Chronicles of Ryan the Wizard Chapter 92: Battle of Crimson Castle (1)
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The loud horns were heard one after another. Edward, the commander-in-chief of the Seremis family’s legion, was riding on his beloved "Black Beauty", looking forward to the Saranal family’s army slowly coming out of the Crimson Castle. The front is the battle flag embroidered with the Saranal family's coat of arms. Judging from the pattern of the battle flag, Edward understands that today's opponent is the sickly Lord Adams.
"Hmph, the order goes on, and the ministries speed up to enter the position." Edward turned his head and gave the order to the messengers around him, and these messengers immediately passed the order on in pairs on fast horses. After receiving the command of the coach, the Seremis family's army speeded up their march. Under the leadership of the officer, they trot all the way to the place that Edward gave them in advance, formed a formation, and waited quietly.
In the Cassano Plain with a population of less than 300,000, today’s battle for the Crimson Rose Castle can be regarded as a large-scale battle. The two warring parties have invested a total of more than 17,000 troops, including the attack on the Théremis family. There are a total of 11,000 troops, and Saranar and Emilio’s combined troops are less than 7,000. It can be said that the gap in military strength is still very large.
Of course, the combat effectiveness of these troops is far inferior to the garrisons of Thor Fortress. The real elite among them are roughly the same as the second-line troops of Thor Fortress back then, and most of them have just dropped farm tools and picked up weapons not long ago. Farmers, after having long-term military-trained soldiers as grass-roots officers, these farmers quickly learned combat skills and experience. If they have the opportunity to experience many difficult battles and persist to the end, these farmers can also become well-deserved veterans. It’s a pity that most people will die before that time or put down their weapons and go home and start farming again.
Commander Edward set out to complete the layout of the army first. As a moderate commander, Edward would certainly not take risks when he had an advantage. He still adopted the most commonly used method in battles. Put the strongest and most impactful 2000 fighters on the right flank of his position, and put the weaker 3000 troops on the left wing. Edward, as the commander-in-chief, leads a large force of 6,000 troops in the center.
The biggest advantage of this arrangement is that it can give full play to the advantages of troops, especially in the vast battlefield, when the two sides cannot use the terrain to sneak attack on the opponent, so that the well-formed formation can be slowly consumed by the opponent, and thwarted through a series of means. Motivate the morale of the opponent, and then launch a penetrating offensive with the strongest right wing against the weakest left wing of the enemy, making the opponents chaotic and winning the final victory of the battle.
Under this arrangement, if the two wings are tight, Edward can choose to divide his forces for rescue, or directly attack with the Chinese army to counter the opponent's position. Even if the two wings are lost, Edward's force is still equal to the opponent's maximum force. , With a little arrangement, Edward can counterattack when the opponent's physical strength drops after a bitter battle, and can also achieve the final victory.
"Unless a miracle strikes, our army will win!" Edward said secretly after repeated deductions for several times, but he still couldn't find his own flaws.
Just when Edward was complacent, the positions of Saranal and Emilio's coalition were basically completed. On the surface, Lord Adams was in charge of the command, but in reality his daughter Adela was the coalition. The actual commander of the In order to conceal people's eyes, Adela's whole body was covered in a black cloak, her rose battle flag was not played, and even Adela himself was not in the Chinese army at all.
According to Adela's arrangement, her father Adams personally led a 4000 army to garrison the Chinese army. Adams' only task was to stay firmly in place. And Vivian personally took the remaining 700 soldiers of the Emilio family and placed them on the left wing, pretending to be miscellaneous soldiers. Adela also carefully selected the elite of the Saranal family to enrich Vivian’s direct reports. 1000 people. In order to conceal their identity, Vivienne and her soldiers wore a raincoat like the kind that farmers wore when plowing in the rain. Fortunately, these soldiers were equipped with thin-skinned mail armor. The appearance is a little bloated, but it even shows the rusticity of the soil that can only be found in farmland for a lifetime.
As for Adela himself, he brought less than 2,000 people to the right wing pretending to be elite. In order to fool Edward, Adela deployed the family's materials and equipped these men with leather armor. And also transferred to Vivian’s guards wearing steel armors. These warriors were originally selected. Their armors were also blessed by Ryan himself. It can be said that the team of dozens of people is the whole time. The team with the strongest combat effectiveness in the battle, when they removed the Emilio family crest and replaced it with the Saranal family crest and stood in the front row on the right wing, it was indeed eye-catching.
"Well, it seems that you have formed exactly the same formation as mine." Edward whispered after carefully observing the opponent's position, "Adams, if you were not weak and sick since childhood, your talent lies in the three of us. The family is the strongest. If you change to me and you get along in a different place, you can only use this method to delay and pray for the miracle to come. It’s just a pity that your military and combat power are far inferior to mine. If you consume it like this, you will definitely be If you lose, although you lose a little bit slower, maybe you think that this is not too shameful?"
Looking at the completion of the formation of troops on both sides, the soldiers on both sides stood quietly about 500 meters apart, and the battlefield fell into a depressive silence. Edward looked up at the sun and found himself Almost 2 hours have passed since I started to dispatch troops out of the camp.
Of course, it is impossible for Edward to stay with each other in this way, because it will not benefit him at all. However, although Edward’s strength is superior, if he acts rashly, it will still cause a series of unpredictable consequences. Therefore, Edward can only use various The method slowly weakens the opponent's strength and morale, so that he can find and seize the moment when the whole army attacks.
"The third and fourth squadrons are ready to shoot, and the seventh and eighth squadrons raise their shields for protection." Edward gave the order softly,
Under his order, the 200 sword and shield warriors who were in charge of protecting raised their bucklers and walked forward for almost 50 meters. They were close together and formed a dense formation. The archers behind formed a safe shield wall, and the only two archer teams of Seremis also walked forward slowly and came to stand behind the sword and shield warriors. Under the command of the officer, these archers were all together. He drew out the feather arrows swiftly and made preparations to attack.