Higg was in his tent, where officers above the rank of commander were summoned for the final pre-war general mobilization meeting.

Higg said: "I won't say anything else, but you just remember one thing, our purpose is to stop the enemy from reinforcing the enemy, not to destroy the soul." There are twice as many enemy troops as we are, and we expect to have a mage regiment, and most of our soldiers are new recruits, I think you know what that means.

"I don't say this because I don't have confidence in the task of blocking enemy reinforcements, I just hope that we can die less. Therefore, this time the military merit is not calculated by the number of enemies killed, but to see if you can hold back the enemy, whether you can hold your own defense line, even if you kill 100 people and 1,000 people and lose your position, I will also be held responsible! Of course, on the premise of ensuring the safety of the position, you can kill at will. ”

Higg stared at each officer and continued: "Starting tonight, the whole army will be on first-level alert to prevent sneak attacks, and the scouts' reconnaissance range will be advanced three thousand meters ahead. If you don't have a password or the password is wrong, you can't kill it! Go get ready! ”

In the morning of the next day, the reconnaissance and finally came the report, and the messenger entered the camp of Higg and reported: "The scout has sent a signal, fifteen thousand meters ahead, and the garrison of Eshingu, General Konincha, personally leads five thousand light cavalry and three thousand heavy cavalry, and the target is directly aimed at the city of Mithland!" ”

"Blow the trumpet and prepare to meet the enemy!"

"Woo-woo-" The dull sound of a horn sounded on the banks of the river six thousand meters.

Rogson had already led the cavalry to hide behind the woods upstream, and his main task was to make the opponent think that there was no cavalry on the opposite bank, so that it would be possible to wear down some of the enemy's light cavalry before the enemy's infantry arrived.

A single cavalry is not terrible, a river can give them a headache, Higg is very confident that a victory can boost morale, especially for those timid recruits, depending on whether the cavalry on the opposite side is bold enough, or whether the opponent's determination to rescue is big enough.

Their own pontoon bridge has been removed, leaving only a wide river, and the cavalry can only swim across the river if they want to cross the river, which is still possible for the average light cavalry, but the heavy cavalry does not even think about it.

If the 5,000 light cavalry concentrates on two or three places to cross the river, although the losses are somewhat large, they can at least get through more than half of them, and after crossing the opposite bank, the cavalry will form an absolute superiority over the infantry, or get rid of the entanglement of the infantry and directly assemble at the place where they ask for help.

At the urging of one of the commanders of the heavy cavalry, three hundred light cavalry divided into three groups and rushed towards the riverbank, losing more than thirty horses to the horse-repellent stakes and traps near the riverbank.

Higg did not give the order to attack, the other party only made a tentative attack to scout his firepower, there was no need to expose his strength so early.

Although the light cavalry saw the other side's intentions, they had to swim to the opposite shore under strict military orders.

Just as the cavalry was about to land, the trumpets of the Higg army sounded, and the crossbowmen on the turret fired a dense array of arrows, pointing at the cavalry who were crossing the river on three lines, and the cavalry dropped the corpses of more than a hundred horses and soldiers, and retreated to their own riverbank, and the first tentative attack was over!

The cavalry on the opposite bank retreated to a distance of three hundred meters from the river bank and began to rest, and Higg knew that it was waiting for night to fall, and also for their infantry!

Although the enemy's tentative attack revealed some of its strength, it also boosted the morale of the rookies, and this overwhelming made them think that war was nothing more than that.

Higg ordered all the soldiers to take turns to rest and wait for nightfall, and the first performance of the tragic battle scene would begin this evening.

Cloudy, moonless nights are destined to kill many!

Hundreds of fires lined up in two rows along the riverbank just after dark, and large piles of firewood had already been piled up along the banks of the people.

But the other side was so quiet that there were no lights.

The first half of the night was very quiet, but no one would let their guard down at this time.

Midnight to dawn is the best time for smuggling, when people are most sleepy, and it is impossible for anyone to be on high alert for long periods of time. But Higg quietly changed the troops at midnight.

Not long after the change of defense was completed, there was a low sound of horses' hooves and entering the water on the opposite bank in the night, and three fireworks bombs were lifted into the air almost simultaneously on the three arrow towers, illuminating the dark river and warning everyone that these were the three landing sites in the place.

Three teams of infantry and three teams of crossbowmen simultaneously assembled towards the enemy's landing site.

Whoosh, the arrow tower had already launched the first attack, and the place also accelerated the action of crossing the river and landing on the shore.

"Enemy attack...... Royal griffons, watch out for air defense! In several places on the battlefield, the voices of the sentinels shouted.

River defense is Higg's strength, but the enemy is clearly Higg's disadvantage, and his own river bank must ensure that the campfire burns to find the intention of the place, but at the same time expose himself to the eyes of the other party.

There is no telling how many griffons in the sky are constantly attacking the arrow towers and campfires, and the enemy finally has his hole cards.

The crossbowmen on the towers did not care about the cavalry crossing the river, and they shot arrows in the dark air, they did not know how many griffons were concentrating on their three towers, but they just shot arrows into the air indiscriminately according to their own senses, and even if they shot indiscriminately, several griffons were injured and fell, and were killed by the infantry on the ground. But more often than not, the crossbowmen fell from the tower, and gradually, the crossbowmen on the towers that were concentrated on the attack were silent, and then the crossbowmen in the reserve team climbed the tower again.

Some of the cavalry had already landed, and the first line of defense against horses in the three places had lost more than 20 cavalry and horses before a road was filled, and several cavalrymen who were lucky enough to land on the shore were about to quickly rush away from the riverbank, but were quickly shot into hedgehogs by the ground crossbowmen who were waiting for them, and the corpses of men and horses were piled up on the riverbank.

More and more cavalry went up the riverbank, and there were always three or five cavalrymen who were lucky enough to escape the fire of the crossbowmen, and they immediately rushed to the infantry camp, although the cavalry was the natural enemy of the infantry on the plain, but here the cavalry's impact distance was too short to form the characteristic charge lethality of the cavalry, and they were soon drowned in the phalanx of the infantry with a large number of people.

Several arrow towers finally couldn't support it, and the griffin legion, after losing a dozen griffin soldiers, finally pushed to three arrow towers, leaving the infantry phalanx and crossbowmen phalanx on the ground completely devoid of any air defense power.

Snoring had to send three additional teams of infantry and three teams of crossbowmen to support him.

The griffons charged the crossbow phalanx, the cavalry charged the infantry phalanx, and Higg decisively ordered the infantry phalanx and the crossbowmen phalanx to move forward, and the infantry and crossbowmen who came to support immediately occupied the original two phalanx positions.

The crossbowmen who came to support shot the griffons in the air, while the infantry guarded the crossbowmen and killed the fallen griffins; The original phalanx of crossbowmen and infantry was to deal with the cavalry in the river with all their might. Powerful griffons that come down from the sky have a powerful charge, and this powerful class, relying on four large claws and sharp beaks, the crossbowmen and infantry phalanxes cause great trouble, even if they are shot in the air, and the fallen griffons need at least seven or eight infantry to besiege them to kill them. Fortunately, a normal unit will not have too much equipment.

The two sides fought in battle, for only a small three-bank position.

As the number of corpses and corpses piled up on the riverbank, the landing of the cavalry was blocked, and many cavalrymen had to look for a landing place on both sides, but the arrow tower, which was completely undamaged, unceremoniously refused.

Ding ding ding, the signal to withdraw troops sounded on the other side, and the generals of the opposing side finally understood that this kind of futile suicidal forced crossing of the river could not inflict a devastating blow to the enemy's peace line.

The cavalry and griffons in the river quickly fled the battlefield, while the phalanx of crossbowmen quickly moved forward to the river bank and continued to shoot the cavalry who were still fleeing in the river.

The enemy's forced crossing of the river ended in less than half an hour, and soon the banks of the Marshall River were quiet.

"General Higg!" Snorlin came to report the results of the battle, "We have killed forty-five griffons, the cavalry is difficult to estimate, together with about eight hundred who drifted into the river, twelve captured cavalrymen, and twenty-six war horses; Our side lost three arrow towers, killed more than 300 soldiers, and seriously wounded more than 100! ”

"Well, although the losses are a bit bigger, after all, it's a recruit, so it's reasonable!" Higg said worriedly: "This is just a warm-up, order the people and craftsmen to repair the arrows and reject the horse stakes overnight, and the other soldiers will hurry up and rest, tomorrow will be even more difficult!" ”

"Yes, Your Excellency!"

There is no mage corps in his army, and relying on ordinary healing, the recovery of the soldier's injuries will be very slow, and more than half of the soldiers with more than 100 injuries will die. Helpless, Higg had no choice but to go to the wounded barracks to heal the soldiers, and secretly vowed in his heart that he would establish his own magician regiment after this battle.

After dawn, the opponent's position was completely silent, and Higg also seized the time to rest and recover the mana consumed by healing the soldiers.

The enemy's infantry finally reached the other side of the river at noon on the fifth day after the general attack on Colenva was launched, and immediately went north to take down trees in the mountains!

Officers above the rank of commander were holding a meeting in the Higg tent.

"General Snowlin, when do you think the enemy will attack at the earliest?" Higg asked.

"General Higg, all the ships around us have been recruited, the enemy has no boats to build a bridge, so they can only cut down trees to build a pontoon bridge, this will take time, I estimate that they will start to build a bridge as early as the evening, and at the same time cross the river to attack." Snorlin said: "But the enemy's baggage troops should not arrive so quickly, so if there is a forced crossing tonight, we still have the advantage!" ”

"Good!" Higg said, "The place will definitely launch a forced crossing of the river tonight, and the place where the pontoon bridge was erected is estimated to be the location of yesterday's attack, where the river is narrower, and at the same time, we must pay attention to these places!" As he spoke, Higg pointed to a few locations on the map that were circled in red for everyone to be sure.