Chapter 13： Flying dragon riding on the face... Don't be arrogant!

At noon, the two companies of the boot camp arrived at Lake Town. The scout cavalry reported that the pirates had not gone far. Start in the direction you are.

In the evening, I finally saw the pirate team. They actually left a camp by the river. The people inside were cooking and cooking. There were four or five hundred people in total.

He thought to himself: "The number of people is not very superior! But our side has the bonus of modern army training methods, how can this gang of mobs be able to compare."

"Get in formation!" The officers of each company began to command their soldiers, changing the column into a horizontal line.

The pirates also spotted the slowly approaching army, grabbed their weapons and ran out of the camp one after another, facing this side in full battle.

A bearded man came out from the middle and shouted in this direction: "Little brat of the Greiman family, have you prepared what grandpa wants? You can't wait to rush over to pay your respects?"

After saying this, the pirates around the bearded man burst out laughing.

Bryce asked: "Count, what to do? Are you going to attack?"

Paul thought regretfully: "Hmph! It would be great if we brought Da Pao Zhan over here, and make sure to give them a pot."

The "big killer" made some time ago, after a period of experimentation, found that the effect was not very satisfactory. At the beginning, gunpowder was filled into the hollow iron ball, and the grenadiers threw it hard, but the projection distance was not ideal. After the explosion, it can still pose a threat to the thrower. Many people were injured, and the misfire rate is extremely high. No wonder the grenadier's bombing function in "Wheel Brother: Total War" is so tasteless, a row of grenades smashed to death Not a few people. Later, the amount of medicine was reduced, and it was filled with earthenware pots, which allowed it to be thrown farther, but the power was reduced in this way. The craftsmen racked their brains to put iron nails on the clay pots, so that it looks a bit like the fireballs of thorns in the Song Dynasty.

After changing it, it is still a tasteless cannonball in his eyes, which is far from the grenade in the modern army, but a batch is still made for emergency. But it was such a batch of tasteless weapons, and when they sent people to the recruit training camp last night, they forgot to inform them to bring them.

After complaining inwardly, he swung his whip at the pirates and said proudly, "Destroy them."

"Hold your weapons tightly! Go forward!" Bryce ordered loudly after being instructed. Row after row formed a phalanx, and the soldiers began to move forward slowly.

Looking at the phalanx with uniform uniforms and fairly neat steps, it really looks like a strong army. Looking at the pirates, it is loose, uneven, and there is no formation. It is simply a scene of a regular army besieging bandits. How did you lose your face?

At this moment, the bearded pirate with wide-eyed eyes suddenly shouted: "Kill these noble lackeys!"

Then all the pirates collectively "roared" and rushed towards this direction desperately.

The soldiers in the territory were able to advance steadily at first, but when the pirates got closer and closer, the soldiers in the phalanx obviously panicked, especially the recruits who participated in the battle for the first time, and their weapons were a little unsteady.

Then something bad happened, someone in the first row yelled loudly in order to cheer him up: "Come on!"

The phrase "charge" is like a signal, making all the soldiers suddenly loosen as if they were winded up. They shouted and started to rush forward hysterically. After a while, the originally tight phalanx It was in a mess, and the officers were also forced to rush forward, leaving only Bryce and the inner guard soldiers who dared not leave the earl half a step.

Soon, the soldiers and the pirates fought together, leaving the dumbfounded Paul, who muttered to himself on the horse: "This shouldn't be like this! It was fine just now, why did it become a pig? Woolen cloth?"

Bryce scolded: "These fools who can't support the wall with mud."

The pirates were all vicious, and the soldiers who had lost the support of their formation and basically had no actual combat experience were obviously no match for these desperadoes. Within half an hour, the balance of the battlefield began to tilt towards the pirates.

As expected, a soldier finally tried his best to block the opponent's weapon, then turned his head and ran away.

Then, the second, and the third, gradually turned into a rout where all the soldiers started huffing and running back. The officers yelled loudly to stop them, and Bryce ran over and lashed back with a whip.

But all the efforts were in vain.

"Earl, let's retreat! I will lead the horse-riding platoon." Seeing that the situation was irreversible, Bryce had no choice but to return to the little earl and suggested retreating.

The Earl stared fiercely at the bearded pirate who was still chasing and killing the defeated soldiers, bit his mouth tightly and loosened, and said with great reluctance: "The cavalry is cut off, retreat!"

Then he turned the horse's head and whipped the mount severely, and the painful horse began to gallop in the direction it came from.

"All those who are still riding horses, follow me!"

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Bryce retreated while gathering the broken soldiers, and finally got rid of the pursuit of the pirates. About an hour later, they caught up with Paul. After UU Reading counted the number of soldiers, including the lost soldiers, The troops lost more than 30 people and more than 50 people were injured.

"What a disgrace!" The earl wanted to cry without tears. In addition to his father's failure, this was the second time he had been defeated by pirates. A laughing stock now.

He gritted his teeth: "Find those two bastards!"

Bryce asked puzzled, "Those two bastards? Which two?"

"The one who didn't listen to the order and shouted to charge! Who else retreated and escaped without authorization! I will let them dig mines in the mine for the rest of their lives!"

"Yes, my lord."

"Let's go back to Huxin Town first! We must sum up the experience and lessons of this operation!"

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That night, each officer was asked to write a summary of the battle, and then the little count went back to his bedroom and shut the door behind him. While the officers were racking their brains and scratching their heads, Steward Philip heard the sound of things being thrown from the lord's bedroom, but he didn't knock on the door to ask. The young master really needed to vent his anger.

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The next day, as soon as Paul came to the lobby, he met Bryce with an excited face.

"My lord, look who is back!"

There were two people standing beside him, one was a very energetic old man about 50 years old, and the other was a young man who looked very young, probably around 20 years old, and they both saluted him.

"Who are these two?"

"Sir Schroeder and his squire Joyce, Owen Schroeder. You saw him when you were a child. Oh, yes, you didn't remember it then."

The old man said slowly: "Please allow me to introduce myself..."