Five miles west of Wallonburg, an abandoned farm mill, the 1st Regiment of the Jonah Frontier Garrison Corps (the Wells Corps), all the cavalry and the Deadpool team, most of the task force and baggage team, as well as the Chinese command camp and the military law team of the guard team, nearly 600 people were temporarily stationed in the open space around the mill, and there were half-man-high horse-repellent pickets on three sides of the open space, and there was a 15-foot-wide rushing stream to the east of the mill, which was also a strong "wall".

In addition to the open posts and secret posts, there were also cavalry on duty around the temporary camp to patrol and guard constantly to prevent the sneak attack of the Swabians.

In the camp, the soldiers gathered in squadrons in their two or three tents to enjoy the rare quiet leisure before the war, and the talented veterans would take out their flutes, reed flutes or reeds made of clarinets to play beautiful vocal music in front of the campfire, and even a soldier in the regiment who had been a troubadour's apprentice always liked to hold an old lute and pluck a sad or happy minor tune with a goose feather pole, accompanied by his duck-like voice that made everyone laugh. However, he himself did not care, and every time he finished playing and singing, he would take off his iron helmet and bend down and stretch out his hand to the soldiers who came up to collect the fee, usually no one would pay the money, but he would not be annoyed, and still sang the song that suited the situation.

Today, however, the camp was quiet, and the soldiers were just taking out stones from their tents, sharpening their swords, or thinking about how to give their money bags to their wives and children.

A big battle with the Swabian army was about to begin.

In the abandoned mill where the command camp of the Chinese army was located, the commander-in-chief of the border garrison corps, Yat, and the commander of the First Advance Corps, Angus, were deducing the battle formation on a freshly made sand table.

Schwabian's invasion was too sudden, and Art did not have the time or energy to make an elaborate sand table like that of the Western Theater of Operations, so he could only roughly pile up a sand table model with Walloon Fort and Brammon as the core, based on the oral accounts of the locals and the sentry of the task force.

When Yat personally led the 1st Infantry Regiment and several troops directly under the Chinese army from the market town, the Swabian army of 300 men immediately stopped advancing, and they camped around a hill two and a half miles away, and in the past two days the Swabian army has been continuously assembled from the Wallonburg battlefield and further east of Wallonburg towards that hill, and the reinforcements of the army are mainly heavy cavalry, and in just three days, the heavy cavalry in the Swabian army has exceeded 100 cavalry.

Gathering more than 100 heavy cavalry in one place, it is obvious that Schwaz himself also intends to deal a fatal blow to the Burgundian army under Art, knowing that in the plain battlefield, the heavy cavalry is invincible.

The first corps corps commander Angus pointed to the sand table to explain the battle strategy to Art, "In the face of a strong enemy, especially a strong enemy with a strong team of heavy armored cavalry, the choice of the battlefield is the key to the success or failure of this battle. Ron and Stanley have already led a task force through all the places within a five-mile radius, and there are only two battlefields that meet your requirements. ”

"A large swamp a mile and a half southeast of this place, with shallow grass mires on three sides, and only the eastward side of the flat land, which the enemy cavalry could not circumvent, and which we could dig trenches and traps in front of us, and bury stakes to keep our horses away. In such a place, if the Swabians dared to charge on horseback, their heavy cavalry would definitely be stuck in the quagmire, and without the advantage of heavy cavalry, it would be easy to deal with those infantry. ”

"But this is also a desperate situation for us, and we don't even have a chance to retreat if the war is unfavorable, the quagmire is enough to swallow ten armies like ours, and we cannot rule out that the Swaben will know that it is a swamp and refuse to come and fight us. This is very likely, according to our task force, there are many local lords' private soldiers in the enemy camp who have taken the initiative to take refuge in the Swabian, they are familiar with the terrain, and if the Swaper can remember to ask the locals, it is easy to find this huge life-trap, and if the Swaben only plug the gap to the flat land, they will definitely starve us to death in the swamp. ”

Art nodded slightly, noncommittal.

"Where's the second location?"

Angus raised his stick and pointed two miles northeast of the mill, "Here! ”

"It was a gap in a large forest, a narrow passage about two hundred feet wide between the two mountains, and the woods on both sides were so dense that Schwabian's heavy cavalry could not charge from the flanks, so it was difficult for their heavy cavalry to take advantage. The dense forest on either side of the gap stretched for miles, and the Swabian heavy cavalry could neither go around nor cross the dense forest, and we could set traps in the dense forest for enemy soldiers who tried to sneak up on our flanks through the dense forest. ”

"The main thing is that although there is a dense forest here, it is not a dead place for both the enemy and us, and people are much less afraid of the dense forest than the swamp, so even if the Schwamen know that there are traps on the battlefield, they will launch a charge in order to "annihilate" us as soon as possible. ”

Art's eyes were fixed on the place pointed by Angus for a long time, and then he looked up and ordered, "Pass the guards to prepare the horses, and I will go and see the battlefield myself."

Art has a special penchant for forests, which may be due to his dependence on the shelter and nurturing of the mountains and valleys after he accidentally entered this world, so when he led his guards to this battlefield selected by Angus, he had already decided to make this the place of decisive battle.

Six years ago he set a trap in the forest to fight wolves and bears, and six years later he used the entire forest as a trap to fight the alien army.

On the gentle slope of the hill to the east of the gap, Arte immediately looked out at the dense forest below the hill, and he wondered if he had commanded the Swabian army to order his army to rush from this gentle slope to the gap in the dense forest, even though there might be a trap waiting for him.

The answer is yes, because the Ath can trade time for victory, but the Swabians cannot, they must capture Wallonburg and the entire eastern defense line and quickly establish a solid defensive base before the Burgundian Restoration Army occupies Besançon, otherwise once the Burgundian Restoration Army and the reinforcements of the Duchy of Burgundy who are about to leave for the east arrive, Swabia's dispatch will become another waste.

So as long as there was a slight chance of victory, the Schwabians dared to attack Yat's army. If the Swabians give up the attack, then Art will become a poisonous snake that will not be able to get rid of them, and the frontal active attack may not be strong enough, but it is still no problem to cut off the baggage today, attack the flank tomorrow, and harass the day after tomorrow.

"Sergeant Major, this is it. Starting this afternoon, you will lead people to set traps and potholes in the dense forest on both sides of the gap, the more the better, the more complex the better. Two days, I'll give you two days! "The First Regiment is full of veterans of the Welsh Corps, and almost all of the officers have learned how to lay traps in the Officers' Academy, so this task is not difficult for the First Regiment.

"It's my lord! When I got back, I immediately brought people over to set up the battlefield. ”

Angus turned his horse's head and looked around, "My lord, will the enemy come here to fight us?" ”

Art turned his head to look at the southwest where the Schwaben were stationed, "I'm not completely sure, but I guess the Schwaben don't want to delay any longer, they need to break through our defenses and capture the hinterland as soon as possible."

In the afternoon of the same day, Angus led more than 200 soldiers selected by the First Infantry Corps to the selected battlefield with a large number of shovels, iron lifts, and wooden saws, hand axes, and burrowed into the dense forest on both flanks of the gap, and the cavalry and task force were ordered to block off all the areas around the battlefield for a mile and a half

Early the next morning, Trainee Ron broke into the camp of the Swabian army in the east, and delivered a declaration of war written by Art Dear to the tent of Count Randy von Hoffmann, the commander of the Swabian army.

The Count of Landy was a new military nobleman in the war with Burgundy a few years earlier, and at the age of forty he was a young earl.

He was the commander of the entire theater of operations, with more than 1,200 soldiers under his command, including more than 160 heavily armored cavalry. Landi's main duty was to attack the defensive lines of several castles around Wallonburg in the north, and to be the first to attack the hinterland of the province of Jonne in the Count of Burgundy, disrupting the rear of the Restoration Army and taking advantage of the situation to expand the territory of the Duchy of Swabia again.

However, the original plan to attack the hinterland of Jonah in one month was broken, and a month and a half later, they were still fighting for several castles along the border.

He didn't have to worry about the imminent capture of Fort Gennet, but the small place called Walloniau stopped the army from moving forward, and the reason was that Swabian had captured it in the national war a few years earlier, and after the war, the Count of Burgundy had built it into a fortified city.

When the army ran into a wall at Walloonburg, another Burgundian reinforcement rushed in, and Swabian planted in Burgundy to repay this army as a small force that had turned the southwestern Biltenberg front into a pot of wheat a few years earlier.

For this guy who never talked about the rules and etiquette of war, Randy would not stick to the old rules, so he ordered a small army of 100 people to attack.

However, when he learned from the fleeing cavalry that the hundred-man squad had been wiped out, and even the leading knights had been captured, Randy became more wary of the baron who led the enemy.

Ron delivered Art's message and handed over the declaration of war before striding away.

As soon as Ron left, Landy's military adviser pointed to Ron's back and reminded, "Lord Earl, I guess the enemy must have designed a trap for us to drill."

Randy tore open the seal and glanced at it from the beginning, and took the letter

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"No need to guess, he said it himself, the battlefield and its surroundings are full of traps, just waiting for us to drill them." ”

"Huh?" The advisor immediately picked up the declaration of war and read it, and sure enough, the declaration of war was written in thick quills that the other party had set up traps, and even the traps were mainly located in the dense forest on both wings.

"Lord Earl? This~? What the hell is that guy trying to do? "The consultant really didn't understand what the other party was trying to do.

"He's deliberately provoking me off."

Randy pointed at himself and smiled, "Am I so easily fooled? ”

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Chapter 341: The Battle of the Covenant