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In July, after a period of suppressed tension and busyness, the situation in Larens, which was related to the entire battle situation of Nord, became more and more eye-catching, and for this battle, the Nord Kingdom, which was already riddled with holes, used its last strength to eat, and forcibly recruited and mobilized the soldiers of the local lords.
Finally, on the basis of the original 25,000 men, about 13,000 reinforcements were mobilized from various regions, claiming to be 40,000 to the outside world, and all of them were filled in the defense line of Gerlarence without reservation, so that its strength increased to 40,000, and finally had the strength to fight with the 50,000 Falcon army
And the Geralens, the situation is not optimistic, the enemy who has not been seen is the most terrible, although the shadow of the Falcon army in the south has not been seen, but the front-line soldiers have been required to eat and sleep on the city wall, and the front-line officers who led the team were even required to make the white shroud wrapped in their own corpses into battle flags, for a time the entire city wall of Geralence was full of fluttering white long belts, blown by the wind, making a crackling sound in the air, the city was full of vegetarian, revealing a bit of bleakness and tragedy
"Run away, kill them all!" These strict and even somewhat perverted orders were also issued along with the military regulations, which undoubtedly made the already nervous and tired front-line combat soldiers complain, wearing armor and holding weapons in their arms, seemingly standing guard, but in fact their heads were napping against the battlements, and the Nord soldiers abound on the city roads of Gerlarens,
During one of his rounds, Crimson discovered this, he was a very hardworking and self-strict man, and when he was in Kyoto, he had a habit of patrolling the city once a night, even though his eyes were red like rabbits, and this habit became two patrols in Geralens, and sometimes even three times
Although Gerlarence is only a small town, it takes more than an hour to go around the outer city road, not to mention stopping from time to time to check the soldiers' weapons and carefully study the situation of the city's defenses, so frequent that several regiment commanders who initially followed Crimson Cord to patrol chose to pretend to be sick to dodge Crimson Cord in the end.
In order to carry out his plan to be present with the castle, Crimson not only waited on the city walls, but also formed 6 reserve units of more than 6,000 Rok pikemen hired from him, and began to assemble in the streets of the castle during a patrol. Crimson ordered a brutal horse trampling law in public, executed a soldier who almost fell asleep from the city wall, and demoted the squad leader and squadron leader above him, which shocked the whole army and rejuvenated the sleepy guard legion.
On July 22nd, the long-awaited Falcon army finally appeared outside the city of Gerareens, probably because the large army was still climbing over the mountains, and there were not many Falcon troops approaching Geralys, about only about one flag group.
These cavalrymen on fierce war horses, carrying strange curved long knives on their waists, carrying round cavalry shields and long-ranging cavalry crossbows behind them, moved and ran, the speed was like the lightning of the falcon in the sky, bold and violent, showing extremely superb horse ability, some daring falcon cavalry even circled less than 150 meters away from the city wall,
They tend to look at the city in front of them with fierce eyes, or make all kinds of dangerous provocative actions to attract the archers on the city wall to shoot arrows at them, and if someone shoots at them, they will see the cluster of arrows flying for a while, and then the falcon cavalry will let out a very proud laugh in his mouth, and then shoot an arrow back at the city head with the assault crossbow on his back, and often fall off the city wall after the bowstring shakes...,
"It's the Thunder Cavalry of Varisian. Fei Hongsuo said with a frown, his face was a little blue, and the faces of the other generals behind him became unusually solemn. In the formation of the Falcon Army, there were only 2 large cavalry clusters,
One was the Hukochili Cavalry Corps of the Central Army, and the other was the Varisien Cavalry Corps. Among them, the cavalry regiment commanded by Hukochili is codenamed Falcon, most of which are battle-hardened northerners of Vecchia, attacking like fire and breaking countless enemies, while the cavalry regiment commanded by Varisian is codenamed Thunder, most of them are Kugit people from the north, who are good at running and intercepting, and their equestrian skills are extremely exquisite.
The cavalry in front of him outside the city of Gerlalens is obviously the rumored and well-stricken-wielding Varisian cavalry, this cavalry has always been known for its speed, not only moving fast, but also fighting fast, cleaning the battlefield quickly, and is definitely the best forward force in the Falcon army.
The appearance of the Thunder Cavalry showed that the large force of the Falcon army was not far from Geralens, although the instinct was that the Falcon cavalry would not launch a siege battle.
But Fei Hongsuo did not dare to affirm it 100%. In his in-depth study of the Falcon Army's attack pattern, the Falcon Army is a very strange force.
They sometimes seem very mature and calm, but sometimes they seem very impulsive and arrogant, and it is difficult to find out how they behave. Because their supreme commander is the first military god of the continent, Vikia Falcon,
In his mind, which can never be fathomed, no one can guess the true intention of his every step, and many people who don't believe in this have now been buried deep in the loess.
Attacking like fire, immobile like a mountain, to put it bluntly, it is difficult to speculate with common sense that the single qiē of the Viqia falcon is. This is for his enemies. It's just a nightmare.
Just when the Nord army in the city was nervous, on the hillside outside the city, Varisian raised the scope in his hand and roughly swept the situation team of Hot Larens.
Roll the young leaves of the tree. The secluded Aeterai River shone silver in Danjia, the green earth mixed with wildflowers of various colors covered both sides of the riverbank, rows of horses tied with trees were put on the riverbank, judging from the density and distribution of people on the city wall, good fellows, there were actually twenty or thirty thousand troops gathered in this small city,
I don't know how much effort it took the Nords to cobble together such a large number of troops, but the Nord army's self-imposed strong defense line also made him feel funny.
"What a funny arrangement!" Putting down the scope in his hand, the corners of Varisin's mouth subconsciously skimmed, there are too many flashy expressions, a seasoned guardian should hide his strength as much as possible, and never let the opponent know his hole cards until the last moment, so that every trace of the enemy's strength can be drained,
But this defender of Geralens must have been a rookie who had never really faced a siege battle, and just by looking at it, he could see several Achilles' heels from this seemingly thick defensive line,
"With such a dense defensive queue, just one round of arrows is enough to make half of them fall because they don't have room to raise their shields!" Varisian said in a low, half-joking, half-self-deprecating evaluation, "imaginary defense and reality are completely different things!"
Crimson Suo guessed right, it was indeed the Thunder Cavalry led by Varisian who arrived, but Varisian did not have the slightest idea of attacking the city, although he saw several weaknesses in the opponent's defense, Varisian was not ready to launch an offensive alone,
The advantage of the cavalry units was in the field, and not in the brutal assault, and this thankless task should be done by the infantry of the Central Corps,...,
His task is to bypass the flank of the city of Gerareus, harass the enemy's logistics line as much as possible, intercept the enemy's reinforcements, and find opportunities to annihilate the enemy's pursuing troops.
"Order!" Varisian coldly put down the scope in his hand and ordered to the herald behind him, "The fifth squadron will take the lead first, and test the enemy's troop deployment on the left flank!"
As the order was given, a group of light cavalry holding the Falcon battle flag quickly ran out of the ranks of the Falcon army, these cavalry were very bold, first rushed straight towards the front of the Nord line, and then stopped in unison, almost clinging to the distance line of 150 meters, as skilled as a person
"Damn, I really want to go down and kill them"
Most of the Nord defenders in the city of Gerlarence were forcibly recruited recruits, or the second-line legions with strict combat experience, looking at the falcon cavalry outside the city like a leisurely stroll, one by one they were ashamed and eager to die.
This difference is too big, from the unruly gaze of these cavalrymen, all the Nords can feel a strong killing intent, but there is nothing they can do,
You can't win, you can't run, the distance of 150 meters is beyond the range of the Nord bow, and it is really not cost-effective to use a powerful and dense arrow cluster catapult to deal with a single cavalry, so many Nord recruits are frustrated by this provocation, and the morale that has just been raised is low again
"Come on, let the cavalry of Portunig gather and peace"
Crimson So's red eyes were bloodshot, he didn't expect that the Falcon army on the opposite side would hit the morale of his subordinates in this way, if he continued to let it perform, the morale of the army would completely sink to the lowest point, and if the main force of the Falcon Army arrived, Geralens was likely to collapse without sticking to it
The enemy of the cavalry is the cavalry, this is the iron law on the battlefield, although the Nord army has always been not good at riding, but this time among the Dorok mercenaries, there is exactly a light cavalry of 500 people,