Chapter 101: 100. The Battle of the Hillside
Chapter 101 100. The Battle of the Hillside
After half a month after the completion of the expeditionary army camp at the foot of Moyunling Mountain, the initial assembly was finally completed, and most of the troops entered the camp one after another.
After opening the mountain road of Moyun Ridge, the supreme commander of the expeditionary army camp, Marquis Solomon Bowen, began to deploy troops to approach Moyun Ridge. In the past half month, almost all the heavy armored infantry regiments were at the forefront. The cavalry finally sounded the horn to attack.
Heavy cavalry in heavy armor, eight horses in each group, knights wearing heavy heavy armor, holding knight spears, every eight heavy knights are chained together, when eight horses run in the forest road At the time, it was like a thick steel city wall. This wall gathered the strength of eight horses. When the evil spirit camp was charging in front, the strength of eight heavy knights combined could overthrow one evil spirit.
However, this eight-horse parallel formation also has a fatal shortcoming, that is, it is extremely inflexible. Even in a dangerous situation, it is difficult for these knights to turn their horses around and retreat backwards.
The strategic intention of Marquis Solomon Bowen this time is to send twenty bed crossbows to the rear of the position, place these twenty bed crossbows on a high ridge, and try to make the front area of the main battle completely covered by the two sides. Within the range of the ten bed crossbow.
The heavy cavalry is attacking from the front. The task of the heavy armored infantry regiment is to cooperate with the logistics team to push the bed crossbow to the top of the high ground and build fortifications on the high ground.
Compared with opening up the forest road on the battlefield a few days ago, this task is much easier, at least you don’t have to be at the front to face the evil spirits rushing out of the forest.
The 4th Battalion of Baron Sidney and the 5th Battalion jointly carried out the mission of delivering the bed crossbow.
It just rained. Although there is no water on the grass on the hillside, the soil under the turf is full of water.
As soon as you step on it, the mud will spread over the leather boots along the turf, sticky and sticky all over your feet. The mud is mixed with grass blades, and it is difficult to get rid of it even if you shake it hard. It sticks to your feet. Every time people take a step forward, they have to pay twice as much effort as before.
He Boqiang's feet were covered with mud, and he followed behind a bed crossbow.
The coachman in front raised his whip again, but it was a pity that the Gu Bolai horse was already showing signs of fatigue. No matter how hard he kicked his four hooves, he couldn't move half a step forward. The infantry soldiers behind could only move forward. He was able to re-encircle, put his shoulders on the shaft of the car, lift the bed crossbow forcefully, and cross this muddy area.
Suldak followed the second team, looking a little absent-minded. He needed to make a choice between going home and being promoted:
If he returns home immediately after his military service, the identity of the team leader will not bring any change to his future life. He may be an unknown farmer in this life, and he may save money to buy a piece of land in the future, but he is still just a farmer. farmer.
If he chooses to stay and is successfully promoted to the squadron leader of the sixth squadron, he will become a knight with an official status. In the future, when the plane war here ends and he returns to his hometown, he will complete the transformation from a commoner to a knight. Become a knight with a small fief.
In the Green Empire, every commoner has a knight dream.
Everyone dreams that one day they can pick up the legendary sword of angels, kill the dragon that snatched the princess, and rescue the princess to become a dragon slaying warrior worshiped by all people. Unfortunately, the dragon family has been far away from the human world for hundreds of years. Besides, what the dragon likes is only Those fairy dragons with colorful wings don't have any affection for the weak princess of the human empire.
So this kind of dream can only be a dream. If you want to show your own value, you can't realize it by slaying the dragon.
But the current plane war is a rare opportunity to realize the value of life.
Since the outbreak of the Plane War, the great lords of the Grimm Empire have successively invested nearly seven to eight million private troops, but this Plane War seems to have no sign of victory at all, and those who die on the battlefield are far more than those who survived. Many more returned to their hometowns, and now the wish of every soldier is to get out of this battlefield alive.
Especially for the cannon fodder regiments like the Heavy Armored Infantry Regiment, the battle damage was astonishingly high.
Taking the second team as an example, Suldak was the only fighter who joined the army at the same time. If Captain Sam hadn't been taking care of him, even if he had nine lives, he wouldn't be dead enough.
Glancing at He Boqiang, Suldak hesitated to speak.
The team transporting the bed crossbow stopped on the hillside. A group of evil spirits were fighting with the heavy cavalry in the distance. I saw those heavy knights in black armor charging forward one by one.
There was the sound of attacking horns whimpering in the distance, and rows of dense arrows shot out from behind, falling into the camp of the evil spirits like raindrops. Although this kind of refined steel arrows could not pose a fatal threat to the evil spirits, they could still penetrate Getting into their fleshy joints will also make them feel great pain.
The team of evil spirits collided heavily with the heavy cavalry. Although they seemed to be evenly matched, in fact these evil spirits cut into the camp of the heavy cavalry and dragged them to the battlefield to prevent the heavy cavalry from penetrating back and forth on the battlefield. , the balance of victory began to tilt in favor of the evil spirits...
First, there was an order, and the bed crossbow team temporarily stood by.
Just as the messengers in the front left, the messengers in the back arrived immediately, and issued instructions from the military department to the officials in charge of escorting the bed crossbows in the logistics department, ordering the bed crossbows here to support the front battlefield.
So the tarpaulin was torn off quickly, revealing the oily ordnance inside.
After Handanar County entered the rainy season, the maintenance of these bed crossbows was much more troublesome than before. Now almost the entire bed crossbow was covered with animal grease, but there were still some places that were constantly rusting. These bed crossbows were already in good condition. Best batch yet.
However, when the gleaming bed crossbows turned around and pointed the giant crossbow arrows at the battlefield, those evil spirits also realized that if these bed crossbows were not suppressed immediately, the advantage they had just established on the battlefield would no longer exist.
On the battlefield, there was a small group of evil spirits rushing towards this slope.
The soldiers of the heavy armored infantry regiment immediately formed a thick shield wall in front of these bed crossbows. Amidst the hoarse shouts of the crossbowmen operators, the bowstrings of the bed crossbows began to be slowly pulled apart, and giant crossbow arrows shot from the arrow slots. It poked its head out, revealing a sharp edge.
Suldak led the second team, which was also part of the shield wall. At this time, he and He Boqiang huddled together side by side.
The heavy armored infantry fighters all around seemed extremely nervous, if not for the restraint of their respective captains, I am afraid that these fighters would have scattered and fled in all directions.
In contrast, the soldiers of the second team are particularly different. Not only are all the soldiers of the team very calm, but they also have no nervous expressions on their faces. Ghost, breathing is actually very smooth.
Augustus and the bearded Cagle tapped the shield in their hands rhythmically. This was a code that only the second team knew. When the evil spirit rushed up, Augustus and The bearded Cagle will step forward first, and the rest of the team members will take half a step back, and then concentrate all their strength to kill the evil spirits in front of the bearded man first, and then combine the power of everyone to kill the evil spirits in front of Augustus. Kill the ghost.
This fighting method has been practiced several times in the second team, but before that, it was Suldak and He Boqiang who fought against the evil spirits.
After Augustus and the bearded Cagle captured the magic antelope, they also obtained the 'Blessed Body' and the 'Blessed Shield' valid for three days. The buff effect can last for more than a day, so this battle focuses on Augustus and Beard.
Facts have proved that the 'Divine Blessing Body' and 'Blessing Shield' are quite reliable. After a round of crossbow arrows are shot, there are only five evil spirits who can still rush to the hillside with their legs.
Augustus saw that there seemed to be only one evil ghost rushing towards the shield wall of the second team, and he was actually doing it to death in a fancy way. When the shield wall was still about twenty meters away, he threw a hatchet at an evil spirit not far away.
The hand ax hit the shoulder of the sprinting evil spirit, successfully attracting the evil spirit's attention...
(end of this chapter)