"Since humans appeared on this plane, war has always been with us. From the initial infantry melee to the cavalry charge, from holding stones and wood to being covered in steel armor, the methods of war have become more and more sophisticated. Rich, since the birth of His Majesty Fernando’s Royal Knights, the cavalry has become the absolute main force on the battlefield, and this concept has always been deeply ingrained in people’s minds.”
"However, my teacher, during the Cassano's war against foreign aggression at the end of February 206 of the Bright Calendar, showed all humans in the world a method that could replace knights in ruling the entire battlefield. This is In a war with an outnumbered enemy, the invading Senat Legion elite totaled 120,000 people, while the entire Cassano only had more than 200,000 citizens. The three elite troops of Cassano you see now are there. It was not even a fully formed army at that time, and there was no record of frightening the enemy at all.”
"The entire war only lasted seven days, yes, only seven days. However, during this long time, which was as long as seven centuries, I followed the teacher throughout the whole process and witnessed with my own eyes how he changed the war pattern on the mainland. The Iron Fist Castle Guards Corps, the Windwalking Archer Corps, and the Death Scythe Magic Corps that you are now familiar with have just begun to emerge from that war..."
Archmage Barbara, "The Years in Cassano"
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The loud bugle sound spread throughout the entire camp, and tens of thousands of soldiers from the Senat Legion slowly moved out to face the just-rising sun. Their neat steps brought great joy to the Cassano soldiers stationed at the Lancer Fortress on the opposite side. Extremely shocked, after spending four days sweeping through the villages near the Lancer Fortress, the last fortress east of the Iron Fist Castle, the commander of the Senat Corps finally lost his composure and decided to capture the city today. This fortress turns the new city of Iron Fist Castle, which is still under construction, into another woman without clothes.
"General Chase." A messenger galloped over on a war horse. He brought to the Chase Corps, one of the two elite legions of the Senat army's invasion of Cassano, the commander of another legion, Wo. According to the news released by Lun, just about 30 minutes ago, Warren had led his 60,000 troops to set up a formation north of Lancer Fortress, ready to attack at any time, and also divided 20,000 troops to garrison 30 kilometers north to prevent Reinforcements from the imperial capital,
"Please go back and tell General Warren immediately." The tall and thin General Chase, who was about 40 years old, said to the messenger: "In about an hour, our army will launch an attack on Lancer. If Cassano’s reinforcements have not arrived yet, we will meet him directly under the Iron Fist Castle.”
"Yes, Your Majesty General." After receiving the order, the ordering soldier ran back and forth on his way under the protection of more than a dozen soldiers.
Looking at the messenger who was slowly disappearing, General Chase turned his head and looked at the 50 trebuchets slowly being pushed out from the camp. He was secretly proud of himself. In fact, he and Warren's two armies did not attack at the beginning. In addition to first sweeping the surrounding strongholds to reduce the logistical pressure on your own army when attacking Iron Fist Castle, it is also necessary to transport wood from the Valo Mountains to make these powerful siege weapons.
These trebuchets can throw boulders weighing more than 100 kilograms directly to a place 1,500 meters away at a time. For a small fortress like Lancer, this is almost a gift from Hades. Of course, Chase threw them all at once. They were all taken out, more to frighten the enemy. The real purpose of these catapults is in Iron Fist Castle, not here.
"Are we going to attack? General, our formation has been prepared." The adjutant next to him shouted loudly,
"Wait a minute, we still have a while to make an appointment with Warren." Chase raised his head and looked at the sky, and said with a relaxed expression: "You won't even give our enemies such a small amount of time, will you? This is very dangerous. It’s not good, we need to learn to be kind and let them write a suicide note, and it won’t be too late for us to attack again.”
"Hahahaha." All the generals around Chase burst out laughing. Indeed, now that they have used 120,000 troops to besiege the Lancer Fortress with only 5,000 people, and also have such a huge number of stone-throwing vehicles, there is no chance of victory. Suspense, but the biggest suspense is how much time they will spend, whether it is 20 minutes or an hour, it will not exceed 2 hours anyway. If everything goes well, lunch can probably be enjoyed in Lancer Fortress.
After a while, General Chase looked up at the sky again and found that the time agreed with General Warren was almost there, so he waved his hand and gave the order to attack, and the 50 trebuchets slowly began to move forward. After reaching the shooting range, he immediately began to throw huge stones and burning wood towards Lancer Fortress. Soon, Lancer Fortress was engulfed in a sea of fire.
There was a loud bang, and the walls of Lancer Fortress could no longer hold up. After being hit by trebuchets for more than 40 minutes, a section of the wall collapsed, and the front of the Chase Army, which had been prepared for a long time, immediately used this The gap became the breakthrough point and a fierce attack began, while Cassano's soldiers stationed in the Lancer Fortress stubbornly relied on the fortifications to resist. The two sides fought fiercely until Chase frowned and threw in the fourth The brigade, that is, after continuously deploying 12,000 soldiers, finally captured the last fortress of the Iron Fist Castle in the east.
Chase frowned and walked up the wall of the dilapidated Lancer Fortress. Under his feet were the corpses of Cassano warriors who died in battle. The blood soaked the ground and dyed Chase's boots red. It was these guys who made him His legion lost a total of 6,000 people, and what happened next made him even more angry, because according to the battle report statistics of his men, there were only 2,000 Cassano soldiers who died in Lancer Fortress.
"2,000 people. Didn't the intelligence say that there are 5,000 people stationed here?" Chase thought very strangely: "Where are those 3,000 people? Are they transferred away, or the previous intelligence was wrong."
"General, what should we do now." Chase's adjutant asked softly about the legion's next move. After thinking for a while, Chase gave the order for the entire army to move forward. Maybe there was someone on Cassano's side. It's an unknown plan, but no matter what, as long as he and Warren's two legions surround the Iron Fist Castle, no matter how many tricks Cassano has, it will be useless.
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"Lancer Fortress fell, and all 2,000 defenders were killed." Adela said in an emotionless voice: "The enemy Chess Army has crossed Lancer Fortress and is approaching Iron Fist Castle. The vanguard is less than 30 meters away from us. Kilometers."
Ryan sat quietly on the chair and said nothing to Adela's words, while Vivian asked Adela: "What is your plan."
"Actually, I didn't expect you to come back so quickly. I originally thought you would arrive after tomorrow afternoon, but I didn't expect you to arrive yesterday evening. I have to say, the horses of the Royal Knights are really impressive. I'm envious." Adela said: "My previous plan was to shrink our troops as much as possible to avoid the greatest losses. Therefore, when Senat's army wanted to encircle the point for reinforcements and create pressure on us, I simply took advantage of it. Taking this opportunity, we moved all the people around Lancer Fortress to the rear."
"Not only that, because it is certain that Lancer Fortress will inevitably fall, I even secretly transferred 3,000 defenders back last night. Although these soldiers only belong to the garrison, this number of troops cannot be sacrificed casually for us. Now Our Cassano has a total of 30,000 troops stationed in Iron Fist Castle. The master’s three elite troops total 10,500 people, including 5,000 Iron Fist Castle guards, 5,000 shooters trained by Seres, and those magic apprentices. , in addition to the nearly 20,000 ordinary troops, they can consolidate the rear, but it may be a bit difficult to charge into the battle."
"Master, what is your plan? From yesterday to now, no matter what news you heard, you have been silent. Now the enemy has gone straight to the Iron Fist Castle." Arad looked at the silent Ryan anxiously , but Ryan still remained silent,
Everyone in the room turned their attention to Ryan, because the latter was their leader and the lord of the entire Cassano. When the enemy army pressed forward with superior force, Ryan rushed back quickly, but he was very hostile to Casano. Nuo didn't say a word about the situation, and just sat quietly like this for more than ten hours. What on earth was he going to do
Vivian whispered to Ryan: "Lian, please say a few words, even if it is to boost morale."
Ryan smiled at Vivian, looked around and saw Adams, Vivian, Adela, Barbara, Ceres and Moses, and spoke slowly: "I only have seven days."
Ryan's words were like a pebble thrown into a calm lake, immediately making waves in the lake. Everyone present was shocked. The enemy here was trying to calm down, but Ryan actually said that he only had seven days. After all, he had I only plan to come back and stay for seven days, or I plan to defeat the entire 120,000 elite enemy troops within seven days.
If these people present had not witnessed Ryan create one convincing record after another, they would definitely think that Ryan was crazy. However, due to the habit they had developed from fighting with Ryan before, they did not doubt Ryan's words. Just waiting silently for Ryan to continue speaking,
"The current situation is that we have fewer people and the enemy has more people. This is something that cannot be changed. The Imperial City will not send reinforcements. This is also something that cannot be changed." Ryan said with a nonchalant expression: "So we only have 30,000 people. To be precise, they are the more than 20,000 elite troops stationed in Iron Fist Castle. We can only use these people to deal with Senat's 120,000 elite troops. If we continue to mobilize garrisons from other places, it will not only affect local security, but also seriously affect the local security. There may be more problems, such as other guys who are on the border with us and are ready to take advantage of the situation."
"So, I have only one plan, and that is to have no plan." Ryan slowly said what he was thinking: "The situation that is most beneficial to the enemy at present is for us to have a main force battle. Very good, then we will accommodate them. , if possible, just do it near Iron Fist Castle. I don’t have much time. It will take about 2 days for them to gather here. So what we have to do now is wait, yes, wait, this is also what I The reason why I haven’t said a word since yesterday is because they are following my ideas completely and I don’t need to change this fact.”
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At the beginning of this chapter, I used some techniques that have been used badly by others, but I think it is more appropriate to use them here. I wonder if you will like them