Chapter 418: Living Up to Expectations
The barracks attacked by Higg and Thomas is a temporary barracks, different from the regular barracks in the south, the barracks here are to drive away the citizens of a block in the city, and place this place as a temporary barracks, although the barracks are low in defense, but they are spacious in all directions, and they are not like the real barracks in the southeast of the city to be closed, although the soldiers live in a little chaotic, but after the war exercises, everyone knows the assembly place in case of emergency, as long as they assemble quickly, they can soon go to the battlefield, Much more convenient than a regular barracks, of course, this is considering the situation when the barracks were under siege.
Of Carlos's 200,000 troops, 80,000 were stationed in this barracks, another 80,000 in the regular barracks southeast of the city, and the other 40,000 were partly stationed in the inner city, partly at various important posts, and partly on the edge of the city walls. And Sampu's 50,000 troops, except for his own Chinese guard battalion in the inner city, the others are divided into important locations such as city walls, gates, and warehouses.
When Higg and Thomas first arrived at the local barracks, the barracks had already quickly assembled and began to counterattack towards the north gate in units of thousands!
The enemy troops, who had just left the barracks, did not expect that the cavalry of Higg and Thomas rushed towards them quickly, and the two armies suddenly met in the darkness.
The cavalry of the Fifth Legion are all after countless battles and battles, and the rest of their lives are warriors, only true warriors can survive the baptism in so many battles, fearless, and the moment they encountered thousands of enemy troops, everyone did not hesitate to rush into the enemy formation, although the number was small, but in an instant almost crushed the enemy who had not yet reacted, no matter how the enemy's several commanders stopped, it was difficult to resist the impact of more than a thousand people, and suddenly, the positional battle became a street battle, A thousand cavalry completely dispersed the enemy's vanguard that had originally gone to the north gate for reinforcements.
The sky in the rainy season is endlessly dark, and the damp back to the south makes it difficult to even light the torches, and the broken up military formation, in this kind of darkness that can hardly be seen, is difficult to assemble again, including Thomas's cavalry, even the enemy and me are difficult to distinguish clearly, and both sides are almost until the enemy arrives, only through the faint beacon light, discover the existence of danger, whether it is life or death, which requires battlefield experience and personal reaction ability.
Thomas's more than 1,000 cavalry was soon drowned in the dark sea of enemies, but like a sharp sword, the five dared to collide......
The Chinese Guards Battalion led by Mevo has gradually gained a foothold at the north gate and has begun to move and spread in the direction of the enemy's inner city and above the city walls, while Simak's main army, with the cooperation of the Chinese Guards Battalion of Mevo, uses cloud ladders to climb the city to fight. It was a waste of time for hundreds of thousands of troops to enter through a gate, and Simak used a ladder to enter the city, firstly, to relieve the pressure on the city gate, and secondly, with the assistance of the Mevo Chinese Army Guard Battalion, he was able to enter the city quickly, although he risked increased casualties, but in order to gain control of the city of Masilt, he had to quickly put the army into the city.
Sampu led his own Chinese army of 10,000 people, rushed towards the north gate, and happened to meet the 10,000 Chinese guard battalions of the inner city in the direction of Mevo, the two most elite Chinese guard battalions in the dark were close to each other, and the purpose of both sides was clear, one side wanted to recapture the north gate, so that the other side was to block the enemy reinforcements, the strength was equal, and there was the most fierce collision in the city of Masilt.
This time, the hand-to-hand combat surprised the commanders of both sides, who originally thought that with their most elite Chinese guards, they would be able to quickly eliminate their opponents, but they soon found that the opponents were also difficult opponents.
"Stand still!" Shocked, of course Mevo understood that this army was going to block the gate, but he was not in a hurry, as long as his soldiers formed a defensive formation and entangled them to attack the north gate, he would have completed the task.
The horn sounded, and all the soldiers immediately looked for their comrades on the spot, and the shield soldiers surrounded the city in a semicircle, with spearmen, marksmen, and magicians behind, and groups of more than ten or twenty people, forming a crescent-shaped small formation, which entered the defense according to the streets and houses to prevent the enemy from passing.
Samp, who was in a hurry, also formed a three-way front arrow formation without showing weakness, breaking through in the middle, outflanking on both flanks, and the two armies launched a decisive battle in the block near the north gate.
Fireballs unleashed by the magicians floated in the air, lighting up the entire battlefield of the neighborhood. Samp's army of cavalry in front and infantry crossbowmen in the rear, immediately rushed to Mevo's phalanx.
Although the formation training time of the Chinese Army Guards Battalion reorganized by Mevo is not too long, it has the original veterans as the team of the formation, and the elven archers, phantom marksmen, sharpshooters and magicians who have joined can quickly adapt to such a formation. The biggest advantage of using the formation to meet the enemy is that everyone in the formation has their own duties, the offensive only offensive, the defensive only defend, the protective formation only manages the formation, the most powerful and sharp characteristics of each branch of the army are vividly and vividly played, and their weaknesses are handed over to the comrades who are good at the formation, and the strengths and weaknesses are avoided, so the whole army shows the most powerful side of each soldier, which in the battle, especially in large-scale battles, if you can always maintain such a formation without chaos, it is simply an unrivaled behemoth.
The reorganized Chinese Guards Battalion already has a three-dimensional attack and defense mode, adding the most powerful phantom shooters, elven shooters and sharpshooters to the epicenter, whether it is on the ground, in the air, whether it is offensive or defensive, it has been as flawless as possible. And Samp's 10,000 Chinese Guards Battalion has become the first army to be truly tested by Mevo, which is also a new training formation of the 10,000 Chinese Guards Battalion.
The only drawback was that it was difficult to deploy in the city blocks, so Mevo had the army form a flexible small formation on the spot, focusing on defense, not trying to destroy many enemies, as long as trying to prevent the enemy from reinforcing the north gate, it was a victory.
Sampu's Chinese guards were in a hurry to reinforce, and they were really impetuous, although they seemed to be fierce, but when they entered the Chinese guards camp in Mevo, it was like entering the ecstasy array, and they couldn't help coming and going, no matter how they charged, they encountered the enemy's heavy shields, and they couldn't rush over a part, either they were beaten by the shooters or spearmen behind the shield soldiers, or they fled in a hurry, and after a while, the whole attack formation was chaotic.
As the strength of the Fifth Army entered the north gate increased, and the enemy's reinforcements did not arrive, Simak immediately led more than 10,000 people to reinforce Higg and Thomas to the northwest military camp, leaving only more than 1,000 people to stay at the north gate, and continue to fight the enemy who arrived at the south gate sporadically, and ensure the smooth control of the north gate, so that more men and horses can enter the city.
The dawn of the entire city of Masirt was shocked by this unexpected siege battle, the battle for the city gate, the battle for the city wall, the confrontation between the Mevo Chinese Guards Battalion and the Sampu Guards Battalion, all of which were fought hard, and the battle between the two barracks was also very fierce, and the cavalry who arrived in advance could only harass each of the 70,000 or 80,000 barracks, disrupt the deployment of the large armies in the barracks, prevent them from gathering, and try to delay the enemy's orderly counterattack.
In the darkness, no one could tell how many men and horses the other side had, and how to organize the confrontation of troops, except for the Chinese Guards battalions of Mevo and Kolincha, most of them were fighting in chaos, and they did not even distinguish between the enemy and the enemy.
It wasn't until the sky was overcast that the two sides began to fight in the streets, fighting for the blocks, and the two sides gradually took control of a part of the block! Half of the city walls and the north and south gates were firmly controlled by the camps of the Fifth and Second Legions, and the entire city of Masirt was almost half occupied by each side. The 2nd and 5th Army Corps controlled the north and south blocks, and the 3rd and 4th War Zones controlled the blocks at the east and west gates, as well as the inner city, and hundreds of thousands of troops gathered in this small mansion city, and the people in the city were crying bitterly, but there was no way to escape.
People outside the city are still pouring in, after dawn the enemy's two military camps also quickly completed the assembly and counterattack, helpless to enter the city has too many people, and control and stabilize the occupied block, every house has become a fortress, every street has become a battlefield, from more than two hours before dawn, the battle to noon, neither side can help the other, gradually died down, each consciously shrank to their own control block to adjust.
"Lord Deputy Marshal, the situation is relatively stable now, the two armies are facing each other, but most of the enemy has entered the city through the city gate and city walls, and we have divided half of the city with each other, and our army has suffered more than 20,000 casualties!" Cross's adjutant reported to Carlos, "Marshal Samp is tangling with the enemy in the northern block, but the situation does not seem to be in the ascendancy!" ”
"Hmph, the Third Army is indeed a wreck, and the Chinese Guards Battalion went out in person, but there was no progress!" Carlos scoffed, "We didn't recapture the gates, but at least we suppressed Guayada for a while!" Eh, now it seems that the two sides are facing off against each other, but in fact, our army has completely lost the upper hand, our number is not as good as the opponent, the army's combat strength is not as good as the opponent, the enemy is prepared, and we are in a hurry, many warehouses and materials fell into the hands of the enemy, so it is too dangerous! ”
"Marshal, how do you deal with that?" The adjutant asked.
Carlos thought for a moment, "You personally led 20,000 men to attack from the west gate, bypassed the enemy's back, and attacked the baggage army outside the city that had not yet entered the city from behind, so that the enemy could not take care of everything!" ”
"Deputy marshal, 20,000 people will go out and assemble from one gate, and it will take at least an hour!" The adjutant hurriedly said, "The enemy is prepared, and it is impossible not to prepare for our army to attack out of the city!" And deliberately empty the west gate and the east gate not to occupy, there must be fraud, the deputy marshal is better to be careful! ”
"You know what?" Carlos said angrily, "Although the two armies are facing each other now, no one can help anyone, but the fall of Masert City is a matter of time, we are just reinforcements, and we can't die for the third war zone, since we can't do anything, we should make plans early, first control the passage outside the west gate, so as not to be defeated by the enemy in a panic!" ”
"What does the deputy marshal mean is to send troops to the West Gate on the pretext of striking at the enemy's rear army, control the passage of the West Gate, and leave a way back for us?" The adjutant was taken aback, "Now that the victory or defeat is not decided, the adjutant marshal is not afraid of army riots and affecting morale and combat effectiveness?" ”
"What's wrong with the situation on the battlefield, don't count the victory and the defeat first?" Carlos said, "We just went out of the city to fight the enemy's rear army, and we didn't say retreat, what kind of riots? Although the two armies now occupy half of the city, we still have the passage of the inner city, which can gather the large armies of the two military camps in the east and west, while the enemy is not connected to each other in the north and south, and if we do not take this opportunity to concentrate all our troops and horses, we will sooner or later lose all 200,000 men here! The city is gone, the territory is gone, we can take it again, but if the army is crippled, we have no right to speak! Besides, this is the city of the Third War Zone, the territory of the Third War Zone, not ours, do we need to work so hard to take the lives of 200,000 people? Carry out the order, and I hope you will make a way for the whole army! ”
"Yes, lieutenant!" The adjutant replied sweatingly.
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