Chapter 306: The Battle of Sunset Valley (Part II)

"Woo woo woo ............."

"Stand back! Back off! When the sound of the horn sounded behind the heavily armed swordsmen, and a long line of silver light and white appeared in the gray valley mouth behind them, the Ottoman soldiers already knew that the raid had failed, because the reinforcements that the sun never set had arrived, and there was no strategic significance in continuing to fight except to destroy the more than 40,000 Ragumyi heavy infantry in exchange for the corpses of the soldiers who never set.

Therefore, the junior officers from the Ottoman Empire, after leaving behind 2,000 Ragumyi heavy infantry and 1,000 Dick heavy crossbowmen, began to direct the remaining 30,000 or so Ragumyi heavy infantry to retreat into the valley. In the end, the whereabouts of the more than 30,000 Lagumi heavy infantry were temporarily survived, and the more than 4,000 soldiers of the Anti-Sunset War Alliance who were left behind were wiped out by the Sunless Heavy Infantry who rushed up and the members of the Papal Guard.

After the battle, Henry, who had taken over the position of commander of the front-line battlefield before the commander of the 6th Heavy Infantry Regiment of the Sunset, did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, but ordered the newly joined Aegis troops to replace the position of the heavily armored swordsmen who had been fighting for more than an hour before, and the guards of the front-line theater were impregnable, while the members of the 6th Heavy Infantry Regiment of Sunset, who had suffered more than 3,000 casualties after the previous battle, retreated to the rear to receive rest and treatment from field doctors.

As for the Counterweight Trebuchet No. 3, which had been suspended due to the attack of the 1st Air Cavalry Regiment of the Sunset Forever, it was also back in operation at this moment, because the griffon knights who had harassed the anti-Sunset War Alliance in Sunset Valley had returned.

The number of the 1st Air Cavalry Regiment of the Sunset, which had a complete formation of 5,000 men before joining the battlefield, had been sharply reduced to about 3,500 by the time they returned, and these griffon knights who had survived the battle for more than 1 hour like the soldiers of the 6th Heavy Infantry Regiment were wounded by both mounts and soldiers, and their bodies were covered with blood and black soot, and their faces were intertwined with the grief of the death of their comrades and the joy of the success of the operation.

According to the post-war statistics that arrived in Henry's hands a few hours later, the 1st Air Cavalry Regiment of the Sunset Never Sets sacrificed more than 1,500 people and wounded more than 2,000 in exchange for the death of nearly 10,000 Dick soldiers on the spot and the destruction of nearly 100 hidden forts in the Sunset Valley Canyon. And this is still the record of the griffin knights before they evacuated, looking at the sunset valley in the distance, which has been billowing black smoke until now, Henry believes that the battle attrition of the griffin knights this time is definitely 1 or even more than 2 times higher than the statistics of the statistics. And according to the griffin knights, if it weren't for the cavalry spears in their hands, they would have been broken. With the asphalt clay pots in the trunk running out and the strings of the new cavalry crossbows about to break, they can continue to fight for at least two more hours with their own stamina and the royal griffons, inflicting more damage on their enemies.

Of course, in fact, this record is not the main thing, because no matter how many people are killed, it is just a number, and it has no real strategic significance. And if the lives of more than 1,500 griffin knights were just exchanged for the lives of 20,000 soldiers of the Anti-Sun Never Setting War Alliance, Sun Lin, who learned the news, would not only not reward this team, but would have dismissed the commander of this air cavalry regiment in a fit of anger and sent it to the sergeant court.

Don't forget that if you calculate according to the training cost tower of all types of soldiers who never set, 1 griffon knight is equal to 4 heavy cavalry or 16 heavy infantry of the sunset, and the death of 1,500 griffin knights is equivalent to the loss of 24,000 heavy infantry of the sunset, which is equivalent to a strengthened heavy infantry regiment of the sunset. And 20,000 can only be equal to the bronze-star Sunset Heavy Swordsmen, and even the 20,000 soldiers of the Anti-Sunset War Alliance and 1,500 Griffin Knights who are mixed with many militias and archers can't even do it. But now, in the hands of General Henry, a piece of paper with many rough topographical maps made up for all the losses of 1,500 griffon knights.

"The interior design of Sunset Valley is now in line with the design behind the Wailing Wall under Notting Burger, and according to the personal testing of our spies in Sunset Fort and the griffin knights just now, we can confirm that the Dick craftsmen have dug out the caverns on both sides of the valley, and used those naturally formed caves to connect the buildings with the bunkers on both sides of the cliffs. At the same time, in order to ensure the continuity of the defenses on both sides, they also built many suspension bridges on both sides of the canyon to ensure that the soldiers on the left side could move to the right side for defense in a short time. Henry pointed to the map in his hand and said: "And the most hateful thing is that in order to prevent our soldiers from quickly opening the passage in Sunset Valley, the Dirks piled up all the stones and gravel that were dug up to the bottom of Sunset Valley, and used them to build dozens of gravel walls, and even in some sections, the Dicks also melted a lot of steel to create many spiked obstacles at the bottom of the valley, causing us to be forced to move the battlefield to the interior of the valley on both sides, now let's discuss, how we should fight next." As he spoke, General Henry turned his gaze to the captains of the Sunset Legion in front of him.

"According to the information shown in this structural map of Sunset Fort, we must first take the giant iron gate in front of us and the area around it before we can ensure that we have an entrance that allows soldiers to enter the valley to fight, the cliffs around these entrances are extremely steep, if I were the designer of the enemy's defense system, I would definitely use the cliffs here, here, and here to create a rolling stone trap, so I think before launching an attack, we must send some griffon knights to occupy these cliffs and defend them." The commander of the 6th Heavy Infantry Regiment was the first to put forward his idea, which was unanimously agreed upon by all the high-ranking officers around him.

The commander of the 6th Heavy Infantry Regiment, who had been approved by everyone, continued after a few smug moments: "However, the griffin knight is the elite of our battle after all, and letting it fall into trouble at the beginning will have a detrimental effect on the subsequent battle situation, so I would like to say, since the griffin knight can carry a knight and a large number of combat weapons, why can't we use it to transport certain things?" ”

"What do you mean by that?" Henry asked, with a twinkle in his eyes.

"I mean, why don't we take advantage of the Griffin Knights' ability to fly and land anywhere, and let them transport the Moforging Engineers and Chamber of Secrets to those canyons, so that these mechanical monsters that can ignore arrows and most melee weapons can join forces with our army?"