I have to admit that the siege battles that took place in Year 6 of the Magical Calendar were very interesting, and most of them were listed as classic tutorials by later generations of knight schools.
As we all know, siege warfare is the most boring part of the war. No matter how famous a commander is, if he meets a mediocre general who defends the city, as long as the opponent has sufficient food and grass and human resources are not too scarce, then the outcome of the war will often be is immutable. Similarly, no matter how famous the commander-in-chief is, if he does not have enough soldiers and supplies, even if he is guarding a natural barrier, he is destined to be conquered. The so-called empty city strategy in history is just a bard named "Luo Guanzhong". Created out of admiration for one's idol. Moreover, if the leader at that time was not the suspicious dark elf Sima Yi, but a typical idiot berserker like Xu Chu, Dian Wei or Pang De, Zhang Jia or even someone like Xia Houyuan. The orc general who is famous for his bravery, the empty city plan has long been a joke.
The fundamental reason why these siege battles that took place in the 6th year of the Magical Calendar were treated with such high standards was the unprecedented changes that occurred during the period.
Among them, the most classic battles are the first offensive and defensive battle of Hamburg and the offensive and defensive battle of Derry. These two battles undoubtedly created a new tactical method.
The second offensive and defensive battle of Hamburg followed closely. When military experts in later generations mentioned this battle, most people would use words like "pleasant!" to describe their feelings. One of the two warring parties was already famous at the time. is an excellent commander, and the other is a 22-year-old boy who has not yet made his mark in the field of military use. In the first round of the contest, the attacking side did not have all the advantages and could even be said to be slightly at a disadvantage, while the defending side did not have all the advantages. Because the one side is trapped in the isolated city, although it has strong counterattack capabilities, it is extremely cautious in hoping to maintain this advantage for a longer period of time.
The two sides switched offense and defense very quickly. They repeatedly mobilized their troops in a very short period of time, using false pretenses to try their best to give the opponent a false impression. They attacked freely and defended as steadily as a mountain. It was like an old fox who had been good for many years coveting his eyes. The delicious food - a little rattlesnake. The old fox kept circling around hoping to find the rattlesnake's weakness and swallow it in one fell swoop. The little snake knew that it didn't have much venom to kill in one blow, so it kept bluffing and showing its sharp teeth, swallowing the thick venom. The murderous intention is hidden under the childish face.
Seeing the thick smoke billowing from the top of the city, Dahino pushed all his troops out without hesitation. However, just when the howling troops rushed up about a hundred meters, the old commander suddenly asked the messenger to order the troops to be eliminated. Except for the troops that were first invested by La Shou, all troops retreated.
The thousand captains simply did not believe that such an order was given by their most respected marshal. As the smoke moved higher, the keen eyes of the orcs had already seen the soldiers on the top of the city were in a mess, and the soldiers below the city were facing the law. There is almost no smoke on the North Army side. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. How can we give up? "Doesn't the Marshal have Alzheimer's disease?" Such thoughts did not just flash in the mind of an officer.
Out of respect for the old commander who was almost blindly worshiping him, he wound up the string... no, he took back the sharp arrow that had already left the string.
Just as the soldiers retreated to their starting point, the newly bright sky turned dark again in an instant. The sun, which seemed to have just risen from the eastern sky, was immediately slapped back by a giant.
"The rocks were beating down like a violent storm... No... more accurately, they were like a boundless dark cloud, covering us." Moramon described the scene after the war.
: "The boulder fell to the ground and made a roar that resounded throughout the sky. The sound completely covered the roar of the two giant dragons, and the ground in front of them was dropped by more than half a meter on average." Orcs are not a race that likes to talk. This description comes from
The words from one of the top commanders of the orcs are extremely credible.
The most powerful bear soldiers looked at the ground in front of them, with fear of death in their eyes. Thousands of stones fell to the ground at the same time, lowering the ground in front of the soldiers' feet by half a meter, and countless stones were evenly scattered.
It looks like a square paved with bluestones.
The first few thousand-man teams sent by Moramon have already rolled out the rush car to about 150 meters in front of Hamburg City. From here on, the rush car has no much effect - there are hundreds of stone steps in front of them.
The lucky ones looked back at the sudden subsidence of the ground behind them, with a look of deathly gray on their faces.
Hamburg's catapults continued to fire, and stones continued to fall like raindrops.
In fact, after the first round of catapults was launched, an icy chill drifted through Da Qingshan's mind. Oops, he had fallen into a trap. "Stop the catapults! Hurry!" Da Qingshan shouted loudly on the city wall.
Unfortunately, the billowing black smoke not only attacked the sight of the soldiers, but also 120 catapults were distributed in a radius of two kilometers. During the commotion, no one heard this order at all.
Da Qingshan grabbed an elf elder next to him and said, "Your Excellency, immediately go to the place where the smoke is coming from the mine and use magic to seal the mine. Can you do that?"
"Yes! I'll go now." The middle-aged elf replied affirmatively.
"Quick! Remember, there are two mines in total." After saying that, in the thick smoke, Daqingshan walked down the runway to the city. Under the city, there was not much smoke, and several mid-level cadres of the small mercenary group were holding hugs under the command.
Wear a quilt and go to the mine to fill the blockage.
"Come here!" Da Qingshan grabbed a mid-level cadre. Nowadays, the number of people in the small mercenary group has increased exponentially every year, and several key cadres are often absent from the group. Da Qingshan is somewhat confused about the level of mid-level cadres.
The teenagers had never seen Da Qingshan with such an expression before, and everyone was shocked. Several mid-level cadres all ran over.
"You don't need to worry about the mines. The elf elders are responsible for this. Immediately send people to notify all catapults to stop firing immediately. Immediately, quickly, those who violate the order will be killed. Repeat!"
The First Deputy Commander, who never spoke in a commanding tone, actually used three "quick" words in one sentence, which was unprecedented. Three mercenary cadres at the rank of commander repeated the order loudly: "Stop firing all catapults."
, Anyone who disobeys the order will be killed." Then he rushed out with his direct subordinates.
"Great swordsmen, elf archers, berserkers, and blocking swordsmen, all assemble! Prairie archers, all assemble!" Da Qingshan roared loudly under the city wall.
The relevant mercenaries under the city wall immediately noticed the deputy captain. The young men who didn't know what to do quickly ran over. The seal horn trumpeters from the Swordsman Battalion of the two small mercenary regiments broke free from the panicked crowd.
The emergency rally call within the small mercenary group was immediately sounded.
Groups of mercenaries ran towards the sound of the horn, and Gersu, the fourth deputy leader of the small mercenary group, the prairie elf archer, also called his subordinates and ran over.
"You came just in time." Da Qingshan breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Gersu: "Dahino used a trick to consume the stones of our catapult. I guess all the stones were blinded just now. Some of the enemies resisted the charge.
The car has arrived at the bottom of the city. I will lead a few battalions to destroy them. You and the prairie archer battalion will watch on the city wall. If the enemy headquarters dares to rush through to meet them, immediately use the catapult to hit them hard. By the way, throw stones every time.
Only throw a quarter of the standard amount. In this way, the catapult's range is dozens of meters farther than the standard, so don't waste it."
"Yes! Your Excellency." Gersu saluted Daqingshan like a junior mercenary and led the team away.
Da Qingshan looked back at the group of teenagers in front of him and pursed his lips: "The enemy has already rushed to the city. I won't say much else. Everyone should know the relationship between us and these enemies. I need
Someone go down with me to fight these enemies. Mercenaries who are not mentally prepared should stay without shame. Now, those who are mentally prepared should immediately go to the city gate to gather, charge with the sound of drums, and withdraw with the sound of trumpets. I repeat it again
:'The drums sound and the trumpets sound, the trumpets withdraw.'"
The war between the small mercenary group and the Fanos Army does not require any mobilization. Several consecutive wars have already drawn a bottomless gap between the two sides. Under this gap are the bones of tens of thousands of people. Recently, another
More than 10,000 northern federal soldiers were framed by the Fanos Army, and the hatred between the country and the family became a mess that could not be solved no matter what.
No young mercenary showed any hesitation. All the mercenaries who were named dropped the extra equipment in their hands and quickly ran towards the city gate under the leadership of their direct cadres. At this moment, someone quit.
Previously, Horns was planning to send the blocking swordsman battalion to quietly go to the Huayu Plain to assist Chi Aotian in his expedition. As soon as this news was revealed, several other swordsman battalions were about to fall out. The mid-level cadres saw Horns.
To euphemistically express the determination of subordinates to participate in the war, most of the teenagers just opened their mouths and could no longer speak, with tears rolling down their cheeks. Ordinary mercenary soldiers, especially the teenagers from the Frozen Continent, did not know how to express their piety.
Attitude. The ice and snow boys, who have never been mean-spirited, think of ways to make Horns more comfortable every day. The mercenaries who fetch face wash in the morning and foot wash in the evening queue up at the gate of the small mercenary group. If it weren't for Hu
Enns left later, and a small group of mercenaries must have left Hamburg for the Plain of Flowers.
Now the enemy has arrived at the door of the house. Seeing the mercenary battalion named by the seal's horn running towards the city gate, the mercenaries of the knight battalion and the berserker knight battalion are a little confused. What, why is this not their own business?
In order to participate in the Dragon Sealing Ceremony, almost all the chief officers of the other battalions went to the Dragon Sealing Platform. Only the chief officers of these two battalions were not in Hamburg.
There was a roar in the distance that should not be a human voice. A big and sturdy man urged the dragon to rush over. He grabbed his mount in front of Da Qingshan and jumped down with a roar: "Brother Da Qingshan
, why is there nothing about our Berserker Knight Camp? We are stepmothers! When Brother Amy was here, good things never stopped me. As soon as Brother Amy left, I followed Brother Chi Aotian to the Flower Language Plain.
Our business, Fenglong, has nothing to do with us Berserkers. Now the enemy is fighting under the city wall, and it has nothing to do with us. Why, why, why!!! Brother Daqingshan, you are going to kill me...
"The captain of the Berserker Knight Battalion was red in the face. He was jumping on the ground and stomping his feet. He picked up the battle ax in his hand and chopped it loudly. The half-foot-thick bluestone slab cracked piece by piece.
The captain of the knight battalion, Wei Chaoqun, and the deputy captain, Yoder, also rushed over with their team. Seeing the violent behavior of the captain of the berserk knight battalion, the young captain of the knight battalion did not say a word, but he dismounted from his horse a few steps away from Daqingshan and strode away.
When he arrived in front of the first deputy commander of the small mercenary group, regardless of his armor, he knelt down on the ground with a bang, and kowtowed his head... The bluestone slab in front of Da Qingshan immediately shed red spots, and tears as big as beans came from the Chi family.
The noble heads of the descendants of retainers were tilted up and flying in all directions, making a crisp sound when they hit the ice and snow ground.
The Wei family has been the general of Chimen since 500 years ago, and holds the title of hereditary baron in the territory of Tongyunguan. When Ikeda started the Eastern Campaign, the eldest son of the head of the Wei family participated in the early battles and died in the battle half a year later! After receiving the bones of his eldest brother,
On the afternoon of that day, the 18-year-old second son put on the armor left by his elder brother and rushed to report to the Eastern Expeditionary Army. A year later, the second son of the Wei family died in battle. On the same day that the news of his death was delivered to his family, the youngest son of the family head was only 15 years old.
The third son, who was 2 years old, put on the armor left by his two elder brothers, sang the song of the Black Dragon Knights loudly with a group of Tongyunguan nobles of the same age, and left home without hesitation. Four years later, Ikeda Moe's expeditionary army returned in triumph.
After returning home, the eldest son of the Wei family, who was only 19 years old, was already the captain of the knights of the Eastern Expedition Army, and officially enjoyed the title of hereditary earl in the empire.
However, the Wei family did not leave Chimen because of this. For 500 years, the Wei family has been serving the Chi family as retainers without any overstep. More than ten years ago, Chi Hanfeng, who was sent to serve in southern Xinjiang, was not allowed to
Xi stayed with his father in Tongyunguanchi Mansion, and the place he most wanted to go to was the Wei family, which held the title of earl. At that time, Wei Chaoqun, the third youngest son of the head of the Wei family, was only 2 years old. There were countless things about this man from the imperial capital.
Uncle Chi liked toys the most. When he was a child, the third child of the Wei family often used to hold Uncle Chi's neck while peeing and peeing.
When the small mercenary group formally established the knight force, Wei Chaoqun, just like more than ten generations of Wei family predecessors, resolutely gave up his future in the military, retired as the captain of the Black Dragon Knights, and came all the way to the imperial capital to sign up.
He became an ordinary member of the small mercenary group and went through battles such as Duanbing Port and the first offensive and defensive battle of Hamburg City. After that, he officially became the captain of the knight battalion of the small mercenary group after the original knight battalion (concurrently) captain Chi Aotian went on an expedition.
Watching their captain kowtow, hundreds of knights all jumped off their horses. Most of the families of young people who can join the knight camp of the small mercenary group have some inseparable ties with Chi Hanfeng or Amy and others.
, more than 80% of them come from the Tongyunguan War Zone in southern Xinjiang or from the Frozen Continent...
"Deputy Captain, let us go!" Several knight battalion cadres surrounded by many young knights had just finished saying these words and were already bursting into tears. Wherever Da Qingshan looked, there were patches of white above his head.
The young man who was an imperial noble knight slowly knelt down on the ground silently...
Daqingshan's eyes became moist again at this moment...