What happened when Heavy Cavalry crashed into gunners?
The answer was obvious.
Watching the gunners they had spent a fortune training get slaughtered one by one, the officer's heart bled. But before he could give an order, more Iron Blood Soldiers following the cavalry charge had already come charging in from farther away.
Amid the clash of cold weapons, it was clear that combat strength favored the Iron Blood Legion. Then a scene that left the Kainter Soldiers utterly dumbfounded unfolded—a force of around two hundred Light Cavalry emerged, carrying not bows on their backs, but muskets!
The muskets fired as the horses galloped, killing one Kainter Soldier after another with an incomprehensible hit rate.
Mounted shooting.
This had originally been a technique at which the nomads of the Western Barbarian Region excelled, yet Magana had forcibly trained it into her troops—and replaced the weapons with muskets.
The moment this "cavalry" appeared, Kainter officers knew they were finished.
"Bring up the cannons! Bring up the cannons!" he roared.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
A series of explosions rang out.
"My lord, this is bad! The Artillery Team is under attack!"
"The cannons have been destroyed!"
"Damn it!"
The officer's expression turned utterly grim.
The troops attacking the city had yet to withdraw, and their rear defenses were weak. In a head-on clash, their six thousand men might still have been able to rely on their numerical advantage. But in this situation, if they could not take out the enemy's heavy armor, there was no way to fight.
The Iron Blood Legion thought the same way, which was why Gluck led the assault squad directly to destroy the cannons brought by the Kainter Army.
"Retreat! Stop fighting, retreat now!" the Kainter officer roared.
Orders were passed down one after another. The attack became