Chapter 394: Carefully laid out
Edward III's order never involved Zhao Gao, on the one hand, the identity of that "honorary citizen" still made him scruple after all; On the other hand, Zhao Gao not only paid a huge price for the broken queen, but also still unrelentingly exerted his true colors of kraft candy, firmly glued to the city wall, occupied the geographical advantage, and always refused to take a step.
The entrance to the walls is extremely narrow, and the number of people who can attack upwards through it is extremely limited. More than 1,000 strong crossbowmen summoned peasant slingshots and other things filled the place to the brim. These units don't have much damage, but they're fine as a wall of flesh that absorbs damage.
If it were an ordinary class of troops to attack, Meng Buhou's hundreds of crossbowmen would be in a state of free attack, and these arms would not be able to advance; If it's an elite class, the crossbowmen will fire a volley to repel their attack again; If you try to break through with a strong story character - well, after that hapless Plantagenet Helmet was killed in battle, no one has chosen to do so yet.
The special terrain and attack methods make both the plot forces and the pioneers subconsciously ignore this small area.
In fact, it is not so much that Meng Buhou is a difficult bone to gnaw here, but that his chicken rib position is not worth the greater value of the British army to eliminate him. The city of Paris was full of buildings, and the crossbowmen led by Meng Buxu had a very limited range, and only in a relatively open area in front of them could they cause enough damage, and the British only needed to avoid this small area, and the crossbowmen on the city walls were meaningless.
In other words, the strategic place occupied by Zhao Gao is only valuable when it is attacked, and if people really ignore him, it will be useless.
Seven hundred or so people, on the battlefield of nearly 100,000 people, it is not worth paying too much attention, even if it is a nail stuck somewhere, there are many points like this, others can't go up this section of the city wall, but these crossbowmen can't get down at all. In this way, it seems that the practical role of occupying this point when the overall situation has collapsed is quite limited.
After this period of melee, after the British army adapted to the terrain of the battlefield, the superiority in numbers and individual strength gradually accumulated, like peeling an onion, and the French army in the outer circle was cut off layer by layer, leaving only a few points in the resistance. The real battle has been compressed by one layer, and the circle of protection of the French army has become smaller, and the strength of the defense has naturally become larger.
This is Edward's established tactic, relying on the relative advantage of the terrain to defend layer by layer.
From the very beginning, Edward III did not anticipate the victory of the battle at all. What he did was nothing more than squeeze every bit of combat power that could be used to the extreme, and only needed to delay enough time for him to use his authority to separate the territory from the plot world, then he would be equivalent to an actual victory.
So in fact, the situation on the battlefield was reversed, even if the British army had an absolute advantage, but it was also the side that was cornered.
Because neither the plot world nor Fiona the Ruler can afford the loss of rules after Joan of Arc is taken away. It is foreseeable that if Edward III succeeds in achieving his goal, then the plot world that has lost the legendary historical figure will inevitably cause the collapse of the relevant rules, the rules of the world will be reorganized, and the level of the plot world will irretrievably decline, as for the plot world will itself, it would be good to be able to retain a small part and continue to the next plot world will.
In the face of such a big threat, the plot world will invoke its maximum authority without choice, and all the British troops that can be reasonably summoned are lined up outside the city of Paris, and the French army against it, except for the part of the city, even the epic historical figure Charles VII of France chose to submit!
However, a machine is a machine after all, and no matter how high the level of intelligence is, it is difficult to escape the fate of being calculated, and things are not going as expected by the plot world.
The outcome of the battle is not a direct contrast of pure power, since it has granted intelligence to the units in the plot world, then the plot world itself is not completely under his control.
According to the rules of general warfare, the French army had no food and grass inside and no reinforcements outside, and the British army did not need to attack the city at all, but only needed to be stationed outside for two days to wait for its natural collapse, which was also a result of Edward III's long-term design. As long as the British army did not have enough reason to attack the city, the soldiers who were forcibly driven away would inevitably complain in their hearts, and the intensity of the attack would be unconsciously weakened, which was equivalent to buying him a lot of buffer time.
However, even now, the will of the plot world has clearly passed the order to the British commander-in-chief outside Paris in various ways. Under the coordination of the incarnation of will, the three thousand epic "British longbowmen" and more than 10,000 A+-level royal knights only need to be thrown into the battlefield regardless of losses, and Edward III's defensive forces will immediately collapse - the combat effectiveness of high-end troops is a crushing existence in the absence of opponents of the same level.
Just like the seven hundred crossbowmen led by Meng Bushu, it seems that it is difficult for ordinary soldiers to break through, but if you really let the longbowmen come, you only need to mobilize a hundred or so random rounds of arrow rain to cover, and it will take less than a few minutes to complete the effect of clearing the field.
The price paid for this was probably that several longbowmen were wounded or killed by the crossbowmen's dying counterattack, and because of this, the British commander-in-chief never gave the order for the longbowmen to attack.
Because he has a high enough intelligence level of the British army, he has derived his own wisdom and judgment!
Longbowmen are a non-renewable resource for a short period of time, and it takes a full twenty years to train a longbowman, while a standard longbowman can serve for only five years!
Even at the height of the Kingdom of England, there were only 5,000 "British longbowmen" that could be supported by the nation's strength, and the loss of any one of them was unbearable. For the generals of the British army, it didn't matter how many ordinary soldiers died, any lord could recruit a lot of people with a military flag, but the longbowmen could not afford to lose.
So even if the will of the plot world concentrates all the high-end combat power here, it has formed a situation that involves each other. The intelligence level given to the British army master is obviously extremely high, and it is precisely because of this extremely high that it in turn shackles the hands and feet of the plot world, turning the attack full of advantages into a war of attrition with offensive and defensive tears!
In such a delicate situation, it was obviously impossible without the elaborate design of Edward III. In the course of decades of operation, he has long been familiar with some of the rules of the operation of this world, which also provides him with operational ideas for this wonderful layout.
Taking advantage of the asynchronous factors in the opposing forces, in turn, reducing their synergy, and further weakening the strength of the attack in a specific period, even if Zhao Gao himself faced such a situation, the choice he made would probably be like this.
In the face of the counterattack of the plot world, Edward III obviously did a better job than the former Zhao Gao.
Although this hand is not the embodiment of Edward III's own strength, it can be seen more that he is extraordinary. In contrast, Fiona, who had no choice, had to forcibly drive the pioneers into the city for a bloody battle, and had no way to deal with the main force of the British army, which had always remained on the sidelines.
In terms of the use of the power of the plot world, the two are judged up and down!