Chapter 1744： Calais

General Moreno knew that it was unlikely to defeat his opponent in a street showdown. So he ordered loudly:

"The plate armoured infantry retreated, let the sword and shield soldiers go up!"

The plate infantry is the trump card in his hand. It cannot be easily killed by the enemy. There are also six or seven hundred French sabers and soldiers.

However, unlike the elite swords and shields of the Fourth Army, the French army's swords and shields are only ordinary arms. The wooden shields they used were not covered with tinplate, just ordinary wooden shields. They did not wear plate armor, only ordinary leather armor.

In terms of combat effectiveness, they are certainly not opponents of Morson's elite swords and shields. But his purpose was only to reduce the casualties of plate armoured infantry, and in addition, to drag the enemy forward.

Slowly, more than 600 French shield soldiers stepped forward and replaced the plate infantry with fewer than 400 men. Later, Van Paul's musketeers also stopped shooting. Because their clockwork flints are not afraid of rain, but they are difficult to load. On a rainy day, the clockwork musket is okay to shoot, but if the gunpowder is caught in the rain when filling, it will be finished. Therefore, they also try not to waste bullets on ordinary French soldiers.

At this time, the elite sword and shield soldiers, who had been difficult to advance by the French plate armored infantry, regained their vitality and began to bully the ordinary French sword and shield soldiers with their equipment advantages.

Fan Paul ’s musketeer hid in the dwelling on the side of the road and filled the fired rifle with ammunition. They brought gunpowder in oil-paper bags with them, as long as they entered the rain-proof house, they could normally load ammunition ...

But the two sides in the fierce battle did not see-French commander Moreno, has quietly retreated with the remaining 400 French plate armored infantry.

Moreover, after retreating, Moreno quietly called a large number of ordinary French infantry, went to the house to move debris out, and began to block the street ...

In other words, More than 600 French ordinary sword shield soldiers who ran to the front and handsome elite sword shield soldiers were regarded as more abandoned by Moreno ...

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"General, what shall we do now? The enemy's army has entered the city!" Asked Munch, the captain of the French plate armoured infantry.

After Moreno hesitated for a while, he said:

"Well, Munch, you divided the 400 plate infantry into two parts, from the side alley to the path under the city walls on the north and south sides of Ximen, and then suddenly attacked Ximen from both sides."

"However, you have to be optimistic about the timing. It is best to wait for the enemy swords and shields to leave the Ximen gate hole before launching the assault. In this way, you do n’t have to be entangled with those **** swords and shields. After entering the gate gate cavern, nothing else, Close the city gate first. Then, defend the city gate hole. At that time, I will mobilize other troops to encircle the enemy's swords and shields! "

"How to encircle those swords and shields? Ordinary weapons have no effect on them!" Meng Qi said depressedly.

Moreno said confidently:

"Fear not, I am now sending someone to block the main road of Ximen Street. At the same time, I am sending people to summon all the Warhammers in the city. These Warhammers were meant to deal with the plate armor. The knife and shield soldiers are as difficult as the plate armor. Break the defense, but the Warhammer can still make achievements. At the same time, I will send people to the blacksmith shop and other places in the city to collect all the sledgehammers and distribute them to the powerful soldiers to smash the enemy ’s shields and plate armors! Being fed to the pigs by the Warhammer, plus your cooperation, there is nothing to worry about! "

"Then ... those musketeers?"

Moreno sighed:

"There is no good way, I can only fight hard. In addition, I went to find some archers. It seems that those musketeers did not wear plate armor ..."

"But we don't have an archer in our army ..." Munch said a little bit depressed. Since being equipped with a matchlock, the French army gradually began to eliminate the crossbowmen. Now it is raining, it is too depressed.

Moreno shook his head and said:

"There are no crossbows in the army, but there are still some people in the city. I remember that there was a shop opened by the Englishmen near the Governor's Mansion that specializes in the sale of English longbows. I sent someone to conscript the longbows in that shop ... "

"It can only be so ..." Meng Qi nodded, and then divided the remaining 400 plate armored infantry into two teams, relying on the familiar terrain of the city, from the alley to the north and south sides of the west gate ...

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At this time, under the leadership of General Sabrakin, one of Edward's close friends, the main force of the British army went from the north to the west gate, and was ready to enter the city.

However, at this time, the sword and shield soldiers of both sides were still decisively fighting on the West Gate Street of Calais. The gate was blocked, and the main force was difficult to enter the city.

Sabrakin thought about it and ordered:

"Since it is difficult to move forward, then you give way to let the soldiers under me first climb the gate tower from the side stairs, and then attack the north gate gate tower from the wall. Then, from Go downstairs to the north gate and open the north gate ... "

This idea is very good, can bypass the enemy's blockade. But Morson prevented:

"General, I heard that a lot of debris was stuffed in the gate gate of the North Gate. Even if you captured the gate gate of the North Gate, if you want to open the North Gate, you will have to clean up the debris for a long time, and you will face the French counterattack!"

After a pause, Morson suggested:

"I think, we might as well attack the South Gate from the city wall? The South Gate is the entrance to the French reinforcements, and certainly no more debris will be put in the city gate cave!

Sabrakin nodded immediately and ordered:

"Okay, that's it! Morson, your swords and shields borrowed 100 of me as a pioneer in attacking the gate of the male city. My army, all on the wall, moved toward the gate of the southern city. Of course, the city wall has a limited number of people. . Most of the rest of the people went from outside the city to outside the south gate, waiting for the gate to open! "

"Yes, follow your orders!"

Afterwards, the commando fighters surrounding the inside of the gate of Ximen opened sideways and let a main force outside the gate enter a group of people, and climbed up the gate of Ximen through the stairs. Then, 100 soldiers in the back row of the sword and shield soldiers also followed the city wall, and as a pioneer, ran along the city wall to the gate of the southern gate of Calais ...

After 40 minutes, the two French plate armoured infantry led by Munch had quietly stuck to the roots of the city wall and came to the west gate.

At this time, the British elite swords and shields had successfully defeated the French army's ordinary swords and shields, and they were killed in front of the roadblock area established by the French, and began to remove the roadblocks. Near the city gate, there are no swords and shields with high protection.

Monchi saw the timing and shouted. The French plate infantry at the roots of the north and south sides of the west gate rushed out bravely and slammed into the city gate hole. On the spot, hundreds of North Sea Musketeers and dozens of ordinary assaults were killed on the spot. Team fighters. Then, rushed into the city gate hole.

But what Monty didn't expect was that the general commander of the British army, General Sabrakin, was just outside the West Gate. At this time, hundreds of English knights gathered on the West Gate ...

Although the English knights are not as powerful as the French knights, there are still a number of them. As it happens, there are 500 rare English knights next to General Sabrakin ...

Seeing the French plate infantry coming in the city gate cave, General Sabrakin was shocked for a moment, and immediately ordered the English knight to be dismounted, waving his sword with both hands, and rushed up with the plate armour led by Munch. Together ...

You should know that these English knights are more authentic knights than the French plate infantry. Although the members of the French plate armoured infantry are basically from the knight family ~ www.novelhall.com ~, they are generally eliminated members who have failed the knight assessment. Although martial arts are stronger than ordinary people, they are still worse than regular knights. Moreover, this group of French plate armoured infantry suffered a great loss in weapons ...

Although the same two-handed sword is used, the two-handed sword used by the French plate armoured infantry was processed by the French with pig iron ingots, and the quality is like that.

The two-handed swords used by the Knights of England were purchased from Beihai. The materials are all used steel!

The knight's two-handed sword is made of medium carbon steel with good toughness, and it is a carbon spring steel with silicon manganese added. However, the appearance of the sword body, especially the edge part, has undergone carburizing treatment and is extremely hard.

After many collisions, the cast iron two-handed swords of the French plate armoured infantry were no match for the steel swords of the English Knights, and many of them were cut off. Then, it was naturally abused by the English knights and wiped out ...

When this elite force of the French Calais garrison was eliminated, the French army in the city could no longer resist the British offensive ...

Soon, the southern gate of Calais lost, and a large number of British troops poured in from the southern gate, copying the French army's back path. After a fierce battle for a long time, the fortress of Calais changed formally ...