Power and Empire Chapter 3521: Elegy of the Wind (14)
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Martin Liya Kingdom, Wolf Xibia area
The surging water rushed on the huge stones on both sides of the outer edge of the Stam Valley, and smashed into pieces with a roar. The Stam Valley, which is the center of the Wolf Hibiya, itself traverses the Wolf Hibiya. At the fork in the road where the three major rivers in the area converge, the river network crisscrosses and spreads over a hundred miles. Stam, in the Martin Liya language, means the valley of the river. When the ancestors of the Martin Liya sailed down the water, it was I plunged into the beautiful picture-like water net here, and what I saw was the scenery of aquatic plants with more than a hundred miles of spaciousness
It can be seen that the currents in the wolfxibia area are so big. Because they were unprepared, the rivers skyrocketed overnight. Some camps stationed near the rivers suffered heavy losses. A large number of materials were washed away by the currents in the middle of the night and swept away by the rapids. There are more than three hundred soldiers. It is not uncommon for the river to swell due to rainfall, but overnight, a small dry river with a width of no more than two or three meters turned into a rushing torrent with a width of more than 30 meters. , The sight of a brutal dragon engulfing everything in the vicinity still frightened the 200,000 Anse army in Wolf Xibia
Standing next to the roaring waterway of the torrent, the commander of the Dark Ser Army, Arnover, stared at Stam, who was guarded by the Martin Force teeth, not far away. His face was also gloomy. The white rain for two consecutive days, The Martin Liya flag on the Stamm defense tower is pouring tightly on the flagpole
The river that expanded from the upper reaches turned an eastward bay in front of Stam, and the overflowing water began to flow over the outskirts of the Anse army camp in front of Stam Valley. During the dry period of the Martin Liya Prairie, the water network here is almost dried up due to the large area of water evaporation, and some of the water flow is cut off in the middle. Even if it can be sustained, the scope is greatly reduced, so be an army of Anse When I entered this land of water nets, I did not take into consideration the geographical features of the Wolf Xibia Corridor. It was either that the river was swelling, and it was not that I had never seen it before. There was something fuss about, but this time, the secret is talented. Really understand what is meant by overnight pouring
Looking over from where Arnover stood, I saw that the originally exhausted river water web was full at this moment, criss-crossing like a huge spider web, completely unprepared for Martin Liya’s rising water season. The army of Anse, because the skyrocketing river was cut to pieces, many camps of other tribes have long ignored orders and moved to a higher place on their own. You can see soldiers from all tribes running around. Transporting military rations and supplies, the front is very widely scattered, and it is completely unable to play a role in mutual protection
And the most important influence is the siege equipment that the Dark Ser Army spent two days building. All of them fell into the mud, and they would lie down if they didn’t go far, and some even collapsed directly in the river. It blocks the flow of water and makes the river more difficult to pass. Although Stam is right in front of him, I also know that there are no more than 10,000 real troops in Stam, and the rest are volunteers made up of civilians temporarily
If the Anser army had not cut off the retreat, this would never have happened. These civilians would never be stranded in Stam, let alone gritted their teeth to assist Stam’s defense
The Anther Army did not think that it was the cause of the increase in difficulty, and had to bear the consequences for their greedy decision, because the Anser Army cut off the way, and also launched a non-retaining massacre strategy against the evacuated civilians. , A large number of civilians who should have run away returned to Stam, and the number was as many as 300,000, because knowing that after the Darkside Army defeated Stam, it must have carried out a massacre like Kathu, and did not want to die. , Only to block the offensive of the Anser Army, a large number of civilians took up the weapons provided by the guards in the Stam area, and spontaneously cooperated with the guards to guard Stam. Even the old, weak, women and children joined the team to carry the guard supplies. Move rocks, cook food in pots,
From breaking through the western border all the way to the east, successively breaking through the two provinces of the Kingdom of Martin Liya, attacking like a frenzy of the Darkside Army, but at this moment is stagnated because of this sudden torrential rain and rising water, and now because These civilians joined, and had to fall into a bitter battle
In the beginning, Anse didn't think this would be a hard fight. He had already broken through so many Martin Liya camps. Is the Stam in front of him different from other camps?
After this period of war, Anse's heart has already swelled to a certain extent. Not only did he look down on Martin Liya Army from his bones, he thought that Martin Liya Army was not worthy of its name, and it was known as the first strong army in Southern Europe, but it was actually vulnerable. , And even the emperor was also despised. He didn't dare to move forward like a warrior, but only dared to hide behind the border and build a line of defense. I really don't know how the name of the mainland's strongest army came from!
The enemy should be attacked, attacked, attacked, but what the emperor is currently doing, I don’t know what it is afraid of, but the empire’s ordnance is indeed very useful, if it is not for the empire’s craftsmen along the way to build the siege. Equipment, it is impossible for the Anse Army to attack the city in one breath and achieve such a result. If you can get these technologies from the empire, it is not that the Anser has never negotiated with the empire, but the empire’s price is too high. The construction technology of a siege tower dare to ask for one million imperial gold. I really think that the money is not due to the wind. Even if I rob a lot this time, it is impossible to use such wealth to buy only one siege tower technology. Unless it is Imperial Thor, you can also consider it
In the battle of fortifications, when there is not enough equipment, the first choice is to use the advantage of troops to make a breakthrough
However, under the skyrocketing river, Anse’s army was as large as 200,000, but it could not be fully deployed. Each time the force that can launch an attack is about 30,000 or forty thousand people in the front, other troops can only watch. Standing outside the water net and watching, watching the main attacking unit build pontoons on the rapids, open the attack channel, and then only use the simple long ladder ants attached to the moth.
In order to be able to win Stam in one go, Arnover ordered that the various ministries must appoint elite soldiers as commandos,
On the wall of Stam, the defenders of Stam looked at the undulating heads of the sea in front of them, the mountains of swords and forests erected like dense forests, and the flags that fluttered like the heads of clouds. White, with fingers clenched, this is the Anse, the Anse who slaughters the Martin Liya like a mad demon. It's not that they don't want to run, but that they have no way to run. If the other party rushes in, it will be a piece of blood from the dead mountain. Sea
"Stam will win!" A Martin Liya officer raised his weapon and shouted.
"Stam will win!" One after another shouts sounded on Stam's dirt wall. Martin Liya people who heard the shouts in the city stopped their work and looked towards the direction of the wall. In the past, more people shouted
"Forward, offense"
There are so many Anser troops, crowded with the vast water net in front of Stamm. They stand shoulder to shoulder, the front row and the back row are next to each other, their spears are like forests, and their shields are like the sea. The Anser people don’t care. What kind of array, what strategy, facing the small Stam in front of them, the Anser army naturally took a numerical advantage to crush the enemy, and drowned Stam with the strength of the mountains and plains. ┏Ⅹ④③⑨⑨┛Although the front of the attack is already crowded, the Anser Army is still mobilizing troops and dispatching troops one by one, ordering the troops behind to push the troops in front of them. Enthusiastically rushing forward, no one can do it without advancing.
"Shoot." Arrows rushed like rain on Stamm's dirt wall. Thousands of regular archers of the Martin Forces’ armies kept "squeaking" their bows and arrows into the full moon, "swooshing" they shot out like arrows. The continuous torrential rain poured out on the approaching Anser Army, but their blocking had little effect on the Darkser Army. Countless feet of the corpses of the arrows hit the city and built simple wood. Behind the bridge, it was like a torrent hitting the dam. The sound of a wooden ladder leaning on it, killing, spreading and spreading, the sound of killing, the knife splitting the spear, and people were knocked down from the high earth wall. In the rapids, the dark soldiers under the earth wall were waiting impatiently, and they climbed the city wall with bare hands one by one
"Climb up and kill them all." Anse is indeed a barbarian from the dense forest. A hideous soldier of Anse, with a weapon in his mouth, scrambled to climb upwards, no matter what the arrow is like rain, no matter how heavy The stones were smashed, one by one as brave as if they had nine lives. For a time, the dirt wall was densely covered with climbing soldiers, just like ants crawling on a sugar cube.
"Papa Papa"
At this time, the slow siege ladder and the boarding cart approached the city wall heavily. Standing on the boarding cart that was level with the city wall, the archers of the Ansel Army began to shoot back at the defenders at the front of the city, restraining the movement of the defenders. At the same time, the huge baffle in front of the siege tower seemed to have lost its support. They were beaten down with normal force and leaned heavily on the city with a bang. These were siege equipment forged by imperial craftsmen. With the baffle, the earth wall and the siege tower were connected together like a bridge, as the main attack. It is the 20,000 elites of the Arao tribe, all wearing armors and shields, and as the baffle falls, they rush out toward the front in one fell swoop
"Kill!"
Wearing the standard armor of the Kali Soviet Army, they are waiting for the moment to recharge their energy. They are the backbone of the fortified troops, with incredible agility, slashing and slashing, using the kind of fine craftsmanship. The saber on the opposite side saw countless people gushing out, followed by blood and groans. Before he recovered, he saw a white light flashing in front of him, and he had no time to call out "Oh!" Blood. Flowers spewed out, but the Martin Liyaman behind him, at the same time, rushed up loudly, swords and swords, and the human bodies were seen as blood spattered. Stam, to the secret army who has been accustomed to tailwinds. In other words, it was the first time that the hard bones were truly gnawed, and it was the Dark Ser Army that began to bear considerable losses. This kind of fortified battle that relies entirely on manpower accumulation, without the investment of heavy armored infantry, is to exchange blood with blood. There are 300,000 civilians in Stamner, and now he has earned a few civilians in exchange for the elite of the Darkside Army!
In the distance, under the banner of the Darkside Army, Arnover looked serious, and the soldiers rushed past him one by one, reporting "Master Polykov has gone up!"
"Lucale's Ministry is up!"
"Sudan asked for reinforcements! He said there were too many enemies to withstand!"
Arnowell's hands are shaking slightly: The fighting has been more than three hours! Stam, who seemed to be swaying in front of him, was tenaciously holding on from being defeated again and again. First of all, not to mention whether the archers of the Ansel Army could suppress the counterattack of Stam's defenders. Even if hundreds of elite armors were torn open, the ants attached to the moth and went up, and they just got a foothold, they were swarmed by the Martin Liya people above, and were often pushed down by people, which led to the loss of so many elite fighters in vain
"Asshole, what are you doing up front!
"We can’t fight like this. It’s a shame to fight like this! For the sake of him, Arnover, don’t our ministries live anymore? “The heads of the ministries are also blue-faced, for the newly emerging Anse ministries In other words, these elites who have gone through several wars are their lifeblood. If you die, you will lose one. Seeing the front you have lost so much.
The heads of the various ministries looked ugly, and their distressed livers were trembling. Everyone snatched things. Is it okay to **** things? Why did you come to fight this Stam? The elites are all dead, and all the ministries have to die. , I’ve filled it all in. It’s not a big loss to die here. Anyway, I’ve made so much. Even if I withdraw it now, I’ve made a lot of money. There is no need to consume all the tribal hopes here.
With this idea~IndoMTL.com~The heads of all ministries secretly replaced the elites and used a group of troops with average combat power to top them. The effectiveness of the attack is low. It is conceivable that the elites will continue to be filled. Go in,
Different from other ministries, Arnold has really lost the blood. As the royal family of Anse, the Arnold has a regular force of between 40,000 and 50,000. This time it directly launched 20,000. The organization The rising waves of attacks attacked one after another, breaking through the line of defense many times and breaking into the dirt wall, but what they encountered was the desperate resistance of Martin Liya.
"My lord, we are the only one fighting on the entire wall, and the other ministries are perfunctory. There are too many Martin Liya people. Killing one batch after another, it's impossible to kill!" Tide from the front Generally, the soldiers of the Anse Army who retreated were panting. The generals of the Arnuo tribe who led the group were covered in blood, standing in front of Arnover with an expression of indignation, and all the knives in their hands were cut out.
It’s not that I didn’t go up, but I went up and was driven down. The other ministries didn’t work hard, and the wall that had been captured, faced the Martin Liya who counterattacked like a flood, and fell again, at least two thousand. The elite of the Anuo tribe died on this wall, and the injured were between three and four thousand.
The Martin Liya Army on the dirt wall also discovered this. All the troops that specifically cater to the Anuo tribe are still constantly drawing troops from other sections of the wall.