William Smith
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20th March 1574 "Good job. How is the caravan going?" Sitting at the table in the dining room of the Pilznian palace, I listened to the reports of the multiple messengers that connected me with both Tarnow and the caravan still on its way here. Considering how we separated from the main force at the early morning on the day before, reaching the Pilzno took us only a few hours with no carriages slowing us down. Thankfully, the escaping few men of Peter's didn't dare to ride for the city but opted for…-
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19th March 1574 (early morning) "I don't think its a good idea to worry about this. Some will travel to Tarnow first, and some will get directly to the Pilzno. With how deserted those two places are after we pulled out all the troops we could, I don't think there will be any problem with accomodating everyone. Worst case scenario, we will just invite everyone to our own place in both towns." Grabbing Elia by her waist, I started moving towards our own tent, still standing in the same place, surrounded by…
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19th March 1574 (early morning) After rounding up every single man that didn't manage to escape in time and making sure the Peter was all nicely bound, some might go back to their own tasks, with the real mission finally accomplished, yet I decided against it. Maybe it was my modern stupidity or just a silly attempt to recreate the rules of the society that I grew used to, I still decided to do the most obvious thing that any modern person would decide to do in my place. Bury the dead. In the current…
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19th march 1574 (a while after midnight) In an instant, the darkness of the night got dispelled by the continuous tongues of fire coming off from the four barrels of the reaper guns at once. In theory, using only one barrel per gun provided longer suppression of the enemy forces, but with such a close distance between Peter's small army and my troops, there was simply no time to waste. As soon as the Reapers started their melody, the line of horsemen started to break. Instead of falling one by one like…
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19th march 1574 (barely after midnight) "Wait!" Standing on top of the front-most carriage relatively to the direction that the attack came from, I ordered my men to hold their fire. With up to forty people aiming the muskets at the incoming enemies, the effective firing distance was already achieved, yet pure rationality dictated to wait just a little bit more, to make the best use of the salvo, especially with how the events were taking place during the night. At least, that's what any other general…
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19th march 1574 (barely after midnight) The night at the camp was nowhere as close as living in my castle chambers, not even comparable to living in a damned stable or even resting in the tent during the Governor's hunting camp. With my tent located right in the middle of the entire camp, with six other temporary housing for the nobles and officers that accompanied me on the campaign, we were already quite secure from any outside attack, yet just to be safe, the entire middle part of the camp was…
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18th march 1574 "Fire!" In any other scenario, such command would cause the entire area to shake under the force of powerful thunder coming out of numerable barrels of musketeers lining up in a rows, only to turn silent for as long as it would take them to reload and shoot again or give space for the volley of their enemies. Yet in this case, instead of singular and ear-cracking hailstorm of death, the sound was way gentler, yet its continuous staccato that didn't stop for good two minutes hailed the…
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18th march 1574 "Remember, from what they will pay you, one third goes back into investing in what we actually are focusing on, and the rest will be fully devoted into obtaining iron, barrels and all the other necessary resources that I wrote down for you on the list. Also, with how important your work is, I can't let it go unnoticed, so every week, you can take one red golden to yourself. Do you have anything that you will require to fulfil those orders?" After three days of ordering my projects around,…
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15th march 1574 "It was a great success!" Sitting down in the dining chamber of my Palace inside the city, I watched the same group of merchants and Innkeepers that decided to go along with my plan just a few days ago. From the happy faces that they all presented when I asked about the results of the warm meals distribution at the farmlands, I didn't even need to hear their report to know the answer for my inquiry. "That's great. Since I already left it completely to your own discretion, I just hope you…
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14th march 1574 After wasting all the bullets that we painstakingly made the day before, while we had a lot of fun seeing how up to five of them could be shot in the quick succession, with the possibility of even more being shot in one series as long as we could get our hands on more tubes for the magazine, we also realised quite a lot of problems coupled with the design. First thing first, something that I unconsciously took care off, was the problem of the barrel quickly heating up after just a few…
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