958 One Man's Campaign 9
Bata Mombrun's military ability was far stronger than that of the Marquis of Nkuru, and he immediately told the Marquis of Nkuru that since they had to take the city of Caril, and time was not on their side, then this price must be paid. Therefore www.biquge.info not only should you not retreat at this time, but you should also step up and order your soldiers to attack the city to disperse the enemy's firepower.
The Marquis of Nkuru did not hesitate and immediately took the advice of Bata Montbrun and ordered his troops to forcibly attack the city. Because Yun Xiaohan hid the 15,000 reinforcements, the Shang Alliance still thought that the enemy was only eight or nine thousand, after all, Viscount Aloe reported seven or eight thousand people, and they all had at least an 11:1 numerical advantage, even if the loss of a strong attack would be a little larger, but no one would think that they could not capture Carril City.
The ensuing battle entered the scorching phase, and the Shang Alliance soldiers continued to pour towards the city walls, and the ranged troops also pressed closer and closer, firing at the defenders on the city walls.
Due to the huge disadvantage in terms of troops, despite the huge advantage in equipment, the casualties and damaged equipment on Yun Xiaohan's side also began to gradually increase. But even so, Yun Xiaohan still insisted on not letting the 15,000 thousand people go to the city.
The only thing to be thankful for is that although the casualties on Yun Xiaohan's side are not small, most of them are only wounded and do not die, and the imperial soldiers who have lost more blood will retreat and be replaced by other soldiers.
Yun Xiaohan played a small trick in this process, retreating two times on average, before replacing one soldier with a soldier, creating the illusion that the defenders on the city wall were decreasing. Moreover, Yun Xiaohan is still slowly replacing the pro-guards and redshirts in the city.
As the battle progressed, both sides had a general understanding of the opponent's strength, but because of Yun Xiaohan's clever camouflage, the Shang Alliance believed that the imperial side only had about 10,000 troops, although slightly more than the Viscount of Aloe reported, but still within the acceptable range.
At 22:10, the number of defenders on the city wall had fallen to less than 8,000 men, and it seemed that they had lost about 2,000 men, but the actual death toll was only in their early 300s, and most of them were wounded soldiers. In contrast, the losses on the part of the Shang Alliance were much greater, with more than 15,000 people lost in just 25 minutes.
After all, Yun Xiaohan's side is Yishui's elite troops, and the Shang Alliance is dominated by militias, and their strength is completely incomparable, and their blood, attack and defense cannot be compared, you must know that under normal circumstances, a soldier of the Sea Lion Legion has a chance to win against 5 militiamen. Moreover, the Shang Alliance has no siege equipment, and it is the siege party, so there are very few cases where Yun Xiaohan's side is killed in seconds, and most of them are only injured but not killed.
According to this casualty ratio, even if most of the dead on the merchant alliance side were militiamen with very low combat effectiveness, there was actually not much possibility for the merchant alliance to capture the city of Caril. It's just that if you really want to fight until the end like this, even if you can hold Carille City, the huge casualties on your side are unacceptable to Yun Xiaohan.
However, from the perspective of the Shang Alliance, the Imperial side has lost 20% of its troops, and many of them are the main forces of extremely strong combat (the Pro-Guard Army and the Red Shirt Army have retreated), and loopholes have gradually appeared in the city wall, and the number of Shang Alliance soldiers who climb the city wall has increased a little. According to the law of the battlefield that losses of more than three achievements will shake morale, the imperial side will not be able to hold out for long.
The Marquis of Nkuru even overestimated the combat effectiveness of those militias, of course, he didn't know that they were militiamen, after all, those indiscriminate lords were not stupid, and they replaced these militias with conventional equipment, but they were more dilapidated.
But in any case, in the mind of the Marquis of Nkuru, it would be very cost-effective to use these forcibly recruited soldiers with a small number of main forces to capture the city of Caril, so he also took the initiative to increase the proportion of the main army.
Sensing that the tide was settled, the Marquis of Nkuru took the initiative to move his command forward to the vicinity of Bata Montbrunn and Clement, hoping to see the enemy's desperate expressions more closely and enjoy the impending victory.
Bata Montbrunn and Clement were both commanding at a distance of about 80-90 yards from Carrile City at this time, although this distance was within the range of the magic crystal cannon (counting the range after the height bonus of the city wall), it was already close to the limit range of the magic crystal cannon, and on the entire north gate wall, there were only seven or eight magic crystal cannons close to this direction that could hit.
But the distance was so far that it was difficult to shoot accurately, but even if it was accurate, the long flight distance of the cannonball in the air was enough for Bata Montbrunn and Clement to react and dodge the cannonball.
Marquis Nkuru was even more afraid, he stepped forward, and the group of mages and personal guards cavalry around him were also following him, and under the protection of so many people, it was impossible for him to be hit by a cannonball.
And Marquis Nkuru is a marquis after all, even if his combat effectiveness is low, but as a marquis-level NPC and a key NPC, his blood volume must be very high, and the equipment he wears cannot be bad, and his defense will definitely not be low. It is estimated that even if the front is hit by a shell, not a single seven or eight cannons will die.
With so many people moving forward with the Marquis of Nkuru, and the flag officer holding a big banner accompanying him, and he was wearing a super gorgeous piece of equipment, the Marquis of Nkuru was so conspicuous that Yun Xiaohan didn't even have to think about it, he knew that this must be the supreme commander of the Shang Alliance.
Yun Xiaohan's mood at this time was extremely excited, he had endured it for so long, and he had made a lot of preparations, just hoping to get such an opportunity.
But he wasn't sure what kind of opportunity would appear before, he just hoped that the enemy could carelessly underestimate the enemy because of the advantage of the situation, and give him a good chance to counterattack, as long as he could inflict heavy damage on the enemy, whether it was to kill the opponent's important NPCs, mage regiments, or flag bearers, or whether it was to severely damage the opponent's command system or morale, it was an acceptable result, and his purpose was only to force the other party to give up the plan to attack the city and buy time to evacuate.
But Yun Xiaohan never expected that the enemy's supreme commander would actually take the initiative to come to this distance, giving him a chance to turn the entire battle around. All the preparations he had made before and the means he had set aside were all at the time of use.
Yun Xiaohan first sent an order to Maurice, Garibaldi and other official NPCs, telling them to prepare according to their previous plan, and then fully launch it after his side started, and then asked Garibaldi and Rossi Pierre to retreat from the city wall.
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