Chapter 2550: Battle of Gu Cangshan (Ⅲ)

At this moment, there were a total of 67 arcane and divine spell casters who followed Major Arnold to the forefront.
Among them, there are three with higher casting levels, the 12th-level Timothy priest Major Lori Grant, and the two 10th-level wizards, Captain Angel Livingston and Captain Ryan Kessler, both of Midgard. Alumni who graduated from the university.
General Laval personally led his own spellcasters to launch a counterattack, and barely contained the fierce offensive of Fizhen's troops.
The Continental Army soldiers hiding in the trenches, inspired by their own spellcasters, reunited their fighting spirit to stand up and raise their guns, aiming at the enemy army that surged like a tide and fired.
The battle lasted for half an hour, and another batch of enemy corpses fell on the hillside, and the attacking side retreated again.
Although he failed to conquer the high ground as he wished, the three General Feizhen who watched the battle under the mountain had already seen that the firepower of the defending army had weakened a lot. It was obvious that the ammunition was insufficient and the successor was weak.
The siege troops rested for a while, and General Kanghuali personally led the reserve team to press on the front line, joined the two forces of Burgoyne and Clinton, and ordered the soldiers to equip their rifles with bayonets and start the third round of assault, in order to attack the Continental Army position!
At this time, the Continental Army soldiers trapped on the hill had run out of ammunition, and the caster had also exhausted the spell slots in the previous round of defensive battle. It was really powerless to stop the unprecedented ferocious offensive of Real Man Fei.
At 6:50 in the evening, the Feizhen Army successfully broke through the defense line constructed by the militia and overcame the trenches, and the two sides launched a fierce hand-to-hand battle.
When it comes to shortcomings, the Continental Army suffers even more.
The standard rifles of the Feizhen Army are equipped with bayonets, but the shotguns and crossbows in the hands of the militia do not have any bayonets.
General Laval ordered the militiamen to change into melee weapons. The militiamen without swords turned their shotguns upside down and used the as a club against the enemy.
It is a pity that the is not the opponent of the bayonet. More and more militiamen fell, and Laval had to order to retreat.
Although Laval tried his best to maintain order, he could not stop the disorganized militia from turning the retreat into a rout.
From Gu Cang Mountain to the "neck" of the peninsula, the militiamen suffered more casualties on the retreat road of only more than 50 miles than they had sacrificed when guarding the high ground.
After Laval led his old subordinates, including his brother Arnold, personally cut off, at a critical juncture, he had to use the magic ring on his hand to summon twenty cavalry demon from the bottomless abyss in one breath, and ordered the demon. The guards launched a round of counter-charge against Feizhen who was chasing them up to buy time to cover the retreat of their troops.
General Laval’s Iron Cavalry Demon Guards descended on the battlefield where humans were fighting each other, adding a touch of blood and cruelty to this battle.
Twenty fierce and undaunted demons fought until all of them were killed. The blood-satisfied spirits returned to the bottomless abyss contentedly. Around their corpses, the broken limbs of Feizhen soldiers could be seen everywhere. It was terrible to watch, and more. The soldiers were frightened by the demons and gave up the mission of hunting down the enemy.
The Demon Guard lived up to the expectations of General Laval and successfully delayed the pursuit of troops, allowing most of the militia to escape the battlefield.
As for the use of the power of the devil on the battlefield, will it attract public criticism and bury hidden dangers for future promotion?
General Benedict Laval, who was covered in blood, could no longer consider so much at this moment.
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On June 13, 1626, the "Battle of Gran Cangshan" fought in the northern part of the Ridingshoe Peninsula. On the surface, it seemed that the Fijian Army won the victory and the Continental Army ended in defeat. However, the subsequent battle damage statistics gave the opposite conclusion.
The 7,000 officers and soldiers who participated in the battle on the Feizhen side had a total of 3054 casualties, with a casualty rate of nearly 50%. The victims also included nearly a hundred officers at all levels, and they suffered heavy losses.
In contrast, on the Continental Army side, 1,450 militiamen who participated in the battle were killed or injured, not even half of the Feijin Army.
Especially considering that the Continental Army is just a group of militias with poor equipment, lack of training, and inexperience in actual combat, the casualties paid by the Fiji army are even more painful.
What a victory is this, it is simply a shame!
After the battle, Earl Winthrop personally came to inspect the position, watching the miserable scene of corpses all over the field, and sighed with heartache: "If we have such a'victory' a few more times, we will be completely finished."
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On June 20, 1626, a week after the Battle of Gu Cangshan, General George Vasa arrived in Idalil, accompanied by a group of adjutants, staff officers, and guards, and formally took over the command of the Continental Army.
Even though he had known that he was taking over a mess, Vassar's first impression of the Continental Army was worse than expected.
There are five problems before him:
The sloppy military appearance, the shortage of supplies, the abolished military discipline, the regional prejudice between northerners and southerners, and the dumbfounding so-called "officer election system."
"Military capacity" is the decent of a unit, the new Continental Army, it is almost ashamed to see people!
Not to mention uniform uniforms, most Continental Army soldiers can have a tattered shirt. Many of them are barefoot and shirtless. Fortunately, this is the summer, and Vassar can’t imagine what the winter will be like. do.
The town of Italil, where the army is stationed, is considered to be a slum. It is basically a smelly "junk dump". Chickens, ducks, pigs and dogs live together with soldiers, and women and children run around in the barracks. , It's messed up everywhere, there's no way to talk about it.
After Vassar took office, the first order issued to the troops was to clean up all the messy tents, cut timber to build neat row houses as dormitories, and also required officers and soldiers at all levels to wash their faces.
Not only is there no uniform uniform, but the weapons of the Continental Army soldiers are also messy. The most sophisticated is the old-fashioned musket. Most soldiers have no guns at all and can only make do with bows, spears and even hatchets.
There are less than 300,000 rounds of ammunition in the arsenal of Idaril, which is only enough to fire 9 shots per soldier on average-of course, provided that you have a gun!
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·Historical materials: Battle of Bunker Hill ("A Brief History of the American War of Independence" [English] Stephen Conway)
In the Battle of Bunker Hill, a total of 226 British soldiers were killed and 828 wounded, which is equivalent to 40% of the entire attacking force.
A shocked British officer wrote in a letter: "The terrible casualties that happened that day will never be erased from my heart."
General Howe himself was probably so shocked that he would no longer dare to attack the defensive US positions from the front. But it wasn't just the huge casualties that disturbed the British commanders. They didn't expect the American resistance to be so determined.
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