Qu Jianhong and two other senior officers knelt on the ground, and Dangdang kowtowed to Daqingshan and Horns each without saying a word. They turned over on their mounts. Although their eyes were red and swollen from crying, they were already seeing
Unsure of what was going on, the young Grand Duke still issued four instructions in succession. The Tongyunguan Light Knights Corps, the Earthly Dragon Heavy Knights Corps, the Desert Empire Camel Corps, and the Huayu Plains Allied Brigade moved in sequence.
!The young soldiers, regardless of their official position, bowed to the other two deputy captains of the small mercenary group at the moment they turned their mounts.
"Sir, deputy captain!" Ling Yun suddenly came out of the cadres of the small mercenary group and bowed to the two deputy captains.
Da Qingshan nodded slightly, his face and tone returned to calmness: "Go. Send someone to inform Uncle Barbas and the others."
"Yes." The two young dragon knights bowed again and left quietly.
In just over ten minutes, the once deserted school military field was once again deserted. The nearly 10,000 armored troops disappeared into the northeast corner of Moyada City without a single one left.
"Let's go! It's going to rain, and my mother is getting married! Let's go back!" The dwarf stomped his foot hard, causing dust to rise everywhere.
All the mercenary cadres and senior officers stared at each other with big eyes and small eyes. They were depressed, angry, puzzled, helpless, and laughed at a few jokes... Countless eyes silently shuttled among the crowd.
The cadres in the small mercenary group were helpless when faced with this situation. Deputy Commander Chi Aotian was good at everything, but he was too temperamental at certain times, and he didn't allow anyone to explain at all.
In the meeting hall, after all the middle-level cadres and mid-level officers were seated, it was filled with people.
Horns thought for a while, waved his hand to the commanders of each unit to stay, and everyone else went down first, and arranged for all units to enter first-level combat readiness.
The cadres and officers were all stunned. Level 1 combat readiness is the highest level of combat readiness. After entering level 1 combat readiness, it means being ready to launch operations at any time and entering a state of war at any time. Now the northern and southern fronts in the northern theater are very stable. Scambrai's soldiers
They had all been withdrawn a long time ago, and the soldiers in the Sanggan River War Zone also switched from offensive to defensive. They started building fortresses and it seemed that they were preparing for long-term defense. Now that they have entered the first level of combat readiness, in which direction are they preparing to start a war?
No one dared to cause trouble for the acting general now. Everyone had just seen Horns' embarrassing scene and hurriedly went down to make arrangements.
After all the officers and cadres had gone down, General Lantian, who had been appointed as the staff general of the Northern Theater Command, coughed slightly and asked: "Your Highness, are we... the rebels who are preparing to attack the Jielin Theater Zone?"
Mr. Lantian, the former first deputy leader of the Colorful Dragon Knights, is now ranked first in the uniform group of the northern theater.
Master Lantian once commanded 10,000 regular army knights to attack the city in the northwest of the empire and wiped out all the rebellious imperial family forces headed by Delaware, the former deputy prime minister of the empire. Except for the last few castles of the Delaware family,
Except for the support of the Scambrai Pseudo-Dragon Knights, the entire northwest was basically wiped out. After the bloody battle that year, Lantian's aristocratic title was officially promoted from Marquis to Imperial Duke by the Imperial Ministry of Civil Affairs.
"Why do you think so?" Horns said coldly: "Could it be that...we haven't fulfilled our obligations when we handed over the army, so we have to add icing on the cake to the Chinese County King? Is this necessary?"
The air in the meeting hall cooled down again. His Highness Horns's rare tone and expression showed that he was really angry. Otherwise, he would not have said such seemingly willful words like His Excellency Da Qingshan.
It's just that... several senior officers and deputy commander Gesu had a strange look in their eyes. Is it necessary to show their dissatisfaction in front of such a middle-level officer? Although the deputies of each unit have been asked to retreat,
There were still 20 officers and cadres sitting in the meeting hall in darkness, and there were also the chief officers of the Berserker and Berserker units...
No one can expect a berserker to keep even a word of secret in his heart. Some people joked that if a berserker took over the intelligence system of the Thieves Guild, it is estimated that... all the informants will be cut down because they were betrayed, and all the intelligence
They will all be shouted out by the berserkers at the top of their lungs, and from then on they will enter a peaceful and prosperous age without conspiracies. Now we can only hope that these two berserkers can spread less "rumors" after they go out.
Horns waved his hand and opened the curtain on the wall, picked up the baton and stabbed a certain part of the map: "It is rare for a small mercenary group to lose, and it must always be recovered. Captain Amy said,
You can eat anything, but you can’t suffer losses. Captain Amy also said that we will not sell at a loss. We must admit that the attack of the pirate skeleton army is too weird and we cannot resist it now. Therefore, the new battlefield must
Choose a place far away from the river, that is here... There is a saying in human society, which I always think is very classic, that is, there is no room for half a grain of sand in the eyes, hehe... This pea-sized sand has already been in my eyes
I have been here for two years and I am reminded of its existence all the time."
Is this sand too? All the officers in the room looked at each other. They had already seen that the sand that Horns poked turned out to be a huge piece of sandstone in the Imperial City of Scambrai.
Indeed, as Horns said, within 300 miles of Scambrai, all the cities and fortresses were decorated with colorful dragon pennants and black rattlesnake pennants. Only Scambrai and a few surrounding sub-cities had symbols.
The golden triangular flag of the Western Emperor family.
Horns knocked hard twice more, and the brick wall behind the map groaned: "Pass my order, for all the territories under the jurisdiction of the Northern War Zone, based on villages and towns, the strong men will draw one of three to become a strong man, and the strong women will
One of the five women will be chosen to be a strong woman, and she will bring her own dry food and basic equipment, and we will gather 40 miles southeast of Scambrai before April 15th of the eighth year of the Magical Calendar."
Sandin draws one? Senior military officers have roughly estimated that the population of the northern war zone now ranges from two million to more than one million, and strong men account for about 20% of them. Sanding draws one, which means
There will be 20 to 30 strong men and more than 100,000 strong women under Scambrai Castle.
However, even if this is the case, can Scambrae be conquered? People who think so are probably either suffering from brain damage or have a brain short-circuit. The Acting General does not want to continue to sit in this position?
Scambrai is marked as SS on the empire's strategic defense map. There are several SS-level cities in the entire Eminor continent, but only Scambrai has the highest gold content.
Scambrai ranks first among all the cities in the continent in terms of population and area. The outer city wall is a full 40-mile circle. If you want to surround the entire 40-mile city wall, you will need at least 400,000 troops. With the Zhou Dynasty,
Corresponding to the already shocking figure of forty miles long, the city wall is 20 meters above the ground.
20 meters, this number is already the height of the watchtower for the city walls of other cities. However, for Scambrai, it is only the average height of the city wall. There are 50 watchtowers on each side of the octagonal city wall, and the average height of the watchtower is 28
meters, divided into four levels. That is to say, when the attackers rush to the city wall, they must face an arrow tower that is 8 meters taller than themselves. Each arrow tower is a quadrilateral, and the standard perforations on each side are 20. The front of each layer
There are five consecutive crossbows placed in the shooting holes. This kind of crossbow is semi-fixed on the ground of the archery tower and can rotate up, down, left, and right about 20°. The effective shooting range of the crossbow is 100 meters to 500 meters. In one archery tower, one
It can shoot 300 powerful crossbows continuously every minute.
Most officers who arrived at Scambrai for the first time would admire: the arrow towers on Scambrai City are simply 392 extremely strong fortresses.
However, in Scambrai, this is the watchtower, and it is a relatively solid watchtower at best.
Because on the city wall, there are real fortresses: the city gate tower and the Tuancheng.
In the defensive battle of the city wall, there are two fatal weaknesses. The first is the city gate. Even if it is a city gate made of steel and iron, the back is empty after all. Once it is subjected to a huge force, such as a car, it may collapse.
Like other cities, Scambrai has built towers on all city gates. There are also sandwich walls under the towers to hide soldiers. On the eight major city gates, the heights of the four main gate towers in the north, south, east and west are all 40 meters, southeast and northeast.
The height of the four auxiliary gate towers in the southwest and northwest is slightly shorter, 38 meters. Each gate tower is equipped with 10 fixed catapults. Like Hamburg, all fixed catapults are steel beam structures with a shooting range of 100
meters ~ 300 meters. As for the fixed crossbows, the standard configuration on each tower is 60. In history, no army has ever braved the flying stones released from the Scambrai gate tower to approach with strong crossbows.
of the city gate.
After the construction of the eight towers of Scambrai was completed, envoys from various continents came to visit. Yan Yuan, one of the four card-playing professors of Ulu University, came here because of its fame. He stood under the tower due east and looked up.
The black high-brimmed hat he was wearing fell to the ground at that time. It was the bachelor's hat awarded by the school when Professor Yan Yuan graduated from university. It has supreme commemorative significance. As a result... it was trampled into a bird's nest by the bustling visitors behind him.
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Professor Yan Yuan was so angry that he immediately took out the black gold dagger for self-defense from his boots and slammed it on the bricks of the tower. He wanted to dig out a few bricks to vent his anger, or at least carve a row of small words "Yan Yuan is here for a visit".
But... the professor finally reluctantly left behind such a famous saying: "Looking ahead (forgot to wear pince-nez, what is this?), suddenly looking behind (when I looked up, my hat fell to the ground from behind and was buried)
When you step on it, it becomes flat), when you look up, it becomes taller (it turned out to be a tall building), when you drill it, it becomes stronger (it cannot be dug out for a long time)." Later, these four sentences were carved on the four major auxiliary gates of the city, which shows the history of history.
The Bray Gate is extremely tall and strong.
The second fatal weakness of an ordinary city wall is the corner of the city wall, which is a protruding part. Other city wall sections can only withstand 180° attacks, while the corners of the city wall withstand 270° attacks. Support from the defenders from both sides is relatively slow, and,
The corners of city walls are also most susceptible to collapse after being attacked by catapults.
Tuancheng, this kind of building was invented when Scambrai was building the city wall.
A perfect circular fortress was built at each of the eight corners of the Scambrai city wall, 30 meters high. The fortress has a separate entrance corridor, a separate defense system, and a separate garrison system. It is like a small city, so
It was named Tuancheng. The circular exposed surface of Tuancheng can minimize the attack of the city wall by catapults and other throwing weapons. In addition, it is difficult for siege equipment such as ladders, towers, and flying stones to get against the circular city wall.
The circular platform can accommodate the largest number of defensive soldiers without any blind spots for attack. It can be said that Tuancheng is a major revolution in the history of city wall defense.
After the construction of Scambrai City Wall was completed, the special wall construction of Tuan City was imitated by various empires in the Pancontinent.
The walls of Scambrai are 11 meters wide and can run six cars or 13 horses at a time. In a conflict with the Holy Desert Empire 400 years ago, the desert empire's 60,000 camel army immediately showed off its power under the city of Scambrai. At that time, the empire
Several major commanders were in charge of the expeditionary forces in Lanshan and Shizihe respectively. For reasons of stability, His Majesty the King did not send officers to start the battle. For the first time, the southern and eastern walls of Scambrai were filled with soldiers and civilians.
, according to post-war statistics, there were a total of 60,000 people on the city wall at that time.
In the strategic location information book of the Imperial Military Affairs Department, Scambrai, Hamburg City, and Ice Fortress are collectively called the never-falling trident of the Imperial Defense Front.
Now, His Highness Horns actually dares to think of attacking this city?
The regular army officers all know that Hamburg City, one of the tridents that will never fall, is not only a shining little star on the laurels of the small mercenary regiment, but was finally killed by the regiment leader Amy under their noses.
It was completely dismantled.
Even so, senior military officers still do not believe that the 30,000 to 40,000 regular troops currently under their command in the northern theater can conquer Scambrai, which has a permanent population six times that of Hamburg and an area ten times that of Hamburg.
The dwarf's brown eyes swept across the faces of everyone in the room. Finally they landed on several senior imperial officers. Horns gently changed the topic and directly penetrated everyone's nerve endings: "I know, Shikan
The city of Bray has become a myth, just like the city of Hamburg before it was conquered. But..."
The dwarf gently took a breath of air and continued: "I don't know what other people think, but this city is a shame to me, a great shame. In the past few years, I have never dared to
Forget this shame, little mercenary group... An elder died here to protect His Majesty the King. Oh, I forgot... This elder was still the highest officer of the Gyeonggi War Zone at the time, which is about the same position as me."
The air-conditioning outside seemed to instantly penetrate the walls of the entire meeting hall and the clothes of the mid-level and senior officers and cadres in the hall.
This damn dwarf... is not just an officer cursing in a low voice, he actually dares to challenge the noble knight's highest tenet of "honor is our mission"...
"Actually, this city is nothing more than a shame to me. But, for you all, I think... whether it is the nearly 10,000 officers and soldiers of the Seven Colorful Dragon Knights who were martyred in the bloody night in the imperial capital, or the officers and soldiers of the Royal Guards guarding the palace
, it seems... they were once the lords of your officers?" Horns unceremoniously continued to expand the wounds on all the officers in the northern theater.
"So, I have always admired you for being able to endure this shame until today."
Before Horns had finished speaking a few words, the air in the meeting hall of Moyada City's garrison was already extremely tense.
The more than a dozen imperial officers in the room suppressed the boundless anger in their hearts because of the word "obedience" that the army must have. Several young officers wanted to rush up and push Horns to the ground and kick him ten thousand times.
The dwarf then said to Da Qingshan: "The small mercenary groups are the Vulture Elf Knight Camp, the Blocking Swordsman Camp, the Magic Swordsman Camp, the Knight Camp, the Forest Elf Archer Camp, the Prairie Elf Archer Camp and the Forest Ax Dwarf Camp.
I want to take away all the dragon knights, as well as the Imperial Guards and the Heavy Knight Brigade of the Colorful Dragon Knights. I will also take them away and set off early the day after tomorrow. Great Swordsman Camp, Wild Eagle Swordsman Camp, Berserker Camp, Mad Warrior Camp,
The knight battalion, the mountain warhammer dwarf battalion and the colorful dragon heavy infantry battalion are left to you. I only need 60 days to conquer Scambrai. Are you sure?"
Guard for 60 days? How is this possible? All the senior officers were muttering in their hearts.
In the distribution of troops, Horns took away the small mercenary group and the best troops of the regular army in the northern theater. The regular troops left for Daqingshan would not exceed 15,000, and the main force turned out to be the Great Sword.
Although the personnel of the Swordsman Battalion and the Small Mercenary Group and the Great Swordsman Battalion are of high quality, how strong can they be if the level of equipment is there?
There are more than 20,000 mobile regular troops under General Rebaton, including more than 5,000 knights. How could they hold back the knights for 60 days in the helpless plain area? This is a completely different concept from the Battle of Caocheng.