Chapter 114: Out of the Customs
The army of the Arathi Basin is composed of three horizontal columns, the first column is plate and chain mail melee troops, all of them are shielded, the second column is magic ranged troops, and the last is the strong bow and hard crossbow. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info Their initial advance was slow, not at all in a hurry, as if they were sending off the rest of the Alliance army to cross the river.
Seeing these killing gods approaching little by little, the alliance army is not as leisurely as the enemy, the pontoon bridge can only accommodate one horse, and when Arashi's army pressure over, it is estimated that there are just 2,000 people left here, with their backs to the Blue Water River, and they can't resist at all.
The military spirit is a wonderful thing, if there is no pontoon bridge, the rest of the men and horses may choose to fight to the death, but now......
"Hurry up and cross the river!" An officer shouted, and his horse rushed to the bridgehead, and his men immediately followed. A cavalry brigade of about three hundred men immediately squeezed out of the bridgehead troops and occupied the position of crossing the river.
With them starting, the other troops immediately quit, and they swarmed to the bridgehead in a swarm as a brigade, pushing each other and seizing a favorable position, and the originally orderly bridgehead suddenly became a mess.
The more chaotic the military formation, the weaker the combat effectiveness, and seeing this scene, the Arathi Basin Army began to accelerate. The sound of hooves suddenly became denser, and the bridgehead became even more chaotic, and the cavalry completely disregarded discipline and desperately squeezed on the bridge, and from time to time a cavalryman and a horse fell into the water.
The more chaotic this side is, the faster the Arathi army will rush, and the two sides have formed an excellent interaction.
"Ready!"
"Ready!"
The fierce shouts were accompanied by the sound of hooves, the people in the south were cheering, and the pontoon head became more and more stormy. The charging enemy forces were already approaching, and the Alliance forces finally began to turn against each other, their rear team pushing and beating their comrades, and the front team drawing their swords.
On the other side of the river, Bowal looked at this scene with a gloomy face, frowning silently. The timing of the army in the Arathi Basin was mastered to the pinnacle, and now that the situation over there was out of control, I was afraid that the losses would be even greater than he expected!
Finally, only to hear a "buzz", a row of feathered arrows flew up from the rear of the charging army of the Arashi Basin and threw them towards the bridgehead. The bridgehead coalition army had long been in disarray, and it could not organize a shield formation at all, and the rain of arrows fell, and a large number of "swish" fell.
At this time, no one went to seize the pontoon bridge, and the soldiers quickly turned around and looked in horror at the enemy troops who were pressing over. At the closest location to the river, many people simply rushed into the icy blue water river, and the tranquil river surface suddenly became "dumplings".
The next moment, the army of Arathi rushed in, and they took advantage of the huge inertia to hold their shields and slam them hard. The coalition legions that were tightly packed on the riverside could not stop it, and were rushed back again and again, and the rear formation fell into the river layer by layer like a collapse.
By the time the force of the first round of impact was finally removed, this section of the river was already like a boiling pot, and countless people were splashing in the water.
The first impulse was exhausted, and the Knights of the Fallen Star in the front row did not retreat, and they did not fight with the enemy, so they wrestled with their shields against each other, not giving the enemy a chance to gain a foothold. Immediately after that, the magic attack of the Guardians of the Falling Star came, and all kinds of magical brilliance were scattered as if they didn't need money, and the Alliance Army was completely unable to move, watching their bodies be set on fire or frozen into ice cubes.
As usual, the rear of the Union army is still collapsing into the river, without stopping.
The magic attacks were endless, and the more terrifying killing god arrived, only to see thousands of soldiers in blue uniforms leap on horseback, draw their bows and arrows, and launch a merciless strafing fire from a high position.
People died one by one, and the coalition forces that could not spread their formation were powerless to fight back, so it only lasted a few seconds before they completely collapsed. I saw that the alliance's military array suddenly exploded, and everyone cried for their father and mother, and threw themselves into the river like crazy.
The Knights of the Falling Star followed the path and pushed all the way to the river, and when all the enemies were in the water, they turned to the west and moved out of the firing position. The Falling Star Guardian Regiment and the Shushan Revenge Legion took over the position, lined up on the shore, and launched a ruthless point kill.
The soldiers who fell into the water no longer threatened in the slightest, and in order not to sink, they had to take off their armor, and the situation now was no different from queuing up to be shot. They fluttered desperately, hoping that their comrades would be more visible, praying that they would be able to climb to the opposite shore before they were killed.
"None of them will survive." It was the commander of the Eastern Legion who spoke, and his face was gloomy and terrible when he watched his men being slaughtered piece by piece like this.
Boval's face was no better than his, but his eyes were on the Arathi Legion on the other side, and these soldiers were even more terrifying than he had known beforehand!
"Combined with the difference in the quality of soldiers on both sides, how many men do we need to defeat this mixed army?" Bolval asked coldly.
It was the new Chief of the General Staff who answered him, he thought for a moment and said seriously: "Taking the Eastern Army Corps as an example, if it is a frontal battle, we may need three times the strength to resist it, and it will take five times the upper hand, if we want to guarantee that we can definitely defeat...... Ten times the number of troops may be needed! ā
Bolval turned his head and stared at the young new chief of staff for a long time before he gritted his teeth and said, "If you want to annihilate them, how many men and horses will be needed?!"
The chief of staff shook his head, "It's not difficult to defeat, but it's almost impossible to annihilate the cavalry corps with higher mobility than us in one battle, unless you can surround them, but ......"
"But what?" Bolval grabbed the chief of staff and continued to ask.
The chief of staff did some serious calculations and replied: "In the case of the Shushan Revenge Legion, with their mobility ability, they can easily guard a hundred kilometers, but if we want to organize an encirclement with a range of more than one hundred kilometers, we need at least 300,000 troops!"
Bolwal let go of the chief of staff and bowed his head in thought.
With an army of 300,000 troops, the whole alliance concentrated all its forces, plus the garrison and security forces, it is impossible to have so many people, and it is obvious that the method of forcible encirclement and annihilation will not work at all.
Before he could come up with a good solution, he was suddenly startled and raised his head, and after a while, there was a dead silence all around, and the cries and the sound of slapping water were all gone.
Looking around blankly, all the officers and soldiers on the shore were as heavy as water, staring at the river, and the river was densely packed with corpses, and there was no one alive! There is almost no need to count the number of deaths, except for the dozens of people who began to climb up sporadically, and the 2,000 men and horses left on the other side are all dead!
Those soldiers instinctively wanted to jump into the water to escape, but they didn't know that they had only one way to die, and they were already doomed.
"Leave 10,000 light cavalry stationed on the north bank of the river to prevent the enemy from crossing the river, and the rest of the army will all sail to the Arathi Basin, smash the enemy's lair, and avenge the dead brethren!" Bolval shouted coldly, and the soldiers were all silent, the scene just now was really miserable, and there was almost no way to fight back, which made people desperate.
On the south bank of the river, after clearing all the enemies who had fallen into the water, the Arathi Basin Corps did not delay for a second and began to march west along the river bank again.
Boval was about to order the cavalry to go up and follow him, but was stopped by the chief of staff raising his hand, and he said: "Your Highness the commander-in-chief, the enemy's purpose is to kill people, and they will not follow the main force." Judging from their movements, they should go straight to Riptide City, enter the hinterland of Stormgard, and kill and wound the Northern Army there, we can't keep up with such a long distance. ā
As soon as Bowal groaned, he immediately adjusted his deployment, and the 10,000 light cavalry that had originally stayed here was changed to the rear guard of the main force, and followed all the way to the Nanshan Pass, and then stationed on the spot, established a defensive position, and blocked the southern entrance to the Arathi Basin.
The new chief of the Alliance's General Staff still had an expectation, and he expected it well, after the Blue Water River bit off a piece of the Alliance's army, the Arathi Basin Legion immediately turned around and slaughtered the Stormgard Kingdom, which had largely fallen. Thousands of cavalry, all the way to the iron hooves, arrogant soldiers!
At this moment, without warning, something happened suddenly.
While leading the gallop all the way, Cheng Xiaotian's waist shook violently, and Yuntong Sword flew out on its own, circling and swaying happily around him. Cheng Xiaotian was stunned for a moment, then reacted and was overjoyed!
Senior sister, it's out! (To be continued.) )