Chapter 121: Battle 2 (The Fifth Shift is Evenly Broken)
"I didn't expect that it was just a tentative attack, and it could achieve such a big result, although the church can knead many noble armies, but the gap with the centralized unified army is still obvious. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”
Lei Zihao pinched his brows, put down the battle report in his hand, and took a sip of tea with a smile on the corner of his mouth.
Lei Zihao transferred the elite of the lancers and lightly armed Wei Wushu, the original intention was just to knock on the crusaders' corners to take a small advantage, and it was good to kill some crusader cannon fodder, and he didn't mean to let them fight a tough battle.
It's just that the elite Wei soldiers and lancers who went out on the expedition unexpectedly discovered the scattered and disjointed troops of the crusaders, and after a round of ambushes and the charge of the lancers, the troops from the Grand Dukes of Bavaria were finished!
Because the Bavarian troops were too far away from the friendly forces, the lancers let go of their hooves and chased and killed the fleeing Bavarian troops to the point that there was no way to enter the ground......
After cleaning up the battlefield, Lei Zihao's men were pleasantly surprised to find that the army he had annihilated turned out to be one of the few main fighters in the Crusaders!
Of the thousands of Bavarian troops, only a little more than a thousand were temporary conscripts who served as miscellaneous servants, and the rest were either archers or real Bavarian warriors!
After the cavalry broke the Bavarian line, these real lord soldiers were not much better than the improvised levies, and lost the courage to show their backs to the cavalry, and even the most brave warriors would instantly become a lamb to the slaughter!
The result of this battle is undoubtedly a big profit for Lei Zihao, after annihilating the main force of thousands of crusaders, his own side only has no more than two digits killed!
Being able to achieve such a disparity in casualty ratio has a lot to do with the fact that the Bavarians took the initiative to expose their weaknesses, panicked to exchange long-range troops and hand-to-hand combat arms, and were taken advantage of by the lancers to rush in!
The Bavarians, who were already on the march, had no reserves at all to resist the onslaught of cavalry like a torrent, and in the confusion they could not list the infantry phalanx that could resist the cavalry, so they were rushed out of the chain effect by the lancers and all collapsed......
It can be said that the fighting power of the Bavarians was not brought into play at all, and they lost their morale under the sudden onslaught of cavalry......
However, the defeat of the Bavarians aroused the anger and caution of Alibach, and the itinerant raiding force could no longer find a chance to pick up the leak, and withdrew to the fortress of Megara as the crusaders approached!
Lei Zihao is not greedy, he can annihilate thousands of crusaders who can act as the main force in vain, he is already very satisfied!
In the entire crusader army, there were no more than 20,000 troops like Bavarian warriors and archers!
The nobles of the Grand Duchy of Bavaria, in order to make a name for themselves, in addition to the necessary temporary conscripts, sent out real mercenaries and army soldiers!
In Lei Zihao's eyes, this was just a surprise attack that took advantage of it, but for the Crusaders, it was a forced reduction of the main battle force by a quarter!
Especially the archer troops, the Bavarian archers accounted for half the size of the Crusader archers!
Who told the noble lords to cover the bow and crossbow troops as treasures one by one?
"Lei Zihao, the Crusaders are a forcibly cobbled together force, you can obviously draw out more elites to intercept and raid them, why is it just a small fight?"
Li Qingmei was puzzled.
"The commander of the crusaders is not a fool, if he wants to carry out a surprise attack and interception, there will inevitably be a tough battle, and when the time comes, I don't know how many dead and wounded the troops I sent!"
"How can there be immortals in war, I see you, you just take the elite too seriously, and you are not willing to suffer losses."
Li Qingmei pouted and said, under Lei Zihao, this eldest princess of Seris, who slept with him all day, dared to be so blunt with him......
"Indeed, I have the intention of minimizing the damage of the elite as much as possible, how many crusaders are there? How many people do I have? is already in an absolute weakness, if I cause the elite to lose for a small gain, how can I be able to beat the crusade of a big business?
What's more, there are too many uncertainties in the surprise ambush, I can't rely on the stupidity of the enemy generals with my life, and I'm not in a desperate situation, I have to win in danger to survive.
Winning more with less is tempting, but the likelihood of failure is also greatly increased!
Instead of fighting for this probability, I might as well hold on to the city of Megara, relying on the city defense to kill and injure a large number of the crusaders' living forces, don't look at the crusaders' strength ten times that of us, but with the city defense of Megara, and the people of Seris who are united in the city, plus tens of thousands of Pilos captives, our chances of victory are still very great, at least, it is safer than going out of the city to carry out a surprise attack and ambush!
Mei'er, you should have experienced the battle to defend the capital of the Kingdom of Seris, don't you know what the ratio of casualties between the attack and defense is? ”
When Li Qingmei heard this, her expression became gloomy: "You don't understand, the half-orc legion is different from the human legion, because the half-orcs are not afraid!"
It is true that the orcs who once attacked the capital of the Kingdom of Seris paid a huge price, but can you imagine that there was no single attacking army that retreated from the beginning to the end?
In fact, in addition to the large number of casualties caused to the orcs at the beginning, after the orcs attacked the city wall, our army only relied on life, no matter how many people were killed, the battle seemed to be unable to stop, victory was so far away, the capital of the kingdom of Seris was actually crushed by despair......"
"Oh? I'm glad we're not facing madmen, orcs, but human crusaders. Lei Zihao smacked his lips and said indifferently.
In Lei Zihao's eyes, no matter how strong the half-orc army is, it has become a thing of the past, the half-orcs in the Balkans have been wiped out by the Night Elf Empire, and the real orc empire is far away on the Kalimdor continent in the west, I am afraid that Lei Zihao will probably not meet the half-orcs as enemies in his life......
As for why the strength of the Orc Empire has declined so much, Lei Zihao's source of information has no way of knowing, and he doesn't have the heart to delve into it, the things on him are enough for him to be busy!
"Mei'er, push harder on the left." Lei Zihao, who closed his eyes and enjoyed Li Qingmei's massage, said heartlessly.
Li Qingmei, who had been pinching Lei Zihao for a long time, suddenly complained: "Lei Zihao, why do you have to let me give you a massage, bully me, you are addicted!" ”
"Because Mei'er, you are fragrant, and your palms are still smooth and smooth, and it is very comfortable to rub!"
"Lei Zihao! Can you talk about dim sum, don't always be so explicit!! ”