Chapter 251 (1/2)
Under the setting sun, the wind and sand are getting bigger and bigger.
An army of more than a thousand people is moving forward.
However, looking at the fatigue on the faces of the soldiers and the damage of their coats and armor, it is not difficult to find that this is a defeated army.
Rudd looked very tired. He hadn't closed his eyes for two days.
On one side, Northen and another middle-aged man looked at each other, and they could see the worry in their eyes. Finally, Northen took the lead in saying, ”young master, take a break first. If you go on like this, you won't be able to hold on.”
”No, we must return to hitchburg as soon as possible and build the corresponding fortifications.” Rudd shook his head. ”Let the troops catch up quickly. Don't fall behind at this time. Just stick to it again.”
”Young master, it's been almost a day. The army may not be able to hold on.” Another middle-aged man couldn't help but say, ”if we reduce too many non combat personnel, even if we can rely on the fortress and terrain, we can't resist the enemy's attack without manpower.”
”Yes, young master, Katz is right. If we go on like this, even if we really get to the fort, we can't do anything again.” Northen echoed.
Rudd sighed helplessly: ”order the whole army to rest on the spot for two hours.”
The order soon began to pass on, and the exhausted soldiers immediately fell down and sighed. The sound waves from these voices rose to the sky, making Rudd's face blue and white. Even if he knew that it would be a particularly serious blow to the enthusiasm and morale of the soldiers, Rudd could not say anything, because he was really defeated in this battle.
And it's still a terrible defeat.
Northen and Katz looked at each other again, and their eyes were more worried.
People couldn't help thinking of the war.
At the beginning, the development was very smooth. Rudd led the army to join the forces of the other two barons. After the integration, there were nearly 4000 troops, not counting logistics. The combat power of the noble private army of this scale was good. Moreover, Rudd, who was in charge of serving as the commander of the whole army, was not an inexperienced commander. He had very rich combat experience, And has always been stable.
Although this means that he is likely to miss many of the best opportunities for attack, it also means that he will never make mistakes.
But even so, he failed.
And was defeated by the opponent with open tactics.
The enemy's vanguard is the angry lion Alfred and his lion herd, which have been popular in the kingdom of dabion recently. The number of people is only 2000. For four thousand to two thousand, Rudd thought there was no suspense at all, so he didn't want to fight with the lions here. He just wanted to defeat the army in the fastest way and rush to rescue Baron lonnis.
Therefore, when the war broke out, Rudd directly bullied the other party. There was no long-range arms, so he let the archers scatter. The result was an unexpected discovery that the long-range attack did not seem to have much impact on this force, even on morale. Therefore, after leaving a reserve force, we let the infantry of the whole army oppose the enemy. At the same time, we also let Northen and Katz, two experts who are at the top of the Silver Peak, fight together.
But the result of all this is quite different from what Rudd imagined!
After a confrontation, it was his coalition, not the enemy, that completely penetrated the formation!
Moreover, after the front line was pierced, the enemy did not continue to charge, but directly dispersed into dozens of teams, began to intersperse vertically and horizontally on the battlefield, cutting the whole battlefield into countless local occupation, while the enemy could join hands with each other by virtue of this local situation. However, Rudd's coalition forces could not take advantage of this at all. Almost every local war situation cut off needed to face at least two directions of attack.
The whole battlefield situation was cut in pieces in an instant, just like the parts scattered after the precise instruments of alchemists were broken.
After that, if Rudd didn't put the light cavalry troops into the battlefield, let the reserve troops set up the second line of defense around a hundred crossbow soldiers, and then let the infantry in the scuffle start to retreat strategically, I'm afraid it would be just a charge. These four thousand allied troops could really be eaten directly by Alfred's two thousand steel wings!
Let infantry use cavalry cutting tactics?
Rudd never thought of this idea. Until he saw it for the first time today, he was surprised that once it succeeded, the power was so terrible!
The initial battle was naturally the result of the defeat of the RUD coalition.
After that, the so-called coalition forces were completely dissolved.
What else could Rudd say about this result except a wry smile? He just didn't think that Alfred, under Lord Sean Connery, was more terrible than he thought. The war alone would completely break up the spirit of their coalition army. However, Rudd didn't mean to blame. After all, he was also a small family. He knew that it was not easy for the two barons. The combined strength of the two men was 13000, but after World War I, there were less than 800 people left. This loss was really heavy for the two barons.
However, Rudd's situation is no better. Only more than 2000 of the 2700 strong army survived.
After that, the war situation continued to develop completely towards the worst situation.
However, Rudd felt that the enemy commander seemed to have changed, and Alfred was no longer in command, because the tactical style of the operation had obviously changed greatly. Rudd couldn't tell the specific situation of this command style, but what he could feel was that the enemy became more shrewd, and all his subsequent actions seemed to be seen through. No matter whether he used terrain or tactics to carry out anti sneak attack, he didn't get any harvest.
On the contrary, in this process, his troops began to decrease madly from the first two thousand.