"Lord Legion Commander, smoke has risen outside the city. Should we send troops out of the city to raid the enemy's flanks?"
h On the east wall of Vaal City, an officer of the defending army looked at the three plumes of smoke rising outside the east city. According to the agreement, they should leave the city to fight at this moment.
"Don't worry, there are two hundred Western troops under the city watching us, we'd better not rush out from the east gate."
"Besides, I don't think the Welsh Army can withstand this~ ~"
Walter, the commander of the Val City garrison, watched the fierce battle outside the city. Regardless of the number of reinforcements, the problem was that Walter felt that the combat effectiveness of the reinforcements was not as strong as Art said in his letter.
Walter is the commander of the garrison of Vaal City. His highest mission is to defend Vaal City. If he sends his only capable team to fight in the city and fails to win, then there will be no need to defend Vaal City, which only has a hundred or so peasants and soldiers.
"Baron Art said that their ambush will raid the enemy's rear line from outside the North City, so we will sneak out from the North City to attack! Send an order to move the raiding troops to the north gate and be on standby. As soon as my flag is waved, we will leave the city to attack!"
"It's your Excellency!" The officer got off the city wall and led the two hundred defenders to the North City.
In the west of Vaal City, in the deserted wheat field one mile outside the Western Army camp, Kazak and Tuba were lying on the ground quietly discussing the direction of the raid.
"The sentry in the east just reported that the enemy had left more than two hundred soldiers near the camp to prepare for a sneak attack. There seemed to be many soldiers outside the east gate of Vaal City monitoring the inner city. It would be safer for us to take a detour outside the north city as planned, although the distance is quite a long way..."
While the two were discussing quietly, a soldier who was overlooking the sentry from high up ran down the mountainside on the south towards the wheat field without taking cover.
"What's going on? Why don't you hide and approach?" Kazak yelled at the panting soldier on guard.
"Lord Ka~Zak, the order has been issued! The order has been issued!" the sentry soldier said hurriedly.
Kazak suddenly stood up, and sure enough, three plumes of smoke appeared vaguely in the eastern sky, but they did not notice it because of their low position.
"Quick! Let everyone get up immediately. We will bypass the enemy camp from the north and attack Vaal City from behind."
After a moment, more than a hundred black-robed soldiers who had been lying in the field all morning left the wheat field and quickly moved towards the north of Vaal City while wiping the outside of the Western Army camp...
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Matt has rarely been to the front line to participate in battles. Saving his life is one of the reasons, but more importantly, the Wells Army has hundreds of soldiers and a complete command system. As the core commander of an army, Art should never participate in melee combat. Not only is it too risky, but the combat effect is not obvious.
But today Art personally participated in the fierce battle of the Welsh Army, because the Welsh Army had already highlighted its disadvantages on the battlefield. Soldiers and officers needed courage to maintain the final front, and the supreme commander personally wielding a sword in hand-to-hand combat was undoubtedly the best shot in the arm.
Sure enough, when Art personally led six or seven baron guards to join the right-wing battle formation, the right-wing Bangada flag regiment, which had been unable to resist, suddenly burst into fighting will. Even the most valuable regiment commander died, how could ordinary soldiers and officers have the nerve to break up the formation and survive? Now that everyone is desperate, the battle will be much easier. No matter how powerful the enemy is, they will never want to die. Even the most powerful person will be afraid in front of someone who wants to die. This has little to do with personal combat power.
At's melee martial arts skills are mediocre, especially compared to Angus, Reyek, and Klaus, a group of warriors who have been tempered in the flames of war. Art's melee combat abilities are very weak. However, with the cooperation and cover of the baron's guards, Art still achieved the record of killing three people and knocking down two people.
Ron also jumped off the horse, pulled out the knight's sword brought back from Longxia, and guarded Art's flanks with slashes on the left and right, cutting down several enemy soldiers in just a moment. Matthew on the other side also carried a war hammer and smashed the enemy's iron helmet with all his strength. , the sharp tip of the war hammer pierced the iron sheet and penetrated into the enemy's head. The enemy rolled his eyes and fell to the ground twitching. Matthew was unable to pull out the war hammer embedded in the enemy's head for a while, so he had to pull out the dagger from his waist. He held the shield in his left hand and the sword in his right hand to block the heavy sword from the enemy on the opposite side...
Yate's horizontal sword blocked a heavy ax that was heading straight for his head. The huge force pushed him staggering. The enemy failed to hit him and then rushed to chop him. Art leaned back a little and kicked the enemy soldier in the crotch. The enemy soldier's eyes suddenly turned blood red. He immediately dropped the heavy ax and fell to the ground, covering his crotch with his hands, curling up and struggling towards the dead shrimp.
Matt didn't hesitate at all. He threw the shield in his left hand horizontally and knocked back another enemy soldier. Then he stood up and raised the knight's sword in his hand and pointed it straight at the heavy ax soldier with the "Shrimp Bow" on the ground. His face was pierced through his back. The knight's sword The sharp point came out of the enemy soldier's chest, and foamy blood spurted out... "Sir, Chief Andrew was knocked unconscious by the enemy, and the left wing began to lose control!" A messenger moved from the rear to the right wing, and squeezed through the melee crowd to find Art.
Matt had just pulled out the knight's sword that had been driven into the enemy's heavy axe-hand, and was holding his knees to catch his breath. When he heard that the left wing was out of control, he immediately stepped up and tried to look over the heads of the people to observe the status of the left wing, but it was impossible to do so in the crowded crowd. "Where is the sergeant major?"
"Matthew, order the crossbow team to go into battle with swords and reinforce the left wing!"
Matthew immediately squeezed through the crowd, returned to the rear, picked up the crossbow flag on the ground representing the crossbow team, and waved it. Seeing that the crossbow team in the rear responded to the flag, Matthew turned the flag three times, and then pointed it in the direction of the left wing.
· The crossbow unit received the military order, drew out the daggers that had been polished long ago, and ran towards the left wing...
· In the wild battle outside Vaal City, the Western Army gradually took advantage of the battlefield. The Eastern Army (Wells Army) had filled the battlefield with all the troops it could mobilize, but it could only maintain the stability of the battle line for a moment, and finally began to retreat step by step.
The first is the left wing. After all, the crossbowmen are not infantry. They usually do physical training and crossbow shooting. They rarely train swords, spears, axes and shields. Although they have a spirit of fearlessness in their bones, they are still unable to parry in the face of the enemy's slashing and stabbing.
The right wing was second. After all, personal bravery and the commander's morale-boosting power were limited. After the morale brought by Art's personal combat was used up, the battle situation was unfavorable again. The Western Army had more than 600 people, while the Welsh Army had less than 500 people. The Welsh Army was already at a disadvantage in terms of numbers. Coupled with the gap in weapons and armor and the time for soldier training, the right wing was retreating steadily.
The only place where the battle situation is better is in the center (center formation). Since Klaus's heavy armored infantry is resisting in the center, and the enemy seems to be shifting its focus to the two wings after charging, the battle situation in the center is the most optimistic. Klaus even led the heavy armored infantry to embed into the enemy's camp.
However, with both wings retreating, the Chinese army did not dare to advance rashly, otherwise they would be stabbed in the side by the enemy.
The Wells Army had nearly a hundred people killed and wounded in battle. This kind of battle loss ratio must have completely destroyed the formation among other teams. The soldiers maintained their unbroken formation solely by relying on the military discipline developed by the strict military laws and orders during daily training.
A heavy rain that had been holding back for several days finally poured down. The place where the eastern and western armies were fighting was soaked by the heavy rain. The soldiers fought in the rain all over the sky, and the blood gathered into thin streams under the wash of the rain... ..
Walter on the east wall of Vaal City stared blankly at the fighting of the armies outside the city. He had never thought that there would be such a tenacious army. No matter whether it was an enemy army or reinforcements, there would be casualties. The two armies with different colors of armor and uniforms turned into a pot of wheat porridge, and the water suddenly poured down from the sky completely turned the pot of wheat porridge into a bloody pulp...
"Master Legion, it will be over if we go out to reinforce the city again!" A garrison officer on the east city witnessed the tragic battle outside the city. The smoke of the wolf had been extinguished by the heavy rain, but the signal to leave the city to attack the formation had been sent out long ago.
Walter raised his hand to wipe away the rain on his face, and looked up to the north again. The "thousands of ambushes" mentioned in Art's letter were still nowhere to be found.
"Wait a moment!" Walter chose to wait and see for a while longer.
瓦尔特的话音刚落，北城一个守军传令兵就冒雨跑到了东墙，「军团长大人！北边有一支举着狼旗的军队朝这边奔了过来，一两百人，应该是援军伏兵的前军。」
「才一两百人？」瓦尔特疑问。
"My lord, the ambush should be at the forefront, and the large group of troops must be behind. Sir, let's leave the city quickly to attack the enemy's rear formation, otherwise it will be too late. If we don't go out of the city for rescue in time, we will definitely offend Baron Art, I'm afraid~" The garrison officer once again suggested that the garrison attack immediately.
The messenger also echoed: "It should be the forward ambush of the friendly forces. I saw people about half a mile behind that team, but the distance was too far to see the number of people. I guess there are hundreds of people."
Walter's head was thinking quickly, and he took another look at the Wells Army, which was struggling to support the enemy. They must have reinforcements, otherwise they would not be able to hold on. "Send the order, and the East City garrison pretends to prepare to leave the city, attracting the attention of the Western Army surveillance team."
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On the northwest side of Vaal City, Chapter Kazak of the First Flag Team of the First Company threw a throwing spear in his hand and pinned a pursuer to the ground.
Kazak and Tuba were spotted by enemy sentries when they led two flag teams to try to bypass the edge of the enemy camp. The enemy army was obviously on guard. The one hundred and eighty people they left behind at the camp initially thought it was the legendary attack by thousands of troops. The remaining Western troops closed the camp doors to defend the barracks. However, they soon discovered that there were only about a hundred people in the "ambush", so the Western commander immediately sent a hundred people to pursue the army heading east.
Kazak did not expect to be entangled by the Western Army, so he could only lead two squadrons to intercept the enemy.
“Don’t worry about the pursuers behind you, everyone rush to the battlefield with all your strength. If you are one step later, the legion will not be able to hold on!” Kazak decisively ordered the two squadrons behind him to stop blocking the enemy’s pursuers.
Hence, more than thirty soldiers gave up their mission of blocking the enemy and turned around to pursue the front line led by Touba, leaving more than a hundred Western troops behind.
The long-distance running of the Welsh Army's daily training was highlighted. Less than three miles away, the two flags of the Welsh Army left the Western Army behind for nearly half a mile.
Soon, the two flag teams of the Wells Army arrived at the gates of Vaal City. At this time, a garrison of more than 200 people had already rushed out of the North City Gate and charged towards the East City Outfield amid fierce fighting...
Att's armor was soaked through. The soaked armor was very heavy and became increasingly difficult to swing. He had retreated to the back line and used his bow and arrow to kill the enemy under the cover of his guards. However, the rain was too heavy and his bow and arrow also lost its power. After shooting the last light arrow, he pulled out his knight's sword again and prepared to fight hand-to-hand.
The Wells Army was no longer able to retreat. The enemy troops were completely embedded in their own camp. If they were ordered to retreat, it would inevitably turn into a tragic rout.
Yat can only maintain it with all his strength, counting on the more than a hundred "ambushes" and the defenders of Vaal City...
"Sir, you first withdraw to the main camp and prepare to defend the enemy. I will maintain the line here. If it doesn't work, we will withdraw to the main camp and hold on." Odo was covered in blood and had a long gash on his arm. He hoped that Art could hide in the legion camp and organize heavy troops for defense. Then he would lead the Wells Legion to retreat while fighting and return to the camp to hold on.
"There is no way to retreat. As long as we give the order to retreat, it will definitely turn into a rout!" Art rejected Odo's suggestion.
Just when Art was getting desperate, Lusignan, who had been fighting with the enemy cavalry, left seven or eight cavalry to deal with the enemy cavalry, and then led more than ten cavalrymen to turn from the outer cavalry battlefield and return to the main infantry battlefield. The dozen cavalrymen did not skimp on their horsepower, and the spurs on their heels kept kicking the horses' belly. The horses galloped towards the enemy's flanks.
This charge was quite effective, and the Western Army had to deploy about thirty soldiers to deal with the cavalry interference.
The infantry's frontal pressure eased slightly, and the line became stable again.
An army of two hundred people suddenly ran out from the North City, led by a flag belonging to the defenders of Vaal City, and ran towards the battlefield where the East and West armies were fighting. At the same time, more than a hundred Western troops outside the east gate also noticed the movement and rushed towards the team...
"Woo! Woo! Woo!"
There was another blast of horns, and behind the defenders leaving the city, an army holding the Howling Wolf flag appeared. This army was the "ambush" of the Welsh Legion that had disappeared for several days.
The Western Army panicked when they noticed the abnormality behind them. They had already concluded that the enemy did not have all the "ambushes", but now two armies suddenly appeared behind them, and many Western Army commanders began to panic.
Perhaps the enemy's reinforcements of 1,500 troops are not a fiction~
The morale of the Western Army's rear line was shaken, and a small number of troops began to retreat southward as they watched the enemy troops coming from behind.
This small amount finally affected a large amount. When the second team holding the Howling Wolf Flag appeared in the sight of the Western Army's rear formation, one-third of the Western Army broke up and fled.
This escape completely reversed the established battlefield situation...