Chapter 371: Watchtower Tactics

"Attention! The grass is coming! The steel crossbow is wound! Get ready for battle!"

This is a very common small hill in the southern province, but a high stone sentry tower has been built on the top of the hill, and the circumference of the sentry tower is nearly 100 meters full of trenches of different depths, some of the ditches have piled up a half-human high earthen wall behind them, and some of the moats have a long wooden horse placed in the middle of the sentry tower, and if you want to reach the sentry tower, you even have to go around between these ditches for a long time to reach the thick wooden gate under the sentry tower. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 The info watchtower is not large, and can only accommodate a maximum of about 100 people. However, such watchtowers can be found everywhere in the western part of the southern province, where they form a net that covers half of the southern province and gradually spreads to the east.

Nearly a thousand grass barbarians, dressed in simple leather armor, with their hair scattered and their faces painted with various colors, stopped their horses at the foot of the mountain far away from the watchtower, and then removed the huge log shield from the carriage they followed, and while waving all kinds of crude weapons in their hands, they shouted and hid behind the log shield and slowly marched towards the mountain.

This is a guard tower at the forefront, the top of the tower has been lit fire, a wisp of green smoke straight into the sky, this is the warning wolf smoke indicating that the guard tower has been attacked. Similarly, smoke rose from several towers around the tower, indicating that it was not a single tower that was attacked, but that the entire frontier was under attack.

A soldier of the Rock Legion with a grass root in his mouth looked at the grass man who was slowly climbing up the mountain with contempt, although the number of enemies was ten times that of the soldiers stationed in the guard tower, but he still didn't pay attention to it, spit out the grass root in his mouth, he turned around and shouted: "Head, these grass barbarians are really sick in the brain, have you forgotten the lessons of the previous few deaths and injuries......?"

A soldier next to him who was aiming with a steel crossbow looked up and smiled: "Who bet with me? I bet that they will throw their shields and flee after they die about a hundred, and I will bet a gold coin." ”

A bearded soldier came over, this was the head of the watchtower, centurion and squadron leader. The Norton family's armed establishment is different from others, and the countries of the Gallinthia continent are generally a small team of 100 people, and 10 captains are divided into 100 people to assist the team leader in managing the team. The Norton family armament is a squad of ten people, the squad leader is the ten-captain, and the ten-squad is a squadron, and the squadron leader is the centurion. Then there were five squadrons with 500 men as a battalion, five battalions plus a logistics baggage brigade with a total of 3,000 men to form a battalion, five battalions with 15,000 men to form a corps, and four corps with 60,000 men to form a regiment.

The bearded man slapped the soldier on the back of the head with an unceremonious slap and scolded: "Gambling fart, how much salary you pay a month is thrown into gambling, how much you gamble and how much you lose, how old are you, it's time to save some money and think about starting a family, and think about what to do after retirement." Now give me a warning, although the armor on our bodies is very well defended, but these brutal poisoned arrows are not vegetarian, last time Crido was accidentally hit by an arrow in the elbow and finally had to cut off that arm. I hope you'll all be standing in front of me intact when this battle is over, understand?"

When nearly a thousand grass barbarians crowded to the side of the trench and began to scramble to dig and fill the trench with their weapons, the steel crossbow on the watchtower finally wielded its might. A squadron of 100 men was stationed on a watchtower, and at the same time it was equipped with twenty steel crossbows. The tower is twelve meters high and has four floors, with five steel crossbows arranged from the second to the top. Except for the top floor, which is not covered, the steel crossbows on the lower three floors are all shot from the shooting holes. To put it mildly, this watchtower is actually the bunker that Lorist moved over from the little Japanese devils he saw in the movies in his previous life.

The steel crossbow shooters in the watchtower were all treacherous, and instead of shooting at the huge log shields, they aimed specifically at the grass barbarians who were digging and filling in the trenches. As one by one, the grass barbarians fell, and soon all the grass barbarians were crowded behind the shields, and no one was willing to come out to fill the trench anymore. Except for the archers behind the shields who randomly launched hanging shots in the direction of the watchtower, but they were only more than a hundred meters away and could not be directly aimed, with the power of those crude bows and arrows, the long arrows fired by the sloppiness did not know where to fall.

This is simply a farce, it does not look like a battlefield at all, and the nearly 1,000 barbarians do not seem to have come to attack but to be targets. Fifty or sixty corpses of arrows were poured on the side of the trench, and the trench was only filled a little, not even half of it, and as a result, all the grass barbarians hid behind the huge log shields and did not dare to raise their heads, and the guard tower and the attacking grass barbarians were so strangely deadlocked.

If these grass barbarians scattered and attacked regardless of casualties, nearly a thousand grass barbarians might be able to attack under the watchtower with only two or three hundred losses, and if they were lucky, they would be able to split the thick wooden gate and capture the watchtower. Of course, this means that the watchtower has no other means of countermeasures. But the problem now is that none of the barbarians are willing to be the victims of the attack, they are here to plunder, not to send their comrades to death and become victors.

The bearded man looked at the eight huge log shields erected next to the trench, touched his beard and said to himself: "It's really hard for them to be pushed up the mountain with such a big shield, but what should they do now that they are hiding behind and can't come out?"

One soldier said, "Head, how about we get on the rocket?"

The bearded man shook his head: "It's useless, such a big log shield, I don't know how much time it will take to burn it." It's a pity that the thunderbolt catapult wasn't assigned to us, otherwise a stone ball would have destroyed the shield. ”

"Head, why don't we focus on shooting a shield and see what happens. The bettor suggested.

"Okay, let's try it then. The bearded man said.

The target was the log shield in the center, and with the beard's command, twenty lightning-like iron crossbow arrows were fired at the huge log shield in an instant. The shield shook a few times, but the position did not move. The bearded man was a little disappointed and said, "It's useless, the shield can block ......"

Before the words fell, the cheers of the soldiers came from the side: "Head, look, look, the shield is down!"

I saw that the shield that had been shot by twenty crossbow arrows fell straight back, and in the process of falling, it was torn apart, revealing nearly a hundred grass barbarians hiding behind the shield and a few unlucky people who had been crushed by the cracked shield logs and fell to the ground. The bearded man was overjoyed: "It's time to wind up, shoot the rabbit!"

It is indeed as simple as shooting a rabbit, the grass barbarians who lost their log shields are scurrying around, except for half of the grass barbarians who are lucky to squeeze behind the rest of the shields, and half of the grass barbarians have become the target of the steel crossbow shooters, and a few clever ones lie on the ground and hide behind the ridge and the big tree roots that have been cut down to escape for their lives, and the remaining forty or fifty grass barbarians have become ghosts under the arrow in the three rounds of steel crossbow shooting, and several grass barbarians who fled down the mountain have not run out of the range of the steel crossbow, and have been pierced through the chest by the crossbow arrows shot from behind......

When the second log shield cracked under the fire of twenty crossbow arrows, all the grass barbarians hiding behind the shield could not stand still, and shouted and abandoned the shield and fled down the mountain, they discarded the weapons in their hands, and even some rolled down the mountain with their heads in their hands, they all knew that the huge log shield could not give them shelter, and sooner or later they would be shot and shattered like the two shields, and it was better to escape early than to become a target for arrows.

It's just that the horses are nearly four hundred meters away from the watchtower, which is beyond the range of the watchtower steel crossbow, and the previous attacks have taught the grass a very profound lesson, so that they will no longer stop the war horses within the range of the steel crossbow. Even in the non-stop pursuit of the steel crossbow of the sentry tower, most of the grass barbarians still ran out of range. When these grass barbarians were panting less than sixty or seventy meters away from the horses, a large group of light horsemen suddenly rushed out from behind the hill, and they swept over like a violent wind, and the grass barbarians who had discarded their weapons suddenly scattered and fled like panicked chickens being captured by eagles. It's just that two legs can't outrun four legs, and soon under the sharp blade of the light horse, one by one, the grass brutes fell to the ground, and blood stained a large area of land below the mountain.

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"See, Grand Duke Sabaji, this is the step-by-step strategy adopted by the four alliances of the Northlands. They used such watchtowers to form a net, and some of them were four or five hundred meters apart, some were only two or three hundred meters apart, and even the watchtowers were covered under the range of their crossbow arrows. I once ordered a brigade of 1,000 cavalry to penetrate from the middle of the two towers to the back, but I did not expect that there were also towers behind the two towers, and as a result, my brigade of 1,000 cavalry only ran back with about 400 men under the crossbow fire of the three towers. ”

Grand Duke Fisabrun said to an old man in gorgeous armor beside him that just now they had stopped on a small hill in the distance with dozens of horses, and had witnessed the failure of the barbarian attack on the watchtower and the slaughter of the light cavalry.

"A guard tower like this, there are no more than a hundred troops stationed inside, and the only thing to worry about is that the four alliances of the Northland have gotten so many city defense vehicles and crossbows out of nowhere. However, we have observed that these defender crossbows seem to have been improved, firing faster, easier to move, and very accurate. Just now I asked more than 10,000 grass barbarians to attack ten guard towers, but as you can see, these grass barbarians are not the material for attacking fortifications, and it is okay to fight a field battle with a tailwind, but there is no way to attack these guard towers.

In order to remove these towers, it is necessary to have well-disciplined and experienced infantry to attack the city. We of the Fisabrun family are light cavalry, and we are powerless against these towers, and we are limited by these towers. Your Royal Highness, I hope you can urge the other three principalities to send reinforcements as soon as possible, everyone is now in one camp, we must limit the four northlands to capture the southern provinces no matter what, otherwise everyone will not be at peace in the future. Grand Duke Fisabrun said very frankly.

It was the twelfth day of the seventh month of the year 1778 in the Gaylinthia calendar, and the Grand Duke of Fisabrun had been in a standoff with the four allied forces of the Northlands for nearly fifty days after the arrival of the Rock Legion of the Norton family in the Southern Province.

When the Rock Legion arrived, they set up camp in front of the defensive camp set up by the Grand Duke of Fisabrun. The Grand Duke didn't care, it was common sense to set up the barracks first and then attack, he just ordered his two legions to prepare for defense.

On the first day, the second day, and the third day, the Grand Duke finally felt that something was wrong, and after going to observe it in person, he found that the Rock Legion set up this was not a military camp, but a defensive position, which was tighter and more difficult to overcome than the defensive camp arranged by the Grand Duke. Grand Duke Fisabrun was immediately blinded, what the hell is going on with this girl coming over to set up a defensive position, who is the attacking party!

Finally, after the Rock Legion finished arranging the defensive camp, the Rock Legion still did not attack, but began to build these watchtowers all over the world. Under the protection of the Knights of the Furious Bear, the towers were built in only ten days. The materials that were brought in from the rear to build the watchtower were assembled into a solid fortress-type watchtower made of stone, thanks to the abundant supply of green vine gum.

When the Grand Duke of Fisabrun discovered that these towers had become an impassable barrier for the Scout Light Cavalry of the Legion, he immediately ordered the newly arrived Reserve Legion to attack them. However, the Grand Duke was disappointed to find that the fierce reserve army could do nothing about these towers, and instead suffered heavy damage. When the Grand Duke ordered the reserve legion to retreat, the Angry Bear Knights, who had been in ambush for a long time, suddenly came out of the middle of the road, caught the reserve legion by surprise, and the reserve legion lost almost half of its strength and retreated back after a big defeat.

Grand Duke Fisabrun was caught in a dilemma, as he found that the invincible light cavalry in the steppes was useless in the southern provinces, and the four alliances of the northern lands limited the room for the light cavalry of the family with such a net-like watchtower tactic. Although he was not afraid of heavy casualties, he could still capture such a watchtower, but the Grand Duke of Fisabrun knew very well that the gains outweighed the losses, and it was purely a loss-making business to capture a watchtower with the casualties of hundreds of family soldiers. It takes only ten days to build a watchtower, and it takes years to train a qualified light cavalry......

Seeing that these watchtowers were being built more and more and occupying more and more places, the helpless Grand Duke of Fisabrun began to consider whether to give up the transportation points he now occupied and set up a dangerous place to set up watchtowers like the four alliances of the Northlands, and he finally waited for the good news: the Grand Duke of the Principality of Sabaji personally led 20,000 reinforcements to the Southern Province and came to join the Grand Duke of Fisabulun.

Grand Duke Fisabrun was overjoyed, and he hit the reinforcements of the four central principalities, whose family was light cavalry and lacked infantry to attack fortifications. However, the reinforcements sent by the four central principalities are basically infantry, just so that they can conquer these guard towers, and then their own family's border ranger regiment can find an opportunity to inflict heavy damage on the four alliances in the north. Before he knew it, Archduke Fisabrun's mind had taken a big turn, and even he didn't realize it, and now it had become that he wanted to fight to the death with the Norton family forces, as long as the Norton family forces no longer cowered behind those watchtowers and heavily fortified positions.

In order to strengthen the persuasiveness, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun specially singled out more than 10,000 of the volunteer warriors who had come to fight in the barbarian tribes who had broken discipline, and ordered them to attack the watchtowers in the forward positions in order to atone for their sins. Of course, the Grand Duke did not hesitate to promise a rich reward after victory, and specially prepared a huge log shield for them to defend against crossbow arrows fired from the watchtower. Although the Grand Duke himself did not have any hope that the rabble would be able to conquer these towers, these poor offensive performances still made the Grand Duke feel disgraced, but on the other hand, it also showed that the Grand Duke of Fisabrun told the truth that the cavalry was indeed not good at attacking fortifications.

Grand Duke Sabaji is also an extremely experienced Great Sword Master, but he is a first-level Great Sword Master, and he still relies on rare drugs to forcibly promote successfully. After watching this brutal attack, he smiled and said to the Grand Duke of Fisabrun: "Your Royal Highness, the four central principalities are very concerned about the war in the southern provinces, which is related to the long-term peace and stability of the four central duchies, we will never allow the southern provinces to fall into the hands of the four alliances of the northern lands of the Andinac Kingdom, in addition to the 20,000 horses I brought, the other three grand dukes will soon each come with 20,000 reinforcements, and we will also bring a large number of aid materials to your family."

Since we are allies, the four principalities in the middle will take on the responsibility of allies, and we will not sit idly by and watch your family fall into a situation where you are left alone to resist the invasion of the Kingdom of Antinac. As for how to overcome this watchtower tactic of the four alliances of the Northlands, we can wait for the other three Grand Dukes to come and discuss a countermeasure. Either way, we will stand with your family and knock back the claws of the Kingdom of Antinac to the southern provinces. ”

...... (To be continued.) )