Power and Empire Chapter 434: The Scarlet Moon (1)
434 Scarlet Moon (1)
The storm is like a wild horse running off the rein. From the Dugan grassland on the northeast edge, like a ruthless robber, it swept across the wealthy and densely populated central Turga grassland.
Black clouds rolled over the sky, with waterfall-like rain, turning the ground with dense green grass into a piece of muddy mud,
The muffled thunder rang in the clouds overhead, and the disorderly silver lightning pierced the sky overhead, illuminating the neat Swadian army formation in front of the walls of Samandu.
The shining electric light illuminates the faces of the Swadian soldiers, and the shield raised to their chest only reveals a pair of blood-red eyes. Looking at the cold light of bows and arrows over the city, there is a beast-like gaze.
The eight consecutive days of tragic siege war cost the Swadian army 4,000 casualties, and it also caused the walls of Samandu to collapse.
However, the 1,000 Kujit remnants in the inner city still stubbornly guarded the last broken wall. For the 18th Squadron of the Kujit Palace, which was defended by death,
Even the Swadian army responsible for the offensive was full of surprises,
Everyone on the mainland knows that defending the city is not the strong point of the Kujites, but this 5,000-person lightly armed force uses its own bows, arrows and scimitars to retreat when the 20,000 main force on the periphery has retreated.
With the wall warfare and mortal heart that I am not good at, I dragged the 30,000 Swadian elite cavalry's attempts to pursue the footsteps under the dilapidated Samandu city
The mutilated corpses of the two armies are stacked on top of each other in the crevices of the city walls, and they are slightly white washed in the pouring rain, and the blood-stained battlements are particularly sad in the rain.
The scattered stones of the city wall are covered with traces of spitting pits from trebuchets. In the white raindrops, the tenacious figure of the Kujit archer appears from time to time in the collapsed battlement.
"Miserin, the combat effectiveness of your Eastern Army is really disappointing." Swadian Twelfth Knight Commander Nellrad looked back arrogantly with his hands behind his back, a trace of contempt in his eyes,
In front of Nellrad, there is a general Swadian with blood on his body. He stood upright when he scolded Nellrad,
Large drops of rain flowed down the lines of his broken chain armor, forming a brown mud in the tent,
"It's really surprising" Nellrad turned around, staring sharply at Michelin in front of him, his tone sarcastically
"If it wasn't for the Master Marshal who sent me to supervise the battle, I still don't know that the Lion Wing Banner, known as the Spear of the Swadian Dragon, had been delayed for 4 days in front of this shabby little city.
This is the 3,000 lives of the Elder Banner Corps in exchange for the **** battle between the reinforcements of Dreyfa Urban and Kujit, but it was wasted by you in the heavy rain.
If the kingdom warriors who died in Dreyfa Urban know that their blood is so worthless, they will get up from the grave angrily."
"My lord's lesson is that the subordinate may be too incompetent." Michelin lowered his head. Although Michelin confessed to Nellrad's ridicule, he had a complex look in his eyes
Everyone knows what's going on this time, and his Lion Wing Banner is just a nominal scapegoat,
In order to save myself from being blocked in Aichemore,
Kingdom Marshal Burrant issued an emergency dispatch order to the Swadian Eastern Army Corps stationed on the border of the eastern steppe,
The 2 elite cavalry flag regiments of the Eastern Army burst into the Eastern Steppe overnight,
Through the kurgit’s rallying in Tulga, the opportunity to significantly shrink the line of defense,
Along the hidden Amanson Promenade along the edge of the grassland, I rushed for 3 consecutive days across the entire eastern grassland, and then suddenly appeared on the outskirts of Samandu, the first fortress outside Turga.
Under the bright moonlight, a long black line appeared at the end of the earth,
The rumbling of the horses’ hoofs shattered the peace of the prairie. The 30,000 Swadian light cavalry, who were impacting laterally like a hurricane, immediately penetrated the scattered defensive lines of the Kujites outside the city of Samandu.
No one would have thought why the Swadian cavalry would appear here. The quick attack of the cavalry caused the unprepared Kujites to be disoriented,
The camp was smashed to pieces by the Swadian cavalry, and the tribesmen flowed into rivers under the sword light of the Swadians. Two tribes with tens of thousands of people were slaughtered overnight and became extinct
Faced with the sudden arrival of the Swadian Cavalry Corps, the scattered organization habits kept the Kujit army in the direction of Mount Rudator's eyes fixed on it, and the mobilization began the next day,
The Kujites, who claim to be the masters of the prairie, encountered an opponent that made them feel difficult this time.
These two rushing cavalry who came on the moon seem to be very familiar with the tactics of the Kujites,
Faced with the Kujit army that was beginning to react, the two Swadian cavalry were like two sharp and entangled scissors, and from time to time they launched devastating attacks on the army searched by the Kujit.
Often one team is in front of attracting and chasing the gathered enemies, while the other is already ambushing in front. This simple and effective tactic of attracting the enemy can be described as the habit of the Khergits who like to search in a scattered way and concentrate on attacks. Fatal
This is the case several times,
When the Khergit army thinks that they have caught these nasty sneakers, they will suddenly find that there is always a sharp light cavalry on the back,
This sharp Swadian cavalry will be fighting with the main cavalry in front of them.
Suddenly attack from the left and right directions,
Then, like a pair of scissors merged back and forth, cut apart the dense formation of the Khergit cavalry,
The cavalry team that loses the organization is fatal,
The scattered queue is in front of the dense and huge cavalry group, and there is no resistance at all.
As a result, the Kujites with 40,000 superior military forces were killed before even the most basic resistance was organized in the Shaman City War, and nearly 30,000 casualties were killed.
The 20,000 remnant tribal army was in front of 30,000 Swadian cavalry, but they had to choose to retreat to Turga,
Only a royal squadron of about 5,000 people remained in Samandu of the Acropolis. At this moment, Turga is holding a tribal carnival of the Prairie Laren Warriors. It is impossible to organize an army counterattack
The Libra of War is leaning towards the Swadians at this moment
Occupying the two Swadian Eastern Banner regiments in the outskirts, they took the opportunity to advance northward, constantly driving out the Khergit army that might appear around them, while quickly cutting off the connection between Samandu and Turga.
The other main force began to dismount and raise a shield to fight and besieged the city of Samandu, which has only 5,000 people. This is the most important fortress in the middle of the grassland of King Tulga.
It is also the first foothold for the main force of the Swadian Army to advance northward,
Take the city of Samandu,
Not only can the king's court be cut off from other outposts in the south, it can also allow the Swadian people who have entered the hinterland of the grasslands to obtain an excellent place to station and hoard supplies.
Marshal Burrant Swadian's plan is not imperfect, mobilizing the Eastern Army to attack Samandu City is like a sharp dagger that wiped the throat of the court of Kujit.
Let the originally extremely unfavorable situation immediately overturned,
Unfortunately, wars are always full of surprises and surprises,
The Swadian Cavalry defeated the Kujites who were good at field warfare in the wilderness, but suffered a big loss in the siege battle they were best at.
The fifth squadron of the Royal Family Guard is stationed in Samandu City.
This is a squadron composed of hurricane archers rare in the army commander of Kugit. Before being transferred to Samandu, the fifth squadron was mainly responsible for the defense of the royal court of Turgana.
King Kujit handed over the first fortress to them, and the trust and ability of this force can be imagined
It is precisely the identity and glory of his own Wang Tingjun,
When the main force outside the city suffered heavy losses and chose to retreat, they still had no hesitation in choosing to stay.
The five thousand hurricane shooters may be just a good long-range attack force in the field battle, but in the wall battle, they are definitely an opponent that makes people feel awkward.
Kugits grew up holding bows and arrows. Archer is just a very common name, but if you want to become a higher-level hurricane archer,
At least one needs to be able to hit a wind chime swinging on the top of the tent from a hundred meters away, hit an arrow target fifty meters away on a galloping war horse, and accurately hit a fast-running antelope within fifty meters.
These seemingly fancy skills are the sharpest means of attack on the battlefield.
The siege Swadian army is just like the tribal army that suffered their fatal blows. They have no defense against the details of this special garrison.
They are the Prairie Corps from the east. Their opponent is the cavalry of the Kujites. They don’t care much about the Hurricane Shooter team defending the wall,
The shooter is only an auxiliary unit in the Kujit army. This is obvious in the Kujit army encountered before.
Actually, no matter how brilliant a shooter,
On the constantly undulating horseback, his shooting accuracy will be greatly reduced, just like clearly shooting the enemy’s head, probably because of the ups and downs of the horse,
The arrow can fly into the air and draw a regrettable arc, so the Kujites often place these archers following the main cavalry on the side of the main cavalry.
When the frontal cavalry makes a big assault, use these archers to constantly harass the enemy's formation,
Tear a gap for the main cavalry who is about to crash into the enemy line~IndoMTL.com~As long as the opponent's formation is shaken in the rain of arrows, the main cavalry who is good at assault can follow this gap and tear the enemy into pieces
Unfortunately, the hurricane archers encountered by the Lion Wing Banner Group did not have a horse, and their arrows will not be misaligned because of the horses’ movement.
The sharp Kujit's arrow caused the intensively charged Swadian cavalry to fall down 150 steps away
Because this time, in order to achieve the purpose of a sudden attack, the Swadian cavalry are all wearing simple mail and ordinary knight-shaped cavalry shields,
When this kind of shield that can only cover half of the body is charging,
The Swadian cavalry can protect the body of the flanks on one side, and can quickly pierce the spears on the other side.
But in front of the hurricane shooter who is known for his precision shooting,
The intensively moving Swadian soldiers are undoubtedly like a target that leaks everywhere. The hurricane archer’s precise arrows shot from the gap between the shields into the bodies of their companions behind them from time to time.
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