Chapter 238: The Battle of Manhill
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Hearing the news from the front, the general of Hudor called a military meeting on Mount Lorraine.
A moment later, the military commanders of all the teams received the news and rushed to the scene.
At the moment, the stars are shining and the boots are shining. The large conference room was packed,
The scout looked at the officers and said, "A few of us, the reconnaissance team discussed it according to the situation after returning from reconnaissance, and estimated that the enemy has about 150,000 people. ”
"How many?" asked an officer.
"At least 150,000, my lord. The Scout replied.
There was a sound of cold air in the headquarters.
An officer said worriedly: "Don't say 150,000. It's 150,000 pigs, and we can't kill them all if we catch them."
The crowd burst out laughing.
Even though the enemy was as strong as this, they still had the confidence of victory for these arrogant officers, who had become accustomed to seeing no one in their eyes and looking at the heroes of the world
General Vabador also laughed twice when he looked at the group of disciples, then waved his hand and said, "Okay, everyone, don't make trouble. You go on to say, Knight. ”
The latter sentence was addressed to the scout.
The scout stepped forward, pointed to the map on the table, explained it to everyone in as much detail as possible, and said, "They have set up three camps on their backs to the city of Immanhil, each five miles apart, completely blocking the road to the south.
In addition, the shadow of the river boat, but the large battleship is not visible. The banners in those camps were very messy, and many of them were not wearing uniforms, only rudimentary weapons, and they did not come out to chase after us when they saw us approaching. ”
General Vabadore nodded, looked at Lorraine and said, "Lorraine, what do you think?"
Lorraine bowed his head and thought for a moment, and then said, "I will tell you my analysis and you for your reference." In addition to the none, I hope you will correct one or two
The people around him listened to him speak so politely. They all smiled and kept being polite.
Lorraine didn't say much, and then carefully analyzed: "First, many people are not wearing military uniforms, and their weapons are rudimentary, which shows that they are just some militia and the like.
Second, the chaotic argument shows that there is a big problem in the unity of command.
Thirdly, the absence of large warships means that they lack capital warships and supply ships
In the absence of supply ships, it is very difficult to solve the supply of 150,000 men by land transport alone, and I am sure that their battle will not last. ”
When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but nod their heads.
Lorraine looked at the crowd and said, "Gentlemen." It seems that the emperor of Almohads can't wait.
It is estimated that he has also received the news that the governors did not listen to the orders and secretly defended themselves, and if he could not defeat us and show his strength, but instead spent time with us under the city of Abdwad, the emperor's prestige would be lost.
And the consequences of this can be catastrophic. Other words. Soon the governors were not disobedient, but completely independent. That's when Amor and General Haddou can easily play his management buyout. If he wants to, of course
Everyone couldn't help but grin.
"And". Lorraine continued: "They have at least 150,000 men, and we have only 30,000 men, and in the eyes of the brainless bureaucrats in Almohads, we can be killed by a pile of people."
General Vabador laughed and said, "No analysis"
He paused for a moment, and then said loudly: "Since people are all the fat in their eyes, how can they be worthy of themselves if they don't take a hard bite?"
Everyone also laughed out loud with hideous faces.
General Vabador looked at the feelings of the officers who were already excited, nodded with satisfaction, and then said with a smile: "30,000 defeats 150,000, such a feat has never been achieved in the past thousand years. Gentlemen finish this battle. We'll be famous."
Speaking of this, he got up. He ordered in a loud voice: "Pass the order: prepare for battle, advance the battleships and the army in parallel, and let everyone show twelve points of spirit." Gentlemen. After this battle, we went into the city of Abdwad to celebrate our achievements."
All the generals stomped their feet in unison, and then roared angrily: "Only the great horses are"
News of the Almohads blocking the crusade at the front soon spread widely
Although the fact that there were 150,000 Almohads in front of them surprised the soldiers of the crusading army, not only after this battle, everyone was able to enter the city of Abdwad and grab it, but the dream day was just around the corner, and the morale of the crusading army was sharply high.
The ordinary soldiers in the crusade army even shouted directly: After this battle, "rob money, grab things, and rob women." slogan.
Soon, the crusaders were in battle formation on the Great Plains, and the mages and priests disembarked from their ships and entered the phalanx, and the ships were regrouped.
With a murderous aura, the Maple Leaf Danlin Raiders pounced on Almohad's garrison with a fierce aura.
Five miles from the Almohad camp, the raiders set up camp on the banks of the river. Confront it.
Lorraine climbed to the top of the battleship's mast. Take a commanding view of the Almohad camp not far away.
Lorraine climbed onto the ship's mast and looked out at the Almohad camp, which was only one of the three Almohad battalions, and the other two were far away on the horizon and could only be watched by scouts.
I saw the shadow of Manhill City in the distance. By Almohads this. The huge camp was covered and could only be seen faintly.
The area of countless large tents is also divided into three camps, forming horns into each other, and the Xiangshi and the guards have a little bit of the image of eavesdropping on the course from the military academy, but it is not specialized in their bones
Lorraine was astonished to see that the tents in the Almohads camp were arranged in a disorderly manner, spreading out from under Manhill like a large pool of turbulent water, and so mixed together that there was no passage left for it, so that in front of Manhill there were dots of white that obscured the tawny earth.
It should be like being in a huge labyrinth, and the black stream of people flows casually in the gaps of the tent, and it is actually very lively.
When Lorraine saw this, he couldn't help frowning, and said secretly in his heart: "Seeing that this looks like a military camp, this is simply a vegetable market."
On the opposite side of them, on the river beside the city of Manhill, a dense network of boats joined together, completely obscuring the water.
Lorraine climbed down from the mast with a heavy heart, and Leo greeted him, and asked with concern, "How is the other side?
Lorraine snorted coldly and said, "It's just a ragtag army, let this old guy Vabador pick up such a big bargain for nothing." But I also have a heart for the regular army inside, and I saw that there was also a Royal Forest Army of the Almohad royal family with the pig's head flag of Phnom Penh. ”
At this time, there was a commotion in the Almohad camp opposite.
Then, there was a strange thing. The voice heard the extremely awkward sound of the dagger, and Lorraine turned his head to look.
I saw thousands of people walking out of the camp. Gathered in front of the camp, they barely managed to form a non-square formation, followed by dozens of Almohads. A bunch of them came out of the camp and gathered beside them, standing in a scattered group.
Leo leaned on the bow of the boat, looked at the crowd in front of him, and asked strangely, "What are they doing at this time?"
Lorraine smiled wryly. "They seem to be in formation. ”
"Yay?" Leo blinked strangely and said, "What kind of clever formation is this? Could it be that you are talking about the Mandarin Duck Array, the Big Dipper Seven Star Array, the Flower Moon Lingfeng Array or something?"
Lorraine shook his head and said, "Of course not, they don't know how to line up
Leo was speechless.
Seeing the movement of the opposite side, the crusading army immediately took action, put down the camp that had not yet been firmly established, took up arms and lined up outside.
It only took ten minutes. Cavalry. The infantry, the mages were already in place, and 30,000 men lined up in a neat line to face the enemy.
The crusaders waited for half an hour, but they were still in disarray with the Almohads, and people kept coming out of the camp, but others turned around and went back to the camp.
The scouts shuttled back and forth, reporting news to the other two Almohad camps, which didn't make much of a move, except for a few bands of people running out to the Almohads on this side
At this time, there was another sound of military trumpets. The Almohads outside the camp shouted, and then they all turned back to the camp.
The crusaders looked at each other and wondered: What the hell are they doing? Could it be that they have taken the wrong medicine?
Leo in the direction of the Almohads camp, "Cut." sighed, then looked around, and took advantage of Catherine's inattention, secretly reached out and gestured his middle finger at them.
The soldiers and ruffians returned again and set up camp again. Only this time, they left two more cavalry regiments and one hoplite to keep an eye on each other. The enemy on the opposite side of the province plays that trick again.
In the middle of the night, all the soldiers of the crusading army had just fallen asleep when they were disturbed by the enemy's movements.
In order to guard against enemy night attacks. All the people in the crusading army were unclothed and waiting, and suddenly heard a commotion from the opposite side. They all ran to their positions, ready to fight.
However, they only saw a few fires in the Almohad camp opposite, and the outpost scouts were bold and ran forward for a long time. Even put his nose on the other party's camp gate, but the other party did not come out of the camp.
However, when I returned, I ran into a few scattered Almohads.
They wore civilian clothes and had no weapons, and when they saw the knights of the crusading army, they were considered Almohads. The scouts of the crusading army were not polite at the moment, and arrested a few of them and returned.
The generals of the crusading army quickly interrogated these people in the headquarters, and these guys were also very happy to see the fierce looks of the crusading soldiers and the swords in their hands. Even when he was five years old, he followed his cousin and stole someone else's dog.
Several of them were civilians in Abdwad City, or servants of nobles, bodyguards and other figures, all of whom were forcibly recruited by the emperor and his nobles, and at night they heard everyone shouting that the crusading army was attacking at night, and there were fires in many places, and they ran out without knowing the direction, but they didn't expect to run back, to the end of the crusade army.
When asked who the Almohadan general was, they didn't know anything, only the captain they were following. Then it was dark and I ran out in a daze.
After the officers received the information. They all got together and kept talking. I want to figure out what this is all about.
It's like the other party sent the mountain spirit tree monster, ** division. Or maybe they're practicing strange spells to curse us, or whatever, there's all sorts of speculation. But what exactly is going on, everyone has never been clear.
Lorraine thought for a moment. Then he asked, "Did anyone from our side send troops up to attack them?"
The crowd looked at each other, and then they all shook their heads.
Lorraine couldn't help but sigh and said, "Shan Gong looks like they are blowing up the camp by themselves" The generals looked at each other in disbelief. When you think about the situation, it really looks like a bombing camp. It sounds like a bombing camp, so is it really a bombing camp?
General Vabador stood up with a blank face and said, "Let the soldiers all go back to the camp to rest."
While it's still early, I'm going back for two more drinks. ”
Then he walked back to the tent.
A general looked at General Vabador's back and said to his colleagues next to him: "Believe it or not, after this battle, this old guy will be named the god of war." ”
Everyone else burst out laughing.
"What the hell is this mess?"
The noise at the Almohads camp lasted almost all night, and when dawn came on, it was even more lively.
The Almohads were really going to fight this time, and the crowd was pouring out of the camp at dawn, and they were constantly gathering in front of the camp under the increased drive of several knights, but in Lorraine, it seemed that the Almohads would need a little while.
The Almohads, who had been reported by the scouts to the other battalions, also began to assemble, but judging by their confusion, it was probably the afternoon from the time they had assembled and the time when the whole army had arrived here to engage the raiders.
The crusaders had already ignored them here, and everyone got up as usual, washed, had breakfast, equipment and weapons, and then lined up outside the camp.
The warships on the river also raised their sails, and the sailors shouted loudly, rowed their oars vigorously, and slowly lined up the battle array on the wide river.
Lorraine also rode to the front of the Soldier Ye Danlin Cadet Army, and shouted: "Brothers, we have finished this battle today. You can go to Abdwad for a good stroll. It's full of gold, precious stones,"
I don't know who it is. He shouted and said, "There are still women."
It immediately caused a burst of laughter from everyone.
Lorraine looked at the man. Then he continued: "Of course, if you are not afraid of the gendarmes asking for trouble, then there are women. However, "
He said that he was stunned. Then he stretched out his hand and pointed at the enemy phalanx on the opposite side, well, if that's called a phalanx. Lorraine pointed to the phalanx of the enemy army and shouted, "But if we want to take those things, we must kill these kings in front of us, do you know?"
The soldiers immediately stared red and roared angrily: "Kill him, kill those bastards." Then go to Abdewad to grab things, to grab money, to rob women"
Hearing their roars, the other troops next to them also had red eyes, and they all shouted: "Kill him to grab money, grab things, rob women and grab money, rob things, rob women, kill them,"
The roar resounded through the sky like a raging wave
Immediately afterward, the warriors who were stimulated by the surging killing intent stared at their blood-red eyes. With a soaring battle intent, he shouted loudly while waving the weapon in his hand while glaring at the enemy troops on the opposite side.
The army of 30,000 is like 30,000 wolves and tigers, just waiting for an order. It swept over like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, destroying the other party
Albeit at a great distance. And it was not visible to the naked eye, but the Almohads on the opposite side of them immediately felt the aura of destruction and death, sweeping over like a violent wind, almost suffocating.
Everyone's hearts sank. It's like a junior high school student who sees a street hooligan.
Many people now find that war is not as wonderful as it is depicted in literary and artistic works
Meaning.
Or maybe they just learned that although war is as moving as a literary work, they are just a bunch of supporting characters who can only show their faces and die. And it is far from the luck of the one named Zhou Xingxing and Song Bingyi.
There was a commotion in the Almohads phalanx.
The officers and overseers hurried forward, using their swords and spears over their heads, that is to say, they used cruel and bloody tactics against the soldiers with a straight heart, rather than with whips and riding boots.
There was a sudden scream of ghosts and wolves in the phalanx. Hearing the creepy and poignant voice, the hearts of the soldiers and ruffians suddenly felt uneasy.
They were now afraid of the Maple Leaf Danlin Raiders on the other side, and the threat from the sharp knives and spears behind them seemed more realistic and more direct, and then they became honest.
If you look down from the sky at this time, you will see a completely different appearance of the two armies.
The armor of the Maple Leaf Danlin Fang is distinct, and the sword light is cold. The fighting spirit is high. The battle lines lined up are as straight as knives and axes, allowing soldiers to cover each other and wield their maximum combat power.
The cavalry corps was divided into two wings. One covers the flanks, and the other is, once maneuvering, you can rush out quickly, wielding the most proud and ferocious destructive power of the cavalry.
Archers in the back. The mages and priests are also arranged in a distinct order, like a huge millstone of war armed to the teeth, which will inevitably grind its enemies into powder.
On the other hand, the Ran Mohd Army. With the exception of the Royal Guard, all the troops were scattered in their clothing, their weapons, their flags, and their ranks
Even their military horns are unusually scattered, with trombones, horns, conch horns, and even those who can't find their horns, and use drums and gongs instead.
In a word, what you think of is scattered. You can't think of it. It's also scattered.