Chapter 185: Field Battle (I)
"Does he want to fight us here?" Looking at the solid defense line that stretched for dozens of miles in front of him, and the ** battalion of the Emperor of Light that seemed to be endless behind that line of defense, Tiger Tiger, the commander of the Roland Alliance, looked a little dignified - of course, in the solemnity, with a little doubt. [Full text reading]
At the moment, the doubts in Tiger's heart have not subsided.
The fact of seizing Thundering City has always made Tiger very strange - that Duke Tulip actually gave up Thundering City like this?
After holding out for so many days, he actually withdrew from the fortified military fortress of Thunder City with his mighty army......
On the day of the breach, Tiger witnessed the last remaining flame warriors of the Empire of Light die to the last of them - although in the eyes of the Rolanders, they were heretics, but they had to admit that they were very brave and loyal to their beliefs!
The entire 30,000 Flame Warrior Regiment was like a gecko's tail, which Duke Tulip did not hesitate to abandon - to be used as a barrier for the safe retreat of their main army.
The 30,000 Flame Warriors had resisted the Rolanders for another day and a half!Withstood wave after wave of Roland's attacks—Tiger was almost crying when the Paladins finally broke through the gates of Thundering City—he had already lost 100,000 men under Thundering City.
But when he entered the city, something was wrong.
Duke Tulip's main army had already retreated, and those flame warriors were left in the city, although those people fought very bravely to the end, but 30,000 people against hundreds of thousands of people was equivalent to a massacre.
And Duke Tulip did it very thoroughly.
The city of Thunder was almost in ruins. Most of the buildings in the city have been demolished, and most of them are like stones. It had been used in previous battles to stop the Roland from attacking the city, most of which were smashed on the heads of the Rolanders.
And all the supplies in the city, what could be taken away were taken away by Duke Tulip's army. Food, weapons...... What can't be taken away, or it's too late to take it away. All destroyed. Looking at the heavy catapults under the city, which had been turned into a pair of broken wood, Tiger didn't know whether to cry or laugh.
And in the city, there are still many places where there are raging fires, and there are still some corners where the remnants of the Flame Samurai Regiment are still desperately making the last resistance.
No matter what, no matter how much doubts were in his heart, Tiger finally breathed a sigh of relief.
It doesn't matter so much, whether Duke Tulip deliberately gave up Thundering City, or if he really can't hold on and retreat. In short, Thundering City has been taken. The gateway to the south to conquer the Great 6 of Light has been opened.
No matter what, the Roland people's conquest will not stop!
After two days of repairs in Thundering City, Tiger gave the order to go south!
Tiger was undoubtedly cautious, and he sent 20,000 men as the vanguard to guide the path of the army behind.
And one by one, the news came back, which made Tiger's brows tighten more and more.
The vanguard of 20,000 people, searching and probing everywhere. Nothing is present.
Along the way from Thundering City all the way south, you will reach towns and villages. In all places, there are no more people.
Why? Despite the pre-war intelligence, Tiger knew it. The northern provinces of the Bright Empire were poor in land and sparsely populated, and they were only used as military theaters.
But no matter how sparsely populated it is. There should always be someone!
Facing the towns and villages that had long been emptied, and facing the empty streets, the soldiers of the Roland people were a little dazed - they had been holding back their murderous aura for a long time, and suddenly there was no place to vent.
You know, they were prepared to teach the pagans a good lesson. The purpose of the temple is well understood:
The joint proclamation of the temple and the dozen kingdoms of Roland the Great 6 is: All the warriors who participated in the holy war, and the lands and property of the pagans conquered in the war of the Great Bright 6, can be shared!
Although this order is not so in line with the spirit of chivalry, it seems to call everyone to go to the Great 6 of Light to rob, but considering that jihad requires a lot of manpower and military strength, and the other party is a heretic, they are all sinners who rebel against the gods...... So I can't care so much.
But going south, the Roland people are now, and the people of the Bright Empire are gone.
Of course, it is not that nothing is left, those heretics of the Empire of Light, those sinners, seem to have left behind their houses, their homes, and even their property, as well as a lot of valuable gold, silver and jewelry...... These made the officers and soldiers of the army very excited, and they also made a lot of money.
Although the northern provinces of the Empire of Light are poor, it seems that these heretics are still very rich! Many officers and soldiers have become rich, and many of them have begun to dream of being rich, hmm...... Perhaps, after the end of the war, the money could be used to buy a good piece of land, and then build a small estate, preferably with a few more beautiful pagan maids......
But for the sake of the only thing, those people of the Empire of Light did not leave a single grain behind!
In the originally barren land in the north, the meager grain crops in the fields have long been harvested, and those that have not been harvested have long been burned, leaving behind patches of scorched earth.
Faced with this situation, a sentence immediately flashed in Tiger's mind: Solid wall clearing!
Tiger was well aware of his current situation, and he headed south with an army of tens of thousands. The food consumption of hundreds of thousands of people, the fodder for the horses are extremely amazing - no, that is not amazing, it is simply "scary"!
It turned out that when the thundering city went to the seaside. Replenishment is not a problem at all. Relying on the strong sea power of the Rolands, all supplies could be transported from the sea from afar - the Empire of Light simply had no power to rob their fleets at sea.
But now it's different, now it's in other people's territory, gradually extending to the inner belly of the big 6, no matter how strong the navy is, it can't drive warships to send supplies to the army. All supplies had to be transported to Thundering City, and then escorted all the way south by the army.
The pace of the southward movement was unusually smooth, and the southward movement of the large army, including the 20,000 people walking in front, did not encounter any decent resistance - occasionally encountered some small local garrisons of the Bright Empire, and they all easily repelled the other party - or not repulsed, but the other party saw themselves from a distance and took the initiative to run away.
It seems that the rumors are true, and many of the armies of the Empire of Light have been loosely armed. It has long been not the empire with a huge elite army, the current Empire of Light, the army may still be very large, but the word elite may not be true, of course, except for the whip of Thor, the whip of Thor, which is commanded by Duke Tulip...... And their Northern Legion, which also seems to be very powerful.
At least, for the time being, they have the advantage in terms of troops, and the Northwest Legion of the Bright Empire is held in the northwest by the ally of Rochenthal, and their Southern Legion needs to defend the south and the imperial capital. The combined strength of the Northwest Legion and Thor's Whip is smaller than Tiger's current army...... Now. What is needed is an opportunity.
As long as you can defeat the main army of Duke Tulip in one fell swoop, then ......
Finally, on the Pami-and-Plateau, the pace of the Roland people was stopped!
The Rolands looked at the front in amazement. On the plateau of Pingtandi Pami, a military camp of the Bright Empire appeared dozens of miles long.
I don't know how these heretics do it!
The huge barracks on the plains could hold at least 300,000 troops. The entire barracks was a sturdy barracks of sturdy fences, and in front of the barracks was a deep trench -- hell, a trench tens of miles long, and there were dense horse-reproaches on the periphery. Iron Knights used to stop the Roland Knights......
This is not a barracks at all, it is simply a solid line of defense.
Look at the strong walls of the camp, the deep trenches, the horses with sharp blades hanging upside down, and the archers in the barracks.
Tiger couldn't help but sigh, such a deep trench, I don't know how many corpses it would take to fill it, no matter what, it must be a lot, a lot......
In any case, Tiger breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, no matter what, he had finally found the opponent's main army. The pace of going south was too smooth, and the smoothness was a little unsettling. Now although it is facing a solid defense line that makes people's scalps numb, it can finally be fought with real knives!
Hmph, no matter how strong their camp is, can it be as strong as the walls of Thundering City? I don't know what the Duke Tulip thinks when they don't use the city walls, but they come to the plain to get a military camp!
After the first day of temptation, the two sides began to fight in real time on the second day.
This time the Duke of Tulip did not seem to retain any strength, and on the Pamirs, on a battlefield vacated between the camps of the two large armies, each side committed tens of thousands of men to the first field battle.
The army of the Bright Empire has taught the Roland people a hard lesson: no matter how strong the navy is, but when it arrives, it is still the Bright Empire that wins the world!
The dense phalanx composed of more than 30,000 heavy armored infantry of the Bright Empire stubbornly resisted the tide of attacks of the Rolanders, and with the Yuan Cheng attack of the archers behind them, the losses of the Rolanders were great.
The Royal Knights of the Sauron Kingdom of the Roland Alliance were ordered to charge, and the trusted leader of the Royal Knights was very eager to sweep away the shame of the defeat under the Thundering City, and the brave knights of Lola shouted the slogan of fighting for honor and rushed towards the heavy infantry regiment of the Empire.
They were greeted by spears that were three meters long, and those spears were raised flat like a forest, and the first wave of cavalry was so fiercely loaded into the spear array of the Empire of Light. In addition to those who were impaled to death, there were those who occasionally fell off their horses, and were immediately beheaded by the Imperial soldiers who were guarding behind the forward infantry.
The knights of the Royal Order of Roland immediately realized the fact that even if they were not facing Thor's Whip, the other armies of the other side were not as weak as they imagined. The opposing heavy infantry regiment was clearly rigorously trained, facing the charge of the cavalry of its own knights. The opposing infantry was very strong, without any panic or retreat, and the soldiers in the front row still bravely raised their spears, and the entire phalanx stood together in a dense manner. Facing the spear protruding from the shieldless wall, it really makes people's scalps tingle when they look at it.
Seeing that the Royal Knights did not succeed in breaking through the opponent's phalanx, Tiger immediately ordered two infantry regiments to rush forward.
In any case, although the cavalry did not break through the opponent's infantry phalanx, it at least caused a certain amount of confusion to the opponent.
Taking a step back, Tiger doesn't want the precious Royal Knights to be exhausted in this kind of battle!
On the first day of the field battle, seeing the sun setting in the west, both sides ended the fight. The Empire of Light lost 10,000 brave soldiers, while the Roland losses figure ranged from 20,000 to 30,000. The battlefield was covered with mutilated corpses, and the sunset on the horizon seemed to be stained red with blood.
Seeing the bright red sun on the horizon gradually disappearing from the horizon, Tiger couldn't help but sigh: one soldier of the Empire of Light can be worth two or even three Roland soldiers. This fact made him feel a little depressed.
If you encounter Thor's Whip. That may be even more proportional, one Thor's whip can withstand more than four Rolanders......
Tiger was at a loss.
The other side has such a powerful army, so why did this holy war start on earth?
What the hell is wrong with those people in the temple? How did they start a war that they were not sure to win???
With the patchwork army of hundreds of thousands of ten countries in his hand, he can conquer the powerful empire in front of him???
If...... If you have Thor's whip in your hand...... Thinking of this, Tiger immediately dispelled this thought in his mind, because it was simply impossible.
He was well aware that the cost of feeding and maintaining such a strong army was staggering. There are more than a dozen countries on the Roland 6, each of which has limited national strength, and no country can afford to support such an expensive army on its own. It is simply impossible to pick out so many good warriors.
"Perhaps. Only the Roland Big 6 can be unified and rely on the strength of the entire Big 6. You can build such an army......" Tiger shook his head, trying to dispel the thought in his mind, and then it occurred to him that Thor's whip was impossible. The Holy Knights of the Temple could barely compete head-on with Thor's Whip. But the Holy Knights belong to the Temple. The power of the temple in Roland 6 is huge, and every knight has the highest honor to be able to enter the Holy Order. This situation has caused the Holy Knights to gather the best combat power of Roland 6.
And the temple has all kinds of taxes in the whole Roland 6, and the huge financial resources can support them to establish such a powerful cavalry regiment. Both in terms of manpower and material resources and the quality of the knights, the highest level is guaranteed. This advantage is unmatched by any country in the Roland 6.
Tiger smiled bitterly and could only take one more step back. If...... If these hundreds of thousands of people under his command have the level of the Royal Knights......
If the hundreds of thousands of troops under his command can reach the level of the Royal Knights, Tiger is also confident that he can defeat Duke Tulip!
But...... Tiger still smiled wryly when he thought of this.
The Royal Order belonged to the Kingdom of Sauron. The kingdom of Sauron owns the entire Roland with a territory and a half of the territory and population. Only then did it have enough capital to build such a cavalry army that was claimed to be second only to the Holy Knights. But this is already the limit of the kingdom of Sauron. Because it is located in the southernmost part of Roland the Great 6, the kingdom of Sauron has spent most of its energy on maintaining a strong naval force - everyone knows the importance of the navy, without a strong navy, the pagans of the Empire of Light crossed the sea two hundred years ago!
In this way, the two sides confronted each other on the Pamir Plain, during which the two sides fought several fierce battles, and after several field battles, although the quality of the army of the Bright Empire was much higher than that of the Rolands, the Rolands relied on their numerical superiority to maintain the situation.
That night, seeing that both sides sent hundreds of men to clean up the battlefield - this kind of moment is a tacit peace between the two warring parties, and the men sent by both sides carefully searched for the wounded soldiers who had not yet died on the battlefield, carried them back, and then cleaned up the corpses and gathered them together......
Flames ignited at the edge of the battlefield, and the bodies of soldiers killed in battle turned to ashes in the flames.
At this moment, the Roland people are still reminiscing about the amazing scene of today's field battle!
Today, both sides have made full contributions, and the Empire of Light has sent out their trump card, the Whip of Thor!, and the Roland people are the Holy Knights.
Facing the scene of thousands of horses galloping on both sides, it was as if the whole earth was shaking and even the clouds on the horizon were scattered.
Hundreds of thousands of people witnessed the frontal hard-hitting of the strongest cavalry corps of the two big 6s!
Roland's expectations for the Holy Knights are very high in their hearts, and in their hearts, they have already recognized the terrifying nature of Thor's whip, and they have also witnessed the power of Thor's whip. And the Roland people also believe that the only one who can take the whip of Thor on the battlefield is the Holy Knights.
But once again, the truth surprised them.
Perhaps, in an ordinary state, the Holy Knights can resist Thor's Whip!But if it is under the leadership of that terrifying Duke Tulip, Thor's Whip's charge can crush any enemy in front of it!
Since the only paladin in the army who could confront Duke Tulip head-on at the moment was seriously injured and had not recovered, the attack of the Holy Knights was led by the three great knights.
Then hundreds of thousands of people also witnessed Duke Tulip personally kill the three big knights on the battlefield, one of the big knights died a particularly miserable death, Duke Tulip's amazing sword slammed into his horse, and then saw the big knight fly out with his horse, fell in the chaos of ten thousand horses, and finally the people who cleaned up the battlefield at night could not even find his body...... It has been trampled into meat by tens of thousands of horses' hooves!
"What the hell are we here for? Is it true that the temple sent our soldiers here to die?" Tiger pondered......