2184 Eye of the Storm (IX)
Seeing the soldiers of the Fei Shan army outside the city start digging in a decent manner, the fat man knew that there would be no peace tonight, the semi-hard soil was turned over, digging and filling the pit, this is a sign of wanting to attack the city overnight, the Fei Shan people's table xiàn has already explained the problem, I can't afford to delay, if I can wait for the Falcon Emperor on the strong defense line before** To attack, even if it stays for ten days and a half without moving, it is no problem, but now it is completely reversed, 300,000 troops are covered, the whole country is counterattacking, blocked by three abrupt fortresses, and the panicked evacuation is definitely not the style of that old man Feishan,
The tenacity of the other party is not inferior to the ravines in the Bavaried region in front of him, he has spent so much food, and he has to maintain the main force of the Bavaried region under the unbearable wolf, isn't it just waiting to seize the opportunity to attack the Falcon Emperor ** all the way to the city, he has already walked ninety-nine steps, and has spent so much effort and sacrifice, how can he choose to give up his efforts because of the three fortresses,
This last step, even if it is an iceberg and a sea of fire, must break through, otherwise the confidence of the people of Feishan who have finally mustered up the confidence to win will collapse by itself the moment the retreat order is issued, which is definitely a disaster for the current Feishan,
The outbreak of the war between Fesan and the Istanbul Empire is the most important May and June in summer, which is the most critical moment for the growth of wheat, the outbreak of war, a large area of wheat fields that have not yet matured have been destroyed by the war, and the blow to Feishan's harvest this year is too great, plus the sea trade has been cut off by 10, and the Central European Barrow trade route has also been blocked by the Falcon Empire, and now Fessan's domestic materials are in short supply, and prices are soaring, especially after the winter, the price of grain has already exceeded the highest price of grain last year more than three times, even so, it is still in short supply, there is really no foodThe grain stored in the treasury in previous years had to be supplied to the army for war, and the food in the hands of the nobles was also very limited. The merchants went bankrupt because they had no place to buy grain
Not to mention other places, even the palace of Fei Shan, now under the strict orders of the old king, has been changed to only eat two meals a day, the variety of dishes must not exceed five, and the amount of food needs to be limited, the extravagance of the banquet used by the Fei shan nobles to compare has long been strictly prohibited at this time, and most of the adult male nobles in Fei Shan's Kyoto have been drawn to the front line, thinking that the men in front of the life and death battle may happen at any time, and the women who stay in the rear have no intention of holding a banquet. The old king of Fei Shan tied the entire Kyoto wealthy family to his chariot, and then used the materials of the Kyoto wealthy family to support the war
The cold nights of Bavarid are notoriously cold throughout Central Europe, not to mention the fact that there are shining red flashes in the sky that occasionally uncover a piece of black clouds overhead, revealing a large blood-like cloud, which is a precursor to the coming blizzard, and the fierce wilderness wind sweeps through it like a brush, blowing and rolling the layers of white snow foam like caressing wool, and hitting the bodies of the soldiers of the Fishan Army in pieces, and the soldiers are ready to assemble in the cold wind.
Kirenthal, the commander of Feshan's Sixth Legion, rode past the rows of shiny spears, followed by more than a dozen cavalry guards, their hooves trampling on the hard soil that had already exposed a little of the surface.
"Your Excellency. His Majesty ordered our army to set out in an hour, and those long ditches must be filled in to pave the way for the army to attack the city in the early hours of tomorrow!"
A Fissan officer, despite the mud, spoiled himself beautifully from his horse. Handing the reins of the war horse in his hand to the person next to him, he hurriedly ran up from more than ten meters away, and the young officer's face was both excited and worried. The battle of hundreds of thousands of people, this was also more than 30 years ago on the Eastern Front, this battle is destined to be written into the annals of history, this is an opportunity that any soldier who regards glory as his life is looking forward to in his life, not to mention that this battle is also related to Fei Shan's centennial national fortunes, this magnificent general battle, the first battle became the top of the Obaro continental pattern, what kind of courage is this!
"Fill in those long ditches?" Kirenthal held the horsewhip tightly, took a deep breath with an ugly face, and subconsciously looked in the direction of the Falcon Emperor's ** Great Fortress in the distance, and a cold snow flake hit his face, making him realize that it was snowing again!
The faces of the generals of the Sixth Army were all green, and no one made a sound, only the sound of the roaring snow flakes splashing on the iron sheets of the armor, and the silent momentum of tens of thousands of troops was even more tragic in this snowstorm.
Kirenthal looked at his subordinates with a complicated face, a legion of 60,000 people, more than 30,000 people were digging the soil, the soil layer of cold winter was not so fun, tens of thousands of people used all kinds of tools to knock and push, and only then did they turn over a layer of ground, and more than 30,000 people scattered into a slightly untidy quadrilateral, neatly arranged armor and bayonet guns, and there was no end in sight in the dark night. Entering through the gap of the cold helmet, there are the resolute faces of the soldiers, these elites of the kingdom who have followed themselves in the bloody battles on the Eastern Front, after this night, I don't know how many people will come back,
I have to rely on such adobe to fill the deep ditch of the Falcon Emperor? There is a lot of soil there, but I am afraid that even if I transport it all up, I can't fill those deep ditches.
There is no soil on both sides of the ditch, so where does the soil go? If you look at the scale of the three large fortresses made of ice and concrete on the opposite side, you can see how much soil the Falcon Emperor dug out of these ditches! It is also easy to calculate how much soil is needed to fill it, and it is impossible to do it in one night, what is it called paving the way for the army?
Where is this being filled with soil, it is simply an order for us to fill in with people! Kirental's expression became colder and colder, filling in the long ditches, it is easy to say, those long ditches are all within the range of the Falcon Empire's crossbow arrows, each of them is covered with ice, more than 100 meters away, is the defense line of the Falcon Emperor, once it is close, it is the momentum of ten thousand arrows,
The general imperial crossbow arrows are not to be worried, the fierce howling wind of the cold night and the distance of nearly one hundred and fifty meters will minimize the damage of these crossbow arrows, even if they are shot, they will be injured at most, but the Falcon Emperor** is not only a crossbow bow, but also a heavy crossbow chariot with greater power and penetrating power, with a range of more than three hundred steps, hundreds of thousands of Falcon Emperors** The main force, there is also the Falcon Emperor's Guards Legion inside, who knows how much this kind of killing weapon without leaving a whole corpse has been arranged, in the face of the Imperial heavy ballista, even if the heavy armor shield is sent to the heavy step, how long can it withstand it, not to mention, there is also the nightmare of the infantry cluster, Thor......
"Do as ordered! Let's go!" Kirenthal said in a heavy voice, turning his head away from the dismal faces of the generals, the snow still trickling down, the time passed in silence, and after an hour the sky became more gloomy and dark, and the white snowflakes began to crowd together. Thousands of troops emerged from the snowflakes, and the heads were so dense that they couldn't be counted. It was not only the Sixth Legion that received such an order, but also the Second and Fourth Legions of Faisan.
The team of more than 100,000 people moved in the dark night, in order not to give the Falcon Emperor ** a specific position, there was not even a lit torch, only the footsteps trembled in the night, and the shields were pushed to the front like waves, and the shield hand wearing heavy armor held a steel shield as tall as an adult, and the layers of shield walls were pushed forward, and the infantry behind carried a bag on his shoulder. It's like an ant colony wriggling forward,
"Stomping" the snow was raised, and on the flanks of the infantry group, a small number of Faisan light cavalry were held at the waist. Every group of four men was in a group, almost with their bodies attached to the back of their horses, advancing in a skirmish line, with wagons full of dirt pulled behind the horses. Rushing through like a tidal wave,
The Falcon Emperor ** fortress was silent and did not react. , the cavalry who rushed to the front and was in charge of reconnaissance involuntarily stopped. Cautiously stopped and watched, he didn't believe that the Falcon Emperor** would be so negligent, compared to the fanfare over there, there was a deathly silence here. The unfathomable and mysterious feeling gives people pressure, and it is even more frightening, the troops behind have driven to the front of the first deep ditch, and the first bag of soil is thrown into piles, because it is only necessary to fill out a lot that can pass guò, not the entire ditch needs to be filled, only need to choose a breakthrough, the three corps participating in the operation each chose a breakthrough, and threw the soil bag in, although the depth of the ditch is more than two meters, and some sections even have three meters, but if it is thrown into a point, the progress is still very fast, almost in the blink of an eye, the section is almost filled
"Well done!"
The scout cavalry had a smile on his face, a little embarrassed by his nervousness, and just then, he heard a strange "buzzing" sound. Barely had to look up to look, the more experienced scout cavalry was already shouting loudly, "Attention, arrow attack!" The violent whistling sound completely obscured the sound that it should have had, and a large cluster of arrows came over like a large black cloud in the sky, and the dark clouds instantly turned into raindrops, like a metal waterfall falling from the sky!
"Shield!"
The heavily armored shield soldier stood up suddenly, raised the shield in his hand, the shield turned one by one, the dense rain of arrows hit the shield and fell to the ground, the white tail cluster was like an endless Baise flower, inserted all over the earth, trembling slightly in the wind, the Fei San soldiers were made gasp by the scene in front of them, fortunately, the Falcon Emperor ** did not know the specific direction, so this kind of large-scale coverage, like a blind cat crashing into a dead mouse, can cause a very limited threat!
"Orientation adjustment, keep to the left fifteen" On the fortress wall, the fat man squinted his eyes, turned his hands behind his back, and listened to the sound of the rangefinder next to the ballista adjusting the shooting position of the ballista according to the statistical echo position, and the sound of metal collision coming back densely in the distance,
The sky is too dark, and there are large snowflakes blocking the line of sight, even if you can't see the situation a hundred meters away, the role of the first arrow cluster is mainly used to determine the direction of the attack line of the Fei Shan army, the sound of the enemy's heavy shield soldier's shield impact, is basically equivalent to exposing the direction of the Fei Shan army, the shooting direction of the heavy ballista began to concentrate, and the winch also made a gurgling sound as the spring was opened, and after the second round of arrow rain, the direction was more clear,
The firing line of the ballista is close to the value line, so there is almost no need to calculate, the six long ditches themselves are dug according to the distance scale, as long as you know how many trenches the enemy is in, you will know the distance of the enemy, judging from the area of the echo, the number of sorties of the Fishan army is not small
"I'm ready, Your Majesty!" Varisian walked over and reported,
"Let's get started!"
The fat man waved his hand, and the crossbowman standing on the city wall raised his arms neatly again, and the crossbow was facing the forty-five degree sky, the difference was that the front part of the arrow cluster on this change was wrapped in an oilcloth, and it was lit with a torch nearby, and countless arrow clusters with firelight were dragged into the air with a dazzling red tail, and quickly fell after a few seconds, "Attention!" Fei Shan's army shouted loudly, like a meteor falling from a high place with fire, Ambilight, the position of Fei Shan's army below was suddenly illuminated, and the Fei Shan soldiers below raised their heads curiously,
"Not good!"
Fishan Sixth Legion Commander Kirenthal had a bad premonition in his heart, and before his voice could completely fall, he saw that the heavy shield soldiers standing in the front row seemed to have been punched head-on by some invisible giant, and the entire row of soldiers suddenly flew backwards for several meters, even more than ten meters, and the body wearing heavy infantry armor was twisted into an unnatural posture in mid-air, and a cold light pierced through these gaps, and the soldiers behind were pierced through their bodies by a huge cold light before they could figure out what was going on, "Poof! poof!" The whole queue seemed to have been blown up, the steel tower shield was torn apart on the spot, pieces of iron flew sideways, and the soldiers behind let out a heavy muffled snort, and the flesh and blood flew sideways, like a huge hole in the turtle shell,
"Boom"
The firelight exploded in the group of Fei Shan's soldiers, and the rising and scorching heat wave swept the surrounding soldiers into a whirlpool of air, rippling in all directions, and the broken limbs and flesh exploded into the sky with the firelight, scattering in the air like raindrops on the heads of the soldiers who were already in chaos below.
The firelight suddenly reflected Kirental's face, his face became like dead ash, and he blinked in disbelief, not Thor? He originally thought it was the bombardment of the Imperial Thor, but the direction of the fortress did not have the dazzling fire that erupted when Thor bombarded,
Kirenthal saw a cold light pierce in, and then it exploded with a bang, shattering the remains of the soldier's corpse, the entire shield that had been blown up and twisted, the broken spear, and countless dust like leaves flying in the explosion of air, fluttering, making various turning postures in mid-air, smashing into the damp and soft earth.
"Oh my God, what the hell is this!"
The generals of the Fei Shan army are completely stupid, how come they haven't heard of this kind of weapon? Seeing the scene in front, the Fei Shan soldiers in the back were frightened and pale, in a series of explosions like hell, the steel tower shield was simply defenseless, they didn't know the Imperial Special Crossbow Arrows, only the Emperor's Guards were equipped with a small amount, if there were really enough special crossbow arrows, the fat man would very much welcome the Fei Shan Army to fully press, more than five hundred Imperial heavy ballistae, a salvo can make the Fei Shan Army collapse mentally, but unfortunately, the number of this special crossbow arrows is really not much (to be continued...... I752