Chapter 1399 Line Tactics (Part 2)

Finally, they heard El's "stop" and the musketeers hurriedly stopped.

The musicians also stopped playing.

"Raise your guns!"

Just as the "stop" command fell, El's next order was immediately issued.

Click, click, click...

The clear metal crisp sound rang out like a torrential rain.

The musketeers raised their muskets that they had been holding in their hands high and pointed the muzzles at the sky.

"Aim!"

Click, click, click, click...

The clear metal blowing sound rang out again like a torrential rain.

The black muzzles were aimed at the grassland cavalry in front.

The grassland cavalry had no idea what the group of Xilan soldiers opposite them were doing.

They didn't know what the long skirt with a hole in their hands was.

They only knew to keep rushing forward.

In one breath, they crushed the Xilan army without the protection of long guns.

El, who usually had a faint smile on his face, now looked more serious than ever.

He stared at the prairie cavalry approaching him.

He took a deep breath.

El, who rarely spoke loudly, used all his strength at this time and shouted at the loudest volume he could:

"Fire!!"

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Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang--! ! !

The loud noise that had never been heard before attacked the prairie cavalry, who were not far away from the musketeers' formation, like a tsunami.

Huge, hush, hush, hush, hush--! ! !

Almost all the war horses were frightened.

This loud noise that had never been heard before scared almost all the war horses of the prairie people.

Some war horses roared wildly.

Some war horses ran around.

Some war horses just went soft...

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In short-the chaotic war horses made the originally tight wedge formation fall apart in an instant.

Not only the horses were frightened, but the people were also frightened.

People with better psychological quality were just scared and shouted loudly.

People with poor psychological quality were frightened and fell off their horses.

It was not just the horses and people of the grasslands who were frightened.

There were also horses and people of the Xilan army.

Because the gunshots were so loud, they directly covered the entire battlefield.

Chinoer and others who stayed in place also heard the loud noise that was comparable to thunder.

However, compared with the grassland army, the situation on the Xilan army side was much better and there was no chaos.

The reason was that El had reminded them in advance.

Before the battle began, El told them that there might be loud noises later, so they had to be mentally prepared in advance and remember to put cloth in the ears of each warhorse.

Thanks to El's advance reminder, the Xilan army did not mess up like the grassland army.

However, although he did receive El's reminder, after the deafening gunshot, Chinoer was still frightened and almost fell off his horse.

After stabilizing himself on the horse, Chinoer exclaimed:

"What is this?!"

Chinoer's eyes were fixed on the musketeers who had finished firing and were reloading ammunition in the distance, and he murmured:

"This, this is... the new type of troops trained by His Excellency the Marshal...?"

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The loud noise was indeed terrible.

But this was not the most terrible weapon of the musket.

The most terrible weapon of the musket was naturally the bullet it fired.

While the deafening gunshot rushed towards the grassland cavalry like a wave, there was something else rushing towards the grassland cavalry along with the gunshot.

That was - the bullet.

Blood flowers bloomed among the grassland cavalry.

One by one, the grassland cavalrymen who were shot fell off their horses with painful faces.

One by one, the war horses that were shot wailed and collapsed to the ground.

The accuracy of the flintlock was very poor - and the tactic invented by El perfectly made up for this fatal flaw of the flintlock.

In a way, the reason why El was able to invent this tactic is thanks to the grassland people.

Why do you say that?

Because if the grassland people had not invaded their homeland of the Holy Hilan Empire three years ago, approached the city of Ailemuya, and destroyed all the towns along the way, El might not have been able to come up with this tactic.

Three years ago, when the grassland army withdrew from the homeland of the Holy Hilan Empire, El followed the townspeople of Boji Town to rebuild the ruins that had been destroyed. El got inspiration from several townspeople who beat dogs.

At that time, El saw several townspeople using stones to drive away a wild dog.

However, because the accuracy of these townspeople was very poor, no matter how they threw, they could not hit the wild dog.

In the end, one proposed a solution: everyone threw stones together. Although everyone's accuracy was very poor, if everyone threw together, they would always hit one.

The townspeople who adopted this method finally threw a stone at the wild dog and successfully drove the wild dog away with stones.

El got inspiration from this seemingly ordinary thing.

Since the flintlock rifles have poor accuracy, why don't we just get together and shoot at the same time?

If we shoot at the same time, out of 1,000 bullets, some of them will always hit the enemy.

Because this tactic requires the musketeers to form long and tight lines, El named this tactic as the line tactic.

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The musketeers interrupted the charge of the grassland cavalry with just one volley.

The 20,000 grassland cavalrymen who were ordered to attack the Xilan army with strange weapons were panicked.

And it was an unprecedented panic.

This strange thing in the hands of the Xilan people can not only make a loud noise, but also strike from a long distance.

No one knows how this strange thing can injure people from a long distance.

Those soldiers who groaned in pain and fell from their horses did not have any arrows stuck in their bodies.

And the "long tube" in the hands of the Xilan people did not have a bowstring, and it did not look like it could shoot arrows.

Since it was not a bow and arrow and had no bowstring, how did these "long tubes" injure them?

The musketeers in the hands of the musketeers completely overturned the grassland people's understanding of the world.

While the people of the grassland still didn't know what had just happened and how the Hirans had injured them, the musketeers' second volley began.

"Raise your guns!" El shouted.

Click, click, click, click, click, click...

"Aim!"

Click, click, click, click, click, click...

"Fire!"

Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang -- !!!

The same shooting steps as before.

And the same bloody scene as before.

One soldier after another was shot and fell off his horse.

One warhorse after another was shot and collapsed to the ground.

The morale of the grassland people completely collapsed.