Chapter 857 (1/2)
War is never changed by individual will.
The fundamental thing that can really determine the behavior of war is interest.
Only when the interests reach a sufficient height, then the war that follows is a natural thing. Perhaps some unnecessary troubles can be solved through diplomatic means, but Sean's enemies obviously do not intend to use diplomatic means to solve these troubles, so it is obvious that there are great interests in the void duchy that his enemies do not hesitate to start a war.
Of course, judging from the fact that the enemy is only a small-scale invasion and infiltration, it is clear that the other party does not really want to start a war.
Probably just not sure.
William was still wondering what the enemy's goal was, but he thought for a long time, but still didn't get any answer, so his eyes could only fall back to the small town that had been transformed into a military defense stronghold.
A small-scale conflict war, even if it is close to attacking a city and pulling out a stronghold, will not take much time. The war can be ended in one day and one night at most. The only thing William needs to guard against is that these enemies will flee in the dark, and their destructive power may bring long-term trouble to the void duchy. Therefore, after allowing the steel wings to attack, William also mobilized the surrounding local garrison to form a huge siege network to prevent these enemies from dispersing and fleeing.
At this time, the battle has started for several hours, but the progress is not very optimistic. On the contrary, the casualties have become a little heavy.
As everyone knows, the real way to deal with this narrow regional defensive war, which makes full use of all available places, is either a comprehensive siege or a fight for every inch of land. The iron and steel wings, which used the fighting method of fighting for every inch of land, naturally faced a great threat of death. In these few hours, the iron and steel wings had left more than 500 bodies, of which hundreds were injured and lost the ability to fight again, and as for others with minor injuries, there were as many as 300 or 400.
As their enemy, this mysterious elite army of unknown origin, although many people were killed, it was only three or four hundred. And in this process as like as two peas of war, William is also a bit shocked by the army's response to the army's army, because the nature of the army is exactly the same as that of the Cecilia guards, as if death were a very holy thing for them.
The slightly wounded will immediately return to the battlefield after being slightly bandaged. On the premise of knowing that it is impossible for the seriously injured to survive, they will immediately burst out fierce and fearless of death. It seems that they want to kill another enemy together. Under this completely suicidal counterattack, it is natural to imagine how difficult it is for steel wings to completely open the situation.
This almost reached a war damage ratio of one to two. Since the establishment of steel wing for so long, it only appeared once during the war with dabion.
William's brow was almost straight.
This war also made William finally find another disadvantage of the impact shield.
Although the impact shield is an artifact level killing weapon when dealing with cavalry in wartime, it can't be lifted with one arm because of the abnormal weight of the impact shield in the face of the enemy's condescending attack. In this way, the value of the impact shield is completely powerless in the face of the enemy's projectile attack, which is also the fundamental reason for the heavy loss of steel wings.
Perhaps orcs such as Tauren and bear can easily lift the impact shield weighing hundreds of kilograms, but it is obviously impossible for the northern barbarians.
So, when another wave of arrow rain fell, more than ten northern barbarians fell on the spot.
However, the fall of these northern barbarians does not mean that they have done nothing.
The throwing of short guns also killed more than a dozen archers who had to show their heads for the same attack. Even if they are hiding behind the bunker, the strength and quality of these short guns trained by the barbarians in the north for a long time can't stop the puncture attack of these short guns as long as they are not Tower Shield.
After fighting for so long, the steel wings are not as unbearable as they first rushed into the town. In this battle, they are also learning and growing rapidly. Maybe the impact shield can't make them deal with the attacks standing on the roof, tower and sentry, but their counterattack is no longer weak. If they want to kill them, they must pay the same price.
All these are the changes brought by anno and Abaza.
If it were not for the thoughtful and sharp Abaza, it would not be so easy to give a counterattack to these enemies who occupy the geographical advantage and human harmony. Of course, if it were not for the presence of an Nuo, a commander with steel wings, who suffered a tragic number of nearly 100 deaths at the first time when he invaded the town, I'm afraid his morale would also be underestimated.
It can be said that these two people are the soul and mind of the whole steel wing.
But even so, it is still not easy to wipe out the enemy.
The town gate of the town extends within 100 meters. All buildings have been demolished. Only countless bodies belonging to the enemy - bodies from the steel wing side - lie on the ground. No matter what the battle situation is, when Abaza orders to retreat, people will always take the bodies and the impact shield away at the first time. This is the death order issued by William before the war, so even if more casualties of northern barbarians may be paid for this, Abaza and anno still carry out it without hesitation.
Because of the fierce war, the dense corpses of the enemy were almost spread on the ground, and the flowing blood dyed the whole ground red. When you step on it, you can feel a very strong sense of viscosity. However, no matter how uncomfortable it is, the steel wing is still fearless to launch another round of attack, but because the entrance of the town is too small. Even if it destroys a lot of town walls during the attack, only hundreds of people can really enter the town to launch an attack.
But these hundreds of people are facing the siege from almost all the surrounding spaces.
If the impact shield is not strong enough, it is almost impossible for a strong attack from the front to break through the steel wings sheltered by the impact shield. I'm afraid the casualties of the steel wings will be greater. At this time, the war situation was obviously in a short stalemate. But whether it is steel wing or William, or this mysterious enemy, everyone knows that this stalemate will not last long, and a new round of death battle will soon break out.
And whenever such a deadly war breaks out, it will cause a new round of impact on both sides.
Since the war, the two sides have officially entered the white hot war situation from the beginning, and a round of dead war will break out after each brief stalemate. The reason why the two sides left so many bodies is that there have been two rounds of dead fighting - which has become the practice of tacit understanding between the two sides in this battle.
So at this time, this round of arrows and short guns attacked each other. After each side left more than ten lives, both sides had a tacit understanding and did not continue to throw short guns or shoot arrows again. A roar of footsteps from afar seemed to confirm the tacit understanding between the two sides. A new force was entering the battlefield. At this time, a horn sounded outside the town. The steel wings already in the town also began to retreat orderly, and a new batch of steel wings began to enter slowly at this time.
However, this batch of new steel wings is not much different from the previous number, and still has a scale of nearly 200 people.
It's not that William doesn't want to put all 4000 steel wings in one breath, but this difficult battlefield can't accommodate so many people.
As for opening up a new entry point to attack with the potential of double attack, William didn't even think about it.
The reason is simple.
The whole town has been completely rebuilt, and even many outposts that did not exist originally have been added. The enemy stood on it and attacked from a commanding position. If you want to deal with these sentry towers, you can only kill them by force and push them down completely. So just by opening up such a vacuum zone within 200 meters at the gate of the town, the steel wing will pay the casualty standard of nearly 1000 people. If another battlefield is opened up, I'm afraid it will also be thousands of casualties.
With only 4000 steel wings and opening up two battlefields at the same time, the military strength will be reduced by half. However, the death threat they face will not be reduced because of the two battlefields, because the tactics of the multi-layer defense array structure have many battlefield environments that completely overlap. Therefore, unless we can surround the whole town and launch a comprehensive attack, the more battlefields we open up, the greater the casualties on the attacking side.
At this time, William frowned when he heard the sound of the horn in the temporary command post about 100 meters outside the town.
”What's the matter?” Rotica bass saw William frown and asked, ”is there anything wrong?”
At this time, there are several scars on roticabas, although not fatal, but it looks quite embarrassed, and it also has a little impact on the exertion of strength. At the beginning, he participated in a round of battle. In fact, if it weren't for him, the war wouldn't be opened so soon. However, he was also taken care of by the enemy at that time. Even three strong gold men cooperated with the battle array to attack rotikabas. As a result, although all three strong gold men were killed, But rotikabas also had to withdraw from the war for a rest.
”The other party and we have spent several hours here. Even if I don't want to admit it, they still have the upper hand.” William didn't look back, but still stared at the town. ”At this time, they still have a residual force of nearly 1500 people. Although we all know that in the end, once the other party's arrows run out, it's not a problem for us to annihilate them all, but according to my assessment, they can last for at least another four hours.”
”What do you mean?” Rotikabas doesn't quite understand.
”It means that they can last at least another four hours, and the only thing I can do during this period is to fight each other's consumption with human life. They will not start the final decisive battle with us until all the other party's strategic materials are used up.” William said in a deep voice, ”in this situation of fighting and consumption, I estimate that at least one or two thousand more people have to die, but now the other party has directly launched a decisive battle, which is very unreasonable.”
”Isn't it a good thing that one or two thousand people can die less?” Rotikabas couldn't help saying.
”The other party has spent so long with us, and the casualties caused to us are obvious to all. All this proves that the other party's commander is obviously a very calm and excellent general.” William finally looked back at Rorty cabas this time, but his eyes were unusually cold, ”so do you think such a good general will make mistakes at this critical moment? You know, once you really fight with steel wings without taking advantage of the geographical advantages of this town, the other party does not have any advantages. You can say... The other party is looking for death! ”
”You mean... Things have changed?”
”Unless the other party has reached the strategic goal they want, so...” a glimmer of light flashed in William's eyes. ”This is destroying the evidence. Of course, another possibility is that the other party has prepared a conspiracy that can cause us more casualties. ”
Rotikabas's face became gloomy and said in a deep voice after a moment: ”hum, no matter what conspiracy the other party has, as long as it is not in that small town, the other party has no advantage of defensive formation I'll kill them like chopping melons and vegetables! Let me continue to fight! ”
William pondered a little, then nodded and agreed, ”then be careful!”
”Good!” Rorty cabas smiled, then raised the heavy gun and rushed up.
The distance of 100 meters is just a breath or two for strong people such as Rorty cabas. But when he arrived at the door of the town, he saw the two sides who had completely started fighting.
In front of the scene, it seems that as predicted by William, the other party no longer launched a death battle like the previous two rounds, but launched a final charge as if to determine the outcome of the first war. The hateful steel wing was unprepared for a moment. Instead, it was bitten by the other party who had already been prepared and slowly withdrew from the town. As a result, in this case, it was taken by surprise and directly left hundreds of bodies.
The enemy's attack did not stop there.
Hundreds of people in front are still risking their lives to launch an assault, regardless of whether they can break the impact shield of the array. The only thing they know is to rush forward desperately, and then smash the weapons in their hands into the body of the northern barbarians. At this moment, the battlefield is completely chaotic, and there is no fighting situation as an elite soldier.
The archers behind the enemy, regardless of whether there were their own people in the enemy array, all of them did not hesitate to throw their bows and arrows round after round into the iron wing camp. Perhaps it is because it lacks the advantage of shooting arrows from a commanding position. For the rough and fleshy northern barbarians, it is difficult to shoot with one arrow directly, because the threat is naturally much smaller.