Chapter 399: Inseparable
The enemy had too many cavalry, and Mevo's 16,000 infantry phalanx could not completely swallow up these cavalry, and it was only half of the Bagua array, which was incomplete and difficult to play its maximum role.
The cavalry in front of the enemy was slaughtered by the crossbow chariots, but there were still a large number of cavalry in the rear attacking Mevo's infantry phalanx, so that the Mevo phalanx also began to crumble, many shield soldiers were knocked to the ground, and each shield soldier fell, always having to pay the price of sacrificing a few people, in order to make up for this defect under the strong attack power of the cavalry.
The enemy also seems to have seen the strong defense of the infantry formation, but the attack is weak, and it is composed entirely of infantry, and there is no air defense. Four hundred griffons descended from the sky and pounced towards the center of Mevo's phalanx, hoping to disrupt the opponent's tortoise shell defense by disrupting the center of the weakly defended infantry formation.
The 200 soldiers of the Heroic Magician Regiment who were placed in the formation had been waiting for a long time, and lightning or thunderbolts of ice shot at these nasty guys, and the griffins who were caught off guard fell from the sky or were injured and fled in a hurry. Seeing that the air attack was helpless against the infantry phalanx, the griffin regiment turned to the phalanx of company chariots in the rear.
"Ray!" Blue Fairy screamed, and Thunder soared into the air and headed for the griffin legion. There was a boom, a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and a griffin fell from the sky with black smoke. With one successful blow, the thunder quickly broke through the phalanx of the griffin legion and flew into the sky. Annoyed and angry, the griffin army immediately divided more than 30 troops and pursued towards the thunder, and the remaining 200 or so griffons swooped down on the crossbow chariot phalanx.
"Air defense!" Noah shouted, and some of the repeater chariots immediately adjusted their elevation angles and shot towards the griffin legion.
However, the air defense of the repeater tank is a function that only has after modification, and the air defense effect is very limited. Shooting along the ground is their main mode of attack, and air defense is not their strong point, from shooting on the line to shooting on the opposite side, not only requires the observer and the operator to cooperate tacitly, but also has the ability to predict, even if the rate of fire is fast, most of the arrows are missed. After shooting only a dozen griffins, the griffons swooped down, although the marksmen also had air defense capabilities, but after all, the firing range was too short, and by the time the griffons did, it was too late.
Dozens of repeater chariots were destroyed by griffons in an instant, but fortunately, the sharpshooters and spearmen guarding the chariots reacted quickly, and immediately used their bodies to protect the repeater chariots and start a fight with griffins. Annoyed, Blue Fairy also drew her sword, and with a single sword, she split a griffin that was rushing towards her in half. After losing more than 130 crossbow chariots under the heavy guards, the griffin regiment left behind seventy or eighty corpses and fled in a hurry.
This wave of air raids by the Griffin Legion not only caused Noah to lose more than 30 chariots, but also caused five or six hundred casualties to the guards who guarded the chariots with their lives. Fortunately, there are less than a hundred griffons left, and these losses are acceptable for the time being.
The enemy cavalry was still charging, and the infantry and crossbowmen had already entered the phalanx, and although the crossbowmen could not shoot directly through the outer perimeter of the shield phalanx, they could rely on their backs to shoot over the shield, allowing the arrows to fall into the center of the phalanx, and Mevo's Bagua phalanx began to waver.
"Wicks!" Maevo ordered, "Strike at once!" ”
With a wave of the Wicks Command, the soldiers of the Heroic Magician Regiment in the array, including Wicks himself, immediately assembled, or a group of twenty-five people, a total of eight groups, suddenly rushed out of the Bagua Array, and killed the enemy's infantry phalanx and bow and crossbow phalanx, opened the way with magic, directly destroyed the shield soldiers in front of the phalanx, mixed into the enemy's phalanx, and fought with 30,000 people.
But the other side also has a mage group, although the combat power is not as good as the hero mage group, but it has heavy protection, so all the infantry, crossbowmen and mage group, together have been aiming at this hero mage group of only two hundred people.
In Edmundo's military camp when the Hero Wizard Regiment debuted for the first time, although Edmundo had an army of 100,000 troops, he couldn't set up a position in the barracks, and it was dark and rainy and snowy, so he couldn't effectively kill the flexible Special Forces Hero Wizard Regiment.
And now that this is the plain, and the enemy has set up a position, the advantage of the Hero Magician Regiment is not so obvious, although it is still overwhelming, but under the heavy blows of the enemy's infantry, crossbowmen and magician regiments, it is also very difficult, if it were not for the superiority of equipment, it would have suffered heavy casualties.
The two sides fought to the death on the huge plain outside the east gate of Lobit City......
"Kill!" The dust and smoke were billowing from the south of the battlefield, and a cavalry was killing from the south to the north, and it was impossible to see how many men and horses there were, so they instantly rushed into the infantry army formation of the third war zone and directly began the slaughter.
"My reinforcements have arrived, it's General Ulin!" Mevo shouted loudly, and all the soldiers of the Fifth Legion were demoralized.
Now the cavalry of the third theater was tightly entangled by Mevo's Chinese Guards Battalion and Noah's repeater chariots, and suffered countless casualties, but there was nothing to be done, so they had to do a trapped beast fight and give up attacking the crossbow chariot phalanx, and use human shields and horse shields to press Mevo's infantry phalanx to the death, breaking through many gaps in the formation, and gradually killing the Bagua Array that Mevo thought was indestructible. Although Mevo tried his best to command the formation and try to recover, the enemy was outnumbered, and nothing could be done.
The two sides scuffled together, rendering the repeater vehicle temporarily useless.
Lan Xian'er commanded half of the baggage guards to be concentrated, a total of 1,000 spearmen and 1,000 marksmen, crossed the horse rejection stake, advanced to Mevo's phalanx, and after entering the range of the marksmans, every group of twenty people, ten spearmen and ten marksmen, formed a small phalanx, specifically to kill the opponent's horses and relieve the pressure on Mevo.
"Lieutenant Marshal!" The staff officer of the Chinese army who was watching the battle in the city said to Elva in a panic, "The patrol came back to report that the city of Amman had been lost, more than 60,000 people had surrendered, General Cordillo was missing, and the entire bank of the Luo Jia River was full of corpses!" ”
"What?" Elva barely stood on his feet, grabbed the collar of the loyal army staff officer, and said angrily, "How is this possible? 280,000 people, how could they be defeated like this? ”
"Deputy marshal, the enemy has come in reinforcements from the east, and the vanguard force has 10,000 cavalry, and it will be able to reach the battlefield before dark!" The staff officer of the Chinese army said in horror, "There are still 20,000 infantry and crossbowmen behind, advance lightly!" ”
"Arriving before dark?" Elva was taken aback, "How is that possible?" Do you mean that before we have even started fighting here, they have already rushed to reinforce the army? ”
"Yes!" The staff officer of the Chinese army said, "Deputy marshal, we seem to have been fooled!" The more than 30,000 people outside the city are completely a trap, to lure us out of the city to fight! ”
"Hmph, the outcome is still unknown!" Elva said angrily, "Aren't their reinforcements in advance able to arrive before dark?" There are still two or three hours, and there are still 40,000 troops in the city, and the commander doesn't believe it, and he can't defeat this enemy army! ”
"The deputy marshal is going to come out of the city?" The staff officer of the Chinese army asked in surprise, "Although there are still 40,000 people in the city, there are 20,000 distributed in the four city gates and city walls, and 10,000 are baggage, which can be used, that is, the 10,000 Chinese army guards of the deputy commander!" Deputy marshal, you can't give up the city defense, in case the enemy has other ambushes around......"
"Didn't you say there were no enemies around?" Elva said angrily.
"The Fifth Legion is elusive, obviously set a trap for us, it is impossible for them not to spare!" The staff officer of the Chinese army said, "It's like 20,000 cavalry, which was not nearby, but suddenly appeared, which was obviously premeditated!" Deputy marshal, you have to guard against it! ”
"There's no time to think about it, this commander personally led the reinforcements of the guards of the headquarters!" Elva said, "The defense of the city will be handed over to you!" ”
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The two sides fought hard outside the city, because Noah's baggage army had lost its effect, and the strength of Lobit City had an absolute advantage in numbers, while the Fifth Army, although small in number, was amazingly powerful and morale was high.
As the war dragged on, Lobit City was gradually unable to support it due to heavy casualties, and Mevo and Urin gradually gained the upper hand.
"Kill!" The east gate of Lobit City opened, and Elva led his headquarters of 10,000 men to rush out of the city and join the warband, instantly wiping out the little advantage that the Fifth Army had just gained was wiped out.
The two thousand baggage guards led by Lan Xian'er were gradually attracted to the attention of the opposing cavalry, a team of cavalry braved arrows, a charge, and scattered more than a dozen squads, and the entire baggage guard, Dons was torn open a huge gap, and more cavalry rushed over, to crush all the baggage guards phalanx.
"General Noah, release the arrows!" Blue Fairy shouted loudly.
Noah stood in place, stunned and hesitant! Outside the horse pile, there are all people, the two sides are scuffling together, although the start of the crossbow chariot, the probability of killing the enemy is much higher than the probability of killing your own people, but after all, you will still kill your own people by mistake, Noah is indeed difficult to decide.
"Noah, believe in yourself, believe in your comrades, you can!" Blue Fairy roared angrily, "This is an order! ”
Seeing Lan Xian'er fighting bravely to kill the enemy, while the baggage guards around her fell one by one, the frightened Noah shouted loudly, "All the chariots, adjust to the click mode, and kill freely!" ”
It's not that Noah is not confident in the hit rate of his repeater chariot, but Noah knows that although the hit rate of the repeater chariot in the test is very high, and when it hits the catapult, it is also very accurate, but it is a dead target, but now it is a living thing, which is not a concept at all. However, as arrows were sent out from the repeater chariot, Noah realized that he had underestimated the operators, who were much more confident than Noah in dealing with their repeater chariots all day long, especially when they saw their comrades fall one by one, and they had been anxiously waiting for Noah's order.
More than 800 two-company crossbow chariots began to activate their own slaughter mode again, aiming at the cavalry within their range by means of point fire......
The war once again entered a stalemate, and once again it was inextricably killed, and the sky was dark......