Power and Empire Chapter 1923: The Empire’s Counterattack (7)
At dusk, the sun was shining westward on the hills like waves, and the exhausted army of just over 60,000 finally saw the Bavuni fortress entrenched like giant beasts. The strong walls were the same as before, but the banner The blue sky-colored flag of the Gangfei Empire has become the black gold-rimmed flag of the Falcon Empire,
"Bawuni Fortress...lost!" A soldier from Gangfei looked desperately into the distance, his lips trembled and muttered to himself, and he had no more trembling legs after driving for more than 20 miles on the hilly road. Unable to hold on, I slumped on the ground, stretched over the rolling hills, and the cool wind was blowing from the plains. The 60,000 Gang non-army had no array to speak of, because it was an order for a rapid march, and the officers were able to deal with it at first. The team was restrained, but as more and more soldiers fell behind, the queue began to be scattered and uncontrollable, "Get up right away, everyone is not allowed to stop! "An officer will come over soon," I can't run, really. How can human legs run better than horse legs! "An older soldier was sitting on the ground panting," Yes, the opponent is a cavalry, and we are infantry. It is impossible to pursue it. !"
The words of this soldier caused the other soldiers to feel uncomfortable. Soldiers nearby all rushed over and said loudly that they had been driven out of the mountain road for more than 20 miles in one breath. It was not enough to stop and rest. Is that still a human order? You officers have the skills Come down and walk, let us ride a horse, not to mention 50 miles, even a hundred miles, we also walk!
"The war is imminent, the enemy may attack at any time... and this is the order from above." Facing the surging soldiers, the officer explained with an ugly expression, "No matter what, you can't get tired without dying in the hands of the enemy. Hey! "I don't know who shouted in the crowd, and hundreds of people immediately responded. They all sat on the ground. This trend quickly caused riots in the forward army of Gangfei. The general in charge of the forward army was anxious. Go back and forth
"Tata"
A group of cavalry came up from behind. Boai Casa, riding on a war horse, glanced over the soldiers sitting on the floor, and shouted hoarsely, "Whose army is this, it's blatantly disobeying the order! Quickly, gather together immediately, we are going to counterattack Baruni." The fortress must be taken back! "My lord, the soldiers are indeed exhausted! Let them rest!" The officer said, panting, all around the soldiers sitting on the ground panting and running continuously. After more than twenty miles of hilly land, even the iron-strike can't stand the "rest?" Boai Casa gave this name angrily. He said sharply, "The distance ahead of the Bavuni Fortress has made up three miles. The enemy has just experienced a siege war. Even if the Bavuni Fortress is occupied, it still has an unstable foothold. The opponent’s strength is only 10,000, and we have Sixty thousand people, as long as we launch a full attack, we will be able to regain the fortress. "But now you see, what are these guys doing?" Boai Casa said in an icy voice, the Bavarian Fortress is blocking the Falcon Army south this time. Entering the core of the battle. It is the gate that the 60,000 troops will die to block, but we lost Barvoni without even a real confrontation! If this is passed out, we will be the biggest laughing stock. Rest? Don't be kidding. Order the troops to assemble, I want to counterattack!" My lord, I'm afraid I can't fight back now! "The adjutant smiled bitterly and stretched out his hand, pointing to the soldiers around
"Although we lost the fortress. But we still have a force of 60,000 people. If we attack at this time, I am afraid that our troops will not be able to keep it!" "Stupid! If you can't get back to the fortress of Baruen. Attack on both sides of the enemy. Next, waiting for us and the sixty thousand army, apart from collapse and death, there will be no other choice! "Praise Casa gritted his teeth and raised his whip" Now every minute is a matter of our survival"
"Assemble the troops, we must get back to Bavuni Fortress as soon as possible!" Boai Casa summoned his subordinates with a gloomy expression to discuss the counterattack
"My lord, the army is exhausted and lacks food. Under this circumstance, it is necessary to storm the fortress of Bavuni. It is really..." An infantry commander said with an ugly face
"I can see all of these, but you should also think about it. The opponent used a false and indistinguishable retreat to transfer tens of thousands of troops from the fortress, and then beat us with the high mobility of the cavalry. , I took the Bavuni Fortress with almost no loss. If this news goes back, there is only one result waiting for you and me..." Boai Casa’s voice paused, and his eyes swept over several generals and several Gangfei generals. At the same time, there was silence. Even the opposing general closed his mouth under his gaze. The air was depressed and it made people feel solidified.
Yes, unknowingly, the other party has driven himself to a dead end!
Damn, why is this happening! An infantry commander gritted his teeth. If the opponent did not show up, but directly attacked the Barwuni Fortress, he was investigated from above, or at best, even if it was a misjudgment, but the opponent deliberately showed up and even called his hand. The cavalry turned alive to the direction of Bavuni fortress in front of their army,
If the generals didn’t say anything, it would be a real missed battle opportunity, panic avoiding the battle, such a big hat is suppressed, all my efforts in the military world have turned into water, and whether I can survive is still a question. You know, the Congolese Ministry of Military Affairs issued a death order before the war, "You must desperately stop the Falcons from advancing southward. In this battle, those who are greedy for life, fearing death, and fearing to avoid the war, will all be executed on the spot."
The Military Supervisory Team is sitting in Warika, which is less than fifty miles away. The sharp blade is waiting to find a head that is big enough to stand up.
, the Boai Casa and the generals who lost the Bavuni fortress are undoubtedly the best suspension for the supervising team to deter Xiaoxiao. If they do not counterattack the Bavuni fortress, the supervising team will arrive tomorrow, thinking of their own The head will be circulated to the entire 200,000 Southern Army by the supervising team as a proud demonstration. The unruly generals will also feel the biting coolness that has spread to the neck
"Everyone understands, my decision like this is not for myself!" Boai Kasha was bloodshot, his right hand slowly drew out his saber, and a sharp sword plunged into the soil under his feet, his eyes swept. "Passing generals" are you willing to be circulated to the whole army like listed products, to humiliate the family and make the family shameless, or fight to the death like an imperial soldier, even with three feet of loyal blood splattering the walls of Pakistan! It is also considered an achievement. It's my duty to wait for the soldiers! At least you don't need to involve your family members. Let's make a choice! ""I agree to participate in the attack!" An infantry regiment commander hesitated. I agree with "I also agree with "Another infantry regimental commander looked at his colleagues and said to himself." Although I am handsome, I don't want to be treated by the whole army!" Several other generals also said Agree, between desperate battle and execution because of the disadvantages of the battle, the soldiers are accustomed to choosing the former. "Since there is no objection, the battle is set tonight. Everyone will go back to gather their troops, build siege equipment, attack during the night, and do their best. Ten thousand soldiers don’t believe that they can’t beat the Bawu Ni Fortress! "Poai Casa’s solemn gaze carries a trace of decisiveness." Either the Falcons were dead, or we were dead! Because we did not carry more than three days of rations! "Yes!" , My lord! "The generals looked firm, saluted neatly, and turned to leave
There is no starlight in the black night. The torches in front of the Bavuni Fortress spread like stars on the front of the flat, dark clouds pressed against the sky and the ground, "Booming" a muffled thunder rang out, "Hula La" The silver lightning pierced the sky at the top of the fortress like a sharp sword. At the same time, it also illuminates the faces of soldiers of the two armies, "The rainstorm in spring is unexpectedly at this time!" The fat man raised his head and looked at the flashing lights of the sky, standing on the wall and stretching out a hand. "Is this... He is wearing black armor. With a look like a demon god, sweeping across the front and posing a desperate battle of just over 60,000 troops,
More than ten square arrays are full of lances, and archers are arranged on the flanks of the main array. The forefront is the famous white feathered heavy armored infantry in the Gangfei Southern Army,
The white long wings floating on the helmets of these newly-feathered infantrymen, the upper body is a whole piece of forged plate armor. The lower part itself is an iron armor with joint protection, the left hand is a tower shield for protection, and the right hand holds a five-meter-long cavalry spear. The sharp tip of the spear faces upwards, which looks like a piece of metal shimmering from a distance. Dense forest,
There is depression in the air, and the flag flutters in the night breeze, making a crackling sound, crashing, flashing like a light to illuminate the earth, Boai Casa slowly drew out the sword, raised it high, and exhausted the whole body The force shouted "Attack from the whole army! The long and agitated bugle sound resounded through the sky at the same time,
"Attack!"
The Gangfei infantry formation shouted slogans, leaning against the city wall like a tide, behind them. It reveals that it is a large-scale siege tower that has just been built, with a huge arrow cluster and three-story height, just like a giant beast exposed from the night. Below the siege tower is the attack line of the phalanx infantry. /
Because of the rush of preparation, these siege vehicles swayed when they were pushed crudely, but the footsteps of the soldiers below were as slow as the siege tower, and they were wearing heavy armor. Holding the tower shield in his hand, the whole body is protected extremely tightly, well-trained, without panic, but the look on his face is not relaxed at all,
A wide moat ditch across the front, like a giant beast in the dark, with a bloodbath open. This was once a weapon used to stop the enemy from approaching the wall, but this time it became a barrier to the army. The sky trench, for this trench, at least 10,000 troops need to be filled, "Hold your shield and watch out for the enemy's arrows!"
The white feather heavy infantry neatly raised the tower shield in their hands, and their steps were firm and strong. The white feather heavy infantry on the front line looked at the city wall from the lowered metal face, and they saw a stretched crossbow on the wall, holding The fingers holding the shield tightened tightly. It was the metal flash at the front of the Falcon Army arrow cluster. "Your Majesty, do you want to activate it?" Hu Keqili stood beside the fat man and asked, "Don't worry, wait a minute! Fight to the death, we don’t have a second chance to attack!"
Fatty's face was stern and he raised his head again and glanced at the silver light flashing sky again. Large raindrops began to fill the battlefield. This rain, really came at the right time, and the breath of spring rain was enough to cover up a lot of things!
The defense of the Bawuni Fortress is very complete, and the materials are staggering. There are only one hundred and fifty catapults. If it is a normal siege situation, it is impossible to reach the city wall without twice the force. It can be seen that Gang Fei people are ready to fight to the death with themselves here, but the true defense of the city is to make the enemy completely desperate "Go forward!"
The white feather infantry of Gang Fei is accelerating, the heavy iron armor slams on the ground, and gasps in his mouth
A sloppy rain of arrows shot down from the distant city wall. A dozen soldiers fell to the ground with their arrows, but the others continued to advance. 200 meters in front of them was the moat by the Baiyu heavy infantry. Baiyu The tower shields of heavy infantry are used to fill the pits. If tens of thousands of metal tower shields are dropped, the deepest trench will be covered, 100 meters. The shooting on the city wall began to intensively, crossbow arrows attacked like locusts, and the white feather heavy infantry took the tower shield and desperately moved forward. "The archer forward, cover!"
Boai Casa raised his hand and shouted loudly, with a hint of joy on his face,
He attributed the attack smoothly to the opponent's lack of troops. The Bawu Ni Fortress was a large fortress that could accommodate 50,000 people, and the opponent had only 10,000 troops, scattered on the wall. There is bound to be a weak attack situation. As long as the white feather infantry fills the moat, the army behind can swarm up. What about the Falcon Army, can it be five at a time? The strength advantage is the greatest advantage! The opponent seems to have picked up the bargain, but in fact, it is not a cocoon. If you have not entered the fortress with 10,000 cavalry, it is really a difficult job to wipe out all such densely packed cavalry.
The Gangfei archer on the flank began to move. Fifteen thousand archers moved forward neatly in a sequence, just approaching a distance of one hundred and fifty meters, when suddenly, a wave of cold light roared. The speed of these cold lights is so fast that it is impossible to react, or it is too late to respond. I saw dozens of cold lights just like the legendary giant pulling the bow of the sky to shoot the sun-shooting arrows. Pour in from the archer's line, "Pap Pap," the flesh and blood flew across, and the powerful giant arrow directly pierced several archers together. The squeezed flesh and blood was like dragging a long red road among the archers. The scene was extremely tragic. "This is the ballista of the Falcon Empire?" The smile on Boai Casa's mouth instantly solidified. I have fought with the Falcon Army, but I have heard other colleagues mention this. This is a killing machine on the battlefield. No one can stop the Falcon Army’s crossbow arrows. Even the shield of the heavy infantry cannot "the opponent has this." Why didn’t he deal with heavy infantry?” Boai Casa felt that his head was a little insufficient. He watched the white feather infantry at the forefront hurriedly approaching the moat. He always felt that something was wrong. If he was on the defensive side, he must Will use the most powerful weapon to destroy the heavy infantry of the main siege, but the opponent uses a powerful ballista to defeat his archer. Why? What is the other party hiding?
100 meters!
50m
20 meters,
Gang Fei Baiyu heavy infantry trot all the way to speed up. The moat in front was clearly visible. The infantry in the first row began to put down the tower shield. When they approached the moat, they violently dropped the tower shield in their hands, the metal shield. Falling down, making weird noises, but in the messy running sound, the infantrymen just didn’t care about this. They jumped from the place where they dropped their shields. With the shield underneath, they wouldn’t get hurt, but they were all in one. The pungent smell rushed to the first row of people who jumped almost fainted "What's the situation! What is the enemy laying down?"
Just a heavy infantry crouched down and fumbled. Under normal circumstances, there are spikes and various barbs under the moat, but this time, he felt the liquid of China Resources, and the black one was almost invisible at night. No wonder no one sees the liquid, the smell of red nose comes from here
"This is?" This Gangfei infantryman opened his hands and looked confused,
"swish" a red light shot down from above the city wall,
"Huh!" The red light soared into the sky, and a fierce fire light swept across the moat like a raptor,
Tens of thousands of eyes on both sides witnessed the terrible scene with their own eyes. All the heavy infantry near the moat were lit like candles by the rising fire, like burning people running around. It’s useless to roll on the ground. The flames burned everything on the moat, all kinds of screams, and even truce the two sides of the war. "Fire, what a big fire!" Some of the soldiers who saw the situation clearly looked ahead. Immediately pale, with soft legs and feet,
"vomit" Some people couldn't help but vomit, countless human bodies burned by the fire disappeared in the red light, and those who wanted to run were also ignited. The flames could not be extinguished, "Go forward, retreat to the latter to escape "The Congolese and Fei officers were yelling in panic, but it was useless. The long ditch in front of the burning flames made all the attacking troops desperate.
As soon as the non-soldiers began to collapse, the low morale made the troops completely lose their will to fight
"Let’s attack!" The fat man standing on the wall calmly raised his hand. This time with 10,000 guard cavalry as the transport team, he dragged a thousand fuel bombs and 20 ballistas. Sure enough, he gave Gang Fei a big surprise. Behind him came the sound of the stretch cable being chopped off, the violent whistling sound, and even the screaming screams below were once covered.
Dark sky and rainy night~IndoMTL.com~One hundred and fifty heavy slings and two thousand longbowmen fired on the fortress sling at the same time, hoo! call! call! Like a huge black sickle violently swung from the city wall, the cold light of metal hit the Gangfei infantry formation below like a rainstorm. The powerful ballista steel arrows made the panicked Gangfei infantry look like an invisible giant. The frontal punch collapsed the bridge of the nose, and the infantry shields turned directly into scrap iron. The entire row of soldiers flew out several meters, even more than ten meters. The body in heavy infantry armor was twisted into an unnatural posture in mid-air, flesh and blood. The body is like paper,
In front of the disintegrated Gangfei army, the gate of the steel fortress slowly opened.
"With the sword, the whole army assault!"
Empire general Hu Keqili pointed forward with the sword, the five thousand empire’s most elite cavalry guards neatly pulled out the long guard swords, like light and electricity, black armored horses swarmed out,
The ground trembled violently under the feet, standing unsteadily, horses hoof rumbling at the ears, neat black cavalry heavy like a towering mountain rushing against the collapsed array of Gangfei, Gangfei infantry company first exclaimed Before the sound was shouted, it was lifted by the huge impact, and then fell under the iron hoof in the back row, and it was directly turned into minced meat! The Gang Fei man in front discarded his weapon and ran wildly over the mountains and plains,
"I lost, why is it like this? The opponent has only 10,000 people, but I have 60,000 people!" In the chaos, Boai Casa was torn from the war horse by the defeated army, and was finally swept by the horses! I don't even know where I am going wrong when I die! (To be continued) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation. )