King of The Wall

2021-01-06

Chapter 602 Gold and Black (Part 1)
Most of the time, the blackwater is deep and flowing There is no pontoon bridge on Rush, but in the current winter season, the upstream tributaries are frozen in large areas, causing the water level and flow rate to drop sharply, and operations that are usually difficult to achieve become possible.

Three medium-sized boats first pulled up the ropes across the Blackwater Rush. Based on these three ropes, a large number of small boats collected from nearby, temporary workers, and even simple rafts with airbags tied one by one. They are connected with each other to maintain a proper distance with taut ropes, and then nailed or tied with wooden boards, finally forming a narrow bridge deck that can only be passed by one or two people. After the bridge body is roughly formed, with the help of the free boat, an iron anchor is thrown in the middle of the river to pull the middle section of the bridge body to fix it, so as to prevent the whole bridge from swinging left and right with the water flow and affecting the stability.

The three pontoon bridges across Blackwater Rush are 20 to 30 meters apart from each other, and together they form a river crossing position less than 100 meters wide.

It can be seen that the Land Grant Army has done a lot of preparations for this, and the construction of the pontoon has been carried out in an orderly manner...During the entire construction process, the Golden Corps also sent people forward to obstruct it. However, there are always a few ships full of archers to cover the sappers. As long as the Legion mercenaries appear on the beachhead, they will be immediately called and taken care of by a large number of arrows.

The Golden Corps also had archers, but Strickland didn't dare to send them forward to shoot them - the fate of the Reach siege battalion was the best example, and he had no doubts: as long as oneself sent the troops Going to the beach will immediately attract strikes of that weird iron ball weapon.

After weighing it, he simply gave up sending people to die, and let the three pontoon bridges take shape.

Instead of preventing the opponent from crossing the river, it is better to wait for the enemy to cross the river halfway and then charge them into the water, which not only completely defeats the opponent's intention to cross the river, but also can be regarded as a great victory in the report.

Although Strickland is a financial officer and not a Warrior, he has been the head of the mercenary group for many years.

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The sound of the river crossing reverberating in the air gradually dissipated, and at the same time, the rumbling sound that had been blaring before also disappeared. Of course Strickland would not be naive enough to think that the other side ran out of gunpowder and shells just at this moment. Most of the other side reloaded that weapon and aimed at the beachhead in the direction of oneself, ready to stop the troops emerging from behind the embankment. Immediately re-emerged.

The new weapon has a long range, but it can only threaten the phalanx, and Strickland has already figured out how to deal with it: spread out, in batches.

Whether waiting or charging, each Hundred Men Squad keeps a distance from each other, attacking each other's river crossing pioneers from multiple directions, as long as they don't suffer too many casualties on the way to charge, and wait until they become a stalemate. State, that kind of iron ball is absolutely impossible to strikes across the river beachhead indiscriminately.

Under the gaze of the eyes poking out from behind countless pairs of river banks, the black clothed Legion, which had been standing still for an hour in the cold wind, finally moved. The three columns trot in an orderly manner to the three pontoon bridges.

Even though the prelude to the battle has sounded, the commander of the Land Granters can still be described in one word: steady.

In order to prevent too many people crossing the bridge at the same time from causing too much pressure on the simple pontoon bridge, and to avoid the chaos and falling into the water caused by the soldiers pushing each other, the land-grant army gave up passing two rows of people at the same time. Only let single-column soldiers cross the bridge. However, while improving security, this move also sacrificed a small half of the traffic speed, providing the defender with more room for reaction and a larger attack time window.

Excellent, Strickland secretly said in one's heart, picked up the lens again, looked at the land-grant army who was crossing the river, and planned to observe the opponent's equipment and personnel configuration, so that he could do it in the next confrontation. know yourself and know your enemy.

Looking into the distance through the refraction of several pieces of glass, the scene 200 meters away was instantly brought to the front, Strickland found that the first three columns of soldiers who crossed the river on the opposite side were not only tall and strong, but also tall and strong. All of them were carrying giant shields—the kind of large shields that stood close to people so high that they could hide behind them.

The first batch of soldiers ashore must face the attack of the defenders, and the ability to hold the position is particularly important. It is understandable to send shields over, but after Strickland moved the lens a little, he accidentally discovered a small detail: The soldiers carrying large shields did not seem to be carrying weapons.

The large shield is usually equipped with a spear, which can be used against both infantry and cavalry, and occasionally with a sword, depending on the commander's thoughts. However, Strickland saw from this to that, and observed several black clothed soldiers crossing the river in a row, not only could not see any long and thick rods, not even short swords, but found that almost all of them were hanging on their bodies. With two big round iron balls, they were strung together with ropes and hung on their shoulders. They swayed back and forth with the pace of crossing the bridge, which was particularly conspicuous.

Such a big iron ball, if it is solid, I'm afraid it will weigh half a person if it is not two. Is this some kind of new Meteor Hammer, or...

flashed in my mind Questions, but too late to guess the answer. Strickland moved the observation point from the soldiers crossing the bridge to the follow-up soldiers on the riverbed who were waiting to get on the bridge, and found something even more bizarre: the second group of soldiers behind the first group of soldiers holding shields, not only everyone was carrying Lance, there are still two big balls hanging around his neck, and one out of every two or three people is holding a torch!

What are they doing during the day?
Strickland felt a little uneasy, but the enemy was crossing the river in an orderly manner and set foot on the territory he was defending, and the speed of the battle did not allow him to continue to hesitate and doubt.

"Flowers!" he yelled, turning around, "go and get the elephant over for the first fight!"

"Okay!"

The tower shield soldiers who can protect the whole body and splicing each other into a shield formation are hard to crack. The opponent's intention to send this type of troops as a pioneer is to rely on their ability to defend the position to seize the beachhead and buy time for the subsequent river crossing troops. After a long time, most of the land-grant army was able to cross the river and land. Under the double pressure of the cannon and the dragon, it was difficult for the golden regiment, which was already incomplete, to take advantage.

Manpower weapons are difficult to deal with the shield formation, and most of the siege weapons have been taken away by the retreating Reach army... Fortunately, the Golden Corps still has war elephants.

This is the rarest but most powerful unit in the entire mercenary group. Whether you are the Unsullied Legion that never retreats or the Dothraki cavalry sea like the tide, you have to break the formation obediently when you are attacked by an armored elephant. If it weren't for the fact that this thing had too much appetite, it was difficult to support it, its endurance was not suitable for frequent long-distance maneuvers, and its speed was not so good, Strickland had already ordered the cancellation of the cavalry system and replaced it with war elephants.

In the Peak period before crossing the sea, there were nearly 30 war elephants in the Golden Regiment. However, due to shipping, death in battle and acclimatization, the war elephants suffered a lot, and now there are less than 10 war elephants left.

But even if only the last end is left, they are the best weapon for tearing the shield.

By the time the Legion war elephant, draped in golden blankets and ivory and armed with weapons, was led behind the river bank, about a hundred enemies had already set foot on the south bank and began to circle. A semi-circular Defensive Array is constructed at the southern end of the pontoon. This number is still far from "half-crossing", but after all, it will take a few minutes to cross the embankment and rush over. Strickland did not dare to wait any longer, and ordered to launch immediately. charge.

The golden battle flag, which had been brought down for fear of being targeted by shelling, was re-raised, and ten Hundred Men Squad, who had been ordered to charge, stood up from their resting positions and crossed the embankment, and a thousand fully armed men. The mercenaries, plus seven war elephants, shouted and charged towards the pioneers of the land-grant army crossing the river, who had not yet established a foothold, amid the sound of the beating drums.

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