Chapter 824: Stalemate (Finally Ending the Life of Pig Farming)
In order to make the most of their numerical advantage, it is exactly the same as the last time.
The army of the Theodin Empire was not all gathered outside the Broken Blood Fortress, but was divided into three.
Ulaanbari led the largest group and suppressed the Broken Blood Fort in the middle.
Hazhchagai and Hai Ridong chieftain each led a breakthrough from both sides.
Especially after they cooperated with the Empire of the Undead, after the mist shrouded the Broken Blood Fortress.
The focus of the attack of the Western Odin Empire has shifted to the breakthrough of the defensive line on both sides, and Ulan Bari has successively transferred 100,000 elites from the main army to support the other two routes, and the main force really stationed outside the broken blood fortress is less than 200,000, and then successively gathered back 100,000 troops.
After joining forces with Hari Chagai's Western Road Army, the total strength exceeded 300,000.
As the fighting continued to escalate, the number of soldiers increased rather than decreased.
The Broken Pulse defense line collapsed, and the news that the army of the Western Odin Empire was about to move south on a large scale.
Not only did it go viral in the Byron Alliance, but everyone was clawed, giving up all competition and petty profits, and uniting to go north to fight against this common enemy.
On the Odin steppe, it also spread like a spring breeze, causing those Odin orcs who had been hesitant to make up their minds, take the only remaining grain and grass and tribesmen south, and join the army of Ulan Barri, ready to join the next raiding carnival.
Whether the looting carnival can be seen or not is two words, and it is certain that they will become cannon fodder in Ulaanba.
The overall topographic trend of the Broken Pulse Defense Line is steep in the west and complex in the east.
The defense of the west is mainly based on the terrain, and the east is mainly based on manpower.
When Archduke Cedric was deploying their defenses, the heavy troops were naturally placed in the east, and when there was a problem with the Broken Blood Fort, the first thing that came to mind was to transfer the Broken Blood Cavalry to the west, which was not too tense, back to the emergency, and did not move the right army of General Pedro behind the east.
With the fall of the Broken Blood Fortress, the Western Front, which was originally more secure than the Eastern Front, began to become precarious.
Ulaanbari led the main force to join the way, and after choosing this place as the main attack area, it became the last straw that broke the camel's back.
Once the gap is opened, it is difficult for the defending side to take back the defense line from the hands of the West Odin Empire without unified deployment and reserve power.
Although limited by the steep terrain here, most of the fortresses can accommodate the relatively limited number of troops that can pass through here in the unit time of the Theodin Empire, but there are many openings, and it is equally amazing to gather together.
Sticking to one place, it has never been the habit of the Odin orcs, using their mobility, constantly attacking, and plundering the living materials and wealth they need, is their favorite method, after all, the Odin orcs who rush to the front are often people who have nothing, and such people are often extraordinarily ferocious.
On the Western Front, in the territory of the Byron Union, there were wars everywhere.
From the large-scale influx to the complete takeover of the West Broken Grassland, it took them less than a week in Ulaanbazhi.
The Strachrich family's main focus is on the Broken Pulse Line, and they don't have as much energy to build their own personal fortress.
Once the Broken Pulse Defense Line falls, this place will become unobstructed, and it will be trampled by the iron hooves of Ulaanbari.
As the saying goes, as fast as their horses can run, they can occupy this place as quickly as they can.
Vice versa.
This situation did not last long, and the new royal court army formed by the new royal court has begun to block up one after another.
The two sides engaged in a series of melee battles in the western border steppe and the plains of Asia Minor.
That's right, it's a scuffle.
Many short-sighted tribal chieftains and leaders completely ignored Ulaanbazhi and asked them to assemble the order, and unscrupulously led their own people to loot, and some in order to improve the efficiency of looting, get more materials and wealth, and even divide the troops themselves, and suddenly spread the combat area very widely.
Ulan Bari and the top officials of the Western Odin Empire were so anxious that it was useless to jump to their feet in the back, this was not the behavior of a tribal leader, but most of them.
This is determined by their administrative system, and in the eyes of these tribal leaders, the interests of the tribe should be above the empire, and there is a great opportunity to make a lot of money for their tribe and people first.
As for whether it will be settled by Ulan Ba after the autumn, anyway, there is the first person to do it in front, and in the end, it directly becomes the law does not blame the public, everyone is doing it, can they let them follow behind and eat ashes?
And the new army of the new royal court on the side of the royal court, when they first started marching north, because of the lack of experience of officers at all levels, they made a series of jokes.
In particular, the speed at which the Theodin Empire advanced far beyond what they had originally planned.
Before the major legions entered the designated battle location, a large number of legions collided with the raiding forces of the Western Odin Empire, and there was an encounter.
Such hasty encounters, which usually lasted no more than half a day, mostly ended with the Odin orc tribe screaming and charging, and finally ended with their deserted escape.
It is true that the new army of the royal court lacks combat experience in all aspects, but because of the large number of papal knights as the skeleton, most of the soldiers have not been brainwashed into fanatical believers, and the piety of their faith is higher than that of most people, and it is often easier to muster up courage when they are in battle.
After being tempered by blood and fire, the legion will be more closely united, even if there is a large number of combat attrition, their strength will not only not become weaker, but become stronger.
If they can survive the second game, the third game...... and even countless battles, a true army of iron and blood was formed.
However, the new army of the royal court was able to defeat the Odin orc tribe, but it was difficult to completely defeat or even encircle them.
Because even when the Odin orcs crossed the narrowest pass of the Broken Pulse Defense Line, they refused to give up their war horses, although they couldn't do one person and two horses at their peak, but there was no problem with one person and one horse.
In terms of the new army of the royal court, among the members of the new royal court, there are no large horse-producing households, except for those knights who bring their own war horses to join, the cavalry is pitiful, and each legion can allocate five hundred war horses, thousands of pack horses and cattle, or the premise that the border trade has been opened in recent years, and a large number of livestock have been traded from the Odin orcs.
But those Odin orcs aren't stupid.
Sheep are good to say, whether it is wool-producing sheep, milk-producing dairy sheep, or pure meat-eating grassland sheep, as long as the Byron people are willing to ask for it, they dare to give as much as they want.
As for the oxen and pack horses, they had to think about it.
War horses began to hide and tuck, especially those excellent war horses.
It's not that those Odin orcs are so smart that they don't want to be invincible.
But even for them, it is also a more precious material, a daily indispensable supplies, feeding, the degree of difficulty is far above the cattle and sheep, especially the well-trained war horses, the delicate is very expensive, you need to invest a lot of energy, care and domestication, a little careless raising waste, then the loss is heavy, far less than the cattle and sheep save time and effort, as long as there is a stutter, there is a great chance of survival.
In the face of a large number of cavalry of the Odin orcs, the small number of cavalry of the new army of the royal court did not dare to attack at all unless it was a critical moment.
This is the reason why the Streich family, in the case of patchwork together, also wants to establish the world's first iron horse broken blood horse.
It's like the wild is the world of Odin's orc cavalry.
The Odin orc cavalry was helpless against the new army of the royal court who were stationed in the castle villages.
In siege warfare, they must give up their best merits and fight a war of attrition with their flesh and blood.
In the past, the Broken Pulse Defense Line was in front of them, so they couldn't go south, so they had to choose to do this.
If there were other options now, they would never rush to do so.
But with these castle fortresses in front of them, they did not dare to rush into the hinterland of the Byronic Alliance, because once they were cut off from the back road and surrounded on all sides, they would be eaten alive.
In the end, the west became a criss-crossing canine front, you have me, I have you.
The Odin orcs did not dare to rush deeper, and the new army of the royal court did not dare to rashly leave the town to fight a field battle with the Odin orcs, and completely drove them back to the north of the Broken Pulse Defense Line, reaching a short-term balance.
Compared to the tepid in the west, it was chaotic.
The east side is vigorous, playing unprecedented classic tactics.
And this classic tactic was shaped by none other than Sophia Augustine, the wife of the lord of the Eternal Night Army, the former regent of the Lancelot royal family, the acting archduke of the Strachrich family, and the master of the Iron Castle.
It only took her two weeks to smooth out the power she had gathered under her banner.
Sophia knows very well that if she wants to integrate so many forces, good and bad, together, even if her all-powerful husband Sean comes out, it is an impossible task.
Putting aside everything else for the time being, just in terms of the system, there are thousands of differences.
Especially the Eternal Night Army Lord Battle Legion, the layered structure, from top to bottom, is a complete whole.
This is the reason why they have super combat effectiveness, which will make their training much more difficult than other legions, and if you want to emulate them, you don't have more than a year of high-intensity training, it's a fantasy.
The Broken Blood Rider's model, which was established by relying on its own more than quality, could not be imitated by other soldiers except for the Iron Rose Knights, who served as their reserve all year round.
Angelbena's Knights Hospitaller is more appropriate than a medical regiment, and they are better at saving people on the battlefield than killing people.
As for the other people who responded to the call, the nobles and knights were at least very experienced in combat and training, and usually had good military knowledge, whether this military knowledge was on paper or not, at least they had the basics.
Unlike those ordinary farmers and strong men, who have nothing but courage, starting from scratch, if they want to know the minimum cooperation and military discipline, they have to shout at the top of their voices, which is stupid and gives them a headache, not to mention arranging heavy responsibilities for them.
Five years ago, Sophia would have taken this for granted, and thought it was the norm.
After five years in the Eternal Night Army, it was clear that she couldn't be so self-defeating.
This is completely due to their lack of basic education, and compared to the Eternal Night Commander, even the princess fiefdom that she thinks she has always done well is a huge distance.
The Eternal Night Army Commander now does not dare to say that the literacy rate has reached 100 percent, and more than 70 percent of the young people over the age of eight and under the age of 25 know the most basic reading and writing.
If you look at this achievement separately, it doesn't feel much, and if you compare it with the situation of other military leaders, it is quite amazing.
Naturally, there is a big psychological gap.
Sophia showed great adaptability and quickly adjusted herself.
A soldier with a super cultural background, she can control.
This kind of illiterate farmer, she also has a way to make them use for herself.
As long as they are in the right jobs, they can always play a part of their role.
Sophia adopted the model of using the Right Army of the Broken Blood Cavalry and the Knights of the Iron Rose as the blade, the two leading regiments of the Eternal Night Army that she personally sat in as the blade, and the local forces led by the Knights Hospitaller led by Angie Bena as the hilt.
This model is at best decent, allowing them to maintain their own establishment while forcibly gluing together.
As long as there is a little military literacy, everyone can do this, not to mention that Sophia has a military staff officer to help her give advice and dispatch in the middle.
Sophia's real shock to the world was that as soon as the Right Army of the Broken Blood Cavalry swore temporary allegiance to her, she ordered the eastern route of the Broken Pulse Defense Line to be completely abandoned, and the army of the Western Odin Empire attacking the road was released.
This unexpected action, not to mention the surprise of the Byron Alliance.
Even Chief Hai Ridong, the commander of the Eastern Army of the Western Odin Empire, who presided over this attack, was also shocked, and in the face of the Byron Alliance, which was wide open, he became extremely cautious, and did not dare to come out, so he could only cautiously test it, lest there be fraud.
Because Sophia's retreat was not a blatant outbreak.
It's about the virtual and the real, and the tactics are used to the extreme.
When those Odin orcs thought that the soldiers of the Broken Pulse Defense Line had retreated and swarmed up, it turned out that the elite led by the Right Army of the Broken Blood Cavalry had been waiting there for a long time, and the blood they killed was like a river.
When the Odin orcs thought that the soldiers in the Broken Pulse Line were holding on, they tried to attack, and easily took it, which was already an empty city, and the people inside did not know how long they had been retreating, or the movement they heard, or the sound of hungry goats beating war drums, or the movement of Lao Rui, who was sick and disabled on a death-threatening mission, to cover the departure of his comrades.
Even if it is an empty castle, it is not necessarily safe, maybe when the other party is about to retreat, the remaining materials for defending the city, black powder, black fire oil into mines, once accidentally triggered, it is a city of Odin orcs to give their castle burial.