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Chapter 1691
Cao Bianjiao pulled out the saber at his waist, and he was no longer the fledgling young general he used to be: "Royal Infantry, advance!"

The battle started at about eight o'clock in the morning. Under the command of the drumbeat, the two royal infantry regiments carried muskets and attacked the commanding heights of the sand dunes occupied by the Spanish army.

The two Royal Infantry Regiments have been trained by the instructor Sun Chuanting. Many of them have also experienced the baptism of the English Civil War, and their morale is high.

Opposite them is the large Spanish phalanx occupying the high ground.

The Spanish phalanx once shocked Europe, but now the Spanish phalanx is no longer the most advanced tactic. The two royal infantry regiments actually forced the Spanish phalanx back from the sand dunes tens of meters high, making the Spanish phalanx overwhelmed. A big loss.

"The Swedish cavalry attacked the English infantry from the flanks and supported the Spanish legion!" Prince Condé frowned when he saw that the Spaniards were getting worse and worse.

The Spaniards didn't seem to be doing very well. The Armada was blocked by the Royal Fleet in Spain and could not support it. The Spanish phalanx was repulsed head-on by the English infantry. The former colonial empire began to decline in the mid-17th century.

Queen Christina of Sweden saw the banner of Prince Condé, and she saw that the two royal infantry regiments were about to occupy the dune heights, so she ordered most of the Swedish cavalry to attack the English infantry from the flank.

"Everyone follow me forward!"

Sun Chuanting was opposite Queen Christina. He would not allow the Swedish cavalry to defeat his own infantry. Two thousand Chinese cavalry charged at the Swedish cavalry. They held muskets in their hands. After approaching the Swedish cavalry, the two sides engaged in a round of horseback combat. Shoot, then almost simultaneously draw cold weapons and use a valiant wall charge!

Queen Christina was wearing armor. Due to her noble status and lack of an heir, she could only stay behind and could not participate in the tragic cavalry battle.

The battle-tested Swedish cavalry has a brave and experienced combat style. Under the premise that there is not much difference in weapons, they were not easily overwhelmed by Sun Chuanting's cavalry, but stubbornly fought fiercely with the 2000 Chinese cavalry led by Sun Chuanting himself. .

When Sun Chuanting's left wing was fighting with Christina's right wing, the French Central Army of Prince Condé of France and Cao Bianjiao's infantry began to shoot at each other.

Cao Bianjiao has more than a dozen 12-pound cannons in his hands, and these cannons were transported to Dunkirk by ship.

This batch of artillery with strong firepower played a huge role. In contrast, the European Allied Forces carried only light field artillery in order to quickly support the Dunkirk Fortress.

On the other hand, Prince Rupert, an aristocrat from the German region, led the English cavalry and the German cavalry such as Brandenburg to fight, and the two sides fought fiercely.

"Push up the machine guns and artillery!"

Cao Bianjiao saw that the cavalry was in a lot of trouble, so he hoped that the infantry and artillery would be the first to open the situation.

The 30-year war between the Swedish and German princes was almost always at war. The quality of the cavalry on both sides was not low, and the cavalry weapons did not have much advantage.

As for the infantry, Cao Bianjiao has a lot of cards in his hands. His imperial guard brigade is equipped with more advanced muskets, artillery, and Gatling hand-cranked machine guns!
Heavy field artillery began to fire solid ammunition, and shotgun shells fell into the French infantry phalanx. Gatling hand-cranked machine guns and Dreiser rifles fired violently!

The French formation still used a large number of spearmen, while Cao Bianjiao completely abandoned the backward arms of the spearmen. The breech-loaded muskets were loaded quickly, causing huge casualties to the French soldiers on the opposite side. !

Prince Condé quickly experienced the horror of the opponent's firepower. The opponent's depth was very shallow, but the firepower in the front rows was dense and fierce, which did not give his men the opportunity to approach close combat!

The cavalry on both sides were fighting hand-to-hand, while the Chinese army began to line up and shoot each other in the same tragic way. The sound of firing guns was one after another, and gunpowder smoke from the gunpowder burning burst out of the gun barrels. From time to time, soldiers in the line were shot and fell down.

This time Cao Bianjiao, Sun Chuanting, and Prince Rupert are not facing the inexperienced parliamentary army in the English Civil War, but the elite troops of the European continent after 30 years of war.

France, as the central army, invested in the French knights to try to attack, but was fired by several hand-cranked machine guns and volleys of guns, and the noble French knights were shot and fell to the ground.

The battle lasted for three hours, and the French cavalry finally couldn't hold on, and they retreated in front of the new type of firearms!

The English cavalry led by Prince Rupert was comparable to the German cavalry, but the German cavalry saw the retreat of the main force of the French Legion, and they did not want to continue fighting with the difficult Prince Rupert.

On the other side, the cavalry led by Sun Chuanting also began to chase the retreating Swedish cavalry!
The 1.4-strong Holy Allied Army defeated the 2.4-strong Continental Allied Army outside Dunkirk!

"The French and Spanish infantry combined have 1.6 soldiers, how did they fail!" The Duke of Brandenburg didn't understand when he fled the beach with the German cuirassiers who participated in the battle.

Prince Condé was a talented military general. In addition to the Spanish legion, the number of soldiers in the central army was more than that of the left, central, and right wings combined. As a result, the Chinese army was the first to flee.

"Take these people captive in exchange for ransom and let them serve as coolies to help us dig trenches and besiege the fortress!" Sun Chuanting and Prince Rupert led the cavalry to expand the results of the battle. They captured the fleeing enemies, and the mountains and plains may be full of prisoners!
"Your Majesty, the situation is unfavorable. We will protect you from this place!"

There were dozens of Swedish knights beside Queen Christina. Seeing that the balance of war had tilted, they hurriedly escorted the queen to leave the battlefield.

"The opponent's gunfire is very dense, and the reloading speed is very fast. The French infantry is not their opponent at all." Christina was concerned about the battlefield in the middle just now, with lingering fear.

She also couldn't understand why the number of people on the opposite side was obviously smaller than that of the French and Spanish legion, but there were more frequent and intensive gunshots!
"The enemy cavalry is catching up!"

The Swedish knights protecting Christina were guarding her, and they were horrified to find that the cavalry unit led by Sun Chuanting was not eager to grab the spoils like ordinary cavalry, but was expanding the results of the battle.

The cavalry stepped on the wet beach, attacked along the coastline, and chased the Swedish cavalry!

Eastern cavalry passed by their squad one by one, surrounding the Swedish cavalry layer by layer.

"Don't attack us, Her Majesty the Queen of Sweden is here!" The Swedish knight shouted, fearing that the opponent would destroy their cavalry.

(End of this chapter)