Although this newly established Knight Order had a mixed composition, Charlotte's various methods had barely given it some cohesion. At the very least, orders could be carried out without error.
Three hundred men immediately raised their rifles. After issuing verbal warnings, they opened fire on the routed soldiers who continued charging toward them.
The Empire had supplied the Knight Order with only these three hundred rifles. The rest of their weapons were military sabers, shields, and the like.
Although firearms had appeared on the Old Continent, they had not yet been widely issued to armies. Only the Royal Knight Regiment and the private Knight Orders of great nobles commonly used guns. Local troops generally were not equipped with firearms. For example, Kilmainham Prison's Prison Guard Corps could be issued Magnum Hand Shuttles, but Charlotte's City Patrol had never received enough guns. Even on the battlefield, they could not manage one rifle per man.
Apart from those three hundred rifles, some members of Charlotte's West Wind Knight Regiment carried pistols. They were all spoils from his massive haul at the Chelsea Detective Agency, No. 5 Dragon Castle Avenue, Alcatraz District. The rest carried military sabers, and some even used fencing swords unsuited for battle.
The only consolation was that Charlotte had at least not sent his men into battle carrying canes.
Yet many local forces truly did use canes worth only a few centimes as their basic weapon, perhaps paired with a cheap dagger at most.
No matter how shabby the West Wind Knight Regiment was, it was still a local force from the capital, Strasbourg. It could not be compared to local troops elsewhere.
Charlotte involuntarily covered his eyes. He truly could not bear to watch so many people get shot, especially when... he was the one who had given