1678 The Road to War (4)
"Woo!"
The trombone sound representing the retreat seemed to react at this time, belatedly, in a miserable blood, corpses all over the ground, and the wails of the wounded soldiers, like a deliberately stretched gasp echoed in the sky, the front row of the tragic heavy infantry queue could not wait to retreat, the momentum that was invincible just now has long been replaced by hesitation and fear, the fiasco of the first siege of the city, so that the beautiful dream of Count Remchatt to be ready to attack Lisbento in one go is like a soap bubble punctured by the cruel reality,
Three thousand one hundred killed, five hundred and thirty wounded!
"What the hell is going on!"
Remsciat scolded angrily, that feeling of grief and indignation, just like thinking that it was a weak girl who was in front of him, who knew that before he touched the side of the bed, the girl suddenly pulled out a thick noodle rod and beat himself fatly, his eyes were projected on Lisbento that suddenly erupted like a volcano just now, there was not much change, the lazy guard, the listless military flag, the only thing that changed was that the 100-meter trail of the city wall was full of a large number of corpses, and the blood infected the land there, and from a distance, it was like a blood-colored carpet on the ground full of arrows, which was shockingRemsciat could feel a silent panic spreading through his army, "Ladies and gentlemen, who of you would like to take Lisbonto for the legion as the front of the army?" Remsciat asked, turning around
The generals who were standing behind Remchat, who were still clamoring to take down Lisbento in half a day, collectively lost their voices, it was really a terrifying scene just now, no one had ever seen so many shooters emerge in such a dense city wall, according to the generals' visual measurements, in that short half an hour, the enemy shooters on the city wall reached at least more than 30,000 people. It's like harvesting autumn wheat straw, sweeping and cutting the unprepared heavy infantry ranks,
The troops were withdrawn by wolves, but those were the 4 squadrons in the back, and the 4 squadrons in front were the most severely attacked.
The generals also saw the battle damage report just sent, and their faces looked like they had been by someone, 3,100 people were killed and 530 were wounded. In previous battles, the number of wounded soldiers was often greater than the number of casualties, but this time it was the opposite, the number of dead was six times and the number of wounded soldiers, which almost meant that the four forward heavy infantry squadrons, which were the most elite in the entire legion, were all wiped out.
Who dares to hum more at this moment, or let out a sigh or something. The angry and corrupt army commander will mercilessly let this guy's troops be used as death squads!"What? Am I not just a fierce general of the Empire, and I am afraid of going to a general rebel?" Remchatt's heart was bleeding, and he angrily clutched the entire battle damage report in his hand into a ball of waste paper and threw it heavily on the ground, his eyes swept over the generals who lowered their heads and did not dare to look at him. Remchatt's gaze swept like a knife, and the general Gangfei who was stared at lowered his head in unison, no one dared to face the situation just now, and the heavy infantry in heavy armor couldn't even raise their heads when they were shot like this. Not to mention their lightly armed infantry team, which is not well defended, "My lord, since we have an absolute advantage in military strength, why don't we wait until we have built siege equipment." Directly adopt an all-out attack strategy!" A Gangfei general couldn't help but say "Although the opponent's shooters are very powerful, but in the face of the entire Lisbernto defensive line, the opponent's ability to arrange a limited attack, and our army's all-out attack can just offset the opponent's advantage of dense archers!" "Wonderful, this method is good!" "Let's attack in full force after resting, my lord, I don't believe that the Putao people can still conjure up more troops!" This general's mention aroused the approval of other generals. Well, that's it, the whole army retreated 5 miles to camp "
After thinking for a while, Remshat nodded reluctantly, although he wanted to rush in directly to kill all the Putao rebels, but he also had to admit that the attack just now made him look at the Duke of Putao with admiration, and then attack in full force after resting, this is the best way to deal with the ferocious point shooting of the Putao shooter at present, the army has come from afar, and has just suffered a heavy blow, and the morale of the army is no longer able to launch a fierce attack again, instead of forcibly driving the soldiers to attack the city, it is better to wait for the rest to be finished, recover to a good body, and with enough siege equipment, Lisbento Even if it is an iron city, it will not be able to block the comprehensive attack of its superior forces。 "Hooray!
There was a sound of cheers on the walls of Lisbento, and the slowly retreating Gangfei army in the distance broke out with strong confidence in the Putao army, no one expected that the menacing Gangfei people were retreated after a face-to-face attack, most of the Putao soldiers couldn't believe their eyes, in their minds, the Gangfei army was a symbol of invincibility, if it wasn't for money, no one would fight against Gangfei, you must know that Putao is just a small principality, and Gangfei is a large empire with an area of more than a dozen Putao, and the combat power of the armies on both sides is not at the same level at all
"Hooray! We've beaten off the Gangnons!"
Duke Putao raised his hand like other ordinary soldiers, his eyes were full of tears, and his expression was excited and difficult to be confident, although he had the help of the Falcon Empire's army, but the 15,000 mixed fish belly army faced the 40,000 Gangfei army that had destroyed his own principality, the disparity in strength was not a guarantee from His Majesty the Falcon that could make him feel at ease, but the one in front of him showed that Gangfei people were not invincible! At least they were also afraid of death and sacrifice!
In the afternoon, snowflakes fell in the sky again, and a group of Gangfei soldiers from outside the city, leading a dozen ox carts with sacks, the officer who led the team waved to the trembling soldiers behind him, and asked the soldiers to stop 200 meters away, holding two hands alone, and walked cautiously "What does he want to do?" Lidakus's eyes were staring at the Gang Fei officer who was cautious below, his legs trembling like jumping rubber bands, this officer finally stopped thirty meters away, and shouted something in Gangfei to the top, looking at Lidakus a little inexplicable, is this guy crazy? A person ran to die!"Gang Fei wanted to exchange the food on the car for the corpse of the soldier!" Duke Putao interpreted the officer's shout, and his face showed a trace of inexplicable affection. Under the bewildered gaze of Lidarchus, Ning Sheng explained, "This is a rigid tradition, they don't want the souls of their soldiers to stay in a foreign land, the ox cart will drop the grain next to the corpse, and then return with the corpse!"
"I see, quite a brave young man!" Lidarchus shrugged his shoulders with a twinkle in his eyes, "As a general, I can understand what the other party is doing! If it were me, I would agree, but I am only responsible for combat, and this." It's not up to me! I still have some defense matters to be busy with, and I have suffered a big loss this time, and the next time I come back, it will not be so easy!"
Duke Putao's face flickered, the soldiers around him were looking at him, and the hearts of these Putao people were also beating drums, facing the pressure of a powerful empire, the soldiers were also at a loss, for a country like Gangfei. The temporary victory that the Putao was able to achieve did not change anything fundamentally.
In recent years, this concept has penetrated deeply into the hearts of many Putao people. You can defeat the Gangfei army once, but in the face of a stronger second or third time, can you still defeat it? Thinking that the final way to let Putao survive was to negotiate with Gangfei, the little joy of victory that had just risen in Duke Putao's heart also drifted away. As His Majesty Falcon said, there is no winner in this war!
Duke Putau flashed in his mind the content of the conversation he had at the last meeting, took a deep breath, and said to one of the guards next to him, "Sue Sù Gang Fei Ren, we agreed!"
"Whew"
The surroundings were quiet and terrifying, and the Duke of Putao could feel the voice of the soldiers under his command secretly breathing a sigh of relief, "Choosing the battlefield in Lisbonto, which is almost in ruins, in addition to letting the Putao people see the hope of the principality anew, on the other hand, try to minimize the possible damage to Putao in this war, this road of war is full of thorns!"
On the third day of the withdrawal of the Congo-African army, after the last reinforcement of 1,500 men returned, the 10th Crusade Regiment of Remshat appeared in the sight of the defenders of Lisbonto, the military flag was like a sea, and the Gang-Africa battle flag fluttering all over the mountains and fields opposite was like a shadow that spread in the hearts of the Putao people, making the face of every Putao person look ugly, and the cold wind blew from the opposite side, rolling the remnants of snow and broken grass in front of them into the air, and then throwing them down fiercely, enveloping the heavens and the earth in a desolation.
The flag of the Putao army on the walls of Lisbonto and the inhuman blood cross flag on the opposite side were blown by the strong wind, like the drums of war about to be beaten.
"Forward, the whole army presses up!" Remsciat stretched out his hand to hold a piece of broken grass blown by the wind, as the order was given, the lined Gangfei army began to move forward as a whole, the heavy footsteps landed at the same time, the pace was uniform, and the land 300 meters in front of Lisbonto was quickly flooded, with the rhythmic and neat footsteps, the hearts of the Putao people were trembling, and even the strong walls of Lisbonto were trembling, the spears were like a forest, the sea of non-infantry armor was dazzling, and the oppressive force gathered by tens of millions of people was coming.
On the flanks of the infantry phalanx, the cavalry pulling the siege equipment parts, advancing in a skirmish line, the cavalry group quickly crossed the infantry phalanx, approaching the city of Lisbento like a tide, but the head of the city of Lisbento was silent and unresponsive. It was deathly silent again, and the Gangfei troops, who still remembered the last fiasco, involuntarily slowed down, and some soldiers stopped to watch. The overseer in the back shouted angrily, "Forward, there are those who retreat from the battle, go on!"
At this moment, the Gangfei army heard a strange "buzzing" sound. The sky suddenly darkened, just like last time, and from the far distance of the city of Lisbento, a large area of black obscured the sun, and countless gravels instantly turned into raindrops from the sky!
"Attention, trebuchet!"
The soldiers shouted in fear, and the infantry who rushed to the front seemed to have been punched head-on by an invisible giant, and in front of countless gravel, the whole person suddenly flew backwards backwards, and his body twisted into an unnatural posture in mid-air, flipping and throwing countless blood, like a flower that suddenly bloomed in the air, and the catapult scattered blocks launched by heavy and powerful machine springs were so strong that they could smash through the shield, and for a while, the trebuchets on both sides of the walls of Lisbonto were like a volcano that suddenly erupted,
Countless pieces of rubble flew from the wings, obscuring the sky and the sun. In this terrible rain of stones, flesh and blood are only protected by armor and shields. It was like shredded paper that had been hit hard, and the soldiers in the front row didn't even have time to shout "help", and even the people and horses were smashed and rolled around in an instant. Between the lightning and flint, as if suddenly struck by a violent lightning,
The cavalrymen with siege equipment flipped on their backs, and the cavalry was constantly hit by rubble, and flew out of their horses, spraying blood and rising in the air, screaming and throwing dust from a high place. The body twisted like a twisted flower, and the stones smashed the second person into the air with blood flowers, and some people were even hit by several stones at the same time. The war horse neighed in pain under the rain of countless stones, and blood flowers bloomed in the air. The cavalrymen screamed and cried, and you slammed into a ball and trampled on each other, and some lay down to dodge, but pulled down their horses to their panicked companions, and countless horses' hooves trampled over them, and their brains splashed. The cavalry continued to fall, and the short, high-pitched terrible screams of the imminent death, the rolling of wounded horses on the ground, and the long neighing were terrible.
"The armies continued to advance. If you retreat to the latter, you will behead the general first!"
Remchat shouted with a grim expression, someone tried to turn the horse's head, and was immediately shot and killed by the law enforcement team personally led by the generals behind! Rush! Rush! Even if the last one is left, they will rush me! The generals who received the death order gritted their teeth. He shouted bloodshot eyes, forcing the soldiers forward like ants
The sound of the "crackling and crackling" reed was continuous, like a flock of birds suddenly flying through the air, and countless boulders fell from the sky with a terrible sound of wind. Thunderously fell into the middle of the dense infantry phalanx. The infantry did not even have time to dodge, nor did they have any shields against this terrible weapon, and the crowds were smashed into pulp. Brain splatters. Many Gangfei soldiers are still the first time to see such a dense stone throwing, and they are all stupid, if it is one or two, you can still hide, this can be hidden,
The heart of the non-infantry screamed hysterically, dropped the shield in his hand and scattered with his head in his hands, and the neatly arranged shield wall was torn apart under the intensive blow of the stone,
"Forward! If you don't want to die, rush forward!" The cavalry formation in front of them moved forward with stones, and although people were smashed and dismounted from time to time, the huge array was still advancing violently, and the sound of hooves was roaring, like a mountain torrent and tsunami that was unstoppable. In an instant, a scream of grabbing the ground sounded from the front, and the wounded and fallen cavalry took refuge everywhere with their heads in their hands
"My lord, the enemy has entered the 100-meter line!" a Falcon squadron leader walked up the steps of the trebuchet and reported to Lidakus, who was watching the battle from the trebuchet
Lidarchus did not reply, he was fiddling with the ornate goggles with red gems and gold threads on the long handle, which was his personal possession, and was the reward of His Majesty Falcon for him, the first chief of the navy of the Falcon Empire.
Behind him, the trebuchets were busy pushing the gravel into the trebuchet's projection basket, a large number of gravel collected from the city, giving this catapult enough ammunition, originally Lidarchus applied to the Falcon Majesty for a batch of fuel bombs, but was rejected by the fat man, the reason for the refusal is very good "The fleet is not enough space, and there are also safety considerations, it is impossible to carry fuel bombs with Thor bullets, then as long as there is an accident, the empire's expensive warships will be reimbursed!"
"My lord, the enemy has entered 80 meters!" the squadron leader's voice became a little hurried, interrupting Lidakus's sigh, if there is a batch of fuel bombs, these just non-human beings will have to look at it!
"Alright, order the crossbowmen to attack!" Lidarchus put down the lookout scope in his hand and calmly gave an order, three lines of defense, the trebuchet is just an appetizer, the results of the stone rain just now are quite obvious, although it did not cause a large area of damage to the enemy, but it has broken up the previous arrangement of the Gang Fei people, and opened the door to killing for six thousand murderous imperial crossbowmen
"Shoot!"
Just a minute after the order was given, the position of the Lisbonto firing port was filled with a terrible bowstring vibration, dense as raindrops of arrows, like a rain of light violently bombarded the sea of people formed by the non-army, splashing a terrifying wave of red flesh and blood, 80 meters away, so that the lethality of the falcon infantry crossbow expanded to the limit,
The armor of the soldiers was shot through like thin pieces of paper, the soldiers fell in pieces, the cavalry rushing up from the two wings became the focus of the crossbowmen's shooting, and the speeding cavalry seemed to suddenly crash into the invisible wall
The screams of "Ahh The crossbow arrows pierced into the armor of the non-cavalry, and the powerful impact penetrated the back of the armor, and the dense crossbow arrows were like the sickles wielded by the gods, cutting off the waist of the non-cavalry, and the horses screamed and fell down full of arrows.
"Forward, rush!"
Gangfei cavalry advanced in a rain of arrows, hoping to rush through with speed, which made more cavalry shoot off their horses before they reached the city wall, they didn't know that the falcon crossbowmen on the walls of Lisbonto were equipped with a new pole loading crossbow, which could complete a reload in ten seconds,
"My lord, you can't attack anymore!" On the Gangfei side, the generals' bleak faces were like being trampled by a thousand horses, and the all-out attack turned into a full-scale slaughter, and the short dozens of meters were like a dead line that could not be crossed, so that the heads of the 40,000 Gangfei army were broken and bleeding! (To be continued......