Episode 7: The Decisive Moment
After hesitating for a moment, Vasilist said: "You each leave five hundred-man troops to move closer to the Chinese army as a general reserve. ”
"Then we will only have more than 1,500 people each in the decisive battle. "Hua Lai's face is difficult.
"Yes, a third of them are missing, and it will be ...... to complete the scheduled interspersed mission," Ortemia said as he looked at His Royal Highness the Prince beside Vasilist.
As a Class B legion, not only will the quality and equipment of the soldiers be a grade worse, but the full number of personnel is also one-third less than that of the Class A legion, only more than 2,000 people.
"It's an order!" Vasilist's voice was unequivocal.
"As you wish!" the two legion commanders were stunned for a moment, and then accepted the order in unison, exchanging a meaningful look of disdain with each other as they turned their horses and ran away.
"Your Excellency, what are you worried about?" Gordon looked at Vasilist, slightly displeased.
"Your Royal Highness, I am simply true to my inner instinct, which has been accumulated over decades of fighting on the battlefield and has saved my legion countless times. I don't want to live up to that intuition, even if it might just be an unnecessary worry. Vasilist's tone was firm.
"I respect your intuition. Golden hesitated for a moment and nodded, but his expression was still a little disapproving, but he didn't say anything more.
Vasilist's gaze retracted from the prince and returned to the battlefield ahead, his gaze sharpening.
A different horn sounded throughout the battlefield, and Gao Ge and all the stragglers in front of the formation received the order from the trumpet, and began to slowly fight and retreat to both sides of the formation, and the door of the formation was opened.
Feeling the resistance in front of him suddenly lightened, the brutes who broke through the skirmish line screamed excitedly and desperately rushed forward.
But they were soon dumbfounded, and in front of their eyes, a wall of copper and iron made up of countless spear tips appeared.
As the backbone of the military formation, more than 1,000 pikemen lined up in a dense formation of six columns in front and rear, and the soldiers in the first four rows stretched out their spears six meters long in their hands to the front, forming an impenetrable forest of death guns in front of the military formation.
This ridiculously long spear is a specialty of the army of the Principality of Tuyue, in addition to being a sharp weapon for combat, it is also very suitable for the special terrain of the Duchy of Tuanyue, and it is a treasure when marching.
At the junction of the tip of the spear and the body of the spear, there is a small iron hook, which can be used to pull the knight off the horse hook when fighting.
At the end of the handle, a small ring is attached, and if the hook of one gun is hooked to the tail ring of the other, the two guns are connected together.
Dozens of these spears were joined together to form a long rope that would allow warriors to climb down cliffs, which was very useful in a mountainous country like the Principality of Tuyue.
There has always been no shortage of fierce and fearless people among the barbarians, and after a little delay, they howled and threw themselves into the gun, wanting to use the weapons in their hands to push away the guns in front of them and break into the close range of the spearmen.
But each attacker will be stabbed at the same time with at least four viper-like spears, in all directions, without dead ends.
Soon, these warriors became grasshoppers strung with spears on their spears, and their bodies were covered in blood.
No matter how fierce they were to die, and they did not want to make unnecessary sacrifices, the barbarians who were held back by the pikes began to retreat one after another, first to open some distance, and then to open the gap with bows and arrows and throwing spears, which was the wisest thing to do.
But they soon found that the retreat had become very difficult, and the distance between people was getting more and more crowded, and it was almost impossible to wield the weapons in their hands.
At some point, the Red Kapok Legion and the Bronze Fist Legion began to advance along the two river banks to the rear of the barbarians leaving the city, and slowly converged on each other, like a giant pocket that slowly closed, driving the barbarians to the front and center.
I have to say that the brute soldiers are indeed superior to the kingdom soldiers in terms of individual combat effectiveness, but in the use of formations in large-scale battles, the two are not equal at all.
The sound of the horn of the general attack resounded throughout the battlefield, and the sound of the horn was full of the murderous aura of the sky.
The drums of the decisive battle beat like thunder, shaking the blood in each warrior's body to boil.
"Decisive battle!"
"Decisive battle!"
"Decisive battle!"
The officers were shouting, the soldiers were shouting, all of them were hoarse, and as they shouted, they began to frantically begin to counterattack the enemy to the death.
At the same time, the spear array moved in response to the sound and began to advance mercilessly forward, one step at a time, one step at a time.
The brute soldiers huddled together watched as they were pierced through their bodies by spears, but they were completely helpless except for screaming.
The battle turned into a massacre.
The scales of victory have begun to tilt violently.
As long as these barbarians are encircled and eliminated, Weishan City will be able to take advantage of the situation.
Vasilist finally breathed a sigh of relief.
At this moment, he suddenly felt a strange commotion, and he instinctively turned his head to try to determine the direction in which the commotion was occurring.
At this moment, the people around felt something was wrong, and the commotion occurred in the direction of the rear camp.
Two miles away, is the big camp where the Red Kapok Legion and the Bronze Fist Legion set up yesterday, but at this time, thick smoke and fire began to rise everywhere in the camp, and the sound of fighting could be faintly heard, getting louder and louder.
It could even be seen that some of the soldiers who had stayed behind were rushing out of the camp in twos and threes, rushing towards this side, as if driven by some great fear.
"Your Excellency, General, it is the enemy, it is the enemy who is attacking our large battalion. Your instincts turned out to be correct. There was no longer a look of disapproval on Prince Golden's face.
"Your Royal Highness the Prince, Your Excellency General, let me lead the general reserve to reinforce the battalion. Francis cried out.
Prince Golden looked at Vasilist.
"General Reserve...... Motionless. Vasilist calmly spat out the words.
"Why? If the enemy breaks through the main camp, he will directly flank us on both sides! Didn't you leave the general reserve to deal with a situation like this?" Prince Erden was puzzled.
Vasilist's voice was extremely firm: "Although I now have serious suspicions that the red kapok and the copper fist did not search the surrounding twenty miles as carefully as they say, they must have also carried out routine investigations. It is almost impossible to ambush a large army of large numbers in the vicinity in such a situation. In my judgment, this must be a small force composed of the elite of the enemy army, trying to disturb our morale at the most tense moment of the decisive battle. ”
"So, the key now is still on our front, which is the main battlefield. We and the enemy army are like two bulls with four horns against each other, and at this time, whoever hesitates at the slightest will be overturned by the opponent. At this juncture, a rat jumped out and bit our tail. Let it bite, then, and when we've pushed over the bull in front of us with all our might, we can turn around and trample it into a puree with one hoof. ”
"Because of this, at this time, the Chinese army cannot act rashly, as long as the Chinese army does not move, the war situation can be stabilized. Otherwise, you will fall for the enemy's tricks. Vasilist finally added.
"What about the base camp, leave it alone?" asked Golden.
"Of course not. Vasiliste shook his hand and gave a loud order: "Pandoni and Lokaleda, each of you will lead a team of scouts to find out the situation in the camp. Also, tell the deserters with a horsewhip to go back to fight immediately, and if they don't comply, they will be executed on the spot. ”
"Yes! Two small groups of elite cavalry responded to the call, brandished their long swords, and galloped in the direction of the main camp against the rout.
In the direction of the camp, there was a low, but penetrating sound of a horn, which was unique to the barbarians, made of the horns of giant argali sheep.
On the main battlefield where the killing sound shook the sky, suddenly the leader of the barbarian soldiers shouted: "It's the big horn, our reinforcements have arrived!"
"Look, there's smoke, and our men are attacking their rear!" another barbarian shouted, pointing into the distance.
"Warriors, fight back, let these Central Plains pigs taste the power of our barbarian warriors!"
The brutes were clamoring wildly, and their morale was greatly boosted.
And at this time, there were suddenly more than a dozen light waves of various colors in the barbarian army front, and they actually hid so many totem warriors, at this critical moment, they attacked at the same time.
After the totem possessed, the totem warriors immediately changed the tide of battle, they were like sharp knives, cutting into the golden griffin's spear array, and the sharp spears posed little threat to them, and they broke one after another.
The barbarians began to fight back.
And the warriors of the Golden Griffin also discovered the changes in their rear, and as soon as their minds were confused, the battle line began to be chaotic.
But soon, an officer shouted sharply: "Hold on! The Chinese army has not moved, the military flag has not moved, and the corps commander has not moved!"
There is no need to explain anything more, these have not moved, which means that there is nothing to worry about, even if there is a crisis in the rear, it is not a big deal.
The battle-hardened, well-trained warriors of the Golden Griffin Legion quickly calmed down, and the chaotic battle line slowly stabilized.
But on the left and right sides of the Golden Griffin Legion, the Red Kapok and Bronze Fist Legions did not recover from the chaos, they were broken by this wave of counterattacks of the barbarian army, and the panicked soldiers retreated like a tide.
The left and right wings of the Golden Griffin Legion are fully exposed.
The 1st Guerrilla Wing, which had retreated to the left flank, began to engage the enemy, and Gao Ge once again entered the battle.
Under the Legion, a scout on horseback approached, reins pulled, and the mount neighed and raised its two front hooves.
But the rider did not wait for the front hooves of his mount to hit the ground, and then he panted and reported aloud: "Commander, the enemy who has come is about five hundred, and they ...... They also drove a dozen demonic beasts!"
"I've seen it. Vasilist looked at the large camp in the distance, his face sinking like water.
It can be seen that in the big camp, some terrible figures have begun to appear.
The Black Flame Leopard, which is larger than a war horse and erupts with flames all around it, is the size of an elephant, and the sound waves of its roar can lift off a thunderous war bear that slips through the tent......
These terrifying figures are sweeping through the camp, ruthlessly culling the remaining soldiers.
"These are demonic beasts that have been captured by the barbarians, and they have a secret method that can drive demonic beasts and drive them crazy. Francis's face was grim.
"Five hundred barbarians, more than a dozen demonic beasts, they were not discovered beforehand. Someone has to go to a court-martial. Vasilist's face was terribly gloomy.
"I promise you that this matter will be investigated, so what should I do now?" Prince Golden was a little uneasy.
"Now, it's time to use the General Reserve. Vasilist straightened his already straight waist on his horse.