Chapter Ninety-Five: No War on the Western Front
What the people above talked about, for the most ordinary soldiers at the bottom of the war, was not what they cared about. Regardless, a war with no end in sight still requires human sacrifice to continue.
The next day's battle was due to the addition of the Church Army, and the Valois army halted the attack after several attacks with uneconomical casualties. The HRE Empire's several preparations to attack Valua's army were also frustrated by artillery and the high morale of the Valuadian army.
The morale of the soldiers of the church is far higher than that of ordinary troops, and with the blessing of the magic of many priests, the soldiers of the church do their best in every attack.
Don't worry about an arm being slashed by a sword, the magic will help you heal quickly. The spirit can't bear the pressure of the big battle? The body has been exhausted after repeated battles, and the church's magic is more effective than the pill.
Although there are chaplains in the ordinary army as the army's medical team and mental stress relief troops, the ratio of soldiers to priests is indeed one to one hundred or even more, which means that a priest needs to be responsible for three digits of soldiers at the same time.
Although the role of priests is huge, they are particularly valuable because of the lack of numbers.
However, the church army had the luxury of being ten to one, and one priest was only responsible for ten soldiers.
In this way, the casualty rate of the soldiers of the church dropped to an incredible number, at least a miracle on the Roland continent.
Therefore, the soldiers who called the meeting fought without reservation, so that even the Valois army, a standing army under the centralized monarchy, had to retreat temporarily.
The next day's battle ended after the two sides tested each other.
At night, it's still the world of dark mages, dark mages, warriors, undead summoned to carry corpses.
Hyakki Night Walking.
These four words can vividly describe the scene on the battlefield at night, although the night walk of the hundred ghosts is not walking on the market, but the night walking of the hundred ghosts on the battlefield is obviously more terrifying.
There were already terrifying rumors among the armies of both warring armies that a group of ghouls were waiting around the army, and that at night the ghouls would drag the bodies of the dead to their caves. As for what these corpses are used for, do you need to say?
Chu Nan still didn't move.
Today, the knights of the church are all engaged in the battle, and if they don't come out to clear the dark mages, even if they do, it will have little effect. The nearly a hundred dark mages gathered together and prepared were no longer dozens or hundreds, or even thousands of knights.
There are four or five groups of dark mages gathered around the battlefield, and the combat power of the group temporarily combined is enough to be prohibitive, and the strength of the dark mages who can appear around the battlefield is already good.
Chu Nan didn't act, there was no value in acting too early for him, and the real action should be when the two sides split the winners and losers and left the corpse.
Think about it, the corpses all over the ground will be instantly absorbed along with the activation of the magic array that Chu Nan arranged around the battlefield at that time, along with the soul. This efficiency is many times faster than the manual transportation of the dark mages themselves, and the flesh synthesized by the corpses of thousands of people, tens of thousands of people, just thinking about it makes people excited. What kind of flesh does this have to be? What kind of flesh does this have to be dark?
It's just that after Chu Nan's expected thing last night, the panic of the entire Roland Continent about dark magic is only afraid to set off again. Imagine that the corpses of tens of thousands of people are directly refined, and it is definitely not just ordinary people who are panicking. But what is there to Chu Nan?
The next night's discussion meeting, Nassau's identity still seemed out of place. The generals deliberately avoided Nassau when discussing the merits and demerits of the church army, which are prominent in today's table.
Nassau did not express his dissatisfaction with this situation, but sat quietly in his seat with a smile on his face, what was the purpose of this cardinal, the youngest of all the people present?
No one dares to assert, at least certainly not, as Nassau claims, for the sake of peace and fraternity among believers.
But the church army was able to join, and many generals were quite happy in their hearts. Now their goal was not to defeat Valua's army, the HRE army was numerically inferior, and the artillery widened the gap between the two sides.
Therefore, the goal of the generals in this campaign was not to drive away the invaders Valois, but to block the advance of the Valois army, or at least to block the troops in the rear and prepare to assemble.
The show was at a stalemate, and on the third day, as on the second day, both sides paid a not-so-good exchange ratio. Although the sound and power of artillery can be a great blow to morale, especially the sound of artillery, when they get used to it, soldiers gradually begin to adapt to artillery.
These things are very powerful, but they are not very accurate, and they are enough to attack the city walls, and the shooting interval is too long in the field.
The evening of the third day was not much different from the second day, and Nassau still showed his qualities as a cardinal. The dark mages became more unscrupulous, Chu Nan, as the protagonist, silently trimmed his tentacles with nail clippers, and when he was bored, he cared about some things that men liked, but the male protagonist in the story became tentacle monsters, and some key club-like objects became soft tentacles.
On the fourth day, however, there was a subtle change in the tide of battle.
Perhaps because they had not been able to capture the other side, the commander of the Valois army was a little impatient, after all, they were the attacking side, and the pressure on logistics and other aspects was much worse than that of the defending side of the HRE Empire. The long battle was not good for the Kingdom of Valois, so on the fourth day, the intensity of Valois's attack increased a lot.
Not only did the commander of the HRE Imperial Kingdom feel it, but even ordinary soldiers clearly felt that the enemy in front of them was more desperate than before.
In war, do not think that the commanders who command in the rear are slower than the soldiers, and the commanders can more intuitively feel whether the enemy is desperate or not.
Andessa stood in front of the sand table, his eyes wide, as the tent was constantly being opened, and one herald after another came to report on the situation at the front.
Is the Valois army finally trying to give it their all? This is not good news, Andessa does not want to go toe-to-toe with the Valois army. After all, there are quite a few of his personal armies in this army.
While Andessa was in a hurry, a soldier with panting breath and frightened pupils broke into the camp.