Chapter 2550 Battle of Barn Mountain (Ⅲ)

At this moment, there are a total of sixty-seven arcane and divine spellcasters following Major Arnold to the front line.

Among them, there are three with higher spellcasting levels, the 12th-level Priest of Demoss, Major Lori Grant, and two 10th-level mages, Captain Angel Livingston and Captain Ryan Kessler, both of them are from Midgard University alumni.

General Laval personally led his spellcasters to launch a counterattack, barely restraining the ferocious offensive of Fizenofa's troops.

The soldiers of the Continental Army hiding in the trenches, inspired by their own spellcasters, regrouped their fighting spirit and raised their guns, aiming at the enemy troops rushing up like a tide.

The battle lasted for half an hour, another batch of enemy corpses fell on the hillside, and the attacking party retreated again.

Although they failed to conquer the high ground as they wished, the three generals Feizhen who were watching the battle at the foot of the mountain could already see that the firepower of the defenders had weakened a lot, obviously due to lack of ammunition and weak follow-up.

The siege troops rested for a while, and General Cornwallis personally led the reserve team to the front line, joined the two troops of Burgoyne and Clinton, ordered the soldiers to mount bayonets on their rifles, and started the third round of charge, in order to capture the Continental Army in one go position!

At this time, the soldiers of the Continental Army guarding the mountain had run out of ammunition, and the spellcasters had also exhausted their spell slots in the round of defensive battle just now, so they were powerless to stop Master Fei's unprecedentedly fierce offensive.

At 6:50 in the evening, the Feizhen army successfully broke through the defense line built by the militia and climbed over the trench, and the two sides started a tragic hand-to-hand battle.

At the moment of hand-to-hand combat, the Continental Army will suffer even more.

The standard rifles of the Fizen Army were equipped with bayonets, but the shotguns and crossbows in the hands of the militiamen did not have bayonets.

General Laval ordered the militiamen to switch to melee weapons, and the militiamen without swords turned their shotguns upside down and used the butts as clubs to strike the enemy.

It's a pity that the gun butt was no match for the bayonet after all. More and more militiamen fell down, and Laval had to order a retreat.

Despite Laval's best efforts to maintain order, he could not prevent the retreat from an indisciplined militia that turned into a rout.

From the barn mountain to the "neck" of the peninsula, on the retreat of only more than fifty miles, the casualties of the militia were heavier than the sacrifices made when guarding the highlands before.

Laval led his old subordinates including his younger brother Arnold to cut off the rear in person. At a critical juncture, he had to use the magic ring on his hand to summon twenty iron knights from the bottomless abyss in one go, and ordered the demons The guards launched a round of counter-charges against the Fei people who were swarming up to kill them, buying time to cover the retreat of their own troops.

General Laval's Iron Cavalry Demon Guards descended on the battlefield where humans were fighting each other, adding the most bloody and cruel color to this battle.

Twenty fierce and fearless demons fought until they were all killed. The blood-fed souls returned to the bottomless abyss contentedly. Around their corpses, the stumped limbs and arms of Feizhen soldiers can be seen everywhere, which is horrible, and there are more The soldiers were frightened by the demons and gave up the mission of chasing and killing the enemy.

The Fel Guard lived up to General Laval's expectations and successfully delayed the pursuit, allowing most of the militia to flee the battlefield.

As for using the power of demons on the battlefield, will it attract criticism from public opinion and lay hidden dangers for future promotion?

General Benedict Laval, who was covered in blood, couldn't care less about it at the moment.

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On June 13, 1626, the "Battle of Granary Mountain" started in the northern part of the Horseshoe Peninsula. On the surface, it seemed that the Fizhen Army won the victory and the Continental Army was defeated. However, the subsequent battle loss statistics gave the opposite conclusion.

The 7,000 officers and soldiers on Feizhen's side participated in the battle, with a total of 3,054 casualties, and the casualty rate was nearly 50%. The victims also included nearly a hundred officers at all levels, which can be described as a heavy loss.

On the other hand, on the side of the Continental Army, 1,450 militiamen participated in the battle, which was less than half of the Feizhen Army.

Especially considering that the Continental Army is nothing more than a group of militiamen with poor equipment, lack of training, and insufficient actual combat experience, the casualties paid by the regular army in Fiji are even more tragic.

This is not a victory, it is simply a great shame!

After the battle, Earl Winthrop personally came to inspect the position. Seeing the miserable scene of corpses strewn all over the field, he sighed with heartache: "If there are a few more 'victories' like this, we will be completely finished."

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On June 20, 1626, a week after the Battle of Barn Hill, General George Vasa, accompanied by his adjutants, staff officers and guards, arrived in the town of Idalil and officially took over the supreme command of the Continental Army.

Although he knew that he was taking over a "mess", Vasa's first impression of the Continental Army was worse than expected.

There are five problems before him:

Sloppy military appearance, shortage of supplies, lax military discipline, regional prejudice between northerners and southerners, and the ridiculous so-called "officer election system".

"Military appearance" is the dignity of an army, the new Continental Army is simply shameless!

Not to mention uniform military uniforms, most soldiers in the Continental Army would be fine if they had ragged clothes. Many of them were barefooted, and some were shirtless—fortunately, it was summer, and Vasa couldn’t imagine what would happen in winter. manage.

The town of Idalil, where the army is stationed, is considered a slum, but it is simply a stinking "garbage dump". Chickens, ducks, pigs, dogs and other animals live together with soldiers, and women and children run around in the barracks , in a mess everywhere, without any order at all.

After Vasa took office, the first order he issued to the troops was to clean up. All the messy tents were dismantled, and timber was cut down to build neat row houses as dormitories. Officers and soldiers at all levels were also required to wash their faces.

Not only was there no unified uniform, but the weapons of the soldiers in the Continental Army were also messy. The most sophisticated ones were old-fashioned muskets. Most soldiers had no guns at all, and could only make do with bows, spears, or even hatchets.

There are less than 300,000 rounds of ammunition in the arsenal in the town of Idalil, which is only enough for each soldier to fire 9 shots—of course, the premise is that you have a gun!

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·Historical Materials: The Battle of Bunker Hill ("A Brief History of the American Revolutionary War" [British] Stephen Conway)

In the Battle of Bunker Hill, a total of 226 British soldiers were killed and 828 were wounded, which is equivalent to 40% of the entire force participating in the attack.

"The horrific casualties of that day will never be erased from my mind," wrote one stunned British officer in a letter home.

General Howe himself was probably so shaken that he later dared not attack defended American positions from the front. But it wasn't just the heavy casualties that disturbed British commanders, who had never expected such determined American resistance.

·Historical Materials: The Battle of Bunker Hill ("Hamilton Biography" [US] Ron Chernow)

Two days later, north of Boston, at Bunker Hill—or, indeed, at Burrett Hill—a battle that could hardly be called a victory for the Patriots took place.

The militiamen broke out from their hill forts and launched a charge on the British army, killing or wounding more than 400 people.

However, in any case, the Patriots showed great calm in the face of the enemy's guns, and the British lost more than a thousand men, including dozens of officers.

Colonel John Stark recalled: "The battlefield was literally littered with dead bodies."

The Battle of Bunker Hill was the first confrontation between patriots and the British army in the history of the American Revolution. It broke the myth of the invincibility of the British army, and for the first time forced the British to consider how much they needed to pay with their lives to suppress the colonies. The uprising of the people.

The British suffered and struggled with the unconventional tactics of the colonial people and their failure to obey the laws of engagement between gentlemen.

A British soldier who was tortured to the point of madness complained about the American militants, "Hiding behind a big tree, they shot cold shots at our outpost soldiers when they saw the opportunity, and they retreated immediately after shooting. How insane is this? A fair way of fighting!"