Chapter Seventy-Three: Mountain Ambush (I)
Several nobles who had difficulty in disagreeing finally put aside the controversy, formed a coalition army, and drove to the Tehenaut Oasis. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The courier brought an order from the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, General Amazigh: stop all trade in contraband: alcoholic beverages and pork!
And, of course, there's a huge transaction tax......
The kobold decisively retracted the 'castle tower'.
These small mountain bags, which have been in the hands of the kobolds for several months, have not only built several huge underground warehouses, but also dug into interconnected underground fortress groups, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack, and store various trade materials that can allow the defenders to be stationed for a long time.
Taking advantage of the last few days, the business representatives also went crazy in the end, and cleared the inventory in their hands, and the advertising slogans were ready-made -- there are still X days before the store is closed! The last batch of big clearance, if you don't buy it today, you won't have it tomorrow!
is different from later generations, that is, the less these profiteers have left, the more expensive they will be sold, and the countdown is not mixed with water at all.
After getting the news of this headache, Liu Jingtian couldn't care about the kobold getting married, so he had to take more kobolds and set foot on the mountain road again. The enemy was so large that it had to dispatch 7,000 kobolds, pushing 20 of the latest 24-pounder guns, plus countless 'standardized multi-purpose carts', to march mightily along the mountain roads.
Liu Jingtian said: "7,000 dog heads against 10,000 human beings, the quantity is insufficient and the quality is supplemented!"
In this expedition, the infantry was led by a small group of Tydamir with Ma Qianzhi, the cavalry Timo and the Double Twelve, and the artillery Titanic, which was considered to be the elite. Although it was hard work, the morale of the kobolds was high: the ratio of male to female kobolds in the team was close to one to one!
The male kobolds are muttering in private: Behave well, your daughter-in-law is hopeful!
Liu Jingtian, who saved an 'overtime pay' with his cleverness, was thinking about another question: "Why, I feel that these natives are overreacting? Isn't it a problem that can be solved with just a little money, and I don't want to give it! But I just came up with an army of 10,000 and directly seized the liquor, and I feel that they are going to drive me away at all!"
The journey from Agadir to Tehnaut is not far, but it takes a lot of time to travel through the valley. In order to avoid getting lost at night, kobolds can only travel during the day.
A few days later, at noon, a large army of dogs and horses arrived in a mountainous area close to the castle tower. Liu Jingtian estimated that he would probably arrive at his destination in the evening of the next day.
He lay down in the caravan and considered the situation in front of him: "Although I don't know what's going on over there, even if there is a fight, it is estimated that the two thousand dogheads left behind will be able to hold out until we arrive." With 7,000 reinforcements, the frontal battle is a bit hanging, but the constant harassment should be fine......"
At this time, a series of gunshots were heard in the distance, and after a while, a kobold cavalry stumbled to the caravan: "The king is not good! There is an ambush!"
The kobold is panicked but not confused, after all, everyone is old in battle, especially this kind of ambush warfare. The 'standardized multi-purpose board trucks' were surrounded in a circle, and a long series of small cars were placed in the kobold valley. The musketeers drew their weapons and began to line up behind the formation.
However, the enemy's attack was not violent, and there were hardly any human figures on the hillside, only sporadic gunshots rang out in the bushes, as if a group of hunters were hunting.
The kobolds were guarding the convoy and could not move forward. And the front and the back, news came one after another.
Liu Jingtian touched his chin and looked at the casualty report: "We only lost a few scouts? And we didn't find a large number of enemy troops? How do we feel like devils who have been ambushed by the guerrillas......?"
The number of enemies was unknown, and the kobold cowed behind the shield-mounted carts, looking at the bushes on the hillsides on either side, and from time to time white smoke rose from there.
"This ...... If you go out in a line to fight a positional battle, you will simply be beaten in vain...... Attacking in squads can have some effect, but the casualties must be high......"
Liu Jingtian hesitated, he had always avoided the kind of battle with too many casualties.
If you can't win, squat!
The kobold led by Tadamir and others reacted quickly, immediately took out military shovels, and began to dig trenches in the circle and engage in civil engineering operations.
The rest of the people could only huddle behind the cart, firing at the enemy in the bushes without a single shot, and the scene was quite lively, but the casualties were minimal.
Liu Jingtian found that the kobold had carts and trenches as cover, and although the scene was ugly, the casualties were not high. But if you hold it for a long time, you will lose it, and if you shrink in the valley for too long, who knows if there will be changes such as flooding the Seventh Army and burning the rattan armor soldiers, you still have to think of a way...... Looking at the increasingly thick smoke in the valley, I suddenly had an idea!
"Got it, little ones, prepare some damp firewood and grass at the downwind outlet, and let's make more smoke!"
Soon, all the cars were on fire. How could there be a shortage of firewood and grass to burn rice, and it didn't take long for half of the valley to be filled with smoke, and in some places there were no human figures even ten meters away.
"It's now! Three guns form a squad, everyone go up the mountain!"
In some places where both sides were blind, kobolds began to wrap their mouths and noses with damp cloths and formed squads to 'sweep' up the mountain. After all, the enemy is still too scattered, and it is impossible to be as extravagant as the kobolds, each with a short handcuff, and the hand-to-hand combat is immediately defeated.
Gradually, several small hillsides were recovered by the kobolds, so, under the command of the Titanic, the carts and artillery were also carefully dragged up the hillside, and several small strongholds on the high ground were established with difficulty.
Liu Jingtian examined a few corpses, but he didn't see anything famous: "It's obviously a beard of North African descent, nothing special, it seems that you have to catch some alive." ”
The battle was boring, and the enemies who hid their heads and tails and the dogheads who were greedy for life and afraid of death tossed and turned around in the valley for a whole afternoon.
The kobolds had carts and trenches, while the other side had advantageous locations and concealment, and both sides used weapons with poor range and accuracy to shoot until dark, and each other's casualties and results were very limited.
During the battle, the enemy pushed several artillery pieces onto the nearby gentle hill in an attempt to break through the strong formation. But the kobolds had also established a stronghold on the hillside, and their twenty-pound field guns, even in Europe, where artillery technology was the highest, were a weapon of mass destruction—range and power were freaks.
Artillery roared......
A more reasonable gun carriage structure, huge shells, and a slope that is convenient for the return of the cannon, the enemy in the distance has just set up a position and shot a round of projectiles, and the cannon under the command of the Titanic has already fired three rounds in a row, and the landing point has gradually approached the enemy's artillery.
The enemy in the distance became more and more panicked, and barely fired a few more shots, but the landing point was very erratic.
The Titanic, who was holding a monocular, nodded: "It's okay Wang, use water to cool down, and all gun positions are firing at full speed!"