"Attention! Grass is coming! The steel crossbow is on the string! Get ready for the battle!"
This is a very common small hill in the southern province, but a tall stone sentry tower was built on the top of the small hill. There are trenches of different depths within a hundred meters around the watchtower, and some trenches are piled up behind some trenches. There are people-high earthen walls, and a long wooden horse is placed next to some ditches. If you want to reach the sentry tower, you have to go around these ditches for a long time before you can reach the thick wooden gate under the sentry tower. The sentry tower is not big and can only accommodate a hundred people at most. But such sentry towers can be seen everywhere in the western part of the southern province. The sentry towers formed a net, covering half of the southern province and gradually spreading to the east.
Nearly a thousand grass barbarians in simple leather armor, disheveled hair, and colorful faces painted on their faces stopped their horses at the foot of the mountain, far away from the sentry tower, and then removed a huge log shield from the following carriage. While waving all kinds of crude and random weapons in his hand, he hid behind the log shield and slowly marched towards the mountain while roaring to embolden himself.
This is a sentry tower at the forefront. The top of the tower is already on fire, and a wisp of blue smoke goes straight into the sky. This is a warning signal that the watchtower has been attacked. Similarly, blue smoke rose from several watchtowers around this watchtower, which showed that it was not a single watchtower that was attacked, but the entire frontier area was attacked by the enemy.
A soldier of the Rock Legion with a grass root in his mouth looked contemptuously at the grass man who was slowly climbing up the mountain. Although the number of enemies was ten times that of the soldiers stationed in the sentry tower, he still didn't take it seriously. , Spit out the grass roots in his mouth, he turned around and shouted: "Boss, these grass are really sick in the brain, have you forgotten the lessons of the previous few casualties? This time I got so many huge shields that I thought Being able to block the steel crossbow's shooting is really stupid, I don't know how many people will die this time before they can escape... "
A soldier next to him who was aiming with a steel crossbow raised his head and said with a smile, "Who will bet with me? I bet that if a hundred or so of them die, they will throw their shields and escape. I will bet one gold coin."
A bearded soldier came over, this is the person in charge of the sentry tower, the centurion and squadron leader. The Norton family's armed forces are different from other people's. Countries in Galintia generally have a team of 100 people, and 10 captains are divided into 100 people to assist the team leader in managing the team. As for the Norton family's armed forces, ten people make up a squadron, and the squadron leader is the tenth commander. Ten squadrons make up a squadron, and the squadron leader is the centurion. Then there are five squadrons with 500 people to form a large group, five large groups plus a logistics and supply group, a total of 3,000 people form a battalion, five battalions with 15,000 people form a corps, and four corps with 60,000 people form a corps .
The bearded man unceremoniously slapped the soldier on the back of the head who was clamoring to gamble, and cursed: "Gambling ass, your monthly salary is thrown into gambling, how much you lose and how old you are, what should you save?" Consider starting a family with some money, and think about what to do after retiring. Be alert to me now. Although our armor defense is very good, these savage poisonous arrows are not vegetarian. Last time Kerry Mostly, I accidentally took an arrow in the elbow and had to cut off that arm. I hope you will stand in front of me intact after this battle is over, understand?"
When nearly a thousand grass barbarians crowded to the side of the trench and began to dig and fill the trench with their weapons in a hurry, the steel crossbow on the sentry tower finally showed its power. A sentry tower and a squadron of hundreds of people are stationed, and they are also equipped with twenty steel crossbows. The sentry tower was twelve meters high and divided into four floors. Five steel crossbows were arranged from the second floor to the top floor. Except that the top floor is not covered, the steel crossbows on the lower three floors all shoot from the firing holes. To put it bluntly, this sentry tower is actually Lorist's move here from the bunker of the little Japanese devil seen in the movie of his previous life.
All the steel crossbow shooters in the sentry tower were treacherous, they didn't shoot at the huge log shields, they aimed specifically at the savages who were digging and filling trenches. As the grass barbarians fell down one by one, all the grass barbarians were crowded behind the shields, and no one was willing to come out to fill the trench. Except that the archers behind the shield randomly launched lobs in the direction of the sentry tower, but they were only more than a hundred meters away and couldn't aim directly. went.
This is simply a farce, it doesn't look like a battlefield at all, the nearly thousand grass barbarians don't seem to come to attack but to be targets. Fifty or sixty corpses shot by arrows were scattered around the trench, and the trench was only filled a little, not even half of it. As a result, all the savages hid behind the huge log shields and did not dare to stand up. The Caoman was so strangely deadlocked.
If these grass barbarians spread out and attacked regardless of casualties, nearly a thousand grass barbarians may only need to lose two or three hundred people to attack under the sentry tower. If they are lucky, they can split the thick wooden gate and capture the watch tower. Of course, this means that the sentry tower has no other countermeasures. But the problem now is that none of the savages are willing to be the victims of the attack. They are here to rob, not to die so that their companions can gain something and become victors.
The bearded man looked at the eight huge log shields erected beside the ditch, stroked his beard and said to himself: "It's really difficult for them to push such a big shield up the mountain, but now they are hiding behind and can't come out. what to do?"
One of the soldiers said, "Boss, how about we get on the rocket?"
The bearded man shook his head: "It's useless, such a big log shield, it would take a long time to burn it down. It's a pity that the thunderbolt catapult was not assigned to us, otherwise a stone ball could destroy this shield."
"Head, why don't we focus on shooting a shield to see what effect it will have." The soldier who liked to bet suggested.
"Okay, let's try then." The bearded man said.
The target was set on the log shield in the middle, and with the command of the bearded man, twenty lightning-like iron crossbow bolts were shot at the huge log shield in an instant. The shield shook a few times, but its position did not move. The bearded man said with some disappointment: "It's useless, the shield can block it..."
Before the words fell, cheers from the soldiers came from around: "Head, look, look, the shield is down!"
The shield that was hit by twenty crossbow arrows fell straight to the back, and fell apart in the process of falling, revealing nearly a hundred grass barbarians hiding behind the shield and several shield logs crushed to the ground unlucky. The bearded man was overjoyed: "Quickly wind up and shoot the rabbit!"
It was indeed as simple as shooting a rabbit. The grass barbarians who lost their log shields ran around, except for half of the grass barbarians who were lucky enough to squeeze behind the rest of the shields, and half of the grass barbarians became the targets of steel crossbow shooters. Cleverly lying on the ground and hiding behind the ridges and the roots of the felled trees, they escaped. The remaining forty or fifty grass barbarians became ghosts under the arrows in three rounds of steel crossbow shooting, and several of them headed down the mountain. The fleeing grassman didn't escape the range of the steel crossbow, and was pierced through the chest by the crossbow arrow shot from behind...
When the second log shield was shot down by twenty crossbow arrows, all the savages hiding behind the shield couldn't stand still anymore. They gave up their shields and fled down the mountain with a cry. They discarded their weapons and even There are also those who roll down the mountain with their heads in their arms. They all know that the huge log shield cannot give them shelter. Sooner or later, they will be shot to pieces like those two shields. It is better to escape early than to become an arrow target. sky.
It's just that the horses are nearly 400 meters away from the sentry tower, which is beyond the shooting range of the sentry tower's steel crossbow. The previous few attacks have taught Cao Man a very deep lesson, so that they will no longer park their war horses near the steel crossbow. within range. Even as the sentry tower steel crossbow kept chasing and shooting, most of the grass barbarians still ran out of range. When these grassmen were panting less than sixty or seventy meters away from the horses, a large group of light cavalry suddenly rushed out from behind the hill. They swept over like a strong wind, and the grassmen who had thrown away their weapons suddenly looked like panicked chickens. Being captured by an eagle, he fled in all directions. It's just that two legs can't run with four legs, and soon under the sharp blade of Qingqi's fast horse, one by one grass man fell to the ground, blood stained a large area of land under the mountain.
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"See, Grand Duke Sabaji, this is the step-by-step strategy adopted by the four northern alliances. They used this kind of sentry towers to form a net, and some of the two sentry towers are four to five hundred meters apart. Some are only two or three hundred meters apart, and even the guard towers are covered by their crossbow arrows. I once ordered a thousand cavalry brigade to go through the middle of the two guard towers, but I didn’t expect that the distance between the two guard towers There are also sentry towers at the back of the towers, and as a result, my thousand cavalry brigade only ran back about 400 people under the crossbow arrows from the three sentry towers."
Grand Duke Fesabrun told an old man in gorgeous armor beside him that they had just stopped on a small hill in the distance with dozens of riders, and witnessed the grassman's failure to attack the sentry tower and the scene of being slaughtered by Qingqi.
"For a sentry tower like this, there are no more than a hundred troops stationed inside. The only thing to worry about is that the four alliances in the Northland have obtained so many siege crossbows from somewhere. However, according to our observations, these siege crossbows seem to be It has been improved, the launch speed is faster, the movement is convenient, and it is very accurate. Just now I sent more than 10,000 grass barbarians to attack ten sentry towers. As you can see, these grass barbarians are not material for attacking tough battles. The field battle is okay, but there is no way to attack these sentry towers.
In order to pull out these sentry towers, it is necessary to have well-disciplined and experienced infantry to attack. Our Feisabrun family are all light cavalry, and we can't do anything about these sentry towers, and these sentry towers limit the role of our light cavalry. Your Royal Highness, I hope you can urge the other three duchies to send reinforcements as soon as possible. We are all in the same camp now. We must restrict the four northern families from capturing the southern province anyway, otherwise everyone will have no peace in the future. "Grand Duke Feisabrun said very frankly.
It is now July 12th, 1778, in the calendar year 1778 of Gellint. After the Norton family's Rock Legion arrived in the southern province, the Grand Duke Fessabrun has been confronting the four Northland coalition forces for nearly 50 days.
After the Rock Legion arrived, they set up camp in front of the defensive camp set up by the Grand Duke Fesabrun. The Grand Duke didn't care. It was common sense to set up the barracks first and then launch an attack. He just ordered his two legions to prepare for defense.
But what the Grand Duke Fesabrunn didn't expect was that the Rock Legion had set up this barracks for too long. On the first day, the second day, and the third day, the Grand Duke finally felt that something was wrong. The one set up is not a military camp, but a defensive position, which is more rigorous and difficult to conquer than the defensive camp arranged by the Grand Duke. Grand Duke Feisabrun immediately caught him blind. What the hell is going on here to set up a defensive position? Who is the attacking party
After finally waiting for the Panshi Legion to set up the defensive camp, the Panshi Legion still did not launch an attack, but instead began to build these sentry towers all over the place. Under the protection of the Angry Bear Knights, it took only ten days to complete the construction of each sentry tower. As long as the materials continuously transported from the rear to build the sentry tower are assembled, it will become a solid stone fortress-shaped sentry tower. Of course, this is also thanks to the sufficient supply of ivy glue.
When the Grand Duke Fesabrun discovered that these sentry towers had become insurmountable barriers that hindered the legion's scout light cavalry, he immediately ordered the reserve army that had just arrived to attack these sentry towers. However, the Grand Duke regretfully found that the fierce reserve army had nothing to do with these sentry towers, and instead suffered heavy damage. When the Grand Duke ordered the reserve army to retreat, the Knights of the Raging Bear, who had been lying in wait for a long time, suddenly broke out and caught the reserve army by surprise. The reserve army lost almost half of its troops and fought a big defeat before retreating.
The Grand Duke of Feisabrun was caught in a dilemma. He found that the invincible light cavalry on the grassland had no use in the southern province. Cavalry play space. Although such a sentry tower could still be captured if he was not afraid of heavy casualties, Grand Duke Feisabrun knew very well that the gains outweighed the losses, and capturing a sentry tower with the casualties of hundreds of family soldiers was purely a loss-making business. It only takes ten days to build a sentry tower, but it takes several years to train a qualified light cavalry...
Seeing that more and more sentry towers are being built and occupying more and more places, the helpless Grand Duke Fesabrun began to consider whether to abandon the traffic points he currently occupies and choose another dangerous place to follow the example of the four northern alliances. When he was at the sentry tower, he finally waited for good news: the Grand Duke of the Principality of Sabaji personally led 20,000 reinforcements to the southern province, and came to join the Grand Duke of Fesabrun.
Grand Duke Fesabrun was overjoyed, and he turned his idea to the reinforcements from the four principalities in the middle. His family was all light cavalry and lacked infantry for attacking fortifications. But the reinforcements sent by the four principalities in the central region are basically infantry, and they just let them conquer these outposts. At that time, the border rangers of their own family can look for opportunities to inflict heavy damage on the four northern alliances. Unknowingly, Grand Duke Fessabrun's thinking has taken a big turn, and he doesn't even realize it. Now he wants to fight to the death with the Norton family's armed forces, as long as the Norton family's armed forces stop hiding behind those posts Behind towers and heavily defended positions.
In order to strengthen his persuasiveness, the Grand Duke Feisabrun specially selected more than 10,000 voluntary fighters who had violated discipline among the savage tribes who came to join the battle and ordered them to attack the guard towers at the forward position in order to redeem what they had lost. crimes committed. Of course, the Grand Duke also promised generous rewards after victory, and specially prepared huge log shields for them to resist the crossbow arrows shot from the sentry tower. Although the Grand Duke himself did not have any hope that the rabble of grassman would be able to capture these sentry towers, the clumsy offensive performance of these grassmans still made the Grand Duke feel ashamed. It is indeed a fact that cavalry is really not good at attacking tough situations.
Grand Duke Sabaji is also a great swordsman with extremely rich battle experience, but he is a first-level great swordsman, and he was forced to be promoted successfully by relying on rare medicines. After watching this savage assault performance, he smiled and said to the Grand Duke Fesabrun: "His Royal Highness, the four principalities in the central region are very concerned about the war in the southern province. This is related to the long-term stability of the four principalities in the central region. We are determined to The southern province is not allowed to fall into the hands of the four alliances in the north of the Kingdom of Antinac. Apart from the 20,000 troops I brought, the other three grand dukes will soon bring 20,000 reinforcements each. In addition, we will also Bring a large amount of aid to your family.
Since we are allies, the four central duchies will assume the responsibility of allies. We will not sit back and watch your family fall into the situation of fighting against the invasion of the Antinak Kingdom alone. As for how to overcome the sentry tower tactics of the four northern alliances, we can wait for the other three grand dukes to come and discuss a countermeasure. No matter what, we will stand with your family and fight back the claws of the Antinac Kingdom extending to the southern province. "
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