Chapter 1527: Infantry Against Cavalry

The next day, French Port.

Nashadier led a large army in a surprise attack, with fifteen thousand troops pouring out in full force.

They besieged the city of French Port.

This time, Nashadier fought steadily and surely, advancing camp by camp.

He divided his forces into three routes, with one route lying in ambush around the low-lying land to the west.

The other two routes of the army formed an Outer Square Inner Circle Formation, advancing and crushing everything in their path.

Targeting the two-hundred-meter artillery batteries outside French Port, Nashadier first used the cover of Longyan cannons to advance, employing Assault Chariots to block these impregnable batteries.

Sashaer saw his most reliable artillery defensive line forced to prioritize attacking the incoming Assault Chariots under the tactics of the Longyan army.

He frowned; without the suppression of the batteries, Nashadier's army could march rapidly, sensing that the situation was turning unfavorable.

Sashaer coldly ordered: "Send out the troops! Nashadier's forces must absolutely not be allowed to approach the city walls!"

"Yes!"

The French troops sortied, with their Cavalry on the flanks and Infantry in the center.

The Cavalry on both flanks covered the Infantry charge.

But after the French Cavalry launched their charge, they discovered that their charge had absolutely no effect against these Infantry.

These Infantry were in a formation where all four directions were lined up in a Square Formation, leaving no gaps to break through.

The most important aspect of a French Cavalry charge is explosive power, but in the face of such a formation, the Cavalry's explosive power was of no use at all.

Moreover, their Cavalry even suffered losses.

Nashadier's Infantry, holding swords and shields, advanced steadily in a battle formation; these sword and shield Nashadier Infantry posed no great danger to the Cavalry.

But behind these Sword and Shield Soldiers were Infantry holding spears.

These Spear Infantry had a vast attack range, and some French Cavalry who could not retreat in time could only die miserably under the attacks of these Spear Infantry.

And it did not stop there.

To prevent these Cavalry from escaping, the high-platform chariots in the innermost part of the Square Formation were equipped with Crossbowmen and Musket Teams.

These two types of troops on the high-platform chariots launched attacks from a commanding position.

The crossbows and muskets had an extremely long range and strong lethality; after one charge, the French Cavalry suffered countless casualties.

Standing on the city wall, Sashaer moved the Telescope away from his eyes and frowned deeply, murmuring: "What kind of formation is this?"

Sashaer was also someone who had led troops in the military, but he had never seen such a formation before.

He could not help but think more highly of Nashadier.

"General, could it be that the Longyan people taught these tactics to Nashadier?"

Someone nearby said in a deep voice.

Sashaer frowned deeply; they had never seen such tactics, and Nashadier had defected to Longyan.

Such tactics might truly have come from the hands of the Longyan people.

"If this continues, our Cavalry will be crushed by Nashadier's formation. To break such a formation, we still need to use cannons."

"It is a pity that our cannons are now controlled by Nashadier."

Sashaer frowned tightly and said in a deep voice: "They are using Infantry, Musket Teams, and Crossbowmen for defense."

"First, take out the high platforms in Nashadier's Square Formation. As long as the high platforms are broken, our Cavalry will be able to play their part!"

"Send out a team of Cavalry to flank them, obstruct their cannons and Assault Chariots, and liberate our batteries."

"Yes!"

The French Infantry moved out, with Infantry in the front, in a half-kneeling posture at the very front, protecting the Crossbowmen and Musket Teams behind them, firing in turns.

A rain of arrows that blotted out the sky fell from the air.

In the center of the Outer Square Inner Circle Formation, the general commanding the Square Formation looked at the rain of arrows about to fall from the sky.

He frowned slightly and immediately ordered: "Crouch and defend!"

They beat the drums as a signal.

All the soldiers

heard the drum sound and raised the shields in their hands while in a half-crouched posture.

In an instant, countless arrows fell.

On the high-platform chariots, the Crossbowmen and Musketeers, whose defenses were somewhat thin, were shot and killed by the flying arrows.

They had nowhere to hide on the high platforms; although they had shields for protection, when facing arrows that blotted out the sky, there were always arrows attacking from overly tricky angles.

After one wave of arrow rain, all the Musketeers and Crossbowmen in Nashadier's battle formation were killed.

Nashadier looked through his Telescope at this scene of the clash on the battlefield.

He was extremely cold and ordered in a deep voice.

"Assault Chariots, cover the Artillery Battalion's advance, target: destroy the enemy's batteries!"

Assault Chariots, chariots on the battlefield pulled by War Horses, carried four people: a Crossbowman, an Infantryman, a Musketeer, and a driver.

Because the bodies of the chariots were covered in sharp blades, they were extremely useful and highly effective for charging into enemy lines and disrupting their formations.

Even after experiencing the Industrial Revolution.

After the Musket was invented, these chariots that had run rampant across the world for thousands of years were not wiped out, and they were still highly effective to this day.

Behind the Assault Chariots, Nashadier's artillerymen pushed the Longyan cannons forward.

But just at this moment, a team of French Cavalry suddenly charged out.

Assault Chariots versus French Cavalry.

The French Cavalry had higher agility, but their combat power was not as good as the Assault Chariots.

The French Cavalry discovered the Nashadier Artillery following closely behind and smiled coldly; their target was not these Assault Chariots, but these artillerymen.

Only by restricting these Artillery could the damage to their Artillery Towers be reduced.

Although it was these Assault Chariots that kept harassing the Artillery Towers, these chariots were completely unable to cause any damage to the Artillery Towers, which were built of piled rock and possessed extremely high defensive power.

The French Cavalry ignored the Assault Chariots behind them.

They turned their spearheads and immediately launched a charge against the Nashadier Artillery.

Upon seeing the French Cavalry launch their charge, the expressions of the Artillery changed abruptly, but they did not retreat a single step.

Such was the military order; their goal was to destroy the French Artillery Towers, and they would firmly refuse to retreat until this goal was achieved.

In this, their Artillery knew more than just how to fire cannons.

Pushing cannons weighing a thousand catties required strength.

The Artillery Captain drew the Miao Saber equipped at his waist; this type of saber was a unique Infantry combat saber of Longyan.

It was a combat saber brought by Jiang Xuan.

The blade was five feet long—in Western terms, that is 1.6 meters—with a long handle; the end of the handle was not sharpened, and its length was comparable to a Long Spear, yet it was more convenient to carry than a Long Spear and could be used by Infantry on the battlefield.

Because of the special nature of the Artillery, they had no Method to carry Long Spears, but that did not mean they had no Method to fight.

The Artillery were originally Infantry at their foundation!

Where the Miao Sabers pointed, the Nashadier Infantry battalions launched a charge; fighting Cavalry with Infantry was a feat almost impossible to succeed at on the battlefield.

But through the flexible application of the Miao Sabers.

And with the Artillery using their Cannons as cover to disperse the combat power of the Cavalry.

For a time, these Artillery were not all slaughtered in an instant by the French Cavalry as the latter had imagined.

On the contrary, on the battlefield, both sides were evenly matched.

Facing these soldiers who could fight flexibly and were equipped with strange, long sabers, the French Cavalry found it very difficult to attack.

In terms of attack range, the long sabers of these Artillery were more flexible, not just toward the French Cavalry.

Other than thrusting, it was just thrusting; there was no other redundant way of attacking to speak of.