Heart of Empire Chapter 449: Night raid (2 in 1)
After marching overnight, even Palan himself was a bit tired.
But rushing is effective. Originally, it was estimated that the enemy would not be able to discover the abnormality until at least noon on the 24th, and even if he was lucky, this time might be delayed until the afternoon.
However, they had already arrived at their destination before the sun rose on the 24th.
It is a place marked on the military map as Valley No. 37.
This desert is not an endless, unobstructed flat land. On the contrary, there are many kinds of rolling hills.
These small mounds and sand dunes are not too big, and climbing up and down is not too strenuous, but they are enough for people to see far away easily.
In terms of military affairs, these sand pirates have made good use of such terrain characteristics. Relying on their familiarity with this desert, they detect their prey in advance, and then concentrate and suddenly rush out from the back of a certain sand dune, often able to catch the attacked prey by surprise and win.
As for the so-called No. 37 Valley, it is an area composed of continuous mounds. Under the area composed of these hills and sand dunes, there is a valley with slightly lower terrain.
Please report that the sand bandits at the barren land pass are stationed in this valley.
Just looking at the information and the map, Palan hasn't seen anything yet. But when he visited the scene in person, he found that these sand robbers did have their unique side in taking advantage of the geographical conditions of this special desert area.
They cleverly used the terrain to not only create a relatively comfortable campsite, but also quite secretive. Geographical conditions hide their traces very well. If they don't know in advance and conduct special investigations, it is not easy to find the enemy's traces even if they get close.
Just as he was thinking this way, Palan suddenly felt a gust of wind blowing, and in the wind was Firmino's whisper: "The secret whistle around the periphery has been cleaned up, and the teams in the four directions have all been cleared." You can launch an attack at any time."
Wind communication is a good tool for communicating on the battlefield. Of course, Palan with a mage can't abandon this convenient spell.
"How long do we have?" Palan asked.
Two minutes later, another gust of wind with news came over. Firmino said: "Fifteen minutes, fifteen minutes at most, those sand robbers will find that their peripheral sentries are gone."
Not much time, Palan said to the mage beside him: "Send orders to the leading officers in the other four directions, and launch an attack on time in five minutes!"
The time now is the darkest hour before dawn. However, under the cloudless and clear night sky, moonlight and starlight can provide some help in vision.
At least, you won't lose sight of your fingers.
Looking down the dunes, there is the camp of the sand bandits. They were quite cautious, and at this time they couldn't even see the dim light of the candle.
But Palan knew that his prey was down here, and the news that Major Firmino personally came in to investigate should be reliable enough.
Five minutes passed quickly. Putting away the pocket watch in his hand, Palan drew out the long sword at his waist. The sharp long sword reflected a white light under the moonlight, shining on the sandy ground, flashing past. And he took a deep breath, then exhausted all his strength, and shouted: "Attack! All attack!"
The originally silent desert was suddenly awakened by the sound of killing! The dust from the footsteps on the ground is clearly visible even at night.
After Palan commanded the army to launch an attack, the Sand Bandits reacted quickly—but the reaction was a little bit bad.
They were clearly unprepared for the sudden attack. Frightened voices came in disorder, and there was a flash of fire. Some sand bandits came out holding torches, wanting to see what happened, but what greeted them was a series of fire-filled crossbows covering and shooting under the darkness of night.
The crossbowmen of course have no way to maintain the accuracy of their shooting under such a dark night. However, Palan never expected this. The gathered crossbowmen need to do nothing more than cover the Sand Bandit camp with rockets before their comrades rush into the enemy camp.
Do not ask how many people are shot to death, but seek to expand the coverage area as much as possible and expand the offensive as much as possible, so as to cause stronger psychological pressure on the enemy. At the same time, those crossbow bolts with flames, which were shot on the tents of the sand robbers, caused the burning, which could further cause confusion among the enemies.
After shooting the rockets, the crossbowmen continued to shake the rocker on the crossbow desperately, wind the string, and then continued to shoot, trying to shoot as many bolts as possible before the friendly troops entered the enemy camp go.
The overwhelming arrows shot down, showing the fast and powerful shooting speed of the crossbowman.
Actually, although the crossbowmen's covering shots were quite intensive, the actual damage they actually caused was not too much.
In complete darkness, in this kind of field of view, only coverage strikes can be carried out, and it is impossible to pursue the hit rate. In fact, no matter whether it was the first round of rockets or the follow-up shooting of crossbow arrows, except for some really unlucky guys who were shot and injured, most of the other arrows were thrown into the empty space.
But it was enough to cause the sand robbers to panic.
Under the dense rain of arrows, a considerable number of Sand Bandits fled out of the tent with their weapons, and retreated back again. Even the officers of the sand bandits are the same.
And this directly caused these Sand Pirates to miss their last chance.
If they can take the lead in organizing the defense before the army led by Palan rushes in, they will not have no chance of resisting the impact. And as long as you resist for a while, find a mount, and ride a camel, with excellent mobility, it is very likely that some people can escape.
However, they didn't even have a decent line of defense organized at the moment.
Palan took the lead, leading two brigades of pure swordsmen, and rushed in from the front of the sand bandit camp.
There was no obstacle in this process. The Sand Bandits, who were attacked by surprise and suppressed by the rain of arrows shot by the crossbowmen, had no way to stop the advance of Palan's troops.
The two-handed swordsmen gathered in a standard squad, staring at the tents and rushing over. A few torches were thrown on the tent, the tent was lit, and then they stood outside. The Sand Bandit, who couldn't stand the flames, would immediately slash his head and face with three or five big swords as soon as he came out of the tent.
Some, they couldn't even wait for the Sand Bandits inside to come out. The small captains who led the team were more irritable, so they would directly order their subordinates to hack at the tent with a big sword. It doesn't matter where he cuts, anyway, even the tent and everything inside are chopped up together.
When encountering some relatively large tents, there may be multiple sand robbers inside, or there may be some leader members of some sand bandits, the pure swordsmen will directly cut through the tents and rush in to fight the enemy. And those sand bandit cavalry without mounts inside are likely not even equipped with all the equipment, so how could they be the opponents of the menacing pure swordsmen?
Under such circumstances, few Sand Bandits could break out of the tent alive.
Palan led the crowd forward. In fact, the only soldiers he could command were the dozens of people who followed him. The dark night not only brought trouble to the enemy, but also nearly paralyzed Palan's command system in the melee. It is impossible for him to command the army like his fingers under such conditions.
But it doesn't need to.
From the very beginning of the battle, the situation of the battle has already been tilted towards him to a considerable extent. The sand bandits who were attacked were totally unprepared.
Moreover, the Pure Swordsman Troop is also quite old and elite. They have fought many battles with Dane in the South and North. From officers to ordinary soldiers, they have quite rich experience in war. They are fully capable of fighting in small groups under the leadership of officers at all levels without a unified command.
What's more, they don't completely lose their command now. At least, before the war, Paran had clearly issued their own instructions to each of the troops. The task of the frontal assault force he commanded was to rush into the enemy's camp, and to expand the chaos as much as possible and increase the killing effect.
The first stage and the second stage of this mission have been considered completed, and the rest is to see how many enemies they can kill in the dark night.
As for Palan himself, now he is trying his best to keep the troops cohesive in the process of advancing, and don't run too far in the dark night. At the same time, he is also leading the team he has gathered to continue to kill towards the front.
In the dark night, he himself did not know where he was. But he knew that it was right to kill all the way forward. Going forward, he will always be able to smash through the camps of these sand bandits. At that time, the mission of this part of the army led by him will be considered a perfect achievement.
Twenty minutes after the battle started, Palan encountered the first wave of friendly troops.
Before the battle started, he divided his army into four parts and attacked from four directions. He himself led the army to attack from the east, and the army in front of him was naturally attacking from another direction.
"Which department do you belong to?" Palan couldn't possibly know every soldier, and the team in front of him was only 20 or 30 people, and there were no senior officers around, so he could only ask.
He can't recognize every soldier and officer, but the soldiers and officers basically recognize him as a general. A leading lieutenant replied: "We are Colonel Geb's subordinates, and we got separated from the brigade during the previous battle."
Gebu was the team coming from the west, and he and Paran just came in from two opposite directions.
Gebu's people were found at this location, which basically means that the camp of sand bandits has been killed by troops coming from two directions.
Palan caressed the silver mask on his face, and asked the soldiers in front, "Do you know where your large army is?"
"I don't know the exact location..." the lieutenant said, "But, I know the general direction."
After thinking about it, Palan planned to take the team to join Gebu first.
Thus, about ten minutes later, Palan led a hundred people and found Gebu. And the timing of his coming was also very coincidental, Colonel Gebb was gnawing on a hard bone.
It seems to be the big leader of a sand bandit group. Under the chaotic situation, he even gathered hundreds of people. He was a mixed group of sword dancers and pure swordsmen led by Gebu himself. The formation of troops is playing happily. And the direction Palan came from was exactly behind the sand bandits!
So what else is there to say? With a roar, Palan immediately took the lead and led the troops around him to kill.
He has been promoted to the level of a high-ranking knight anyway, and few people are his enemies when he is cut by a sword. Occasionally, he would run into some capable sand robbers, and he would be able to do two tricks in his hands. Usually, he would be surrounded by his guards, who raised their knives and fell around, hacking to death.
When the Sand Bandit Cavalry lost their mounts, their combat effectiveness was mediocre. Fighting against the mixed army led by Gebu was already a tough job, let alone running into Palan behind him. Assault of troops personally led.
After five minutes, they were already falling apart. The leader was beheaded by Palan himself, and the other Sand Bandits also died or fled~IndoMTL.com~ After winning the battle, Palan looked at him and Gebu’s soldiers, chasing after him. Seeing the signs of the broken soldiers running out, they quickly shouted: "Don't chase! Don't chase!"
"What's the matter?" Gebu took a rag he found somewhere, wiped the scimitar in his hand, and asked Palan, "Why didn't the general let the soldiers pursue?"
"I need this force to gather." Paland said, "I'm a little worried."
"Worried?" Gebu frowned, "Although there is no way to see the overall situation, there should be no suspense in this battle, right? What are you worried about?"
"I'm worried about the situation on the side of Lieutenant Colonel Norseman." Palan said.
Northman is an Elven Sword Dancer and commander of forces attacking in the other direction. He led a brigade of sword dancers and a brigade of pure swordsmen, along with two squadrons of wolf cavalry, and was tasked with a very important task—to find the corrals in the sand bandit camp as soon as the assault began, It is also the place where the Sand Pirates concentrated their camel mounts and occupied it.
According to the prior plan, after Lieutenant Colonel Northman completed this task, he should release five red flares into the sky to provide a location for other troops to support.
However, it has been almost an hour since the battle started, however, there is still no sign of the red flare in the sky.
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