Patrolling around, the city is built by the mountains and rivers, and the moat is a natural small river.

I didn't go down to the field to investigate, but it was clear from the gentle flow of the river that the flow would not be too large.

The water attack is definitely no play, and the fire attack has nothing to burn.

After all, the city has just been baptized by war, and the giant-footed centipedes don't seem to be good at building.

The shortcomings are also very obvious, the so-called city is just a psychological comfort, and the actual defense is very limited.

Perhaps because of the threat of the magic crystal cannon, the camps of the giant-footed centipedes were very scattered, and there was no place in the city at all, and many troops were placed outside the city.

Wander around and return decisively, without giving the enemy a chance to make a move.

"Pass the order, let the cavalry regiment take turns to go around the enemy's rear and harass the enemy's camp!"

Hudson ordered decisively.

The Coalition also has an advantage over the Giantfoot Centipede, which is that it has stronger ranged firepower.

The Crystal Cannon is still on the way, but the Magic Crossbow is with the army. Firing from a distance of 200 meters will make it difficult for the enemy to counterattack.

You can't use a bed crossbow and a trebuchet to bombard, those bulky things are not as agile as cavalry.

I don't have the luxury of killing many centipede soldiers, but the blow to the morale of the army is definitely huge.

War is always a wrong step, a wrong step. Without launching a decisive battle at the first time, the Giantfoot Centipede has already fallen into strategic passivity.

On the bright side, there is indeed no loss, but the change in the mentality of the soldiers has begun to ferment.

……

"Enemy attack!"

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh......"

As soon as the signal of the enemy attack was issued, the rain of arrows was already rushing in the face, and the centipede soldiers in charge of patrolling were shot into a sieve on the spot.

Because of the night attack, many soldiers were resting in the camp at the moment, and when they heard the "enemy attack", they immediately took up their weapons and rushed out.

This act of panic has no meaning other than to increase casualties.

War is the best way for centipedes to grow, and after realizing the problem, an interesting scene appears.

Some centipede generals chose to face the difficulties and led their subordinates to fight back; Another part of the centipede generals chose to let their men temporarily avoid the edge and get out of the range of the magic crossbow.

Two very different choices lead to different results.

The rain of arrows of "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh......" was followed by bursts of screams.

Due to the lack of protection, many centipede soldiers rushed out of the enemy camp and quickly became red with blood.

The centipedes in front of them became a sieve, and the centipedes in the back became hedgehogs. The super penetrating power of the crossbow arrow exerted an unexpected effect at this time.

The successive charges ended with the arrows running out and the cavalry withdrawing.

At the cost of countless corpses on the ground, as well as the incessant wails of wounded soldiers.

As soon as the wounded were collected, a new round of arrow rain came again, and the bloody battle was repeated again.

Except for a few lucky ones, who were lucky enough to avoid the rain of arrows and burst into the cavalry, the remaining centipede soldiers basically fell on the way to the charge.

It's useless to get closer, the cavalry has a natural advantage over the infantry. The best way to do this is to fight in formation, rather than having skirmishers give the enemy a victory.

Round after round of charges failed, the centipede generals who commanded the battle finally realized that something was wrong, but unfortunately it was too late.

As the companions around him continued to fall, the morale of the army, which was not high, also began to decline rapidly.

"Bang!"

When the first centipede soldier dropped his weapon and fled, the second and third soon appeared......

The centipede general hurriedly led the guards to kill the deserters, but unfortunately the morale of the army had collapsed at this moment, and the escape was not exhaustive.

Some of the fiery soldiers even took up arms and slashed at the centipedes that stood in their way.

Without waiting for the centipede general to react, he didn't know when he also stuck a flying arrow in his body. The originally sturdy armor was so powerless in the face of crossbow arrows.

Defeat is like a mountain!

……

The centipede officers and soldiers who chose to avoid the edge for the time being did not end much better. Evading in a panic, he directly abandoned the camp to the enemy.

This escape directly triggered the herd effect.

It was supposed to use the facilities in the camp to organize soldiers to resist the enemy's attack in an orderly manner, but the centipede soldiers who fled in panic formed a stampede in the camp.

Under the onslaught of the rebel army, new camps are constantly being involved in the chaos. A handful of generals tried to organize a counterattack, only to find that they could not find their own generals.

The back was left to the enemy, and the end was undoubtedly tragic. This kind of opportunity to beat the water dogs, the Terran cavalry will not be soft.

A scene that neither of the warring parties expected appeared: the Terran cavalry stepped on the joint camp, and the defenders did not know how to resist, so they fled in panic.

Seeing this scene, the cavalry, who were originally preparing to attack in turns, couldn't wait for the rotation and directly joined the war.

The battle went unexpectedly well, and Count Ebert, who led the cavalry to attack, was stunned.

Encamped, there was not even a horse rejection pile or a horse pit, and the defense force inside the camp was about zero.

A general with a little military common sense would not make such a common-sense mistake.

Even if a few more rows of fences are added, it can affect the cavalry charge, and it will not directly stage the horse treading joint camp.

It doesn't matter if you don't understand, since the enemy army is showing flaws, then hurry up and fight.

The infantry can't outrun the cavalry, but they just need to outrun their companions!

The law of the jungle in the dark world is vividly displayed here.

Realizing that something was wrong, Marshal Howell immediately led the main force out of the city for reinforcements.

"Withdraw!"

Seeing that the fighter plane had been lost, and the crossbow arrows he carried were exhausted, Count Ebert decisively ordered.

The war came to an end for the time being, and Marshal Howell, who led the reinforcements, was at a loss.

In a short confrontation, nearly 10,000 centipede soldiers fell directly in a pool of blood.

An increase in the number of wounded, that's even more. There is a lack of adequate medical resources, and only generals can get medical treatment.

For a while, screams and lamentations continued in the camp.

Affected by the atmosphere of the scene, the morale of the reinforcements sent out with Marshal Howell also quickly declined.

"Pass the order, and all the troops outside the city will withdraw to the city!"

Marshal Howell commanded, holding back the anger in his heart.

Eat a trench, grow a wisdom.

Two different ways of coping failed. Lacking sufficient effective means to deal with the enemy cavalry, Marshal Howell had to opt for a strategic retrenchment.

However, entering the city is not a perfect choice. It seems that the threat of enemy cavalry has been avoided, but the density of soldiers has also increased.

Once the enemy's magic crystal cannon arrives at the front line, the pressure on the city's anti-artillery will become unprecedentedly huge.

……

"What's going on with the rear camp, why did you let the enemy army rampant!"

The Centipede King questioned Marshal Howell.

It doesn't matter if you lose a battle, the key is not to eat a defeat in a vague way.

The main force of the centipede army is in the city, but there are also more than 200,000 troops stationed outside the city, echoing the city.

According to this strategic layout, the density of soldiers in the city will be greatly reduced. Once an artillery attack is detected, it is possible to find cover for a short time to take refuge.

It can easily dodge the enemy's magic crystal cannon strikes, but also maintain enough counterattack power. The perfect plan.

It is a pity that war is not just talk on paper, and mistakes in any link may lead to defeat in the war.

"Your Majesty, we lack experience in fighting with the Terran cavalry, and our previous battles have only been small groups of the enemy's cavalry.

The front-line generals were tired of coping and responded in a panic, resulting in heavy losses for the army!

In order to prevent something like this from happening, I have come down and withdrawn the troops from the outer city. ”

Marshal Howell replied with a gloomy face.

The army of more than 200,000 centipedes was actually messed up by a cavalry regiment of the enemy.

If it spreads, it will be laughed at by other geocentric races for a hundred years.

Now the reason is found, but the person responsible is very helpless.

There are no cavalry in the inner world, and the cavalry encountered in the previous war is also scattered, so it can't be any climate at all.

The enemy's cavalry attacked in a big way, and it was also a round of harvest at the end of the battle and into the final moments.

All of them are experiences of failure and escape, so naturally they are not useful.

Even the basic information about the cavalry was learned from the mouths of the Terran captives, and no one knew how much deviation there was.

After all, the knowledge barrier in the Aslant continent is very serious, and even within the aristocratic group, only a very small number of generals have commanded a large force of cavalry to fight.

This kind of high-level general, the giant foot centipede has never been captured. The information he knew was pieced together bit by bit from the mouths of the noble captives.

Facts have proved that the confessions of these guys are all unreliable.

A real cavalry charge is neither stabbing around with a knight's spear nor slashing with a sword.

People shoot with a magic crossbow first, and after the shooting is finished, they make up the knife!

The captives had already died in torture, and there was no chance of settling accounts with them. Now in the fiasco, the giant foot centipede can only pay for itself.

"Rubbish!

It's all a bunch of rubbish!

One by one, they all said that they had learned the lessons of the past, but the war had just begun, and they lost their troops first.

The troops have all evacuated, once the enemy's magic crystal cannon arrives, what should be done in the future?

Marshal Howell, do you have a solution? ”

The Centipede King asked dissatisfied.

After a series of defeats, Marshal Howell, who was originally victorious in a hundred battles, also faded from his former aura.

The respect of the past is based on the premise that he continues to win battles.

When there were no more victories, Marshal Howell became an ordinary general, and he was still a general who often suffered defeats.

If it weren't for the lack of a better choice, the Centipede King would have changed his commander long ago.

"Your Majesty, there are only two paths left for us now.

Either take advantage of the cover of night tonight and fight directly with the enemy on the battlefield.

With our superiority in troops, coupled with the convenience of fighting at night, the probability of success is at least 50 percent.

Either choose to preserve your strength, not fight the enemy to the death, and just delay time.

These cities can be kept by the rules, and if they can't, they simply give up.

The enemy is going to reinforce the defenders of the province of Palma, and we don't need to force them to stop them, just let them go.

The Demon Crocodile Clan is strong, and if there is some conflict, they can also solve it. ”

After listening to Marshal Howell's answer, all the centipede high-level leaders present hesitated.

There is no opinion on the pit teammates.

Since the Demon Crocodile Clan has chosen to entrust them with the task of intercepting the coalition forces, they must be prepared to be trapped.

But the problem is that the current situation is different, and the Demon Crocodile Clan still has the geocentric passage they want.

In case the other party is in a hurry, people just don't let them in, and the follow-up will be troublesome.

Choosing to fight the enemy tonight seems to have a good chance of winning, but in fact, everyone's psychology is completely bottomless.

They had just suffered a defeat, and the officers and men were still immersed in the shadow of defeat.

With the rout marching into the city, panic was also brought in, and the city was at a sensitive moment of panic.

With such an army, even if you have an absolute superiority in troops, the outcome of the war may still be reversed by the other side.

"Marshal, the decisive battle at this moment is too reckless!

The combat effectiveness of the enemy army, as you have seen, is definitely the elite from the Alpha Kingdom.

If the Hessian cavalry had been able to fight like this, I would have suffered a lot in the war ahead.

Even if you have superior forces, it is still risky to fight a decisive battle with the enemy.

I propose to continue the tactics of delaying the enemy's forces, without entangling with the enemy from city to city, and with the help of favorable terrain along the way.

If you can't hold back the enemy for as long as you can, then you deserve the bad luck of the Demon Crocodile Clan! ”

Prime Minister Jawat said almost explicitly.

The so-called resistance along the way is more like a strategic evacuation. Anyway, it's not your own territory, and if you lose it, you lose it.

Typical pit teammates, but after artistic processing, it becomes that they struggle to resist, and finally lose the battle and lose the battle.

As for whether the Demon Crocodile Clan is willing to believe it, that's their own business, and the Giant Foot Centipede itself will believe it anyway.

"If there's no better option, so be it!"

The Centipede King glanced at everyone and said.

Seeing that everyone was slow to speak, he immediately added: "The order is given, except for the necessary defenders, the rest of the troops immediately return to the camp to sleep."

After dark, we simply abandoned the city transfer.

If the enemy dares to chase them out, take the opportunity to fight them in the night! ”

For some reason, deep down in his heart, he still had a faint expectation that the enemy army would be able to attack late at night and then launch a wave of counter-killing.

……

Coalition camps.

The cavalry returned to the camp beyond expectations, and the two lieutenants went to the camp gate to greet them in person, and Hudson naturally did not show up.

The order was given by him, and his military merits naturally have his share, and even in the eyes of many people, his credit as the commander is the greatest, and there is no need to come out to steal the limelight.

After all, if he hadn't keenly discovered the enemy's shortcomings and decisively ordered the cavalry to attack, there would have been no surprise attack!

"Attack" has become "surprise attack", which seems to be a one-word difference, but the political impact has been completely different.

It didn't matter what the original purpose was, but the result was: to force the enemy army to move into the city from outside the city, which severely damaged the morale of the enemy army.

The grand welcome ceremony soon spread throughout the army, and everyone knew that the coalition had won the battle!

(End of chapter)