Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 317 The Three Hundred Warriors of Shuangfeng Ridge

Rewind time to 3 minutes ago.

Sean Mountbatten stood upright on a "Lion Roaring Seven" ballista, frowning a little irritably, raising the "Dark Moon Glazed Telescope" in his hand from time to time, looking towards the foot of the mountain in the east Take a look from afar.

Alan Hotelling stood beside the ballista and saw a pioneer soldier loading the ballista, so he took the hand and casually asked Sean Mountbatten on the roof of the car:
"Shawn, are they coming?"

"It stands to reason that they will come..." The young chief of staff of Shuangfengling raised his binoculars and looked again, "This group of federal orcs will definitely not be willing to be baptized by incendiary bombs, and they will definitely send cavalry over to attack the siege weapons Yes..."

Allen shrugged, "Hmm", couldn't help turning his head to look at the defense line when he came.

At this moment, the two heads of staff, Sean Mountbatten and Alan Hotelling, have left the forward position of the pioneer army where the lord and the "Cromwell Annihilator" are located with [-] pioneer soldiers. , go north to the north exit of the Red River Valley and deploy defenses:
The reason why it is necessary to stay away from the position to deploy defenses is also a last resort.

From the orc wolf cavalry rushing out of the valley to the design line where the "Cromwell Annihilator" is located, there is a flat corridor with a length of 5000 meters in the middle from north to south:

After the wolf cavalry rushed out of the valley, this long plain area would become the best acceleration belt for the orc cavalry—once the wolf cavalry galloped at extreme speed, then the projectile position of Frost Maple Ridge would definitely not be able to withstand the overwhelming force of these top cavalry from the mainland. A charge of anger!
Therefore, the pioneering army must deploy defenses at the valley exit in the north, and take advantage of the wolf cavalry group just turning a corner and not fast, to give them a heavy blow!
——And another reason why Sean Mountbatten finally decided to deploy at the front line was not easy to explain to the soldiers:
The lord is shooting the position. If they can't stop the attack of the orc wolf cavalry, then only by setting up the formation at the entrance of the valley can they leave enough buffer zone for the lord, other high-level pioneers and siege equipment to evacuate. In order to organize a second line of defense at Phoenix Station;
But if you resist the wolf cavalry directly in front of the design line of the "Cromwell Annihilator", if you lose, it will be a complete defeat.

Sean Mountbatten did not mention this extra thought to anyone—even the lord: According to the lord's thinking, the fate of the territory is in this battle, if The vanguard fell in the Red River Valley, so he was buried with him as the lord. There is absolutely no meaning in sacrificing the name of the soldier and returning to the territory with shame.

But as the chief of staff of Frost Maple Ridge, Xiao En felt that he had the obligation to secretly save a lifeline for the territory and the lord.

However, although Chief of Staff Sean Mountbatten kept his thoughts secret, the soldiers of the Pioneer Army who followed him to the north for defense also knew in their hearts what kind of fierce battle they would face:
The opponent is the elite division of the Orc Federation, and the one who will confront them is the wolf cavalry unit in this division that is proud of the mainland!

Fighting cavalry with infantry is already a natural disadvantage, and human infantry is close to death against orc wolf cavalry, and with four hundred infantry to challenge the charge of nearly a thousand wolf cavalry, in the eyes of any imperial person, it is no different from direct death!

Logically speaking, when any human soldier is about to face such a powerful opponent, his hands and feet will be cold and trembling because of fear;
The stalwarts of the Pioneer Army also had cold hands and feet and trembling all over - but not because of fear, but because of excitement and fanaticism!
As long as the raiding wolf cavalry is defeated, the orc divisions in the valley will lose their sharpest blades!
As long as the raiding wolf cavalry is defeated, the sneak attack plan of the Glorious Federation will be completely bankrupt due to the destruction of the high-mobility troops!
As long as the raiding wolf cavalry is defeated, each of them will remain as a hero in the annals of the Haven Continent and the Human Empire forever!
So, Sean Mountbatten was annoyed and amused to see that this group of Frost Maple Ridge soldiers who were about to enter the death battle did not need to carry out any pre-war mobilization as the Chief of Staff of Frost Maple Ridge!
——Perhaps Tom Lawrence's Political Department did a good job in ideological work. Now every soldier in the Pioneer Army is motivated by a few political commissars and can't wait, almost shouting "wolf" into the valley Cavalry, I think you can't sleep thinking about it"!

Being in this situation, Sean felt that being the chief of staff was really boring—in his childhood imagination, when he became the chief of staff of a certain territory, the "motivation and mobilization" course taught at the Imperial Military Academy should still be It can come in handy...

What made Sean even more speechless was that even the wolf cavalry on the opposite side had arrived late.

According to his previous calculations, with the reaction speed of the elite orcs, the wolf cavalry they sent to counterattack should have emerged from the mouth of the valley at this moment, but the field of vision of the "Dark Moon Glass Telescope" is still full of blank.

Helpless, Sean Mountbatten could only put down the binoculars, just stood on the roof of the "Roar Seven" ballista and looked around for a week, checking the surrounding defense layout for the last time.

Under the wise leadership of Lord Lord, although Shuangfengling's combat style is fierce, it is not stupid;
Since they dared to face the impact of the mainland's strongest cavalry on the plain, the Igor Pioneer Army was not only brave, but also fully prepared——

If the orc wolf cavalry is the elite of the elite, then the elite level of this Frost Maple Ridge advance force is even higher!
Take the nearly 800 pioneer infantry who were in charge of the charge against the wolf cavalry as an example. It was none other than the strongest physical combat power of Shuangfengling—the Thorn Knight Juan [-] years ago. Clement!

At this moment, the titular supreme commander of the pioneering army stood at the forefront of the team like a big soldier, preparing to be the first to meet the frosty blade of the orc wolf cavalry—after noticing Xiao En's gaze, this A pioneering army commander in pitch black heavy armor cheerfully raised his hand and gave his chief of staff a thumbs up.

In the whole world, I am afraid that there is no "commander" who stands closer to the front...

But the poor have their own way of life, the death knights are so powerful, Shuangfengling is always embarrassed to hide Clement Xue behind the curtain of the central tent...

Beside Clement is the Lord Lord's latest product of necromancy, "Artificial Human No. 1", and Alice Comstock, Captain of the Frost Maple Ridge Guard.The mass-produced death knight was still leaning on the Nether Greatsword, looking not very smart, while Alice Comstock seemed a little absent-minded, looking back in the direction of the "Cromwell Annihilator" from time to time.

According to Miss Alice, she should be responsible for protecting the lord, but in the end she was sent to the northern front by the Xiahou official——according to the words of the lord, "If you can't stand it in the north, there will be another guard for me." Use it for eggs!"

Thus, two death knights plus an imperial champion formed the backbone of this infantry line:
Products rely on marketing, bringing goods depends on idols, and fighting depends on big brothers - with these three top powerhouses on the field, even the weakest infantry team will look awesome in an instant;
What's more, the infantry sent by Shuangfengling is actually the first-class elite on the mainland.

In addition to the local warriors selected from the wilderness of the land of cracking souls, the main body of this vanguard is actually composed of veterans dispatched by Grand Duke Rosario from the Eastern Army—each of these Eastern veterans has experienced many battles. Not only is he disciplined and powerful, but he also has unique experience in fighting orcs that no one else can match:
This fact also made Xia Houyan realize in a trance that "Relying on Frost Maple Ridge to resist the invasion of orcs", Grand Duke Rosario had already thought about it when he sent Eldridge and the three hundred infantry over. I have a plan...

If the personnel quality of these infantrymen can only be called "excellent"...

Then their equipment level, it is no exaggeration to say that they are superior to the regular army of the whole continent.

In response to the wolf cavalry charge of the federal orcs' signature style, the "Manhattan Laboratory" has already started intensive equipment manufacturing work. Infantry, each armed to the teeth:

The frontmost row of infantry, each equipped with a Babylonian closely-grained steel plated "Ark" large shield: this shield is covered with magic metal with strong magic resistance, and a simple version with a limited number of uses is also specially engraved The "Protection of the Wind" rune can be directly inserted into the ground to fix it-put this thing on the ground, let alone a tundra wolf, even a dump truck will bump into it.

——It is also conceivable that the safe that the Grand Duke of Houston used to store Vilf in the past has been reused for the second time at this moment.

The only disadvantage of this professional anti-cavalry weapon is that it is too heavy, and it is basically impossible to carry it with manpower—but Shuangfengling has more than a dozen black high-end ballistas driven by wind-type rune arrays, so it is not a problem to carry a shield Son.

Except for the shields, except for several masters such as Clement, these infantrymen were wearing "tower guard armor" on their bodies.

This kind of heavy armor is considered to be a degraded version of the "Epirus Death Armor" worn by the Imperial Royal Guards that Xiahou officials saw in the imperial capital at that time. It reduces the number of magic runes engraved on the armor, but the defensive power But it didn't shrink at all:

With Shuangfengling's family background, of course they can't produce such good things. These three hundred sets of armor are purely borrowed by the lord relying on connections from Commander Paulus. !

Given the close relationship between the Southern Army and Frost Maple Ridge, Commander Paulus threatened to "die again", and he was only willing to lend it to Frost Maple Ridge "for the sake of the Imperial military affairs", but refused to sell or sell it. Send, the value of these heavy armors can be seen.

Of course, only the Supreme Holy Spirit knows whether the lord intends to repay the loan or not.

As for the weapons in the hands of the three hundred elite soldiers, they are even more outrageous: each has a steel-tipped frost maple spear, not to mention an ancient elf empire ironwood dagger, and each Frost Maple Ridge soldier also carries a Only a small hand crossbow.

Hand crossbows are hand crossbows, nothing fancy except for the Igor family logo painted with golden goshawks, but the ammunition they carry is kind of scary!
The quota of crossbow bolts carried by each of the elite soldiers in the front row is: five steel armor-piercing crossbow bolts, two high-poly vine tree fuel-exploding crossbow bolts, plus one notorious Thracian annihilation arrow!

As for the soldiers in the back row, except that there is no Thracian Annihilation Arrow, the others are exactly the same!

The Thracian Annihilation Arrow is a dragon-slaying weapon that can pierce even the scales of a giant dragon. It is a strategic reserve that must be cherished and valued in any territory, but the lord of Shuangfeng Ridge waved his hand and distributed it to The soldiers at the lower level were used for regular combat—according to the lord, anyway, this orc raiding force did not bring large monsters, and it would be a waste to leave the magic-breaking crossbow unused.
It is said that a lion needs all its strength to fight a rabbit. Although wolf cavalry cannot be regarded as rabbits, the extravagant style of the lord's bombing of infantry with nuclear bombs still made the military observers of the Southern Army look sideways.

But even with so many preparations, the main task of the three hundred infantry was not to cause damage, but to block the charge of the orc wolf cavalry with the large "Ark" shield.

As for the real output force...

Standing on the ballista, Sean Mountbatten turned around and saw members of the "Northern Blizzard Mage Corps" on the flanking hillside diagonally behind, holding staffs and ready to go.

Sean was relieved by the majestic face of Master Calvino, while Master Victor Laurie's wretched and abnormal face made Sean tremble.

My magician grandpas, don't give me any trouble...

——The battle is imminent, Sean Mountbatten, Chief of Staff of Frost Maple Ridge, prayed silently in his heart, and finally raised his eyes to the sky.

The wraith Messi, who slowly emerged from the sky above the mountains and floated in the wind, didn't look like a ball at all in Xiao En's eyes.

Like a reassurance.

(End of this chapter)