On the battlefield, human life is so worthless, whether he is a commoner, a servant or a nobleman.

Ordinary soldiers wore leather armor and held knives and guns, and the noble officers were covered in iron armor and held beautiful steel and translucent blades, but in the crowd, they all waved with their eyes closed, knives into the flesh, blood splashed everywhere, and every step forward was extremely difficult.

The battlefield was full of roars, and I couldn't tell whose voice it was, only the sound of gold and iron. A Desik officer, wielding his hammer, smashed the soldiers of the opposite merchant alliance to pieces with a single hammer, ** mixed with blood, sprayed the Desik officer's head and face, milky white and bright red things confused the officer's eyes, before he could open it, a spear stabbed and stabbed the officer's iron armor through.

The desik officer, who was in pain, roared angrily, broke the tip of the spear with a hammer, raised the hammer again, and was still waiting to step forward, when in an instant, the cold light flashed, and the head of the decik flew into the sky.

A young soldier of the Shang Alliance, panting with his steel sword, his own weapon no longer known where it had flown to, and in his hand was a Desik weapon that he had picked up from nowhere. Taking advantage of the unpreparedness, the Desik officer became the ghost of his sword. The soldier rushed forward excitedly, and a silver snowflake was flashing on the waist of the fallen corpse, oh my God, this is a battalion lieutenant.

The overexcited merchant soldiers didn't notice the roaring Desik not far away. The Battalion Captain's Snowflake Stick can give an ordinary merchant soldier a large reward, enough to buy an orchard or farm in Manning or White Harbor, and no longer have to work as a mercenary.

Apparently, he was thinking too much. Noticing that the battalion captain had been killed, the nearby Desiks approached like crazy. The steel knife in his hand is easy to cut people, but it is not easy to cut off the rank stick firmly tied to his waist, and before he can cut the rope, the Desik who rushed over frantically chopped over the soldiers of the Shang Alliance who were still immersed in fantasy.

The same scene was taking place everywhere under the main peak of Lens, and General Florian spared no expense, and after the western position was opened, the eastern position and the first main line were fought at the same time.

The Giants Regiment was indeed worthy of being the strongest army of the Western Frontier Army of Desik, and the second charge advanced the formation behind the wall, and then the One-Eyed Regiment, which was on standby at any time, also followed. More than 5,000 Desik soldiers poured into the western defense line, and the 3,000 mercenary soldiers on the defense could not resist for a while, and they were squeezed and retreated.

"Don't retreat, don't retreat!" the head of the Merchant Alliance shouted from behind, but the pressure from the Desik was too great, and many of the Merchant Alliance soldiers were squeezed and fell to the ground, unable to get up at all, and were trampled into flesh by the crowd.

There were even more warriors of Desik, who saw a few abandoned crossbows on the wall, jumped up and turned the crossbow heads, loaded them with fine arrows, and began to shoot at the defenders.

"Can't retreat, can't retreat, follow me!" The commander of the defending army was still struggling, and suddenly a flash of stainless steel, and a crossbow arrow with a thick arm pierced the regiment commander and the two servants in front of him. The regimental commander's words came to an abrupt end.

By this time, more than half of the 3,000 soldiers on the front line had been killed or wounded, the wall had almost completely failed, and a large number of junior officers and the bravest soldiers were fighting with the attacking Desiks.

The tide of battle began to turn against him, and the balance of victory gradually tipped in favor of the Desiks. The defensive line on the flanks in the past two days can take care of half of the offensive side of the main position, and the mercenary corps is naturally not willing to lose easily.

The mercenary command considered that the positions on both sides were too far away, and it stands to reason that the Desik would not choose to attack here, but they did not expect that the two frontier regiments, the most elite giants and one-eyed, actually chose the west side. At the critical moment, Etienne sent another reinforced team of more than 500 crossbowmen to quickly reinforce the position on the western flank, which could no longer be resisted.

Reinforcements arrived in good time, and the entire western defensive line was close to crumbling, half of the soldiers had fallen, the rest had been compressed out of the walled area, and even most of the communication trenches had been lost.

"Crossbowmen ready, fifty grams, free fire!" The officer who led the team gave the order, a row of crossbowmen, raised the crossbow machine that had been wound, and a wave of crossbow arrows passed through the crowd ~ Shot at the Desik soldiers in the rear, "Puff puff" burst of muffled sounds, and the Desik people who were immersed in the attack suffered a huge blow.

Unlike the mercenaries of the Merchant Alliance, the well-trained Desik immediately picked up the tools that could be used as shields around them, and even the corpses of the Merchant Alliance or the Desik on the ground were blocked in front of them. Some clever soldiers bravely rushed into the array of the merchant allies in front, and everyone was in a scuffle.

Seeing this, the soldiers of the two sides fought together, "Abandon the crossbow, draw the sword!" The officer changed his order, and with the reinforcements of the soldiers, he squeezed into the defensive line from the flank and rear.

The new recruits took advantage of their physical strength, formation and timing, but quickly killed the Desik people in the front row, and the Desik people were brave. In this case, they also had to retreat to the side of the wall and re-array.

The original defenders who were replaced were less than half of the original number of people left, and some of them were exhausted and scarred.

The new soldiers took their place and continued to fight the Desiks, even driving them off the wall in one fell swoop.

The Desik people are not vegetarians, and the one-eyed group behind them also stepped forward at this time, and the two sides fought around the fragile wall, fighting several times, and even the officers in command couldn't figure out which side the wall belonged to. The soldiers on both sides, you have me, I have you, chaotically slashing and slashing.

Like the western defensive line, the eastern defensive line was now under attack by two Desik regiments, but these soldiers, compared to the Giants and the One-Eyed Regiment, were slightly weaker, and the eastern position was fairly resistant.

In contrast, the offensive and defensive battles of the main position are more like going through the motions. A regiment of Desik soldiers rushed up, hurriedly shot a few arrows, and then hurriedly retreated, and the defenders returned a wave of crossbow arrows, and fell weakly to the ground, not a single one was injured, which caused the Desik soldiers to laugh.

The Shang allies did not dare to leave their positions to pursue, and the attacks on the main positions went back and forth like this, and there was no progress for the time being.

General Florian, who did not know when he rode his wolf warrior (Note 1), approached the command of the position on the western side, and General Alvin was directing the battle.

"General, why are you here?" Alvin saw that the Western general had arrived, and hurriedly dismounted and saluted.

"In the three battles, it seems that your side is the first to take the initiative, the Giants and the One-Eyed Regiment, and they really didn't disappoint me!" General Florian said calmly.

"No, the casualties are a bit large, and the previous report to the Giant Regiment is about a thousand casualties, which is really not a small loss. General Alvin was a little unhappy.

"It's okay, elite soldiers, they will grow up quickly in the flames of war. Today is the first battle, and it is normal for the Shang Alliance to have stronger resistance. Since the casualties are already so large, let's take down the western position today!" commanded Florian.

Alvin turned around and called the herald, "Let the Seventh Regiment go up!"

The battle on the western position lasted for a whole day, and by the night of the 16th, General Etienne had sent three reinforcements to the western position, and a total of one and a half regiments of more than 4,000 men had thrown themselves into the western position, and under that small wall, 7,000 soldiers of the Shang Alliance and 8,000 soldiers of Desik had been gathered.

The battle on the main peak of Lens was fierce from the beginning, and before the main position was attacked, a small flank position had already attracted all the attention of the commanders of both sides.

The night could not stop the fighting, and countless torches were thrown on the battlefield, and those torches, when burned out, then ignited the corpses, flags, wooden gun handles on the ground, and then set the wall on fire.

The smell of burnt corpses and the smell of oil filled the air, spreading throughout the battlefield.

In the darkness, both General Florian and General Etienne saw the line of fire on the west side of the main peak of Lens, and the position on the west side was completely destroyed after a day of fighting.

Leaving behind more than 1,500 corpses, the Shang Alliance soldiers withdrew from the battlefield and retreated towards the main peak position. The burning fire, which isolated the Desiks, allowed them to evacuate safely.

Of course, the Desik had no intention of chasing again, and today's battle was a little brutal, and even the Desik army, which had always had the upper hand, lost nearly a thousand soldiers. With the tower shield of great achievement, the Desik began to slowly retreat.

"Well, today's strategic goal has basically been achieved. The Shang Allied troops who have lost their positions on the west side seem to be lame, they should not keep their positions on the east side, let that side retreat as well!" General Florian thought for a moment and gave the order.

"It's a pity," the Alvin Camp General sighed on the side, "If Master Arthur were still here, and we used our last trick, we wouldn't have lost so much today." ”

Florian glared at Alvin, "Don't think so much, as far as I know, the agreement between the Black Dragon Society and His Majesty (Note 2) only includes helping Desik break through the defense line of the Shang Alliance, and it is up to us how the subsequent war can be fought." And, Arthur's thing, you rot in my stomach for me!"

Alvin apologized in a panic.

"Alright", Florian continued to arrange, "Let the Giants and the One-Eyed Regiment rest as soon as possible, this time I brought five thousand recruits over, let them replenish on their own, tomorrow the truce, early the day after tomorrow, we will fight the main peak of Lens." ”

On the side of the Shang Alliance, General Etienne did withdraw the defenders of the eastern defensive line. Without the strategy on the western flank, the eastern position becomes a complete salient, exposed to the entire Desik attack surface, and there is little point in retaining it.

After staring into the darkness for a long time, Etienne knew that the Desiks were there, "Tell me to go down and let the New Tenth Army approach the main peak as soon as possible, I have a very bad premonition about this battle." ”

Note 1: Desik's generals have the right to ride Steppenwolf, and they can also choose their horses according to their preference. Therefore, in the country of Desik, some generals rode horses and some rode wolves, and even the same person would sometimes ride horses and sometimes wolves.

But if it's like this, when it's time to start a battle to the death, the generals will choose to ride Steppenwolf, the symbol of Desik, to boost morale.

That's why General Florian chose to do it.

Note 2: This refers to Edward VI, Emperor Desik.