Chapter 627: The Final Battle (Part II)
"Boss, I'm afraid I'm going to do it." After Liu Xuan hurriedly returned to West Pole City, he handed Wan Yi the list of all the weapons and equipment that had been handed over to the Great Qin Empire this time, and immediately said: "When I returned, the secret guard Hammoud had already heard that the royal guards on the Russian side of Kiev had been concentrated in the Balkans, and relying on the prediction, after Alidoan was equipped with the 30,000 rifles and more than 60 artillery pieces we handed over, they would be able to organize at least 100,000 troops, a musket team and more than 100 artillery pieces, plus the melee advantage of the Slavic legions, He should feel ready for a decisive battle. "Since the secret guard has not yet sent the latest information from the Balkans, this does not prevent Liu Xuan from judging Elidoan's next move.
"If there is no more war, the family of the Great Qin Empire will also be hollowed out, and the last time I paid the ransom for the prisoners of war, I directly paid four million gold coins, plus additional orders for weapons and food, I am afraid that the country will make a lot of money this year. How long can he hold out such a large-scale war in the Great Qin Empire until now? Wan Yi shook his head and said, "Eridogan still needs to fight quickly this time, otherwise even if he can defeat Amdullah, he will face a situation where he will be powerless." After Wan Yi finished speaking, he said: "Did you arrange for Hammud to prepare for the implementation of the dismemberment plan for Central Asia and the Asia Minor Peninsula that Xuan Yingwei turned around?" Act immediately once Amdullah is defeated, at least in the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea generation, it is not allowed to be occupied by the Great Qin Empire. Wan Yi's hand drew a circle on the map.
"Don't worry, Marshal, Hamoud's side has made all the preparations, and when the time comes, Usuke will lead the army, and we will sit in the rear." Liu Xuan's words made Wan Yi nod.
When Elidogan and Amdullah had not yet started the final competition, Wan Yi, who was far away in West Pole City, was already making post-war deployments. In the first phase, in addition to recovering the central part of the Balkan Peninsula, Eridogan also advanced the front from Belgrade to the Sofia region, and directly began to make direct contact with Amdullah's army.
Although Amdullah was surprised by Elidoan's early arrival, he didn't pay much attention to it at first, but it was only after the forward force led by Ulam was almost surrounded by a night attack that Amdullah really felt the command of the famous admiral in land warfare. Ulam's troops were by far the most elite in their own hands, equipped with the best equipment, but they did not take advantage of the opponent's field battles. With the Slavic Corps as the main assault force, after the artillery was used intensively, the deployment of Eridoan could be described as flawless, and Ulam was almost directly surrounded at the foot of the mountain southeast of Sofia, if he didn't feel that he felt inappropriate to send troops to meet him, he was afraid that he would lose this elite force in a short time. Amdullah was even more disturbed when Ullam was picked up, because according to the other side's description, in addition to the Slavic corps, Elidogan had joined the battle with a large number of artillery, and the scale of the concentrated fire was even greater than that of the artillery brigade equipped for Ulam.
"Your Excellency, did Elidogan remove the guns they had mounted on the naval warships? Otherwise, none of our fifty guns will be able to gain a slight advantage in the artillery battle. Ulam had not yet recovered from the defeat, so much so that he stared at Amdullah with red eyes.
"I'm afraid that it may not be, we can trade with Datang, can't they? I'm afraid that Datang urgently allocated them a batch of artillery and ammunition. Amdullah frowned and said, "If that's the case, then Elidoan is afraid that there is another musket team hidden in his hand and has not yet entered the battle." ”
"What to do now? As soon as we retreat, we will retreat to the Balkan Mountains. Eridoan is more familiar with the terrain of the Balkans than we are, and we are afraid that we will not have any advantage in fighting in these places. Ulam clenched his fists and said, "Why don't we fight them in the Sofia region and decide the winner." In this way, the cavalry corps in our hands will still be able to maintain the terrain of the assault, and once we retreat to the mountains, we will only have to fight a war of attrition. Ulam's words made Amdullah's frowning brow turn into a Sichuan shape. Ulam was right, after all, he had a cavalry legion in his hands that Elidoan did not have, and it was three cavalry legions, and nearly 90,000 cavalry were enough to cut through any military formation once they launched an assault. And once the retreat to the mountains and relying on the terrain to fight defensive battles, it means that this powerful cavalry will have no place unless they give up the Balkan mountains and retreat to the Thracian plains.
"Order all the troops to immediately form a formation on the spot and prepare for the battle, Ulam, you will lead the Qibin corps to divide into two routes, and arrange them on the left and right flanks, with the other divisions in front of the heavily armored troops, and the musket team divided into three parts to build a salient and rely on the heavy armoured soldiers to carry out the counterattack line. The three artillery brigades were also pulled up for me and equipped with the Chinese army. Amdullah gritted his teeth and made up his mind to fight back on the spot, and most importantly, Amdullah had two heavily armored legions in his hands, enough to build a solid defensive line in front of the musketeers' positions and cover the musketeers' concentrated fire. Although the use of muskets by the Great Cannibals cannot be compared with that of the Tang Dynasty, they also have their own unique way of using them, that is, to cover with heavy armor soldiers to ensure that the musket team can have enough time and space to continue shooting, so that the large-scale firepower projection is enough to completely crush the short-legged Daqin army. In the past battles, the musketeer team tactics and cavalry assault became the magic weapon of the Great Food Army to repeatedly defeat the Great Qin Army.
Amdullah's on-the-spot counter-attack unsurprisingly made Elidogan ecstatic, after all, he couldn't afford to fight a war of attrition for him, and if Amdullah was determined to take advantage of the various obstacles in the Balkans, he would have to think of other ways to do so. However, even so, Elidogan also began to make the final move, because of the superiority of the navy, while he was fighting a decisive battle with Amdullah head-on, Eridogan still gritted his teeth and recruited 20,000 infantry from the Greek region to secretly land on the remote coast of Thrace under the transportation of the navy, preparing to secretly attack Byzantium at the same time as the big battle here. It's just that in this way, the only troops on his frontal battlefield are the Slavic corps, the musket corps and an infantry corps that have been put together from the outside, which can be said to be almost half of the opponent's strength. Moreover, the other side also has a cavalry corps that is extremely threatening, and the cavalry on his side has basically been exhausted. Therefore, after calming down, Elidoan took the Slavic Legion as his main assault force, and then mixed the musket team behind another infantry legion, preparing to suddenly appear when the opponent's cavalry assaulted and beat it, and then the Slavic Legion counterattacked, abolishing the opponent's mobile force first.
The focus of the battle between the two sides was on the cavalry corps, so at the beginning, when Ulam led the cavalry to attack in two ways, Elidoan in addition to concentrating artillery to bombard the cavalry on the left side, so that the freed infantry needed to face the pace of the charge, so after a short period of time, a small number of ballistae and other cold weapons long-range shooting did not play much role under the charge of the formed cavalry corps, and the infantry corps arranged in front by Eridoan was only chiseled by the opponent for a short time, Killed in pieces.
At the moment of death, Ulam, who originally thought that the Slavic regiments in the Chinese army would take advantage of the situation to launch a counterattack, encountered the concentrated fire of 30,000 muskets, and countless bullets used the Great Eater cavalry as a live target. These large cannibal cavalry, who had done a good job of fighting at close range, encountered the non-stop projection of bullets from the opposing musket team. Moreover, in pursuit of suddenness, Eridoan stubbornly watched his infantry corps being scattered by cavalry and was indifferent. This is tantamount to watching his cavalry slaughter the infantry and being indifferent, this kind of ruthlessness then made Ulam eat all his words, 30,000 musketeers suddenly attacked and almost swept Ulam's right cavalry assault, and even before he reacted, he killed all the most ruthless cavalry salients on the spot, and those cavalry who were still attacking the Great Qin Infantry Corps were also blocked by countless lives before the speed of the formation was stopped. After losing its speed, the Slavic Legion quickly attacked under the nose of the opponent, and suddenly reinforced the defeated Daqin Infantry Legion, taking advantage of the opponent's lack of speed advantage and killing this cavalry little by little. The musketeers who had their hands free began to quickly turn their guns and drive towards the cavalry on the left side of Dashi, who had been drawn in front of the Chinese army, and counterattacked on the spot with the musketeers to resist the cavalry assault.
Regardless of his own danger, Elidoan beat the opponent for a sufficient time gap, and although the musketeers were badly damaged in the ensuing battle, they stubbornly dragged the left cavalry, making them unable to break out on the bullet-ridden battlefield and kill the Chinese army, which was only covered by thousands of soldiers and horses.
In this way, when Amdullah adjusted his deployment and pushed the heavy armor forward to prepare to launch a full-scale attack with the cavalry, the Slavic corps had already exhausted the attack of the cavalry on the right, forcing Ulam to withdraw the remaining cavalry. Almost all the time, Elidoan mobilized the Slavic corps to start rushing to the reinforcement of the musket corps, and at the same time led the Chinese army to retreat behind the positions of the musketeers, relying on the addition of the Slavic corps, part of the musket corps immediately formed a temporary position to cooperate with the artillery bombardment of Amdullah's heavy armoured corps. At this time, Amdullah's mistakes began to lead to huge loopholes, that is, the slow attack speed of the heavy armor soldiers, in addition to the continuous bombardment of Eridoan at any cost, the formation was blown up, and some of the musket teams have been adjusted and deployed, although after this battle, Eridogan's snow hidden musket team lost most of it, but the thousands of musketeers gathered in a hurry still forced Amdullah's heavy armor to suffer heavy losses.
In fact, Amdullah's mistake was not subjective, the Great Cannibal did not have a formation of heavy infantry before, which was also formed after the defeat of Byzantium, which captured a large number of infantry armor, so in line with the idea of strengthening the combat effectiveness of his own army, he equipped two legions as the meat shield of the musket team. However, in the event of a cavalry defeat, the heavy infantry was mobilized to participate in a frontal attack, and after the artillery and musketeers in the hands of Elidoan were able to free their hands, such a deployment was equivalent to sending the two heavy armoured corps into the mouth of the enemy. With the Slavic Legion taking over the hand-to-hand combat of the musketeers and the Great Eclipse Left Cavalry, the remaining less than 10,000 musketeers rejoined the battlefield, and the intensity of the fire more than doubled at once. In this way, the opponent's heavy armor corps was finally completely defeated, a large number of heavy armor soldiers who were unable to keep up with their speed were killed in the middle of the road, and the others lost their formation continuously under the bombardment of more than 100 artillery pieces, and became a fragmented group that was constantly decreasing. However, the Great Food Artillery, which was usually used as a counterpoint, was placed in the position of the Chinese army by Amdullah and could not attack most of the positions of the Great Qin army. At the beginning, Eridogan concentrated the artillery and placed it on the left side of the position, and the artillery position did not follow after the retreat of his own central army. Although this kind of ruthlessness made the artillery position face the most dangerous situation from the beginning, it became the most critical point of victory and defeat at this time.
Although the battle has been fought so far, although Elidogan has suffered heavy losses, it has firmly grasped the initiative of the entire war, and although the Great Eater Cavalry has gradually retreated under the command of Ulam, it has retained the main force of the left cavalry, but compared with the strength of the three legions before the war, it has now lost most of it. And the two heavy armored corps that participated in the attack were almost lost. If it weren't for Amdullah, who also began to throw in the muskets, forcing back the Slavic legions in the hands of Elidogan, I was afraid that the other side would take advantage of the situation to enter the counterattack.
Amdullah left the cavalry to break off and led the main force to quickly begin to retreat, but was entangled by Elidoan's method at any cost, the Slavic Legion rushed bravely and directly entangled with the opponent's cavalry, and stubbornly withstood the cavalry's counterattack with infantry, so that the Great Eclipse cavalry suffered heavy losses again, this time the cavalry that the Great Eclipse was proud of almost lost its last strength after a fierce battle with the Slavic Legion on the way to the rear. By the time Ulam ordered to retreat, the Slavic Legion had wiped out most of the remaining nearly 50,000 cannibal cavalry at the cost of almost annihilating its own army, and only a few thousand men remained with Ullam who had withdrawn.
After this battle, Eridogan began to cross the mountains and mountains of the west coast despite fatigue and his own casualties, and mobilized naval warships to dismantle nearly fifty guns and transport them along the way, and quickly appeared in the Thrace region while Amdullah was gathering his defeated army and preparing to defend in the Balkan Mountains, and then joined up with the 20,000 Greek infantry who had secretly arrived to attack Byzantium, and took all of Byzantium before the news reached Amdullah on the third day. As a result, the positions of the two sides in the Balkans were quickly reversed, and the Thracian region was reoccupied by the Eridogan in a short time, which also completely cut off the return of Amdullah, and a large amount of supplies stored in Byzantium were once again held by the Eridogan.