[Outside the River Valley Village]

Captain Luosong had been in the sun for a while, and his war horse was the same. The horse kept knocking on the ground with its front hooves, sniffing impatiently.

In addition to the small number of light cavalry responsible for covering the battlefield, the main cavalry of the three counties coalition forces were on standby at the threshing ground west of Hegu Village since the beginning of the battle.

The villages and the high grounds where the villages are located protect them so that they do not have to fear the enemy's cannons. But the terrain and buildings also limit their vision and make them unable to see anything.

Therefore, for the cavalry of Leiqun County and Bianjiang County, the fierce battles on the south and north battlefields were just the low sound of gunfire from the wind, which made them anxious and left them helpless.

As the battle became more intense, a cavalry squadron from Leiqun County was sent to assist in the defense of Hegu Village, and three cavalry squadrons from Bianjiang County also entered the battle one after another.

But the other three cavalry squadrons in Leiqun County - especially the first, which is regarded as the trump card, the second cavalry squadron has never been able to obtain permission to attack.

Captain Luosong no longer knew how long he had been waiting. Finally, when the left wing of the coalition forces pushed the enemy back to the north shore, a green flag stretched out from the window on the top of the bell tower and fluttered in the wind.

Captain Luosong patted Aima's neck, pulled out the saber and raised it high.

The short melody of the march was then sounded, and the officers and non-commissioned officers passed the order one after another. The cavalry resting in the spot returned to the horse's back, and the companies formed large columns in the order of charge.

The squadrons who had previously gone to support the Guards of Hegu Village have also returned and were assigned to the last row of the large column.

The orders passed down were fed back one after another. The cavalry of Leiqun County had been prepared, like arrows on strings, waiting for the shooter to throw it towards the enemy.

Captain Luosong's saber swung down from mid-air. Lieutenant Pedofi, beside him, silently raised his hand to salute the senior, and then stabbed the horse hard and took the lead in the threshing ground.

Captain Luosong watched nearly half of Leiqun County cavalry follow Lieutenant Pedofi and leave the attacking position one after another.

The sound of hooves rumbled, and the smoke and dust were rolled up. Lieutenant Pedofi did not lead the Leiqun County cavalry to rush directly to the east coast, but moved to the north.

To the north of Hegu Village is a large area of ​​wheat fields, which is not suitable for horses to gallop. Because the wheat straw that has not yet been completely dehydrated still retains a considerable degree of toughness, it will not only exert great resistance on the running horses, but also may trip the horses.

Therefore, the light cavalry of the two armies that had fought before chose not to enter the wheat field, and stayed as far as possible to wander around the farm and fought.

Only those light cavalry who were in a panic would step into the wheat fields and escape into the gap between the two armies.

Similarly, Lieutenant Pedofi's cavalry had to take a long way. The first group of Leiqun County cavalrymen first moved northwest along the main road, avoiding the corpse and a messy wheat field, and then galloped from the fields between the hills and the farm towards the lower reaches of the unknown river.

On both sides of the valley, the wilderness is wide open. The movements of the cavalry of Leiqun County cannot escape the eyes of Lieutenant Colonel Varé, the commander of the parliamentary army artillery.

Although the smoke and dust in the sky obscured the figures of the cavalry, Lieutenant Colonel Vale had inferred from the smoke and dust itself that a large number of "rebel" cavalry were detouring to the north of the battlefield.

To quickly assess the situation of heavy artillery at hand, Lieutenant Colonel Varé gave an order that surprised the gunners: "Don't avoid re-filling oil and cooling. Double portions of gunpowder, round bullets, and shotguns, each loading!"

The gunners who had just completed a round of shooting and severely slashed the counter-offensive momentum of the "rebels" were stunned and turned their eyes to the gunman Sergeant Sut who was running between the gun positions. Compared to this arrogant and unknown low-level boot man, the gunners obviously trusted the old sergeant who had been leading them more.

"What are you doing when you stand stupidly?" The gray-haired Sergeant Sut shouted loudly: "Don't understand? Double portions of gunpowder! Round bullets, shotguns! One round each loading!"

The puppet-like gunners regained their vitality and immediately started to work again.

Although Sergeant Sut faithfully obeyed the orders, his heart was as uneasy and doubtful as the gunners.

The old cannon quickly came to Lieutenant Colonel Varre and wanted to struggle for the last time. He suppressed his voice and whispered to the Lieutenant Colonel: "Sir, these cannons..."

"No need to say more, sergeant." Lieutenant Colonel Varre politely but coldly extinguished his subordinates' doubts: "These cannons were personally supervised and cast by Marshal Ned himself. Although they are old, they can be trusted."

Sergeant Sut had already said everything he had blocked back. He raised his hand bitterly and turned around and was about to leave.

Lieutenant Colonel Vale stopped the old gunner. The sound of horse hooves on the other side made the gunners frightened. No matter how dull the people were, they realized that the "rebels" cavalry had been dispatched, but Lieutenant Colonel Vale did not seem to be panicked.

Varre asked the old gunman with great interest: "You have always been in charge of these heavy artillery?"

"Yes." Suth didn't understand why the young officer in front of him - compared to Suth - asked these: "Heavy artillery, some long artillery and wall artillery."

"You keep them well, and you will get a generous reward when the battle is over." Varrey didn't realize that he had said more: "How long have you been in charge of these cannons?"

Sut pulled the corner of his mouth stiffly, and the generous rewards promised by the commander did not make the veteran feel any joy.

He was silent for a moment and said in a hoarse voice: "From the day they were cast, I have been serving them."

After saying that, the veteran straightened his body, raised his hand respectfully, and turned around and walked towards the cannon position.

This time, it was Lieutenant Colonel Varé's turn to be stunned. It took a while before the Lieutenant Colonel realized that he had the honor to meet a real veteran from the previous era.

However, Lieutenant Colonel Vale had no time to call the veteran back to ask carefully, and there was no room for emotion.

Because the "rebel" cavalry had bypassed the combat zone north of Hegu Village, crossed the nameless river from the downstream, and fought to the east bank.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Standing on the artillery position and looking northward, the rebel cavalry was like an unstoppable torrent, cutting off the river water in the waist.

They ran one echelon after another, and the broken terrain on both sides of the river could not disturb their formation.

The light cavalry deployed outside the parliamentary front, not to mention that it was to cut off the spearhead of the rebel cavalry, could not even be slightly delayed.

Lieutenant Colonel Varé could see clearly: short leather boots, bright knee-length coats, hats and helmets decorated with huge feathers, exquisite riding skills and fearlessness...

It is impossible to be wrong, those herders and farmers who were not temporary recruits. Lieutenant Colonel Varre was convinced that the new force that the enemy commander had just entered the battlefield was the truly famous Palatu cavalry in the Republic.

Lieutenant Colonel Varre couldn't help but turn around and look at the Hegu Village Church, which was a personal flag that symbolized the enemy commander standing proudly on the bell tower.

"Tell Lieutenant Velèz's brigade back to defense! Tell the reserve team to be dispatched!" Lieutenant Colonel Varé suppressed his admiration and regret and ordered sternly: "Fight according to the formation practiced before. Those who leave their posts and those who are cowardly in the battle will be executed on the spot!"

The infantry brigade of the parliamentary army, which was waiting for battle in front of the artillery position, received the order and immediately turned around and moved closer to the position where the artillery was located.

In the previous battle, even if the right wing front was pushed back to the east coast, the infantry brigade in the rear showed no sign of going into the battle. However, as soon as they received the order from Lieutenant Colonel Varé, they immediately took action.

A rapid drum beat sounded behind the Tugang where the Parliamentary Army artillery positions were located. A large army flag swayed from the edge with six hundred-man flags. Another Parliamentary Army infantry brigade deployed on the back slope of the Tugang no longer hides its traces and opens into the battlefield with great fanfare.

At this moment, the battlefield north of Hegu Village was invisibly divided into two.

On the ground, nearly a thousand infantrymen from two brigades of the parliamentary army stumbled and changed their queues and formed formations at the artillery positions.

Below the hills, the parliamentary troops retreating to the east coast are fighting fiercely with the "rebel" left-wing troops launching a counterattack.

The rebel left-wing troops, which had originally advanced to victory, were hit by heavy artillery of the parliamentary army.

A round of shotguns at a distance of 500 meters defeated the dense formation of rebel troops, especially the square formation guarding the silver border flag. Lieutenant Colonel Vale assigned them four of the best-in-class cannons.

The old cannons in the hands of the parliamentary army have many shortcomings, but their shortcomings do not include power. Release tailor-made shotguns, these heavy cannons can sprinkle the rain of death half a kilometer away. They are cast to crush the city walls, but if given the chance, they can also release devastating lethality in field battles.

However, the left-wing troops of the rebels stubbornly supported. Although the shelling slashed their counterattack, they quickly reorganized and rushed to the east coast while the artillery was reloading.

The bottom of the hill was once again shrouded in smoke like morning mist. The smoke was not thick, but it made everything in it become shady.

Flakes of red flames continued to burst out from the gray-white mist, like lightning breaking through the clouds, briefly lighting up the mist.

The war drums of advancement came from behind the smoke wall, and a new round of phalanx battle was about to begin.

Colonel Saner had already noticed signs of collapse of the right wing of the parliamentary army - two infantry brigades on the front of Hegu Village had separated from the central army and were quickly moving towards friendly forces under the Tugang.

The "rebel" cavalry that deviated from the downstream have all crossed the nameless river.

Lieutenant Pedofi drew his saber and pointed directly at the artillery position on the ground. The rolling iron stream ran towards the artillery position where people flashed in the distance without any hesitation.

On the hills, Lieutenant Colonel Varé half admired and half regretful to look at the heroic posture of the Paratu cavalry charging:

Through different steps, the dense columns stretched out the levels between the marches, rather than waiting as clumsily as their fellow vocations in the United Provinces, Venetta, until the former team sets out and the latter team sets out again.

This made them come much faster than Lieutenant Colonel Vale expected, so that Lieutenant Colonel Vale could already see the saber in the opponent's hand, the two infantry brigades of the parliamentary army that defended the artillery position had not completed the formation change.

At present, at the top of the earthen hill where the artillery position is located, two "square arrays" that are much larger than the brigade infantry phalanx have begun to take shape.

The parliamentary infantry defending the artillery position are not arranged outside the position, but inside the artillery position.

The artillery and infantry were integrated into one, and eight heavy artillery were embedded in the four corners of the two square arrays, and the gunner and ammunition were wrapped in the center of the square array.

The soldiers of the two parliamentary brigades defending the artillery positions were not familiar with this new phalanx tactics improved by the United Provincial Army.

Due to the situation and time is limited, they only practiced a few formation changes under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Varé.

This new type of square array should not be used with heavy artillery, but with light artillery.

Because the heavy artillery is too large, the distance between the gun positions is much larger than that of the light artillery to facilitate gunner operation.

In order to leave space for the gunners and ammunition carriages, and to include the scattered heavy artillery into the square array, the originally compact square array had to be further hollowed out, increasing the area of ​​the square array and diluting the depth of each side of the square array.

At this moment, the "rebel" cavalry was close at hand, and many parliamentary infantry soldiers who were defending artillery positions were still panickingly looking for their own position.

Listening to the deafening sound of horse hooves and the officers under his command, the sergeant roared at the top of his lungs. Lieutenant Colonel Varre could not have thought of the old gunner named Suth.

A strange idea emerged in the heart of the lieutenant colonel: "The sovereign war has repeated the square formation against the cavalry. Are the soldiers of the old marshal also like this now, fearing the arrival of the imperial cavalry, and looking forward to the arrival of the imperial cavalry."

"The Palatou cavalry is indeed the best in the inner sea." Varre stared at the rebel cavalry galloping on horseback, whispering in a voice that only he could hear: "But what we have studied over the years... is the tactics of infantry counter-cavalry."

The "rebel" cavalry came from the north, so the two squadrons of musketeers were concentrated inside the square array on the north side. They had already set up muskets and aimed at the enemy through the gap between the front row of spearmen.

Lieutenant Colonel Varé turned over and dismounted, walked into the soldiers, and personally took the ignition stick of the northwest corner cannon.

His roar was as loud as a bell, and it faintly overwhelmed the sound of the horse's hooves: "No one is allowed to open fire without orders! Those who leave their duties without permission, those who are cowardly in the battle! Justify the Dharma on the spot!"

The Leiqun County cavalry in the first charge echelon had entered the charge distance, but the scene in front of him made the Leiqun County lieutenant who was leading the team at a loss.

The second lieutenant never expected his subordinates to shake the enemy's phalanx - that was not something that the light cavalry wielded sabers could do.

His mission was to destroy cannons, his mission was to force the enemy artillery to abandon the cannons and retreat into the phalanx. His cavalry were all carrying long nails and wooden hammers. He was ready to kill the enemy cannons.

The unprecedented formation set up by the enemy incorporated the artillery into the square formation and protected it in the forest-like spear.

The second lieutenant didn't know where to start, but he had no time to think. The second charge echelon was behind him, either charging or turning to the battlefield.

The young lieutenant gritted his teeth and raised his saber. Even if he could not break through the enemy's front, he would still attract enemy firepower for his comrades in the subsequent charge echelon.

The trumpeter beside the lieutenant immediately blew the charge trumpet, and the cavalry of Leiqun County, the first charge echelon, rushed forward towards the artillery position that was ready for battle.

At this moment, the heavy artillery of the Grand Parliament Army roared.
To be continued...