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Chapter 53: Biqi Town, Players Show Off Their Skills (Part )

Bullets are fools, bayonets are heroes.

This is a famous saying of a Tsarist Russian general, which may be a bit inappropriate in modern times.

However, in the context of the times, the country background and technological level of the general, the emergence of this sentence does have its reasons.

Volley fire can destroy the enemy's manpower, but it is difficult to defeat the enemy.

There is a piece of knowledge that is neither hot nor cold. During the Opium War initiated by Britain, the weapons and equipment of the Green Camp soldiers of the Qing army were simple. They mainly used cold weapons, supplemented by clumsy and slow-firing matchlock guns.

The British lobster soldiers were all equipped with flintlock rifles, which were more accurate than matchlock rifles.

However, in the exchange of fire on the battlefield, the Qing army's Green Camp musketeers were able to confront and hold their ground against the lobster soldiers.

Although the Qing army suffered heavy casualties, and although the enemy's firepower was more accurate, the shots were fired faster, and the barrage was more dense, the Qing army was able to maintain the formation of volleys of gunfire and killing.

It was not until the British lobster soldiers decided to launch a bayonet charge that they defeated the Qing Green Camp soldiers' line.

Referring to this case, when Chris discovered that the enemy's melee troops temporarily left the front of the battlefield and roamed on the side, there was a space of one hundred to two hundred meters away from the main battlefield, while his side was only fifty meters away from the enemy, he was moved.

Chris picked up the whistle and blew a short, sharp whistle. Then he spit out the whistle and drew the two-handed Qi Changdao from his waist.

"Charge! Charge, all troops!!"

The "Barbarian" players, who were at the forefront and only about thirty left, were the first to react. They quickly threw away their bulky muskets, drew their melee weapons, and rushed down the hillside with shouts.

When Chris saw the players rushing in first, and knowing that there were several veteran players from the Protectorate among them, he left the cover of the big rock and followed closely behind them.

Connie, who had just finished transporting the seriously injured and was running back from the top of the hill, heard the whistle and happened to see this scene. She was immediately angry and anxious.

She backed away and yelled.

"Brothers, follow me!"

On the other side, Isaac had already stood up to charge when he heard the whistle, but when he saw his daughter rushing out, he no longer hesitated.

In fact, there was no need for Isaac to mobilize them. The other ten players had been waiting impatiently for a long time. After the whistle sounded, they rushed down the hillside as soon as possible, so that the mercenaries under their command had not yet reacted.

Chris was like a gambler. When he saw the opportunity, he blew the whistle to charge the entire army without hesitation and went all-in.

Chris has his own philosophy of war... In a battle like this involving less than a thousand people, with both sides being weaklings, what tactics or strategies are there to consider?

Find an opportunity and go for a direct attack. The brave one will win when they meet on a narrow road!

McDonald, who was hiding behind the musketeers, was stunned. He looked around and remembered that he had asked the sword and shield soldiers to go around the battlefield. He quickly asked the bugler next to him to blow the trumpet and call them back with a loud voice.

Although they were said to be flanking from the rear, the battlefield space of this battle with 400 people was actually not very wide. The sword and shield soldiers of the Restoration Army were not far away from the main battlefield, 100 meters to the left and farther to the right, about 200 meters.

When they heard the bugle call and saw the enemy troops rushing down the hillside, they immediately rushed back.

At this point, McDonald did not think that his decision was wrong, and he was even a little happy.

The enemy actually rushed down, this is really great!
why?
Because the sword and shield soldiers are not far away, even if it takes the longest time, they will be able to return to the main battlefield in one to three minutes at most.

There are still more than seventy musketeers of the Restoration Army on the main battlefield. Due to resource constraints, they are not equipped with protective gear, but they all have a long sword or an axe on their waist.

Overall, the musketeer still has certain melee capabilities.

The enemy was also a group of unarmored musketeers. Before letting the sword and shield soldiers leave, McDonald considered the enemy's charge.

But after careful consideration, he felt that even if the enemy had a numerical advantage, it would be impossible for them to defeat his own musketeers within three minutes.

However, McDonald didn't know much about the defense forces, and he had no chance of knowing the existence of the players, so in theory, his judgment of the battlefield was not wrong.

The remaining thirty or so people didn't care whether it was a mistake or not. They charged with such ferocity and fierceness that they scared the first row of musketeers of the Restoration Army who were advancing.

At the urging of their platoon leader, the twenty musketeers hurriedly fired a round of random shots.

This chaotic hail of bullets flew towards the eight players who were running in the front, comparable to sprint champions.

The large-caliber matchlock gun has the disadvantages of being cumbersome to operate and producing a lot of smoke, but the large lead bullets it fires are not a big problem in killing unarmored units at present.

Even players who can ignore pain will fall to the ground while running after being shot in the torso, and will never be able to get up again.

Among the eight fastest players, three were hit by lead bullets on the spot in the enemy's panic shooting.

The remaining five people were able to rush into the group of enemies who were abandoning their muskets under the cover of the dead in front.

"kill!!!"

Xiaodao Zhabingti is an old player of the Protectorate. He once fought against the demon army and the elven swordsman on the battlefield hundreds of times in another world. Although he is not a T0 level warrior, he has his own unique fighting skills and style.

He was the first to rush into the enemy group with a woodcutter's axe in his hand.

Two musketeers were his targets. One of them decisively dropped his musket when he rushed towards him, and drew the sword from his waist. The other one tried to use his 1.5-meter-long musket as a short spear.

Xiaodao swung the woodcutting axe, and the flight distance of less than three meters did not give the musketeer with the armed sword any time to react. He subconsciously raised his sword to block, but only halfway did the axe fall on his face.

The powerful throw caused the blunt axe blade to penetrate deep into his facial bones, almost splitting his head in two. The corpse fell backward due to the potential energy brought by the axe.

The musketeer next to him was frightened, and before he could do anything, Xiaodao rushed over, dodged the weak stab of the gun barrel by turning sideways, raised his elbow, and hit the former's neck fiercely.

With a crack, the musketeer, whose Adam's apple was smashed, grabbed his neck with both hands and staggered backward.

Knife Stab ignored the musketeer who would die of suffocation sooner or later. Before the enemies in front, left and right surrounded him, he grabbed the axe on the face of the corpse on the ground with his right hand and pulled it out. With his left hand, he grabbed the armed sword he had picked up with his foot, transformed himself into a dual-wielding berserker, and rushed forward suddenly.

The musketeers in the second row had already reacted, dropped their muskets and drew their swords, but in Xiaodao's eyes, the swords were no different from fire sticks.

He simply rushed forward and swung the axe in his right hand, knocking the enemy's weapon off course. He took a step forward and thrust the sword in his left hand forward, wiping the latter's neck. Then he turned around, swung the weapon in his hand left and right, slashing at the enemies on both sides.

Knife-Stabbing's fighting style was exceptionally violent. He only attacked, never defended. With his right axe, he powerfully slashed at the musketeers' weapons, knocking them away or breaking their defenses. His left-handed sword, on the other hand, primarily slashed, stabbed, and thrust at the musketeers' vital points, inflicting fatal wounds wherever it touched.

In just over ten seconds, Xiaodao cut through the formation of three rows of musketeers. He killed and knocked down eight musketeers by slashing and stabbing.

Correspondingly, his violent, offensive-only fighting style of stabbing a knife in the buttocks also left him with three more wounds.

However, as he was experienced in death, he used unimportant parts of his body to bear each wound. For the time being, his health bar was still healthy and did not drop below half.

Thanks to Xiaodao's ferocity, the other four players following behind rushed in through the gap he had created, and then launched attacks to the left and right, successfully assisting Xiaodao in tearing a larger gap in the musketeer formation, causing more chaos.

The volleys from the second and third rows of musketeers that MacDonald had expected were not fired because of the charge of these five men.

The Restoration Army musketeers were busy protecting themselves by throwing away their heavy matchlock rifles and drawing out their swords and axes to protect themselves.

At this time, more players also rushed up. They just took advantage of the powerful opportunity created by the five pioneers in front. More than 20 people charged forward and knocked down a dozen musketeers. In one round, their morale bars were shaken.

It has come to this, why don’t the musketeers, more than half of whom have been killed or wounded, run away?
It's not that they are extremely brave or have an unwavering will to fight, but these unlucky guys who have faced the players' edge have not yet reacted to what happened.

It took no more than half a minute for the players to rush into the enemy camp with a knife in their buttocks and then catch up with the players who fell behind. After just a few rounds, the brothers in front were lying down, and the people behind were still looking around with confused eyes.

What happened and why are the others lying down?
I do not know!
After stabbing his way through the enemy's formation with a knife, he did not look back, but instead fixed his eyes on a man wearing a blue military uniform, a bright silver breastplate, and a black tricorn hat, who was more than ten meters away.

This guy looks like an officer by the looks of it, chop him down!

So, Xiaodaozhabuti charged towards the target without hesitation.

Seeing the killing machine covered in blood rushing out from three rows of musketeers and rushing towards him, McDonald abandoned the musketeers who were still waiting for his orders without a second thought and turned around to run towards his horse.

At this time, the adjutant following behind McDonald also noticed the scary-looking knife piercing his butt. Wearing a chain mail, he subconsciously raised the flintlock pistol in his hand and pulled the trigger at the latter.

The accuracy of pistols has always been a problem. It is not easy to hit a human target ten meters away with a modern pistol, let alone a flintlock pistol.

Therefore, the adjutant's shot did not hit Knife's buttocks, but instead attracted his attention, causing him to change direction from the charge to chase McDonald and rush towards the adjutant.

The loyal adjutant also bravely raised his saber and rushed towards the enemy, but in one round, he was knocked to the ground by the player with an axe, and the axe hit his forehead, killing him instantly.

While his adjutant was using his life to attract attention, the frightened MacDonald mounted his horse and ran away, not caring about the musketeers whose formation had been broken up.

At this point, when some of the musketeers turned around and found that their commander had run away, they finally realized what they should do.

"The commander ran away, we lost, run!"

The clever and clever ghost shouted, dropped his weapon and ran away, leading more musketeers to turn around and run away desperately.

This scene was seen by the sword and shield soldiers on both wings who were coming to support, as well as the mercenaries and caravan members who had not yet rushed down the hillside. No one could understand what was happening.

"Go ahead, kill them all!"

Chris, who was following behind the player and secretly giving two more sword strikes to the seriously injured enemy on the ground, held up the blood-stained Qi family army sword in his hand, and shouted in a pretentious manner, encouraging the player to keep charging and not stop.

Although I don’t know why I won, since I won, it’s a good thing.

Everyone on the hillside suddenly ran down with cheers, and led by Isaac, rushed towards the sword and shield warriors on both sides with great momentum.

After the latter realized that the musketeers in front had been defeated and the company commander had fled on horseback, these sword and shield soldiers also gathered together and tried to meet the enemy together.

Then, Isaac and his mercenary musketeers fired a row of shots at them from a distance of fifty meters.

Although they are all rookie recruits, their morale is high because there are some veterans in the team and they have an advantageous situation on the battlefield.

In this wave of volleys, the mercenary gunners fought well, and five swordsmen and shieldmen fell in this volley.

At this moment, these sword and shield soldiers who were huddled together also collapsed. Before the player turned around and rushed over, they also untied the straps of their breastplates and helmets, holding a sword and fled in the opposite direction, with the leader leading the way.

Seeing this, the second wave of swordsmen and shieldmen who were farther away turned around and ran away, not even daring to resist or pretend to resist.

War is fought with momentum, and the improvised defense force is now in high spirits because of the victory brought by the barbarian players.

Putting aside their actual combat effectiveness, at least in terms of the scene and momentum, they held up, and when the officers of the Restoration Army who had not yet escaped saw it, they felt that they could not win and felt guilty.

Before the formal battle even started, the remaining Restoration Army soldiers were already inferior to the enemy.

Further away, the sergeant who was leading the spearmen of the Restoration Army in a standoff and fighting with the villagers of Bichi Town saw the situation on the battlefield here. He immediately ordered his subordinates to turn around.

Although it was unclear why the musketeers and swordsmen on the main battlefield were inexplicably defeated, the sergeant major knew very well that he had to take his men to support the friendly forces.

After a while, when the town militia reacts and entangles him, those musketeers and swordsmen and shieldmen who are fleeing will be in big trouble.

On the battlefield, the greatest casualties are not in the fighting, but in the pursuit of the fleeing side by the victorious side. The sword attacking from behind is the most deadly.

Turn and run forward quickly!
So, the sergeant major made a prompt decision. He ordered the spearmen to turn around and run quickly with their spears in hand while the village militia had not reacted and the collapse of the main battlefield in the distance had not affected this side.

Chris, who heard and saw the reaction of the Restoration Army spearmen, immediately took out his whistle with regret and blew it hard, sending a signal to move closer to him.

Well, now that the enemy's manpower has reacted, let's quit while we're ahead.

At this point in the war, the Restoration Army has been defeated. They will inevitably leave here and continue to fight to the death. Then the situation may be reversed by the enemy.

Chris knew very well that the key to this battle was... out of the fifty players, only about twenty were left, and all of them who could still move were injured.

If we continue to pursue and attack these players and exhaust them all, how much combat effectiveness will the so-called defense force have left?
Chris didn't know, and he didn't dare to continue gambling at this time.

Chris dared to bet on the players' combat effectiveness. He knew that in small-scale encounters and hand-to-hand combat, the latter had the attribute of fighting to the death.

However, Chris didn't dare to believe that the mercenaries' high morale could be maintained in the continuous fighting... This was impossible.

(End of this chapter)