Power and Empire Chapter 1434: Yingyang Northwest (9)
"Attention, here again!"
The infantry commander’s shouts with a bit of fear came from the left. The soldiers running around stopped almost at the same time. Everyone raised their heads and looked for any corner where they could escape, clusters of arrows. When it fell, a red blood flower appeared on the city wall, as if being slapped from the front by a big wireless hand, Marquis Pamboff saw his soldier's body tipped backwards by the falling arrows. "Come here, help." Save me! I got an arrow!"
Not far away, a soldier hugged the shot pierced leg painfully and shouted bitterly, but no one paid attention to him,
No one knows what the next wave will fall afterwards. At this moment, the one who ran to save people was the fool. The city was in chaos. The red human blood mixed with rain water dyed the ground red with clusters of arrows stuck in his body. The corpse, full of city roads in all directions, looked miserable in the stream formed by the rain, "Push! Push!"
In the sound of heavy footsteps, a few Oach's guard knights wearing heavy armor and holding large tower shields walked up to the chaotic city wall. Behind them, there was the Marquis de Penbove who had personally ascended to the city in despair.
just ascended the city wall, the archer’s arrow clusters roaring down in the sky gave him a disarm, countless clusters of arrows, like a swarm of locusts bursting out from a rain curtain in the distance, facing the city wall. Covered, "Attention!" The knights raised their shields nervously, and the sound of arrows hitting the shields of the guard knights was like raindrops falling from the air. The Marquis of Penboft hid behind the shields, listening to the dense impact. His face was a little pale. If there were no shields to protect the knights, he would definitely be full of enemy arrows at this moment. After the arrow rain passed, the Marquis of Penbouf shouted angrily to the defender Kemi on the wall, and several heavy knights. Stand cautiously on the periphery with a shield,
"Why don't you fight back. What are our archers doing?! Will they pull the bowstrings until we are all dead?"
The Marquis of Penbove scolded the garrison officer Kemi. No wonder he was so angry. Although Oacha is a weak marquis, as the capital of the Oacha region, Orairon also has a standing army of three thousand. Among them, there were 500 archers, 500 heavy infantrymen in the Lord’s Mansion, and a two-hundred-man knights. The knights and heavy infantry were not arranged on the wall. They lined up behind the gate to deal with the enemy's attack on the gate. "My lord, it's not that we don't fight back, but we can't fight back!"
Defender Kemi’s **** head was scolded and he could only report with an ugly wry smile. "The enemy is a cavalry. Most of our archers have no experience in shooting cavalry at a distance. They don’t have any experience with galloping cavalry. Threatening power,
Moreover, the opponent's shooting range is 100 meters away. In addition to the heavy rain in front of us, it takes three to five seconds for our archers to find the target and shoot the arrow clusters. It only takes three to five seconds to watch the arrow clusters fly past. When the arrow cluster fell, the opponent's swift cavalry had already slipped away on horseback, but the opponent's arrow cluster could arbitrarily cover the city wall. Because we are immobile! "
Vindicator Kemi’s voice stopped, a hesitation flashed in his eyes, and he said with an ugly look, "To be honest. The other party’s archery and riding skills are quite superb. It’s almost the same as we did 15 years ago. Like the grassland enemies encountered in the Ekhazia battle, shooting arrows on a galloping war horse is like a nightmare."
"Fifteen years ago, the Ecca war..."
Pan Bofu’s face changed. It was a very painful memory. Ten "Baidu ★ Meng Meng 桜 ★ Text" five years ago, a general war that made the entire Northwest tremble, also broke out suddenly as it is today. , The Slavic king of the barbarian who rose up in the wilds of the northwest suddenly gathered a 100,000 army south, and the northwestern region was the first to bear the brunt. At that time, the main force in the empire fought in Seattle in the southeast. Only the Julius family in the northwest could resist this enemy. 30,000 people,
This is a battle of disparity in strength. Whether it is the number of troops or the commander, one is the king of the barbarian who dominates the other, and the other is the fledgling daddy Julius Faubourg.
That war engulfed the entire Northwest Territories,
In order to delay the advancement of the main forces of the Slavic kings, and to consume as much energy as possible before the battle, Julius Faubourg, who had just become the commander of the Fifth Army of the Empire, did not hesitate to force the northwestern regions to defend themselves. The Slavs competed and transferred the 30,000 main force back to the hinterland,
In the fourth month of the war, six areas close to the border fell one after another. The Slavs’ fronts reached the Ekaze Mountains, known as the natural barrier to the northwest, the largest Hengduan Mountains in the northwestern part of the Gaul Empire. , From west to east for more than a thousand miles, the mountains are towering, snow covered all the year round, and the huge glaciers between the snow peaks can’t be passed through by the army. Faced with this insurmountable natural danger, the Slavs can only choose to continue to Marching south, wanting to pass through the flatter southern end,
The Slavs did not expect that at the Julius Faubourg on the other end of the Occites Mountains, they took advantage of the opportunity of the Slavs to turn to bring the 30,000 main force through the most difficult and dangerous Hengduan Mountains.
This is an adventure, a big adventure with 30,000 lives as a bet. The Ekaze Mountains belong to an alpine region, with extremely low temperatures, continuous glaciers for hundreds of miles, rugged mountain roads, and ice valleys on both sides for hundreds of millions of years. The formed thousand-blade cliffs, white mist curling around, bottomless, and a little carelessness will be broken into pieces, there is no bones left
The thirty thousand troops of Fort Julius Fell stumbled all the way, marching far away from the side of the mountain. Numerous people died of freezing and frostbite, and the people who stumbled and fell into the deep valley are even more incalculable. Passing through the Ekaze Mountains, thirty thousand troops only There were less than 6,000 people left. With the remaining 6,000 people, Julius Faubourg suddenly launched an attack from behind the Slavs, cutting off the supply of the 100,000 army in one fell swoop.
Norase, who occupied the Slavs and hoarded a large amount of food, spent countless efforts on the Slavs to search for hundreds of thousands of tons of munitions hoarded here and burn them clean, just like Julius Faubourg was with the fat man As mentioned in the negotiations, cutting off the supply of support means that the millions of troops have only one way to collapse. The Slavic coalition is originally composed of various ministries. When the ration is cut off, it suddenly becomes chaotic.
The various races blamed each other, slackened in combat, and encountered Julius Faubourg on the way back hurriedly. Less than 20% of the 100,000 army could really escape back. In that battle, Julius Faubourg’s The prestige rose rapidly, and the reputation of the new generation of famous generals in the empire was faint. From this, he became the deputy commander of the Fifth Army to the real commander of the Fifth Army. After March, he served as the chief of the Northwest strategy against the Slavs
But for the entire northwestern region, which is the main battlefield, the Battle of Ekhazia is a painful memory. Even areas close to the coast like Oacha are not spared. They encountered the most elite of the Slavic kings. In order to solve some of the crises during the difficult period of food, the Slavic king sent this unit to hunt in the mountainous woodlands. Most of this cavalry unit is composed of people from the Dongting steppe.
The Slavic "Baidu ★ Meng Meng 桜 ★ Text" area is connected to the grassland area. Some of the losers and exiles in the grassland tribal wars fled into the Slavic area, gradually forming such elite cavalry, although the number is not large, but Sturdy and good at fighting, fast horses with long bows, and completely defeated Oaza people lose their helmets and remove their armor, and they have no strength to fight back.
The Marquis de Painboff was still a pro-servant of the old Marquis, and Kemi was the captain of the guard. The two had fresh memories of the demon on the prairie that was swift and struck like lightning during the war.
The war with the Slavs ended in the sixth year when Julius Faubourg killed the Slav king. Parts of the northwestern land were already in ruins, and the Slavs had been cut off from logistics supplies. People have no scruples, killing and setting fire on the way of retreat, doing everything, even plundering children and women as military rations. There are scenes along the way, towers with human heads, and roads paved by human bones. It is horrible.
Afterwards, everyone realized that from the very beginning, the Julius family used the entire northwestern region as a bait to consume the power of the Slavs. More than 17 countries were attacked, the heads of nine regions, 200 Many lords and their knights died in battle, other soldiers killed and wounded more than 170,000 people, civilians killed and injured more than 1.5 million, there are voices of sorrow everywhere, but the Julius family is celebrating the feast
Everyone is cannon fodder! This kind of thinking ~IndoMTL.com~ has shaken the attitudes of many regions, especially when Julius Faubourg was transferred to the northwest to fight the Slavs, and the northwest region as the rear was regarded as the material they wanted. As for the land provided by the soldiers, Julius Faubourg has always been tough, just asking for things and not giving a penny, but under the lustful power of the Fifth Army, everyone dares not to speak.
For example, the fuse that caused the turmoil in the Northwest this time was that Julius Faubourg ordered all the slaves in the northwest to turn in.
The slaves are private property in the empire and are the source and symbol of wealth. Many manors in many countries have a large number of slaves, especially the four core areas of the Julius family, Oacha Southend, Svendborg, and Bangor have the most slaves. If they are all turned over, the economies of some areas will collapse. The Julius family's wanton behavior finally triggered collective resistance in the Northwest.
In the Northwest Territories, the Julius family’s rule is similar to that of tyrants. This situation is similar in other parts of the empire.
The wealthy families that grew out of the imperial Kyoto are like roots sticking out of a big tree, grabbing land with military expansion, and more or less regard their sphere of influence as a source of various resources. ,
It’s just that the Julius family happened to have bad luck, and the shaking of Kyoto made people finally dare to raise the flag of rebellion (to be continued) [This text is provided by Qihang Update Team@v家丶千本桜] If you Like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation votes and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.