Chapter 106: 106 is really a good thing
Chapter 106 106 What a good thing
Of course the commanders of Susas did not know that Tang Mo's artillerymen divided the salvo into two because they were worried that one salvo would not be accurate.
The first salvo of three artillery shells fell and hit the slope. The subsequent second round of three artillery shellings arrived as scheduled after a period of time to ensure the effectiveness of the attack.
Three more cannonballs landed on the slope, directly blowing the bodies of Tucci and his horse into pieces, and also blew the officer holding him into the sky.
The last words Tucci hoped to give to the king were naturally wiped out with the horrific explosion. At the same time, the dream of the Kingdom of Susas swallowing up the Kingdom of Wright was also wiped out.
Tang Mo let out a sigh of relief, put down the telescope in his hand, and looked at Weiss who was standing next to him.
Weiss looked at the Sussus army that had become a mess and knew that they seemed to have won this battle.
In fact, they did win. The Sussian troops, who lost their command, immediately began to retreat after a long period of confusion.
The 3,000 men who attacked North Ridge from the southeast, namely the two regiments led by Tucci himself, began to retreat along the road to the southeast after losing nearly 1,000 men.
They abandoned the 40 field guns they had brought with them along the way, abandoned 100 tents and other messy baggage, and fled in a panic.
At the same time, at the other end of the battlefield, Viscount Romell was riding on his horse and received the first good news he heard that day.
"What? Tucci is dead?" He looked at the messenger who sent the letter, and he couldn't hide the smile on his face.
"Yes! Sir! General Tucci has been killed! Now you can only fight alone." The messenger said with some regret.
"This is really regrettable news." Viscount Romel smiled and waved to signal the messenger to leave. Before the man could go far, Viscount Romel grinned.
Twitch is dead! No one will hold him accountable! This is really good news for Viscount Romel.
What's more, Tu Qi died in battle so quickly, and the troops led by Tu Qi collapsed faster than his troops. At this time, it is impossible for anyone to make excuses for his ugly record.
Although he failed to capture the enemy's position in four charges, his troops were attacking anyway, and Tucci's army had been defeated!
As for the victory or defeat of this war, that is not what Viscount Romell considers at all - whether he loses or wins, his noble Viscount, won or lost, isn't it all about being popular?
"Sir! Tuqi was defeated and died, and we are now alone... The enemies who defeated Tuqi may come along the road to attack us... We still need to make plans in advance." The man who was formerly Luo Mei The knight who spoke reminded me.
Romel's face immediately turned ugly when he heard this reminder. Only then did he remember that his army was already a lone army and was in danger of being destroyed by a flanking attack.
Although he was alone before, in the attack plan, the task of his unit was only to occupy the road and cover the marginal tasks of his own troops. There was no second unit in Beiling to attack him, so Viscount Romel was not afraid. Even though he was attacked, he dared to lead the army to Sanchakou alone.
But things are different now. Now the enemy has a very powerful force that stands in front of him and kills the famous general Tucci. Under such circumstances, it would obviously be very dangerous for him to stay here.
A gentleman does not stand behind a dangerous wall... Translation means, the situation is not good, I must run quickly...
Viscount Romel immediately looked at the knights beside him and shouted loudly: "Order the troops to retreat immediately!"
"Sir! It takes time to close the cannon! We must..." an officer explained.
"Fuck your cannon! Throw down all those heavy things! Damn it! You command the infantry to follow! I'll wait for you in the village where I spent the night the night before!" Viscount Romel interrupted, pointing. Shi Lu shouted.
Then he got on his horse, clamped his arms under the horse's belly, and took the lead in galloping away into the distance. Behind him, several knights and a mess of followers also mounted their horses, drove their horses, and escaped with their noble master.
"Sir, my lord...I, we..." An officer looked at his superior and asked at a loss: "What should we do?"
"What else can we do? Let the troops discard their weapons and baggage! Run as fast as you can!" the depressed officer ordered.
He actually has a horse, but he just didn't ride it. Now that everyone is married and everyone is taking care of themselves, he feels that there is still a high probability that he can run away.
Soon, the 4,500 Susas troops who originally attacked Tang Mo from two sides were completely routed by Tang Mo's new rifles and new artillery attacks.
What was left of the entire battlefield to Tang Mo was a mess and a lot of thorny problems.
His attack directly doubled his losses. In just half an hour after he reached the roadbed, of his nearly 200 soldiers from less than two companies, 6 were killed and 21 were wounded.
These are all the elites he has accumulated with great difficulty. They will be the seeds and pacesetters he can rely on in the future. Now he has lost 10 of them in one battle and injured 30 others, which makes Tang Mo feel his heart aching. Blood. Frankly speaking, as far as his personal wishes are concerned, he is not willing to replace one of his enemies with a thousand men.
But seeing that almost everyone, including Weiss, was looking happy, he really couldn't bear to spoil everyone's interest.
Because except for himself, everyone present thought that this was a great victory, a great victory that was unprecedented in the past.
"Sir! We have captured this..." An officer came over, holding another sword in his hand: "I heard from the prisoners that this is their commander, the famous general of the Kingdom of Susas, General Tucci. Sword..."
Tang Mo looked at the long sword. There were still blood stains on the scabbard of the long sword. Even the entire long sword and scabbard were slightly bent and deformed due to the impact of the cannonball.
In one battle, two enemy commanders' swords were captured in succession. At this moment, Tang Mo's new barracks could definitely be regarded as a victory in the first battle.
The company commander who came to deliver the sword, after the joy on his face faded, put on a somewhat helpless smile: "Sir, we have captured more than 400 prisoners, squatting in a large area of darkness over there, what should we do with them? ?”
"What else can we do...sell them to the Earl and send them to work in the mines!" Tang Mo said in a bad tone because he felt that these Susas soldiers who had killed 10 of his men were displeased.
"Now, we have to find someone to watch them...Basically, we can no longer continue fighting." The company commander looked at Redman standing aside and said with some reluctance.
Tang Mo also knew that it was impossible for his troops to move as fast as they pressed these prisoners. Fortunately, Tuqi was killed and Tuqi's troops no longer had the courage to fight back, so they were now no longer in danger of being flanked.
Then the only thing left is to kill the other Susus army trying to capture the village, and the battle will be over.
Thinking of this, Tang Mo also breathed a sigh of relief, because he could be said to have completed the task assigned to him by the Earl ahead of schedule and to stick to it for a day and a night.
He did accomplish it, but he turned the combat mission of holding on to the village into a counterattack to defeat the enemy.
"Did we forget something?" Weiss walked to Tang Mo's side, licked his dry lips with his tongue, and reminded him.
Tang Mo slapped his forehead and then remembered... Until now, he still has a special force that has not participated in the battle...
“Damn it, Tiger, who was ambushing the enemy on the retreat, must have already participated in the battle...” Tang Mo said in confusion.
After all, this is the first battle he has commanded, so it is inevitable that there will be many loopholes and mistakes.
But who would have thought that the battle would go so smoothly, so smoothly that Tang Mo would forget that he had ambushed an army...
“I don’t know what’s going on over there.” Weiss looked into the distance, not sure whether he was worried or envious.
"Here, we still have a lot of things to do, let Tiger handle it by himself!" Tang Mo looked at a Cyric field gun lying not far away, and his tone was full of wanting to be beaten. A taste of Versailles.
The total number of troops Susas killed from the southeast was about 3,000, and they carried 50 artillery pieces. Some of these artillery were captured from the Kingdom of Leyte, and some were part of the Susas army's own establishment.
To be honest, Tucci's reinforcements are more vividly described as troops transporting artillery north than combat troops.
This is also the main reason why Tuqi only invested about 1,000 people into the battle in the first time, despite having 3,000 men.
Tucci's troops, who carried a large number of artillery, were unable to take away the artillery when they were defeated, so they were all left on the battlefield.
In addition to a few cannons that were damaged by bombings or deliberately destroyed, Tang Mo captured more than 40 field cannons in one go.
At this moment, he didn't know that the Romell army with 18 field guns on the other side had also abandoned the artillery and ran away.
So, Tang Mo miraculously captured 60 cannons in this battle, and it can be said that he completely became rich.
If you add in the Cyric flintlocks scattered on the battlefield, Tang Mo roughly estimated that the arms he captured could almost recover the cost he invested in preparing for the war.
"War...you are such a good thing." Tang Mo looked at the main battlefield in the north where Fischero personally commanded, and murmured in a low voice.
(End of this chapter)