Chapter 374: Victory

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Lorist stood on a watchtower in the middle of the third line of defense, watching the troops of the four principalities in the central part of the opposite side and the armed forces of the Fisabrun family converge under the guidance of a trumpet and flags, close together, and gradually line up into a battle formation into a position ready for field battle. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Your Highness, they are too slow, it has been more than two hours since lunch and the queue and battle formation have not been cleaned up, you see, our people have taken a nap. Schward pointed to a few family soldiers who had just woken up from sleep under the watchtower.

Reddy smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "So Your Highness wants everyone to take a good rest after lunch, don't you object to that, don't you think it will be too careless, and said that if the enemy attacks suddenly, we will suffer a big loss if we can't react." Now you see, we took a nap and the enemy hadn't finished adjusting their formation. As you said, everyone stood for more than two hours and remained vigilant, so now everyone has no energy. ”

Schward was a little anxious to distinguish: "But I said that is also a precaution, if we all dismount and rest, then the enemy suddenly launches an attack, we will not be in a hurry, the distance is only more than three hundred meters, and those rangers will not be able to sweep our position in a few minutes." I'm just a little strange, why didn't they attack?"

Lorist laughed, "If we were just facing that old guy from Fisabrun, I wouldn't let everyone get off the horse and rest, that would be too risky." However, we are now facing the forces of the Central Four Duchy, and when we put ourselves in a field battle position, then the rangers of the Fisabrun family will be opposed by the Central Four Duchy even if they want to attack us. If you look at the opposite side, the four principalities in the middle are clearly deploying heavy troops in the center, just to use the advantage of troops to defeat us in one fell swoop and win the final victory.

However, they were infantry units, they were slow, and they had damaged a lot of horses from the first line of defense, so it would take time to readjust. One of them was worried that we would dismount and rest as a trap to lure them into launching a raid, and even if they let those rangers come to raid, if it was a trap, the rangers who launched the raid would definitely be seriously damaged, and such a defeat would seriously dampen their morale before the big war, so it was better to be still, and they would not allow those rangers to come to raid. Another reason is that they also need time to arrange their formation, and our dismount and rest is also a signal to give them a signal to wait for them to finish arranging the battle formation before starting the decisive battle, and we will not launch an attack to interrupt their formation process before that. ”

Tiger Ross and Pachko went up to the rooftop of the watchtower and gave a knightly salute to Lorlist.

"How are you on the left and right flanks, and who is the enemy on the other side?" asked Lorlist.

Tiger Rose glanced at Patchko, who nodded and motioned for Tiger Rose to reply.

"Your Highness, the enemies we face on the left and right flanks are the same, judging from the banners, they are the two corps of the Fifth Frontier Ranger Regiment of the Fisabrun family. On my side are the 1st and 3rd Corps, and on the Pachko side are the 2nd and 4th Corps. However, they also brought 20,000 barbarian cavalry with each. Pachko and I were facing an enemy of about 40,000. Tiger Rose replied.

"Twenty-four or five thousand against forty-thousand, although the enemy's strength exceeds yours, it should not be the direction of the main attack on the two flanks. The grass barbarian cavalry is a rabble, and they will only fight with the wind, as long as they withstand the first three fierce attacks, they will not be able to bear the strength as soon as the battle is entangled. With the strength and equipment of our family's Flying Tiger Legion, we are crushing them in every way.

As for the Fifth Frontier Ranger Regiment, according to the information we have received and the confessions of the prisoners, this is a new legion that has just been formed, and it ranks the worst in strength among the Fisabrun family's armed forces, and the only thing to worry about is that most of the soldiers of the Fifth Frontier Ranger Regiment are equipped with long-range weapons such as bows and crossbows, and it is said that their most accustomed tactics are to dismount and line up in a long bow battle formation to carry out long-range attacks. So be wary when your lancers raid after the big battle begins. Lorist said musefully.

"Yes, Your Highness, we will be careful. Tiger Ross said: "But what we are worried about now is the middle formation, the enemy has obviously poured out, will the strength of the middle formation be a little thinner?"

The enemy's left and right flanks are already 80,000 troops, and the deployment of the opposite center is mainly based on about 60,000 elite infantry from the four central principalities, supplemented by more than 20,000 reserve regiments of the Fisabrun family, adding up to 80,000 horses, which has exceeded the strength of about twice the strength of Lorist's central army.

"It's fine. Lorist smiled and shook his head: "I have transferred Ovikis's Thunderbolt Catapult Camp and Telman's Knights of the Angry Bear to hide in the back, and I am preparing to surprise our enemies when the field battle begins." No matter how many enemies are about to fail, there is nothing to be afraid of. However, you should pay attention to the left and right flanks, once the enemy is defeated, you don't need to chase after it, let the Pegasus Regiment of the Philim family pursue the enemy, they are light cavalry. And you have to lead the Flying Tiger Corps from the left and right ribs to the middle, this time our main target is the elite infantry of the four central principalities, as long as you can annihilate most of the infantry Fisabulun, that old guy will not be able to jump up, understand?"

"Understood, Your Highness. Tiger Ross and Pachko straightened their chests.

"That's okay, you go back and command the troops, see that the arrangement of the battle formation on the opposite side is almost completed, the big battle is about to begin, you should pay attention when you go into battle, and protect yourself while making meritorious contributions. ”

"Yes, Your Highness Xie. ”

A whimpering trumpet sounded, followed by a rumbling war drum like thunder across the land. Looking from the watchtower, the flags of the battle array on the opposite side were unfurled, and bursts of cheers and slogans were spread in a mixed manner......

Lorist perked up: "It's finally started, Schward, what time is it?"

Schward ran down and quickly ran back again: "Your Highness, it's a quarter past three." ”

"Blow the trumpet, put the whole army on alert, and wait for the enemy to attack. ”

No messenger came to read the war book, and no knight came out to challenge. The elite infantry of the four central principalities and the armed forces of the Fisabrun family rested in the battle formation for less than half an hour before launching a direct attack. Countless two-wheeled shield carts made of logs formed three horizontal columns, which were pushed forward and rolled towards the third line of defense where Lorist was.

"Your Highness, we can order the Thunderbolt Catapult Battalion to fire the stone ball, and now it has enough range. Schward said, looking at the waves of log shield cars.

"Don't worry, they're just starting to set off, and it's not too late to launch a slingstone when they cross the middle line. I've ordered Ovicis to calculate the range and bearing, and in another ten minutes or so, you can just wave the black flag and send a signal. Lorist said in a flawed manner: "Also, order Surremus, be ready to meet the enemy, his heavy armor corps, the first line of defense in our middle formation." ”

Suremos is a knight of Duke Kenmeth's family, and his fighting spirit rank is a golden star. It is said that he was also a slave gladiator in the kingdom of Haneabada, when Kenmeth was still a viscount, and his father went to the slave kingdom to watch a bloody gladiatorial fight because of his business, and became interested in the victor Sureus, and paid a lot of money to ransom him. Liberated, Sureus became a knight of the Kenmas family out of gratitude, and was also the commander of the Kenmas family's heavy armor regiment that was transferred to the southern provinces this time.

The infantry battle formation of the four principalities in the central part of the country that took the initiative to attack seemed to be violent, but the speed of the attack was not very fast, and it was not easy for the first three columns of log shield vehicles to push to reach the third line of defense, which was nearly three hundred meters away, and these log shield cars were made casually and roughly, and even the two wheels were difficult to be perfectly round, and even some of the sizes were different, so they were pushed fifty or sixty meters, and some of the log shield cars were already unable to bear the strength, and several of them collapsed due to problems.

Lorist expected it to be ten minutes, but in fact, it took twenty minutes and nearly half an hour for the first horizontal log shield car to get close to the middle line, and at this time, several battle formations following these log shield cars stopped, they were all longbow battle formations, and now they had reached the range of hanging shots, and they were about to launch long-range hanging fire covering fire against the family forces of the four alliances in the north that were arrayed on the third defensive front.

"Order the Thunderbolt Catapult Battalion to fire stone balls and destroy these log shield carts in front, order Marek's chariot steel crossbow regiment to raise the firing range, focus on the longbow formation, and order Suremes' heavy armor corps to prepare a long-range defense!" Lorist quickly gave three orders, and Schward and Reddy pounced on the rooftop of the watchtower and began to wave their flags and give orders.

When the first batch of dense five hundred stone balls flew into the sky and fell towards the infantry battle array of the attacking four central principalities, everyone who didn't know what it was watched in a daze as these huge stone balls fell from the sky and smashed down......

These two-wheeled shield cars built of logs can block the shooting of steel crossbows, but they can't stop the huge stone balls falling from the sky, dozens of log shield cars were directly smashed by these stone balls, and even a huge stone ball smashed on a log shield car, the log shield not only cracked, even the two-wheeled car was smashed into the air, and a few unsuspecting cart soldiers fell seven or eight meters away, along with the unlucky eggs who smashed over a dozen or so.

This was still the huge stone balls that smashed the original wooden shield car, and more of the stone balls that did not hit fell to the ground, bounced up, and rolled down towards the neatly arranged infantry battle array. For a while, the area where the stones were thrown was chaotic, no one could stop these huge stone balls that were dripping and spinning, no matter what was in front of them, as long as the soldiers who were hit by these stone balls fell into blood mold, either dead or wounded, and the miserable howls of these dozen battle formations in the middle were connected into a ......

But this was only the beginning, countless black shadows with an ominous "whoosh" wind descended again, and along the gap of the smashed log shield cart, the crossbow arrows fired by the chariot steel crossbow corps directly swept away the uncertain soldiers who had survived the stone ball. The corpses are piled up like a mountain, and the blood is flowing like a river, which is unbearable.

Although this was only a small gap in the long battle line, the infantry battle formation of the entire Central Four Duchyes became a little hesitant as if they had been hit head-on, and the soldiers pushing the log shield cart in the area that had not been hit by the huge stone ball all looked up at the sky, not only them, but also the soldiers in the infantry battle formation that followed behind also paid attention to the sky.

They were not disappointed, a dense huge stone ball appeared in the sky again, and the soldiers who determined the area where the stone ball landed were suddenly chaotic, and the soldiers pushing the log shield cart dropped the car and turned to run, and the soldiers in the back formation also collapsed, they screamed and ran around, and several centurions who came up to block them were even pushed to the ground by them, and then dozens of pairs of feet stepped on it without hesitation......

"Hmm...... What is that?" Archduke Fisabrun, standing on a watchtower in the middle of the second line of defense, had his eyes bulging out, and he watched in astonishment as the infantry battle formation on the front line was stirred into a pot of porridge by a huge stone ball falling from the sky.

"I've heard that when the Norton forces conquered the Kingdom of Andinac and ousted Queen Kerry, they used a huge stone-throwing device called a catapult to capture the castle fortresses. These stone balls are thrown at me, presumably by the catapults. Grand Duke Sabaji on the side replied with a solemn face.

"So what should we do now?" Grand Duke Handra was very anxious, and now the first ones to be smashed were the elite of his principality.

"Blow the trumpet to retreat, let's retreat first and wait to figure out how to deal with these catapults before attacking. Archduke Farkel on the side suggested.

"No!" Grand Duke Fisabrun was anxious: "You see that the front is almost chaotic, a clarion call to retreat guarantees that the Chinese army will collapse, and the enemy will definitely pursue, you are all infantry with two legs and can't outrun their four legs." I think it's better to blow the trumpet of the charge and attack in an all-out attack to kill Yibo, our strength is superior, and the losses are not big now, and there is still hope for victory in the all-out attack!"

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Grand Duke Handra looked anxious: "Look at the front now, even the battle formation can't be maintained, is it possible to launch a full-scale attack, while there is still more than half of the battle formation behind us to maintain, we should quickly retreat and reorganize." Only when the enemy has the superior strength will the enemy not launch a pursuit......"

While several grand dukes were arguing endlessly over whether to advance or retreat, the situation on the front line had become more and more out of control. Without most of the log shield vehicles, the chariot steel crossbow corps commanded by Malek has already made the infantry battle arrays of the four central principalities see what a steel crossbow storm is, and the endless crossbow arrows swept through the dozen or so thousand-person battle formations at the forefront like a storm, and pieces of duchy soldiers fell under the crossbow arrows.

In the face of huge stone balls and stormy crossbow arrows falling from the sky, the dozen or so infantry battle formations in the middle collapsed, the soldiers abandoned their weapons and fled, and even the infantry battle formations with the rear arrays began to be restless.......

"Blow the trumpet and order the Knights of the Furious Bear to attack, followed by the heavy armoured regiment of the Kenmax family, ordered Marek's chariot steel crossbow regiment to come forward to meet him, and ordered the Thunderbolt Catapult battalion of Ovikis to move forward and launch a catapult range attack to intercept the enemy's rear. Lorist ordered again.

The attack of the Knights of the Furious Bear led by Telman hastened the collapse of the infantry formations of the Four Central Duchyes, and the hoplites slaughtered into the retreating infantry like a flock of sheep. However, the enemy was also quick to react, and the reserve regiment of the Fisabrun family soon rushed up and tangled with the Knights of the Angry Bear, covering the retreat of the infantry.

Lorist is very anxious, if the infantry of the four central principalities is withdrawn, then the outcome of this war is still undecided, even if he has the upper hand now, as long as the enemy reintegrates the withdrawn soldiers and then puts them into the battlefield, then the enemy's superior forces are likely to return to the situation, and the top priority is to completely defeat the enemy, if the guard battalion is around, it would be good if he took the guard battalion directly into battle.

"Prepare the horses, let's go into battle. Lorist said that now one more point of combat power is one point of combat power.

As soon as he got off the watchtower and got on his mount, he heard the thunder of joy on the battlefield.

"Your Highness, we have won, we have won!" Schward roared excitedly.

Lorist looked up, but the battle flags of the two corps of Flying Tiger appeared on the left and right flanks, and Tiger Ross and Pachko lived up to Lorlist's expectations, and were leading the lancers from both sides to the enemy's rear.

Lorist smiled and said: "Yes, we are victorious, blow the trumpet, and the whole army will attack!"

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