Dark Sand: My Players Are All Actors
Chapter 248 - 200: The Misguided Demon_2

Chapter 248: Chapter 200: The Misguided Demon_2

At this moment, however, the momentum of the hundred or so charging cavalry was like a thunderbolt, rolling in!

"What’s going on! Why do the native phantom residents here have cavalry!"

"How do we fight this?"

"Dammit! No retreating!"

"It’s just dozens of cavalrymen, nothing difficult to deal with! Get ready with the matchlock guns!"

Upon the bandit leader’s command, the robbers carrying matchlock guns hastily tried to light their matches, and then began to load their ammunition.

Compared to the flintlock gun, the matchlock gun had a very inconvenient aspect regarding the ignition method.

On the one hand, its loading speed was much slower than that of the flintlock, with most matchlock guns only able to load one round per minute, while flintlocks could load two to three rounds, and on the other hand, the match cord on the matchlock gun was very likely to ignite the gunpowder carried by the gunners, its misfire and damage rate was even higher than a bursting barrel.

Normally, the match would only be lit when encountering the enemy; otherwise, if the match kept burning, they might find mid-battle that the match had already burned out.

But now, facing a cavalry unit, this disadvantage was infinitely magnified.

This was why, during the era of matchlock guns, they couldn’t use the tactic of execution by firing squad nor directly hold their ground against a cavalry unit—they absolutely required the protection of other types of troops.

While these bandits were clumsily preparing to load their matchlock guns, the other robbers were not idle either.

Some bandits quickly took down their barbarians’ bows and strung them, shooting arrows towards the player character’s cavalry unit.

However, these arrows shot at the players’ armor were unable to deal any effective damage; in fact, most players didn’t even take it seriously.

Fully armored cavalry facing ordinary archers was this overbearing, dare to make a move, I consider it a loss!

In a blink of an eye, the two sides were about to clash.

Although the players also carried mounted bows or three-eyed guns, they were conducting a heavy cavalry charge, so these weapons were of no use at the moment.

Everyone gripped their lances tightly, barreling towards the bandits without any rationale!

"Kill!"

The bandits in the front row had fierce expressions, pulling out their barbarians’ knives and raising them high.

Clearly, among all their equipment, they trusted the barbarians’ knives the most.

However, before their knives could even come down, the players’ lances had already deeply pierced their chests!

In an instant, these demons were knocked flying backward by the lances, the impact force of the warhorses was like Mount Tai bearing down, completely unstoppable!

Although in the chaos some bandits’ knives did strike the players’ warhorses, the armored horses were barely affected.

Except for the very few unlucky ones who fell off their horses after being struck in unprotected vulnerable spots on their armor, most of the players remained unscathed in this round of confrontation.

"Bang!"

"Bang! Bang!"

Some of the bandits’ matchlock guns finally fired.

Although the matchlock guns were not very accurate, the cavalry was, after all, a large target, and several players fell from their horses at the sounds.

However, this slight loss was completely trivial to the players.

The warhorses stormed past, instantly taking down dozens of bandits.

Zhao Haiping reined in his horse, leading the players in a loop before returning once again.

Many players mocked those who had fallen off their horses or respawned back at the starting point.

"No way, you got bucked off just fighting a few bandits? How on earth did you pass your driving test?"

Although the number of bandits was four times that of the players, none of the players considered them a formidable enemy.

On this flat terrain, in the face of the armed cavalry, the Eastern Barbarians’ blades were sharp but entirely ineffective.

The only threat to the cavalry might have been the matchlock guns, but with their slow reloading speeds, and the bandits not having Li Hongyun’s kind of OP luck, players had already turned their horses around for a second charge while many bandits were still fumbling to load their matchlocks.

But they wouldn’t get a chance to fire a second shot, some of the bandits were still loading when they were sent flying by the players’ spears, some of the wiser ones hastily dropped their guns to draw blades for close combat, but this did not change the inevitable outcome.

The length of the Barbarians’ blades was simply too short to compete with the cavalry’s long spears.

Against the crumbling garrison soldiers during the later period of the Great Sheng Dynasty, these bandits might have had a chance, but against a proper cavalry unit, they were only going to get trounced.

After several charges to and fro by the players, the bandits were swiftly and thoroughly wiped out.

Even if some bandits realized the situation was dire and tried to flee, they couldn’t outrun the horses’ four legs—ultimately the only difference was whether they were stabbed from the front or the back.

A few players played a game of cat and mouse, not immediately spearing the fleeing bandits but instead using riding bows or three-eyed guns for the kill.

Until their dying breath, these demons could not fathom what was happening.

Why were the locals so ferocious?

The cavalry charge didn’t feel like a battle to them, but more like a leisurely and enjoyable hunt...

It didn’t take long for this bandit group, numbering over four hundred, to be thoroughly cleared out by the players.

Dust settled, the players dismounted one by one to clean up the battlefield.

The bandits’ armor, Barbarians’ bows, and the like, were already subpar in the players’ eyes, the only thing they still appreciated was the Barbarians’ blade.

After all, it had a nice design and was handy to use, although these cavalry players mainly relied on long spears and waist blades and hardly ever needed the Barbarians’ blades, collecting them purely as personal trophies was still very satisfying.

"The bandits that used to be tough opponents have become little monsters delivering experience points," said a player, feeling sentimental.

It had to be said, the change was pretty clear.

Previously, players had struggled against these Eastern Barbarians in the "Fate Sealed with a Coffin Lid" instance, especially their sharp blades which had put tremendous pressure on them.

But now, a hundred cavalry could trample four hundred bandits into the ground with no room for their sharp blades to even matter.

Zhao Haiping laughed, "Indeed, after all, we are continuously leveling up.

"Moreover, historically, the Eastern Barbarian bandits were just a rabble of desperados. The only reason they caused trouble for so long was that the regular army hadn’t had the chance to deal with them.

"For the Great Sheng Dynasty, the Northern Barbarians were the bigger threat."

Soon, more players arrived, but unfortunately, the battlefield had already been cleared.

Inevitably, they sighed regretfully, having missed out on a windfall.

Luck was simply on the side of Zhao Haiping and his group, who happened to be roving around the area and stumbled upon this freshly spawned group of bandits, conveniently wiping them out.

"Isn’t there another group of Northern Barbarian Cavalry attacking Linyuan City? Should we go after them?" a player suggested.

Zhao Haiping shook his head slightly, "No need, by now the others have probably taken care of them."

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