Power and Empire Chapter 1305: The Battle of Dongjin (1)
Irrou, an important town in eastern Normandy
The Irru Fortress stands among the lofty mountains. The walls stretch for several miles, forming a ring-to-ring situation.
Almost all the arrow towers and the inner ring of the three fortresses are made of several tons of granite. Between the stone cracks, the Normans used an unknown white mixture to hold the stones firmly Bonded together, as a barrier to the east of Normandy, the main purpose of the construction of the fortress of Illu was aimed at the Principality of Romana, its rival in the northeast.
For this, the Normans used a lot of manpower and material resources, and almost the entire young and middle-aged labor force in the Irru region was emptied. It took a full six years to build this solid water in the steep mountains. Fortress. The entire fortress is like a tiger lying in the mountains and valleys. Staring fierce eyes, condescendingly staring at the enemy in front of him, as if if anyone dared to offend it, it would immediately respond with the most vicious fangs. In fact, it is true. In the past fifty years, Romana The Principality’s war against Normandy was beaten in the fortress of Irru several times and returned in embarrassment.
"It's really a strong fortress. No wonder the army of the Duchy of Normandy dared to speak wild words and look at the Northwest Territories!"
Statunko put down the looking glass in his hand and stared at the front with shining eyes, admiring the majestic fortress in front of him. With the capture of the capital of Normandy, the fortress of Illu has become the last Norman to defend. Life and death line,
After receiving a handwritten order from the fat man, Statunko called an emergency meeting, abandoned the plan to continue, and instead led the 15,000-strong Southern army in the direction of Illu, and pursued Nord The remnant’s 2nd Cavalry Banner Regiment meets under Illu Fortress,
"Your Majesty, did your majesty filter it a little?" A southern army leader, beside Statunco, muttered a little dissatisfied, "Even if the Normandy remnants are here, this fortress is only a border after all. The barriers of the United States will not have any impact on the inland operations, but His Majesty Falcon asked us to abandon the plan to continue marching and turn to Illu. His subordinates can't figure it out!"
"If you can’t figure it out, keep thinking, but you must carry out your majesty’s orders!"
Statunko retracted his gaze from a distance, grunted heavily to his rebellious subordinates, and said, "Although your majesty did not say clearly in the letter, I can feel that your majesty should have noticed something. , The glory of victory is the easiest to conceal potential dangers. Don’t you think the surrounding area of Normandy is too quiet? Isn’t this a normal reaction?"
"It’s too quiet? My lord, what do you mean? "The southern ensign commander was shocked, his face blank
"If one morning, someone who you don’t know suddenly ran out and beat your neighbor in front of you, what would you do?" Statunko stared into the distance The outline of the fortress with a smile at the corner of his mouth
"Of course I helped the neighbors!" The southern ensign commander said without hesitation, "Otherwise, what if he hits the neighbor and then hits me?"
"Yeah, that's it!" Statunko's voice stopped and said, "We beat the Normans, but there was no movement in the other borderline countries. Don’t you think it’s too unpleasant. Is it normal?"
"My lord is saying that several other countries are waiting for the opportunity to eat us and the Normans!" The commander of the southern ensign suddenly realized
Statunko raised his whip with a solemn expression, pointed at the Irru Fortress in the distance, and said, "Normandy is surrounded by the sea on three sides and the other facing the mainland, "Baidu ★ Meng Meng 桜 ★ text" and this side The center line is Illu in front of us, Dunkirk to the northwest of Illu, Romana to the southwest, and the county town of Biond on the flanks. If Illu is taken down, we can at least ensure that one of the backs is safe. Yes, it's like fighting with people. In the case of loneliness, naturally the less exposure the better, so that we can avoid the crisis of several battles! "
The fortress battle of Irlu Fortress began in the early morning of Long Knife Day,
The Thor soldiers of the Southern Army Group pushed six specially-made siege guns to the top of the **** opposite the fortress.
On both sides of the special siege guns, there are more than 70 guns in total. The tune-shot Thor, disassembled from the naval battleship, became the last swan song of the Irru Fortress.
"Debug angle, left turn degree"
More than ten minutes later, all Thors completed their aiming corrections, and the muzzle of the black hole was raised high, all with an icy killing intent. Everyone immediately aimed their eyes at Illu’s wall with anticipation.
" Let’s start!" Statunke said indifferently, that Thor’s siege was not the first time for the Falcons, but this time the rare siege Thor was used. Few people feel very novel,
"Rumble" With the sound of the first test firing of the siege cannon, the earth was trembling slightly, and as the huge siege cannon roared in an instant, the shells made an ear-piercing whistling sound. Draw out the barrel, draw a white arc in the air, and hit it heavily on the first outer wall of the Irru Fortress.
The violent explosion sound seemed to come from the thunder from the sky and the ground. Unfortunately, because of the barrier of the city wall, no one could see the landing point of the shells or the power of the shells exploding. They could only wait anxiously for the observation post. After reporting for a while, the observation post heard the information that the cannonball fell on the inner wall of the fortress, and the rubble splashed, thrown up like raindrops, forming a devastating circle with a diameter of about 100 meters.
The shock wave caused by the hu" shells made the Nuoyaodi people into a mess on the spot, and many people lay down. Some were hit by fragments, and some were scared and squatted on the ground, reflected by the fire. His face was pale, and his eyes were full of fear,
"Damn, what is this!"
The Illu garrison, who has never seen Thor, was chaotic on the spot, running around,
"Quickly, take the Lord Duke to a safe place! "Kavibod, who was still wearing gauze, was forced out of his command post by a group of guards. His command post was at the front of the first city wall.
" Assholes, what are you doing, I won’t go! Even if I die, I won’t go!” Kavibod’s angry swearing, the defeat of the First Battle on the River Beach, and the fall of the capital, this Northwest maniac no longer expects What? Now he only wants to fight the Falcon Army. He wants to let the Falcon Army know that not all Normans are dead.
" rumbling, "The sound of a huge explosion came again, this time it was dense like lightning and thunder in a rainstorm. After the confirmation of hitting the predetermined target, countless fire lights were on the top of the mountain opposite the fortress. It spewed out, the earth moved and the mountains shook, and the fires smashed past like meteors, and the fires shone again, as if lights were lit inside the Irru Fortress
rumbling...
The cannonballs fell on the **** of the inner city of the fortress and burst out with dazzling fire. The covered area was immediately covered by gunpowder and black smoke. The power of the siege guns made everyone feel a bit stunned. Many houses in the fortress were big Some of them are piled up with stones, very strong, but in front of the siege cannon, these solid stone houses are like children playing "Baidu ★ Meng Meng 桜 ★ Characters" with building blocks, one after another, it seems to be broken. There was a huge ball of light rising in Illu. The stone house was uprooted and flew into the air. Then it fell down so hard that the large area below was full of messy screams and screams. The gunpowder has cleared one after another, and the area has been in a mess,
"Keep shooting and crush them!"
Among these people, only Statunko’s face did not change at all. His cold and ruthless orders caused Illu’s walls to shatter continuously under the bombardment of large-caliber siege guns, and the walls were piece by piece. It collapsed and smoke billowed inside the entire fortress. The sound of collapse continues,
The large trebuchet on the city wall was blown to pieces before it could launch. The heavy rolling stones of the trebuchet flew all over the sky in the explosion, rolling forward along the ground inside the village, hurting it or not. Few Norman soldiers, cracks appeared in the first wall very desperately
" Come, what are you doing, and quickly take the Lord Duke away! "There are catapult fires everywhere, scattered stones hit many people, and every second, the face feels like It was suffering in hell. A guard of Cavy Bod had red eyes, and he slammed his stomach at Cavy Bod who was still clamoring to hold on.
"I am determined not to...
. . . "The corner of Cavybod's mouth curled, and the pain was silent on the spot. The guards quickly took him from the original place to the safer second wall,
rumbling, rumbling..., countless spots of light fell unscrupulously, and the Norman soldiers who had nowhere to hide in the rocks and the sea of fire continued to jump into the moat between the walls, and these channels turned into Normans. The best place to avoid gunfire. But often accidentally, a siege shell fell on the wall next to it, and the collapsed city wall covered the ditch water, and all the people inside would be buried alive or killed.
The offensive lasted for two days. Every morning, there was fierce shelling. In the afternoon, the infantry crossbowmen of the Falcon Army would approach the wall and shoot the defenders on the fort with their crossbows. The two days of bombardment completely shattered the resistance of the Normans. No one was willing to accept the baptism of such artillery fire. Many defying Normandy fighters fell into a state of hysteria during the continuous bombing, and even killed themselves unconsciously. Companion. In the end, he was also killed. The shelling caused serious chaos within the Normandy soldiers. Sometimes, in order to seize a trench that could escape the shelling, several squadrons were often grouped together, and then several Thunderbolt shells arrived unexpectedly with the death of death, and pieces of corpses. Floating between the river ditches inside the fortress,
the third morning,
Statunko let the heavy infantry of the Southern Army officially launch an attack. The black army rushed towards the collapsed wall of Irru like a tide. The defenders above had not waited for the heavy infantry to rush to the side. , I collapsed first. The morale of the Normandy army has been seriously low. Most people have serious tinnitus problems in their ears. It seems that the sound of cannons is still continuous. Some people even have difficulty even standing. The bombardment of Japan created unprecedented fear in the Normandy.
"Retreat"
The Normandy army has almost no courage to touch,
The morning light slowly penetrated the clouds, shining the golden glow on the tall ruins of the Irru Fortress,
The earth is bathed in the vibrant sunshine of the rising sun, the wild grasses comfortably stretch their bodies in the morning breeze, and the unknown wild flowers are under the sunlight, the greedy people absorb the sunshine air and moisture and let themselves grow" "Baidu ★ Meng Meng 桜 ★ Text" is taller and stronger, you can see higher and farther, and stay in this world for a longer time.
The black smoke rising in the distance was very abrupt in the glow, out of place. The cold wind blew through the yellow bushes next to the fortress, and the dead branches scorched in the thick smoke made a rustling sound. Some of them have no leaves, and some even have only half of bare wooden stakes. The upper half of it has long been unknown where it is going.
At the front of the fortress, there are scattered stones and rubble, broken weapons and armor, and a mess.
Mutilated corpses, hidden in the rubble from time to time, a snow-white winter snow covered it here last night, and many corpses were buried in the snow,
The horse's hoof stepped on a tragic white man's hand that was still exposed outside the mound. When Statunko was passing by the center of the tragic fortress, he suddenly stopped moving forward with his horse's hoof.
"What’s the matter?” Statunko asked with an ugly face. What appeared in his sight was a mountain of corpses with a height of more than ten meters. He saw these white-flowered corpses piled up like a mountain. Stacked together, even Van Lentien feels distressed at the bloody, **** corpses like hills of white flowers. They are all Normans, some of them are regular soldiers, but most of them should be ordinary civilians in the fortress. , These Normans, who were seriously injured in the battle, were randomly placed in the center by their compatriots,
"Report your lord, they are all seriously wounded by the enemy's self-decision." A squad leader who is commanding a cleanup nearby rushed over, saluted him, and gritted his teeth.
"Self-decision? All suicide?" Statunko's face became more solemn, frowning slightly, so much? As a soldier, he is not afraid of death and blood, but facing such a large-scale killing is another matter.
"No, they did not commit suicide!" The team leader raised his head and said very ugly
"There were no obvious weapon wounds on their bodies, just because they had any treatment after being injured, and even the most basic shelter from the wind and rain was not available. Many soldiers did not die because of the inflammation of the wound. In fact In this severe cold weather, the chance of wounds becoming inflamed is not very high. They were frozen to death. When we cleaned up, we also found a few people who were not completely breathless, and their clothes were stripped. It’s just that they were pressed down like dead people, so that they didn’t die in the severe cold."
"As usual, let’s burn it!"
Statunko turned his head back, and didn’t want to ask any more,
This is war, killing and being killed, just like passing through some cities in the hinterland of Normandy that were cleansed by the expeditionary army. This kind of scene is everywhere on this land. The Normans killed by the slaughter, in This month, at least more than the magic ten thousand,
A large area of land has lost its owner, the lush manor has been turned into wreckage, the town is almost empty, and there are few people in the daytime. The destructiveness of war has always been devastating. Although the Randus was sold everywhere and spread to various parts of the mainland, there are still more than 100,000 in the Normandy mainland, accounting for one-twentieth of the total population of Normandy.
As the expeditionary force advances to the interior of Normandy, the Salander's violent turmoil has erupted like a volcano,
The expeditionary army with the slogan of saving the compatriots can sometimes even take over several towns in a day without having to use a single soldier. The lack of faith and oppressive revenge will follow. , Is the cruel and **** revenge of the Salanders on the Normandy people of "Baidu ★ Meng Meng 桜 ★ Text",
Sarand slaves killed every Norman they saw, even if they were children. Some methods were outrageous. Even a professional soldier like Statunco couldn’t bear to keep watching.
Statunko has been stationed in Salander for more than half a year, and he considers that the Salander is a peaceful and romantic nation, but what is now shown to him is a whole-nation violence. On the other hand, the declining Normandy mobilized everything that could be mobilized. In order to make up for the shortage of troops, they sent a large number of Normandy civilians to the battlefield.
These civilians are dressed in simple linen, holding a temporarily polished three-meter wooden gun in their hands, which discharges meaningless squares. The craftsmanship of this wooden gun is very simple~IndoMTL.com~ You only need to build an iron. The tip of the gun, the stick can be put on the back, the craft is simple, even an ordinary blacksmith apprentice can complete ten in one hour, which fully meets the requirements of the Normans for a large amount of equipment in a short time, although there is nothing Killed, but these soldiers can barely serve as a cannon fodder under enough circumstances.
However, such troops are completely targeted on the battlefield. The main force of the Normans has been trapped in Irru. Although the force defending the capital is claimed to be numerous, it is actually just a group. Farmers
Statunco still remembers that under the ruthless moonlight on the outskirts of Kyoto in Normandy, his southern army easily defeated such a 10,000-person army with a force of 15,000, and he will always remember that The battle was not because of victory, but because of the blood-flowing wilderness, covered with ignorant corpses on the ground, almost became the cheapest fertilizer on this land, black vultures lingered in the sky, even the beautiful night stringed sound All with sorrow,
In front of the mighty expeditionary army and the southern army, the Normans finally resisted and was easily shattered,
Statunko was ordered to hand over the capital to the expeditionary army who entered the city. At this moment, there was a trace of rejoicing in my heart. The letter from His Majesty Falcon came too timely. If we continue to advance like this Going down, Statunke can't guarantee that he won't become a real butcher! At least for now, I am still a soldier! Own opponent is also a soldier! (To be continued) [] If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly pass. Your support is my biggest motivation.