Section 357 Decisive Battle 1

At noon that day, after a long period of no reports from scouts (which was common due to the Chaos Legion's magical communications), Beller sent some outposts as far up and down the river as possible. These are small units of four, specially going to reconnoiter and find the way.

But even he didn't expect that the enemy was already crossing the river, and it was in the slow water area that he had explored before. The few scouts he had placed here before had all been killed—the Chaos Wizard had taken advantage of the darkness to bring the Chaos Eggs across the river, and using the monster's keen sense of smell, he had found and killed the scouts with ease. Due to the loss of magical communication, these people are unable to communicate the crisis they see through magical communication. Some of them tried to escape on horseback, but they couldn't get faster than the Chaos Wizard's magic disk and magic.

In the evening, two teams of four were attacked, seven were killed, and the eighth escaped. At midnight he fled to the artillery position prepared by Bayral and called for an injunction to the outpost: "Take up arms, the enemy is coming." ”

The men on the position immediately sent a messenger to report to the battalion that Ashorufat was contacting the rear overnight. Because of the news that it seems that the situation in Neustria City is better than expected. The Chaos Legion retreated without much damage, and the fortifications outside the city were completely undamaged.

Without hesitating for a second, Ashrufat immediately beat the drum and gathered his troops and sent reinforcements to support the detachment.

Someone who has experienced it has to be able to imagine the effect of beating a drum in the middle of the night to summon a soldier. The clouds of war have arrived, and even the bravest will be creepy.

However, the soldiers also knew that a Chaos raid could happen at any time, and most of them were in their clothes. When the order came, many of the soldiers jumped to their feet, grabbed their weapons, and quickly gathered together.

But this night the enemy did not take advantage of the situation to attack this artillery position. By daybreak, the Chaos Legion's ploy was revealed—instead of collecting wood, they used magic to freeze an ice bridge directly over the river.

The cost of the magic was heavy enough to exhaust thirty Chaos wizards—the kind of exhaustion that would have to lie in bed for days—but the current Chaos Legions could afford it.

Instead of swooping down the banks of the river to the reinforced artillery position, as Bayrell had envisioned, their troops swooped down on the very dangerous swamp.

The swamp took an even heavier toll on the Chaos Legion, with thousands of people being consumed in the mire and their bones gone. But the rest of the Chaos warriors stepped on the corpses of their companions, and they forced themselves to carve out a passage with the corpses of their companions. Every effort was worth it, and now, the main force of the Chaos Legion had come to the flank of the Ashrufat army. There was no more vantage point here for him to take advantage of.

Had it not been for the timely arrival of that heavy rain, perhaps this decisive battle would have had a result that day. But the pouring rain interrupted the coming battle. At this time, it is as if God and mankind have felt this indescribable great pressure, and they all have to vent it.

Ashruphat retreated through the rain curtain, but the Chaos Legion followed closely behind, like an appendage. The battle in the rainstorm could not be expanded, and it was all fought in the form of a small battle of thirty or fifty men. These battles told Sù Ashrufat that he was not able to distance the two sides. By the time the rain stopped, the final showdown was inevitable.

The heavy rain continued for a day and a night, but it eventually ended. By noon on the day, the rain had subsided, and both armies were ready for battle. At this moment, they were in a plain with a slightly more complicated terrain - only a little worse than a flat river, and although there were many ups and downs, it was still a plain. However, there are some places that have been soaked in mud and muddy by the rainwater.

The distance between the two sides was so close that neither side had time to gather their forces and form battle formations as they would normally do.

And so the battle began on this plain. The drums stretched out like a powder line, and in the light rain, the heralds on both sides could be seen running wildly. To be specific, although the two sides were ready to fight at this time, the armies of both sides were scattered in such a large space that the commander could not control the army with flags, war drums, trumpets, horns, etc., because the battle line was too long.

At the beginning of the battle, Bayrell commanded his Tiberius corps on the right side of the line, and his troops, although scattered, were relatively concentrated overall. And the number of Chaos legions he faced was also small.

Barranca is in the center, while Parry is on the left flank. Ashrufat himself was in the rear with a small cavalry force.

This situation was not deliberately arranged by Ashrufat, because no one could have predicted the timing of the rain. When the rain subsided, when everyone realized that the battle was about to begin, the entire coalition army was in exactly this arrangement.

All of these forces totaled 84,000 men, forming a very long front, with a staggered mix of different arms and an even arrangement as a whole. In addition to these, there were a small number of small units that were sent out to harass the enemy and obstruct the enemy's pursuit. However, the number of these forces was too small to have a valuable impact on the outcome of the war.

Opposite them was the Chaos Legion, which numbered hundreds of thousands. Unlike Ashrufat, Marven's Chaos Legion is much simpler. The Chaos Legion is almost entirely made up of hoplites and cavalry, far fewer cavalry than infantry, and no sizable ranged troops.

In addition to the troops, the soldiers on both sides were relatively tired because of the continuous march in the rain.

At noon, almost as soon as Ashrufat had divided the battle area for each unit, the Chaos Legion under Marven's command began to take the initiative to attack. This was not an all-out offensive, but an offensive in the central part of the entire battle line, where the Chaos Legions had gathered the most troops.

Ashrufat led the two thousand cavalry around him and ran towards the position where the battle was taking place. The battlefield was too big and too scattered, so all he could do was pick the highest hill on his side and see the formation of the two armies there.

The Chaos Legion also formed three columns, with all cavalry and light infantry on the left flank - the same ones who had clung to Ashrufat's rearguard. They were now facing Parry's legion, and the two sides were roughly equal in numbers. Now, perhaps because they wanted to take a break, or perhaps because the ground on their side was too muddy for action, they didn't launch any threatening offensive. The two armies are maintaining a kind of small-scale contact, and there are basically no major operations.

At the same time, the middle and right flanks of the Chaos Legion were equipped with a large number of hoplites. They are synergistic and are making steady progress. But in the center, an enemy is protruding and rapidly approaching.

This force is supported by magic, as several cannons aimed in this direction have been destroyed by magic. * The team also suffered some casualties.

Just now, it was the sound of war drums, cannons, and shouts from this direction that attracted Ashrufat.

By the time Aerufat began to observe the battlefield (he had a vision beyond mortals so that he could see the whole picture), Beller had already drawn a detachment to reinforce this side of the battle. Tiberius' army attacked from the flank, barely repulsing the Chaos Legions.

But on the whole, this is not a real offensive, but a trial.

The shape shì is quite strict, all of Ashrufat's plans have failed, no, not only have they failed, but they have also become a disaster. He couldn't run away from the fight now, and could only accept this battle with little chance of winning. In all his realities and dreams, he was well prepared to attack the enemy, and this was the first time he had been attacked by the enemy before he was ready for battle.

The Chaos Legion took full advantage of its strength and magic. In front of Beller, the Chaos Legion had spread out its formation, parallel to Beller's defense. The only difference is that the Chaos Legion has more than forty percent of the strength of Berel, and they have an advantage not only in quantity and quality, but also in equipment: almost all of their troops are hoplites, and in addition to hoplites, Bayrell also has a large number of light troops such as *Hand and *Hand and so on. According to the classic perception in this world: the combat effectiveness of heavy troops is more than that of light troops.

Not only Beller, but in addition to Parry's slightly better situation, the situation of the entire battlefield is also the same.

The commander of the enemy's right flank is a Chaos Wizard suspended in mid-air - standing on a magic disk. The Chaos wizard has given up spell casting, and has instead used the banner in Guò's hand to mobilize his army. His position meant that he had a bird's-eye view of the entire battlefield (which limited him only to human eyesight), and his subordinates were able to learn from him what they had to do.

Beller's troops were much less numerous, but there was a stream formed by a deep ditch in front of him. The crescent is crescent-shaped and is located in front of the Bayral Line. Due to the torrential rain, the current of the creek was quite rapid, and the depth of the water was about the height of a man's chest.

Bayral had long seen the benefits of this natural line of defense, so he made the most of it when he deployed his army before the battle. Therefore, although the Chaos Legion slowly pressed over, Beller did not intend to retreat.

In addition to this, most of the artillery of the coalition forces is deploying their positions. Except for a very small number of artillery only first line, the other artillery all coincidentally chose the second line, taking those slightly higher positions as their own positions.

All Ashrufat could do was watch the outcome of the battle on Bayer's side. He knew that if Bayral held his position, there was a high probability that the enemy's center of gravity would be shifted to the center. All he could do was lead the cavalry to the aid and ensure an orderly retreat of his troops - there was no other way. He must concentrate enough troops in the midst of this retreat and tug-of-war, and then launch a decisive and sudden onslaught to destroy the command core of the Chaos Legion, or kill the enemy's commander (presumably Marven). It was his only chance to win.

The wait is extremely painful and frightening.

He did not wait long, and the battle began right in front of Bayer's defensive line. The Chaos Legion came to the creek, and small forces began to try to cross the river. * The hands responded to the enemy's actions with a fierce salvo. The Chaos forces that made this attempt were crushed, and about a hundred people died in the stream. The Chaos Legion also fought back with magic, but it didn't work very well, and the number of *hand casualties was limited.

The Chaos Legion retreated slightly, avoiding the *range. They began to move, and due to the numerical superiority, they intended to launch an onslaught in several positions to break through this line of defense. With this attempt, the commanders who flew in the air also saw that the line of defense of this stream was not dangerous. In fact, the depth of the stream is limited, and under normal circumstances it cannot drown people, after all, the depth of the water is only a stroke of the chest.

Bayral immediately saw what the enemy was about to do.