100. Battle of the Hillside
Half a month after its completion, the camp of the expeditionary force at the foot of the Moyunling Mountain finally completed its initial assembly, and most of the troops were stationed in the camp one after another.
After opening the mountain road to Moyun Ridge, the supreme commander of the expeditionary camp, Solomon . Marquis Bowen began to deploy his troops to advance towards Moyun Ridge, and in the last half month, almost all the heavy infantry regiments have been at the front, and now the heavy cavalry has finally sounded the horn of attack.
Heavy cavalry in heavy armor, each group of eight horses in parallel, the knights wear heavy heavy armor, holding knights' spears, each eight heavy knights are connected together with chains, when the eight horses run in the forest road, it is like a thick steel wall, this wall gathers the strength of eight horses, when charging in the front of the demon camp, the strength of eight heavy knights can knock over a demon.
However, this eight-horse parallel chain formation also has a fatal drawback, that is, it is extremely inflexible, and even in case of danger, it is difficult for these knights to turn their horses' heads and retreat backwards.
This time Solomon. Marquis Bowen's strategic intention was to send twenty bed crossbows to the rear of the position, and place these twenty bed crossbows on a high ridge, trying to make the main battle property in front of him completely cover the range of these twenty bed crossbows.
The heavy cavalry took a frontal attacking stance, and the task of the heavy infantry regiment was to cooperate with the logistics team to push the bed crossbow to the top of the high ground and build fortifications on the high ground.
Compared to the previous day, this task was much easier than opening up the battlefield forest road, at least not having to face the evil spirits rushing out of the mountains and forests at the front.
Baron Sidney's 4th and 5th Brigades jointly carried out this mission of transporting bed crossbows.
It had just rained, and although there was no water on the grass on the hillside, the soil under the turf was full of water.
As soon as you step on it, the mud will run down the turf and over the leather boots, sticky and sticky all over your feet, these mud mixed with blades of grass, even if you shake it hard, it is difficult to shake off, and on your feet, people take every step forward, and they have to pay twice as much effort as before.
He Boqiang's feet were covered in mud and he followed behind a bed crossbow.
The coachman in front raised his whip again, but unfortunately the Gubolai horse was already tired, and no matter how hard he pushed his four hooves, he could not move half a step forward, and the infantry soldiers who followed behind could only re-surround him, put his shoulders on the wheels, and forcefully lifted the bed crossbow across the muddy terrain.
Surdak was a little absent-minded as he followed behind the second squad, and he had to choose between going home and moving up the ranks:
If he goes home immediately after the end of his military service, the status of the squad leader will not bring any changes to his life in the future, he may be an unknown farmer in his life, and he may save money to buy a piece of land in the future, but he will still be a farmer.
If he chooses to stay and is successfully promoted to the squadron leader of the sixth squadron, then he will become a knight with official status, and when the plane war here is over and he returns home, he will complete the transformation from a civilian to a knight, and become a knight with a small fiefdom.
In the Grimm Empire, every commoner has a knight's dream.
Everyone dreams of one day being able to pick up the legendary angel sword, kill the evil dragon who snatched the princess, rescue the princess and become a dragon slayer warrior worshiped by all the people, but unfortunately the dragon has been away from the human world for hundreds of years, and the evil dragon only likes those fairy dragons with colorful wings, and has no good feelings for the weak princess of the human empire.
Therefore, this kind of dream can only be a dream, and if you want to show your value, you can't realize it from the matter of slaying dragons.
But the current plane war is a rare opportunity to realize the value of life.
Since the outbreak of the plane war, the big lords of the Grimm Empire have invested nearly seven or eight million private troops, but this plane war seems to have no shadow of victory at all, and there are far more people who die on the battlefield than those who survive and return to their hometowns, and now every warrior's wish is to be able to get out of this battlefield alive.
Especially the cannon fodder regiment of the heavy infantry regiment, the battle losses are even higher.
Take the second squad as an example, the soldier who joined the army at the same time as Surdak is currently the only one left, and if it weren't for Captain Sam taking care of him all the time, even if he had nine lives, it would not be enough to die.
Glancing at He Boqiang, Surdak stopped talking.
The team carrying the bed crossbow stopped on the hillside, and in the distance a group of demons and heavy cavalry were fighting, only to see the heavy knights in black armor charging forward one by one.
In the distance, the whimper of the horn of the attack was heard, and rows of dense arrows shot out from behind, raining down into the camp of the demons, although this kind of steel arrows did not pose a deadly threat to the demons, but they would also make them feel great pain when they burrowed into their flesh joints.
Although it seemed that they were evenly matched, in fact, these demons cut into the camp of the heavy cavalry and dragged them to the battlefield to prevent the heavy cavalry from penetrating back and forth on the battlefield, chiseling through, and the balance of victory began to tilt in favor of the evil spirits......
First, an order came, and the bed crossbow team stood by for the time being.
It's just that as soon as the herald in front left, the herald in the back immediately arrived and gave instructions to the military department to the officer in charge of escorting the bed crossbow in the logistics department, ordering the bed crossbow here to support the battlefield in front.
So the tarpaulin was quickly torn off, revealing the oily ordnance inside.
With the rainy season in Handanar County, these bed crossbows are much more troublesome to maintain than before, and now almost the entire bed crossbow is coated with animal fat, but there are still some places that continue to rust, and these bed crossbows are already the best preserved.
However, when the glittering bed crossbows turned around and pointed their giant bolts at the battlefield, the demons realized that if they did not immediately suppress the bed crossbows, then their newly established advantage on the battlefield would no longer exist.
On the battlefield, a small contingent of demons rushed towards the slope.
The soldiers of the hoplite regiment immediately formed a thick shield wall in front of these bed crossbows, and at the hoarse shouts of the crossbowmen, the bowstrings of the bed crossbows began to pull slowly, and the huge crossbow arrows poked their heads out of the arrow grooves, revealing sharp edges.
Surdak was also part of the shield wall with the second squad, and at this time, he and He Boqiang were huddled side by side.
The hoplite soldiers around them were extremely nervous, and if it weren't for the restraint of their respective captains, I am afraid that these soldiers would have scattered and fled in all directions.
In contrast, the soldiers of the second squad were particularly different, all the soldiers of the squad were not only very calm, but also did not look nervous at all, their eyes were firmly fixed on the demons rushing from the front, and their breathing was actually very smooth.
Augustus and Bearded Cagle tapped the shield in their hands rhythmically, this is the code that only the second team knows by themselves, when the demons rush up, Augustus and Bearded Cagle will take the first step forward, and the rest of the team will retreat half a step, and then concentrate all their forces to kill the demons in front of the bearded man first, and then kill the demons in front of Augustus with the strength of the united people.
This method of fighting has been practiced several times in the second squad, but before that, it was Surdak and He Boqiang who fought against the evil spirits.
After Augustus and the bearded Cagle captured the Antelope, they also obtained the 'Divine Blessing Body' and the 'Blessed Shield' that were valid for three days, and when they took on this mission, the buff effect on the two of them could just last for more than a day, so this battle was centered on Augustus and Bearded.
As it turned out, the 'Blessed Body' and the 'Blessed Shield' were quite reliable, and after a round of crossbow arrows were fired, there were only five demons left who could rush to the hillside with their legs outstretched.
Augustus saw that there seemed to be only one demon in the shield wall that rushed towards the second team, and he actually killed in a fancy way, he took out a handaxe from his back waist, and when the demons were still about twenty meters away from the shield wall arranged by the hoplites, he threw his hand at a demon not far away.
The hand axe slashed right at the shoulder of the galloping demon, successfully attracting the demon's gaze......