Chapter 202: The Battle Begins
"It's true that there is an upper route. Zhou Zhongmou sighed, this kind of work of attacking the opponent's front-line supply warehouse has always been good, and there are thirty soldiers of the regular army to help in the battle, and the opponent's defense force will not put a large number of troops on a small front-line warehouse, which seems to be a free feat. And what Zhou Zhongmou saw showed that this kind of mission had been done many times by this mercenary group.
When he arrived at the regiment commander's tent, Zhou Zhongmou saw that the man named Alonzo in front of him was waiting in front of the map, and soon all the people arrived. A woman with an ordinary face, but quite a sturdy woman, Lin is the commander of the mercenary team this time, and she will be responsible for directing her thirty sword and shield soldiers to cooperate with the regular army to carry out the main military operations, while Zhou Zhongmou and several other stragglers will open the passage for them and eliminate possible hard-handed soldiers in the garrison. The above qiē was a decision made by Commander Alonzo on the map, and then he motioned for everyone to leave.
There is nothing to prepare for a military operation such as a warehouse attack, and the mercenaries are always ready to go at any time - they are just a group of light infantry. There were about a dozen carts with them, half of them carrying the food and medicine of the whole army, and some weapons to be replaced, while the other half of the carts were empty, and the thirty regular soldiers had their own carts, and the equipment of the regular soldiers was much neater than that of the mercenaries, with a half-body plate armor and a one-handed sword and a small round shield, but these weapons were piled on their carts, and it seemed that they were ready to put on armor when they approached the battlefield.
The mercenaries are different, some wearing half-body armor and a few wearing leather armor. Most people are still just a piece of chain mail, or all armor - the shield in their hands doesn't count. The only thing that can be called unified is the one-handed sword. These swords are equipped with the same equipment as the regular army. Zhou Zhongmou looked at Captain Lin specifically, this woman's equipment was obviously much better than her subordinates, a set of well-fitting half-body armor plus a shield that was obviously one size larger than the others, and the long sword on her waist looked more high-end than the mercenaries and soldiers from the scabbard and hilt. And she has a horse like Zhou Zhongmou, and she is a war horse, and her momentum when she walks on the road is completely different from the horse that Zhou Zhongmou is riding. Except for Zhou Zhongmou, the skirmishers were all archers, and they were wearing leather armor or chain mail of different styles, and their bows were also different. But these guys seemed to be pretty good - they jumped into the cart and didn't even get down to walk with the mercenaries.
As for Zhou Zhongmou himself, he was still wearing his half-body chain mail, wearing a cloak like a Jedi, with a two-handed sword at his waist, and swaying forward on his horse. "It's said that it's about opening the passage and killing the other party's possible hard hand, but no matter how you look at it, it's my own business," the guy muttered, but there was nothing dissatisfied, how many people could there be in a mere logistics warehouse? If it was possible, it would not be a problem for him to kill all the enemies alone.
It took a day and a half to reach the fort at the front. Then, after resting for half a day in the barracks outside the fort, they set off for their destination on the morning of the third day. The battle lines on both sides were flattened. In order to attack the warehouse ahead, the mercenaries had to make a large circle and climb over the mountains to reach it. Because of the mountains, this direction is not suitable for large-scale operations, and now the world's logistical capabilities have degraded to the point where it is impossible to cross the mountains to provide logistical support for the troops in front. So whoever wants to use this place to break through, the other party will take advantage of the temporary retreat and then teach him to be a man.
It would have taken more than six days to bypass the line and climb the mountains, making it impossible for large forces to carry out attacks. It takes six days for a small force, and it will not work for a large army for half a month. The mercenaries seem to be accustomed to such actions, and it is no wonder that as long as the march is subsidized, and the battles fought are not very dangerous, and there is enough post-war plunder, the more good things the better. At the foot of the hill the cart was parked on one side, and the mercenaries began to climb the hill with the soldiers - it would take two days for this alone. The horse Zhou Zhongmou rode was okay to walk the mountain road, and the mountains here were not impossible, but they couldn't walk side by side. Many roads can only be led by one horse, and under the control of Zhou Zhongmou, Lin's war horse also followed his horse step by step through the mountain road.
Viewed from the hill, the warehouse is visible from a distance, about ten kilometers away from the hill, and looks like a small castle. And here on the mountain road, there is also a sentry of the Grizzly Kingdom, and several soldiers immediately spotted the attacking enemy, and they ignited black smoke on the sentry. Although the skirmishers who came out at high speed shot the enemy on the sentry in the first place, they could not stop the flames and smoke from being generated. The next thing is going to turn into a storm. However, Lin had already prepared, and sixty soldiers were armored as fast as they could, and then marched in a neat column and quickly pounced on the granary in the distance.
There are barracks outside the granary, and there is also a mix of regular and mercenary troops stationed here - both sides of the war hired mercenaries in large numbers to do some minor tasks, and garrisoning supply points is also one of the popular tasks of mercenaries. Lynn who took the lead judged at first glance that there were about a hundred or so warriors in the camp outside the warehouse, and there might be a number in the warehouse to match it - any more would be wrong, after all, this was an era when there were only a few thousand soldiers on the front line between the two countries, and it was already a waste of troops to put a centurion and a mercenary group in a remote supply base.
The other party is already in the whole team, anyway, it will take time to get through the more than ten kilometers of road to Guò, and thirty minutes is enough time for these soldiers to pick up their weapons, although they have not had time to line up to meet them, but at least they can pull up the camp gate and prepare for defensive battle. The first to do it were the stragglers, these guys' archery skills are really good, and it seems that the Red Wolf Regiment didn't grow up eating rice. The guys pulled out a large fan, and then each drew a long arrow and began to shoot indiscriminately. Although there was no sense of synergy, the archery skills were extremely accurate, and almost every arrow was exchanged for the screams and falling sounds of the soldiers defending the barracks. There are also sparse arrows on the barracks to counterattack, but they are quite far away from these guys, whether it is strength or accuracy, these guys while casually strolling in the fan area, so that the opponent's arrows have missed, while opening their bows and arrows to shoot down one enemy after another, soon, the counterattack on the barracks disappeared.
The next thing these good archers can't do - they can't break through the opponent's gate with arrows. Zhou Zhongmou snorted and drew his sword, and then swaggered towards the gate of the other party's camp, he was not at all worried that the other party would greet him with a bow and arrow—the archers were staring at the wall. (To be continued......)