King of The Wall

2021-10-15

Chapter 682 Highgarden Defense (7)

When I set off from King's Landing, Igor thought that this As long as the west expedition can be pushed steadily and steadily all the way, who would want to end up in a dangerous situation where it is difficult to get out of it without a surprise plan.

As a modern person from a peaceful environment where there is no transcendent, he is neither versed in meteorology, nor ingenious, and even in military books, he has only read contemporaries such as Sun Tzu's Art of War and 36 Stratagems. The popular version written by people.

He can't predict the direction of the wind, let alone the ability to cast spells to borrow the east wind; he is not brave enough to take the lead, nor does he possess the legendary "command innate talent".

However, winning a victory does not depend on these perverted cheats or abilities. Good observation and memory, as well as occasional blessings of the soul, can also make miracles at the right time and place.

Westeros is now in the short spring at the turn of winter and summer, and the winds and winds have been very stable for several days - as I was shelling the front of the Reach infantry yesterday, Igor noticed the light wind blowing smoke towards the enemy. The phenomenon of phalanx. At first, he didn't think much about it, but just had some regrets that it was just gunpowder smoke and not poison qi. At most, it was difficult to suffocate people and even confuse the eyes. He didn't develop some biochemical weapons that could affect or destroy the enemy's battle strength early...

However, yesterday, when the enemy's forward suddenly disintegrated, leaving the ground in a mess, looking at the piles of Reach flags, a bold idea suddenly pierced the sky of Igor's thoughts like lightning.

The West Expedition Force faced the main force of Reach infantry facing east and west, and the east wind blew the smoke between the two armies, just covering the open space that the two sides temporarily used for the confrontation and was about to be used for fighting - since the smoke can Affecting the observation of each other by the infantrymen on both sides can naturally interfere with the Reach cavalry's grasp of the battlefield situation, which is farther away at the edge of the field of vision. On the basis of interference, send soldiers to hold the enemy's flag high, and the whole army shouts to kill... …

The enemy wants to use an iron barrel to trap the West Expedition Force, this move cannot be resisted but can only be cracked. What Igor intends to do is to take advantage of the fact that the iron barrel is too large and unable to communicate quickly and effectively in all aspects, and use the method of acting to conduct tactical deception to induce one of the encircling troops to attack first, thereby destroying the entire iron barrel.

Whether it was deliberately pushing the front forward, or creating a huge cloud of smoke in the final round of shelling, including but not limited to increasing the charge, it was ultimately for the One target service: Let the Reach cavalry, who are watching the battlefield from a distance, mistakenly think that the infantry engagement has broken out!
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In the long and short, high and low, various organization, mobilization and charge signals, the largest cavalry charge in the history of Westeros began under the decoy of the enemy.

The Reach cavalry always kept pace with the Queen's army at the edge of sight, because the trapezoid did not roll very fast, and the marching pressure of the troops was quite small; and because Garlan Tyrell strictly emphasized the need for the entire army to maintain The reason for the combat state, when they were finally ordered to attack, almost instantly the entire army changed into combat horses, and they emerged from the back of the low hillside.

In order to avoid the reaping blows of artillery fire, the Reach cavalry adopted an unprecedented wide and loose formation, with each person and each horse at least three or four meters apart from each other, a wave of about five-six thousand people, a total of five-six thousand people. It is divided into three waves, and there is a gap of more than 100 meters between the front and rear batches - apart from the small thousands scattered to form the scout shielding network, there are still more than 10,000 cavalrymen. Obviously, the number of cavalrymen is not overwhelming, but from far away It seemed that it still filled the southern part of the entire field of vision in an instant like mercury spilling to the ground, and rushed towards the top of the trapezoid array aggressively like three tsunamis.

When entering the field of view of the Queen's army, the Reach cavalry has completed the alignment of the initial "slow step" and entered the "quick step" phase of approaching the battlefield. Knight and his experienced rider officers begin to accelerate gradually into a running state... The sound of snare drums and horns is endless, the flashes of metal armor and weapons are blinding; countless flags flutter in the wind, listen to The endless sound of armor and armor, horseshoes and the ground colliding and knocking from low to high, from far to near, took the first step on the eardrums of the West Expedition Force array infantry, a hard to describe chill and a sense of coercion instantly suppressed When it came to everyone's heart, it was so hard to breathe.

Reason tells Igor that he will win today. But when he saw from the telescope that the pure cavalry equivalent to half of his total strength spread in a wave wider than the top edge of the trapezoid, he couldn't help swallowing, and decisively put down the lens to avoid continuing to watch Go down and get dizzy.

It was a tough fight.

"The infantry is defensive, the artillery is preparing for anti-cavalry, and the cavalry is mounted!"

The dense horns and golden drums sounded in the Queen's army, and the West Expedition Force It also wriggled and began to make the final fine-tuning before the engagement: the artillery lifted the gun mount, turned the muzzle, and began to tensely load the shotgun; the cavalry climbed on the horse and sorted out the weapons to prepare for the counter-charge; the outer circle of the trapezoid array was especially In the phalanx on the top side, the infantry on the right-angled side began to retreat in a systematic manner so as not to bear the brunt of isolation, while the soldiers in the last two rows rushed into the gap between the phalanxes with the officers' leadership to fill the gap... Soon, the jagged trapezoid composed of nine square arrays was roughly deformed into one—the original shape was barely discernible, but it was more like a smooth semi-circular whole.

The West Expedition Force and the Reach cavalry all mustered all their fighting will and prepared to fight to the death, while in the west, separated by a cloud of gunpowder smoke, in the hidden headquarters of the Reach Army infantry, several large The nobility was in chaos.

They imagined countless counter-attacks and recalcitrant tactics that the enemy might take, but even in the wildest ideas, no one could guess the way the West Expedition Force actually used the smoke to cover up the counterattack. Hooked his own cavalry.

"Garland...what the hell is Garland doing!"

"He's launching a cavalry charge!" Jon Connington interrupted the meaninglessness of the soulless Highgarden Duke Whispering, why didn't he hope that his cavalry commander could see through the enemy's tricks at a glance, but now that the boat is done, he can only think of making up for it, "The Seven can't restrain his horse at this moment, all we can do is It's a mistake, order the infantry on both sides of the north and south to attack the same army. Otherwise, when Igor eats our cavalry, the remaining 50,000 infantry can only stretch their necks and wait to be slaughtered! Your Majesty, please make up your mind!"

King Aegon, who is fair-skinned, tender-faced and heroic, can't hide his panic at the moment under the watchful eyes of his two big followers. He is experienced and knowledgeable with a whole team to raise and educate him. An unplayable puppet, but the cunning and insidiousness of the enemy is still far beyond his imagination. In front of the Night's Watch who is said to have saved the Seven Kingdoms, who was raised according to a perfect king, he looked like a foolish boy!

Being pulled back to reality by a shout from oneself's Hand of the King, he was confused for a second before came back to his senses: "The Prime Minister is right, order...the whole army to attack!"

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"We may not be the enemy of Night's Watch in frontal combat." Intuitively, Strickland can't say why, after all, the Reach infantry who took the lead this time are also quite elite and ready to face gunpowder weapons. The Captain-General of the Golden Company summoned the courage to suggest: "Several dozen li's of reconnaissance failed to report the discovery of the Queen and her dragon, we can't let the dragon hunter and the hundreds of elite soldiers who control it watch the show, please Your Majesty Ordered to mobilize the anti-aircraft units to be used only on the ground, and use them as infantry cover during the charge!"

The dragon hunting crossbow needs to be pushed to the front line to reach the soldiers of the Queen's army, its loading and winding It also takes time, and it takes less than half a minute to adjust from the air to the ground... It is actually quite an adventure to call in to deal with the enemy infantry, but in the face of an unbelievable chess situation, the little king realized that they I'm afraid I really have to try my best to have hope of a comeback.

Without waiting for anyone to raise objections, he nodded waved his hand: "Agree, send a summons immediately!"

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(end of this chapter)