Chapter 63: Another Cavalry Charge
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After sending a messenger for help from Freya for the fourth time, Lady Maria looked at the messenger and asked calmly. Now she was ready, and her heart was filled with hatred and anger towards Freya. She didn't think Freya's answer would be any different this time. That bastard who doesn't care about the big picture will surely continue to lie, saying that his own line is also under great pressure from the Visigoths, and they simply can't send reinforcements over.
Of course, Madame Mary knew that these were lies. But at the same time, she was helpless.
However.
The messenger's expression was very, very, very joyful, unbelievably joyful.
"In fact, they have already made a decision to come to our aid, ma'am!" said the messenger, barely able to hide his excitement, "the Imperial army is ready to attack, and this war is likely to be won!"
Hearing him say this, Madame Mary paused for a moment, and then realized what the other party had said. After breathing a sigh of relief, she was a little unwilling, a little unhappy and unpleasant.
Unpleasant, unpleasant, unpleasant, of course, because of the attitude of the Russian Gothic Empire.
It was as if the Bretons were giving them alms. And from this messenger, Madame could feel as if all the people of Briton were now expecting their expectations of the Russian Gothic Empire.
This kind of dependence made Madame Maria very unhappy, but she was helpless.
In a sense, they are right. It was indeed Briton that relied on the Russian Gothic Empire. It's a fact.
And now, it was this fact that made Lady Mary's mood unbelievably bad.
Even, it's just slightly better than being defeated by the Visigoths. In some places it is even better to be defeated by the Visigoths-
If, for example, the Russian Gothic Empire's army were defeated by the Visigoths this time, perhaps the Britons would have had a little more self-confidence and self-esteem - though they were no match for the Visigoths. But at least their allies weren't any match for the Visigoths. There is no difference between everyone. And not like it is now......
"It's terrible. Although ......"
Despite this, Lady Maria reluctantly smiled, and sincerely hoped that in the next battle, the Imperial army would die a little more.
"Are they finally coming to our aid, good, how many troops are there?"
"This ......"
After a moment's hesitation, the envoy said, "The Imperial Army does not want to attack from the front, ma'am. Their tactics were to attack from the enemy's flank. Her Excellency Duchess Freya thinks they can launch a flank attack to meet us. ”
"Yes...... That's it. Madame Mary felt a little unwilling, and then relieved.
Unwillingly, of course, he doubts how much strength such a flank attack can have, and how many troops can contain the opponent. And the relief is that if this battle is won, then they can more or less publicize themselves. Well, yes, this war can be held, and the main force, except for the great force, of course, is the Briton army. The Russian Gothic Empire's army was only pinning down a small number of enemy troops on the flanks.
If this battle is won, then the propaganda mouth of the Britons will certainly be so promoted.
As for the Imperial Army, they were indeed brave and tenacious, and they did help a lot and killed some enemies. But that's what it's all about, with it or not, it doesn't really make much difference.
Hehehe
Although it was said that in the end it did not work out.
And now I don't know.
Now she can rest assured that Freya does not mean to be perfunctory.
Of course, she can also be uneasy, because her propaganda mouth is destined to not be able to publicize the imperial army.
Hehehehe. Of course, this is not too important a thing. What really mattered was the cavalry corps of the Russian Gothic Empire.
After subconsciously wanting to reject the Bretons' request for reinforcements, Freya thought about it for a while, and finally made this thought and choice-
In any case, even if this war is in the name of the Britons. But if the war is defeated, there will still be a loss of prestige for the empire. Especially those evil rebels. Most of them don't advertise that they're defeating the Britons - if they're smart enough, they wouldn't.
Because the Bretons have little ability to play their part in the next war. So their next biggest enemy is the Imperial Army.
They must discredit the Imperial Army, they must give an account to their own citizens, they must propagandize.
So they will say, they defeated the imperial army. It will not be advertised how many people they died when they attacked the Imperial Army. They will only say that they defeated the forward units of the Imperial Army. Even the Imperial Army, which claimed to be the world's number one army power, was no match for their Visigoths, the army of the great republic.
That way, the morale of the military will become very happy, right?
Well, yes, that's it, it's all deception. But isn't that the essence of the propaganda department? Especially in this era when information is not very developed and very easy to control. The mouthpieces of the empire will know how they should behave.
Even if they don't know, the Cheka agents will help them know.
And given the nature of the Visigothic Republic, William has reason to believe that they also have a secret police force, for whom it is not currently known.
And those poor guys who want to promote the "truth" will definitely be guillotined by them in the name of *** elements.
"So we want to make sure that this war is won - without losing too many of the great Empire's troops - so that sending reinforcements from the frontal battlefield as if it were a refueling tactic was not in Freya's plan from the very beginning.
Charging from the flanks and launching a cavalry charge was the best tactic Freya expected.
Of course, this is not to say that the cavalry corps of the Russian Gothic Empire will charge desperately, first crushing the army besieging the east flank on the opposite side, or at least breaking out a gap, and then launching an attack to crush the enemy on the west flank or something.
Even the elite cavalry corps of the empire probably doesn't have this strength.
So, Freya waited. The Bretons, who had been waiting impatiently, were desperately urging when you would attack to our aid, and waited very patiently, not at all to the feeling of those fellows.
That is, in this case, the enemy on the opposite side, perhaps in order to contain it, or perhaps he heard that his friendly forces were about to succeed, and he was even more unwilling to attack.
This time, instead of sending the infantry or cavalry regiments of the regiment to attack as before, the enemy chose to draw lots. In the end, four unlucky guys who weren't very lucky drew the draw for the death squad that had to come forward to attack.
Then, the charge was launched.
"Yes, now. ”
Freya thought to herself.
As before, the Russian Gothic Empire's army completed a beautiful defensive counterattack - and then things turned out to be completely different from what they had thought -
The Imperial army, first and foremost the Standing Army, launched a massive counteroffensive. Almost crushed the poor four Visigothic legions.
It was after this that the Standing Corps retreated slightly, and the Levy Corps took control of the position. After they had enough room to spare, the Imperial cavalry corps rushed forward from the other two legions, rushed out hundreds of meters in depth, and then marched towards the western battlefield - seeing this scene, the commander of the Visigothic army on the opposite side was stunned for a moment - although he didn't sense it for a moment, they might have gone to rescue the enemy army in the west, but that kind of ominous premonition still made him feel like he wanted to moan.
Then, it was a counterattack, a counterattack, a counterattack -- leaving the Imperial Army's proud defensive system, the elite troops of the Russian Gothic Empire fought a dignified battle against several times their own army in the plains -
No, it can't be said that it is the elite troops, in fact, it is the reserve and conscription units of the Russian Gothic Empire that are now resisting the greatest pressure. There was not enough artillery, there was not enough training, and there were also problems with morale - although they were equally proud and proud of their empire, of their country and their people. But relatively speaking, they are indeed inferior to the standing army.
However, even so, even so, under the command of General Blucher, the Imperial Army still held back several times the enemy forces. Biting them to the death, while holding their positions, they are also killing and wounding a large number of enemies...... At the same time, killed and wounded by the enemy.
That's Freya's best tactic. At the expense of the Levy Corps, the Empire's elite cavalry corps emerged. And as a matter of course, it was deployed in the outlying areas of the battlefield.
They were now, with the ardent expectations of those damned Britons, marching as fast as they could, in the direction of the battlefield to the west of Rotterdam, which was now in the midst of a fierce battle...... Then, as a matter of course, appeared on the flank of the opposing side.
As on that day, the assault on that pathetic Visigothic corps, first with a show of cavalry artillery, and then, with a whole five regiments of cavalry, under the cover of cavalry artillery, launched a rightful charge on the arrogant, arrogant, unprepared flanks of the Visigothic army. (To be continued.) )