999. The Battle of Kempera
In just one day, Grova's auxiliary team set up more than 100 rafts and went down the river that night.
At dawn, Grois followed three infantry regiments on rafts to the valley of Kempera, and at the same time received news from the messenger that the 10th Archers, who had been rushing towards this side day and night, had been ambushed by unidentified swordsmen last night and had been annihilated.
This was the second battle regiment after the 7th Infantry Regiment to be attacked.
The shadow of the Constructed Swordsmen loomed over the entire Third Legion, and Grois stepped off the raft with a grim face.
Since the Dark Mage McCarthy was shot by Samira, although he did not die under her arrow, he has not been able to command other Dark Mages recently.
Under the siege and slaughter of the Hellhound Formation Swordsmen, very few people made it out of Black Crow Ridge alive.
The main thing is that Surdak is in dire need of the heads of these hellhounds, so he offers the constructed swordsmen a price that they can't refuse.
The army sent by the Dark Magic Hermitage suffered heavy losses, so Grois had lost aerial reconnaissance at the moment.
Grova stepped off the raft and began to lay out the battle plan with the commanders of the heavy cavalry regiments waiting here, and he even took some notes for this purpose, and marked the location of the cavalry regiments on the map.
The only thing they lacked was knowledge of the canyon.
Grova didn't expect it to be divided into five twisted triangles by five rivers, and it was the rainy season, and the river was always high.
Even a tall war horse like the Green Scale Horse could not cross the river on foot.
The elaborate battle plan was completely useless, and Grois felt a little irritable, and then he assigned the four heavy cavalry regiments to the other continents, and he himself and his personal guards guarded one continent.
Only three full-fledged infantry regiments followed, which were also broken up by Grova into five thousand-man regiments, evenly distributed across five continents.
Rafts shuttled back and forth in the river, quickly spreading the forces apart.
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But the canyon didn't shine as brightly as Grova had expected.
The valley is low, and there are many rivers, so the fog is thick early.
From above, the Kempera Valley looks like a vast sea, with infantry and cavalry shrouded in fog.
At this moment, Surdak stood on the high cliff on the north side of the Kempera Valley, quietly waiting for the lord's army in the vast fog to disperse as much as possible.
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Thea lay in the weeds of the riverbed, and she could look up and see the rafts floating on the surface of the river slowly coming to a halt.
Hearing the muffled sound of a horn in the distance, Thea pulled the magic dagger Surdak had given her from her waist and flicked her ornate fishtail, her body smoothly close to the bottom of the raft.
She raised her dagger and silently punctured the air sacs of the raft floating on the water, one, two, three......
Every time she punctured an airbag, she used a small wooden wedge to gently plug the hole, and without too much external force, the airbag only leaked a little bit of air.
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Surdak slid down a vine down the valley, and now all the fighters of the hoplite regiment were in the depression on the north side of the valley.
Surdak made a gesture to Nedmosby, who led the 1st Heavy Infantry Regiment toward the west side of the canyon.
He glanced at the commander of the 2nd Heavy Infantry Regiment and nodded to him, the new commander of the regiment, the most prestigious camp leader in the Resistance Army, who led the 2nd Heavy Infantry Regiment to the eastern entrance to the canyon.
Squad after squad of infantry fighters disappeared into the sea of fog.
Surdak himself walked out of the low-lying swamp with the 3rd and 4th Heavy Infantry Regiments, the Constructed Swordsmen's Regiment, and 500 archers, and concentrated towards the center of the triangle in front of him.
The Archswordsman of Quintas, the two-headed ogre Gulitham, and Surdak walked at the front of the group, followed by heavily armed shield warriors, their armor grinding against each other making a neat rustling sound, especially in the mist......
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Before the fog cleared, Grova commanded a thousand infantry soldiers to fan out at the front, probing the position of the Surdak hoplite regiment.
All around was the sound of gurgling water and the chaotic footsteps of the army, and there were sixty constructed knights gathered around Grova, these constructed knights were his personal guards, unlike the captains of the heavy cavalry regiment in the legion, these knights were formed by Grova himself at great expense, and it was with the team of this squadron of constructed knights that he quickly took command of the third legion.
The knights surrounded Grois in the center, and all of them groped their way through the fog.
Hearing the sound of armor rubbing, the infantry walking in front finally realized that they were about to encounter the rebel fighters.
All of them raised their tower shields and held long swords, and everyone was close together, forming a human wall, and the infantry soldiers behind were also ready to attack.
The mist was blown by the wind, and the footsteps on the opposite side became clearer and clearer, and the silhouette of a hoplite infantry warrior gradually appeared in the dense fog, and the human wall did not know how much longer than this side, and countless sharp spears were drawn behind the shield warriors.
Surdak, Gulitham, and Quintas stood at the front.
In the mist, the Archswordsman of Quintas and Surdak emitted a faint magical glow, and an aura flickered at Surdak's feet.
Before attacking, Gulitham let out a roar that was close to roaring.
With this roar, all the shield warriors began to run, rushing towards the human wall of the lord army.
The infantry soldiers on the side of the lord army saw that the soldier who rushed to the front was actually more than three meters tall, like a mountain of meat, their eyes widened, their faces changed abruptly, and everyone showed a frightened expression on their faces, are their warriors so tall? How can we beat such a tall warrior!
The warriors of the lord's army became panicked, and before the battle had even begun, the human walls of the defensive formation showed signs of loosening.
When the two-headed ogre rushed into the crowd, he immediately knocked out the infantry warriors opposite him. The big stick in his hand smashed down, and the infantry soldiers in front of him scattered and fled, and a huge gap suddenly appeared in front of Gulitem, and he rushed in stride.
The Surdak and Quintas Archswordsmen behind him could only firmly block the left and right sides of the ogre, and the shield warriors behind also rushed up with the footsteps of Surdak and Quintas Archswordsmen.
This time, the constructed swordsman was not in the first echelon of the charging formation, but followed behind the spear warrior.
When the shield warriors of the infantry regiment collided with the opposing warriors, the spearmen in the second row with Paglio spears were the first to attack, and they only had to stab their spears through the gaps in the shields, preferably avoiding the shields on the opposite side.
All of a sudden, there was a 'puff, puff' sound of armor-piercing on the battlefield, and the infantry soldiers of the lord's army were constantly stabbed with spears.
Screams were heard frequently in the fog.
Grois could feel the entire formation slowly retreating, and the battle was going on in front of him, as if it were his own people who were screaming......
The hoplites on the opposite side were unstoppable and rapidly approaching, and before the soldiers on this side could react, the humanoid shield wall in front of them had been completely broken, and the screams were like a spell, which made people feel frightened.
The constructed swordsmen hiding behind the spear warriors jumped out one after another at this moment, their big swords in their hands, like meat grinders on the battlefield.
Crossing the line of shield warriors, these infantry warriors began to choke and strangle.
The number of heavy infantry on Surdak's side showed an overwhelming advantage, and the opposing lord's army was a little overwhelmed by the round of attacks, and continued to retreat, leaving only corpses on the ground.
Perhaps it was because Commander Grova personally supervised the battle in the back, or perhaps because the infantry had no way to escape, and although the slaughtered here were defeated and retreated, no one surrendered voluntarily.
The fog finally cleared a little, and the line of sight could be seen a little farther.
Commander Grova saw that the continent was crowded with countless hoplites, and people were constantly falling in battle.
Under the protection of the Constructed Knights, Grois and a group of his men fought and retreated, and finally retreated to the fork of the river in the middle of the valley.
By this time, his troops had been cornered, but sixty Constructed Knights had blocked several attacks by hoplite warriors and Constructed Swordsmen.
Under the command of the chief of the Construct Knight's guard, the infantry warriors reformed a shield wall.
Surdak's side also slowed down the pace of the attack, and he didn't want to break down the opposing defense in one go.
Such a bold combat deployment by the commander on the opposite side made Surdak feel a little incredible: what kind of self-confidence did he have to dare to divide his troops like this!
The Constructed Knights' Guards were afraid that the Constructed Swordsmen on the opposite side would rush over, so they did not dare to participate in the battle on the frontal battlefield, so they could only gather together to protect Commander Grova.
Several magic flares flew into the sky, like an unfurled fleur-de-lis......
In the foggy valley of Kempera, the infantry regiment in the distance could not see Grova's magic flares.
The raft stopped on the other side of the river, and Grova ordered the men to shout loudly to the warriors guarding the opposite bank, and finally someone noticed the battle on this side.
The infantry soldiers of other continents crowded to the shore, the fog dissipated a little, and other heavy cavalry regiments from other continents discovered the battle situation here.
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The Third Heavy Cavalry Regiment was the first to discover the battle situation here, and it happened that the more than 100 rafts were leaning on their side of Luzhou.
The heavy cavalry quickly led their horses onto the raft and prepared to cross the river to support.
Five hundred heavy cavalry and horses almost filled the raft.
The infantrymen jumped into the river one after another, carrying the raft on their shoulders and pushing it towards the land island on Commander Grova's side.
But just as the rafts were in the middle of the river, all the heavy cavalry rushed to the point of horror, and the rafts were sinking slowly, and the river soon passed the rafts on the rafts, and the cavalrymen's boots were also stepping in the river.
When they realized that the raft was sinking rapidly, the knights shouted:
"The raft is going to sink, everyone hurry up and push ......"
The infantry soldiers in the river wiped the water stains on their faces and complained to the cavalry on the rafts:
"The wave is too big, and it hits back with one wave, and it can't be pushed at all!"
The cavalry saw that under the fog, they couldn't feel a trace of wind at all, and immediately scolded angrily: "Fart, there is not even a trace of wind in this canyon, where is the wave ......?"
Before the cavalry could finish speaking, a huge wave rushed over, the raft rolled sideways, and a group of unprepared heavy cavalry and war horses fell into the river.