Chapter 729: Countdown to the Decisive Battle
Whether Kaul Village becomes Kenny Village, or Doll Village, the 3rd Squadron becomes 1st Squadron, or Yang or 2nd Squadron, the fate of the One-Eyed Pirates is the same.
Because the former is an ordinary village in the Danube Plain led by the Eternal Night Army, and the latter is the third squadron of the 100th Guard of the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Corps of the Guards Regiment of the Guards Army, the most ordinary component of the Guards Regiment.
And such a third squadron, in the hundreds, was scattered around the village, waiting for the pirates of the East China Sea Kingdom to send it to the door themselves.
The timing of the skirmishes and the pattern of unfolding may have been different, but the results were strikingly similar, and most ended in the glorious victory of the Eternal Night Army.
The Eternal Night Army leaders started with the Walled Fort, and when they first rose in the Jacob River, their Walled Fort stood alone.
When it came to the development of the Danube Plain, it was natural to give full play to its strengths and become the current village fort.
It's not just about building walls with the back of the house facing outward.
When you really attack it, you will find that there are many traps inside, not only the layout is similar to the maze, but it can be defended according to the village lanes, and there are a large number of tunnels.
There are several large towns with relatively natural environments, even three-dimensional, and in addition to the surface towns, there is also a labyrinthine dungeon underground.
The reason why the Eternal Night Warlord pays attention to the defense of the town is not only for the purpose of resisting the invasion of the East China Sea Kingdom, but also for the future.
It is no secret that the concentration of spells on the continent is constantly increasing, and there is already a full scientific basis, which is not a secret in the Eternal Night Military Lord.
The mutation of the beast will only intensify, and the various attacks will only increase, and the attacks on the village will occasionally occur.
Most of the human beings are extremely vulnerable in this kind of environmental change, and at that time, the town will be the largest refuge and safe haven for mankind, and no matter how much attention is paid to it, it is impossible to overdo it.
In the future, with the abundance of magic energy, it is inevitable that more magic elements will be incorporated into the villages and towns of the Eternal Night Army, and it is possible that the mage tower and the city will not be separated.
The pirates of the Eastern Sea Kingdom were only the first wave of enemies that happened to them, not to mention the few who forced large towns to activate dungeons, break through the walls of houses, and force them into street fighting.
Because they were facing Marshal Dicklon, the first guerrilla in the Ashane continent, who led a group of rabble, and turned the Manyu army upside down with guerrilla tactics, and the entire Carthusian army was like a man facing a great enemy.
After so many years of dormant learning, my abilities in all aspects have been further completed, and I no longer rely solely on my own insight to fight.
Most importantly, he is no longer commanding a rabble, but an elite army known for its ability to execute and work together.
After the East China Sea Fleet divides its forces, especially after going ashore, it will be a complete division of troops, unless they collide with each other by accident, otherwise they will fight separately.
The division of troops under the leadership of the Eternal Night Army is different, and there is a connection between villages and towns, and between corps and corps.
It can be described as a game of chess in the whole world.
If a large number of pirates are found anywhere, their armies will gather as quickly as possible to attack together.
If it is too scattered, less than 100 people, you don't even need to pay attention to it, this number of people to attack the villages and towns led by the Eternal Night Army is purely to deliver food, and it is likely to be exterminated by the village and town garrisons and the militia.
In response to the call of the Eternal Night Army Leader, most of the people who took the initiative to carry out large-scale development in the Danube Plain were mainly young and strong, and there were very few old and weak.
Because of many reasons such as body and temperament, this kind of young man did not join the regular army led by the Eternal Night Army, which does not mean that they are powerless.
The Eternal Night Commander has always advocated the concept of martial arts for all people and all people as soldiers.
In particular, in this kind of development-oriented villages and towns led by military leaders, each village or town has at least 10 or more veterans sitting in the town, and in peacetime it mainly maintains law and order, teaches martial arts, and teaches low-level combat skills.
In the event of a war, they would return to battle to assist the villages and towns in their defenses, and even to fight with the regular army.
The young men of the Eternal Night Army are each mastered at least two or three low-level combat skills, and they have at least one day of militia training every week.
If you meet active and responsible veterans, it is not uncommon to have a militia training for half a week every month, or two weeks for half a year, and in this regard, the Eternal Night military leader has given them enough power, as long as the requirements are reasonable, all local parties must actively cooperate.
Charging into battle, you can't count on them.
However, it is still no problem to fight a tailwind battle, or under the command of those veterans, arrange in a neat formation, and release combat skills in a uniform manner.
That is, the demanding Eternal Night Army leader put them in the ranks of the militia, and changed them to other territories, which is definitely the level of the regular army.
In these local and scattered clashes, the number of casualties is very inconspicuous, ranging from a dozen to a few dozen in small cases, to a hundred and ten in large cases, and very few in the thousands.
But there are too many points, and when they come together, it's quite amazing.
By the time the Supreme Commander of the East China Sea Fleet, ** Moore, realized this, it was already too late, and most of the infantry of his detachment had already landed, and they were deep in the muddy swamp of the Danube Plain, with enemies on all sides, and they were still constantly encircling.
It is not uncommon for the Eternal Night Army to lead a squad of only a dozen people, carrying hundreds of people, or even hundreds of East China Sea soldiers, to chase ducks on the Danube Plain, jumping around.
In addition to the fact that the soldiers of the Eternal Night are strong enough, it is also because they have enough geographical advantages and people.
If the detachment led by the Eternal Night Army occupies a disadvantage, it only needs to drill into the nearest village and town, call on the village and town militia to take over, and release a distress signal.
If those powerful soldiers of the East China Sea dared to besiege this village and town for a long time, it would not take a day for them to find themselves in the larger encirclement of the Eternal Night Army.
Tianshi seems to be on the side of the East China Sea Country, but in fact he is still on the side of the Eternal Night Commander.
The drizzling autumn rain turned the entire Danube Plain into a big quagmire, and the difficulty of marching and fighting in it skyrocketed.
The army led by the Eternal Night has villages and towns as their backing, and they can rest and recuperate at any time, not only have warm, dry and comfortable rooms, delicious food and hot water waiting for them, but most importantly, there is a safe environment to relax tense nerves.
And once the soldiers of the East China Sea go ashore, they have to rely on themselves for everything.
The camp did not dare to be set up on a large scale, and there was no way to raise the open fire, and it was wet all day long.
In this case, it will be able to resist hard for a while and a half, and after ten days and half a month, the iron-beaten man can't bear it, and he falls ill in pieces, which will make the already disparity in combat effectiveness between the two sides even greater.
A week later, the counteroffensive led by the Eternal Night Army on the river section began after careful planning.
The starting point is none other than Theodore, the captains and leaders who did not hesitate to sell their crews in order to save their lives.
With these mutineers leading the way, most of the plans went incredibly well.
The Eternal Night's carefully selected Special Operations Warriors and ample planning are only one aspect.
The main reason is still in the East China Sea Kingdom itself, their founding time is too short, the composition is too complicated, and the ruling class does not have the means of uniting everyone into one heart like the Eternal Night Army, but simply and rudely drives them in a way of interests, and loyalty is really lacking.
Once they fall into a desperate situation, their first consideration is always their own interests.
Like the One-Eyed Pirates, there are only a few who fight hard with the Third Squadron until they are defeated.
At that time, this situation did not arise because of how brave the One-Eyed Pirates were, nor because they were loyal to Stubindor.
Purely because they underestimated the combat effectiveness of the 3rd squadron, the incident happened suddenly, and they were not given time to think about it at all.
Most of the relatively independent teams like them will decisively surrender on their knees after finding themselves under siege, or the disparity in strength between the two sides is too poor and there is no hope of escape.
Based on the information provided by Theodore's prisoners, the Eternal Night Commander treated these East Sea soldiers differently.
For those pirate groups that are already in a state of disarray, or the natives of the islands of the East China Sea, the main thing is to crush their will to resist and surrender.
As for those core elites of Stubbin, they naturally spared no effort to destroy them.
Half a week after the counterattack began, the Eternal Night Army captured and sank more than 200 small warships of various kinds.
If their whereabouts are exposed, those who can take these captured warships away will be driven away on the spot, and those who can't be driven away will also find a suitable section of the river to sink, and after the war, after the East China Sea retreats, it is not too late to salvage.
If the process of stealing the ship went smoothly and his whereabouts were not revealed, the people on these warships were secretly disguised by the soldiers of the Eternal Night Army, and they hibernated, ready to plot bigger.
At worst, they can also unexpectedly board a larger war ship or warship and forcibly seize the ship.
The Eternal Night Leader's advantage in infantry combat was so great that as long as a squad assembled and established itself on the enemy ship, the battleship would basically not run away, and if it was not captured, it would be scuttled.
In the end, the detachment of the East China Sea Fleet was full of soldiers and did not dare to dock at night, lest the ghostly soldiers of the Eternal Night Army suddenly come up and slaughter them in their sleep.
However, in the eyes of the monarchs and ministers of the Eternal Night Army, the Five Rivers Battlefield is just a subsidiary battlefield, and it is mainly a procrastination trick, which firmly sticks the East China Sea Fleet detachment here.
The real main battlefield is still on the 30-kilometer section of the river outside Jiangmen Port.
After two weeks of mine-laying and demining tug-of-war, the East China Sea Fleet finally pushed to the core area less than two kilometers away from Jiangmen Port.
As long as they advanced a little more than a kilometer, the ballistae fired from the battleship's ballistas could hit the walls of Jiangmen Harbor.
No matter how strong the army formation led by the Eternal Night Army is, no matter how strong the individual combat ability of the soldiers is, can they still resist a huge fleet, and they can't bomb indiscriminately day and night?
Stubin had already made up his mind, this time he wouldn't play any formal tug-of-war siege tactics with the Eternal Night Commander, as long as Jiangmen Port came within range of the fleet, he would bombard this place into ruins first.
"What are you waiting for? Send me all the water ghosts and mine-clearing boats, and I want to push them to within one kilometer of the waters of Jiangmen Port tonight, no, I want to push them to within one kilometer of the waters of Jiangmen Port at noon today, and if they can't push them, the idiots who are in charge of demining will personally drive the boats in front to detonate the remaining mines. Seeing that success was imminent, Stubin stood on the bow of the Izumo and personally supervised the demining work.
"What are you waiting for? Didn't you hear His Majesty's orders? Move, all move. ”
"Fool, if you can't complete your goal before noon today, Lao Tzu will definitely bring you with you when he personally leads the team to clear the mines. ”
"Give me a boost of energy, success is imminent, as long as the last section of mines is cleared, the entire Danube Plain will be at our disposal. ”
The demining units of the East China Sea Fleet, swarming out.
On the two-kilometer surface of the Danube River, they were all densely packed, and the speed of advancement immediately increased by several grades.
"The enemy is three hundred meters away from the effective range of the main artillery of the city defense. ”
"200 meters ......"
"One Hundred Meters ......"
"Warning, warning, warning, the enemy has entered the effective range of the main artillery of the city defenses. ”
"Warning, warning, warning, the enemy has entered the city defense with an effective range of a hundred meters from the main artillery, whether to fire the artillery or not, ask for instructions. ”
"Warning, warning, warning, the enemy has entered the city defense of the main artillery with an effective firing range of two hundred meters, whether to fire the artillery or not, ask for instructions. ”
The observation post at the head of Jiangmen Port City would deliver news every ten minutes, and the nerves of all the soldiers of the Eternal Night Army were already tense.
"Marshal, do you want to fight?" Karlov, the deputy commander of the Third Army, flashed a trace of anxiety on his face, "If we allow the other side to push forward again, our city defense will also be covered by the opponent's firepower." ”
"Even then, so what?" Marshal Erikson said unusually calmly, "Even if they enter their effective range, with their backward attack methods, can they still break through our defenses?" Now that we have won this battle, we might as well increase the chips on the gambling table to the maximum, the longer our side delays, the more comprehensive the preparation of the navy led by the lord, and the greater our gains at that time." ”
"When did Marshal Eriksson like gambling too?" a puzzled voice came from the side.
"Your Excellency. Field Marshal Eriksson and Adjutant Karloff stood up at the same time and gave a military salute.
Emerging from the shadows was none other than the shadow soul eater clone of Sean, the supreme commander of the Eternal Night Army.
This naval battle is related to the initiative of the Eternal Night Army in the East China Sea.
As the most convenient long-distance communication tool for the Eternal Night Commander, Sean's energy clone is naturally indispensable, and all that can be drawn out has been extracted.
The Shadow Soul Eater Leopard is in charge of Jiangmen Harbor, the Energy Clone follows Marshal Dicklon, the Mist Mirage follows the Naval Explorer Fleet out to sea, and the Earth Armored Bear and the Frost Giant sit in the other Four Rivers Theater, flexibly changing as needed.
And the ace scout Thunder Golden Eagle naturally hovered above the head of the main fleet of the East China Sea Fleet, monitoring their every move.
So, this war has been unfair from beginning to end.
Stubin couldn't figure out the true layout of the Eternal Night Commander, but the Eternal Night Commander was clear about the movements of the East China Sea Fleet.