"Don't run!" a group of middle-rank generals shouted.
The Supervisory Team stepped forward and began cutting down the Deserters.
Caught between bullets ahead and broadswords behind, the Deserters could only flee to either side.
But cavalry held the flanks, and whenever they saw a deserter, they slashed him down without mercy.
Wenren Sheng nodded. This was how normal battle worked.
The Supervisory Team was an indispensable part of it.
Otherwise, people naturally sought advantage and avoided harm. When faced with bullets and arrows, they would hide instead of charging forward.
Only a tiny number of highly trained elites could overcome their fear of death and willingly advance to fight for results, driven by heavy rewards and clear objectives.
But the enemy had many more tactics now.
They did not shoot the Soldiers. Instead, they targeted the Supervisory Team members advancing to cut down the Soldiers.
The advantage of Rifled Guns was sniping and precise long-range strikes. Tactically, this was revolutionary.
The Supervisory Team began to collapse as well.
Seeing that things were going badly, a general commanding the Classical Military immediately ordered his elite archers to rush forward and fire volleys of arrows in high arcs to suppress the enemy.
Archers were all elites within the army.
Training one took at least three or four years, sometimes even more than a decade.
Mounted archers and foot archers were the starting point for junior Officers in the army.
They ran swiftly along both flanks, and once they came within a little over a hundred paces of the enemy, they began their counterattack.
Naturally, the enemy would not simply watch them charge over.
They were charging alongside the other soldiers.
After all, these were Muzzle-Loading Rifled Guns. Five shots per minute was already fast.
The average rate was three to four shots