Volume III, Chapter 64
"War is so fun? ”
"As far as I'm concerned, war isn't fun. The prime minister smiled faintly: "Actually, Lu Man is also aware of his fate, and he secretly sent his daughter away." ”
"So, Cohen. Kaida is still a little interesting. The concubine nodded: "Okay! I'll pack up what you like, so you don't blame me when you get it." ”
The convoy of the second princess, the daughter of Lu Man, had already left the border of the province of Folu on this day, and arrived in a medium-sized city that night. From here, there is the widest and richest plain of the Sbia Empire.
The convoy stopped in the front yard of the city lord's mansion, and the city lord and his wife had been waiting for a long time, and respectfully welcomed the princess and his wife into the inner hall.
"The room is ready, please have dinner for two of you. The lord of the castle led the way: "You can rest after dinner." ”
Lisa, the princess, nodded politely and walked to the banquet hall accompanied by Leka. The waiter at the door bowed and opened the door.
"It's kind of weird. Leka whispered.
"What?" said Lisa, looking at her husband, as they walked as they walked, stepping into the hall door.
"I mean, waiter, shouldn't you open the door before saluting?" Leka smiled, "They got it the other way around." ”
"The waiter of the small place, I haven't seen the world—"
The conversation between the two men came to an abrupt halt as they saw a burly man in golden armor sitting at the window table, staring at the place with a smirk as he cut meat with a dinner knife.
Leka rushed forward with an arrow, drawing his sword in front of Lisa, and several personal guards did not wait for his master's orders. also formed a circle around the two of them - this person appeared so strangely. Definitely not a good way to come!
The door of the ballroom. It had closed silently, and no one in the empty hall had spoken, only the faint sound of knives and forks rubbing against each other, which Princess Lisa had never noticed, and this kind of sound would make people feel chilling in her ears.
"Who are you!" Leka said as he observed the environment in the hall, "Be bold, don't retreat!"
The man was not in a hurry to answer, but put a piece of meat in his mouth and chewed it a few times. Only then did he put down his knife and fork and stood up. A delicate suit of armor reflected the light around him, and his figure was even more imposing, and Leka was at least a head lower than him in height.
"I have a brother, once, he was wearing Protoss armor and eating barbecue in front of a group of nobles, but a very kind person scared the nobles into losing their gods, so I wanted to try it too. The man stepped forward: "But I found that this knife and fork are really difficult to use, and the half-cooked meat tastes bad." ”
"Who the hell are you!"
"You don't know me. But I know you, and that slut behind you. Still princess?" The man sneered, pressed his hand on the hilt of the sword and continued to approach: "This is also your calamity, Lao Tzu has just arrived, and you have arrived." Planted in my Hette's hands, count you unlucky!"
"Hylter?" Lisa screamed, feeling only the Venus rising in front of her and her body shaking. The name, and the meaning it represents, is beyond her ability to bear at this moment.
In the front yard, there was a terrible scream......
It was only dawn, and the camp of the Third Legion of the Kaida family army was already in a state of war.
The tents of the Chinese military camp were empty, everyone had already entered the positional headquarters, the reconnaissance regiments distributed in dozens or hundreds of locations were constantly transmitting the latest information, and the staff officers were running in and out, one by one, their feet did not touch the ground.
"Report - 20,000 enemy strikers have arrived at the exit of the valley and are on alert!"
"Keep watching!"
"Report, 10,000 enemy troops are advancing forward, establishing a defense one mile before the exit of the valley, and a small number of reconnaissance cavalry is advancing rapidly!"
"Got it!"
"Report - enemy sappers begin to erect pontoon bridges, and a small number of troops are distributed to the other side of the riverbank!"
"Understood. ”
"Report, the main force of the enemy has appeared—fifteen miles away from the front, and there are huge numbers, all cavalry!"
"Finally appeared. Brigadier General Moya nodded and turned to look at Cohen: "Sir......"
As the emperor, Cohen was concentrating on studying the fabric of his dress at the moment, completely ignoring the situation in front of him, and indifferent to the information transmitted back.
"Sir, the main rebel force has appeared. Looking at Cohen's confused eyes, Moya had to repeat the information: "What is your opinion?"
"What's my business? You're the commander of the Third Legion. Cohen stretched his waist and yawned and said, "It's nice to be lazy......
Although Cohen replied to himself, the expression on Brigadier General Moya's face did not change, and he turned to his lieutenant and ordered: "Continue to watch, activate the first line of false positions, and the Rangers start hunting down the rebel scouts." ”
"Yes, sir!" the adjutant agreed, and ran out.
"Aren't you doing a good job, why do you have to ask me about everything?" His Majesty Cohen failed to study the fabric, and at the moment he was slightly closed his eyes in a dull manner: "I am the emperor now, and I am no longer your nanny." ”
Hearing this, Brigadier General Mo Ya showed a warm smile on his face, and he knew in his heart that even if Cohen didn't do anything now, as long as others were here, this would be the greatest help to the war - with Cohen as the center, the combat effectiveness and cohesion of this army would be unprecedentedly strong, and it would also make all opponents look up to the sky and sigh.
"Report, the Ninth Ranger Squad of the Reconnaissance Regiment encountered the enemy three miles before the false position, and all nine members of the enemy squad were wiped out!"
"Hah, here we go. After all, there is still a soldier's imprint in his soul, and Cohen, who was lazy a moment ago, slapped the table at this time: "White Shadow, bring the wine!"
Because of Cohen. The prestige of Kaida and his army, the rebel generals did not dare to be careless, for fear of ambushing in the valley, so the cavalry of the reconnaissance in the front was tripled, the reconnaissance range on the left and right sides of the valley was twice as wide and wide, and the distance between the main forces of the forward could also take care of each other.
Out of this valley, the plains ahead can lead directly to Conson City, so there should be no problem.
By this time, the rebel vanguard of 20,000 had already left the valley. The front line of the valley is on guard. Cover the large force through guò. The fact that there was no ambush in the valley also made the rebel commander put down the big stone in his heart. Sappers are erecting pontoon bridges. Half of the troops moved to the side of the river via the pontoon bridge, making a position to march in unison.
When the front of the main forces appeared at the exit of the valley, the commander of the vanguard gave the order for the forward troops to move on, and he was personally satisfied with the status quo.
10,000 men on each side of the riverbank, divided into two teams, front and rear, spread out in battle formation, and advanced under the guidance of the reconnaissance cavalry. As far as the eye can see, the military flags on both sides of the river are patchy, and the horses are like a forest. The sound of heavy horses' hooves sounded like thunder, echoing endlessly across the plain...... The rebel forward commander held his head high, as if asking what the Kaida family could use to resist this cavalry!
At this moment, his adjutant approached: "Report to the sir, we have found a small group of troops of the Kaida family, they are hunting our scouts!"
"Huh?" this ill-timed piece of information annoyed the Forward Commander that the Al Qeda army would do such a sneaky thing.
However, as a commander, the basic military sanity was still in place, and he issued this order without thinking: "A thousand men from each of the front teams on each side shall cooperate with the fire reconnaissance cavalry." Push it forcibly. First of all, it is necessary to determine the size of the enemy and find out their intentions! Let's just say that we encountered a small group of enemy forces. ”
However, the Dark Army's Rangers disappeared after hunting down several Scout squads, never meeting the rebels again.
The rebel front continued to advance, and it was not long before the troops on both sides of the river approached the first line of defense of the dark army, the false position of Brigadier General Moya, exactly ten miles from the exit of the valley.
Although it was a false position, it was also made on a certain scale, and the defense facilities were all available, and there were four field infantry regiments stationed here, all lightly armed.
On the hillside, scouts relayed information about the distance of the rebels to the command of the position, and in the corner of the rebels' observation, tree after tree was brought down—in the middle of the position, more than 2,000 archers hiding under the tunnels on the ground were listening intently to the commander's orders.
"Calibrate the Ten Sections Plus - Prepare!"
Two thousand arrows shining with cold light rose at the same time, the bow body bent suddenly, and the strands "squeaked" chaotically. The soldiers of the two armies were not far apart, and the sound of the horse's hooves of the rebels could already be heard, and the floating earth on the edge of the tunnel gradually slid down with a slight tremor. In the anxious waiting of the archers, under the sharp gaze of the officers, the tree that symbolized the enemy's stepping into the range of the bow and arrow was finally brought down.
"Launch!"
One of the rebels' scouts was already on the verge of battle, and he heard the chilling command through a small dirt bag, and then he could faintly see something gray flying in front of him—and then he heard the sound of a dense bowstring vibrating.
In the midst of the fright, the mount hissed and stood up, knocking him to the ground, and then he got up in a trance, and a cold blade slashed through his throat.
Successive feathered arrows flew into the air, dragging perfect trajectories, falling from the sky amid the hoarse shouts of the rebel officers and the frightened eyes of the rebel soldiers—stirring up bursts of blood in front of the position, and the front of the rebel ranks immediately collapsed neatly.
The dark officers' eyes were still locked on the hillside, and their mouths continued to shout: "Mark the ten knots - launch!"
The archers are showing a very high fighting quality at the moment, taking arrows like lightning, hooking strings, raising bows, pushing left and pulling - put!
In an instant, the cavalry of the rebels who had rushed forward to reconnoiter suffered five rounds of arrows, and the whole formation was in chaos, and the corpses of soldiers were scattered all over the field. The horses that were hit by the arrows neighed and fell to the ground, and the soldiers who rolled on the ground screamed and were trampled by the horses behind, and in some places the horses were huddled together, and in other places there was not a single living thing.
On the green grass, long blood stains were scattered everywhere, and the bloody corpses on the top were shocking! The few surviving cavalrymen had shields on their heads, turned their horses, and fled backwards.
Hundreds of elven archers scattered and hidden everywhere uncovered the turf on their heads, and fired their bows, and one after another dragged the white light tail of magic arrows crisscrossed the riverbank, each arrow mark revealed, and a rebel was bound to fall from the horse......
If it weren't for the order to let them go back alive, I'm afraid that not a single rebel soldier would have escaped such an extraordinarily long range attack.
When the Axe Man inspected the position and killed the rebel wounded, three cheers rang out from the dark position. At this time, the ownerless war horse in front of the position was brought over, and the relatively intact corpse was also dragged back to the tunnel. The fallen trees on the hill were re-established. 一qiē恢fùusual. Wait for the rebels to visit a second time.
"Ahead of the strong defensive positions of the Al Qeda army, four battalions of fire reconnaissance were annihilated. At the rebel headquarters, the staff officer was reporting to the commander-in-chief of the reinforcements, one of the highest-ranking lieutenant generals in the rebel army: "Your Excellency, the forward commander is waiting for your orders. ”
The lieutenant general looked at the map with a blank face, a little confused about the layout of the Kaida family's army.
"What is their intention to stop us here?" the lieutenant general's finger rubbed back and forth on the map: "This place is ten miles away from the exit of the valley, and the location is not up or down, not good or bad." Cohen. Kaida's use of soldiers is really evil. ”
"Your Excellency, they may think this is a good place. The staff officer took a few steps forward and whispered: "Ten miles away from the exit, they will feel that the 100,000 cavalry cannot be deployed, the troops are crowded together, and finally the army will be disheartened!"
"Cohen. Can Kaida be so stupid?" the lieutenant general snorted coldly and turned his head to look at the officer in charge of intelligence: "Cohen. Which of Kaida's men is the best at defending?"
The intelligence officer stood up and replied loudly: "In the Kaida family's army, the best at defense should be Brigadier General Mo Ya, the commander of the Third Army. This man is Cohen. Al Qaeda's childhood friend. He trusted him. In the Great War of Gods and Demons and our army's two attacks on the Dark Province, this person has a good example. ”
"How many people are in the Third Legion?"
"According to our pre-war intelligence. The Third Army Corps had more than 40,000 men, mainly infantry, supplemented by a small number of cavalry, and its mobility was not good. ”
The lieutenant general held his chin with one hand, walked slowly two back and forth, and finally returned to the map, while drawing on the map with his hand, he whispered in his mouth: "40,000 people, after deducting the idle logistics of the cavalry, it would be good to have 30,000 infantry in front-line combat...... Preparation time, defense width, defense equipment, and so on...... Our army has an advantage, and they can't defend against it...... Could it be Cohen. Does Al Kaida have other plans?"
"The order was given, the main forces turned to exit the passage, and the rear guard expanded the reconnaissance area and closely monitored the rear of our troops. The lieutenant general raised his head: "Command the forward, give me a storm!"
"Your Excellency, what is this arrangement?" the adjutant signaled to the herald to leave, and asked the lieutenant general.
"Cohen. Al Qaida was a very sinister man, and he set up a position ten miles from the valley as a bait in order to lure the main force of our army to attack. The lieutenant general explained as usual: "And the numerical superiority of our army cannot be exerted in this narrow space of ten miles, and he will attack behind our army at the same time, blocking us in the valley to fight." The current situation, Cohen. There are so many options for Al Qaeda......"
"Then we'll be safe when we exit the valley, right?" The adjutant looked at the map: "What about the forward troops?"
"The other side is infantry, no matter how bad the 20,000 strikers are, they will not be eaten by them, if the battle in front is fierce, then the enemy's main force is used on the blocking front, we must increase our strength to break through the defenses and rush to the decisive battle under the city of Conson. The lieutenant general looked back at the other side of the valley: "If the enemy is trying to attack behind our army, then this army is almost there, and we should go back and eat them in one bite - it is not too late to deal with the elite first, and then support the city of Conson." ”
"I see, Cohen. Al Qaida can choose between hitting us and hitting Conson City. The adjutant nodded and said, "If there are no enemy troops behind us, then Conson City is very dangerous." ”
"If they're going to hit Conson, they're going to do everything they can to stop us, and if you look at the resistance our strikers, you'll know what they're trying to do. The lieutenant general smiled: "Of course, the infantry wants to block the cavalry in the plains, this behavior is a bit crazy." Even so, we can't show flaws to the enemy, not even the slightest flaw!"
"Yes, sir!"
"Mobilize equipment for the strikers, tell them, breaking this line of defense is a great achievement, and give me a fight!"
"Yes, sir!"
At this time, His Majesty Cohen, who had been idle, finally gave an order, and he had the general staff under Conson be informed that the time should be lit outside Conson, and that he had already learned of the means of contact used by the rebels under the infiltration of the pervasive intelligence system.
For this battle, the rebels set up more than a dozen secret locations on the front line of the Most Holy Capital of Conson City, which were specially used to transmit this life-and-death information. But in Cohen. Playing intelligence warfare under Kaida's nose seems to be too reluctant.
The rebel forwards all rushed to the false position, took a little time to prepare, and then launched a fierce attack. Marked by the location of the previous attack, the rebels gathered a range of troops, including hoplites, to simultaneously charge on both sides of the river.
After blessing all kinds of magic, the infantry in the front raised their large shields and moved slowly forward towards the dark army's defense line in the order of light, heavy and light, while the cavalry units behind remained motionless, waiting for the order to assault.
Seeing that the infantry was about to enter the range of bows and arrows, the rebel commander shouted: "Assault of the front army!"
The infantry "hula" and scattered and charged in a scattered formation, which was an effective way to evade the enemy's bow and arrow volleys, at least not so many fell at the same time, and it didn't look too terrifying.
"Launch!"
The archers behind the dark army's position once again roared, and the feathered arrows of white feathers and black poles with a "whoosh" roar, kept running towards the rebel soldiers, using sharp and cold arrows to burst blood flowers on their bodies...... With shouts and wails, with the disappearance of life, with the sinking of souls.
After a few volleys, the formation of the rebel infantry became more scattered, but the threat to life was great, and the speed of the attack of the rebel soldiers increased significantly. Seeing that the effect of the rain of arrows had decreased, the dark army position stopped firing arrows, and the strong crossbowmen at the front of the position reached out one after another, aiming at the enemy who was getting closer and closer.
And the rebel commander also saw the timing and ordered the cavalry behind to start charging.
The thunderous sound of horses' hooves sounded, and the cavalry's shock formation also dispersed, and the cavalrymen's bodies on horses continued to rise and fall, whether they were sabers or cavalry spears, and their weapons were shining with cold light. Four thousand cavalry came menacingly and swooped down on the dark army position.
The commander of the Dark Army ordered the archers to block the cavalry as much as possible, and at the same time ordered the trap to be opened.
The elven archers bent their bows and arrows, looking for officers to attack, and the silver-white traces of the magic arrows shuttled in front of the position again. Once caught by their keen eye, no one is spared.
This group of rebels is the most combat-effective of all the 350,000 rebel troops, and it is the pinning of all Lu Man's hopes, and of course they will not be defeated by a mere arrow.
The rebels in the state of shock, although the big shield is full of arrows, although there are constantly comrades around them screaming and falling, but the fighting spirit is still high.
In the blink of an eye, the rebel infantry and cavalry were already mixed, and they rushed to the front of the position at the same time, and at the same time triggered the attack of the crossbowmen.
The crossbow is more lethal than the feather arrow, and it is easy to operate, so it can be used by people.
All of a sudden, the rebels who rushed to the front fell to the ground in pieces, their bodies wrapped in iron, leather and even wooden armor rolling weakly on the gentle slope, and the screams of human dying came and went, and the red blood obscured the vision......
In the position of the dark army, the sound of "Kaka" of the strong crossbow winch gathered, forming a force that was enough to compete with the rebels' shouts of killing in the officer's shouting order!
The soldiers were searching the battle line with their eyes as they wound their hands, and their quick movements allowed them to use one person as two people, and in their excited or cold eyes, they attacked indiscriminately, regardless of the enemy's cavalry and infantry, horses and humans. (To be continued......)