Shattered Snow City, they will definitely say that he was a conceited fool, precisely because
His stupidity and arrogance caused his lord to lose Hanmaple Fortress.
No matter what they say, the knight who died on the battlefield has found his destination. Jiawen let go of his hand and was about to give up resistance, but suddenly there was a gunshot in his ears.
An orc soldier shot the enemy with a musket. Jarvan quickly pushed the enemy's body away and struggled to stand up.
Fierce hand-to-hand combat was still going on in the narrow city gate, and Jiawen, who was surviving the disaster, suddenly became much more awake.
The situation was not as bad as he thought. As Broken Bones said, the number of these hybrid orcs was not that large. The orc warriors were fighting with them. The fierce fighting did not completely break the orc formation. Some orcs were loading bullets.
, some orcs are waiting for opportunities to shoot, and the number of enemies is constantly decreasing.
Jiawen rekindled his fighting spirit. He picked up his long sword and killed an enemy. Taking this opportunity, he also took a look outside the city.
There were no mixed-blood orcs outside the city, but there was a group of cavalry charging towards the city gate. Erwin was leading his soldiers to attack the enemy with bombs. Jarvan quickly picked up his musket and loaded the bullets. He had to end the battle in the city gate as soon as possible.
Pull the trigger and kill the enemy, it's so easy.
When the musket was first born, Jiawen thought that this weapon was of little use. Until the first five bullets were fired, Jiawen still thought that grenades were more powerful.
Only now did he realize the magic of muskets. They are also weapons that rely on gunpowder. Bombs and grenades cannot be used in cautious combat, but muskets are not affected too much. They can even eliminate the need to aim and lift.
You can shoot the enemy with just one shot.
Of course, reloading is more dangerous than usual. If you are not careful, your throat will be bitten by the leopard man.
But so what? Listening to the approaching sound of horse hooves, Jiawen no longer had any hope of returning alive.
Raise the gun, shoot, eject the shell, load the ammunition...the simpler the idea, the more suitable it is for this powerful weapon, and the more suitable it is for this difficult war.
The third army may become the most outstanding army, but I don’t know if the first knight of Shattering Snow City will have the chance to witness all this...
Erwin was commanding the soldiers at the top of the city to desperately block the enemy troops, but no matter how dense the bombs and rockets were, the cavalry of the Bayer Kingdom would not stop at all.
This is the tactic Sophia formulated for them. No matter how many people are killed or injured, they must not stop before rushing to the city gate.
This trick is very effective. Bombs and rockets can cause huge damage to stationary enemies, but the maneuverability of the trebuchet is too poor. The counterweight must be adjusted after each projection, and the adjustment speed cannot keep up with the high-speed moving cavalry. Rockets
The speed is enough, but the hit rate is still miserable.
When the enemy troops gather at the city gate, it is also the best time to use bombs, but Erwin cannot use bombs unscrupulously, especially incendiary bombs and white phosphorus bombs, otherwise it will hurt Jarvan and the orc army.
The soldiers at the top of the city could only choose muskets and use their poor marksmanship to suppress the enemy as much as possible. Erwin couldn't even imagine what it was like inside the city gate. It might have turned into a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and the orc army might have been wiped out.
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The city gate cave had indeed turned into a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, but the situation was not as bad as he imagined. Although the enemy's cavalry had unparalleled speed, it also caused a lot of trouble to the enemy. Dead horses piled up in the city.
The door became a new bunker, and after annihilating the hybrid leopard men, the orcs were now hiding behind the bunker and shooting at the cavalry.
Raise the gun, aim, shoot, eject the shell, reload... Jarvan has been repeating mechanical slogans. He did this to keep himself awake, but his slogans infected other orcs, and several orcs followed at first.
Jarvan's slogans were followed by the same movements, and then the entire orc army fell into Jarvan's rhythm. Even Iron Skull took a spear and launched an attack according to the rhythm of the slogans.
"This is so stupid!" Shattered Bones complained while removing the shells, "Everyone is doing the same thing, is this still a war?"
"You don't have to follow his slogans," Iron Skull said, "you can do what you want."
"I can't control it. All of you are doing the same thing. I can only do it with you!" After loading the bullet, Broken Bone began to shoot. After five bullets, there were not many enemy cavalry left.
The cavalry failed to break through the city gate's defenses, and the infantry came again.
This time they were not orcs, but the real infantry of the Bayer Kingdom, but they did not wear heavy armor or shields.
Except for the musket, Sophia knew all of Reggie's weapons, but now the problem was the musket.
According to Sophia's tactics, in the face of bombs and grenades, armor and shields have no meaning at all. They will only affect the soldiers' marching speed, so the soldiers choose to go into battle lightly.
But the infantry who lost their shields and armor were particularly vulnerable to bullets. This time, the infantry did not rush into the city gate. They fell in pieces on the charging road.
The battle continued until dusk. After losing more than 500 warriors, Sophia temporarily stopped the attack.
Nehruv was very dissatisfied with this: "Your Majesty, we finally broke through the city gate. If we stop now, wouldn't the previous soldiers die in vain..."
Sophia is no longer the princess she used to be, but the majestic Queen Beyer. She just glanced at Nehruf, and Nehruf was so frightened that he immediately fell silent.
"If we want to prevent the soldiers from dying, we must first find out the cause of their death." Sophia looked at Prime Minister Romell. "Our soldiers have obviously escaped the bombs, so why do they still fall in front of the enemy?"
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Romel did not dare to speak easily. After getting along for a period of time, he found that Sophia was much better than Sean, and it seemed that every king had the urge to beat him when he was angry.
"Your Majesty..." Romell paused for a long time, trying to think of the order of words, "We found the bodies of several soldiers from the battlefield. Your Majesty, I assure you that we did not disrespect the dead.
We did not do any desecration to the corpses, and we also found devout believers to pray for the soldiers..."
Sophia moved her wrist slightly. She was warning Romel that it was best not to talk too much.
Romell understood the warning and immediately got to the point: "There were strange wounds on the soldiers' bodies, running from their chests to their backs, as if something the size of a fist had penetrated."
This is a characteristic of gunshot wounds. The bullet does not just leave a bullet hole in the body of the person who was shot, but will tear off a large piece of flesh. For people who have never seen gunshot wounds, it looks like a large
Something got into the injured person's body.
This answer obviously did not satisfy Sophia. She took a sip of ale and asked: "Didn't you cut open the soldier's stomach? Just like we did in the north?"
"Your Majesty, I think we can't do this kind of thing now. Soldiers from the Benlang Kingdom are also in our military camp. Doing so will hurt your reputation."
In this era, dissecting corpses is strictly prohibited by the God of Punishment. The God of Punishment regards dissection as blasphemy to the dead and disrespectful to the gods. All those who participate in the dissection of corpses will be regarded as evil spirits. The God of Punishment will use the most powerful methods.
Kill them with brutal lynchings.
In the Bayer Kingdom, although the Heavenly Punishers do not have a high status, they still represent the standards of morality and belief. Autopsy is an evil thing after all, and the Prime Minister naturally does not want this matter to be spread.
"You said it would hurt my reputation?" Sophia smiled slightly, stood up, walked closer to Romell, and said softly, "My Prime Minister, you are so considerate, what does this have to do with my reputation?"
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"This, this, this..." Romell had a premonition of being beaten.
"Let me ask you again, does this matter have anything to do with me?" Sophia removed her smile.
"No, it doesn't matter. My Majesty is the medical officer under me. He and they made the decision without authorization."
"Now that the decision has been made, let them take action quickly. I want to get the results before dawn!"
Romell and Nehruf walked out of Sophia's tent. The Prime Minister wiped the sweat from his forehead and let out a sigh of relief.
"Congratulations, my friend," Nehruf said sarcastically, "You are lucky today, His Majesty did not take action against you."
"Laugh as much as you like, Duke (Nechruf has been promoted to Duke)," Romell whispered, "I never expected that our queen would become so irritable."
Nehruv suddenly changed his expression: "Old man, don't think that I will sympathize with you. If you dare to speak ill of the Queen again, I will cut out your tongue with my own hands."
"I, I didn't say anything bad about His Majesty, I, I just..."
"Okay, stop talking nonsense," Nehruv sneered, "You have been beaten since the time of the old king, and the false king Sean also likes to beat you. Now the kind queen still can't help but beat you, so she can only
He said that being beaten is a destiny engraved in your soul, so hurry up and ask your medical officer to dispose of the body."
At dawn the next day, Sophia called Romel to the camp. She wanted to know the cause of the soldier's death.
But Romell did not find out the cause of death. He saw the soldier's damaged internal organs and severe internal bleeding, but he did not find the cause of death. Anatomy had not yet appeared in this era, and it was impossible to find the contents of the corpse with the help of medical officers.
bullets, not to mention they had no idea what to look for.
In order to give Sophia an explanation, Romell came up with a stupid excuse.
"Your Majesty, there is a terrible wizard in Hanfeng Fortress. He injected witchcraft into the soldiers' bodies and damaged their internal organs."
Sophia was startled, then clenched her fists and came to Romel: "My Prime Minister, I didn't hear clearly. What witchcraft did you just say?"