Chapter 143: Six Fierce Battles

Just as Babas Barn judged the situation at the beginning, whoever made the first move would be at a disadvantage in this confrontation between Frank and Path. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 infoBecause the two sides have established a sound intelligence system in the course of the confrontation in the past few months, any disturbances on the other side will soon be detected. However, what Baibasbahn did not expect was the mentality of Deguzolf, who had been struggling to find a chance to fight the Paz army after facing the naked threat of Parci, and this attack by Baibasbahn gave him this opportunity.

For his part, Deguzorf had been anxious since he was at war with Palci - because he could not go forward to fight the Paz army, which would be at a disadvantage, and he might be taken back by Palci; Nor could he retreat, for it would be almost certain that both the Paz and the Parci would be able to take advantage of the situation, and he would not be able to account for it to the Holy See; It is also important not to stay where you are, because staying where you are will only make the above two situations more likely. Deguzorf can be described as in a dilemma, and he is in a hurry.

However, the most important reason why he continued to hold on was that he saw the weakness of Baibasbahn. This weakness is not a defect in the use of troops, but in politics. Similar to the fact that Deguzorf had to accept the appointment of the Holy See as the commander of the Frankish army, the commander of the Paz army of Basbar was somewhat helpless. If he hadn't encountered a formidable opponent like Draguzorf, he could have delegated military command to Arantlan or Biljudas, and he could have done a good job of coordinating the rear. If a man like Basbarne, who wields the supreme power of Paz, leaves the political center and becomes a military commander, he will have to defeat the enemy in front of him in order to maintain his prestige. This means that Basbahn may be more anxious to win the war than he is, and even in his position he cannot accept the fruits of a victory before him, but must be a victory that crushes the invading enemy head-on. This gave Deguzolf a chance to wait for Baibasbahn to make the first move.

Babbasbarn's plan was not perfect, but it still did not hide from Deguzorf's eyes. After the Paz army began to show signs of movement, Deguzorf stared at the every move of the Paz army with wide eyes, and as the action of the Paz army gradually unfolded, Deguzorf came to the intention of the Paz army to try to attack one place in several ways, so he formulated a corresponding counterattack plan. As for the judgment of the assembly point of the Paz army, although Deguzolf did not completely guess it, it was not far away, and he judged that the approximate assembly location of the Paz army was only a dozen miles away from the actual error.

Unable to fully determine the location of the Paz side's assembly, Deguzorff spread out his troops in an umbrella configuration, allowing the Franks to quickly assemble if they found signs of the Paz army. Moreover, for the rushing Paz army, the route for the Frank army to concentrate its forces was shorter, which also created today's situation. Although the main force of the Frankish army did not all reach the battlefield, for the Billiudas army, which only had 70,000 men, the 127,000 Frankish army still had an absolute advantage.

Sensing the unfavorable situation, Billiudas immediately went on the defensive - he knew that since the enemy had taken precautions, the opportunity for this battle was time, and the unfavorable situation could only be reversed by waiting for all the Paz troops to arrive, and if he was defeated before then, the remaining three troops could become the target of the enemy's various defeats.

Billudas used his veteran skills and decisively abandoned nearly 5,000 soldiers, buying himself valuable time to complete the defensive formation. The warlike Franks were too focused on eating the 5,000 lone Paz troops, and missed the opportunity to defeat Bilyudas in one fell swoop.

Under the stern reprimand of Deguzorff, the Frankish army finally came to their senses, turned their head and began to launch a fierce attack on Bilyudas.

Since the purpose of this battle was to attack, and it was a rush across three hundred miles, the baggage carried by the Paz army was insufficient, so although the defensive formation was thick but not strong, coupled with the courage and skill of the Knights of the Holy Hammer, the formation of the Path army was torn to pieces, and the resistance of the various divisions was miserable, but Bilyudas still withstood the pressure and held the main part of the formation tightly. The intensity of the fighting between the two sides was staggering, and within an hour of the battle, the Paz army lost more than 7,000 men, of which 5,000 were completely annihilated by the Frankish army; Two hours later, the casualty figure had risen to 13,000. In just two hours, the battle loss rate exceeded 15 percent, which shocked many later war historians.

However, Billiudas's perseverance was not without fruit, and in the course of these two hours his troops, despite the heavy casualties, grew rapidly as if they had been baptized - the soldiers who had completed their training quickly realized the importance of daily combat training after exchanging their blood for experience, and they reacted almost instinctively according to the content of the training, and at the same time coordinated their actions under the command of their commanders. At this time, almost every soldier realized that it was most efficient to survive by doing what the training and commander said.

Moreover, with the sharp decline in the number of the Path Army, the core part of the defensive formation of the Path Army has been exposed, and in two hours, this defensive core has been quite perfect, and it is impossible for the Frank Army to imagine such a powerful attack as before. With the exception of the Knights of the Holy Hammer, whose attack was still fierce, the attacks of the rest of the Frankish armies were almost noticeably delayed, and after a full six hours of fierce fighting, the results achieved were less than half of the previous two hours.

Seeing that the formation of the Path Army was getting stronger and stronger, and the reaction of the Path Army was obviously different from the panic before, Deguzolf was secretly anxious in his heart: if this method of play continued, the other armies of the Path Army would soon arrive. Although their main forces are gathering more and more, the upper limit of the strength of the two sides is close, and as the ratio of forces tends to be balanced, then the possibility of victory for the Frank army will become smaller and smaller.

At this point, Deguzorf made a wise decision, he resolutely withdrew the Knights of the Holy Hammer from the front - to prevent the arrival of reinforcements from the Paz Army, then a backbone was needed to delay the enemy army, and if the Knights of the Holy Hammer were not withdrawn at this time for a short rest, then the army would not be able to use their full strength.

Deguzorf's decision almost saved the Frankish army, because less than half an hour after the Knights of the Holy Hammer withdrew to rest, news came that the 20,000 reinforcements led by King Fadrin of the Frankish army had been attacked by Baibasbahn.