Chapter 319: Annihilation of the Sixth Legion
After listening to the opinions of the officers, Richard weighed the pros and cons and decided to take on the heavy responsibility with the allied forces of the four provinces. He persuaded bitterly: "At this time, as soon as we withdraw from the army, Steven may not be able to support it, and if the Grant royal family loses two main legions, the regime may be unstable, and a new round of political struggle may break out in the country at that time."
Whether it is the Duke of Haaland or the four provinces of Northern Xinjiang, they are facing orc invasions at any time, and we must have a stable environment in the rear. Therefore, it is also in our interest to maintain the political stability of the Grant Kingdom. Moreover, we are vassals of King Roger, and we have the obligation and responsibility to be loyal to the kingdom.
I have already explained the reasons for this, so I ordered my troops to prepare at once and launch a full-scale attack early tomorrow morning. Reinforcements are still two days away, and we must annihilate this group of enemies before they arrive. ”
Although the Haaland family has some contradictions with the Grant royal family, the royal family has tried to create some obstacles for the Haaland family to maintain the balance of power out of the factor of stable status. But the Haaland family and the Grant royal family have far more cooperation than differences. Especially in the face of foreign enemies, once Richard chooses to pull back, it will be difficult for the two sides to trust each other in the future.
Years of glorious victories have made Richard very prestigious among the officers of the four provinces of Haaland. Under Richard's persuasion, the coalition forces of the four provinces agreed to annihilate the Sixth Army first, and then block the United Kingdom reinforcements on the east coast, so as to hold the back road for Steven and assume heavier responsibilities.
Early the next morning, after breakfast, the soldiers began to line up in preparation for a full-scale attack.
The camp's heavy trebuchets were the first to start, and after years of development, there was a small blowout of Haaland's mathematical talents, and now with the addition of magicians, there are two or three hundred mathematical talents who are proficient in gravity calculation and ballistic parabola calculation.
After calculating in advance, using the appropriate counterweights, the catapult unit hit very accurately.
With the sound of the order, the soldiers cut the rope continuously, and a stony bullet crossed a distance of 200 meters, and landed accurately on the camp of the Sixth Army of the United Kingdom on the east coast.
Stone projectiles landed from a high altitude and smashed into the tent with great kinetic energy, smashing the hapless soldiers into meatloaf.
Such a terrible scene hit the nerves of the soldiers, even veterans who have been in the army for many years tremble when they see this scene.
Seeing that the stone projectiles were constantly being thrown and making a piercing sound of breaking through the air, Caesar, the commander of the Sixth Legion, turned pale.
Although there were many battles between the two sides, Richard used a heavy trebuchet for the first time. The trebuchet has only fired a few rounds, and the visual impact on the enemy is already very serious.
Although Caesar discovered this new type of equipment in the war reports of the Delong Kingdom, he never expected that in the hands of the army led by Haaland, this trebuchet would be so powerful?
This is the time for United Kingdom soldiers on the East Coast to act and break the situation of being beaten.
"The soldiers and the enemy have launched a full-scale attack on us, and the Grants have elite cavalry under their command, and under the onslaught of the cavalry, it is impossible for us to retreat.
Now that the terrible stone bullets are constantly falling on our heads, and it is imperative to improve the situation, I have decided to lead everyone in the charge. Please believe me, follow me, and defeat the Grants in one fell swoop.
I swear to the god of kingship and order that I will be kind to everyone after victory, and that I will share the honor and silver with you.
Victory belongs to the Sixth Legion, to the East Coasters! ”
Caesar made the final mobilization to lift the spirits of his soldiers. The soldiers of the 6th Army on the east coast quickly adjusted their formation, braved the rain of stone bullets fired by trebuchets, and launched a decisive attack on the allied forces of the four provinces in northern Xinjiang.
Heavy trebuchets are not very convenient to move and are not very useful in field combat, once the enemy moves quickly and goes within a hundred meters, it is difficult to aim.
In the face of life and death, the soldiers of the 6th Legion on the East Coast moved quickly, and after only five or six rounds of trebuchets were fired by the trebuchets, Caesar led the soldiers to rush through the range of the heavy trebuchets.
Among the allied forces of the four provinces, Richard led 6,000 soldiers led by Haaland as the central army, 7,000 troops of the nobles of the Rach Province, and 2,000 of the nobles of the Grotta Province as the left battalion. 5,000 men in Gascoigne province and 6,000 men in Geda province were in the right battalion.
The commander of the left battalion was Viscount Raphael, the eighth order golden knight, and the commander of the right battalion was Viscount Rohman, the seventh order silver knight.
Because of the last time the intervention army was formed, Richard led the northern nobles to a brilliant victory, and after the war, the four noble officers achieved a class jump and were promoted to the hereditary aristocracy.
This time the formation of the intervention army, the nobles of northern Xinjiang almost invested in blood, and the soldiers who participated in the war were basically elite soldiers, such as Viscount Raphael and Viscount Rohmon and other important nobles who joined the intervention army with elites.
Counting the soldiers of Haaland's territory, the Northern Noble Alliance had a total of 26,000 soldiers, while Caesar had only more than 15,000 under his command.
Seeing that the left and right flanks were outflanked, Caesar quickly passed down the order, and the soldiers of the United Kingdom on the east coast adjusted their formation. Two brigades were divided from the left and right flanks to block the left and right battalions led by Raphael and Viscount Rohman.
Seeing Caesar's change of formation, Richard rode on the iron horn horse and smiled at the officers beside him: "It seems that the enemy wants to break through from the middle camp, I order, the soldiers led by Haaland, to defeat the enemy from the middle road." ”
After the order was given, the soldiers of the 1st Brigade took the lead and bravely launched a counter-charge against the enemy.
Even if it's on the way. The archers of the first brigade also shot one arrow after another, although these arrows looked sparse, but they were very accurate, and more than a hundred arrows shot past, each of which almost accurately hit the enemy.
There are a lot of veterans in the first brigade, and there are more than 100 people who have reached the third level of archery, and all of these 100 people are archers, and they can accurately shoot the enemy's vital points within 100 meters.
In battle, the damage of each archer is very impressive. In just a few rounds of arrows, Caesar's soldiers were killed and wounded in the hundreds. There were no fewer casualties than trebuchets killed.
With the exception of the Precision Marksman, the rest of the First Brigade was armed with bows and arrows, except for the Scorching Ray Gunners, who were very capable of long-range projection.
The regular army of the United Kingdom on the east coast can hardly compete with it.
Seeing that the casualties were getting heavier, Caesar could only bite the bullet and attack.
Caesar was a ninth-order epic knight with a very brave personality, and under his example, the soldiers of the United Kingdom on the East Coast summoned up the courage to charge the army of the Kingdom of Grant.
In less than three minutes, the two sides rushed through a distance of more than 100 meters, collided fiercely, and a tragic hand-to-hand combat broke out.
Caesar's power is astonishing, killing and wreaking havoc on an elite veteran with every blow.
In less than a minute, Caesar had already struck six times, killing a junior officer, severely wounding two professional veterans, and easily killing a sharpshooter and two high-ranking warrior cadet soldiers.
Relying on his own bravery, Caesar easily opened a gap and rushed into the First Brigade. Even low-level professionals wearing brute force armor can hardly be Caesar's enemies and cannot compete with them.
Seeing Caesar's bravery, Richard was about to kill him himself. Martin, the captain of the First Brigade, and Jennings, the leader of the Sixth Brigade, took the lead and began to besiege this man with Sulla, Tyron, Julian and other officers.
Martin and Jennings are all sixth-order warriors, and Sulla, Tyron, and Julian have also been promoted to the fourth-order, and in Haaland, they have been promoted to the captain rank. Five mid-tier warriors joined forces, wearing brute force armor that increased their strength, and bravely blocked Caesar's attack.
There were many high-ranking professionals at the headquarters of the Sixth Army of the United Kingdom on the east coast, and the two deputy commanders commanded the soldiers on the left and right flanks. The Third Deputy Legion Commander of the Legion Headquarters, the Minister of Logistics, the Captain of the Magic Squad, the Chief Judge, and the Chaplain of the Army were all involved in the raid war.
There are also many high-level professionals in the army led by Haaland, such as Soros and Sophia of the seventh order, Wendy of the fifth order, and Annie and Butler of the fourth order also act with the headquarters. The mage support force in the Haaland Territory is far stronger than that of the mages in the United Kingdom on the East Coast. Among the officers of the headquarters, there were more than ten fourth-order and fifth-order soldiers.
After the battle between the two armies, the officers and professionals immediately targeted the mages and priests, because everyone knew how destructive the magic profession was to the war.
Generally speaking, a dozen mages join forces and unleash a large joint spell to upset the balance of war.
Sophia's opponent is a five-ring magician who is the leader of the Sixth Legion's magical support team.
There are a total of twelve people in this magic support team, of which the main and deputy captains are all middle-level magicians, the remaining ten team members are low-level magicians, one of the ten senior magicians is a third-order, and the rest are first-order and second-order mages.
According to the usual combat experience, once the magic team makes a move, it can often have an immediate effect. Harness the diversity of magical powers to help your infantry outwit your enemies.
It's just that Caesar never expected that the number of battle mages led by Haaland led the army to be more than sixty people, and the official mages had two squads close to thirty people. The rest of the support staff are basically high-level mage apprentices, and their combat effectiveness is stronger than that of the three mage support teams.
After using two spells, Sophia has managed to break the enemy's magic shield.
Sophia's magic talent is superior, her mental power talent far exceeds that of ordinary people, and she wears a starlight necklace, her magic lethality has surpassed that of an eight-ring magician, close to the standard of an ordinary nine-ring magician.
I saw that she unleashed a powerful immobilization technique, easily immobilizing the enemy.
After being hit by the powerful immobilization technique, seeing that he could not be exempted from damage, the leader of the mage squad of the Sixth Legion immediately prepared to open the dimensional door and prepare to use the dimensional space to escape.
As a result, Sophia took the lead and released the four-ring magic dimensional anchor, which fixed the alien dimension and made the enemy's magic useless.
Before Sophia could strike again, Richard and Wendy teamed up to eliminate the vice-captain of the magic team and successfully captured the four-ring magician. Venti had just freed up her hand and used the Lightning Staff to unleash a powerful lightning spell, which easily killed the person.
The captain of the magic squad was killed in battle, the vice-captain was captured, and the fate of the remaining magicians was sealed, four magicians were killed on the spot, and the remaining six were captured alive by the Harland Leader.
Solving the magic squad, Harland led the magician to free his hand and unleashed a large area of greasy spell, enveloping the two squadron enemies in the spell range in an instant.
In the fierce battle, more than three hundred soldiers were slipped in an instant, and their fate was sealed in an instant.
Seeing that the army was about to be defeated, Caesar was deeply saddened. Caesar's family, despite being a duke of the United Kingdom on the East Coast, actually had only two hereditary legions.
This time, the Sixth Legion was completely annihilated and annihilated in the Kingdom of Delon, and the Caesar family suffered heavy losses, and its influence in the United Kingdom on the East Coast would be greatly weakened.
But the situation has developed to this point, and regret and grief have long been useless. Caesar's only choice was to flee for his life.
Caesar struck with all his might, causing Sulla's hands to be in severe pain, and a gap appeared in the enchanted longsword. Although Sulla was very heroic, the gap between his strength and Caesar was too large, and once Caesar was ruthless, he fell into passivity in an instant.
Caesar struck hard and immediately knocked down Sulla's weapon, seeing that Sulla was in danger. Jennings and Julian rushed forward bravely, protecting Sula behind him and blocking Caesar's continuous attacks.
Jennings and Julian showed a gap in their standing positions in order to protect Sulla, and Caesar rushed forward with force, instantly breaking through the encirclement of the five.
Caesar was just about to flee when Wendy unleashed a chain of lightning bolts and struck the man hard.
At this moment, Haaland and the accompanying magicians had already freed their hands, and Richard, Sophia, and Wendy all targeted this person.
Seeing a series of lightning strikes, Caesar hurriedly raised his magic shield.
A blue light bloomed from the shield, releasing a powerful protective fighting aura that blocked Wendy's attack. Before Caesar could breathe a sigh of relief, Sophia unleashed a five-ring magic ice storm, and a powerful ice attribute energy enveloped the person.
Caesar was born in the warm southern region, and his own knight bloodline did not have strong cold-resistant attributes, and he was shrouded in an ice storm, and was instantly injured by this magic, and severe chilblains appeared on his body, and the damage to his vitality was extremely serious.
Caesar endured the pain and moved his legs vigorously, finally breaking through the range of the ice storm, and was just about to shoot Sophia, a pesky enemy, with his bow and arrow.
Martin and Jennings had already raised their enchanted shields to block Caesar's shots.
Martin and Jennings are both sixth-order warriors, wearing brute force armor, and melee combat can already pose a certain threat to Caesar, and the two of them held a shield in one hand and brandished an enchanted sword in the other, and launched an attack on Caesar.
Caesar endured the pain and bravely forced the two back, and before Caesar could continue to attack Sophia, Richard had already unleashed the powerful three-ring magic human immobilization technique on him.
Targeted by immobilization on the battlefield doomed Caesar to defeat.
(End of chapter)