218 Battle of Kursk (3)

The black Steppenwolf rode into the San Jose phalanx, but in a matter of seconds, the soldiers in the front rows of the phalanx were dead.

Steppenwolf, which is more than five grams long, has an impact that is by no means comparable to that of ordinary war horses, and even if its huge body is pierced by a spear with a length of four degrees, it will not affect their movements at all. Many Steppenwolves simply advanced with spears on their heads, and the samurai on the wolf's back brandished their scimitars and slashed at the San Jose soldiers beside them. The soldiers in the phalanx raised the small round shield on their left arm to resist, and the "bang" sparks overflowed.

The Wasteland Warrior Regiment is worthy of being the strongest army on the mainland, and the first wave of charges almost broke the front row of the San Jose phalanx in front, and the original phalanx of sixty rows was almost rushed into the hinterland by the Steppenwolves. But the San Jose phalanx, as a famous super formation on the mainland, is not easy to break, those brave San Jose guards, not intimidated by the brutal Steppenwolf, still maintain their close formation; the soldiers in the front row fall, the soldiers in the back row immediately replace thousands; the soldiers on the side die, and the nearby soldiers immediately fill in the position.

Steppenwolf's impact was strong, but he couldn't help but slow down when he broke through the front row of defenders and burst into the center of the phalanx. As soon as the pace slowed down, the nearby San Jose Guards immediately stuck to the maggots of the tarsal bones, and the spear stretched out and plunged into the corpse of Steppenwolf.

The crowd in the phalanx was crowded, and it was difficult for the wasteland warriors to perform even if they did their martial arts, and the first wave of charges was finally stifled. At this time, Viscount Slim, who was watching the battle behind the first phalanx, and Count Mosick, who was on the command platform in the distance, breathed a sigh of relief. Although he was very confident in his own phalanx, he was still quite nervous before the results came out, and the casualties in the first row of phalanx did seem to be larger.

Compared to the position of the two rows of Steppenwolf cavalry in the center, the phalanx on both sides was attacked by the Desik Rangers, and the situation was not so good. Due to the fear of the attack power of the Desik wolf rider, most of the trebuchets and crossbow arrows that were ranged in the early stage were headed towards the middle wolf rider group. As a result, the Rangers on both sides took limited damage, and they remained largely intact in the ranks. On both sides were the phalanx of the northern border guards of San Jose, who were slightly weaker.

Especially the two phalanxes on the right flank of the battlefield, the rangers charged until the third row before they were blocked.

After the first wave of charges, both the Rangers and the Wolves suffered huge losses, more than 3,000 corpses lay on the battlefield, those ownerless horses roamed around, and Steppenwolf attacked San Jose's soldiers with ferocity. On the San Jose side, the right flank suffered the most losses, almost half-crippled, but fortunately, the rangers had little interest in breaking through the right flank, and after breaking through the second row of defense, they went to attack the central Guards phalanx.

That's when the power of the San Jose phalanx comes in. Viscount Slim, the front-line commander who had just discovered the enemy's movements, immediately yelled at the guards beside him, "Whistle!" As the rhythmic whistle sounded, the two back rows of the guards phalanx immediately turned, and the spear tips facing the front turned one direction one after another, becoming facing the right flank, and the phalanx was also facing the right flank as a whole.

The unexpected Desik rangers, unable to stop the horse's hooves, crashed into the gunfire. The war horse is not Steppenwolf, although it is also a cavalry, but it does not have that much impact. However, after knocking over several platoons of pikemen, the attack was stopped.

Of course, the losses of the Desiks were large, and the losses on the side of the Guards were not small. The Guards were the bravest soldiers, motionless in the face of the charging Steppenwolves and warhorses. The soldiers in the first few rows didn't even have time to react before they were smashed to pieces.

In the first three rows of the phalanx, there were almost no intact corpses, and all kinds of severed limbs and stumps were thrown everywhere. Broken spears of all kinds, scattered in scattered places, cracked shields and torn armor covering the ground, trampled to pieces by the leaping Steppenwolf.

The Desik charge was stopped, and the Steppenwolf, who was invincible on the battlefield of the Shang Alliance, was unable to break through San Jose's phalanx, although it caused a lot of casualties. The phalanx in the first row basically ceased to exist, and not a single living person in the front rows was gone, and the rear ones could not maintain the formation. The second phalanx was flanked by the right flank rangers and was somewhat damaged.

"Blow the whistle and fill in the back row!" Viscount Slim commanded with his sword drawn. Now he is the commander-in-chief of the front, and it is his task to judge the situation on the battlefield and make the most correct decisions.

"Woo woo woo!" San Jose's whistle began to change, and when a whistle was heard from the rear, the phalanx commanders on the front line quickly directed their rear soldiers to fill the front row into the already damaged Guards phalanx.

In the blink of an eye, the new San Jose phalanx was formed again, and those San Jose guards who were fully equipped made the comrades who were in a bitter battle feel excited, "Kill!" The shouts of San Jose people rang out from all corners of the battlefield.

Of course, the Desiks could not let the charging cavalry stop at the front line, and the same change in the sound of the horn sent a new order from the Desik from the rear.

The leading officers of the wolf cavalry began to retract the formation, and the regrouped wolf cavalry began to break away from the frontal battlefield and slowly move towards the sides of the phalanx, and the rangers cooperated with the wolf cavalry's movements, pressing the positions of the San Jose border guards on both sides to prevent them from attacking the Desik wolf cavalry that was moving at high speed.

The San Jose phalanx, which had no horses, had to let the wolf riders leave, and the crossbowmen in the back row hurried to shoot a few waves of crossbow ~ arrows again, leaving a small number of wolf riders who didn't have time to run away.

And after the wolf rode away, the frontal battlefield not far away, a large black oppressive crowd surged up again, it was the heavy infantry regiment of the Desiks.

The Desik hoplites were tall and heavily armoured, with a giant sword in their hands. It was this kind of sword chopping that cut down tens of thousands of Shang League soldiers in the Battle of Shang League, causing a fatal blow to Shang Meng.

The wolf cavalry played a role in suppressing the San Jose phalanx, and the San Jose formation, which was in a bitter battle, was too busy dealing with the cavalry in front of him to notice the close pursuit of the Desik hoplites.

By the time they found out, they were less than two hundred grams away from the San Jose phalanx.

"Rush!" the leading Lieutenant Desik ran wildly, his sword dragging diagonally behind him, cutting a deep furrow in the ground and raising a large amount of smoke and dust.

"Attention! Lined up, all lined up!" the commander of the phalanx in San Jose urged the soldiers beside him to re-line themselves, and the soldiers, scrambling to pick up their round shields and spears from the ground, nervously faced another charge from the Desiks.

Again, the iron streams collided violently, swords flying, and countless limbs, blood, and weapons flew into the sky.

The biggest result of the first wave of cavalry charges was that the Rangers broke through the right flank of San Jose, and the wolves did not take much advantage of the Guards. As the battle progressed, the wolf cavalry began to gradually break away from the frontal battlefield, turning their heads and continuing to attack the right flank, leaving the Guards regiment to the heavy infantry regiments from the rear row.

San Jose's right flank phalanx, consisting mainly of several regiments of the Northern Frontier Army, was broken by the Rangers after the first breach, abandoning them in favor of attacking the Guards phalanx in the center.

After hastily withdrawing from the battlefield, the Rangers turned around and continued to attack the right flank, and with the addition of the wolf cavalry, the already crippled right flank became even more miserable, the first two rows of four large formations almost ceased to exist, and the phalanx in the back row was struggling to move forward and try to regain its position.

"Lord Slim, there is something wrong with the right flank!" Beside Viscount Slim, the observation post is giving him feedback on the situation on the battlefield, and as the front-line commander, he has the right to adjust the formation.

Viscount Slim didn't make a decision at the first time, "Send a signal to Lord Mosik!" Hearing what Viscount said, the guard next to him gestured to the observation post, and another soldier at the observation post picked up the red flag on the ground and shook violently.

At the rear of the scene, soon a red flag was waving, and the observation post saw the order from the rear and reported to Slim loudly, "Lord Slim, the rear is coming and asks us to make our own decisions!"

Seeing that he had received support from the rear, Slim hurriedly straightened up on the horse and solemnly put on his visor. Seeing him like this, the guards beside him did the same.

"They hit our right flank, we can't just be beaten. Let the border guards throw all their reserves into the right flank, I need them to give me a top until dark.

And we, San Jose, although there are few cavalry, does not mean that we do not have cavalry. Since you are fighting on the right, then we will fight on the left!

With that, Viscount Slim stumbled his horse's belly and turned west with the guards behind him, heading towards the left flank phalanx, and behind them, about three thousand silver-armored cavalry, followed by them. These were the sons and daughters of the nobility of the San Jose Guard, each of them skilled in archery and horses, and the horses under the crotch were all family-fed horses, and they were always the most elite part of the San Jose Guard.

Although Viscount Slim lined up the guards to fight the wolf cavalry of the Desiks, he had endured the killer weapon of these thousands of heavily armored cavalry.

Following Viscount Slim's orders, all the reserves of the Northern Frontier Guards in the last platoon, about four or five phalanxes, began to maneuver towards the right flank of the battlefield, their goal was to hold the line by the tens of thousands of Desik Rangers and Steppenwolf Riders before dark.

At the same time, Desik's trebuchet phalanx regrouped in the rear, this time targeting Desik's right flank cavalry, that is, San Jose's left flank. Large bags of rubble flew over the heads of the phalanx crowd and landed behind the Rangers, sweeping down a large chunk of the Desiks who had followed them.

A vacuum appeared behind the rangers in an instant, and the follow-up troops could not come up for a while, and the San Jose border guards in front of them were desperately resisting, and on the flank, which they did not notice, between the San Jose Guards and the border guards, a large white torrent was rapidly approaching, and it did not stop to penetrate the De Syk rangers.

Note 1: De Sick's right flank is San Jose's left flank, which is currently the most evenly matched part of the battlefield.