Chapter 93 Enemy Dynamics
In fact, when Xia State faced the enemy's attack, the response was still followed by the previous combat concept - if you can attack from a distance, you will never fight in close combat!
First, the artillery with the farthest attack distance will be launched. While shocking the morale of the enemy, it will try its best to strike the living forces in the local area and disrupt the order of the enemy's formation.
At the same time, the cavalry brigade rushed out of the battlefield. While restraining the enemy on the outside, it used the cavalry's maneuver power to seize the opportunity to launch an attack.
Then when the enemy rushed to the front of the formation, after several rounds of strikes by long-range infantry, the cavalry launched a counterattack, trying to create more chaos in the enemy formation, and the infantry behind formed a front and was ready for battle.
In the end, if the enemy does not collapse, they will enter a state of close intercourse, which is what the Xia army most reluctant to see!
Fortunately, although the enemy risked his life to advance, the last moment of close forces did not come.
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On the other hand, after Ian ordered an attack, he watched the 50,000 slave legion in front of him charge against the enemy, hoping that the Xia army would collapse with one blow.
"Report to the Lord Knight, the Xia army's cavalry regiment charged northward." As soon as the war began, a knight heard a piece of news that made him uneasy.
Ian immediately asked, "The Knights? To the north? How many men are there?"
"Return to the Lord Knight, the Xia army's Knights' regiment has nearly 10,000 troops." The answer from the news of the Knight made Ian let go of his worries.
He launched an attack on the legion he had arranged in the north with less than 10,000 knights, which was completely a death sentence. He immediately ordered: "Order the Second Legion to intercept the Knights of the Xia Army."
After the order was given, Ian no longer paid attention to the cavalry of Xia Kingdom, but waited for the battle report sent back from the slave army ahead.
"Report to the Lord Knight, the slave army is two thousand meters away from the Xia army."
"Reporting to the Lord Knight, the slave army is one thousand meters away from the Xia army and is about to enter the attack range of the Xia army."
As soon as the messenger reported the information, Ian heard the loud noise coming from the front, and the thunderous explosion sounded continuously into his ears.
Although I had known that Xia State had a mysterious weapon with far-reaching attacks and very powerful attacks, I also prepared for heavy losses.
But after seeing and hearing the attack of this mysterious weapon with one's own eyes, Ian finally saw what power this rumored weapon has!
Although Ian was prepared for heavy losses, he had no concern about achieving the final victory.
But after seeing this mysterious weapon of Xia Kingdom, he couldn't help but feel a little worried about the final victory.
"Report to the Lord Knight, the slave army suffered heavy losses in the attack and showed signs of collapse."
Collapse? So fast? Ian saw that the Xia army had just launched an attack, and the slave army, which was twice as many as the Xia army, showed signs of collapse. While feeling a little incredible, he immediately ordered: "Order the First Legion to supervise the war strictly and do not let a fleeing slave soldier go!"
You can't let the slave legion collapse like this. If it collapses so simply, the defeat of 50,000 slave soldiers will retaliate against the legion in the rear, and the subsequent battle will not need to continue.
With Ian's order, the slave army continued to attack under the supervision of the First Legion and charged forward with all their might.
This line of slave soldiers knew that although the front was dangerous, there was a glimmer of hope. If they ran away backward, they would be dead and lifeless.
Moreover, there are only more than 10,000 enemy troops in front, but they have 50,000 people. As long as they rush up, they will definitely win.
But Xia's artillery never stopped. At the risk of turning into a ball of meat paste, the slaves buried their heads like they rushed forward.
It was about to rush forward, but the two rows of strange fire-breathing weapons in front of the enemy had paused for a moment, and they burst out with power that made them frightened and desperate!
With a "boom~", the slave soldiers rushing in front disappeared in an instant, turning into pieces of flesh and splashing everywhere. When the hard bones in the soldier's body splashed, they also turned into weapons and stabbed into the bodies of the comrades behind.
Seeing the red mist composed of flesh and blood in front of the formation, the slave soldiers rushing up behind were frightened. Looking at the rows of black guns in front of the Xia Guowang pointing toward him, it seemed as if they were staring at death, and they all couldn't help but stop charging.
Some slave soldiers were even swallowed by the blood mist floating in front of them, and couldn't help but go crazy and attacked their comrades around them.
Some even committed suicide in despair, just to leave a whole body for themselves, which is better than turning into the blood mist in the sky.
Before these slave soldiers could recover from the chaos, a large number of cavalry rushed out of the military formation opposite and launched an attack on the slave army in the chaos.
The slave soldiers standing in front of the cavalry either turned into "flying men" and threw them backwards, or turned into a pool of rotten meat under the iron hoof of a war horse. They could not even reduce the speed of the other party.
The cavalry attacks that had finally recovered completely collapsed. No matter how the soldiers in charge were killed, they could not stop the slave soldiers from escaping from the Xia army formation.
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"Report to the Lord Knight, the slave...the slave army is wiped out!"
Ian could not see the battle ahead at all in the rear of the Baxter Army, and could only learn the latest news on the battlefield from the battle report coming from the front.
He got the news of the entire slave army being wiped out from the panicked knight in front of him. Before that, he received the battle report of the heavy losses of the slave army.
"What the hell is going on? Why is it so fast? Why did it collapse? The slave army has 50,000 people!"
Hearing the inquiry from Knight Ian, the knight's face became even more ugly, and there was even a hint of despair: "Master Knight, the slave army... the slave army was annihilated by the knight army that suddenly rushed out of the Xia army!"
Then the knight reported to Ian in detail about the battle situation ahead.
"A Knight Order with more than 3,000 people?" Ian felt a little incredible. Unexpectedly, the Xia army had an army of more than 20,000 people, and there was a Knight Order with more than 10,000 people. This completely caught him off guard.
The Knight Order mentioned by Ian, the cavalry of Xia Kingdom, is a kind of army with a very powerful impact, especially the heavy cavalry rushing in the front. Even if there is a dense long spear formation waiting for the battle, it has to face at least the first three rows of infantry that have been killed before they can barely hinder the attack of the heavy cavalry.
In the 50,000 slave legion, more than 10,000 were killed by artillery, and nearly thousands of soldiers were killed by far-striking infantry. By the time of their final collapse, only more than 10,000 were left, and the difference was that they were destroyed by the cavalry.
The enemy lost more than 10,000 or nearly 20,000 soldiers in just two charges. Such powerful attack power made the soldiers supervising the battle behind the enemy tremble when they saw it.
Another reason why the 50,000 slave army can suffer such great losses is that the battle process is too fast!
At a distance of nine hundred meters, the slave army launched an attack and rushed to the front of the Xia army. It only took three or four minutes. Including the time when the Xia cavalry launched a counterattack later, the final destruction was less than half an hour!
In such a short time, many soldiers of the slave army did not even know what happened, and just buried themselves in a confused manner.
Chapter completed!