Chapter 384: 7. Coffee and Lullaby (5)

()Ceres, a permanent neutral country, is composed of many lakes and mountains, and is a beautiful country. Stasi has a ridiculous summary of his demographic composition: "Our spies, enemy spies, loan sharks, mercenaries."
Contrary to the ordinary people's inherent impression of mercenaries as "a multitude of people", the Ceres mercenaries are not only the top cards of the human nations, but also the best infantry in the world except the defense forces. This army, which has come out of the poor mountains and evil waters, has a combat capability far exceeding that of ordinary armies.
As a small country sandwiched between Castile, Charlemagne, and Ymir, Serres’ strategic environment is very similar to that of Yalfheim, and both sides are quite similar in terms of security defense. That is, through diplomacy to wander between the big powers, try not to die to brush your hatred. At the same time, a small number of elite armed forces were established to carry out limited deterrence.
There are two layout results derived from such a strategy, one is the huge deposits of the kings, nobles, and merchants stored in the silver cellars of various banks in Lindenhof, and the other is the fierce and fierce Serres servants Bing. Relying on the two pillars of the town and the country, the country of the lake has stood up to date.
As a magic weapon of the town, in addition to the invincibility of the mountain people, Serres also has a unique system to protect the strength of this army.
The Serres law stipulates that every male citizen has the duty to fight. Every year, members of the state council organize collective training using farming slack. Everyone brings their own weapons and supplies are also provided by themselves. Members of the same brigade are from the same tribe, village or guild, they are familiar with each other, and they often train together. therefore. These mercenaries connected by local ties have the cohesiveness of a professional army like the defense army, allowing their lance phalanx to fully exert its power on the battlefield, unparalleled.
Now, the first batch of Serres troops arrived has been assembled and formed a square formation under the command of the commander. The military flag is located in the most important central position of the phalanx, and is guarded by a team of soldiers. These soldiers use their weapon with national characteristics-halberd. The halberds are guarded by pikemen. The dense forest of 5 meters long pistols is enough for any cavalry.
The legion of a thousand people is spectacular, and the dense plate armor, helmets and spears reflect a terrifying light. At the center of the team is a banner painted with Ceres states. There are also 300 scattered soldiers using crossbows in the periphery-
Anyone will feel that the new Titans may encounter a bloodbath.
I don't know what the field fortification system is, what is the front-loaded smoothbore field gun, and what is the flintlock smoothbore gun. Anyone who is a line infantry will think so.
Titans recruits bit the paper ammunition pack. Use a gong to compact the bullets of their cottage Charleville flintlock. This weapon with a fixed bayonet is very long. The total length is 1.53 meters, and the shooting rate is also decent. Behind them, there are 12 pounds of cannon and 24 pounds of Congreve rockets to provide sufficient firepower support. They have every reason to believe that they will not lose.
"Listen. Just do it like you did during training!!!"
The leader of the Wolfram Commando Brigade-the equivalent of a major defensive army, instigated his men on his position.
"Kill any guy who doesn't wear a black uniform! Kill them! Mother God bless Charlemagne!!!"
The major was obviously imitating his instructor, transferred from the security department of the v.e company, who could curse people for 15 minutes in a row with non-repetitive and paused swear words. Many swear words could not stop even young soldiers from rural areas.
Even if the major does not do this kind of incitement, soldiers who have been completely transformed into murderous machines through rigorous training will do so, and Seres and Castilians will encourage them to do so.
Thousands of people's phalanx began to change the wedge-shaped charge formation-"wild boar", the Seres intend to use this concentrated force formation to break through the defense of Titans. But as they began to adjust the queue, Titans' artillery began to intervene.
For various reasons, Titans’s artillery is bulky and slow to fire, and the solid projectile is completely incomparable with the high-explosive and grenade rounds of the Defence Forces, but for the first time people who saw gunpowder weapons, it’s more than a game. Horrible nightmare.
In the thunder roar, all 68 artillery launched a volley of the square array that entered the effective range of firepower. The round solid bullets cut through the air and sent a terrible scream. They all fell into the square array and broke their arms and legs, and then cut their heads. Rows of rockets dragged the red tail flames, screaming at the phalanx paused for a moment. These rockets landed and exploded, and a recent soldier was blown into the air.
After being stunned for a while, the tenacious Seres immediately realized that this was an unprecedented new weapon. If they do nothing more, their square will be smashed with explosive weapons together with their undefeated honor.
The phalanx accelerated to charge, and the Seres exploded with unprecedented power, facing the hot artillery, charging at a full speed in a row-until they hit the barbed wire.
These brave people painfully discovered that these steel thorns, which were not valued before the war, became insurmountable crests—incapable of crossing, circumventing, or even crossing it. When someone tried to crawl underneath, the barbs on the barbed wire immediately hung on their clothes so that they could neither advance nor retreat.
The Titans soldiers did not take a rest to watch the drama. The line of infantry who hid behind the trenches kept shooting. The soldiers in the excited state loved this kind of execution team work, and the rate of fire was almost increased. Times. The red-eyed artillery also came to join in the excitement, and simply pushed several cannons out of the gun position, and used grape bullets to shoot the mercenaries who could not move on the barbed wire~EbookFREE.me~ The Raes slammed into the central position with the shortest distance and the strongest defense. Now they are almost cross-fired in three directions, causing heavy casualties. In only half an hour, a thousand people including military officers have been killed and injured...
This is just a preview of the first day of the fight, the next two days, the furious Castilians and Seres launched one attack after another. The size of the phalanx striking the Titans' defense line is also constantly expanding, 2,000, 3,000, 4,000...the last one has soared to 10,000 people, all of them do not rush to life, but all they can do is break through Barbed wire defense line, fill the first trench with your own corpse, then there are 5 more solid defenses...
On the 7th day of the outbreak of war, the decree of the pope "both sides of the warfare returned to their original positions and started negotiations" finally arrived in Ursalia and Rudes. The kings of the two countries immediately declared a truce, and all troops ceased fighting.
At this time, the 70,000 troops of Castile had drained the last drop of blood, and no longer saw the dawn of peace and the coming of greater disaster. (To be continued...)
ps: This morning, my grandmother passed away at the age of 88. I don't want to say anything sentimental, but I haven't caught up with the last side of the old man...Now I am a bit confused, and if I write bad things, please forgive me...