Chapter Twenty-Three: Baron Ao Fan was dumbfounded
Scolding that the problem could not be solved, Baron Ao Fan's face was iron-blue, looking at the tunnel fortifications arranged by quicksand castle for several miles, his face was as ugly as he looked. The pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info turned his head and asked, "Is there a way to get around?"
"Lord Baron is gone, there is only this way...."Steward Sean was also dumbfounded as he looked at the fortifications excavated from the quicksand castle. He looked at the hills on both sides, all of which were dug up, and shook his head.
"Since you can't get around, let's fight it!" Baron Ao Fan couldn't get rid of his bad breath, and since he set out on the expedition, there have been many troubles. First the roads were rough and difficult to march, and then the dense ravines and tunnels made him dumbfounded.
To fight in the Great Plains, you only need to break through the enemy's army formation and enter the castle, why is it so troublesome now? The most odious thing is that the group of mountain people in the quicksand castle actually hid in the ditch and tunnel and did not come out, so as not to fight him in a dignified manner. Is it necessary to let him, the noble and great Baron of Olympiad, go like a mouse to drill a tunnel?
This is not what makes him embarrassed, what makes him even more embarrassed is that in the face of this dense pit and ditch, there is no need to think about rampage in the plains and crushing everything The chariot is useless. Even the nimble cavalry, when encountering dense ditches and tunnels, was completely useless.
The cavalry turned into infantry combat, and before the battle began, the combat effectiveness dropped by several percent!
"Send some people to test it!"
Baron Ao Fan pondered for a moment, his face was ugly as if he had eaten dog shit, and he ordered viciously.
"It's Lord Baron!" Butler Sean nodded hurriedly to receive the order, Baron Ao Fan was angry, he didn't dare to touch Lord Baron's anger.
"You... You... You, and you, go and test it!" immediately ordered a few knights and gave orders.
Soon, several knights with hundreds of soldiers each attacked the road and the hills on either side of the road.
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At the highest point of a hill on the battlefield, Morin took the three knights under his command to observe the battlefield from a high position.
Seeing the soldiers of Baron Aofan, they sent vanguards, dismounted one after another, and walked into the battle line step by step, crawling slowly in the quagmire, deep and shallow, and laughing.
"The fortifications that your lord lord asked us to set up are really powerful! Before the battle began, the enemy's chariots and cavalry combat effectiveness were eliminated!"
"Hehe, isn't the main force of Baron Aofan chariots and cavalry? Now they have all become infantry, and there are still a few percent of the combat power left? What's more, we still occupy a favorable location, and we will wait for work, in this battle, my quicksand castle will win!"
"Quicksand Castle defense is worry-free!"
The three knights under his command all smiled happily, all of them looked excited, and their eyes were full of awe and worship when they looked at Mo Lin.
Fear of Morin's strength, worship Morin's clever calculations, and command operations with confidence.
Everyone is afraid of Baron Aofan's strong strength, but their Lord Morin is able to use all kinds of strange tactics to weaken the combat effectiveness of Baron Aofan's army again and again, pulling it to the same level of combat power as Quicksand Castle.
Listening to the words of the three knights under his command, Mo Lin smiled faintly. Commanding combat is a place to be proud of, with a head full of countless tactics and advanced mages in the world for thousands of years.
The simplest and most difficult tactic is to bring the enemy's combat power to the same level as your own side, and use your rich experience to defeat the enemy!
Fighting on the plains and in the castle attack and defense, there is no doubt that even the quicksand castle, which has exhausted its war potential, is no match for Baron Aofan. However, Morin did not want to take advantage of the enemy, so he set up ditches and tunnel fortifications that can only be found in the heat war, occupying the right time and place, and waiting for work to deal with quicksand castles.
Let the enemy have to come according to the rhythm of the battlefield he has laid out.
To put it more colloquially, it is that the enemy army falls into the trap he has set step by step, and has to follow the rules of the game he set.
An army of 10,000 may seem powerful, but what is the use of not rushing up at once?
"Let's take a look first, see if the soldiers of my quicksand castle can stop the enemy's attack!" Mo Lin muttered, making the hearts of the three knights under his command feel terrified, and they also knew that it was not yet time to get carried away.
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Baron Ao Fan sent a vanguard army of more than 1,000 men to dismount, divided into three routes, with four or five hundred men on each road, to launch a tentative attack on the road in the middle and the hills on both sides of the road.
Walking on the quagmire-like road, the soldiers of Baron Ao Fan cursed, only a few dozen meters away, not long ago it was still a heroic and majestic figure, at this moment all of them were gray-faced, like mud people rolling out of the quagmire, dirty.
When did they, the soldiers under the command of Baron Aofan, suffer such a crime?
After walking hundreds of meters in the quagmire, he finally came to the fortifications arranged by the quicksand castle, and saw the figures of the quicksand castle soldiers standing in the tunnel. The three people became excited, screaming and killing towards the tunnel.
It was just about ten meters away from the pit.
Woohoo!
Countless figures appeared in the tunnel, drew bows and shot arrows, and dense arrows shot out. A rain of arrows enveloped a radius of fifty meters and fell from the sky.
Immediately mourning was all over the field, and as long as there were no soldiers protected by armor, seven or eight of the ten fell. There are only knights who are covered in armor, and how can ordinary soldiers be protected by armor? Only thin leather armor. How can leather armor protect the sharp arrows that fall from the sky?
Puff puff!
In the first wave of blows, two or three hundred of the four or five hundred soldiers fell to the ground with arrows, and although most of them were only wounded but not killed, they were also injured and lost their combat effectiveness.
Most of the troops under the command of Baron Ao Fan were cavalry across the Great Plains, and they were equipped with bows and arrows, sabers, leather armor, and as for iron armor and shields, there were very few.
This time it was a big bad luck, and before it rushed into the tunnel, it lost half of its combat effectiveness, and it was even more difficult to charge on the quagmire-like ground.
Only two or three hundred people rushed to the front of the tunnel, but not a single wave made a splash. As soon as they jumped into the pit and wanted to kill the enemy, they were all dumbfounded.
The quicksand castle soldiers in the tunnel looked like the mountain people they remembered, each armed with a sharp broadsword, dressed in steel armor, and armed with a shield made entirely of steel.
Even the most elite army in the royal capital is not so rich that everyone has steel armor and shields to prepare?
In hand-to-hand combat, there is a big difference between having steel armor and not having steel armor. There is also a big difference between having a shield and not having one.
If you slash someone, they can block it, and nothing happens. If someone slashes you, how can you bear the thin leather armor?
finally desperately killed the male sirmen in the tunnel, such as breaking into the wolf's den. The quicksand castle soldiers who were waiting for the battle, in front of the neat column, were cut down to the ground one after another.
In just over ten minutes, the entire army was wiped out.
There were very few casualties inflicted on the Quicksand Castle Soldiers, and only the knight in the lead could cut down a few Quicksand Castle Soldiers.
The vanguard army of Baron Aofan's three-way tentative, nearly 1,500 people, was swallowed up in less than half an hour from the launch of the attack to the annihilation.
Very few can escape!
On the way to charge, those who fell to the ground with arrows and did not die were all captured by the quicksand castle side.
The fortifications arranged by the quicksand castle, in the eyes of Baron Aofan's side, had become a life-devouring beast, and they were all dumbfounded, looking at each other, and opened their mouths for a long time without making a sound.