Chapter 1040 (1/2)
Duanjieshan fortress, the fifth day of the siege, in the evening.
Reinforcements were delayed.
Maybe it's because the crazy bloody battle for several consecutive days consumes too much and the casualties are too heavy; The offensive and defensive sides had a very tacit understanding and chose a ”truce” that afternoon.
Flames are burning and snow is flying - there is a dead silence on the battlefield with corpses everywhere, revealing the mysteries of unknown origin; Not only in the fortress, but also outside the city, the Azores were too quiet; In addition to searching the bones of paoze on the battlefield, there was no intention of night attack or attack.
Only a small number of troops from both sides fought between the trenches under the fortress city, which ended in a disastrous defeat of the Empire, but the ”victorious” Elven Warriors also drew revenge from the catapults and arrow rain on the city wall.
As for the significance of such ”revenge”, God knows.
After arranging the officers and soldiers on duty on the beacon tower, dreisis, who was physically and mentally tired, walked down the wall down the stairs with a straight face; Before leaving the first defense area, he met the same exhausted Sally Ka Jonah under a corner.
The female Archduke of machete, who was hurt all over, sat on the side of the corner, with her legs open, a broken saddle under her, half open her eyes, and bored polishing a saber full of gaps with the grindstone she carried with her.
The boa Hussars gathered around her were also in a state of malaise; Either stand against the wall or squat, look at the sky without saying a word, and drink the horse milk wine with you; When I saw someone coming, I didn't even have the strength to stand up and squeak to my grandfather. My eyes were full of confusion.
”The battle is going to be over.”
This kind of decadent speech is that dreisis will stand up and quarrel loudly with Sarika, reprimand, and then make a speech of ”the Empire will win and the Azores will lose”, so as to boost the morale of the soldiers who are still fighting.
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Tired dreisis didn't want to quarrel with her at all. He knew that compared with himself who commanded logistics and rescue on the wall, the machete female Archduke who stood on the front line outside the wall and fought with the elves was the one with the greatest pressure.
They didn't try, but every attempt failed - forced breakthrough, scattered breakthrough, sneak attack, wall charging, machete attack... Sarika really tried all the available tactics.
But the Azores outside the city seem to be completely afraid of death. They can strangle their hopes every time with the most cruel tactics and the most direct way!
They can withstand the casualties of 2 to 1 or even 3 to 1, and let the elf warriors wielding long knives launch a ”counter charge” against the cavalry with equal strength;
It can make the soldiers in the long gun array bear the alchemy bombs and igniters falling from the sky, and the stone guns maintain a dense formation;
This kind of thing is actually simpler than it seems. It's easier to find death on the battlefield than imagined; But it's a terrible thing to make thousands of soldiers scale and treat death with discipline.
Dreisis could see that fear in the tired eyes of the brave and scarred Hussars.
Sarika didn't lie. If the war continues, it will not be a collapse of morale, but if the soldiers continue to die. If they can't see the reinforcements and hope, they will mutiny!
In this war alone, dreisis was able to really put himself in the right position - in his eyes in the past, Loren Turin was a little smart, good at opportunism, cautious and lucky.
Now it seems that it is a miracle that can't be described and described in words to be able to stick to eboden for 30 days in front of 100000 Azores!
To what extent should we accurately judge, calmly and cautiously face it, so that we can use half of the enemy's troops to wait for almost impossible reinforcements in a city that can't organize defense for a whole month?
Dreisis doesn't know. He only knows that if the war goes on like this, he will completely live up to his Majesty's high hopes and trust in handing over all command to him before the war, and admit his failure and incompetence!
”I'll send another messenger tomorrow to hurry up.”
Dreisis said weakly. He didn't know whether he was comforting Sally card or himself: ”the civil war in East Saxony is over. Byrne should have received the news.”
”The two reinforcements are mainly heavy infantry legions. Calculate the time. Maybe they are already on the road... Almost there!”
”Yes.”
”It's possible... Arles has also received news that he is sending troops north; maybe it's to wait for them, so he delayed Byrne's army for a few days.”
”It's possible.”
”Of course, we can't place our hope on the reinforcements; I'll urge the alchemists in the fortress to speed up the production of more alchemical weapons; and the oath Knights... Tomorrow, I'll ask them to fight side by side with you.”
”Thanks.”
Machete female Archduke nodded weakly, which was supposed to be reconciled. In fact, if she hadn't been seriously injured in the Centaur war, she would have asked Boyi messengers for reinforcements.
With a somewhat tired look, dreisis took a few steps forward, pushed away an hussars, sat half on the side of Sarika, and took the horse milk wine from the other party:
”It's been five days... There's still no news from the blood skeleton Valley, not to mention the reinforcements, not even the messengers; do you think it's Loren Turin, they...”
Sarika silently shook her head.
”Why?”
”There's no reason - you won't understand if you haven't fought with that bastard.” Sarika sighed. ”This bastard... Is like an eye on his head. He can always see what you can't see and know what you don't know.”
She said and gestured: ”how to say - it's like when you go to cut people, you should only think about cutting people; this bastard may even think about what to do after cutting people, and what to do before cutting them.”
”So if he doesn't come back, it will prove that he thinks it's most correct not to come back and not to negotiate with us - of course, it may also be that his messengers were slaughtered by the enemy and didn't contact us.”
”But... In a word, this guy can't die; as long as he doesn't want to die, no one can kill him!”
Dreisis frowned slightly and did not understand where Sarika's ”confidence” came from.
”I said, you won't understand.” Sarika spread her hands and looked like ”I knew it.” anyone who hasn't fought with that guy can't understand. ”
Looking at her clear look, dreisis, who was already full of doubts, got up to ask, but was stopped by the flag officer next to her.
”Lord dreisis, there's something... You may need to ask yourself.”
”Is it important? It's not important. I'll talk about it later; I don't know...”
”My subordinates think it's better for you to get to know it immediately.” the flag officer insisted, with an ugly expression: ”the two flag leaders of the baggage team are waiting to see you.”
”Baggage team... Engineers?” dreisis, with a puzzled face, raised his eyebrow and suddenly changed his face:
”You, you should not say...”
The flag officer nodded hard, his eyes trembling:
”In the five-day battle, the reserves of our army's kerosene, alchemical bombs and kindling agents... Have been exhausted!”