The first thousand three hundred and ninety-four chapters calm night
Pad is one of the major cities in the west of the Kingdom of Kiel. It is located in a fertile river valley plain. Although the local industry has always been based on agriculture and animal husbandry, it can be considered wealthy.
But the war destroyed all this.
At the beginning, the Laohe troops of the United Nations passed through here in order to conquer the traitor De Rossi.
As the saying goes, thieves are like a comb, soldiers are like a grate.
Although Laohe's troops used the banner of "protecting the world" and chanted various slogans loudly, in fact, everyone was just trying to "rob money, stuff, and women" - if it weren't for these things
, everyone is crazy, will they come here to risk their lives?
Although the Kingdom of Kiel is also a member of the Laohe Army, and the officers of the Laohe Army try their best to restrain them, those ruffians harass the place, provoke troubles, molest women, sneak around, and so on.
These cultural and sports activities that are beneficial to physical and mental health and enhance emotional exchanges between the local area and the army are indispensable.
Under this situation, the entire Kingdom of Kiel was thrown into chaos. All officials, including the king, closed their doors and scolded them.
However, if you keep your belt tight, you can still get by.
Later, the demons suddenly landed and annihilated Lao He's troops in one fell swoop. Then they pursued the victory and divided their troops into two groups, aiming directly at the center of the continent.
The people of the Kiel Kingdom were immediately frightened to death.
Their main business is growing potatoes and raising sheep. Where have you seen such a murderous formation?
Those are demons. According to legend, they eat human flesh alive, drink human blood, slaughter babies, women and children, and are terrifying creatures that look like devils.
Everyone suddenly discovered that the days that were wasted by Lao He's troops were actually a good time. Then in the next second, they all ran away with their families.
At the same time, there were many daring bastards who thought that a better era had come. Then they shouted, "Kings, generals, ministers, I'd rather have the seed," and then they pulled up the pole and looked for a hill or something.
The grass fell.
If there are more than a dozen people with seven or eight guns, they dare to be called commanders.
If there were twenty or thirty people, they would dare to say that they were descended from the stars in the sky, and then they would have a great time playing with the stars in the sky, the rows of seats, the Sagittarius star, the Gemini star, the heavenly star, and the Pegasus meteor.
For a time, the originally peaceful Kingdom of Kiel was filled with thieves and bandits.
Later, the Semites came and fought. Although some of the bandits surrendered, more of them continued to cause trouble for the Semites.
Later, the Maple Army pressed forward, and the situation on the battlefield immediately reversed. Under the double attack of Emperor Ruman [***] and the Maple Army, the Semites retreated step by step.
Now most of the entire Kiel Kingdom has been liberated by the Maple Army.
Only the important town of Pad in the west and the surrounding areas are still in Semitic hands. Based on its important location, it is now the center of the Semitic army.
Abeglen's headquarters and the main Semitic force are located here. Hundreds of thousands of Semitic troops have set up defenses around Pader City, repairing fortifications day and night, building barricades and bunkers, and preparing for a protracted war with the Ruman Empire's army.
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Although they are now switching from strategic offense to strategic defense, the morale of the Semitic people is still high: if the human race can defend our attack, we can naturally defend the human attack.
Although we have encountered some setbacks and difficulties now, these are only temporary.
Do you think I will tell you that this is actually His Majesty the Great High Priest frying a very big bowl of noodles?
Although I don’t know how the old man exploded, but having said that, for a great man like the High Priest who only comes across once in 500,000 years, how can his thoughts be guessed by soldiers like him?
The future victory will definitely belong to the powerful Semitic tribe~!
xxxxx After nightfall, the lights on Pader's city were brightly lit. In the dim and feeble lights, the vague figures of soldiers could be vaguely seen.
Semitic soldiers patrolled the city with weapons in hand, carefully searching the dark fields outside the city, listening carefully for any unusual noises.
As soon as there is any disturbance, he will immediately use his crossbow to greet him.
Because the two sides were too close, the battle line became very chaotic.
From time to time, small groups of Ruman people would infiltrate, grab a few tongues, do some reconnaissance, or cause some chaos. Of course, Semites would also come to the Ruman people's territory to cause trouble.
For these soldiers, their lives can be lost if they are not careful.
There were even soldiers on the top of the city who smartly dressed the straw man in military uniforms and placed them under the lights to attract fire. When the opponent launched a sneak attack with cold arrows, everyone attacked in groups and desperately fired a burst of arrows down the city to repel the sneak attack. , if you are lucky, you can kill him directly.
This cat-and-mouse game plays out every day.
By midnight, the weather was getting colder and colder, and most of the soldiers were wrapped in blankets and fell into sleep.
It was quiet on the top of the city.
At this time, a group of black figures slowly climbed up the city wall. The soldiers on duty immediately clenched their weapons and shouted loudly: "Stop, command~!"
"Heavy snow." A calm response came from the other side.
The soldier breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Gannet, come here."
Several people walked over slowly, and the dim firelight illuminated the first person.
He was dressed in the uniform of a Semitic general, with a big square face, gray hair, and a frown on his face, looking very worried.
The soldier quickly stamped his feet, stood at attention, saluted, and said loudly: "Hello, General!"
This man is none other than the Semitic commander Abergren.
"Damn it, keep your voice down and don't salute." The officer next to him raised his leg and kicked the soldier, then scolded him with a straight face: "Are you trying to attract the cold arrows from humans~!"
The soldier was kicked back a few steps, but he rubbed his belly and did not dare to make a sound.
If there are human soldiers lurking under the city, and you can see the soldiers saluting, you will know that they are officers.
Since Maschinault was sniped, everyone knew that Lorraine had a magical magic weapon in his hand that could accurately hit people's heads two miles away.
Therefore, Semitic officers, especially senior officials, are very careful in this regard - no one wants to become the next unlucky person.
Aberglen's mind was not on this. He stood on the tower and looked into the night sky to the east.
Even though it was dark there, Abergren also knew that the Rumans were there, blocked by several of his camps at the moment.
Aberglen sighed softly. Veraplani's surrender had put him into a double passive position both militarily and politically.
As a senior commander, he was full of deep worries about the future.
After humans escape from Fantino, with the remaining power of victory, they will definitely attack them first. However, his military strength is not superior, and he is completely at a disadvantage.
The most terrifying thing among them is the magical alchemy army led by Lorraine, known as the Flying Eagle God of War.
It is said that they were equipped with more than 10,000 cannons.
He had also seen cannons when he was fighting with the Ruman people.
He has also been fighting for his whole life, but he has never seen such a powerful alchemical weapon.
The sound of the cannon was rumbling and thunderous. When the cannon came down, flesh and blood flew everywhere. Everything within a radius of more than ten meters was turned into scorched earth, and no one survived.
At that time, there were only nearly a hundred doors, but the explosion was enough to make people feel earth-shattering.
What would it be like if tens of thousands of artillery pieces fired together?
Just thinking about it makes you feel horrified.
No matter how you look at it, there is no chance of winning this battle~!
But...but the high priests and lichs of Ryder City don't see it that way.
They only saw that Abegren had fifteen fully-equipped divisions and more than 300,000 human vassals under his command, but they did not know that those human vassals could not play any role other than causing chaos.
At the same time, new human vassal armies were constantly being organized in the rear, preparing to be sent to him.
Abegren was full of complaints about this, and once complained openly to his men: What do I need these humans for? They are sour even when they are slaughtered and eaten.
So as soon as he heard that there was the Fourth Caribbean Division in the rear, Aberglen immediately asked the high priest to transfer them to reinforce him.
But the military difficulties were not the most painful for Abergren.
His greater pressure comes from Ryder City.
The surrender of Veerapurani shocked the world.
Ryder City's decision-makers had begun to doubt him.
Aberglen received secret messages from Ryder many times, and someone approached the high priest with a message to examine him.
The reason why he has not been touched so far is that there is nothing suspicious about Aberglen's behavior, and his relationship with Veeraplani is not close.
Secondly, he is also quite clever. As soon as he received the news, he realized that the situation was not good, so he sent people with heavy sums of money to carry out crisis public relations in Ryder City. After careful planning, he finally calmed down the suspicion against him temporarily.
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However, Abergren knew that once the battle failed, doubts about him would come back in a more violent way.
But the war situation was developing in the direction he least wanted to see.
Aberglen raised his hand and patted the cold city wall, and suddenly asked: "Where are the enemy's Maple Leaf Danlin coalition forces?"
"The latest report is that it is still eighty miles away from here."
Abeglen murmured to himself: "Eighty miles... very close, who is blocking them from the front?"
"The fifth and sixth divisions of the Praetorian Guards, as well as the second, fourth and eleventh divisions of Antwerp."
Aberglen nodded, not feeling inappropriate about this arrangement, and then asked: "Where is the Fourth Caribbean Division? Isn't it time for them to arrive?"
The officer shrugged, shook his head and said, "I don't know."
"What, you don't know?" Abergren turned around and glared at his subordinates dissatisfied.
The officer hurriedly explained: "We received reports that they came from the south, but we haven't had any information about them since then, and we don't know where they are now."
Abegren smashed the city wall in anger and said: "These merchants and small citizens are just unreliable."
The officers behind him nodded in unison. Caribbean people are good at doing business. Not only do they care about every detail, but they often pass on inferior goods.
Therefore, their reputation among the Semitic people is not very good, and it is basically a derogatory term.
An officer scratched his head and said hesitantly: "I also heard a bad rumor."
Abergren frowned and asked: "What rumors?"
The officer spread his hands and said: "The soldiers below said that they don't want the Fourth Caribbean Division to come because they are the bums.
"Broom star? What do you mean?"
"They are an ominous force.
He originally took a navy warship to reinforce Fantino, but the entire navy was annihilated.
They reinforced De Rossi, but De Rossi was killed by the human Holy See army and almost completely wiped out.
They were later sent to reinforce Lord Veerapurani, and as a result..."
When he said this, his voice lowered and he said no more words. But everyone understood what he did not say: as a result, Veerapranni was forced to surrender.
"The soldiers say that the Fourth Caribbean Division is a disaster, and whoever they reinforce will be unlucky," the officer muttered.
Aberglen snorted and said: "Nonsense, send a letter to the rear and ask them to help find the Caribbean Division."
"Yes~!"
Abegren shook his head with a wry smile. After several disastrous defeats, although the officers tried their best to cheer up, in fact, the morale of the Semitic army had dropped to a worrying level. Now even such rumors have come out, but it is
No wonder the soldiers were like this. Even he himself was not optimistic about the future of the war.
While he was deep in thought, an officer next to him suddenly said with emotion: "It's extra quiet tonight!"
"Yes," someone said, "I haven't received any battle reports so far. Maybe I can have a good sleep."
Aberglen was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that he hadn't heard the sound of fighting for a long time.
Normally at this time, the low sound of artillery fire would be heard from the east. He suddenly became alert and thought to himself: Something is a little abnormal.
Years of war experience told him that this kind of calmness was extremely abnormal~!
Aberglen pondered for a moment, and then ordered: "Strengthen the alert, contact the departments ahead, and ask them if there is anything unusual."
At the same time, I thought to myself: Even if I make a fuss, it is better than if something really happened~!
After patrolling the city wall, Abergren and the officers returned to the headquarters in the city, and the soldiers who went to liaise with various ministries were quickly dispatched.
Abergren patiently waited for news at the headquarters, looking up at the map from time to time.
He didn't know why, but he always felt uneasy in his heart, as if something was going to happen that he hadn't thought of.
This feeling made Aberglen feel quite impatient.
He couldn't sit down at all, so he could only keep pacing back and forth in the hall of the headquarters to relieve his nervousness.
After midnight, the liaison soldiers came back one after another to report that everything in the military camps on the front line was normal, and no abnormal actions of the Ruman people were found.
Aberglen felt a little relieved, raised his head and asked: "Are all the people you contacted back?"
A staff officer frowned and said: "There is still one missing. There is no news about the Sixth Division of the Guards, but they are a bit far away, so they will probably be there soon."
"The Sixth Division of the Guards..." Abergren turned around and looked at the map. The Sixth Division of the Guards was guarding an important mountainous area in the south. The most important thing was guarding a stone bridge on the river below the mountain.
It's some distance from Pad City.
Abegren stared at the map and thought for a few minutes, then said decisively: "Send a regiment of cavalry and a human division to take a look at the Sixth Division of the Guards."
The officer hesitated and said, "But it's night now."
Aberglen roared angrily and shouted: "Send me someone right away~!"
"Yes~!" The officer jumped up and ran out in a hurry.
Half an hour later, a thousand Semitic cavalry and five to six thousand human vassal troops were hurriedly mobilized, then drove out of the south gate and walked into the night.
Originally it wouldn't have taken so long, but the gathering of the human vassal army has been delayed, especially the human general who drank several bottles of wine and couldn't get up at all.
Later, the Semitic cavalry colonel got impatient and rushed in directly, dousing the human general with a bucket of cold water to wake him up.
The team walked south in the dark, but the speed of the vassal legions was too slow. They stopped and stopped along the way. The human soldiers kept complaining. They felt cold, hot, and sprained their feet.
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The human general also sneezed and said he had a cold.
The Semitic cavalry colonel was so angry that he abandoned these troops and headed south.
An hour later, the Semitic cavalry colonel, who was trotting along the avenue, suddenly ran into a large group of people on the opposite side. The same group of several hundred cavalrymen ran towards him from the darkness.
It seemed that the liaison officer had returned. The colonel reined in his horse and shouted loudly: "Hey, how's the situation? The general sent us to pick you up."
The cavalry team opposite seemed to pause for a moment, no one spoke, they just looked at each other, and then started running again, quickly approaching the colonel and his team.
The colonel frowned displeased and cursed in his mind: Such a drag, it’s the grandsons of the Imperial Guard again~!
Then he shouted loudly: "Which part of you came back from the front?"
But the other side still responded with silence. The only difference was that the rumble of horse hooves became more and more rapid.
The cavalry on the opposite side is accelerating~!
The colonel felt something was wrong. The other party clearly saw him, but he kept silent.
Seeing that the opponent was about to rush into his own team if he didn't slow down, the colonel shouted sharply: "I am Colonel Miller, ordering you to stop, stop~!"
At the same time, he drew his weapon and headed straight ahead.
The Semitic cavalry behind him suddenly started to stir. The cavalry hurriedly avoided to avoid being hit by the horses on the opposite side.
Amidst the roaring sound of horse hooves, the cavalry on the opposite side almost reached the front.
Under the hazy night, Colonel Miller was suddenly stunned. He saw a military uniform that was completely different from the Semitic people. Moreover, the knight opposite raised his saber high.
That posture is the most typical way of killing the human army~!
Colonel Miller was stunned for a second, and then he suddenly woke up and shouted in a loud voice: "The enemy is attacking, prepare to fight..."
Before he could finish speaking, several crossbow arrows flew from the darkness, and one was about to hit Colonel Miller's chest.
Colonel Miller couldn't help but groaned, and was immediately hit by the powerful arrow and flew backwards.
He fell to the ground and watched countless horse hooves galloping past him. Before losing consciousness, Colonel Miller was still wondering: How did the enemy get through the defense line?
Seeing that their whereabouts had been exposed, the human cavalry leader roared: "Kill, kill the demon bastard~!"
"Kill~!" The cavalry behind him shouted, waving their sabers and spears and charging towards the Semitic cavalry who were stopped on the spot.
At this moment, the Semites were still panicking about being suddenly attacked. They never thought that humans would suddenly appear behind their defense lines, and many of them even had no time to draw their weapons.
The human cavalry rushed directly into their team, the sharp edge of the saber flashed past in the dark night, and the Semitic cavalry screamed and fell to the ground.
Hearing the shouts of death and screams, the Semitic cavalry at the back of the team finally woke up, pulled out their weapons, pierced our stomachs with their spurs, shouted and charged forward, and a fierce battle suddenly broke out.
The sparks of the clash of weapons flashed in the dark night, and the sounds of steel clashing, swords chopping bones, screams, the collision and neighing of war horses came together.
A high-pitched cry came from behind the human cavalry: "Kill them all, don't let any of them escape~!"
In the dark night, a steady stream of human soldiers poured out, outflanking the Semitic cavalry from both sides. In the dim night, no one knew how many people rushed up, giving people a seemingly endless feeling.
"This is the main human force~!" Someone in the Semitic cavalry team suddenly woke up and shouted loudly: "Retreat, retreat~!"
"Go back and inform the general."
The Semitic cavalry in the melee struggled to turn their horses' heads, but the high martial arts of the human cavalry fighting them made it difficult for the Semitic cavalry to escape. In the end, only a few dozen cavalrymen at the end of the queue rushed out, and the humans who rushed up from the two wings were almost left.
They were surrounded by Semitic cavalry.
The cavalry who broke out of the encirclement rushed northward with all their strength, with the human cavalry chasing after them. The sound of crossbows sounded from around them. From time to time, some people were hit by arrows and fell from their horses, and were trampled to pieces by the human cavalry behind them.
After running for their lives for who knows how long, the Semitic cavalry running wildly suddenly saw a large group of infantry appearing on the opposite side.
The war horses, which had no time to stop, neighed and rushed into the crowd, knocking away countless infantrymen and causing a chaos.
The infantrymen let out panic and screams and ran to both sides.
"What's going on?"
"Who is it?"
"His grandma loves me so much."
"Help, help, someone help me~!"
The Semitic cavalry who crashed into the crowd were immediately delighted. This was the vassal army they had left behind. Their number could be as large as a division.
The Semitic people shouted loudly: "The Ruman people are coming, hurry up, defend on the spot~!"
"Who is your general? Tell him to prepare for battle~!"
"Go and hold back the Ruman people~!"
The pursuers behind also rushed forward at this time, and the noisy sound here had already attracted their attention.
The human cavalry suddenly encountered a group of dark infantry. They were all startled. They immediately reined in their horses and hesitated whether to advance or retreat.
"Has the action been exposed?"
Otherwise, why would there be a large group of Semitic infantry here? It looks like there is no less than one division. If the Semitic commander learned of their plan and laid a trap here, they would be in danger.
After they penetrated into the enemy's formation alone, as long as they were delayed for an hour, Semitic armies would come from all directions, surround and annihilate them.
The situation in front of me took a turn for the worse.