"Bang!"
"Bang! Bang!"
There was a gunshot. Originally, the two teams marching on the narrow road were all crawling on the ridge.
"Bah!"
Pedro spit. Just now, because he hid too quickly, his lips were stuck with the mud splashed by his leather boots.
At this time, he stared at a seemingly deserted village on the left side of the road with father sparsokukotsky and others around him.
That''s where the bullet came from.
The village is not big, but four or five hundred square meters. It is surrounded by a civil wall 2.5 meters high and 2 meters wide. The tallest building in the village is a church with a cross on the spire, which can be seen from a great distance. The village is surrounded by flat open land without shelter.
It is reasonable to say that as an experienced mercenary, Pedro would send scouts to investigate if there were any abnormalities when passing through such a village, but this time he was careless. Because their mercenary regiment and Jan sobeski are not the first troops to pass through here, if there were Swedes in ambush, the troops passing through the front should have eliminated them long ago.
There was a sound of hoofs behind Pedro. Chechen and Jan sobesky are here.
"Be careful!" father sparsokukotsky reminded the second humanitarian.
"Don''t worry, father. The bullet that killed Jan sobesky hasn''t been made yet." Jan sobesky said boldly. He even waved his big hand and let his cloak fly. It''s very imposing.
But Pedro scoffed at Jan sobesky''s show. At that distance, sobesky was wearing armor. It was strange that he could be hurt unless the bullet happened to hit him in the face.
"Uncle, what happened? Is it Swedish?" Chechen jumped off his horse, fell down next to Pedro, and then asked.
"It should be, otherwise we would not be unrecognizable if the rebels or the local militia were holding such an obvious flag of the Republic," Pedro said.
"Damn it, the Swedes are hiding here, and several troops passing by haven''t found it!" sobesky said angrily.
"Maybe it''s just a small Swedish army separated from the big army. Isn''t it raining heavily these days? It''s normal for some Swedish soldiers to separate from the big army in such a heavy rain." Cherchen analyzed.
This analysis was reasonable, and sobesky and Pedro nodded in agreement.
Now that sobesky met them, as a general of the Republic of Poland, sobesky certainly didn''t let them go. Sobesky asked the mercenary regiment to destroy the small Swedish army. And this is what cherchensuo hopes. After all, there are 1000 recruits in his army. It is very helpful to improve their combat effectiveness to have a chance to fight before arriving in Warsaw. Moreover, the area of the village is not large. There are no more than 100 Swedish soldiers in it. Cherchen thinks it''s just right to give it to the recruits to practice.
Because the Swedish soldiers were stationed on the wall, it was surrounded by open and unshielded plains. The enemy who occupies the village naturally has a commanding position. Together, Chechen and Pedro are ready to let Hessen mercenaries test the enemy''s firepower.
The Mercenary Captain named Goethe took his team up according to Chechen''s order. These mercenaries are worthy of being veterans of all battles. Their tactical actions are in place and everyone is very open. When half of them move, the other half squat down to minimize their bullet receiving area.
When the scattered soldiers approached the wall less than thirty steps away, a small group of Swedish soldiers in blue uniforms rushed out of the village. They were so fast that they rushed to the black mercenaries in the blink of an eye. The two troops engaged in a white-edged battle.
No matter Goethe and his soldiers or Che Chen who watched the battle, they were completely unprepared. They were stunned on the spot.
Che Chen, who was far away from the battlefield, was stunned and had time to react, but Goethe and others lost half of their lives in a raid. The others had to retreat under the cover of their companions'' fire.
The Swedish soldiers did not pursue and quickly returned to the village.
This fully shows the extraordinary quality of Swedish soldiers in the village. However, Chechen''s attempt to find out the enemy''s firepower in the village has not been realized.
At this time, Che Chen put away his contempt for the enemy. He ordered bachit to lead two squadrons to attack from the West and south, which was the main direction of attack. In the north, Cherchen arranged a squadron of fedot to feint. In the East, no troops were arranged, but yelishei led a team of Hessian light cavalry to hide outside the horizon. When the enemy broke through from the East, it was actually surrounded by three jues and one.
This arrangement has no shortcomings, and one shot is three squadrons, which even sobesky nodded after seeing it.
Each squadron soon entered the battle position, and the mercenary regiment''s three three pound guns also fired.
Two squadrons of recruits stepped on drums and moved towards the wall. They had Musketeers in front and spearmen in the back. Although they have been able to get out of a good queue on the training ground, they have exposed their shortcomings in wartime. After only 20 steps, the team has begun to twist.
Then the Swedish Musketeers on the wall opened fire. Listen to the gunfire. About 50 muskets fired together.
More than a dozen recruits from two squadrons fell. Although there were no casualties, fear filled the squadron. The soldiers began to fire indiscriminately, and the bullet was either too high or too low. Then there was the sound of forty or fifty muskets from the Swedish soldiers on the wall.
The interval between the two shots was just the time when a musket was loaded.
This is similar to Chechen''s judgment. The enemy''s strength is less than 100.
"Children, for the virgin, for the motherland!" father spasokukotsky held up the cross to boost the morale of the recruits.
Inspired by the priest, the two squadron soldiers began to regain their composure. He threw down the fire rope and gun and rushed up with only a spear and a short spear.
The crude ladder built the wall. Because the wall is not high, the ladder is even higher than the height of the wall. The soldiers found it easier and faster for them to go up with a ladder than with a ladder.
So, the soldiers who first climbed up the ladder shouted "God" and fought with the Swedish soldiers.
While the two armies were fighting hand to hand on the wall, bachit, who was heading straight for the entrance and exit of the village, was blocked. Although there was no trace of the gate at the entrance and exit of the village, the opening was pre filled with obstacles by the enemy, and bullets were fired from time to time behind the obstacles.
Bachit, who avoided bullets by the wall, slashed several times with his axe, but he couldn''t destroy it.
"Bomb, bomb!" bachit shouted to the people around him. But no one came with a bomb.
A Ma Bian hurried back to get the bomb and gave it to bachit. But bachit felt that the power was not enough, so Ma Bian had to go back and get another one.
Two bombs were ignited and dropped under the obstacle.
An earth shaking explosion sounded. The people on the walls on both sides of the entrance and exit were shaken down.
The obstacle was cleared by the bomb. Bachit rushed in with people. At this time, it was meaningless to guard the wall again. Swedish soldiers jumped off the wall and retreated towards the village.
But the battle is not over. The Swedish soldiers who had lost their peripheral positions did not panic. They gradually withdrew towards the north rather than the East.
Obviously, their commander had a hunch that the East was not a living path, but a trap.
Fedott''s squadron greeted more than 70 Swedish soldiers.
But it was in such a disparity of military strength that the Swedish soldiers broke through the fedot squadron in front of them with spears and killed a bloody way.
From beginning to end, Chechen just watched the battle. Even if Pedro, who led Hessian infantry, led the team to support several times, Cherchen absolutely did not allow it.