Text: The Great Power Battle_Chapter 376 The Coming Decisive Battle
"Soldiers, tell this king, for whom did you enter the army?"
"Fight for the prosperity of Beichen Kingdom, to protect the people of the world, we will not hesitate to fight on the battlefield!"
"Okay, remember, the soldiers of our Beichen Kingdom are soldiers who belong to the people of the world, and they are real soldiers of the people. Hundreds of millions of people in the world have worked hard for a year to pay their own taxes to feed the millions of troops in our Beichen Kingdom. You are the elite of the army, the glory of the people of the world, and the glory of Beichen Kingdom. ”
"Over the past few years, our Beichen Army has been very strong, and no one dares to stop it. However, you have not become complacent, and you have not bullied the people who raised you. The king is very happy about this. The army makes a country the tightest and most rigorous, and they are the artifact of the country. If the army of a country cannot even treat the people who feed them, drink, and train well, I believe that the country will not be too long before it perishes. ”
"Therefore, soldiers, this king is very glad for what you have done. With soldiers like you, why don't you worry about the prosperity of my Beichen country, and why don't hundreds of millions of people in my Beichen country not get rich. The king hopes that you will continue to maintain this spirit of the army, this spirit of rejoicing with the people, until all eternity. ”
"However, the year before last, an enemy killed our drunken people and robbed them of their necessities. Our Beichen soldiers can't resist them, not how powerful they are, this king believes that every soldier under my command can kill several enemies. But their numbers are too many, hundreds of millions of troops, which is definitely not something that our millions of soldiers can stop. ”
"They are the kingdom of the undead to the west of the kingdom, and millions of undead have invaded the kingdom the year before last. The soldiers of the kingdom wiped out three million undead in a single battle, but they were defeated for thousands of miles. It's not that we can't beat them, it's that we don't have the courage to restrain their troops and fight with them. But do you know what the undead did?"
"Tens of thousands of brothers who died in battle, turned them into undead spirits. Those brothers who drank us day and night, lived together, ate a big pot of rice and slept in the same bed, could not rest even after they died in battle. And our ancestors, our dead relatives. All of them were turned into undead spirits, and even the ancestors who were already lying in the ancestral graves made them unable to rest and turned into emotionless killing machines. ”
"Now the kingdom of the undead is getting stronger and stronger, and they are encroaching on human countries everywhere, turning the dead into one of them. We can't wait any longer, continue to wait, we can't wait for the strength of the Beichen Kingdom, we will only wait for the destruction of the Beichen Kingdom. Do you want your ancestors' graves to be opened, and your ancestors to be pulled out of their resting place by the undead and turned into a murderous skeleton? If you don't want to, raise your weapons, so that your ancestors will not be disturbed, in order to protect our family, the holy war will begin, and slaughter the undead! ”
In order to match today's atmosphere, Xiao Chen specially wore his own special blood-red armor. When he said the last sentence, he held the sword at his waist and pointed diagonally to the west, so that he was not mighty.
"Holy war, slaughter the undead!"
"Holy war, slaughter the undead!"
The 800,000 officers and men of the capital army who were in strict formation under the school field shouted loudly in unison. While shouting, the sword and shield soldier used the Tang knife in his hand to slap the iron shield hanging on his arm. And the pikemen who had just been transferred from the Changge soldiers were neatly raising the spears in their hands. The crossbowmen also did not show weakness at all, and raised the step in their hands with a single crossbow high. The entire school field was full of swords and guns for a while, and the military power was at its peak.
Since last year, Beichen Kingdom has begun to manufacture spears. Changge, perhaps, still had this very big advantage a few years ago. At that time, there were not many countries with iron armor in their entire army, and most of the national armies faced by Beichen Kingdom were only wearing leather armor. Only a small number of elite troops will be dressed in iron armor. Therefore, the power of Changge is still undoubtedly demonstrated.
But now it won't work, the North Star Kingdom is developing, and the rest of the countries are also developing. A large number of iron armor has equipped the whole army over time, and the bronze Changge has lost its advantage. In the face of iron armor, the bronze has fallen behind, if he doesn't want Beichen Kingdom to be abused by the enemy in the future, Xiao Chen can only endure the pain to change the clothes of the national army.
The spear, this weapon has always existed in ancient China. From the Han Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, for more than 2,000 years, the spear has been a large number of weapons in the army, and many generals like to use weapons. Being able to exist for thousands of years in history, thus eliminating the Changge that has existed for thousands of years, can know the value of the spear from this point.
In addition to the materials made of bronze Changge and spears, the extra-long length of Changge is really not suitable for individual combat. Before the Han Dynasty, most wars were fought by group armies, with hundreds of thousands of troops lined up in formations, followed by formation confrontations. Under the rigorous formation, the length of Changge is naturally dominant. However, since the Eastern Han Dynasty, the rise of military generals in front of the formation, as well as the vigorous progress of various strategies, as well as the rapid development of bows and crossbows, the glory of the group army fighting in formation has completely disappeared from history.
The strict formation has become a live target in the case of a large number of bow and crossbow weapons and equipment. As the war progressed, the war in which tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people joined together has ended. In this way, it is also an art to develop towards small formations, and to use many small formations to construct huge formations. Before the Warring States period, it was never said that hundreds of people still had formations, and by the time of the Han Dynasty, millions already had a variety of formations to use.
The reduction of the number of troops in the formation is naturally accompanied by the 3 update of weapons. The ultra-long weapon of Changge is no longer suitable for a small number of troops to fight in formation. In contrast, the spear, which is only a little more than two meters long and a little more than three meters long, comes into play. Although the spear is not as long as it is in the battle of formation, it is not much of a disadvantage. And after the formation was dispersed, the soldiers holding six or seven meters long Ge completely became lambs to the slaughter. The spear is different, losing the formation, the pikemen can also fight alone, and they will not be much worse than the sword and shield soldiers.
Therefore, the mass use of spears has become inevitable. The five million troops of the regular army of Beichen Kingdom are now all equipped with spears. The spears made by Beichen are modified under the system weapon. In order to restrain the growing number of iron armor, the spear head was fifty-four centimeters long, and its shape resembled the blade of a sword. The tip of the gun is in the shape of a flat triangle, about 10 centimeters long, and the thickest part is 1 centimeter. The rest of the tip is still square, with blades on both sides, both sides of which are two centimeters thick.
The barrel of the gun is made of nanmu and has a length of 2 meters and 48 centimeters. At the end of the spear there is an iron square cone, which can definitely pierce the human body if the enemy is not wearing iron armor, and the length is ten centimeters. A long spear has a total length of three meters and thirty-two centimeters, which is nearly three meters seven shorter than the previous Changge of the Beichen Kingdom. After changing weapons, many people are not adaptable, and many formations are not adaptable.
The weapons suddenly used were reduced by almost four meters, and the soldiers naturally felt uncomfortable. And the formation had to be changed because of this, fortunately, Yue Fei, a wizard, was here, and Xiao Chen didn't have to worry about the combat effectiveness of the pikemen. Before, Yue Fei was asked to create a battle formation for Changge's soldiers, but he was worried about a lot of gray hair. On the contrary, it is now creating a formation for the spearmen, and it will be done in less than a day. This made Xiao Chen cry out in his heart, was it wrong for him to use Changge soldiers before.
If it is said that the happiest thing in the Beichen army is the sword and shield soldiers, the sharp Tang knife is enough to split the iron armor with one sword. This level of damage really frightened everyone, and the leather shield in his hand, under the double protection of iron and cowhide, was enough to give them a huge sense of security for these soldiers at the forefront.
The second is to count the crossbowmen, although the design speed of the infantry crossbow is still not fast, but after the improvement, the range and power have been greatly improved. At a distance of five hundred paces, a crossbow arrow is enough to pierce leather armor, and even has a certain chance of piercing iron armor. And at a distance of three hundred paces, unless you are holding a heavy shield, you will definitely be shot through. Even the current shield of the Beichen saber and shield soldier can only be guaranteed to shoot through at a distance of 400 steps, and if you get closer, you can only look at the character.
The infantry shield was not only covered with iron and cowhide, but in order to strengthen the protective ability, Xiao Chen also specially asked people to nail a large number of triangular pyramids on the front of the shield. If the arrow is shot at it, there is a high chance that it will be bounced off the slope of the triangular pyramid, and even if it can't be bounced, it will also reduce the arrow's ability to break down. Of course, if you are located in the middle of two or more triangular pyramids, no one will be able to save you.
With such a powerful crossbow arrow, even if the shooting speed is slow, it is better than holding a bow and arrow, shooting dry shots and snatching the undead.
The 800,000-strong army soon marched towards the west gate of the Tianlong Fortress, and the battle position of this battle capital army was in Yunjun. When the army arrives in Yunjun, it will wait for the arrival of the northern army, unite with the northern army, and attack from the west of the kingdom.
Then the rear army and the western army will go directly south from Fengdu County. Along the way, conquer cities and open up foreign logistics bases. Then, attack from the southeast of the realm of the dead.
The main army of the Xia Kingdom will gather in the northeastern and northern regions of the Undead Realm, attacking from two directions.
It stands to reason that even if the armies of the Beichen Kingdom and the Xia Kingdom are assembled, they are only more than six million horses, and in the face of the undead country full of undead spirits and hundreds of millions of troops, they should concentrate their forces to fight.
However, under the consultation of Xiao Chen, Long Ye, Zhuge Liang, Han Xin, Yue Fei, Xue Rengui, Chen Gong, Mu Guiying and other resourceful people, they still absolutely divided their forces to attack. The army of six million attacked in four ways, and the strength of each road was more than one million, plus the combat effectiveness of the soldiers and soldiers, and the combat effectiveness of the ju group, it could confront about five times the army of the undead.
In this way, the army of hundreds of millions of undead in Alsace could only be forced to divide their troops. In the face of the strong alliance of Beichen Kingdom and Xia Kingdom, the number of soldiers and horses placed on each road could not be less than 10 million. You must know that war is not about killing the opponent's troops, but how much can reduce the enemy's troops.
The realm of the dead may be like this, because the country is full of skeletons, and all of them are combat arms. No one said so, so how much the hundreds of millions of armies were wiped out was how much they were permanently reduced. Unless you win one victory after another, you can continue to summon skeletons by killing the corpses of the enemy to make up for the losses in battle.
And the Xia Kingdom and the Beichen Kingdom are different, their own undead kingdom is equivalent to all the people are soldiers. But that's not the case, the army of six million is just their standing army. Alsace believed that as long as Xia was willing, he could expand his army to about 10 million. And Beichen Kingdom is not to mention, saying it scares you to death.
There are more than 20 million foreign people in Beichen Kingdom, and there are more than 12 million young and strong men. These more than 12 million foreigners can all be armed into an army. As for the factors that caused domestic instability due to the large increase in the number of foreign Yi troops, Beichen Guo could directly ignore them.
Beichen Kingdom, which already has a population of 100 million Han people, as long as it is forced to be helpless, it is not impossible to sign 20 million Han troops. It's just that that would bring everything to a halt in the country, and even farmland might be wasted. However, if it is halved, 10 million is only a small meaning for Beichen Kingdom.
Therefore, in the face of the enemy of the four-way invasion, Alsace also had to pay attention. At least 10 million troops should be deployed on each road, and another 10 million troops need to be stationed in the center of the four roads, ready to support all roads at any time. As for the remaining 50 million troops, more than 5 million must be left in the capital, and the rest of the scattered places are almost 5 million.
The other 40,000,000 troops were to be deployed in the west. In the past, the army of 80 million undead marched westward, and the countries in the west were miserable. Fortunately, they are united, which makes the army of the undead have a lot of concerns. But now the joint invasion of Xia and Beichen has directly mobilized the army of the undead.
In the west, only 40 million troops could be left behind, guarding against tens of millions of allied forces composed of dozens of countries on the opposite side. If, in the future, there is a disadvantage in the war situation on the four fronts on the Eastern Front, it is necessary to mobilize heavy troops from the west. For the first time, Arthas felt that his forces were still too small. If there are another 50 million, he will directly invade Beichen Kingdom and destroy the dog's day.
For a time, the countries surrounding Beichen Kingdom for thousands of miles were all frightened by the great movements of Beichen Kingdom and Xia Kingdom. No matter how far away it is from Beichen Kingdom, there is nothing wrong with expanding the army early anyway. The combat power of that group of guys in Beichen Kingdom is too strong, and I don't know when they will appear outside the city.
Countries expanded one after another, triggering various conflicts. When the Beichen Kingdom and the Xia Kingdom were still mobilizing troops and supplies, a major war had already broken out in the surrounding areas. Especially the allies to the west of the undead kingdom, the tens of millions of armies saw that the undead army was less than half. Coupled with the fact that the Beichen Kingdom and the Xia Kingdom jointly sent troops to the Undead Country that went viral on the Internet not long ago, they couldn't wait to open their mouths and try to take a sip of soup.
It's just that when the communication is blocked by the realm of the undead, they don't know at all. Beichen and Xia are still mobilizing troops, and they have not yet launched an attack. Of course, Xiao Chen didn't want to fight, his side was huge, and before the fight started, the west had already fired.
As for the hundreds of surrounding countries, because of expansion, they have become a huge powder keg that will detonate at any time.