"Chapter Eighty-Six: The Battle of the League, Part 6"
There are two great tragedies in life: one is not getting what you love, and the other is getting what you love. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 There are two great joys in life: one is that you can seek and create without getting what you love, and the other is that you can taste and experience what you love.
- Sigmund Freud (Austrian Jewish psychologist, psychiatrist, founder of the psychoanalytic school)
On the second day of the Eight Nations League, Bai Feng encountered Bouz, the captain of the Dessau Kingdom, in the sixteen-to-eight game, and the random terrain between the two was a plain suitable for cavalry combat, and this time Bai Feng deliberately used the new class he researched last night.
In order to test the actual combat capability of the new troops, Bai Feng did not continue to use pikemen as the main force of his army, but chose four brigades of standard cavalry, of which the standard cavalry of two brigades was adjusted into archers and assault cavalry respectively.
Cavalry archers, as the name suggests, are light cavalry that use bows and arrows, and by sacrificing the melee ability of standard cavalry, they are faster long-range strike forces, and they have almost left the category of pure cavalry.
The so-called assault cavalry is a kind of combat cavalry between standard cavalry and heavy cavalry, this kind of cavalry armed with a horse chopping knife is more offensive than ordinary standard cavalry, more mobile than the adjusted heavy cavalry, and is considered a new type of cavalry.
A brigade of archers and a brigade of assault cavalry, as well as two brigades of heavy cavalry, were all the forces that Bai Feng used for this battle, and this was also the first time that Bai Feng used a full cavalry army to fight in a deductive battle.
Although Bai Feng has always mainly used infantry in combat, his understanding of cavalry is still relatively profound, whether it is in the Roman world in the past, or in another world at this time, cavalry has always been Bai Feng's favorite type of troops.
When the battle began, two battalions of hoplites were dispatched by Bai Feng first, with archers on the left and right flanks who were responsible for reconnoitering the terrain, and the last assault brigade was three minutes away from the hoplite group.
The cavalry marching at full speed was indeed much faster than the infantry units, especially the archers, who were far faster than the standard cavalry, and they quickly opened up the distance from the heavy cavalry group, and quickly crossed the center of the battlefield.
Captain Bouz of the Kingdom of Dessau is the only player among the eight players of the Kingdom of Dessau who has not been eliminated, and he naturally carries the hope of the Kingdom of Dessau, as evidenced by the players and instructors of the Kingdom of Dessau.
So, last night Buzz and his instructor Bancroft carefully studied the other fifteen potential opponents, and formulated a corresponding suppression plan for Booz to choose from according to their fighting style.
In the first round of qualifiers, Bai Feng, the captain of the Celestial Dragon Empire, who defeated Philip, the captain of the Duchy of Kassel, Ida, the captain of the famous Andriol Empire, and Clark, the experienced captain of the Rhine Business Alliance, were the targets of Bancroft's attention.
The Dessau Kingdom, which has the same roots as the Deman Kingdom, is indeed far less powerful than the Deman Kingdom with extremely strong military strength, but their heritage should not be underestimated, and Bancroft is the youngest and most promising marquis of the Dessau Kingdom!
Bancroft, who is in his forties, is indeed not suitable for the adjective of young people who have not yet graduated, such as Bai Feng, Ida, and Clark;
If it weren't for Bancroft's commoner origins, he would not have been a mere marquis, and he would have been able to lead the army of Dessau to defeat the elite divisions of the Principality of Hesse, which was enough to convince any famous general.
Because the army of the Dessau Kingdom is notoriously weak in fighting and poor in combat, unless it is a smooth battle with more battles and fewer battles, the army of the Dessau Kingdom is only defeated, which is also the fundamental reason why the Dessau Kingdom has never been able to become strong.
However, the Duchy of Hesse is a powerful principality rich in elite mercenaries, and the barren land and scarce resources determine that the Duchy of Hesse cannot have a strong national strength, and in order to survive and develop, the Duchy of Hesse can only cultivate strong warriors to open up living space.
The Duchy of Hesse is bordered by the Andriel Empire to the west, the Kingdom of Bohemia and Kattegat to the north, and the Kingdom of Dessau to the east.
The kingdom of Dessau, which had been under passive attack for many years, had so far ceded one-fifth of its territory to the Duchy of Hesse, and it was not until Bancroft was born that he grew up as a small soldier and completely changed the rotten military status quo of the kingdom of Dessau.
The sheep-like army of the Kingdom of Dessau will become a real lion in the hands of Bancroft, and even the army of the Duchy of Hesse cannot stop the fierce attack of Bancroft, and in this way, Bancroft has become a military legend of the Kingdom of Dessau in ten years.
His analysis of Bai Feng's tactics was not inaccurate, and the professor's countermeasures to Buz were quite effective, but unfortunately, what he saw was only Bai Feng's combat style when he used the pikeman phalanx, not Bai Feng's complete combat style.
Bai Feng, who is better at strategic deployment, also has rich experience at the tactical level, at least not much worse than ordinary famous generals, and although Buzz has the guidance of famous generals, he himself is not a famous general after all, and his dull tactical use is his most fatal weakness.
Buzi, who thought he had a deep understanding of Bai Feng, as soon as he saw the terrain of the battlefield, chose two battalions of hoplites and one battalion of standard cavalry, as well as three squadrons of standard archers and two squadrons of hoplites, as his battle army.
This kind of troop combination is obviously aimed at Bai Feng's pikeman phalanx, and if Bai Feng really uses the class composition in the first battle to deal with the battle, maybe Buzz's army is really likely to suppress Bai Feng's army tactically.
Unfortunately, this time, Bai Feng did not choose the same class composition, but adopted a new style of playing with full cavalry, and when Bai Feng and Buz's troops entered the deduction battlefield at the same time, Bancroft in the audience sighed helplessly.
How could Bancroft, who had been in the army for more than 20 years and had been on the battlefield for more than 10 years, fail to see the situation on the battlefield? In his opinion, Bai Feng, who was fully cavalry, could easily wipe out the physically rigid Buz army by giving full play to the mobility advantage of the cavalry.
What happened next really proved Bancroft's judgment, and only the archers under the command of Bai Feng used kite tactics to cripple the light cavalry and heavy cavalry units under the command of Buz, and the Bouz army that lost its cavalry was even more powerless.
By the time the main hoplite cavalry group under Bai Feng's command arrived at the battlefield, the Buz army, which was only left with hoplites and standard archers, could not resist the charge of the heavy cavalry group, and in just a wave of full speed charge, Bai Feng's army broke the defense line of the Buz army.
The cavalry archers on the flanks took the opportunity to harass the enemy infantry who were trying to rebuild the defensive line, so the heavy cavalry group that turned around and charged again without waiting for the enemy to rebuild the defensive line.
After two successive charges, the Buz army, which had suffered heavy casualties, completely lost the capital to continue the battle, and before Bai Feng's follow-up assault cavalry brigade could reach the battlefield, the battle ended with Bai Feng's complete victory.