224 Tunnels
Looking at the Dongwei Iron Cavalry sweeping in the distance, Ios, who was guarding the camp at this moment, only smiled slightly.
"After waiting for so many days, you're finally out!"
The gates of the Far Eastern Army camp opened, and the troops that had been prepared for a long time rushed out.
It was the 19th Army Corps of the Far Eastern Army, who had the most experience in dealing with those Dongwei people.
The front row is shielded, the back row is armed with guns, and the crossbow troops stand at the rear.
With a large brigade of 1,000 people as a defensive formation, they quickly set up ten defensive positions on the battlefield.
These defensive positions seemed to be divided, but in fact they were horns of each other, and the attacking side was equivalent to being attacked by three sides at the same time, so to speak, as if it were done like a textbook, and even the most discerning Ios could not find fault with the inconsistencies of these orders.
But there is a problem: although the number of the 19th Army is 10,000, it is too small compared to the Dongwei Iron Cavalry on the opposite side.
Even after a series of defeats in the past few days, the Dongwei people still have more than 20,000 iron cavalry, except for 10,000 cavalry under the command of the second cavalry regiment of Arvid, the rest are the private cavalry units of several nobles.
Don't think of these aristocratic cavalry units as soft goods like the Joseph family, these are all elites trained in the sea of corpses and blood, and they are the group of relatives and friends that his superiors have brought over at great cost.
Counting the city defense troops, Avid's total strength was close to 30,000, three times the number of the 19th Army Corps of the Far Eastern Army on the opposite side.
They only had to send the same number of cavalry to hold the Nineteenth Army at the right distance, and the rest of the cavalry could go around the rear to attack their weak flanks.
If those Red Leaf City guards and those militia guarding the camp dared to attack, Arvid would let them see what it means to crush the local troops by the regular army!
Sure enough, when it encountered the boulder of the 19th Army Corps, the army was instantly divided into two parts, one part entangled the Far Eastern Army so that it could not leave, and the other group divided into two groups and began to attack around the rear.
For a while, arrows rained down, and someone fell in both teams every second. The rain of arrows is so dense that arrows going in the opposite direction will crash into each other and break in the air.
Although judging by the number of soldiers who fell to the ground, the Dongwei cavalry without shields seemed to have suffered more damage, Avid had a satisfied smile on his face.
Because the cavalry on both flanks was rapidly circling the flanks and rear of the Far Eastern Army, the clamping posture was gradually revealed.
"I'm going to bury you all here today!"
Now he no longer has the anger that he learned about his plot in the first place, and at this moment he is a little happy with Morey's original decision.
Those guys of the Third Legion didn't know what magic was cast by Morey, and ran to the Far Frontier Province overnight to do something, which certainly made a mess of his rear and made him lose a lot of points in the royal capital, but on the other hand, the Far Eastern Army that divided the troops between the two places did not have the terrible feeling of the previous 20,000 troops.
If you can eat this force here, then the Far East will be at a disadvantage when it comes to confrontation with the Frontier Province.
Although he had to retreat when the logistics were cut off, it was just a cannibalization of the original whale swallowing.
However, in this way, it is more suitable for those second generations to come here to brush up on their military exploits, and when the time comes, as a commander, he will definitely become the hottest figure in Dongwei Yuanjiang Province.
Thinking of this, Arvid's heart couldn't help but become eager.
In his eyes, those "stubborn resistance" Far Eastern Army have become cute gold coins, and what he has to do now is to send his men to pick up all these gold coins scattered on the ground.
But just when the cavalry was only half a distance away from the opponent's flank, the two cavalry units suddenly became chaotic.
"What's going on?"
Although it is safe for Avid to sit in the rear, it is far away and dusty, so it can only be seen roughly.
Therefore, he only knew that the flank team was in chaos, but he didn't know why?
"My lord, it seems, it's the barbarians of the Bicester Mountains!" The subordinate had already picked up the telescope blessed with the [Eagle Eye Technique] to take a closer look at it when there was confusion, but he still couldn't believe his eyes until Arvid asked.
Arvid snatched the monocular from his subordinates and focused the camera on the cavalry unit on the right flank.
"Kill!"
A silver-gray werewolf roared, and the sharp wolf claws slashed through the neck of one of the Eastern cavalrymen, and a corpse with most of its neck open and only flesh and skin was left and fell off the horse.
The werewolf was about to open his mouth to bite another cavalryman who had been beaten and retreated because of his strength with a bear goblin, but suddenly stopped, and the regiment stood up and slammed to the side.
A cavalryman with a spear in his hand brushed his body and skewered an ogre behind him on top of the spear.
But the ogre was a ferocious fellow, and before he died, he hugged the horse and the cavalryman with his arms as thick as a bucket, and strangled them to the bone with brute force.
The ogre's actions seemed to arouse the hidden bestiality in the barbarians' bodies, and they roared wildly and launched an attack on the Dongwei cavalry with even more brutal means.
Hands torn, claws split, skulls, **, for a time the battlefield was covered with blood and brains, and the blood intestines and internal organs were all over it, like a cruel human slaughterhouse.
At this time, there were also barbarians jumping out of the hiding hole and joining the melee.
"How did so many orcs and barbarians escape?"
Because of the help of the previous half-dragon people using spells, they directly killed the experience of one of their own cavalry troops, so during this time, the mages who accompanied the army went to release a [Detect Human Creatures] or [Dispel Spells] or something if they had nothing to do, I thought it was foolproof, but I didn't expect to still follow their path.
"My lord, they have dug a number of deep tunnels in this battlefield, and they have thick planks on them! Therefore, as long as you are not hiding below before the war, it is extremely difficult to find out! Feeling the [Sensing the Earth] spell, the criss-crossing underground passages that showed the vast sea of his consciousness, the military mage could only reply with a bitter face.
Those tunnels criss-cross, it is simply a three-dimensional labyrinth, it can be said that except for the side of Yagesha where the Dongwei troops are stationed, the land of the rest of the battlefield has been hollowed out by those holy spearmen.
"Where did they get so many soldiers to dig tunnels?!" Avid sat down in his chair and muttered to himself.
Although the underground of this Yagsha town is not a hard stone, it is not an easy sand to excavate, how can these Far Easterners dig up an underground network that extends in all directions in such a few days?!
The gopher was a little unconvinced by Morey's decision to let him form an engineer unit, and in his opinion, the archbishop did not believe in their rat-man abilities.
Although they are indeed good at making holes, they can also form troops like Rat Knights, and they can also be just head-on.
However, when he really saw those barbarians appear among the marching cavalry through the underground passages dug by himself and his people, the gopher really felt the power of the engineer troops.
When their colleagues cast admiring glances at them, the soldiers of the engineering unit tried to straighten their chests, and the grievances of the past were swept away and replaced by a great sense of mission and honor.
"Good job, gopher!"
"Lord Ios, it's ridiculous!"