Chapter 165: 165Benefit Exchange

Chapter 165: 165Benefit Exchange

 Chapter 165165Exchange of Interests

If it weren't for the fact that the first four legions were equipped with new K1 fast guns and revolvers, the elves' offensive formation would actually be too conservative.

The elves are able to maintain their offensive status now entirely because the spearheads composed of the four legions in front are too sharp, not because Augustine Tural's arrangement is so clever.

 In fact, as the head of the Augustine family and an important minister of the kingdom, Augustine Tural’s skills were not focused on military affairs at all.

 The main reason why he was able to come to the front line to command this battle this time was that among the four legions that were the main offensive force, three were controlled by the Augustine family.

On the one hand, the king felt that he was not sure that Augustine would hand over his private army to fight this battle; on the other hand, it was also because with the help of new weapons, the battle was indeed a sure thing.

Augustin Tural himself had the idea of ​​grabbing the credit, and His Majesty the King also wanted to push the situation along, so Augustine Tural became the commander-in-chief of the elves in this battle.

In fact, everyone knows that this arrangement is inappropriate, but there is nothing to say: the gun was obtained by the Augustine family, and the troops also belong to them. They have obvious advantages and do not pay much attention to command and dispatch... So if they get some military glory, who else will do it? Can you have an opinion?

Augustine Tural is not a fool. On the contrary, he actually knows how many brushes he has. This time he came to the front line. On the one hand, he really wanted to take credit, but on the other hand, he did not trust his direct troops.

 So, he was very self-aware and set up a 344 formation, just to be safe and make no mistakes, and completely gave up those adventurous ideas.

 It is precisely because of this arrangement that the offensive pressure of the elves falls entirely on the shoulders of the four legions equipped with new rifles.

 We fought all the way here and disabled 4 legions of the orcs in a row. One legion of the elves also suffered heavy losses and had to withdraw for a while.

There was the rumble of artillery in the distance. The cannons from both sides fired at each other, and the killing was inextricable for a while. The corpses of orc soldiers can be seen everywhere on the battlefield. They are wearing armor, and their swords or shields fall next to their corpses.

About two-thirds of the Orcs' soldiers are equipped with Cyric muskets, and the rest are heavy shield bearers and spearmen who are responsible for covering the musketeers.

However, when faced with the K1 gun, these soldiers basically can only act as cannon fodder. They stay to cover the retreat of the main force, and they lie here forever.

"Sir, the officers have drawn up a battle plan. The fastest way for our army to win is as you have judged, which is to ignore the enemy's troops on the left and right wings and concentrate superior forces to attack the enemy's center. It is expected that it will only take two Attack, the opponent's central defense line will collapse!" A deputy general rode forward and presented Augustine with a plan signed by several generals.

“Tell the commanders on the left and right that I am going to concentrate my superior forces and defeat the center of the Kingdom of Gales in one fell swoop! Order them not to rush forward for credit, but to keep up steadily! Remember! Don’t rush for credit!”

"Yes!" The officer immediately pulled the reins and urged the horse to run wildly in the direction where the messenger was waiting.

Humshed out the telescope from the cylinder on the side of the saddle, pulled it open and put it in front of his eyes. Augustine continued to appreciate the frontal battlefield.

His troops were chanting the slogan "Long Live the Kingdom", holding rifles and marching forward with great momentum amidst the sound of war drums.

Opposite these elven troops, the orc troops in the distance are desperately maintaining their defense lines.

White gunpowder smoke was floating everywhere on the battlefield, and the artillery shells whizzed past the crowd, knocking away seven or eight elven soldiers at once.

 Because the formation is still dense, the losses suffered by the elves advancing under the artillery fire are not small. This is the main reason why Count Tural tried so hard to defeat the frontal enemy.

 The main casualties of his troops came from the enemy's artillery fire. As long as the opponent's artillery was eliminated, victory would be easy.

Sure enough, just as he expected, in front of the orc phalanx, the elves finally had the opportunity to open fire. The attacking battalion raised its weapons at the command of the commander, and then fired a volley at the orcs.

 Intense gunshots echoed on the battlefield. The armored soldiers in the front row of the orcs fell down, and the phalanx immediately became sparse.

The elven soldiers who had gained the advantage swarmed forward and used their fastest speed to close the distance to less than 30 meters.

Next, the revolvers equipped by the Elf troops began to show off their power. In conjunction with the even rarer improved revolver rifles, the Elf melee gunners fired a round of intensive rapid fire.

Dense bullets flew towards the orc soldiers like hail, and more soldiers immediately fell down screaming.

Blood spattered in all directions. The orc soldiers, who had the blood of their companions on their bodies, rushed towards the elven gunners with their long swords raised high.

  Unfortunately, they didn't even have a chance to fight in close combat. Even if they could only fire six times in a row, the power of the revolver was not comparable to that of a long sword. The gun is faster seven steps away, but within seven steps...the gun is really fast and accurate! As the distance got closer, the firepower density advantage of the elven troops was fully demonstrated, and another orc battalion was defeated.

But just when the orc battalion suffered heavy losses and collapsed backwards, another orc infantry battalion rushed up shouting "Long Live Gales".

The elves’ troops had almost exhausted their loaded bullets, and dozens of them were killed by artillery. They had to give up the position they had just captured before their footing was stable.

The orcs took advantage of the chaos to patch up the hole, and used a long-prepared volley to drive the elves back to a place a hundred meters away.

 There is no way, the reloading of the needle gun is indeed fast enough, but the reloading of the revolver and revolver rifle, which are more powerful in close combat, takes a long time.

 Despite the intense firepower during the initial attack, these people were equipped with weapons from 1860, not 1940... Those were not submachine guns. Just change the magazine and you could do it.

The Orc troops, which have been fighting fiercely with Augustin Tural's troops for 6 days, have actually found some patterns. Under normal circumstances, they will endure the troops in front to be massacred by hail of enemy fire, and then wait for the opponent's fire to gradually become sparse. , and then counterattack to regain the lost position.

Relying on this method, they have persisted to this day and to this moment at the expense of the lives of soldiers.

Putting away the telescope, Augustine ordered with gritted teeth: "Advance the whole army! Assault on the enemy's center!"

Those are his direct troops, and every loss of one makes him feel pain! What's more, yesterday afternoon, he had to let a legion that suffered heavy losses withdraw to rest.

 Another round of attacks on the front line was blocked, which reminded Augustin Tural once again of the **** envoy of the Cyric Consortium.

The other party threatened to sell weapons to the Kingdom of Gales or even support the private army, forcing him to agree to Cyric Company's request.

After learning that the Augustine family had the production technology for fire hats, the Cyric Consortium took up the idea of ​​​​the Augustine family. The two sides were **** for tat and refused to give in to each other, even to the point of going to war.

 Finally, His Majesty the King of Yangmu Kingdom came forward to mediate the overt and covert fighting between the two sides. Regarding new weapons, the two sides reached a settlement.

The price is that Cyric guarantees the independent operation rights of the Augustine family's factories in the Poplar Kingdom and voluntarily gives up the future arms market of the Poplar Kingdom.

At the same time, Cyric also promised not to sell any arms to the Kingdom of Gales, and mobilized its own forces to inflict further damage on the Kingdom of Gales. They sold a lot of artillery to the elves, giving the elves an advantage over the Kingdom of Gales in terms of artillery.

 As for all the interests of the Kingdom of Gales after its defeat, Cyric will no longer interfere... Cyric even promised that they would be willing to help the Poplar Kingdom continue to expand in the future.

 Correspondingly, Cyric also got what they wanted: they confirmed that the new weapons indeed came from Bunas in the Kingdom of Wright, and that Tang Mo was the developer of these new weapons.

　　After confirming the source, Cyric generously gave up the interests in the Yangmu Kingdom—this was a compromise they prepared to deal with the Tang Mo forces in the Wright Kingdom.

From the perspective of Cyric's senior officials, as long as Tang Mo is destroyed, it is equivalent to eradicating the source of new weapon research and development. It is obviously easy to deal with the Yangmu Kingdom at the end.

In addition, in order to deal with Tang Mo's restriction on providing flash caps, Sirik purchased 100,000 paper-cased fixed-loading ammunition from Count Augustine and booked one-third of the production capacity!

With these extra ammunition that Tang Mo could not count, Cyric felt that his side was more confident in launching a local war against Tang Mo.

 The biggest price Augustine needs to pay is that he must hand over the production technology of the fire hat—this is what the Cyric Consortium really wants.

In short, after taking out an orc from the Galles Kingdom, giving away almost all the industries in the Poplar Kingdom, and providing some support to the Augustine family, Cyric finally got the coveted formula for the fire hat. .

 But this has also caused the problem that Count Augustin Tural currently has a slightly insufficient amount of ammunition.

While Tural was secretly cursing the Cyric Consortium in his heart, two orders came from the Orcs' central army command camp.

Seeing that the 17th Legion was about to be completely wiped out, the orc generals and commanders finally could not withstand the pressure and sent out signal troops, asking the Wolf Knights who had been lingering on the wings and wandering around the edge of the battlefield to immediately launch an attack.

 (End of this chapter)