Chapter 600
2021-01-06
Chapter 600 Blackwater Rush (middle)Fighting is like playing chess until the last battle Before the last battle broke out, the commander's orders played a crucial role in its direction.
The two sides of this war are Aegon Targaryen and Daenerys Targaryen, but today's game is between Others Killer, Human Savior and Lord Commander of the Night's Watch Igor West, and Griffin's Roost count, House Connington patriarch, Jon Connington, former prime minister of Daenerys father.
The former beats the latter in terms of fame and success, but Earl Connington also has his advantage, and that is: he is lucky enough to make all the mistakes a man should make when he is young He was not dead, but he had gone through hardships, and now he had become sophisticated, cautious and shrewd, and would be a respectable and formidable opponent to anyone.
Such a person is leading the army, and it is a fool's dream to expect his troops to be disintegrated by the sound of cannon.
At the moment of realizing that the "thunder" was not Celestial Phenomenon but a new weapon of the enemy, a lot of thinking had already spewed out of Earl Connington's mind. He considered all possible situations and dangers in an instant.
Among the countless possibilities, there is nothing more extreme than a situation that is very likely to occur, which poses the greatest threat to oneself: the Queen's army on the north shore has not only entered the battle with this new roaring weapon, The army is also ready to cross the river and the Demon Dragon to ride the face, and even the Dorne army in the south has been persuaded to form an alliance with it, sharpen its knives, and prepare to attack the old enemy.
Suffering direct casualties from strikes, compared to the damage caused by stampede incidents and military discipline dissipated due to the breakdown of order, soldiers fleeing, being chased by the enemy's tail, or even being caught between two breads, can only be regarded as one hair. from nine oxen!
After arranging the Royal Husband's wife to leave the open area quickly to find cover, Earl Connington swiftly and decisively commanded the core supervising troops to maintain order in the camp, dispatched the Golden Corps to guard the Blackwater Rush shore, asked allies to guard the south, hunt dragon crossbow Prepare for air defense...
Countless orders were sent to various places at the grassroots level by a large number of messengers. After killing a few "chickens" to warn tens of thousands of "monkeys", the order of the camp quickly stabilized , except that an iron ball fell into this fresh and terrifying experience every few seconds or ten seconds, the entire Confederate army entered a combat state, and began to mobilize under the command of the Hand of the King to move to different places. position.
Relying on the advantage of several times the force, Clinton has many more pieces than Igor. Although he does not know the name of the artillery, he sees the advantages and disadvantages of this weapon: although the sound is scary, the number and formidable Insufficient power.
So his strategy is: withstand the pressure, Motionless As Mountains.
To a certain extent, this is indeed a perfect solution, even if Igor's solid shells can hit a southern army soldier every five rounds, he will kill all the shells that can cause casualties. It is only a few hundred small, accounting for 1% of the total number of the southern army. The attrition rate is very small, and it can be completely resisted.
However, although the soldiers are the pawns of the commander, they are pawns with thinking and feelings. Each of them has an impossible will as steel and sees death as death.
It is the same casualty. The morale blow brought by injuring one thousand enemies and eight hundred, or even one thousand and ten thousand, is by no means comparable to a complete passive beating—how many of your own casualties are On the opposite side of Bai, not even a single hair fell out, which was terrifying.
In the new headquarters of the Confederate Army, a small dispute has just ended.
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The new command post is a simple tent behind a small dirt slope. There is a dead tree at the top of the dirt slope that can slightly block the shells. On the north wall, a temporary reinforcement wall was built with thick planks to resist the attack of flying iron pellets. At this moment, all the important figures, including the king, queen, and one of the upper-level lords, are shrinking in it, avoiding the artillery fire from the north shore.
Many Reach nobles, including the Duke of Mace Tyrell, expressed their pressure to be shelled and suggested to retreat a few miles before re-camping, but Clinton knew that Dorne's army was probably waiting for him in the south. When there is a wrong reaction, as long as they are slightly weak, they will immediately summon a siege like howling wind and torrential rain.
With his high Level 1 status as the King's Prime Minister, Clinton was able to force the vassals to stay put and be shot at, but it was not without cost: he had to do something to fight back in order for the The nobles willingly continued to obey him.
"Your Excellency Prime Minister, report from the river bank! The enemy troops are moving their rafts by the water, preparing to cross the river!"
"Let Commander Strickland set up the Defensive Array, hold your breath, and wait for the enemy to cross the river! Halfway through the attack!"
"Your Excellency Prime Minister, the enemy troops on the other side are not crossing the river by boat, but are connecting small boats with ropes and preparing to build a large number of pontoon bridges!"
Building pontoon bridges ? This Night's Watch has a lot of brains!
Jon Connington's heart sank slightly, but he didn't panic: "Order the siege battalion to move to the river bank, set up long-range weapons, and prevent the enemy from building bridges!"
One piece of information was sent to the tent, one after another The order was then brought out and quickly executed by the soldiers, braved by the cannonballs constantly flying overhead.
The Confederate Army's strategic objectives included King's Landing, and siege equipment was naturally prepared for being stationed for so long, but their range - even the maximum range was completely incomparable to artillery, until A large group of soldiers hummed and pushed various ballistas and catapults to the bank of the river. They fired only a few times. Just after injuring a few unmanned boats, they ushered in intensive artillery fire. They were parked in the large camp behind the wooden wall, and it was impossible to determine their exact location, but as soon as they got to the river bank, they were immediately exposed to the observer's field of vision and the effective range of the artillery!
After another round of artillery sounds, the Confederate Army fled the river bank in a hurry, throwing down several corpses and several damaged equipment.
After realizing the huge disadvantage in range, Clinton thought of the stronger equipment in his hand: the dragon hunting crossbow.
Although this weapon is prepared to deal with Daenerys' dragons, it is only improved and upgraded on the basis of ordinary crossbows. As long as the orientation is flat, it can be used to deal with ground targets— - And the key point is: they use all the high-quality craftsmanship, materials, and parts known in this era, and their maximum range is far beyond that of other ordinary weapons.
Dozens of siege equipment and dozens of dragon-hunting crossbows, scattered and laid out layer by layer, are absolutely enough to completely overwhelm the North Bank in terms of numbers, despite the lack of range and formidable power. The disadvantage is forced to shoot!
However, when Clinton was struggling with whether or not to take the risk, the two Demon Dragons they "looked forward to" for a long time finally showed up - hovering at several hundred meters high above the reach of the dragon hunting crossbow. After a few laps, it fell into the industrial park on the other side!
Although the breath of flames did not land, the entry of the dragon completely dispelled Clinton's plan to use the dragon-hunting crossbow for other purposes.
"Your Excellency Prime Minister, the situation is stronger than people. There is no need to hold on any longer. Please order to retreat!" The equipment and personnel are all from Reach, and he is naturally aching. It is a bit inappropriate to point fingers at the Prime Minister on the day he became the king's father-in-law, but he has given Earl Connington a chance to prove his ability, and the fact is, he can't deal with that Night's Watch.
"Lord Tyrell, please don't be impatient, even if you want to evacuate, you must understand the position of the Dorne army, ensure the safety of the back road, and negotiate a proper strategy before you can act, and then retreat will inevitably evolve into a defeat. Did the scouts to the south send back the news?"
"Dorne's army did not leave the camp, the scouts were expelled as they approached their camp!"
Is that good news? ?
Not necessarily, if the Dorne people take advantage of the gunfire to attack, then the two sides can clearly have a clear hostile relationship and fight happily. With the advantage of the camp's defenders, their strength is far superior to the enemy's Reach army. , even if it can't win, it is impossible to lose.
Just like Queen's two dragons circling overhead and falling into the industrial park, the most terrible thing is this intermediate state.
After a moment of relief, even more pressure came up.
Are these two coincidences, or is the enemy's pressure to slowly tighten the noose?
"I understand what the Prime Minister is worried about." Margaery said suddenly, as a woman, she was not qualified to participate in the battle meeting, but now that she is in this room, at a critical juncture, it is natural to think about what oneself thinks. Say it: "Defend the camp, we can also rely on the deep trenches and high bases and a large number of dragon hunting crossbows to fight against the incoming enemy and the Demon Dragon in the sky. Once we retreat, we will be attacked by the enemy and the Demon Dragon in the wilderness. There is no doubt that he will lose. But Lord Clinton, have you ever thought about a possibility: Igor, he started to connect the boats to prepare the pontoon before the battle, not because he didn't expect in advance, but because he did not intend to attack immediately? His real plan, That's how I kept using that gunpowder weapon strikes until our morale completely collapsed? From what I know about Igor, he will never let the advantage of oneself be useless to explain rules and reasons to the enemy, I am afraid he is fighting This idea!"
A group of nobles began to discuss everyone talking at once, and many of them clearly supported the Queen's opinion, and Clinton, who was originally resolute, also hesitantly fell silent: Margaery's words were actually He revealed his true thoughts - in deep in one's heart, he felt that today's opponents of oneself were young and vigorous, and they would definitely attack the whole army to seek a decisive battle by taking advantage of the new weapons.
If you guess right, then sticking to the camp and fighting with artillery fire is naturally the best option, but if you guess wrong, the opponent will be like a despicable rogue who can only shoot artillery and no troops, until his own morale is reduced. If you have exhausted it before you start, then the Southern Allied Forces will face a catastrophe!
"If Igor is going to take advantage of the chaos, the river is probably halfway through by now." Margaery stopped talking to Clinton, but turned to oneself's husband, young King Aegon, "Your Majesty, pose now. There are two paths in front of us - either retreat immediately, or never retreat, and you will die until the end, please make a decision!"
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(end of this chapter)