Chapter 223

On 23 October, the strength of the Grizzly Kingdom could no longer be concealed, and under such social conditions, it was not easy to conceal the strength of an army -- thanks to the pathetic logistical transportation capacity, the army could only ensure logistics within a radius of several tens of kilometers from the logistics base, and it would be a tragedy to transport it any further. Therefore, the Grizzly Kingdom, like the White Eagle Kingdom, can get a similar number of troops by estimating the number of troops gathered around each supply base. The White Eagle Kingdom gathered about 14,000 people here, while the Grizzly Kingdom on the other side sent an army of more than 18,000. For these two countries, it can already be regarded as sending half or even more than two-thirds of the country's mobile forces to fight here.

Of course, the commanders of both sides are also from the royal family, the commander-in-chief of the White Eagle Kingdom is the younger brother of the current king, His Excellency the Prince that Zhou Zhongmou didn't remember at all, and the Grizzly Kingdom let the crown prince command this group of troops. The commanders at all levels below are also dukes, marquises, and earls of Yishui'er, and the earls of the Forest Province of the White Eagle Kingdom are just middle-level real generals in this army.

Since they are both large armies, the battle is not carried out quickly, and both sides are ready to start the game with the most traditional tactics - arrange a heavy front on the front, and then pin their hopes on the breakthrough of the left and right flanks, and they will not pin on the mistakes of the other party for such a good thing as a breakthrough in the center, and the right wing where the red wolf regiment is located is a strong wing, and the left wing is due to the existence of mountains, and the White Eagle Kingdom has only deployed more than a thousand troops to implement defensive tactics. The same is true for the Grizzly Kingdom on the opposite side, their left flank has also been strengthened, facing the right wing of the White Eagle Kingdom ready to crush the opponent's strong flank with a series of powerful attacks. Then swept the central front - the right flank of the Grizzly Kingdom was equally weak. Almost 1,000 troops were also using defensive tactics. This sad scene has been playing out for more than a hundred years before. Almost every major battle between the two sides is such a similar tactic that the commanders of both sides can move their forces and implement tactics almost in order with their eyes closed

The scout battle has stopped, and the small attack of the Red Wolf Regiment has also stopped - the regiment commander is estimated to be crying in the tent, and in this week's scout battle, the cavalry unit of the Red Wolf Regiment has been reduced by ten people, even with Zhou Zhongmou's strong military support, but the general cavalry will still have casualties. For the Red Wolf Regiment of more than three hundred people. The loss of ten cavalry was already about to make the cavalry team led by the regiment commander himself suffer a painful loss. Fortunately, after the scout battle, the Red Wolf Regiment was able to rest, and was able to watch the columns of regular infantry come out of the camp and go head-on with the other side.

The White Eagle Kingdom has a disadvantage in the right flank, the opponent's strengthened right wing has more than 6,000 to 7,000 troops, while the White Eagle Kingdom only has 4,000 people - but the commander still chose to go out of the camp to meet the battle, and it is a foolish thing to stick to the camp and let the other side spread out calmly, when the other side has enough time and space to transport siege equipment - the ordinary military camp can not stop the power of trebuchets. The army of about 3,000 men left the camp, and after leaving the original camp for three kilometers, they began civil engineering again and began to build the forward camp. The Grizzly Kingdom on the other side was doing the same thing - the only difference was that they were using a little more troops, five thousand men. The Red Wolf Regiment was not a sortie this time. So the guys huddled around the perimeter of the camp to watch the battle.

The battle doesn't happen at this time, anyway. The distance between the two sides is still five kilometers away, and if this trend continues, they will have to build at least two advance camps before they can start fighting-the camp is set up very quickly, anyway, the war over the years has left a lot of flat ground in this place, and Zhou Zhongmou watched this battle with a movie-watching the battle, compared to the war he saw on the South Yuktobania Peninsula a thousand years ago - maybe the number of troops is almost the same, but in terms of combat effectiveness, it is really not the same - The powerful assault capability of the centaur army is the combat power that is completely unimaginable in this world now. As for comparing it to the world war 600 years ago, it is even more child's play.

The central front is about ten kilometers away, but it is obvious that there is not much movement there, and it seems that both sides have adopted the mode of sit-down war, waiting for a decisive situation in the battle on one side.

The battle did begin on 27 October, with cavalry on both sides, and after leaving the camp, they lined up to hedge and cover the infantry in formation. At this time, it was difficult to see the battlefield clearly from the large camp at the beginning, and because of the order, it was not possible to leave the camp at will to look at it - in any case, there was still some discipline as an army. However, it didn't have much impact on Zhou Zhongmou, his eyesight was good enough for him to see the battlefield clearly, those people and horses were hinginging, the stumps flying under the spears and swords, and the scene of blood splashing was no different from what he was in front of him. The battle between the two armies began with the firing of longbowmen and heavy crossbowmen, with soldiers stronger than the earthlings pulling their crossbows, which were heavier than their counterparts on earth, firing heavy arrows diagonally into the air and throwing them. The infantrymen raised their shields above their heads in unison, and the arrows rained down like a torrential rain created gaps in the battle line. Both sides were pushing forward, and the soldiers in the first few columns were carrying spears and shields, which were specially designed to allow the spears to sit flat and make it easier to thrust forward. The shield has an extended pole under it that can also be inserted into the ground, and the soldiers of this equipment are defensive and offensive - both are such troops.

This kind of frontal battle is basically a war of attrition, and neither side can play any tricks, and the only way is to crush the opponent's front from the front and then constantly press the opponent, and finally complete the campaign plan. It's just that on the battlefield, there are always flanks, and now when the Grizzly Kingdom is engaged head-on, it constantly mobilizes cavalry and reserves to devote itself to the flank attack of the narrow White Eagle Kingdom. Everyone has been fighting on this battlefield for many years, and all kinds of tactics have been played, the commander of the White Eagle Kingdom has arranged the troops step by step, and due to the lack of troops, he has to expose part of the flank, but he uses the terrain to make the surface of this flank small, and then he asks the rear to send reserves to fill this gap.

Of course, this task was entrusted to the Red Wolf Regiment, which spent about two hours crossing a distance of five kilometers, forming behind the Kingdom cavalry spread out on the flank in front, and then watched as the cavalry retreated from the gap in their formation, leaving the Red Wolf Regiment in front. At the top of the front line were two spearmen brigades, and then the sword and shield men were asked to act as reserves in the rear, and as for Zhou Zhongmou, the stragglers entered the gap between the spearmen, ready to fight—most of these guys were short, ready to roll over and cut their calves when the two sides engaged.

Zhou Zhongmou drew his big sword with a big grin, holding it in his right hand and casually touching the big sword to the ground, the position he was standing on the side of the spearman, his face slanted forty-five degrees to face the grizzly kingdom cavalry who were pressing over. (To be continued......)