Chapter 956, Final Victory
Karn led the HRE army to reverse the decline in one fell swoop, not only turning the crisis into safety, but also occupying the initiative on the battlefield, faintly forming an encirclement posture against the Ming army.
However, how could the Ming army be so easy to defeat, I saw that the Ming soldiers under the leadership of Duan Zhixian continued to fight back wildly, one after another, indomitable, killing people like bloody people, horses like bloody horses, bravely rushing to kill, brave and peerless! Especially Duan Zhixian, wielding an iron Zen staff is like a great killing god, killing the enemy soldiers in the enemy army on their backs, and the corpse is bloody! However, no matter how brave the Ming army is, the situation is gradually developing in a direction that is unfavorable to itself! After all, the HRE army is not an ordinary army, and the strength of the army is twice as large as itself at the moment! If the war situation continues like this, the situation of the Ming army is very worrying!
Karn kept urging the army to besiege, and he couldn't help but feel anxious when he saw that the enemy army was so strong and tenacious.
"Your Excellency, look!" A general next to him suddenly pointed to the distance and shouted.
Karn hurriedly looked in the direction of the general's finger, and sure enough, he saw an endless crowd of people surging in the dark night, and he couldn't help but be shocked.
Hurriedly looking back at the battlefield in front of him, he saw that although his side had the upper hand, the enemy army was still very tenacious, and it was obviously impossible to distinguish the victory and defeat in a short period of time. In view of this, Karn made a quick decision and ordered the cavalry to retreat after the cavalry.
After receiving the order, the HRE army immediately fought and retreated, trying to disengage from the Ming army. But it's not so easy to disengage. Duan Zhixian saw that his eldest brother led a large army to arrive, where could he allow the enemy army to flee like this, so he immediately waved his army and attacked it, biting the Shenluo army and not letting go.
Soon after, the war cavalry led by Yang Peng first rushed to the battlefield and joined the battle group. The HRE cavalry in charge of the broken moment felt a lot of pressure when he boarded, and even if he had the strength to eat milk, he desperately blocked it. Yang Peng couldn't break through their block for a while.
The armies of both sides, fighting and retreating on the one hand, were chasing after each other, and the sound of killing shook the sky and the shouts shook the ground, as if the mountains in the distance were shaking.
The Ming army pursued the enemy all the way to the place where the Chinese army position was located. At this time, the Daming ambush soldiers who were ambushed here were still rushing into the Shenluo army array, and the two sides were inseparable! The offensive of the Ming army is like a stormy sea that is invincible, but the military formation of the HRE army is like an iron wall that cannot be broken! This fight was so miserable that the ghost cried and howled!
The main force of the HRE converged with the remaining soldiers and horses, and in order to prevent the Yeluyi army from disrupting their own battle formation, the HRE army fired arrows at the Yeluyi army that was fleeing! The Yeluyi army, which was fleeing in a hurry, was hit by arrows and fell to the ground one after another, suffering heavy casualties. The Yeluyi army was panicked and immediately scattered and fled, but some of them rushed straight towards the army of the HRE, but they were mercilessly killed by the spears and axes of the HRE army, killing hundreds of thousands, and no one came here again!
The HRE army gathered into a huge military formation, with shields and spears in front and crossbowmen in the back.
A moment later, the HRE warrior in charge of the broken rear retreated, and it was already nearly half of the loss. Immediately, the main force of the Ming Dynasty arrived and stormed the Shenluo army array! More than 100,000 or 200,000 Ming elites continue to pounce on the Shenluo army array, in fact, it is extremely magnificent, like a landslide, like a ground crack, like a meteor falling to the ground, like a storm crashing on the shore! Steel collides with steel, and the cold light reflects the rain of blood! The Ming army followed one after another, bravely assaulting, and the Shenluo army was also one after another, desperately resisting!
The Ming army continued to attack several rounds, but failed to break through the defenses of the HRE army. Yang Peng saw that his soldiers had suffered great losses but could not see the hope of breaking through the enemy formation, so he ordered the army to stop attacking and retreated hundreds of steps back to line up.
At this moment, the war cavalry of the Shenluo Army took the opportunity to launch a surprise attack, and the thousands of Ming infantry troops at the back were rushed to pieces by the opponent. Fortunately, the Ming cavalry rescued in time, otherwise these thousands of Ming infantry would only be slashed and killed.
The Ming army quickly retreated a distance of about 300 paces and lined up in an army formation. The soldiers and horses that had been ambushed here retreated to the place where they had been ambushed before to catch the flanks of the HRE army. If the armies of the two sides want to confront each other, they don't care about the lonely souls and wild ghosts of the Yeluyi army.
The Ming army lined up the military array, Yang Peng raised the iron horse lance, and shouted: "Iron cavalry out of the formation!" ”
The frontal front line of the Ming Dynasty immediately separated, and the Shinra generals saw 10,000 ironclad warriors with heavy armor and iron armor like the peaks of the iron tower slowly walking out of the military formation. At this time, although they had not yet launched a charge, the fierce momentum they exuded was terrifying!
Karn and the others all had a change in complexion, they were no strangers to these Great Ming Iron Riders. On that day, under Saulan City, it was these ironclad warriors who desperately assaulted, although there were few cases, they killed and injured countless of their own side, and it could be said that there were corpses all over the field at that time! I can't help but shudder when I think about it now!
Karn didn't think about it, and immediately ordered more than 10,000 heavily armored cavalry under his command to go into battle. He hopes to use the Iron Armor Warrior against the Iron Armor Warrior to contain the opponent's killer weapon. I saw more than 10,000 war horses who were also as burly as a mountain and wearing heavy armor slowly came out of the military formation. In terms of momentum alone, it seems that it is not inferior to the Great Ming Iron Horse. This is the heavy armor war horse that the HRE army quickly formed after suffering from the heavy armor war cavalry of the Ming Dynasty.
The war drums and horns in the military formations of the two sides sounded loudly, and the ironclad war horses of both sides immediately burst out, only to see two waves of steel surging! The soldiers on both sides only felt a kind of majestic power appear in front of them in an instant, and even if they were all battle-hardened warriors, they couldn't help but change color.
The ironclad warriors fled at full speed, and the earth trembled violently, making people wonder if the earth would suddenly collapse completely!
In a moment, as if it was very long, and as if it was very short, the two torrents of steel collided with each other, and only a heavy and thrilling crash was heard! The Shinra Heavy Rider wields a cross sword, and the Ming Iron Rider wields a mace! Bang bang, the blades of both sides kept smashing on each other's bodies and making a loud noise that made people's scalps tingle! It was like the mountains were shattering! This is simply not a confrontation between human armies, it is clearly like a fierce battle between the gods and demons, killing the world miserably, and the killing is changing color!
But soon, everyone saw that although the iron cavalry on both sides was a rare strong army in the world, the Shinra heavy cavalry was gradually at a disadvantage! Seeing that the Ming Dynasty cavalry became more and more courageous, the murderous spirit was monstrous, but the Shenluo heavy cavalry was a person who fell on his back and fell in a pool of blood one by one! Although the HRE Heavy Cavalry is brave, it is inferior to the Ming Iron Cavalry in terms of equipment and tactics, and in such a bloody battle, the situation is becoming more and more disadvantaged!
Karn frowned, but he didn't mean to bring back his heavy horse. Because in such a big battle, it is not only about winning or losing, but also about military might. Your own heavy cavalry can be wiped out, but you must not lose your momentum and military might!
The iron-blooded battle between the two sides lasted for nearly half an hour, and the battle finally ended. The ground was still full of corpses, and more than 10,000 Shinra heavy cavalry troops were killed, and only a few who were not yet dead were squirming in the pile of corpses. And the loss of the Daming Iron Cavalry is definitely not small, 10,000 Daming Iron Cavalry killed nearly 4,000 people, and many others were wounded.
The Daming Iron Cavalry retreated into the formation, and then another wave of Daming Iron Cavalry marched out of the military formation under the leadership of the fierce general Huyan Bixian.
This time, there was no ironclad warrior on the HRE side who could deal with it, and the soldiers couldn't help but panic. Karn immediately ordered all the heavy shield spears to line up in front of him, forming five solid defensive lines. Karn rode his horse back and forth in the military formation, constantly cheering the soldiers, who let out bursts of shouts.
Knock knock knock...... The drums of the Ming Dynasty sounded like thunder. The 10,000 Ming iron cavalry led by Huyan Bixian immediately charged, and the iron cavalry set off a rolling storm and rushed straight towards the Shenluo army array.
"Shoot the arrows!" Karn yelled. The crossbowmen, who had long been ready to attack, immediately fired arrows, and with a loud roar, the arrows converged into a dark cloud that covered the sky and flew straight towards the Daming Iron Horse! In an instant, the 'dark clouds' turned into a torrential rain and fell in the middle of the Daming Iron Horse, only to hear a crackling sound into a piece, and the ground was instantly a scene of ten thousand feathers into a forest! However, the Daming Iron Cavalry seemed to be unaffected at all, and continued to charge forward against the dense rain of arrows, with great might!
The Shinra crossbowmen fired three waves in a row, and the ground was covered with a rain of arrows, but they couldn't stop the progress of the Daming Iron Cavalry.
The Shinra soldiers couldn't help but be shocked when they saw the Great Ming Iron Cavalry pushing mountains and seas surging. In the blink of an eye, the torrent of rolling steel slammed into the Shinra Spinning Thread! I only heard a loud rumbling sound, even if the waves crashed on the shore, it was nothing more than that! I saw that the shield shattered and people flew, and the first line of defense of the HRE collapsed and fell apart, and then the second line of defense was also torn apart! When it came to the third line of defense, the momentum of the charge of the Daming Iron Cavalry finally stopped, but it followed by a wave of distance and violently broke the third line of defense! By the time the Great Ming Iron Cavalry rushed to the fourth line of defense, the power of the charge seemed to have been exhausted and it was difficult to break through!
Karn couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that the Great Ming Iron Cavalry was being stopped, and immediately ordered the army to fight back immediately. The horns in the HRE army sounded loudly, and the HRE soldiers roared and rushed forward with their swords and guns! The Ming Iron Cavalry lost the momentum of the charge, and was surrounded by the endless tide of enemy soldiers! The Daming Iron Cavalry struggled to wield the mace, smashing the enemy's flesh and blood and causing heavy casualties, but as the saying goes, ants gnaw elephants to death, and the Shinra soldiers continue to besiege one after another, even with the power and defense of the Daming Iron Cavalry, there are continuous casualties! Often when a knight is dragged to the ground, countless swords and guns come up! That Xuantian heavy armor is that no matter how strong the defense is, it can't withstand such an attack!
Just when the HRE army frantically counterattacked and looked up at the iron horse. Karn saw tens of thousands of Ming warriors leave the formation in two teams, outflanking them on the left and on the right.
At this time, all the heavy shieldmen and long sought-after men used to defend against the cavalry attack went to the front to resist the charge of the Ming iron cavalry, while tens of thousands of Ming war horses were divided into two teams and circled around the two wings of the great array.
Karn immediately understood the other party's intentions, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers and horses who were frantically counterattacking the Great Ming Iron Cavalry to stop the counterattack and form a battle formation.
The HRE armies received the order and quickly retreated. A portion of the heavy shieldmen and the long scavengers quickly moved to the flanks, while the light cavalry attacked to take advantage of the enemy assault cavalry. The two sides fought a fierce battle, and the Ming war cavalry repelled the Shenluo war cavalry, and then pounced on the flank of the Shenluo army formation. I saw the iron hooves surging, the arrows rained all over the sky, and the Ming war cavalry attacked fiercely, but the defense line of the Shinra was impregnable, and the Ming war cavalry could not tear an inch of the gap for a long time.
At the same time, the Daming Iron Cavalry took the opportunity to break away from the HRE army, retreated dozens of steps, turned back, and attacked again. In an instant, the torrent of steel was surging towards the HRE army array!
The officers and soldiers of the HRE army on the frontal front immediately roared, ready to meet the onslaught.
In the blink of an eye, the torrent of steel once again hit the defense line of the HRE army, only to hear a huge impact sound, the shield of the HRE soldiers shattered, the people flew out, and the two defense lines were rushed to pieces by the invincible Ming Iron Cavalry in an instant! Immediately, the Daming Iron Cavalry rushed into the Shenluo army formation, trampled on the iron hooves, and the wolf stick flew, killing the Shenluo soldiers and retreating again and again!
Yang Peng saw that the Daming Iron Cavalry had successfully broken into the enemy formation, and immediately waved the whole army to attack in an all-round way! All of a sudden, I saw the rolling tide of soldiers coming from the sky!
Seeing that the situation was critical, Karn couldn't care about that much, and immediately ordered an all-out attack on the whole army! The horn of the HRE army sounded loudly, and the morale of the HRE army, which was in turmoil, was greatly boosted, and then they shouted and marched forward! The armies of both sides collided together and began to fight! Hundreds of thousands of horses and horses are fighting together, and the scene is really magnificent and shocking! Suddenly, the rain of arrows looted the past, and suddenly the war horses swept over, the sound of killing shook the sky, and the sword light danced wildly! At the same time, the Ming army on the left and right sides also rushed up, cooperating with the main force to storm the Shenluo army!
Gradually, the HRE army could no longer hold on.
At this moment, the sound of killing in the west suddenly rose, and I saw a cloud of banners and a crowd of people rolling, and it turned out to be a Shinra army to kill. Karn was overjoyed and shouted, "Hold on, everyone, General Florian has come to our rescue with his army!" The morale of the Shinra army was boosted, and they launched a series of counterattacks, which were able to withstand the ferocious offensive of the Ming army.
Yang Peng saw that the enemy's front army was coming to reinforce him, and he didn't care about how they crossed the river so quickly, so he immediately divided a part of the army and ordered Duan Zhixian to lead it to intercept the enemy's front army.
With this division of troops, the main force besieging the HRE was weakened, and Karn and the others took this opportunity to fight and retreat to the other side of the river. The two HRE armies converged, but they still couldn't resist the fierce offensive of the Ming army, and continued to fight and retreat! The two sides fought all the way out for more than ten miles, until the river! At this time, Yang Peng and the others finally knew why the former army of the Shinra was able to cross the river so quickly. It turns out that there is a section of the river that is not deep, and it is possible to wade across the river! Seeing that the HRE soldiers rushed across the river, Karn quickly ordered one of his heavy infantry to turn around and line up to stop the enemy! I saw more than 10,000 heavily armored infantry lined up near the river, desperately resisting the onslaught of the Yanyun army; And the Ming warriors continued to sacrifice their lives to attack, the two sides fought endlessly, the soldiers on both sides continued to fall in pools of blood, and the entire river was dyed red!
The Ming army could not attack for a long time, and in the end, Yang Jing led the Modao army to bravely break through the opponent's defense line, and entered the formation, and finally slaughtered the enemy's broken ironclad infantry after a bloody battle, but he also paid a lot of price.
The Ming army continued to pursue for several miles, but it was no longer possible to catch up out of sight, so Yang Peng ordered the troops to be withdrawn.
The HRE army retreated all the way to Montenegro, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw that the Ming army had not caught up anymore. Karn ordered people to check the losses, and found that all the soldiers and horses of the Yeluyi army had been lost, and few of them were still following, while his own army of more than 200,000 had lost almost 100,000! Karn and the others couldn't help but shudder when they thought of the experience of defeat along the way. Karn ignored his tired mind and body, and hastened to arrange his defenses. Rest until everything is fine. Soon, he leaned under the tree and fell asleep.
Suddenly, he was awakened by a shout. He thought that the enemy was catching up, so he immediately jumped up, picked up his weapon, and shouted: "Gather troops and horses and say that I will fight back!" ”
Quaid in front of him hurriedly said: "Your Excellency, the enemy did not chase after you, it is a report from Thomas." I just received a report that the defense line of the northern line of Khorezm has been lost! ”
Karn couldn't help but be relieved when he heard that this was the case. Then he frowned, sighed, and muttered, "We have all been defeated so badly, there is nothing strange about them being crushed on their side!" However, having said that, there was inevitably some trepidation in my heart. Asked Quaid, "What is the situation?" How much is lost? ”
Quaid said: "According to the report, they are almost completely wiped out! Only Thomas and Jereil and more than a thousand cavalry escaped, and the rest of the soldiers and horses were annihilated! ”
Karn frowned, pacing back and forth. Then he stopped and thought: "Now that the war situation is unfavorable, we can only defend Montenegro!" ”
Quaid said: "Your Excellency, it is difficult to hold Montenegro with our strength alone, I wonder when Your Majesty's reinforcements will arrive?" ”
Karn frowned, "According to the time, the mobilized soldiers and horses should be on the way. ”
As he spoke, Florian rushed in from outside, and said excitedly to Karn: "Your Excellency, I have just received a message from the flying pigeons in China, and reinforcements are already on their way, and they are expected to arrive here within a month." ”
Karn and Quaid glanced at each other, but neither was as excited as Florian. Quaid said worriedly, "It's going to take another month, can we hold it?" ”
Karn said categorically: "If you can't hold it, you have to hold it!" Our Holy Roman Empire is invincible, and no one can stop us wherever we pass, if we are defeated again and again in the face of the offensive of the Ming army, then do we still have the face to see Your Majesty, to meet the subjects in the country? The two of them couldn't help but nod their heads. Quaid frowned and said, "Your Excellency is right, we have no way back now!" We must fight to the end with the Ming Army! If we can't hold Montenegro, we will die on the battlefield than live to bear the shame of defeat! ”
Karn asked Florian, "How many reinforcements has Your Majesty transferred, and from what side?" ”
Florian handed the book to Karn. Karn took the handbook and looked at it, but frowned. Quaid couldn't help but ask, "Your Excellency, is there something wrong?" ”
Florian frowned and said, "Your Majesty said that it is difficult to assemble and mobilize other main army corps at present, and we can only mobilize the Moorish servant army and the Arab servant army to support us!" ”
Quaid's face changed, and he couldn't help but exclaim; "What's the use of those servants? We are not facing a useless Islamic enemy, nor a vulnerable Tianzhu people, but a Ming army like a tiger and a wolf! Using these servant armies to face the Daming tiger wolf, this is simply a sheep in the mouth of the tiger and there is no return! It's nothing if those people die, but it will greatly damage the interests of the Empire! Why did His Majesty decide this? ”
Karn glared and shouted, "Don't be rude! ”
Quaid knew that he had overdone it, and he couldn't help but close his mouth, but the expression on his face was still very anxious.
Karn mused, "Your Majesty must not be very aware of the situation on our side. Her understanding of the combat power of the Ming Army may not be thorough enough. In addition, the empire is now sweeping away England, mobilizing a large number of troops, guarding various points, and guarding against the Byzantine Empire, so naturally we cannot mobilize the main army to support as we would like! ”
Florian asked in surprise: "The Byzantine Empire is our ally, how can we say that we should guard against them?" ”
Karn said, "How can there be a friend forever! The Byzantine Empire rose so quickly and so powerfully, who can guarantee that she would not want to stab us in the back? That's something you can't afford to be unguarded against! The two of them felt that what he said made sense, and they couldn't help but nod.
Karn frowned, "The next month will be our toughest time. Then he said to Quaid: "You immediately send people to the west, and transport the heavy supplies and cannon gunpowder that are still on the road to Montenegro as soon as possible." Quaid answered and ran down.
Florian asked, "Your Excellency, would you like to have Jereme mobilize the local people to strengthen our defenses?" ”
Karn frowned and muttered, "It's useless, but it's better than nothing." Then he said to Florian: "You immediately send someone to send an order to Yelu Yilie, so that he will come back to see me, and immediately go to all parts of Khorezm to recruit people to assist us in resisting the Yanyun army!" Florian answered and ran down.
Karn asked his soldiers to unfold the map and stand in front of it, looking at it with a thoughtful look on his face.
On Yang Peng's side, after defeating Karn's army, the army marched to the river and set up camp. Since the previous battle was won, but also paid a great price, and the soldiers were very tired, they suspended the attack and went down to the river, while monitoring the enemy troops in the direction of Montenegro, while resting.
On this morning, just as Yang Peng and the generals were deliberating, news came that Yang Yanzhao led the army to a complete victory, completely breaking through the northern defense line of the Khorezm Sea and almost annihilating the enemy.
Everyone was very happy, and Yang Jing shouted loudly: "General Yang's side has also won, we should sweep away the Black Mountain in one go, and what are we doing here!" ”
Everyone couldn't help laughing, and Yelu Hanyu asked with a smile: "Doesn't Yang Jing feel hard?" ”
Yang Jing rolled his eyes and said loudly: "What's so hard about that!" ”
Yang Peng smiled: "You don't work hard, but other soldiers are very tired, and you can't rest if you don't rest!" Yang Jing pursed his lips, looking angry.
After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.