Otherworld Advance Team
Chapter 1825 - 1818: The Entire Army Strikes

Chapter 1825: Chapter 1818: The Entire Army Strikes

It should be said that Toto’s understanding has a certain rationale.

The Five Hearts Circular Formation, to avoid friendly fire, is best left in a fixed position, with each flag formation responsible for a designated direction, ensuring that allied forces will not be within their line of fire.

Once movement is required, the five circular formations must be disbanded and reformed, otherwise they cannot advance in coordination.

However, this gives the Yipa cavalry an opportunity.

Because as long as it’s not a circular formation, there will inevitably be a weak spot. And what the Yipa cavalry is best at is flanking attacks on those weaknesses.

So Toto thinks, since attacking is disadvantageous, he might as well adopt a defensive stance, luring the enemy to dissolve their formation and attack.

But soon, he would regret this mistake and slap himself a few times.

Because he is indeed not wrong that the Five Hearts Circular Formation cannot be moved.

To counter the Yipa cavalry, this formation sacrifices many advantages, focusing on anti-shock and firepower, so once established, it indeed cannot be moved.

However, this doesn’t mean Jiuyun Shuang cannot initiate an attack, because let’s not forget, he can still command the Kunzhou fleet.

So when he notices the Yipa cavalry beginning to fall back and form a defensive formation, he immediately orders the Kunzhou fleet to bombard the enemy’s formation while himself maintaining his position.

His thinking is simple and somewhat unreasonable.

He just adopts a defensive stance, letting the enemy cavalry charge.

I’ve painstakingly formed a brilliant formation, how dare you not charge?

If it’s certain the enemy won’t charge, he would directly order the Kunzhou fleet to bombard, chasing the enemy until they can no longer bear it and launch a counterattack.

If the enemy chooses to temporarily avoid confrontation and leave them to escape, that would be even simpler.

Jiuyun Shuang would order everyone to board the ship, pursue the enemy, or follow their retreat path to attack the next settlement they would arrive at.

Simply put, it’s one word: drag, just drag on until the enemy charges and is completely annihilated.

This is the best plan Jiuyun Shuang can think of to confront the three Yipa divisions with ten thousand infantry.

Of course, the best plan should be not to fight at all.

But since the Wen Family Imperial Court already has its own plans, the army needs to strive to prepare for the strategic goals of the Imperial Court.

From this, we can also see the attitudes of the Dongsheng army and the Demon Clan army towards cavalry; one side fervently hopes enemy cavalry will charge their formation, the other hopes the enemy cavalry will not charge. _{freew\e bnovel.com}

Even though both are line infantry, the enemies each face are different, so their strategies also differ slightly.

The Demon Clan army faces the Dongsheng cavalry, known for their impact.

Dongsheng cavalry riding tall horses, with an average height of over two and a half meters, exert tremendous pressure when charging. So the Demon Clan army is very fearful of Dongsheng cavalry, even equipped with muskets, they are still no match for Dongsheng cavalry.

The Dongsheng army faces Yipa cavalry, whose Yipa Horses are much shorter compared to Kyushu horses, excelling in endurance.

So the Dongsheng army is not particularly afraid of the impact of Yipa cavalry, especially after several fruitless charges, the fear of Yipa cavalry is almost negligible.

The Kunzhou in the sky began to disperse, adjusting their belly cannons, then successively firing. Various solid cannonballs and stone bullets rained down, giving the Yipa cavalry a frontal assault.

The mobility of the Yipa cavalry was excellent. Noticing the Kunzhou in the sky adjusting their cannons, they also started maneuvering repeatedly, causing many cannonballs to miss.

However, in addition to the solid shells and fragmentation grenades fired by the cannons, the Kunzhou in the sky also launched a kind of round cannonball with flaming tails.

This kind of cannonball, launched from the Kunzhou, rolled into the ranks of the Yipa cavalry, spewing sparks and white smoke.

The Yipa cavalry, initially seeing these things, didn’t take them seriously, assuming they were just solid shells without power, but soon they regretted it.

These round shells, after all the sparks burned out, unexpectedly exploded, creating a thunderous roar and a cloud of smoke.

The ground was instantly blasted into a large pit, with dirt and grass scattering radially.

The Yipa cavalry, too late to dodge, were torn to pieces with their horses, spreading in all directions amidst the dust and debris at the moment of the explosion.

The initial explosion left the Yipa cavalry stunned, but as the explosions continued, they realized that the Kyushu people had thrown a deadly new weapon at them.

For the Advance Team, this weapon was not unfamiliar; it was actually the precursor to modern shells, a kind of fragmentation grenade that relies on a timed fuse for detonation.

However, because detonation depends on a fuse, these could not be directly fired by cannons, so the craftsmen of the Dongsheng Empire specifically designed launching devices for these fragmentation grenades.

The fragmentation grenades had already appeared in the West Outer Heaven War, used by the Demon Clan army to attack the Dongsheng army.

Obviously, the learning Dongsheng army also liked this powerful weapon, so they brought the technology back to Kyushu and made copies.

To win these two wars, the Wen Family Imperial Court can be said to have used the technology they had hidden away.

Only by winning the war can the new army of the Wen Family Imperial Court truly establish itself and become an unshakable cornerstone of the Wen Family Imperial Court.

Under the successive blows of the cannons and fragmentation grenades, the morale of the Yipa cavalry was rapidly declining. The once invincible Yipa cavalry began to experience deserting soldiers.

Toto realized that if he didn’t do something, the troops under his command were sure to have their morale crushed by the Dongsheng army’s Kunzhou, leading to a rout.

Whether he liked it or not, he couldn’t drag it out with the Dongsheng army any longer and had to settle things quickly.

So after a brief thought, Toto decided to risk it all, ordering all the cavalry to directly charge the Dongsheng army’s formation. If it doesn’t work once, then charge twice, repeatedly attack until the enemy’s morale collapses.

In any case, he couldn’t accept being hit one-sidedly like this.

As long as he disengages from the Dongsheng army, the Kunzhou artillery in the sky won’t stop for a moment.

With the sound of the charge horn, the Yipa cavalry finally stopped circling on the periphery and started directly charging.

The Yipa cavalry came flooding in from all directions like a tidal wave. The momentum was so great that even Jiuyun Shuang couldn’t help but tense up.

From the sky, the scattered charge of the Yipa cavalry looked like a swarm of ants. The Kunzhou fleet tried to suppress them with cannon fire, but due to the dispersed state of the charging Yipa cavalry, the effect of the artillery was not optimistic.

"All flag formations, prepare to counterattack!"

Jiuyun Shuang took a deep breath and loudly gave the order. It was clear Toto wanted to play for keeps, and no matter what, he had to withstand it.

As the tide-like cavalry approached, all the Dongsheng soldiers felt a powerful pressure. During the charge, Yipa archers continued to shoot arrows at the flag formations, some being intercepted by shields, while others hit the unfortunate Dongsheng soldiers within the flag formations.

This charge was in all directions, as Toto did not set a main impact direction because he didn’t know where the weak point of the circular formation was; he had no choice but to order the entire army to attack, looking for the enemy’s weak spots.

"All flag formations, prepare to fire, pay attention to identifying allied fire zones!" Jiuyun Shuang commanded loudly.

As the cavalry entered the musket range, Jiuyun Shuang took a deep breath, combining the Qi Force he practiced, and shouted, "Fire!"

Louder than his voice was the ensuing and continuous dense firing.

The concentric circular formation was engulfed in white smoke in an instant, the continuous firing of muskets even overshadowing the rumbling sound of the cavalry charge.

After the first volley, it was immediately followed by a second volley, a third volley. The five flag formations coordinated properly, all firepower output from their respective fire zones without any friendly fire.