Section 511 Press
After the battle, all families, whether tigers, lions, or dragons, were given a bone bowl made from a white man's head.
This is a very precious gift. The northern barbarians have a peculiar understanding of "punishment". For the enemy, especially the kind of hatred to the bone, there is nothing better than cutting off the opponent's head, digging out the brain, embalming the skull, boiling the bone marrow oil at high temperature, applying waterproof paint after drying, and making a bone bowl to play with at any time. Eating in a bone bowl is to gnaw on the enemy's head at any time, and drinking tea in a bone bowl is to torture his soul with boiling water. Even if a family member is sick, the purpose of using a bone bowl to hold a decoction is to draw strength from the depths of the soul of a dead enemy and supplement it to the sick as a nourishment, so that they can heal faster.
"Kill!"
Hu Lijian let out a more and more high-pitched roar.
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The next day, Tianhao led the main force of the three-clan alliance army to the battlefield.
150,000 lion infantry and 70,000 tiger infantry lined up in a dense array, slowly moving forward with steady and solid steps. Although they were tired from the day's journey, there was not a trace of fatigue on their faces. It is still the usual arrangement of heavy shieldmen in front and pikemen and sword and shield soldiers in the back.
This is the striker and the first coalition unit to go into battle. Behind them was the main force of the Second Dragon Legion led by Yuan Kai, with as many as 50,000 Dragon infantry.
The two groups of cavalry put pressure on the coalition forces from the east and west flanks respectively, constantly intercepting and killing the fleeing whites, inflicting tens of thousands of casualties on the whites in the raids with rifles and crossbows. Their suppression is not blindly tough, and it remains elastic enough. In the face of a counterattack from the whites, when the opponent was too strong, he avoided the detour with high mobility, but never took the initiative to loosen the encirclement. After destroying the opponent's local superior forces with long-range firepower, quickly seal the gap left before. The expansion and contraction are orderly, and the tension is in a way, like a rubber band, although it is constantly stretched and stretched, it has not been broken, firmly holding on both sides of the canyon.
As many as 320,000 infantry forwards were carefully selected by Tianhao, and they were also the best troops in all aspects from the beginning of the war to the present. Taking Yuan Kai's Second Army as an example, after annihilating the main Viking force on the west bank of the Pantuo River, they collected the white army on the spot, cleaned up supplies, immediately built a pontoon bridge over the river, and launched an attack on the east bank with the cooperation of the river fleet.
Because of the overall battle situation, the Second Legion was given an extra two days of rest from the Tiger Clan's territory all the way here. In particular, the main force of the 50,000 regiments selected as the vanguard, they are full of energy and strong fighting consciousness, and they are the best troops in the overall situation of the three-clan alliance.
The same goes for the Tiger and Leon armies. Tian Hao ordered all the troops except for the vanguard army that had been put into battle to rest in place, ensuring that the soldiers could get at least five hours of rest.
ran all the way, just to close the door and beat the dog. Tianhao was very satisfied with the performance of the Stormtooth, the defense line of the Shenwei Fortress has not been broken through so far, and the Bald Eagle communication showed that the ammunition stock inside the fortress was enough to sustain a high-intensity battle, and the Tiger King and the Lion King were also willing to hand over the command and Tianhao was fully responsible.
In Tianhao's view, this is the best result and a harbinger of victory.
The division wore heavy armor and rushed to the front. He learned the new lesson of the division and did not give up protection and went directly into the enemy position. While this is a sign of bravery, it means exposing one's weaknesses to the enemy at the same time. Two guards armed with swords and shields followed at the same time, protecting the flanks of the division. He crossed his shield-strapped left arm in front of him, bent his waist and hunched his back, keeping his figure as low as possible to reduce the chance of being shot by a white arquebus.
As many as thousands of heavy shieldmen shouted trumpets and let out a deafening roar, forming a wall of advancing progress across the battlefield. The height of the heavy shield is three hundred and fifty centimeters, which is more than the top of the head of an adult northern giant. It was more than ten centimeters thick on average, and the protrusion of the surface sloped to the sides caused the protective layer to increase dramatically, protecting the advancing infantry until it reached the improvised array of white halberders and musketeers.
Calis has awakened. He immediately ordered the formation of a defense on the basis of a temporary position with the Rhine Kingdom rearguard as the core. Bishop Somson and the other nobles of the kingdom did not dispute this, nor did they fight for power over the question of command. They all know very well that if the current crisis is not resolved, I am afraid that everyone will have to die here. What's more, the Kingdom Alliance is no longer as strong as it was a few months ago. The Viking Duke Flamal was killed in battle, the Marquis of Plantagenet Elken and the Viscount Monio were captured, and the Marquis of Savedin rebelled in the Kingdom of the Lord...... After losing a large number of high-ranking nobles with military talents one after another, looking at the entire kingdom alliance, the only nobleman who is qualified to be called a "famous general" is the Duke of Calis of the Rhine Kingdom.
"Be sure to block the giants behind you, at all costs!"
Calis's order was so firm that he issued all the abbreviated Michael Elixir Forty-Four. Not only that, but he also ordered to collect all the remaining raw materials of the coalition forces and concoct as many potions as possible. Food and military supplies were now out of the Duke's considerations. He knew very well that the key to changing the tide of the battle was still Kamui Fortress. Take the fortress and everything is alive. If you can't take it, everyone will die!
He still has hundreds of thousands of soldiers on his hands. With the arrival of the Marquis of Somson and the main forces of the other kingdoms, Calis felt that he had more leverage after quickly recovering the defeated army. He was now full of admiration and emotion for the giant commander of the Kamui Fortress, such a huge explosion of gunpowder had indeed produced miraculous effects, and the previous hard work of the sappers was burned...... But even so, in Calis's view, it was not considered a corner.
"Order the warlords of the kingdoms to let their men rush forward, and those who violate the order will be killed on the spot!"
You can only play fireworks once. No matter how deep the Grand Canyon is, there are times when it is filled with corpses. As long as you can win, even if you die a million people, it is worth it.
What's more, filling the Grand Canyon simply doesn't take that many corpses. Calis calculated that with a maximum of 80,000 men, a road of the same width would be "made" again.
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Through the gaps between the heavy tower shields, Shi Quan saw the stereotyped and cold white faces on the opposite side, ignoring everything.
They took drugs!
This was no secret among barbarian officers. During the pursuit, His Royal Highness the Dragon Lord Regent summoned the officers to turn on the plane and reported the existence of Migal Potion No. 44. There is only one way to deal with this kind of mind control elixir, and the opponent ** is directly killed or crushed in the most lethal way.
The distance between the two armies is getting closer and closer, two hundred meters...... No, no more than one hundred and fifty meters at most.
The white halberders stood motionless, a thick arquebus poking out of the gap between their shoulders and aimed at the heavy shield that stood in front of the barbarian infantry.
Each is waiting for the other to attack.
Shi Quan smiled strangely and shook his head slowly. His Royal Highness the Lord Regent has said that these drug-addicted guys won't last long. Three hours, or two hours, when the effect of the medicine wears off, they will become weak and sore. At that time, there is no need to play by herself, even if it is an old woman who is over the age of old, she can stab them through the throat one by one with a knife like a chicken.
However, time is not on its side.
Shi Quan raised his right hand holding the knife behind the heavy shield wall and pulled a knife flower in the air.
A few minutes later, the shield wall of the northern barbarians slowly loosened, revealing as many as hundreds of dark and dull cannon muzzles.
Small-caliber artillery is easily carried apart. Taking a field gun of 75 mm caliber as an example, according to the Dragon Infantry Discipline, it can be broken down into three parts: the barrel, the base, and the wheel. With the strong and tall physique of the northern barbarians, plus two logistics personnel carrying artillery shells, only five people can form an artillery squad. They marched slightly slower than the average infantry, but they didn't lag far behind. Quickly assembled in front of the position, it is possible to form a group of artillery with a considerable number in a short time.
This small-caliber cannon was not very destructive to the barbarian walls, but against the white infantry, which had little protection, the grenades and shotguns that exploded in pieces slashed into the god of death.
The distance was too close, and it was simply face-to-face fire.
The shotguns that flew through the sky caused widespread death in the firelight. A single cannonball struck it, immediately piercing a huge gap in the dense array of halberders. It felt like a thick dam, pierced by some invisible force of rage. Dozens of white soldiers screamed as they were blown away, fragile bodies torn apart by red-hot metal, even the hardest skulls could not resist, fine, sharp metal shards burrowed into the skull, pierced the eyeballs, and chewed lips and tongues like a woman abandoned by a man with a plot of revenge, splattering flesh and blood.
"Fire!"
With great envy, Shiquan shouted the same order almost at the same time as the commander of the dragon artillery.
It's so powerful that it's enjoyable just to look at. He has a good relationship with Shi Xin, and Shi Quan knows the whole process of Shi Xin's injury. Because of the profound lesson, he never thought of going head-to-head with the white halberd hand on the other side, who was comparable to a zombie. It's best to smash those guys on the other side directly with artillery. Shi Quan is now eager to try, and he even has thoughts like "I should become the commander of the dragon artillery".
The dense and heavy array of halberds fell into chaos.
The three artillery rounds ended, and the dragon infantry, which had been waiting behind the heavy shield array, began to move forward. The distance between the two armies was no more than 200 meters, and there was no need to worry about the range and power of shooting from this position. Tens of thousands of dragon infantry were divided into four columns, and they advanced alternately, firing once in front of each thirty meters, and then reloading, and the second column followed and continued to shoot, then the third column, and so on.
The white halberders were dead, and the musketeers in the back were also suffering heavy casualties. Although the commanders of the kingdoms continued to mobilize forces to fill the gaps in the front line, they were unable to form a thick and dense defensive line again as before. They desperately mobilized the two wings of troops to fill in the middle, forming a useless refueling tactic.
After several consecutive shots, the barbarian battle column had advanced more than two hundred meters. At this moment, the heavy shieldmen, who had rested for a long time, began to run forward, and they once again rushed to the front of the dragon infantry to form a shield wall. Behind them, the dragon artillery, with the help of the lion and tiger infantry, had rapidly moved the light artillery forward.
This is a whole set of brutal tactics.
The kingdom coalition is not without restraint. Quite simply, if you want to deal with artillery, the best solution is artillery. If the time and place were to be changed, both Calis and Bishop Somson would mobilize artillery units to meet them head-on. However, successive defeats have resulted in the loss of a large amount of military supplies, especially the betrayal of the Kingdom led by the Marquis of Savitin, who dealt a heavy blow to the coalition forces of the kingdom from behind. Nothing can be taken into account when fleeing for your life, let alone the extremely heavy artillery...... Now, except for the Duke of Calis, who also has some light artillery belonging to the Rhine Kingdom, the coalition forces of other kingdoms cannot find a single heavy artillery at all.
Even this part of the light artillery Calis could not be used. There was a big difference between gunpowder for artillery and gunpowder for guns, not to mention the current chaotic situation, in order to ensure the strength of the southern army's attack on the fortress of Kamui, Calis sent all the artillery early.
He had never thought of relying on a few small-caliber guns to stop the giants from the north. In Calis's opinion, he had done enough, and the Rhine warriors had paid too much blood and human lives for it, and now it was the turn of the Holy See and the other kingdoms to taste the power of the northern giants. The total number of defeated troops is as high as one million, and even if hundreds of thousands are killed in battle, they can buy enough time for the main army in the south with human lives and corpses.
The second round of shelling was followed by a second round of shooting.
After that, the heavy shield hand did not press again.
Finally, it was the turn of the division's infantry to play.
He waited for a long time, with indescribable fanaticism and excitement, without impassioned slogans, just a few movements, and countless lion warriors followed closely behind, like raging lions pounced on the messy white battle column opposite.
The feeling of the knife splitting the skull was so enjoyable, and the blood splattering from the opponent's body was extremely sticky. After cutting off the heads of multiple white men in a row, he led the elite infantry squad around him to attack the opponent's core in an impact formation, speeding up and rushing to break through the battle column, directly around the back, and aiming the sharp swords at the white musketeers who were caught off guard.
Human bones are very hard, and killing too many people causes the blade to curl up quickly. Shi Quan couldn't remember how many he had killed, but he knew that the knife in his hand was no longer as good as before. Especially this guy who had just been hacked to death, the edge of the curly blade couldn't cut off the opponent's head, and he could only drag and scrape off pieces of skin from his neck, as well as ruptured muscles.