Section 111 The Battle of Copulon (Part II)
In June 471 of the year Nether, as summer approached, the army of Tubis and the allied forces of Nila Beijon faced each other in the eastern part of the Cobillonian realm, and a great war of unprecedented scale was about to break out.
After being attacked by Antony's 500-strong army, Bedonia was afraid to attack easily, which created a good opportunity for the Tubis to have enough time to draw large armies from their territories to meet them.
On the battlefield, the army of Tubis was commanded by Commander Yale, one of the three great masters of the Empire, and Anthony was the deputy commander-in-chief, and the army consisted of six Imperial Knights, plus 3,000 archers and 4,000 infantry reinforced from the royal capital, with a total of 25,000 troops. The combined forces of Nila and Beijon were commanded by Bedolia and Adili of Beijon as deputy commander-in-chief, and the army consisted mainly of infantry, pikemen, and cavalry, plus a special contingent of fifty war elephants, totaling more than 50,000 men.
The two sides set up positions on the east and west sides, preparing for an earth-shaking battle on the land of the Knights.
Knight's weather in June was a bit changeable, and the sun was shining just now, but the sky became overcast for a while, and soon it began to drizzle.
After settling in front of the army, Anthony rode his horse toward Yale in the drizzle.
Yale looked up at the sky, feeling a little melancholy, not afraid of the Nila Beijon coalition in front of him, but distressed by the fact that his former ally had become the enemy he is today.
When Anthony came to Yale's side, he replied, "Your Excellency Yale, our Imperial Army has been deployed, and we can attack immediately after your order." ”
Yale turned his gaze to Anthony and asked him with a frown: "Anthony, you must know that if we fight this battle, no matter who wins or loses, there will be two powerful enemies in our empire in the end. ”
Anthony replied coldly: "So what, our imperial crusade army originally came to unify the continent, and it has nothing to do with them Nila and Beijung going to war sooner or later." ”
Yale shook his head and sighed: "But now is not the time, we have been overwhelmed in Knight territory, and we have to deal with Nila and Beirong this time, our forces are really limited." ”
Anthony replied unhappily: "Isn't Your Majesty already preparing for the Warrior Competition, and the new Knight Army has already recruited almost everything, just send the Warrior Competition to select a new leader, and then countless new troops will come to support." ”
Yale replied with a smile: "Well, you young people are always optimistic and full of fighting spirit. Well, that's good, the empire needs people like you. Not to mention this, their army of Nila Beijon has not yet been assembled, and we are now launching an attack at the right time. Anthony, do you dare to lead the Knights alone to attack the headquarters of Bedoria? Last time he was beaten by you once, now he must be very scared, and the effect of your fight again must be very good. ”
Anthony replied happily: "I dare to kill five hundred people, not to mention that it is now a knight order, and this matter is on me." ”
Yale nodded and said: "Okay, you go to attack the enemy's commander-in-chief headquarters first, I will personally lead people to resist the attack in the direction of the Beijon people, and the other knights will fully cooperate with you to attack the Nila people, and we will defeat them Nila people first." As long as the Nila are defeated, the Beijung will definitely preserve their strength and withdraw. ”
"Good!" , no question about Yale's tactics, Anthony, because he had intended to do the same. The Nila army is more powerful than the Beirong army, and there are many more of them, if they defeat the Nila people, it is equivalent to defeating the main force of the opposing coalition army, and even if the Beirong people do not retreat, they will only wait for death.
As Yale expected, before Bedolia could fix the congested Imperial Alliance, Antony led the Knights to kill them violently.
In the face of the sudden change in the enemy's situation, Bedoria remembered the lesson of the last time, urgently changed the battle strategy, and ordered two cavalry corps to meet the enemy head-on, while the remaining corps immediately fortified on the spot and confronted the other Tubis army on the opposite side.
Seeing that the Nila had dispatched two cavalry regiments to intercept Antony, Yale hurriedly ordered an outer knight to meet the enemy head-on, allowing Anthony to lead the knights to continue the detour and attack Bedoria head-on.
Anthony was extremely brave, he first took the lead with a spear, led the knights directly into the cavalry of the Nila, and without much effort, led the black knight to tear a huge gap, splitting the Nila cavalry camp of the two legions in two. It had only been a few minutes since the war began, and the difference in strength began to quickly become apparent, and the black knights were obviously much more powerful than these Nila cavalry in terms of speed and attack power.
Just when the Nila cavalry was in chaos and wanted to regroup the formation, Anthony had already led the army of black knights to break straight into the rear camp, and in front of them came a new Knights of Tobis, the two Nila cavalry regiments were inseparable, and had to fight with the newly arrived Tobis army.
Antony's high will to fight brought the battle power of the Knights to the extreme, and he roared with a fierce wind and went straight into the Bedoria headquarters, casualties were instantaneous, and the Bedoria headquarters began to retreat rapidly.
Esmarc, the commander of the Nila Cavalry Regiment, reappeared, and he hurriedly ordered the 2,000 archers behind him to attack immediately and shoot wildly at the surging Anthony Knights.
After this round of attacks, Anthony's knights also began to suffer many casualties, but this did not stop Anthony's attack.
Seeing that Anthony had successfully broken into the Bedoria camp, Yale immediately asked the trumpeters to blow the horns of the charge, and the three Imperial Knights bypassed the fighting position from the south side and launched a fierce attack on the main infantry of Nila, which was lined up on the opposite side. Seeing the sudden dispatch of the entire army of the Tubis, Adili, as the deputy commander-in-chief, immediately led the Beijon army to attack the Yale headquarters from the north.
In an instant, the battle on the Great Plains entered the climax, and the surrounding area of dozens of miles became a battlefield, and the killing cries were earth-shattering. Both sides invested almost all their forces, and launched a merciless battle on the open plain, the battle was very fierce, and they all fought to the death without reservation, devouring the lives of the opposing soldiers like a god of death.
This Adili is worthy of being the marauder of Haocheng, as the commander, he personally led the team to rush to the front, and killed the Tubis infantry in the front of Yale's defense. In a short time, Adili rushed the position of the Tubis infantry into chaos, and countless Tubis infantry died on the spot, and the embarrassing scene was unsightly.
Yale adheres to the consistent tradition of imperial tactics, with the purpose of sacrificing infantry, retaining elite knightly armies to break through the enemy's main force and wear down the enemy's main force as quickly as possible. When Adili led the army to torture and kill this Tubis infantry phalanx, the Beijon army also paid a lot of price. But after all, the pikemen had an absolute advantage over the shield infantry, and on the whole the casualties of the Beijon army were much less.
But just when Adili felt that the victory was in his hands, a black rain suddenly appeared in the sky above the Tubisi camp, and in an instant, the pikemen camp of Beirong was shot to the ground, and the casualties were explosive in an instant, and the cautious Adili hurriedly ordered to retreat.
Yale was so powerful, everything seemed to be under his control, and he waited for Adili to order a retreat, and he led the Knights to quickly launch a pursuit.
Whether to retreat or flee is just a matter of thought, and the key is to see how to move. But now, when the Beijung people saw the army of the Black Knights killing in anger, they fled one after another, and the rout broke out in an instant.
In order to save the terrible decline, the brave Adili had to lead his own cavalry to break the rear and cover the withdrawal of the Beirong army to a safe area, and then Adili led the cavalry to leave quickly.
Although Yale tried his best to kill him, in the end he failed to entangle the main force of the Beijon army, allowing the mighty Adili to quickly retreat to a safe area with the army.
This came and went, although it failed to consume the opponent's main force, but Yale's tactics still achieved very good results, not only recovering the losses in front, but also beating the Beirong people from afar and did not dare to attack, nor did they dare to help the Nila army that was attacked on the side.
The Neela were in agony when they were attacked head-on by the Knights of Tubis, and Bedoria was forced to command a large army to resist with all their might, cursing Adili for his stupidity and cowardice along the way.
Adili is not really stupid, as the commander of Beirong, he pays attention to striving for the greatest record, and accepting it when he sees it is good, which is the key to preserving his strength and being invincible. He didn't come to Nira's aid in time because he hadn't seen the Nila send out an army of war elephants, and since the Nila didn't send their most powerful team, he naturally didn't need to take care of the Nila.
More than three hours later, more than half of the 10,000 cavalry of the Nila had been wiped out on the long battle line, but the Tubis still had nearly 10,000 black knights, and only lost about 2,000 black knights. The combat power of these black knights is astonishingly terrifying, which is completely beyond the expectations of the alliance forces of the two empires.
Bedoria was forced to lead the ace army of 50 war elephants in person, intending to rely on this last card to carry out an all-out counterattack against the Tubis.
The tall and mighty war elephant roared into the battlefield from behind, and the horses of the Tubis people were terrified and roared, and no matter how much they drove the horses, they refused to obey the call, and fled in panic.
The huge fangs of the war elephant kept waving left and right, easily abusing and killing the black knights of Tubis along the way, and in an instant, the formation of Tubis was overwhelmed, and the casualties increased explosively in an instant, and the army of black knights of Tubis also began to suffer heavy losses, and the powerful advantage of the black knights was immediately broken in front of the war elephants.
At such a critical juncture, Anthony tugged the reins and left the battlefield with an elite team of knights, detouring from one side to pursue the Neira's war elephant procession. When Anthony caught up with the frantically running army of war elephants, he took up his arrow and shot it at the thigh of one of the war elephants. But after the war elephant was shot by Anthony several arrows in the leg in succession, not only did it not fall to the ground injured, but it became more manic, and rushed even more frantically towards the black knight team in front of it.
Seeing these war elephants fighting more and more fiercely, Anthony angrily threw away the bow in his hand and quickly rode his horse to continue to chase forward.
Along the way, Anthony desperately shuttled between the war elephants, wielding his gun to block the arrows fired from the back of the war elephants, while trying to find Bedoria's figure.
On the back of the war elephants, the Nila people carried large baskets with men, on which stood several archers, who drove the war elephants and shot them along the way with bows and arrows, and the explosion of destruction was not to be underestimated.
Anthony's swift gallop between the elephants was a very dangerous thing, but thanks to his quick reflexes, especially his exquisite marksmanship, he was able to block the arrows that flew all the way.
Finally, Anthony saw an exceptionally tall white war elephant, and the Bedoria was standing on it, desperately directing the war elephant team to attack. He eagerly picked up his spear and threw it at Bedoria.
However, as the guardian of the Nila Empire, Bedoria is naturally not an ordinary person. Seeing that the spear was about to stab him in the back, the reflexful Bedoria suddenly turned sideways to dodge, and the spear passed by and flew away.
Seeing that he couldn't make a move, Anthony hurriedly pulled out the long sword at his waist, flew from the horse's back and pounced on the belly of the war elephant, and quickly climbed onto the elephant's back with both hands on the rope.
Seeing Anthony appear in his sight, Bedoria was shocked by a chill behind him, and hurriedly swung his scimitar and slashed at Anthony who climbed up.
Anthony had nowhere to stay, so he barely swung his sword to block a few times, and when he saw more and more arrows flying towards him on both sides, he had to let go and jump. Watching Bedoria lead the team of war elephants to continue to attack, Anthony had no way at all, these war elephants were so powerful that he couldn't do it at all.
However, despite the invincibility of the war elephants, after all, the scale of the war elephants was only 50, and the commanders of the Tubisi regiment quickly thought of a way, and when they saw the war elephants running, everyone rode their horses and scattered, so that they could not reach the army.
The running speed of the war elephant is far less than that of the galloping horse, and after a few rounds, the war elephant looks very tired, and its speed drops significantly.
However, the battle continued, and under the repeated onslaught of the Knights of Tubis, the main army of the Nila finally began to flee in panic, and the decline of the Nila was irretrievable. Although Bedoria was very unwilling and desperately insulted Adili's betrayal, he finally had to lead the war elephant team to evacuate eastward.
Seeing the withdrawal of the Nila people, Adili did not hesitate to order to return to Haocheng, the shrewd Adili once again achieved his extraordinary achievements, in the decline he still saved the army and returned to Haocheng smoothly, after which he was praised and rewarded by His Majesty the King of Beirong.
Coblion returned home with a great victory in the First Battle of the Tubith Empire, showing the world the invincible power of the imperial army, and since then the Nira and Beijon people did not dare to easily confront the Tubis people. In addition to winning a great victory, the Tubis also succeeded in breaking the alliance between the two eastern empires, creating favorable conditions for the permanent conquest of Knight.
After the defeat, Nila and Beijon began to sink into endless quarrels, and they even engaged in skirmishes on the border of Seoul and Haocheng, and the two empires were at odds with each other, and the short-lived alliance was soon shattered.