"Boom" a rough wooden raft fell down and formed a wooden bridge across the three-meter-wide ditch. A centurion from the Principality of Handra, wearing a black iron helmet inlaid with iron leather and with a bunch of white feathers on it, waved his sword and shouted: "Quick, hurry up and push the second trench cart!"
A black shadow was like lightning, and with a "whoosh" from far to near, the centurion's body flew up, and the crossbow arrows shot from the sentry tower flew him three or four meters away, and the centurion who fell on the ground He struggled to touch the tail of the crossbow arrow that pierced his chest, but he spat out a mouthful of blood as soon as he struggled, then rolled his eyes and died...
The death of the centurion made the centurion under his command chaotic for a while, but immediately another centurion rushed over. He was not as brave as the previous centurion, daring to stand by the ditch, but hid in a car Behind the shield cart built of logs, shouting and cursing finally calmed down the hundred-man team pushing several trench carts and continued to push the trench carts forward. At the same time, the centurion commanded his centurion team to launch lob shots at the three guard towers in front.
This is the second offensive and defensive battle of the Southern Province. The time is July 4th, 1778 in the Gelinte Yatong calendar. It has been a month or so since the first offensive and defensive battle of the Southern Province. In the past month, the armed forces of the Feisabrun family and the reinforcements from the four central principalities have cut down several nearby mountains and forests, and built a large number of offensive equipment and two-wheeled shield vehicles for defense against crossbow arrows. After the rest, they launched another attack on the family armed forces of the four northern alliances commanded by Lorist.
From the defensive position of the big camp where the Panshi Legion is located to the left side of the relatively flat and wide space for more than ten miles, there are everywhere beacons, swords, swords, horns, shouts of killing, and the constant sound of war drums. , the only wish at this moment is to defeat the enemy and let oneself survive.
Looking down from a height, the elite infantry of the four principalities in the central part are like waves at high tide, surging up one after another, and the sentry towers are like reefs in the huge waves, welcoming them again and again. The shock still stands. The crossbow arrows fired non-stop from all the sentry towers under attack caused bloody flowers among the turbulent crowd...
But in the past month, the troops of the four principalities in the central region have prepared a large number of siege equipment. Dealing with these sentry towers is simply a sledgehammer. The trench carts are pushed to the side of the trench and put down the rafts, and the trenches are lost. In order to block the attack, two-wheeled shield vehicles built of logs covered the attacking soldiers and reached under the sentry tower. Soldiers wielding huge axes opened the thick wooden door for entering and leaving the sentry tower. Soon the battle was at the sentry post. The tower rang. There were even wooden siege vehicles that were pushed under the sentry tower, and large holes were dug out after two or three visits to the sentry tower. Fighting, falling down one by one...
The grass barbarian cavalry who attacked the defensive position of the Rock Legion's camp, but the 20,000 grass barbarians who launched the attack dismounted and became infantry. Escorted by the Third Frontier Ranger Regiment of the Fesabrunn Family, they launched an attack, but their cooperation was not as dexterous as those of the infantry in the four central duchies. It took more than two hours to attack three times, except for the three front trenches. There were two or three thousand corpses left outside the five trench cars, and there was no further progress.
Lorist was stationed on a mound in the middle of the camp, and watched as the savage infantry in front of the camp's defensive position retreated again, leaving one or two hundred corpses behind. But his face was gloomy. There is no joy in repelling the enemy. . Because just now Lorist received a report that the forty-seven outpost towers at the forefront of the flat ground on the left were either captured, collapsed and set on fire, or fell into the hands of the enemy. The family soldiers guarding the forty-seven outpost towers were basically all fighting. To die, three trenches were dug around the sentry tower to surround the sentry tower, so that the soldiers guarding the sentry tower had no way to evacuate, and could only choose to die with the enemy.
It's a cocoon. The sentry tower tactics have a good restraint effect against light cavalry, but they are useless against infantry who are good at attacking fortifications. If you are willing to pay a higher price for casualties, then you can push them over when the enemy's forces are superior. These soldiers guarding the towers are almost like turtles in an urn, and they can only fight the enemy desperately to make enough money.
I still don't have enough experience. The tactics of using hot weapons in the era of cold weapons are not applicable. No matter how strong the steel crossbow is, it can't penetrate the shield car made of logs. If the shield made of logs relies on manpower, it can be cracked by concentrating steel crossbows for shooting, but the enemy can’t do anything if the shield built of logs is mounted on a two-wheeled vehicle. With a support point, even if the shooting breaks, it will not affect the people hiding behind. . Coupled with the trench car, as long as the enemy gets close to the steel crossbow of the sentry tower, there will be no shooting angle, and the guards of the sentry tower will have to fight the enemy in close quarters.
"Is Tiger Tiger still holding on?" Lorist asked.
"Your Highness, Lord Ross is still holding on, but when he led a regiment of Lancers to support the first sentry line at the front, he was covered by enemy longbowmen's lob shots, and he was injured a lot..." the messenger replied.
"How did this happen? Didn't the steel crossbow of the chariot fight back?" Lorist was a little annoyed.
"Your Highness, the steel crossbow of the chariot couldn't move forward, and was blocked behind the third line of defense by the trenches, and the range was not enough. Lord Ross also led the Lancers forward and passed the intersection of the trenches on the first line of defense. Seeing the lob shot of the enemy's longbowman..." the messenger said nana.
Lorist really wanted to slap himself, but it was obviously his own fault. He had set up three defense lines of sentry towers on the ground more than ten miles to the left. The first and second lines were more than two hundred meters apart. The first road and the second road are more than 300 meters apart. The problem is that the sentry towers on the first and second lines of defense have been ordered to dig trenches between Zhoubian and the sentry towers. If you want to pass through, you have to turn around for a long time. At first, you thought you could stop the enemy's attack, but the enemy used A trench car makes the trench useless. These trenches did not add difficulties to the enemy, but now they have become a problem that hinders the reinforcement front on their own side.
well! I thought that when I used the sentry tower tactics to restrain the light cavalry of the Fesabrunn family, everyone applauded, so no one raised any objections when I ordered the digging of the trench, and now I know that I made a big mistake. No, Lorist couldn't stay here in the camp anymore, turned his head and told El: "Send someone to inform Bodfinger, I'll go to see Ross on the left wing of the battlefield, and ask him to guard the camp. The military flag doesn't move, and your guard battalion don't follow me to avoid too much noise, just ask Reddy to bring a squadron to follow me. Also, order the Thunderbolt Catapult Battalion of Ovekis and the Angry Bear Knights of Terman Move secretly to the left wing and stand by, since the four central principalities have worked so hard for that old fellow Feysabrun, they should just leave their lives there."
"Yes, Your Highness." El turned around and explained a few words, and the three guards galloped down the mound.
"El, if these savages in front of the camp suddenly attack desperately, you can ask Bodfinger to retreat gradually to give way to the defensive position in front, as long as you can hold the camp. In addition, if the battle is urgent, you can bring guards Do you understand?" Just as he was about to steer his horse away, Lorist thought of something again and told El a few more words before galloping towards the left flank with Schwader, Reddy and a hundred guards go.
"Your Highness, why are you here?" Tiger Rose had a blood-stained bandage wrapped around his left shoulder.
"Why did you lose the lottery?" Lorist asked with concern.
Tiger Ross smiled embarrassedly: "I rushed too fast, and was shot by the longbowmen. I didn't notice it, and got hit by an armor-piercing cone-headed arrow on the shoulder. Fortunately, the shoulder armor is strong, and I only opened it. It's a small cut, it hurts the flesh, it's okay."
"Are you all right? Is it poisoned? Has the pharmacist checked it?"
"I've seen it, and I took a bottle of antidote. The wounds have been healed, and it won't affect my battle. You see..." Tiger Rose pretended to be relaxed and waved his left hand: "Your Highness, don't do this for me." I'm worried about a little injury, it's really okay."
Lorist nodded and turned his head to look forward. At this moment, the battlefield had calmed down.
"Your Highness, the enemy is resting. Although they captured the forty-seven sentry towers on the first line of defense at the forefront, their casualties are not low. I estimate that it is more than 10,000. Our soldiers guarding the towers are basically It’s not a loss if you exchange one for two or three.” Tiger Ross quickly introduced the situation of the battle.
Because this is a flat terrain, Lorist arranged three watchtowers in the shape of a font here. The casualties he paid were also very large. Looking from a distance with a binoculars, Lorist could see the infantrymen of the four central principalities busy cleaning up the battlefield, loading the bodies of their dead soldiers one by one into the carriages and transporting them to the rear. There are still some soldiers who are resting, and several brigades brought up from the rear are overhauling the offensive equipment. If you listen carefully, you can hear the faint sound of repairing log shields from over there.
Looking up at the position of the sun in the sky, it is still around ten to eleven o'clock in the morning. It is very likely that the enemy will launch an attack after lunch. The superiority of troops occupied this place, and then the border rangers of the Feisabrun family could go around to the rear of the camp to harass and guerrilla, forcing Lorist to withdraw from the southern province.
"Order, the guards in the guard tower on the second line of defense pack up their steel crossbows and withdraw from the guard tower immediately," Lorist ordered.
Tiger Ross was shocked: "Your Highness, no, there are sentry tower guards. If the four principalities in the middle want to conquer our three lines of defense, at least they will lose more than half of their troops. The sentry tower guards the soldiers, but we can easily deal with the rest of the enemies... "
Lorist shook his head: "Our family soldiers shouldn't fight the enemy like this. Even if it's a one-to-ten ratio, I think it's too bad. And when they capture our three lines of defense, I believe in the frontier defense of the Feisabrun family. It's time for the Ranger Legion and the Reserve Legion to enter the field. The enemy will never give us a chance to clean up and take revenge on the infantry of the four principalities in the middle. Once those rangers sneak into our rear through this loophole, then we will lose The initiative of the entire battlefield. Withdrawing the sentry tower does not mean that we will not fight. In fact, we have given up our advantage by guarding the sentry tower... "
"Advantage?" Tiger Ross blinked in confusion: "Your Highness, what is our advantage?"
Lorist laughed: "Although our strength is smaller than the enemy's, our advantage lies in offense and field battles. Don't you forget? Look at the distance between here and the second line of defense, there are a total of three hundred and forty Meters away, this flat land is more than ten miles long, enough to hold hundreds of thousands of horses. We are here along the guard towers of the third line of defense. The enemy must start a field battle with us if they want to break through this line of defense. Give up The sentry tower on the second line of defense, the enemy will want to rely on the advantage of victory and strength to start a field battle with us, hehe, as for the field battle, who are we afraid of?"
Lorist's plan was very simple. The two Golden Knights, Tiger Ross and Pachiko, each led a Flying Tiger Corps and a Philim Family's Flying Horse Corps, with a total of 50,000 horses, forming a battle formation on the left and right wings, while Malek's The Chariot Steel Crossbow Corps and the Light Cavalry Corps, one of the two regiments sent by Earl Shaheen, and the Heavy Infantry Corps sent by the Kenmes family served as the center line, with nearly 40,000 people. Lay out a battle formation. The strength of the four northern alliances preparing for field battles is about 90,000, plus Earl Shaheen's light infantry regiment guarding the sentry tower on the third defensive line and the sentry tower guards withdrawn from the second defensive line in front, The total force is about 100,000.
The retreat of the sentry tower guards on the second defensive line quickly alarmed the enemies who were resting on the first defensive line. They found that the watch tower guards rushed over after abandoning the sentry towers and occupied the empty space. There was a burst of cheers from the sentry tower, and it could be seen that occupying the second line of defense boosted the morale of the enemy. However, they also soon saw the armed forces of the four northern alliances in front of the third line of defense, and the cheers gradually died down. Perhaps they have realized that although a brutal battle has been avoided, a more bloody field battle is waiting for them...
Soon the enemy reacted. The enemy who first occupied the second line of defense began to use the sentry tower to make a posture to guard against sneak attacks, and then a large number of soldiers with various tools came up and began to fill the second line of defense. The trenches on the defense line, and then the shield vehicles built of logs were pushed to the front to form a line, and finally the infantry brigades moved forward in a battle formation.
"It seems that the enemy is preparing to fight us in the field, but it will take a few hours for them to adjust, blow the rest signal, let everyone relax, and rebel in charge of logistics, so that everyone can have a good meal and raise Enough energy and energy to prepare for the fight in the afternoon." Lorist ordered.
"Yes, Your Highness."
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