Five miles west of Wallonburg, an abandoned farm mill, the 1st Infantry Regiment of the Jonah Border Guard Corps (Regiment of Wells), all the cavalry, the Dead Guards, most of the task force, baggage train, and the Chinese Army Command Camp Nearly 600 people, including the military law team of the bodyguards, were temporarily stationed in the open space around the mill. There were half-man-high horse pickets on three sides of the open space. There was a 15-foot-wide rapid stream to the east of the mill, which could be regarded as a solid "city wall."
In addition to the open posts and hidden sentries around the temporary camp, there are also cavalry on duty constantly patrolling and sentrying to prevent sneak attacks by the Swabians.
In the camp, the soldiers gathered in squadrons in their two or three tents to enjoy the rare quiet leisure before the war. On weekdays, when the talented veterans were bored, they would take out the flute, reed flute or clarinet made of reeds and play beautiful vocal music in front of the campfire. There was even a soldier in the legion who had served as a bard's apprentice and always liked to hold it. An old lute was played with a goose feather pole to play sad or happy tunes, and his drake-like voice made everyone laugh, but he didn't care about it. Every time he finished playing and singing, he would take off his helmet and bend down to the soldiers who gathered around him to collect a fee. Usually no one was willing to pay the money, but he was not upset and still sang songs that fit the occasion.
But the camp was very quiet today. The soldiers were just taking out stones from the military tent to polish their swords or thinking about how to give the money in their bags to their wives and children at home.
A big battle with the Swabian army is about to begin.
In the abandoned mill where the Chinese army's command camp is located, Art, commander-in-chief of the Border Guard Corps, and Angus, commander of the 1st Infantry Regiment, were rehearsing battle formations on a rough-made sand table. Officers above the flag captain of the 1st Infantry Regiment and commanders of the directly affiliated armies gathered around the sand table to listen.
The Swabian invasion was too sudden, and Art did not have the time or energy to make a sandbox as elaborate as the Western Front war zone, so he could only roughly build a sandbox model with Walloon Castle and Bramond City as the core based on the oral accounts of the locals and the task force's scouts.
When Art personally led the First Infantry Corps and several troops directly under the Chinese Army to arrive here from the market town, the 300-man Swabian army immediately stopped advancing. They camped around a hill two and a half miles away. In the past two days, Swabian troops continued to gather towards the hill from the Wallonborg battlefield and further east of Wallonborg, and the reinforcements were mainly heavy armored cavalry. In just three days, the number of heavy armored cavalry in the Swabian army exceeded 100.
With more than a hundred heavy armored cavalry gathered in one place, it was obvious that the Swabians also planned to deal a fatal blow to Art's Burgundian army. They had known that the heavy armored cavalry would be invincible on the plain battlefield.
Angus, the commander of the 1st Infantry Regiment, pointed to the sand table and explained the battle strategy to Art, "...Facing a strong enemy, especially one with a powerful heavy armored cavalry team, the choice of battlefield is the key to the success or failure of this battle. If the Swabians take the initiative to attack us, then we will have the advantage of choosing the battlefield. Ron and Stanley have led the task force to visit all the places within the five-mile radius of the vicinity. Whatever meets your requirements There are only two battlefields. "
"One is a large swamp one and a half miles southeast of this place. It is surrounded by shallow grass quagmire on three sides and has only flat land to the east. The enemy's cavalry cannot go around. We can dig trench traps and bury stakes in the front to resist the horses. If the Swabians dare to charge on horseback, their heavy cavalry will definitely be stuck in the mire and unable to extricate themselves. Without the advantage of heavy cavalry, it will be easier to deal with the infantry."
"However, this place is also a desperate situation for us. If the war goes against us, we will not even have a chance to retreat. The swamp is enough to swallow ten armies like ours, and we do not rule out that the Swabians will know that it is a swamp and refuse to come to fight us. This is very possible. According to reports from our task force, many people in the enemy camp actively surrendered. Relying on the private soldiers of the local Swabian lords, they are familiar with the terrain. As long as the Swabians can think of asking the locals, they will easily discover this huge life-threatening trap. As long as the Swabians block the gap leading to the plains, they will definitely starve us to death in the swamp."
After hearing this, Art nodded lightly and was noncommittal.
“Where is the second location?”
Angus raised the thin wooden stick and pointed it two miles northeast of the mill, “Here!”
“Here is a gap in a large dense forest, a narrow passage about two hundred feet wide between two mountains of dense forest. The woods on both sides are very dense. The Swabian heavy cavalry will never be able to charge from the flanks, so it is difficult for their heavy cavalry to take advantage. The dense forest on both sides of the gap stretches for several miles. The Swabian heavy cavalry can neither go around nor pass through the dense forest. Moreover, we can still enter the dense forest. Set traps in the middle to kill enemy soldiers who try to sneak through the dense forest to attack our flanks. "
"The most important thing is that although there is a dense forest blocking us, it is not a dead place for both the enemy and us. Compared with the swamp, people are much less afraid of the dense forest, so even if the Swabians know that there are traps on the battlefield, they will launch a charge to "annihilate" us as soon as possible. "
Matt's eyes stared at the place pointed by Angus for a long time. He raised his head and ordered: "Send the guards to prepare the horses. I want to go and see that battlefield in person."
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Att has a special preference for forests. This may be due to the fact that after he unexpectedly entered this world, he relied on the protection and nourishment of mountains and forests and dense valleys. Therefore, when he led his guards to the battlefield screened by Angus, he had already decided to use this place as the place for the decisive battle.
Six years ago, he set traps in the forest to fight wild wolves and brown bears. Six years later, he used the entire forest as a trap to fight against the alien army.
On the gentle slope of the hill east of the gap, Artlima looked at the dense forest under the hill from the top of the hill. He was imagining that if he were the commander of the Swabian army, he would order his troops to rush from this gentle slope to the gap in the dense forest, even though there might be a trap waiting for him there.
The answer is yes, because Art can trade time for victory, but the Swabians cannot. They must capture Walloon Castle and the entire eastern border defense line before the Burgundian Liberation Army captures Besançon and quickly establish a solid defensive foundation. Otherwise, once the Burgundian Liberation Army withdraws from the western front and returns eastward and the Burgundy Principality reinforcements that are about to leave for the eastern border arrive, Swabia's troop dispatch will turn into another waste.
So as long as there is a slight chance of victory, the Swabians dare to attack Art's army. If the Swabians give up the attack, Nayat will become a poisonous snake that wraps around them and cannot be driven away. A frontal attack may not be strong enough, but it is still no problem to cut off the baggage today, attack the flanks tomorrow, and raid and harass the day after tomorrow.
"Sergeant Major, this is it. Starting from this afternoon, you will lead people to set traps and pits in the dense forest on both sides of the gap. The more the better, and the more complex the better. Two days, I will give you two days!" The First Infantry Regiment is all veterans of the Wells Corps. Almost all of their officers have learned how to lay traps in the officer academy, so this task is not difficult for the First Regiment.
"It's my lord! I will bring people over to arrange the battlefield as soon as I get back."
Angus turned his horse's head and looked around, "Sir, will the enemy come here to fight us?"
Matt turned his head and glanced at the place where the Swabians were stationed in the southwest. "I'm not sure, but I guess the Swabians don't want to delay time. They need to break through our defenses as soon as possible and capture the hinterland..."
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led more than 200 soldiers selected by the First Infantry Regiment, carrying a large number of shovels, iron shovels and wood sawhand axes to the selected battlefield and got into the dense forest on both sides of the gap. The cavalry and task forces were ordered to blockade the entire one and a half mile area around the battlefield...
Early in the morning of the next day, trainee knight Ron broke into the Swabian army camp in the east alone and delivered a declaration of war written by Art dearly to the military tent of Swabian army commander Count Randy von Hoffmann.
· Count Randy was a newly promoted military noble in the national war with Burgundy a few years ago. At the age of forty, he could be considered a young earl.
He is the commanding adjutant of the entire war zone. He has more than 1,200 soldiers under his command, including more than 160 heavy armored cavalry. Randy's main responsibility is to launch an offensive against several castle defenses in the Wallonburg area in the north, and take the lead in attacking the hinterland of the Jonah Province of Burgundy, disrupting the rear of the Liberation Army and occupying this long-coveted place, allowing the territory of the Principality of Swabia to expand again.
However, the original one-month battle plan to invade the hinterland of Yona was broken. One and a half months later, they were still fighting for several castles on the border.
The imminent capture of Geneborg did not bother him, but the small place in front of him called Walloon Castle stopped the army in its tracks. The reason was that Swabia captured this place during the national war a few years ago. After the war, the Count of Burgundy spent a lot of money to build this place into a fortified city.
When the army ran into a wall in Wallenberg, another Burgundian reinforcement rushed in. Through the Swabian spy in Burgundy, this army was the same small force that turned the Southwest Builtenberg front into a pot of wheat paste a few years ago.
For this guy who never talked about the rules and etiquette of war, Randy would not stick to the old rules, so he ordered a small army of a hundred people to be selected for a sneak attack.
However, when he learned from the escaping cavalry that the hundred-man squad was completely wiped out and even the leading knight was captured, Randy became more defensive about the enemy baron leading the army.
Ron conveyed Art's message and handed over the declaration of war before striding away.
As soon as Ron left, Randy's military adviser pointed at Ron's back and reminded: "Your Majesty, I guess the enemy must have designed a trap for us to drill."
Randy tore off the seal and took a look again, and handed the letter to the adviser, "No need to guess, he himself As we said, the battlefield and its surroundings are full of traps and traps, just waiting for us to dig them out. "
"Huh?" The consultant immediately picked up the declaration of war and read it. Sure enough, the declaration of war stated in a thick quill that the opponent had set up traps, and it even stated that the traps were mainly located in the dense forests on both wings.
"Your Majesty, Count? What on earth does that guy want to do?" The consultant really didn't understand the other party's intention.
"He is deliberately provoking and irritating me."
Randy pointed at himself and smiled: "Am I that gullible?"