Chapter 161: A Sharp Turn
The cooperation between the Legion of the Eternal Night and Anjibena is multifaceted, and the trade route that was originally affected by the Slave Rebel Army will be reopened with the reconciliation of the relationship between the Legion of the Eternal Night and the Slave Rebel Army
At that time, Angel Bena will be the new spokesperson of the Eternal Night Legion in the Manyu Army, and the real money and antiques that have been collected from the slave rebels, and which previously seemed to be of little use, will also pass through the hands of Angel Bena and be cashed into something useful to the Eternal Night Legion.
Only in circulation can money realize its value to the greatest extent.
Sean understands this even if he doesn't have a background in economics.
Those noble lords deposited all the looted wealth in their secret vaults.
In Sean's opinion, it is the most stupid behavior, they are not melon seeds, they are planted in the spring, and a bunch of melons grow in the autumn.
Most of the wealth is depreciating more and more, and it is not enough to make money, but also to be able to spend money, and spend it where it should be spent, so as to create more wealth.
The Legion of the Eternal Night is doing a good job at this, making money quickly and spending money even faster, as if it is forever in a state of shortage.
However, the high investment in exchange for the rapid development of the Eternal Night Legion, the increasingly perfect infrastructure work, proves that the money is not in vain, and in many places, even the Solo City, which has been run by the Faren family for a hundred years, is proud of itself.
A complete chain of interests was formed between the Slave Rebels, the Legion of the Eternal Night, and Countess Angelbena.
Some of the inconvenient deals between Angie Bena and the slave rebels were completed by the Legion of the Eternal Night.
No one has yet been able to accuse Anjibena of fornication, after all, she did not have any dealings with the slave rebels.
As for the Eternal Night Legion, many lords and nobles are secretly having an affair with it, so naturally they have no position to jump out and accuse, who let the Eternal Night Legion hold many good things in their hands.
If you offend them, it will be bad not to sell to yourself, which will distance your opponents from you.
It has long been a common problem for lords and nobles to weigh problems from the perspective of their own interests.
Angelena and Ms. Karin came and went in a hurry.
After all, Ms. Karin and Darnell's relationship has not been able to go to the next level, and they are still respectful, going further than friends, but taking a step back than lovers.
Ms. Elena and Angel Bena, one older and one young, no matter how much they help and create opportunities behind the scenes, still can't help.
After all, both of them are people who stand at the pinnacle of strength, and they will subconsciously avoid all kinds of accidents, plus the two of them know to a certain extent that their matchmaker career has ended before it has even begun.
Perhaps this kind of plain water staying together is a rare happiness for them.
And Lady Karin was only sure that Darnell was no longer just running away, and that she was content to know where he was staying, and that she would be frightened if their relationship went any further.
Relationship problems are never unilateral, and the reason for their current situation is not unilateral.
The reason why the two ladies left in such a hurry was naturally because there was a change on the side of the Manyu military leader.
Under the unsparing promotion of Cardinal St. George, Patrium and his half-brother Viscount Philip, although they did not sit down at the negotiating table, reached a consensus on the issue of the slave rebels, and the two sides gathered elite troops and began to press step by step, compressing the space for the activities of the slave rebels, and forcing the slave rebels to fight them head-on.
Although the slave rebel army now claims to be 100,000 people, let alone the battle-hardened Philip, even the generals in Patlem are not optimistic about their frontal combat ability.
The battlefield is not a gladiatorial arena, an excellent soldier is not necessarily a good gladiator when he goes to the gladiatorial arena, and a good gladiator is also not a good soldier when he goes to the battlefield.
Compared to ordinary people, gladiators have the advantage of not being prone to stage fright, and have good physical fitness and fighting skills.
The disadvantage is that gladiators are usually unruly and disobedient to management, the better the gladiators, the stronger this is, usually they have a very strong performance**, and have extraordinary confidence in their fighting skills, and it is easy to be brave on the battlefield.
As a result, he was beaten to death, not to mention, he also destroyed the formation of his own team, and it was easy for the enemy to take advantage of the weakness, tear apart the defensive line, and let his friendly troops be attacked on the flank, thus causing the collapse of the whole line.
Not to mention those slaves, without three or five years of formal training, they can't be a big deal at all, and if they are used as the main force, the unreliability is too great.
At this point, the Legion of the Eternal Night has done a good job.
From its inception to the present, Sean and other high-ranking members of the Eternal Night Legion have been trying their best to prevent the Eternal Night Legion from fighting a tough battle.
When encountering a tough battle that must be fought, either use the Skull Crusher Legion, which has been famous for many years, as the vanguard, or conduct it at the time and battlefield of your choice, and give full play to your own advantages.
The second is to make full use of the fortifications built by the attached engineering regiment, give full play to the advantages of long-range attack power, and destroy the enemy on the road of charging, or rely on the fortifications to fight defensive battles.
Compared with assault and encounters, the biggest advantage of defensive warfare is that even if you are not a group of qualified soldiers in it, it is not easy to completely collapse before the fortifications are breached, and if you are trained accordingly, your endurance will also increase.
The Legion of the Eternal Night uses this relatively clever method to make up for the shortcomings of its own lack of training.
However, this method is to some extent irreproducible, and the soldiers of the attached engineering regiment are indeed not qualified soldiers, but after such a long period of training, they are qualified craftsmen, and if they are taken out separately and placed in any territory, they belong to craftsmen who have a unique feature in some way.
Their current craftsmanship is not innate, except for the Eternal Night Legion, which has professionals to study and simplify construction methods, a large number of infrastructure projects for them to practice their craft, it is equally important, practice makes perfect.
This can require a lot of financial resources to support.
The slave rebels obviously did not have the conditions for this, nor did they have the talent to think about it.
On the plains, knights, especially heavily armed knights of all sizes, are always the unstoppable main force.
The Manyu military leader clearly wanted to use this advantage to crush the slave rebels.
Just when everyone was speculating whether the Slave Rebels would be forced south, the Slave Rebels threw a beautiful combination punch.
The Slave Rebels threw off most of their baggage and went into battle lightly, appearing before Philip and Patleme's army could form a siege, before they could form a siege with Philip's army.
Without the slightest hesitation, Philip directly used his trump card - the Golden Camel Heavy Ride.
In front of the tall camel knights, armed to the teeth and weighing by tons, the vanguard of the slave rebels, fragile as papier-mâché, crumbled.
It was a one-sided slaughter, at least in the early stages of the war, until the tide was reversed again when a rain of arrows fell like locusts.
Andes Longbow once again showed its hideous face.
Even the golden camel heavy horse, which is known as the elite of the elite, has fallen piece by piece.
It is true that those knights are wearing multiple layers of heavy armor, but their mounts are not as tightly protected as them, simple riding armor and their own thick skin, they can deal with ordinary bows and crossbows, and they are obviously not strong enough when they encounter Andes's longbow that uses armor-piercing arrows.
Golden camels are larger than war horses, making them easier targets for a rain of arrows.
The golden camel heavy rider whose mount fell, that is, a beast without claws, immediately reduced its combat effectiveness by two-thirds.
Then the elite slave gladiators of the slave rebel army who were ambushed on the side rushed out like a raging tide, knowing that it was the most unwise choice to compete with the regular army, so from the beginning they were not prepared to transform themselves into an army, but to give full play to their greatest advantages and turn the battlefield into countless gladiatorial arenas.
This kind of uncoordinated brawl is what they are best at, those heavily armored knights who have no mounts, and those gladiators in rudimentary leather armor, are played around.
The variety of weapons made it impossible for those heavily armored knights to guard against, and they had never fought such a battle that did not follow common sense.
If you are not careful, your head will be either a fishing net or a handful of dust, and once you are trapped, there is no chance to break free, and the gladiators who wander around will swarm up, even if you press them, they will be crushed to death.
All kinds of negative damage methods emerge in endlessly, these gladiators have no concept of soldiers at all, as long as they can kill the enemy, they are all good means.
By the time Philip led the infantry to force the gladiator army back, nearly one-third of the golden camel heavy horseman, on which he relied the most, remained in the land forever, and the remaining two-thirds, most of them, had lost their mounts.
By this time, even a fool understands.
This is a trap laid by the slave rebels, specifically against the trap of the Golden Camel Heavy Rider.
Taking advantage of the information asymmetry, the slave rebel army used a large number of Andes longbows traded from the Eternal Night Legion, and broke them fiercely, and his reputation was like the sky, and Philip, who had the reputation of the new god of war of the Manyu army.
Let him not be as unscrupulous as before when he uses the golden camel to ride heavily in the future.
However, this tactic is indispensable, and once the opponent knows that your army has such a weapon, the next time it is a move, it will be targeted.
Somewhat surprisingly, the commander of this beautiful battle was not Starbuck, who had been educated by the nobility of the system, but Dickron, who had no experience in commanding large-scale battles before this.
According to later rumors, Starbuck was not optimistic about the slave rebels' return to the rifle, and the two clashed again on this issue, but this time Dicron was prepared and won over a group of supporters in advance.
In order to take the overall situation into account, Starbuck made concessions, and then there was a brilliant victory this time.
Then out of control, the slave rebels took advantage of the time when Philip regrouped the golden camel and rode again, directly highlighting the coalition encirclement that was not a coalition army, and went directly behind Patlem's army.
Because of the relationship between the two sides, Philip selectively forgot to report to Patlem, and by the time Patlem found out, the sentinels of the two sides had already made contact, and the slave rebels were pouring over like a tide.
As the proud lords and nobles expected from the roosters, the slave rebels did not have any formation to speak of, and even the peasant militia was stronger than them.
But there are so many of them that it makes people's scalps tingle.
They have all forgotten one thing, when the quantity reaches a certain level and forms an absolute advantage, the quality problem can be ignored.
The so-called tactics are to create a local situation of fighting more and fighting less.
In terms of military strength, the combined forces of Philip and Patlem are inferior to the slave rebel army in terms of numbers, but in terms of quality, they have an absolute advantage, and on the whole, their side has the advantage.
However, after all, the two sides are not coalition forces in the true sense of the word, and they are wary of each other, distancing themselves and advancing in parallel.
The Slave Rebels took advantage of this, maiming one and then eating one.
The primary target is naturally the most powerful and threatening golden camel heavy horse, if this tiger tooth is not pulled out, the so-called roundabout tactics are all jokes.
The first step, the slave rebel army, was very successful, but in the second step, it hit a nail that was not too big or small.
Patrium's army included not only his army, but also the papal knights from the Holy See of the Holy Ether, these papal knights who had come thousands of miles to lead the Manyu army were either fanatical believers loyal to the Holy See, or they had some confidence in their own strength and wanted to take the opportunity to make great achievements and achievements.
For them, life and death are just trivial matters, and victory is their ultimate pursuit.
When Patlem's army showed signs of fled, these papal knights shouted the glory of truth and launched a counter-charge, a spirit that was not afraid of death, which made everyone look sideways.
Man is a very contagious creature, not only the negative emotions of rout and defeat are contagious, but also the fanaticism, and countless soldiers who have already collapsed, following in the footsteps of the Papal Knights, rushed towards the enemy they had thought invincible a moment before.
Although the Papal Knights did not completely turn the tide of the battle and defeat the slave rebels, they also allowed Patlem's army to barely stabilize their positions, relying on their camps to form a confrontation with the slave rebels.
The slave rebels failed to eat Patlem in one bite, it was already a tactical failure, after all, they were fighting alone, and the longer they dragged on here, the more unfavorable it would be for them, Philip was just hit hard by them, and his own damage was not great, once they waved their troops to copy their back roads, the slave rebels would not be able to eat and walk around.
The Slave Rebel Army, no, it should be the upper echelons of the Slave Rebel Army, once again showed their decisive side, leaving a small part of the army to contain the Partlem army, and wave the army to attack the city of Solo, Patlem's old nest.
This time not only Patlem was anxious, but even those papal knights were also anxious, this time the leader of the Holy Aether papal knights, Cardinal St. George was in Solo City, if he had some accidents, they would all be buried together, and it would not be enough to apologize.
The Patrium army hurried back to help, but unexpectedly fell into the trap of the slave rebels again.
The attack on the city of Solo is false, but the ambush halfway is real.
A rain of arrows, a chaotic battle, the slave rebel army suffered heavy losses, and the Patrium army suffered even heavier losses, and was driven by the slave rebel army like a duck, all the way to the city of Solo.
When the army was first dispatched, Patlem's army numbered as many as 30,000, and less than 10,000 fled back to Solo City, which can be described as a heavy loss.
The assault on the city of Solo by the slave rebel army came to a shallow end.
Because there is still a living saint in the city of Solo, St. George, whose sharp mouth is enough to withstand thousands of troops, under his instigation, the citizens of Solo, who had been plagued by the slave rebel army once, shared the same hatred and spontaneously went to the city to help defend it.