King of The Wall

2021-10-15

Chapter 676 Rolling Formation
The unrehearsed specific command such as "Evolution and Avoidance" is different from The fixed transfer command is not in the signal system of semaphore or musical instrument orders - needless to say, it must only be conveyed by manpower. As a result, another wave of workload peaks for the messengers began, and after running all morning... they didn't even have time to change a batch of horses.

The morale of the Reach striker, who had suffered several rounds of shelling, had taken a serious hit, barely staying above the collapse line, and the new orders were pushed down to the grassroots in a procedural effort, where they were immediately carried out. Everything seemed to be in order, but there was a problem during the "transmission" process of the 1st Step: Mathis Rowan was panicked by the repeated bombardment, and he gave orders in a hurry, forgetting to consider the speed of message transmission and effect - horizontal The part of the queue that was closer to him was because the messengers arrived earlier and received orders one step faster, so they first started to gather the team to move to the nearest sloped terrain - and such suitable terrain is of course impossible just nearby but distributed. On the left, right, a little far ahead...even a section of the road behind.

As a result, in the eyes of the troops on the flanks farther away from the headquarters that have not yet received orders, the battlefield situation has become like this: the enemy's firepower is continuous, but the positional formation of the central headquarters does not know why. Suddenly it started to get messy. Some troops are approaching oneself, some are moving away in the opposite direction, and some even start to retreat!

Because they didn't know why, they suddenly panicked in their hearts.

If that's all, then a certain amount of military training might have allowed them to endure until the messengers arrived, but they didn't die - the fourth round of the Land Granter artillery just got stuck. At this point in time, the dense artillery shells and rumbling noises disrupted the front line, and at the same time affected and interfered with the messengers, and jointly formed the effect of "fire interruption".

In this way, in the chaos caused by the deafening cannonballs, the large sandbag-shaped Death God bouncing on the ground, and the formation disintegration of the unfathomable mystery of the Chinese army... Rowan's worst fear of rout also began in a confused way.

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The first peasants and soldiers from the villages around Bitterbridge started to escape, which is different from what many later "experts" who analyzed the battle guessed: The peasants and soldiers whose hometown is "under the iron hoofs of the invaders" can actually be regarded as the same enemy, with high fighting intent, and the commander who ordered the retreat is not a coward: he is a well-rounded commander who takes over the position of the injured in the middle gun as the temporary commander. service, a little battlefield experience. At that time, the order to retreat was because the adjacent troop began to gather the troop-shifting to a small slope of about five meters high at 50 meters behind. Under the influence of the 3rd-layer of gunpowder smoke, he did not see any sign of meaningful flag orders or messengers on the chaotic battlefield, so he judged quite "wisely and decisively" that the command should have ordered the front line to be moved back.

Don't want the fellow villagers who left the village with oneself to continue to be beaten in vain within the range of the enemy's firepower, he was quite bold--issued an order to retreat.

Similar situations occurred in two or three places on the long front of several li at the same time. The troops who followed the retreat first did not know that the troops they saw as "receding" were not actually running away. It was a transition, and the troops on the two flanks who saw them retreating were unknown, so they also began to run... The messenger chased desperately and sent the correct order to the previous group of troops in time, but no matter what, they couldn't come back. The rout of further troops was prevented, and this bizarre retreat in turn affected the Chinese troops who had received the correct order: faithfully carrying out the order, they moved to a suitable position and stopped to stabilize their position, only to see the flanks of the flanks. The troops are scrambling to retreat as if running for their lives, and the oneself has become a protruding protrusion!
Is there a new change in the battlefield or the command has issued an order to retreat, or is the will of the troops unable to withstand the collapse?

One wrong step, one wrong step, confusion and panic are contagious and additive. At first, no one wanted to run away, but soon, the situation deteriorated to the point where they had to run if they didn't want to... By this time, Mathis Rowan, even the reincarnation of Sun Wu, was no longer able to prevent the collapse of the entire front. . There is only one option left for him: run faster than his troops, and try to gather the defeated troops at the end without becoming the ghost of the enemy's pursuers.

Although the order given from above was to pretend he was defeated and lured the enemy, he only took a few shots and ran away to lure a ghost?

Between the jumping feet, Earl Rowan, full of chagrin and unwillingness, got on the warhorse under the persuasion of his staff, and swung his whip back.

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A mile to the east, Igor, who was in the center of the Queen's trapezoid, had a clear picture of the collapse of the Rowan forward, relying on aerial reconnaissance reports from the Skinchangers. But there is no meaning to order the pursuit.

He could not only "see" that the enemy's rout was not a fake, but also took in the entire scene the main force of the Reach cavalry from the south, who were straying from the edge of sight. Through the clumsy but diligent narration of the Bird Skinchanger, he learned that the cavalry force had been roughly divided into three divisions and was ready to launch a general attack at any time - in the first round contest with the Reach infantry striker, he did accidentally win the match. Bigger and faster victories are expected, but such victories are not decisive, and then... is the time for the main course.

The Defensive Array motionless was safe, but he would never get to Highgarden; but at the moment he had only dared to mobilize any phalanx of infantry or any cavalry to pursue the Rowan striker and send out All troops will be dumped but never returned; even if they stabilize their mentality and don't underestimate the enemy and continue to push together, they will soon usher in the most ferocious foot-caval joint attack in the history of Westeros...

And to be honest, Igor is really not very confident that he can still easily win in such a fierce battle.

At this point, it's time for him to show his true skills.

took a deep breath, Igor calmly and succinctly gave the order: "The artillery should stop firing, the command and command department should pay attention to coordination and communication, and the whole army will start rolling!"

horn and Jin Gu Qi It was as if the entire Mander was shrouded in the call of the Queen West Expedition Force command system. Garlan Tyrell, who saw the enemy start to move from a distance, was shivered, and he almost waved his hand and ordered to prepare to attack. The opposite formation with a certain balance of depth and width can stop at any time to organize defense on the spot. - No matter how fast the physical state of defense changes, the panic and sense of urgency in the psychological state of emergency cannot be quickly eliminated, and this also leads to: even if it is a formation specially designed to deal with being attacked during the march, its The ability of defense and combat when they are really attacked is definitely not as good as sticking to the place and waiting for work.

As long as one round of three waves of charge breaks up the opposing half of the formation, and the main infantry forces take advantage of the situation to cover up, the anvil hammer will take shape immediately!

With a good calculation, the West Expedition Force in the field of vision began to perform an unbelievable riot: in front of Garlan Tyrell's gaze, there was a little commotion inside the trapezoidal formation formed by the Queen's army. , without any movement as a whole, the slanted side of the trapezoid facing east suddenly collapsed inward without warning!
The situation that is incomprehensible from the ground can be seen at a glance when you look down from the air: among the nine infantry phalanxes that form a trapezoid, the three that form the eastern hypotenuse—the one closest to the bottom of the river bank The square array No. shrunk into the trapezoid from the gap between the bottom edge and the river bank, traveled along the river for the entire length of the bottom edge, and then returned to the west end of the first column of square arrays from the west; Going west in the gap between the side and the second line, the two phalanxes that passed through this column also reached the west end; finally, the third phalanx passed the cavalry troops in the gap between the second and third columns, and passed the third Another square matrix of columns, with which the orientation is exchanged.

Observe the entire evolution process from the perspective of God: the eastern hypotenuse of the square will briefly shrink into the interior of the large array, and soon emerge from the other side, seamlessly transforming into the western side of the trapezoid The hypotenuse... During this entire process, the nine infantry phalanxes will have a full 2/3/2022 of six phalanxes standing in place to maintain a complete defensive state, covering the three infantry phalanxes that are undergoing evolution. With the Central Army Headquarters, the main cavalry force of the Reach people began to stir could not find any chance to take advantage of the gap.

If it is the east hypotenuse→west hypotenuse, east hypotenuse→west hypotenuse...then shrink and transform continuously in the same way, the entire trapezoidal square array will march at the speed of one third as a whole, like a stripe Like the tracks of a tank, it rolled slowly but unstoppably in the direction of Highgarden.

This is the fundamental reason why this set of large arrays with Mander backed is called "Rolling Array" instead of "Trapezoidal Defensive Array"!

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