What stunned Hegma was that a mass of black things appeared in the bamboo forest behind the Kastark Empire Army's position. What was this? A flock of birds? No, they all moved in a certain pattern, so they couldn't be alive. . . . . . Then what could it be? A catapult
The three words that suddenly popped up almost made Hegmar fall off his horse. How could this be possible? How could those defeated soldiers have so many trebuchets? It looked like it was impossible for hundreds of trebuchets to produce so many. At least there must be thousands of trebuchets attacking at full force? Not to mention that the Kastark army, which arrived half a day earlier than them, did not have the time and ability to produce. Even if they did, they could not find so many suitable materials nearby? The wood for making trebuchets alone was not something they could collect. Questions popped up in his mind one after another, but at this moment, it was definitely not suitable for him to think so much. How to solve the crisis in front of him was the most important thing.
But before Hegmar Company made the decision on whether to let the army continue to advance or retreat immediately, the dark cloud of falling rocks had already covered the battlefield. Due to the different elasticity of bamboo and the fact that the rocks were all locally sourced, the falling rocks were not very accurate at all. Although the main landing point was still about 200 meters in front of the defense line as originally planned, the overly scattered landing points even hit the Senke Federation's light cavalry and the Kastark Empire's bamboo spearmen.
Hegmar and Carsent, the two highest commanders of this battle, also followed the falling rocks to the battlefield. Fist-sized rocks would normally hit them directly, which would only cause them pain. However, after being sent into the sky by the elastic force of the bamboo, the kinetic energy of the falling rocks caused great suffering to the infantry. Those soldiers who had some protection could still use the various fig leaves in their hands to resist, but the archers did not even have the slightest room to dodge. Once they were hit, even if they did not die, they would have lost their combat effectiveness.
Hundreds of thousands of stones fired continuously (a bent bamboo can hold several stones at the back end, and tens of thousands of bamboos can throw hundreds of thousands of stones, and firing is even simpler, just cut the rope tied at the back with a knife, and then it can be fired immediately. One person can definitely fire hundreds of times in a minute. In addition, the bamboo catapults they made are absolutely shocking enough) caused the infantry of the Senke Federation to fall into chaos. But at this time, the archers of the Kastek Empire also began to take advantage of the situation. They had not yet recovered from the tens of thousands of stones, and when they resisted those arrows, they were more unbearable than the cavalry who were attacked by arrows for the first time. Those soldiers who were confused by the stone attack even turned their backs to the enemy archers.
The 20,000 infantrymen only realized after two consecutive volleys of arrows from the Kastark Empire Army that they were not only facing the stones falling from the sky, but there were still a large number of archers waiting for them in front of them. They originally thought that the enemy had run out of arrows, but this was just wishful thinking on their part.
As the signal for the Senke Federation to retreat was issued, the surviving Senke Federation troops retreated like a tide, leaving only tens of thousands of corpses and abandoned wounded soldiers for the Kastark Empire Army.
From the beginning to the end of the war, the total time was only 2 hours, but the result was so tragic. The Black Wolf Legion suffered the most painful lesson in decades. In this war, more than 19,000 soldiers of the entire army of more than 70,000 people fell forever in this short 1,000-meter distance, and nearly 3,000 soldiers were injured or knocked unconscious and became prisoners of the enemy. Among the soldiers who were withdrawn, thousands of them were injured to varying degrees. The soldiers who can attack normally in the entire army now are only half of those in the heyday of the legion. (The Black Wolf Legion has 8 divisions. Before the protagonist arrived at this time and space, more than 10,000 people were killed and wounded in order to relocate and destroy the two local legions in the eastern territory of Kastek. After a small amount of supplementation, it has 7 divisions.)
Looking at the data submitted by his men, Hegma fiercely crushed the piece of paper to pieces and threw it forward angrily. . . . .
"Set up camp! Everyone build fortifications, we will wait for the Brown Bear Legion and the Magician Corps in the rear..." After a long pause, Hegma reluctantly issued the order to hold on. After all, this was not the time to show off. With 40,000 light cavalry, facing the four infantry battalions and two complete light cavalry divisions, plus most of the heavy cavalry division, no matter how arrogant he was, he would not dare to say that he could defeat the enemy in a head-on battle, let alone at a time like now when the host and the guest were in different positions.
Hegma sincerely felt lucky that he had decisively ordered the entire army to retreat immediately after the infantry suffered a round of attacks and took advantage of the gap when the enemy catapults were reloading. If they had suffered another round of attacks, not to mention the infantry, even the light cavalry that followed would have suffered huge losses.
But he didn't know that most of those catapults were disposable, and after launching them, they would never cause any damage to his army again unless he put in a lot of effort.
As for this battle, the happiest people were Carsente and I. Not only did I save my life temporarily, but I also gained the respect of all the soldiers in the army because of this battle. After all, it was my strategy that caused them to make the enemy's 30,000 people lose their combat effectiveness at the cost of only 300 deaths. Except for those officers who looked at me with strange eyes from time to time, I felt that I could finally start to face this world and had the confidence to integrate into them.
As for Carsente, he was originally worried that his position would be lost due to the defeat he had suffered in the battles he had experienced some time ago. But now it was different. In less than 2 hours of fighting, he had severely damaged the trump card army of the Senke Federation with a remnant army, and forced the opponent to switch from active attack to passive defense. All of this would definitely offset the failure he had encountered before. As long as he could hold on until the arrival of the 223rd and 224th Legions, it would be his most perfect performance.
The more Carsen thought about this treasure he had picked up from the 223rd Legion, the more satisfied he was. He secretly decided that as soon as he returned to the territory, he would do everything he could to win him over. As long as he could work for him, whether he wanted a noble title or money and beauty, he would do his best to satisfy him. . . . .
Arnold. Su Hua... .Sorry, I always post the code immediately, but these days even IE browser is against me, it is difficult to log in to Qidian, so it is quite late, please forgive me, 5555 (to be continued)