Chapter 715: Fierce Battle

However, Giles really miscalculated. www.biquge.info It's no wonder that no matter how Giles guesses, no matter how Giles guesses, he would never have imagined that in addition to bullets, the most important thing for Zihada is grenades.

The Mountain Eagle Special Combat Team has always been the vanguard of the Western Regions, and the Xinghua Empire has also attached great importance to them, and if the Xinghua Empire wants to develop its army in the Western Regions in the future and implement power control, the Mountain Eagle Special Combat Team will undoubtedly be the most suitable backbone.

Because, long before Anhua City was set up as the main city of the Xinghua Empire to occupy the Western Regions, the Mountain Eagle Special Combat Team had been established and existed for a long time, and its familiarity with the Western Regions was incomparable to any army of the Xinghua Empire. Therefore, the Xinghua Empire will strongly support the development of this team, not only always giving priority to ensuring the supply of arms for the Mountain Eagle Special Combat Team, but also ensuring that a large number of arms are piled up in the warehouse at any time.

With such a solid backing, the Blade of Qihada, combined with the Mountain Eagle Special Combat Team, can naturally strike without scruples. Therefore, this time, Zihada really fought - he ordered the Mountain Eagle special combat team, that is, the ordinary bow and crossbow team, each member of the team must be equipped with at least one or more grenades, which can be thrown out at a critical time. Anyway, the arsenal has enough grenades in stock, and Zihada is not ready to save it for anyone.

Of course, in addition to ordering the soldiers of the Blade of Zihada and the Mountain Eagle Special Combat Team to attack the Gilles legion at this time, Zihada himself was not idle, he found a stronghold in the position that was conducive to attacking, took a sniper rifle, and began to shoot at the officers of the Roman soldiers.

Bang! A Roman officer who Zihada was aiming at was shot in the head on the spot without any deviation!

This bloody scene happened suddenly! The splatters of blood flew everywhere, and also suppressed a group of Roman soldiers around the Roman officer, causing their originally fierce charge to be instantly stalled!

Although there has never been a shortage of such bloody and unsightly scenes on the battlefield, the scene in front of them, which happened so suddenly and so closely, still made these hard-natured Roman soldiers suffer a powerful shock in their hearts, so that the pace of the original attack became unfavorable.

After all, no one wants to rush to death. The officer died beside him, and the soldiers subconsciously hurried to check the surrounding environment to find out the specific ambush distribution of the enemy.

However, they had just understood that their regiment had been attacked by the enemy, and before they could figure out what weapons the enemy had used to attack their officers, and where the enemy was hiding, they were immediately attacked again by Zihada.

And so, again and again, after several rounds of such firing, the Roman petty officers who rushed in front of the Roman legions were essentially wiped out.

I have to say that Zihada's tactic was ruthless, capturing the thief and capturing the king first, and killing all the officers of the Roman legion, even if there were more Roman soldiers left, but the snake was headless, and the Roman soldiers in front lost their commander, and then it became a pot of porridge, I don't know who started it first, and finally all the Roman soldiers gradually lay on the ground and did not dare to advance.

The power of example is really important, especially in situations like this where the backbone of the heart is missing. I saw the soldiers in front lying on the ground dodging bullets, and the soldiers behind them did the same, lying down and not moving.

Seeing this scene, Giles, who led the army, although he was in the rear, but when he saw that his soldiers did not dare to continue to advance and charge to kill the enemy, he was disappointed, and he was even more angry at the moment!

How could he do such a shameful thing!

As a result, Giles shouted angrily on the spot: "Forward! Stagnate, cut!"

Hearing Giles's cold order, and smelling the lingering smell of blood in the air that made people want to vomit all the time, many Roman soldiers were not unable to see the situation in front of them, and their hearts were also resentful.

Obviously, it was clear that the first line was all of them, the legionnaires, and the enemy's offensive was already so fierce, Giles he was still shouting loudly in the back, asking them to rush forward without fear of sacrifice, and the words were like a mountain of military orders, but it was obvious that they did not care about their lives.

The attack of the enemy's Qihada blade is obviously the attitude of who fights whom, and it is very ruthless, picking officers to aim, and abolishing all the officers, but the firepower has not been weakened much, and the most important thing is that the enemy's attack strength is far above their Roman legions.

However, it is true that the military order is like a mountain.

The state army of the Roman Empire was known for its strict military law! Once any Roman soldier violated military law, in addition to the extremely cruel military punishment, they would even implicate their family members and lose their honor and welfare. In particular, once this kind of soldier who escaped before the battle is captured and returned to the army, he will be punished in front of the whole army on the spot, and all the members of his family will be sent to the frontier and filled with the army.

Because of this harsh and cruel military law, rather than the strong persecution of Gilles, the Roman soldiers in front finally stood up again, picked up their shields, and continued to move forward, even if their weapons were vulnerable to the fierce attack of the enemy, but the Roman soldiers knew that they had to bite the bullet and go this way.

Boom Boom Boom ......

Not long after the Roman soldier picked up his shield, and before he had taken a few steps, another round of grenades flew over. The dozen or so grenades that fell from the sky suddenly made several Roman soldiers fall, and at the same time, the morale that the Roman soldiers had so hard to accumulate was scattered again.

At this time, there were still more than a hundred meters away from their first position in Zihada. Looking at the distance that was not far away, the Roman soldiers wanted to take a step forward, but they were full of blood and tears. Finally, the spirit of some Roman soldiers began to almost collapse, and they were all dead, so it was better to fight for a glimmer of life, so some Roman soldiers who were reluctant to move forward turned around and retreated.

Gilles was a man of iron will, he was always watching the movement of the battlefield, but he did not rush forward himself, but tried to find a breakthrough when the Roman soldiers and the enemy army clashed.

Therefore, the few Roman soldiers who turned around and wanted to flee the battlefield were recognized by Giles as soon as they moved. As cruel as this iron-blooded general, he immediately ordered the archers to shoot the retreating soldiers without hesitation.

"Retreater, slash!" With the fall of these Roman deserters, Giles took advantage of this to shock the whole army!

Many soldiers witnessed this scene, and the harsh military law still played a deterrent effect at this time, and when Giles's order spread throughout the battlefield, no one dared to retreat and escape.

Under the almost dehumanizing act of Giles, the Roman soldiers rushed forward again, however, in the Roman legions, there was also a general who was beside Giles at this time, Niski, seeing this, he was a little stunned on the spot, and forgot to take action for a while.

Until, realizing his sluggishness, Giles turned to him and said, "General Niski, please join your legion in the battle." Only then did Niski recover from his distraction, and when he regained his senses, he calmed down, threw out the strange uneasy feeling in his heart, and responded to Giles without hesitation, saying, "Good!"

Niski's resoluteness was also due to the fear that if he refused, Gilles would not be able to enforce military law against him.

Gilles received Niski's affirmative reply, and nodded indifferently, seemingly satisfied with Niski's reply, but it was difficult for people to guess what he was thinking.

At the other end of the battlefield, Zihada couldn't help frowning, because he saw a large number of Roman soldiers rushing towards the position, as if they had not experienced the strong attack of the Qihada Blade just now.

Zihada really didn't expect that Giles would start from this start, and he did not hesitate to suppress the strength of the whole army, and after losing troops one after another, the Roman legions did not retreat at all, and continued to charge.

In that case, then they will simply accompany them to the end!

"Kill!" Qihada knew that they couldn't retreat, so he simply fought hard.

"No need to save ammo! Either they die or we die!"

Zihada's words made the gunfire on the position more and more intense.

Bang bang bang...... The gunfire continued, and a large number of Roman soldiers, one after another, were knocked down and died in front of the battle.

Despite this, the Roman soldiers, who had no way to retreat, still managed to continue to rush forward, and finally, the Roman soldiers relied on their numbers and barely rushed to a position only about twenty or thirty meters away from the position of the Blade of Zihada.

But even if they were able to approach the position of the Zihada Blade immediately, these Roman soldiers only got another round of fierce attacks—a dense fire of crossbow arrows.

Had it not been for the strict military law of Giles, the Roman soldiers might have stagnated a little, or they might have given up on their way, because, under the cover of shields, although the crossbow bolts were less lethal than the previous shots, the enemy's offensive did not stop for a second, and did not give the Roman soldiers the slightest respite.

However, because of the presence of Giles, the cover of shields, and the large number of troops, the Roman soldiers, although the pace of the attack tended to slow down, did not stop there.

Under the half-attack and half-cover of the shield men and archers, there were still some Roman soldiers who rushed to the front of Zihada and their formation.

Qihada immediately ordered the 800 crossbowmen to put down their crossbows and take up their swords and attack, while the 100 Mountain Eagle special combat soldiers continued to hold their positions, using bullets and grenades to continue to wear down the enemy's military strength.

The two armies were in touch with each other, killing each other, and the swords and swords between the edges made it difficult for Giles to judge the situation for a while, but in this trance, the casualty rate of his army was already expanding rapidly at a very fast speed.

Ten minutes later, the Roman legions were again repulsed. This time, there were countless casualties! The Roman soldiers who rushed to the front of the battle were mercilessly killed, and the Roman soldiers who did not rush to the front were also blocked by grenades and bullets, and they had to be separated from the Roman comrades who had already rushed to the front of the Zihada formation, and they were almost in the rear, watching the Roman comrades in front of them being killed, and they fell to the ground miserably and could not support.

Finally, after several difficulties, Giles could finally distinguish the general situation on the battlefield, but when he really saw it clearly, the bloody facts made him, a cruel and stern commander, shocked on the spot.

What Giles found was that the bodies lying on the slopes of the valley were all Romans......

At this point, it was too late to give the order to retreat.

Giles was already a little dazed, staying where he was, at a loss, and he didn't even know how to describe the combat power of the Qihada Blade! His people were much less, and they couldn't count......

"General Giles, we've suffered heavy losses, and I think we need support!" Niski said.

Gilles' eyes were blank, and when he saw the battle in the valley, he could already predict the heavy losses of his own army. At this point, it was impossible for Giles to say anything to Niski to refuse support. And Niski saw that Giles was silent and did not ask, the facts were already in front of him. Therefore, Niski immediately took matters into his own hands and sent men on fast horses to the city of Hasara to ask for reinforcements.

"Count the casualties immediately!" said Giles gloomily.

"Count the casualties immediately!" Zihada said as he said in the valley.

"Report to the captain, 393 members of our unit were killed, 31 members were seriously injured, and 129 were slightly injured. Among the team members who died in battle, 13 were Mountain Eagle special combat personnel. ”

This white-knuckle battle, in fact, was the most casualties among Qihada's troops. Among them, the most distressing thing for Zihada is undoubtedly the death and injury of the members of the Mountain Eagle Special Combat Team.

The soldiers of the Roman legions, in terms of combat ability, were not much worse than the troops of Zihada, and in some respects, they were stronger. If it weren't for the constant submachine gun fire of a hundred members of the Mountain Eagle Special Combat Team, the position might have been lost. Even so, more than a dozen members of the Mountain Eagles died from spear throwing or bow and arrow fire.

"Now we still have members of combat effectiveness, and there are more than 450 people on the position. "The squad leader reports to Zihada.

Zihada looked at the Roman soldiers who were still quite numerous at the foot of the mountain, and said helplessly: "Take the seriously wounded brother, let's retreat!"

He had no choice but to abandon his position. If you know that you can't do anything, you shouldn't continue to force it. Besides, looking at the results of this great battle, for Zihada's troops, they were not defeated, but a victory. On the hillside, nearly 10,000 corpses of more than 10,000 Roman soldiers were left.

Zihada gave the order, and in less than ten minutes, the troops were cleaned up, not a single gun was left, and the items that could not be taken away should also be destroyed as soon as possible, leaving nothing behind, so as not to be imitated by the enemy's alchemists.

Zihada quickly withdrew with his troops, and just after descending the valley, Gilles also received a casualty report from the Roman legions, and Gilles's legions were almost completely wiped out, and less than a thousand Roman soldiers survived. The casualties of the city guards of Hasara were even heavier, and less than 10,000 of the 20,000 soldiers were left standing! )