Furlong Pass

There were white snowflakes floating in the sky, crystal clear ice hanging from the cliff hanging on both sides of the cliff hanging several meters long, in the vast land, the cold and biting wind fell a layer of white frost on the cold armor, tens of thousands of Fessan army infantry with cold air in their mouths, jumped out of the mountain pass with a long snake queue, and began to line up outside the valley, outside the mountain pass, a plain terrain of early winter, a team of cavalry horses' hooves trampled on the ground and the dry grass flew, and ran towards a high ground outside the valley at a gallop,

On the high ground, the mountain wind swept this series of dark gold patterns of golden cicada vine long cloak, a middle-aged general in red armor rode on a war horse, his eyes were blazing looking down on the ground in front of him, holding a horse whip with a golden grip in his hand, his cheekbones were very high, his eyes were rarely slender, and under his tall nose, he revealed a noble atmosphere different from that of the Central European Barro, which was a delicate feeling

"Master, the Emperor* is not aware of the arrival of our army, and is now smashing Nullen" The speeding cavalry stopped below him, and a flaxen-haired officer of the Fisher, who led the group, raised his head and shouted in advance

"Can you be sure! You must know that your judgment is likely to determine the life and death of tens of thousands of troops, and you must not be sloppy at all!" Pastanon's expression was stern, his horsewhip was wrapped in a knot in his hand, and his eyes looked at the generals under his command like knives, this army was his private army, and before receiving the order, Pastanon had already ordered the army to assemble, although he was against the war with the empire, but at this moment of national life and death, the battle of the country, he had already put aside his personal grievances and honors. Seeing that the domestic corps was transferred to the battlefield one by one, and his 40,000 elites did not receive orders for a long time, Pastanon also had a feeling of scolding his mother in his heart.

"It must be a bastard of the Ministry of Military Affairs, ignoring the difficulties of the war because of personal hatred, and putting tens of thousands of elites on hold!"

He personally went to Kyoto to ask for a meeting with King Fishan, but King Fishan's ambiguous attitude made him return to the fiefdom a little disheartened, and he must have been used as a reserve for the army! Before the situation of this great war is clear, he does not have to think about appearing on the battlefield. This position of reserve is a position akin to humiliation for any Fishan soldier.

If the battle situation is dominant, the front-line combat troops will eat and drink wildly, and the spoils of war will be exhausted, as if the meat on the bones has been gnawed away. If the battle situation is unfavorable, the fate of the reserve will be even more unbearable, and if you are lucky, you can get a good reputation for opening up the road and rescuing the main force.

Bad luck, he was designated as the palace army where the army retreated. It is normal for the enemies who have been chased all the way to swarm and eat the essence, and the main force of the kingdom that escaped safely may have to say "The combat strength of the palace army is weak." It doesn't even have the combat power to block for a while, it's just a wine bag and a rice bag, no wonder in such a tense situation, it's just used as a reserve force, it's a useless waste at all!"

Pastanon has seen too many of these things. In the past, relying on the king's trust and dukedom, it is not unheard of to use this kind of thing to rectify political enemies. It's just that he didn't expect that he would also be put into reserve one day, just when he was very bored analyzing the situation of the two armies on the map every day, the top-secret combat order of the Ministry of Military Affairs, which made him almost desperate, came magically.

This feeling of being reclassified from the abandoned son to the sequence made Pastanon excitedly read the battle order three times, the first time was happy, the second time was confused, and the third time was shocked, what is the situation, the Ministry of Military Affairs is not going to go to the heavily armed Bavaried region, nor the coastal defense line of the center of defense, but to ask his own corps to rescue Nuren on the eastern front,

The word rescue was like a needle piercing into the flesh, Pastanon's pupils constricted unnaturally, his hand holding this order trembled a little, and his mind was a little confused

As a soldier of Fessan, how can I not know the importance of Nullen, that is the eastern gateway of Feshan, Nulen is in a hurry, Helen's barrier has fallen, and the emperor * has magically entered Fesan from the eastern province of the Istanbul Empire, such news is a huge shock to anyone, it is no wonder that the Ministry of Military Affairs thinks of itself, at this time, all the troops in Feishan's country are like a bowstring taut, and it is difficult to move even a little, and the Ministry of Military Affairs still has troops to fill this hole, once New York is really emperor* Attacked, the eastern part of Fesan is completely exposed to the imperial front, and the other two lines will also have huge fluctuations

Fessan and the Istans have been fighting in the Nuren region for decades, and their understanding of the topography of the Nuren region is like a panorama in Pastanon's mind.

The terrain of Nuren has always been easy to attack and difficult to defend, that time, Fei Shan did not start a battle with Istanbul here with a heavy army cluster, and used the excitement of the corpse mountain and blood sea to block the pace of the Istanbuls, and the Falcon Emperor* has a sharp weapon Thor, which can be described as indestructible, no city, Helena Fortress has been lost, even if he throws his rescue troops into Nuren, the role he can play is only short-lived,

If you really want to close the eastern gate of the Emperor's breakthrough again, the only way to recapture Helena Fortress is to recapture it!

After a short period of consideration, Pastanon also came up with the idea of not rescuing Nuren, but the idea of the whole army taking a shortcut directly through the Furlong Pass and going straight to the Helena Fortress, the largest highland snow mountain in the Fershan Kingdom of Furlong, has snow all year round, snow falls in September, and the mountain is closed in October, and it will not be thawed until June next year. It is very unlikely that they will know about it in a short period of time, or even if they did, they would not think that Fessan's reinforcements would ignore Nuren, and as the Pastanon army marched closer to the Nuren side, the news from the East Emperor* became more and more detailed.

"The Emperor's strength to break through to Fessan's Eastern Front is not many, but more than 10,000 troops, only to take a surprise advantage, to take the solid Helena barrier in one fell swoop, but just like an arrow shot through the cowhide, there is no follow-up strength, this Emperor*, who was expected to expand the results of the battle, fell into a weak state after the failure of the attack on the Nuren Gate"

From the previous message. Pastanon's eyes lit up, and the hand holding the horsewhip couldn't help but clench together, this is providence. It was Heaven who sent this peerless military feat to him

I didn't expect to be so fierce as I was in Nuren, and I didn't expect it to be in Nuren, and it was delayed for three days by a mere 8,000 troops and did not break through, and the combat power of this emperor * should have reached the limit, but it was also, with more than 10,000 troops, he broke through the barrier of the Eastern Front and broke through Helena, who was defended by 5,000 people. Then he fought non-stop at Nuren, and almost stormed and took the city gates. With such a force, it is already very rare to be able to fight like this.

If there had been more troops, Nuren would have fallen long ago. It's hard to say whether I can really open the eastern gateway of Fesan, but now, it's impossible to do anything, because I've arrived, and the emperor* in front of me is already a tired army, what can I do to stop the 40,000 elite army that has been ready to attack for many days,

Annihilating 10,000 emperors* with such an advantage is a bit disgraceful to say,

But if it is in the current situation where the main forces of the two countries are about to fight. That's another story, hundreds of thousands of armies fighting, legions staggered with legions. The victory in the first battle determines the ups and downs of the morale of both sides, whether it is the emperor* capturing Nuren and opening the gap, or the Fessan army annihilating the emperor* who broke through, as long as the news reaches the main battlefield, it is a huge boost to the morale of the side. On the contrary, it is inevitable that the loser will be in turmoil. And such an important first battle was put in front of him in this way, what are you waiting for! It took just over a day for the Pastanon regiment to reach the Eastern Front, and then the army crossed the Furlong Mountain Road,

The Furlong Mountain Road under the ice and snow caused some losses to the Pastanon Legion, about a hundred people were frozen to death, and hundreds of people were frostbitten, but for the Pastanon Legion of 40,000 people, such losses were insignificant, "Even if it was ten miles away, the voice of the Imperial Thor could be heard like a dense thunder" The news brought by the scout in charge of reconnaissance proved Pastanon's conjecture, under normal circumstances, where Thor is, must be where the emperor's main force is, at this moment, the emperor's * I would never have imagined that 40,000 Fessan's army would cross Nuren and turn to pounce on Helena's fortress, just as the emperor had done from the eastern provinces, and he would write that shock on the emperor's face.

Riding on a majestic horse, Pastanon raised his sword with confidence, facing the sky, his eyes swept over the entire army of 40,000 below, spears like a forest, murderous men,

"Take Helena Fortress, everyone's bounty will be doubled, and those who climb the Helena Fortress for the first time will be promoted to three levels and have a bounty of 1,000!"

Pastanon let out a long roar, the long sword pointed at the sky, and the soldiers below immediately turned red, a thousand bounties plus three promotions, not to mention the soldiers, even those low-level officers were also excited, shouting loudly, morale like a rainbow, all the cold air that had just crossed the bottom of the snowy valley turned into blood, the private army has 40,000 elites, even if it is four to one, it is enough to annihilate this bold emperor * on the Nuren line, but the premise is that the Helena barrier must be taken in advance, otherwise who knows this emperor * Later, no more reinforcements were coming, only the gate was closed, and only by closing the gate could this reservoir dog be able to crush the splendor of the first victory of this superwar that would definitely go down in the history of O'Barro, the speed of the Pasta Nong army began to advance rapidly, as fast as thunder, and Helena, who did not have the main force, was not much more difficult for her own army than a strong man who pounced on a delicate young woman who was stripped naked.

Pastanon didn't know that just as he was rushing towards the Helena Fortress, in the direction of Nuren, countless imperial heavy infantry in black armor had already overflowed the Nuren city walls.

The indiscriminate bombardment of the Hundred Gates of Thor of the Empire destroyed the morale of the Fishan army, and the two cutting-edge central armies of the empire poured in like a tiger, and only a few thousand defenders of Nuren did not even support it for two hours, and more than 4,000 people under the commander Gledat were captured, Nuren fell, and the strength of the emperor on the Eastern Front had exceeded 40,000 at this time,

Helena Fortress, the defensive facilities on the city wall that originally belonged to the Fishan army, at this time all turned in one direction, and dozens of steel and iron imperial heavy crossbows were pushed on the city wall by the soldiers, and they were not directly pushed to the battlements, but were located two or three meters behind the battlements, bundles of fine iron crossbow arrows were stacked on the ground, and the imperial guard heavy crossbowmen who were squatting near the imperial ballista were all carefully crafted by military craftsmen, and the whole plate of steel protected the chest, and the arms were made of scale armor made of tough leather strips and armor pieces finely intertwined, on terms of protective ability. Second only to the Imperial main battle heavy infantry, and the crossbowmen selected are all strong Nord elites, which are specially used by the Empire to protect the Imperial Ballista combat.

The longbowmen of the Imperial Janissaries who withdrew from the direction of Nuren reverently slaughtered a red sap on the tail end of the arrow cluster, and then placed it flat in the gap behind the battlement, which was a ritual of the longbowmen, the red sap was the blood of the ox, and the Thorns believed that the blood of the ox could bring the protection of the ancestors and make the arrows fly farther. More penetrating,

In fact, the range of the Thorn Tile Longbowman is already terrifying. However, the Thorn Tile still adhered to this custom, and each Thorn Tile Archer had ox blood in the leather pouch on his waist, and in the eyes of the average Imperial soldier, it was felt to see the Thorn Tile Longbowman reverently smear the tail feathers of the arrows with ox blood. It's more like a sign of the devil marking the imminent harvest of life,

27,000 men accompanied the Falcon Majesty to support the Nuren attack, and the other 3,000 Imperial Guards Heavy Crossbow Army, together with the retreating Third Banner Regiment of the Central Army, were waiting for uninvited guests in the intact Helena Fortress, and the moment the Pastanon regiment jumped out of the Furlong Pass, an imperceptible messenger pigeon flew into the sky, and a huge pocket that was flanked in front and back unconsciously shrouded the heads of the 40,000 elite of Pastanon.

In the flat area from Nuren to Helena, the Empire's war knives have been sharpened, waiting to see blood! Rushing to the face, the slaughtering aura of the army was wrapped in the sound of the wind, whether it was the empire or Fei Shan, they didn't expect that the first collision that led to the decisive battle of hundreds of thousands of troops began here

The Pastanon Regiment appeared in front of the Helena Fortress at one o'clock in the afternoon. Dozens of infantry teams lined up in a lineup that marched forward in unison, which can be called a sea of people. The military flag swept all over the land, and the spear stabbing phalanx was lit up extremely neatly above each infantry team, and above each phalanx fluttered the golden three-striped military flag of the Pastanon family, like a fierce sword full of hideous murderous aura was about to be unsheathed.

Gaze swept over the Helena Fortress in front of him, Pastanon slowly raised his right hand, his face changed from excitement to solemnity, the imperial heavy infantry at the head of the city, the number of heavy crossbowmen was thousands, and the Falcon Emperor inserted in the city* The flag was also as tight as a knife in the wind, and a few days ago, there was still Faisan's military flag, under the military flag, the Imperial heavy infantry stood up a large shield almost human height in front, and the sharp spears in the back row stabbed out from between the shields, as if an iron wall was erected on the city wall, forming a mountain of guns that could make people feel cold even in the middle of summer, followed by the Imperial crossbowmen of Megatron Obarro, these crossbowmen had a range farther than the foot bow, and could pierce through the heavy armor of the Imperial crossbow for a hundred meters,

But so what?

The corners of Pastanon's mouth were confident, he didn't see any trace of the Imperial Thor on the city wall, which made him more sure of the certainty of victory, no matter how terrifying the other party put on, the fact that there was no Thor on Helena's Fortress is enough to prove that the other party is also in a hurry, without Thor to deter and suppress, the emperor * is more powerful from a distance, what is the difference between the others and the regular defense of the city?

With 40,000 elites, can't you take this fortress with thousands of people, at this time, more people is the advantage of victory!

"Attack!" Pastanon's raised right hand suddenly fell, and the sound of a trombone representing an all-out attack came from the direction of the formation, "boom" The sound of a piece of metal armor rubbing. "One, two, one, two" with a burst of stirring neat shouts. The improvised siege ladder creaked forward, the soldiers below squirmed like ants with shields, and in the sound of neat steps, tens of thousands of hoplites of the Pastanon regiment lined up in a phalanx swooped down on the Helena fortress, countless spears. A polished steel shield that glows red in the light. Like a sparkling river, "Assault!"

The heavy infantry began to accelerate, put down their spears in their hands, and rushed forward with their shields in an astonishing manner, like a torrent and tsunami bursting to destroy the fortress walls with a single blow! Thousands of surging in, under the reflection of the blood-red sun, the infantry line was like a long line of collapse quickly pressed, above the fortress, suddenly a white light flashed, crossbow arrows fell like a storm, in an instant, the first row of Fei Shan's soldiers were hit by this terrible counterattack momentum as if collapsed, the roaring heavy crossbow, like a scythe wielded by the god of death crashed into the pile of people, the flesh flew sideways, screaming and flying out. The stout crossbow bolt pierced* and then hit the shield of the queue behind, and the collision "either penetrated or crossed and spun around, and the people nearby were like bowling balls that had been hit." The forward attack queue composed of thousands of elites was scattered in an instant, the wounded soldiers and corpses were lying all over the ground, even if they were wearing heavy infantry armor, they were twisted and deformed by the heavy crossbow arrows, and the heavy warriors who had just risen to the top of the dragon and tiger had become a wailing all over the ground

Keep moving!

Under the military order, the army moved forward, this small fluctuation was immediately drowned, tens of thousands of people swarmed forward the attack line, just the shouts of the earth-shattering around the sky, it was enough to stimulate the adrenal glands of the soldiers, giving people a feeling like being attracted by a large whirlpool, what life and death were left behind, one by one the team rolled like a wave, covered by clusters of arrows, killed by heavy crossbows, swept by rows of dense arrows of longbowmen, or more huge phalanxes crashed into the city wall without fear of death, like a long snake beast winding forward to swallow the Helena fortress in front of him, (To be continued) I752