After getting rid of the jungle knights, Chi Aotian's expeditionary force did not pause at all. They plunged into the depths of the boundary forest along the mainland highway and once again entered into a forced march. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon on the fifth day, they successfully marched 250 meters wide across the border.
The remaining kilometers of boundary forest were left behind.
At this time, the Black-faced Dragon King was still too young. This hurried forced march felt a bit like a hasty escape. There was absolutely no need for him to do this. If he lent two more courage to the leader of the Jungle Knights, Joseph also
Dare not attack the expeditionary force.
Are you kidding me? A few months ago, Norton's 600,000-strong army was preparing to attack Jielin. At that time, everyone in Jielin knew that the best outcome would be to die. A few months later, Chi Aotian's 20,000-strong expeditionary force defeated the same army commanded by Norton.
The gap in combat power between the troops, Jie Lin and Chi Aotian's expeditionary force has become clear at a glance.
At first, the jungle knights thought that there must be water in it. When they saw the expeditionary force - after more than a year of continuous war, the proud and brave generals of the expeditionary force were filled with murderous aura. They had not started fighting yet.
The whites of the eyes were filled with blood... The rare murderous aura caused the jungle knights to feel the cold air rising from their spinal cords and flooding their foreheads and soles of their feet.
In addition, Chi Aotian alone holds several vital threads inside and outside the empire, and now these threads all hold heavy troops and lead one side; the expeditionary force returned with great honors, and in the hearts of the people who are still loyal to the empire,
Chi Aotian made great achievements during the long march of thousands of miles and annihilated more than a million enemies. However, as soon as he came off the battlefield, he was beaten by the Jielin War Zone? I guess the domestic people can drown the Jungle Knights to death.
All I can say is that it is a pity that Tayan is no longer here...
"Deputy commander, we have contacted the commander's troops." Chang Qing jumped off the vulture happily, followed by a handsome elf girl - this was obviously a scout sent by Amy. He had been on the expedition before.
In the army, the term deputy commander was not easy to pronounce, but now that they have reached the one-third of an acre of the regiment leader's land, the young mercenary members are almost deliberately emphasizing this title.
For the small mercenary group, no matter how much contribution Chi Aotian, the deputy leader, made, his weight cannot exceed that of Amy and Da Qingshan, the founders of the small mercenary group.
A rare smile appeared on Chi Aotian's face: "Oh, how many more days can we see them?"
"You can see Deputy Commander Horns this afternoon, and the regiment leader the day after tomorrow. By the way," Chang Qing went on to throw out another explosive news: "Not long ago, Horns brought more than 1,000 brothers in charge of food and fodder.
In the wilderness, he intercepted 30,000 troops including Moramon and Merlin from the Western Legion of Fanos for 15 days, killing more than 10,000 enemies."
All the officers from the four major systems of the Expeditionary Force, the Black Dragon Knights, the Allied Forces, the Desert Empire, and the Northern Federation, one by one, had shocked looks on their faces when they heard such news.
In the attack and defense of Vatican City by the expeditionary force, the ratio was 20,000 to 600,000, with a strength difference of 1:3,000. In fact, this is just a statement. After all, there is a huge desert empire army on the other side of the Baili Alliance to contain it, and there are
The solid walls of Vatican City. This is not the same concept as using 1,000 to intercept 30,000 in the wilderness. Even if there are two or three dragon knights to support them in the air, the officers of the expeditionary force cannot think of any way to do it on the plains.
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"Really or not? Could it be that the Fanos soldiers are not acclimated to the local conditions and have a collective stomachache?" Qu Jianhong whispered to one side - when they were at Tongyunguan, Qu Jianhong, like most regular army officers, had
The combat prowess of the mercenaries was dismissed. There was Chi Aotian who was already an outlier, plus Amy and the legendary Da Qingshan, why did a deputy captain Horns appear now? If the mercenaries were so arrogant,
So what do we need the regular army for?
Chang Qing's ears were pointed, and he glared at Qu Jianhong fiercely, and then pushed out the little elf girl behind him: "I know some people always think that they are regular soldiers, they are so awesome, but they just don't believe that mercenaries can win the battle. This
No, I specially brought a witness. Lin Li, the commander of the second battalion of the Crazy Eagle Elf Archers of the small mercenary group, she participated in the entire war."
The Second Battalion of Wild Vulture Elf Archers, as the name suggests: after the Bloody Night in the Imperial Capital, Qing Luo led the Battalion of Wild Eagle Elf Archers to follow Chi Aotian on the expedition to the Plains of Flowers. And long before the Bloody Night in the Imperial Capital, the small mercenary group’s assets included
Crazy eagle eggs still hatching
and the few little crazy vultures all moved to Hamburg City. When Amy decided to give up Hamburg, there were more than a hundred little crazy vultures that could be ridden. On the basis of these crazy vultures, Amy built another crazy vulture.
The Eagle Swordsman Camp and the Wild Eagle Elf Archer Camp.
When Horns learned that Merlin's army was coming for a long distance, he had no choice but to send the eagle knights at hand to ask for help from Daqingshan. At that time, Daqingshan was lying in ambush on the road that the lackey general Rebaton must pass to rescue Hanyang, and had been lurking for several times.
Oh my god, we are at this critical moment. If we go back for rescue right away, will we be able to do it in time?
If he catches up, he might be bitten by Reibator. As a last resort, Da Qingshan ordered all the eagle knights and phantom beast knights on hand to return to aid Horns. Da Qingshan made it very clear: as long as the enemy can be contained by five
, in six days, Ray Barton will definitely relax and reinforce Hanyang. After defeating Ray Barton, the entire army will immediately return to reinforce.
On March 3rd, autumn of the sixth year of the Magic Calendar, when Merlin's army arrived at the checkpoint of the small mercenary group, Horns' overall combat strength was approaching 2,000.
Using these precious two days, Horns did something that made him a top player in the battle of the gods. On the night of March 1st in the magical autumn, in less than 9 hours, Horns was in Sanggan.
A strong castle was built on the north bank of the river! In history, this famous city was called Caocheng.
The water on both sides of the Sanggan River is very submerged. If you dig down one meter, water will start to pour out of the pit. According to this characteristic, Horns first poured the water with dry horse grass and piled up a three-meter-high and four-meter-wide ditch.
wall.
At this moment, Horns found the scroll sent by Dragon Realm.
In the scrolls of the dragon world, fire and ice magic have the highest probability of appearing - after all, the old green dragon is the sacred dragon of the ice system, and Mr. Lu'er is the dragon user of the ice system. The ice dragon has gone to great lengths to please his superiors.
A lot of thought went into it. Amy gave all the fire magic to Chi Aotian, but most of the ice magic lay quietly in the tent.
Seeing these ice magic scrolls, Horns, who is half magic-blind, decided to build an ice city on the basis of straw. The method is actually very simple. First, pour water on the straw, and then cast ice attack magic on the straw wall.
, freeze the water and straw together, then water the straw ice shell, and then reinforce it with magic scrolls until no straw can be seen on the outside side of the straw city wall.
When the sun rose on March 2, an oval-shaped city wall rose from the ground. The wall was five meters high and 800 meters in circumference. The south side of Caocheng was the drainage ditch of the mainland highway, and 1.5 meters deep were dug out on the other three sides.
The 5-meter-wide moat not only contains water, but also
There are a lot of large and small pebbles pushed from the Sanggan River. These pebbles have been soaked in the Sanggan River for more than hundreds of years and are covered with moss. After being pushed into the moat, they will become slippery. The moat is 30 meters away from Caocheng.
It is only 2 meters away, which fully limits the overrunning of war horses and other mounts.
Seeing that Merlin's army did not come, Horns dug another shallow ditch 40 centimeters deep in the grass city. The shallow ditch was filled with straw, and a circle of ice grass walls was built in the shallow ditch. There was a 30-degree angle between the two walls.
distance of several meters.
When Merlin and Moramon saw Grass City, the two orc officers' eyes widened! The Phantom Beast Knights were sent here to inspect the city the day before. This place was just a large camp. Why did a city appear here just one day ago?
In the battle report, the main force of the small mercenary group led by Amy is still in this newly established city, with a total number of about 10,000. Compared with the previous battle of Duanbing Port initiated by Merlin, this one should not be difficult to fight.
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It's a pity that Fanos's western front troops hit the iron knot hard.
Horns deliberately built Caocheng to the north of the mainland highway so that the south side of Caocheng is the mainland highway drainage ditch with an average depth of five meters and a width of five meters. In comparison, the north side of Caocheng is easier to launch an attack. Merlin also chose to attack from the mainland highway.
Attack the city from the north of Caocheng. This was right when I thought about it, but when I actually attacked, I discovered the problem - attacking from north to south, just facing the sun.
Sometimes the power of the sun cannot be matched by a team of one or two thousand men. The centaur archers responsible for covering were dazzled by the sun. The elf archers on the grass city shot out arrows like raindrops, harvesting lives one after another.
.After the first round of offensive dropped nearly a thousand corpses, it was disintegrated.
Merlin had to readjust the main battlefield to the northwest side of Grass City, and used centaur archers to suppress the elf archers on the city wall behind the crenellations. The light infantry and heavy infantry crossed the moat and came to the city together - running all the way from the boundary forest.
When they arrived at the Sanggan River, the Fanos Western Front Corps did not expect to engage in a siege battle. Most of the siege equipment was abandoned on the road, and now they could only rely on a dozen simple ladders to rush up the city.
It's a pity that Horns didn't even think about a face-to-face fight - tens of thousands of torches had been tied up inside the grass city. Horns had a fair idea. Anyway, before he was defeated, he had to set fire to all the food, fodder and other materials.
.Instead of crying and burning from behind, it is better to laugh and burn from the front.
Straws of straw fell from the city wall like raindrops, then torches were thrown down like raindrops, and then pockets of quicklime were thrown into the moat two meters away. The quicklime fell into the water, and the moat suddenly boiled...
step
The soldiers were a little better, they ran fast, and nearly half of them escaped. The heavy infantry of a thousand-man team was completely wiped out. Some of them were burned to death by the fire. More heavy infantry slipped on the pebbles in the moat and were killed alive.
The boiling river water scalded him to death.
In the continent of Fanos, the most important thing is that good men should be covered with hair and good women should be covered with fat. This is especially true for bear-men. The results of the second siege were even more tragic! Hundreds of bear-men fell in the moat with a depth of only 1.5 meters.
The armor's tendons were corroded by the lime water, exposing the body. All the black body hair from head to toe was washed away by the boiling water, making it white and tender. Looking from a distance, they looked like fat women during the magic revival period.
Bathing in the river…
The eyes of Merlin, Moramon and other senior officers of Fanos were all red. This battle was fought unjustly. The number of direct battle casualties in two charges was close to 2,000, and not even a hair of the enemy was seen. This made Merlin even more dizzy.
The big thing is that this despicable defense method turns this small castle with a diameter of less than 200 meters into a fire hedgehog. Even if the city is attacked from all directions at the same time, the enemy can easily defend it.
Under this situation, Merlin had to stop the siege and mobilize siege equipment from the nearest city in the Sanggan River war zone - Merlin was not in a hurry. In the art of war, the only purpose of defending a city is to wait for reinforcements. If it is just to defend a city
There is no reason why an isolated city cannot be conquered.
Merlin's intelligence to the Sanggan River War Zone showed that the main force of the Amy Army was trapped; General Ray Barton immediately mobilized 10,000 main troops to prepare for a counterattack on Hanyang City - no one could tolerate such a big nail in his stomach.
After acquiring a large number of siege equipment, the Fanos Western Front Corps finally attacked Caocheng, the first city wall, on the sixth day at the painful cost of 5,000 soldiers. This was something Horns gave up on his own initiative.
On the city wall, more than one-third of the 2,000 people under Horns' command had died in battle.
Several thousands of Fanos soldiers rushed to the first city wall, and the front-line commander immediately decided to strike while the iron was hot and storm the second city wall. By striking while the iron was hot, they gave Horns another luxurious gift.
As soon as the Fanos soldiers rushed to the inner city wall, the mercenaries on the inner city wall threw torches down like raindrops and fired rockets at the outer city wall. At the same time, wolf droppings were thrown down.
A separate circle of straw was piled on the inside of the outer city wall of Caocheng City. The shallow pit between the inner and outer city walls was also covered with straw. Torches and wolf dung were thrown down, and the fire started to break out. The flames burned the ice on the city wall.
The layers are melting and water is falling
It was roasted into steam as it was lowered. This fire burned for a full hour, and was finally doused by the ice water flowing from the outer city wall. At least 3,000 Fanos soldiers were burned, scalded, and suffocated to death.
Between two city walls.
Horns commanded the mercenaries and then took back the outer city wall.
In this way, with 2,000 mercenaries and the grass city he built overnight, Horns held Merlin's 30,000-strong army in place for 15 days. More than 1,300 mercenaries were killed in the small mercenary group; the Western Front Corps commanded by Merlin died in the battle.
More than 9000.
After 15 days, Merlin voluntarily withdrew from the war, and he had to retreat.
In these 15 days, Daqingshan dealt with the reinforcements sent by General Rebaton - the recently recovered dragon knight An Qiusheng led a small mercenary group to block the Swordsman Battalion and lurked in advance where Rebaton's reinforcements might be stationed.
In the middle of the night, they raided the Chinese army of three reinforcement brigades.
No one could have imagined that the attack would come from the hinterland. The captain of the Sangganhe Heavy Infantry Brigade and other important officers were all killed or injured. The other two brigades of the reinforcements were not direct descendants of Rebaton. Under the coercion of the blocking swordsman battalion's sword, these two
The entire brigade organized themselves and chose to surrender.
Then, Daqingshan had quick hands and quick eyes. In one day and one night, he used the two surrendered Sangganhe brigade to deceive two cities in Mianyang and Heyang. Afterwards, Daqingshan led three dragon knights from the small mercenary group.
10,000 troops made an emergency landing on the defenders of Dangyang City.
At this point, counting from south to north, the four cities of Hanyang, Heyang, Mianyang, and Dangyang are connected together, cutting off the Sanggan River War Zone in the middle like a sharp blade.
After Daqingshan and Amy reunited, they mobilized all the regular troops from the four cities, and together with the small mercenary group, formed a force of 20,000, and quickly returned to rescue Horns.
Merlin was self-aware. In the previous battles with small mercenary groups, Fanos had an overwhelming advantage in terms of strength, and the result was comparable to that of No Salt... With the strength of 1:1, it was no longer whether Merlin was sure to kill him.
The problem is with the small mercenary group.
In addition, Merlin's current force is the largest mobile force of Fanos in the Amy Empire. If it is consumed with the small mercenary group here... Once the Jielin Theater and the Northwest Theater jointly attack the Gyeonggi area, it is estimated that in addition to
Except for Scambrai, which can protect itself due to its high city and wide river, all other towns, large and small, will return to the Amy Empire in various ways. If this is the case, it will be a fatal blow to the power of the Burian Yang Emperor.
Meilin withdrew 60 miles to the north and set up a defense line based on several small towns. There was a brief "peace" in the Sanggan River War Zone again.