Dynasty Conquest

Chapter 697 The Turn of the War
The Far East First Group Army fought fiercely with the Hanhai Army on the Bass battlefield. The fronts of both sides continued to extend to the two wings, and the battlefield was not shortly expanded.

At the end of August, the main battlefield of the Battle of Bath had been moved to the vicinity of Bath City, the capital of Bath Province. In order to fight for the control of Bath City, both sides invested heavily.

Surrounding the city of Bath, the two sides fought fiercely day and night, fighting repeatedly, with corpses strewn all over the field and blood flowing into rivers. Facing the well-trained and elite Hanhai army, the Far East First Army paid a heavy price.

"General, the city of Bath has been controlled by our army!"

After all, the First Army in the Far East still had a large number of people, and finally seized control of the city of Bath once again by virtue of the crowd tactics.

But Marshal Simon of Hanhai didn't want to give up this strategic point, and sent two of his most elite brigades, [-] elite troops, to start a counterattack raid.

The [-] Vast Sea elites were like blue lotuses blooming on the ground, their heads surged, and they rushed towards the city of Bath across the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood.

The walls of Bath City have been almost destroyed by fierce fighting, and the streets and alleys in the city have almost turned into ruins. The First Army under the First Far East Army that guards Bath City suffered heavy losses in the early stage, and now only tens of thousands of exhausted remnants remain .

Facing the menacing force of Han Hai, although the rebel soldiers of the First Legion stood up to resist, they were not the opponents of Han Hai Bing after all, and they retreated steadily after being beaten.

In order to cover this attack, the Hanhai army dispatched trebuchet troops to bombard the city of Bath indiscriminately. Boulders the size of millstones roared and fell into the city, houses were collapsing, and soldiers of the Far East Rebel Army suffered heavy casualties.

More importantly, the death of the commander of the First Army of the Far East Army put the rebel soldiers in the city into a situation where they were fighting on their own.

Hanhai's [-] elite broke into the city in just half an hour, and started street fighting with the Far East rebel army in the city.

The Hanhai soldiers are well-equipped and belong to the division of a hundred battles. Whether it is individual combat capability or coordinated combat capability, they are more than one level higher than the Far East Uprising Army, and this time there are 6 soldiers.

Although the Far East rebels fought bravely along the streets, they could not withstand the fierce attack of the Hanhai army in the end. The city of Bath changed hands again, and the battle flag of the Hanhai army was planted on the top of the city.

"Trash! Trash!" It didn't take long to be happy. Du Xuan, the commander of the First Far East Army, learned that the city of Bath had fallen again, and cursed angrily, but it was of no avail.

"Your First Legion must take back the city of Bath before dark!" Du Xuan ordered to the temporary commander of the First Legion.

"General, leave some seeds for our First Legion. If we fight again, there will be no one left."

The First Legion fought fiercely against the city of Bath for two days and two nights. More than [-] people fought and now only less than [-] tired and sleepy remnants remain, basically losing their combat effectiveness.

"The city of Bath was lost by your First Legion, you have to take it back!"

Facing the stubborn group commander Du Xuan, the remaining 2 soldiers of the First Army had to bite the bullet and continue to attack the city of Bath.

The Hanhai army has completely controlled the city of Bath, and countless bows and crossbows have been re-transported into the city to form a solid line of defense.

"Brothers of the First Legion! Go!"

On August 28, more than [-] members of the First Army under the Far East First Army launched a desperate charge to the city of Bath. The most tragic scene of the Battle of Bath was staged under the city of Bath.

More than 2 exhausted remnants charged tens of thousands of elite enemy troops. It was originally a wrong decision, but in order to recapture the city of Bath, the First Army had no choice.

Now the front stretched for hundreds of miles, and the Far East First Group Army was far inferior to the oncoming Hanhai Army in terms of coordination and combat effectiveness, so it hardly made any progress. Instead, it was firmly blocked from attacking and suffered heavy losses.

Therefore, Du Xuan, the commander of the group army, hoped to break the current stalemate with the tactic of breaking through the middle, take down the city of Bath, and then completely defeat the oncoming Hanhai army.

The importance of the city of Bath is self-evident. The armies of the two sides are fighting fiercely on the long front. The Hanhai army is elite, and the Far East uprising army has a large number of troops.

Therefore, the city of Bath became the focus of the fierce battle between the two sides, and became a meat grinder. One after another, the flag regiments were thrown into the battle, and then they were swallowed up. The huge consumption had already affected the overall combat power of the Far East First Army.

"Prepare the bow and crossbow!"

Seeing the more than 2 Far East rebels charging head-on, General Han Hai, who was stationed in the city of Bath, shouted coldly.

With the creaking sound of the bowstring being pulled, hundreds of octagonal ox crossbows and tens of thousands of archers were ready.

"emission!"

"Om-"

There was a buzzing sound in the sky, like the sound of a huge mosquito, and a large black cloud shrouded the charging Far East rebel army.

The sharp arrows shone coldly and fell into the ranks of the rebels like locusts. The screams were mixed with the sound of bones breaking, and countless rebels fell to the ground.

"Come on!" The temporary commander roared forward, and the arrow pierced through his chest, leaving a blood hole the size of a thumb.

He stared blankly at the blood hole in his chest, and fell powerlessly to the ground. Hearing the screams all around, his face showed a look of relief.

Facing the attack of the crossbowmen in the vast sea, the hundreds of meters of charging route became the road of death, and the blood continued forward along with the corpse.

When the last soldier of the Far East Uprising Army was overturned to the ground by the arrow, there was no longer a living person standing on the entire charging road, and more than [-] people died under the bow and crossbow.

Facing the blow from the bow and crossbow, they still marched forward, tragic and heroic. The First Army bid farewell to the Battle of Bath in this way, and the entire army was wiped out.

The destruction of the First Army not only revealed the backward tactics of the Far East Uprising Army and the crude weapons and equipment, but also triggered a chain reaction, and the morale of the entire group army suffered a serious blow.

The annihilation of the First Legion's decisive charge was just the beginning, not the end. The commander did not give up the fight for the city of Bath.

That night he transferred the Seventh Army from the left flank to Bath, preparing to continue to capture the city and implement his central breakthrough tactics.

But now any fool can see that the Central Breakthrough Tactic of the Far East Uprising Army is totally unworkable in the face of the elite of the vast sea with excellent weapons and bravery. But the commander Du Xuan has become obsessed and is very stubborn.

The Seventh Army was transferred from the left-wing defense line to the city of Bath, which is equivalent to the First Army opening a gap in its own left-wing defense line.

Originally, Du Xuan's order was for the Fifth and Sixth Legion to send people to fill the gap, but the Fifth Legion was short on strength and did not send anyone at all.

The Sixth Army only sent a banner regiment, which was quite weak, and the commander of the vast sea, Simon, keenly caught this opportunity.

While Du Xuan, the commander of the First Army, continued to implement his central breakthrough tactics, Marshal Simon of Hanhai changed his tactics accordingly.

On the one hand, Marshal Simon ordered the troops to continue to hold on to the city of Bath to hold back the main force of the Far East First Army. Make a breakthrough.

Due to insufficient training and inexperienced generals of the Far East Rebel Army, they were not aware of the movements of the vast sea army.

On the night of September [-]st, the Far East Fifth Army advanced a full thirty miles, further expanding the gap between them and the Sixth Army, and their coordinated operations became disconnected.

In the early morning of September 15, Hanhai's [-] cavalry passed through the gap between the Fifth and Sixth Armies of the Far East under the cover of mist, wiped out a banner group of the Sixth Army, and circled behind the First Army of the Far East .

(End of this chapter)