Tales of the Reincarnated Lord

Chapter 371 Sentinel Tactics

"Attention! The grass is here! The steel crossbow is wound! Get ready for the battle!"

This is a very common small hill in Southern Province, except that a tall stone guard tower was built on the top of the hill. The tower is surrounded by trenches of different depths for nearly 100 meters, and some trenches have piled up a half. A long wooden horse was placed on the high earth walls and some trenches. To reach the sentry tower, it would even have to go around these trenches for a long time before reaching the thick wooden door under the sentry tower. The guard tower is not big and can only accommodate a hundred people at most. However, such sentry towers can be seen everywhere in the western region of Southern Province. The sentry towers are connected into a net, covering half of the Southern Province and gradually spreading to the east.

Nearly a thousand people dressed in simple leather armor, disheveled their heads, painted various colorful grasses on their faces, stopped their horses at the foot of the mountain far from the guard tower, and then moved the huge log shield from the carriage that followed. While waving various crude weapons in his hands, he yelled and dared to hide behind the log shield and slowly marched towards the mountain.

This is the forefront of a sentry tower. The top of the tower is already on fire, and a plume of blue smoke rushes straight into the sky. This is a warning wolf smoke that indicates that the sentry tower has been attacked. Similarly, several guard towers around this guard tower also raised blue smoke, which shows that it was not a single guard tower that was attacked, but the entire forward zone was attacked by the enemy.

A soldier of the Rock Legion with a grass root in his mouth looked at the grass barbarian slowly climbing under the mountain with contempt. Although the number of enemies was ten times the number of soldiers garrisoned in the sentry tower, he still did not take it seriously. , Spit out the grass roots in his mouth, he turned his head and shouted: "Head, these savage brains are really sick, have you forgotten the lessons of the previous few deaths and injuries? This time I thought that I got such eight huge shields. It's silly to be able to block the shot of the steel crossbow. I don't know how many deaths I will escape this time..."

A soldier next to him who was aiming with a steel crossbow raised his head and smiled: "Who will bet with me? I bet they will throw a shield and run away if they die about a hundred. I bet a gold coin."

A bearded soldier came over. This was the head of the guard tower, the centurion and squadron leader. The organization of the Norton family’s armed forces is different from that of others. The countries in the Gailint subcontinent generally consist of a small team of one hundred people, and ten captains are divided into one hundred people to help the team leader manage the team. The Norton family’s armed forces consist of ten people as a squad, the squadron is the ten captain, the ten squads are a squadron, and the squadron captain is the centurion. Then there are five squadrons of 500 people as a large team, five squadrons plus a major logistics team, a total of 3,000 people form a battalion, five battalions of 15,000 people form a corps, and four corps of 60,000 people form a corps. .

The bearded unceremonious slap on the back of the head of the soldier who was clamoring for a bet, cursed: "Bet, you have to gamble on all your salary a month, as much as you gamble, how old you are, you should save. I’m thinking about becoming a family with some money. I don’t have to think about what to do after retirement. Now I’m alert. Although our armor is very defensive, these savage poison arrows are not vegetarian. Last time Kerry Mostly an arrow in the elbow accidentally had to cut off that arm. I hope you can stand in front of me intact after this battle is over, understand?"

When nearly a thousand grassmen crowded the trenches and began to dig and fill the trenches with their weapons in a hurry, the steel crossbow on the sentry tower finally became powerful. One guard tower and one squadron were stationed with a hundred men, and at the same time equipped with twenty steel crossbows. The guard tower is twelve meters high and is divided into four floors. Five steel crossbows are arranged from the second to the top. Except for the top layer that is not covered, the steel crossbows on the lower three layers fired from the shooting holes. To put it ugly, this watchtower is actually Lorester who moved the bunker of the little Japanese devil seen in the previous life movies.

The steel crossbow shooters in the sentry tower were all treacherous. They didn't shoot those huge log shields, specifically aiming at the grass barbarians who were digging and filling trenches. As the arrows fell one by one, all the grassmen were squeezed behind the shield, and no one was willing to come out to fill the trenches anymore. Except for the archer behind the shield, who lobbed in the direction of the guard tower indiscriminately, they were only more than a hundred meters apart and could not directly aim. With the power of those crude bows and arrows, the lobed long arrows did not know where they fell. went.

This is nothing short of a farce, it doesn't seem to be a battlefield at all, and nearly a thousand grass-barbarians don't seem to come to attack but to serve as targets. Fifty or sixty arrow-bearing corpses were down in the trenches, and the trenches were only filled a little, not even half of them. As a result, all the savages hid behind the huge log shields and did not dare to take their heads. The Caoman was so strangely stalemate.

If these grass-mans disperse their attacks regardless of the casualties, nearly a thousand grass-mans may only need to lose two or three hundred people to attack the sentry tower. If they are lucky, they can split the thick wooden gate to attack the sentry tower. Of course this means that the sentry tower has no other countermeasures. However, the problem now is that none of the grassmen are willing to be the victim of the offensive. They are here to take captive, but not to die and let their companions gain something to become a winner.

The beard looked at the eight huge log shields erected next to the trench, and touched his beard and said to himself: "It’s really hard for them to push such a big shield up the mountain, but now they are all hiding behind. What should I do?"

A soldier said: "Head, how about we get on the rocket?"

The beard shook his head: "It's useless, such a large log shield, I don't know how long it takes to burn. It's a pity that the Thunderbolt Catapult wasn't allocated to us, otherwise a stone ball would kill the shield."

"Head, how about we focus on shooting a shield to see what the effect will be." The soldier who likes to bet suggested.

"Well, let's try," said the beard.

The target was set at the log shield in the middle. Following the beard's order, twenty lightning-like iron crossbow arrows shot onto the huge log shield in an instant. The shield shook a few times, but the position did not move. The beard said disappointedly: "It's useless, the shield can stop..."

Before the words fell, the soldiers' cheers came from around: "Head, look, look, the shield is down!"

I saw that the shield hit by twenty crossbow arrows fell straight to the back, and fell apart in the process of falling, revealing nearly a hundred grass-barbarians hiding behind the shield and a few cracked shield logs and fell to the ground. Hapless. The bearded man was overjoyed: "Hurry up and shoot the rabbit!"

It is as simple as shooting a rabbit. The grass barbarians who have lost their log shields are running around, except that half of the grass barbarians are lucky enough to squeeze behind the other shields, and half of the grass barbarians have become the targets of steel crossbow shooters. Cleverly lying on the ground, hiding behind the ridges and the roots of the felled trees, escaped. The remaining forty or fifty grassmen became ghosts under the arrow in three rounds of steel crossbow shooting, and several went down the mountain. The escaped Caoman didn't get out of the range of the steel crossbow, and the crossbow bolt shot from behind penetrated his chest...

When the second log shield shattered under the collection of twenty crossbow arrows, the savage hiding behind all the shields couldn't stand it. They shouted and abandoned the shields and fled down the mountain. They discarded their weapons, even There are also those who roll down the mountain with their heads in their arms. They all know that the huge log shield cannot give them shelter. Sooner or later they will be shot to pieces like those two shields. It is better to escape and be born sooner than to become an archery target. day.

It’s just that the horses are nearly 400 meters away from the guard tower. This is beyond the range of the guard tower steel crossbow. The previous attacks have taught Caoman a very deep lesson, so that they will no longer stop the war horse on the steel crossbow. Within range. In the continuous pursuit of the sentry steel crossbow, most of the grassman still ran out of range. When the panting horses were less than sixty or seventy meters away from the horses, a large group of light riders suddenly rushed out from behind the hill. They swept over like a violent wind, and the grasses that abandoned their weapons suddenly looked like panicked chickens. They were generally caught by eagles and fled in all directions. It was just that two legs could not run on four legs, and soon under Qingqi's fast-paced blade, the grass fell to the ground one by one, and the blood stained a large area under the mountain.

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"You can see it, Grand Duke Sabaj, this is the step-by-step strategy adopted by the four Northland alliances. They use such towers to form a net, and some of the two towers are four to five hundred meters apart. Some are only two to three hundred meters apart, and even the guard towers are covered by their crossbow arrows. I once ordered a Qianqi brigade to go from the middle of the two guard towers to the back, but I didn’t expect it to be in the two guards. There was also a guard tower behind the tower. As a result, my Thousand Cavalry Brigade ran back only four hundred people under the crossbow arrows from the three guard towers."

Grand Duke Feishabrunn said to an old man wearing gorgeous armor next to him that dozens of them had just stayed on a small hill in the distance and witnessed the failure of the grass barbarian's attack on the post tower and was slaughtered by the light cavalry.

"For a guard tower like this, the number of troops stationed in it does not exceed a hundred people. The only thing to worry about is that the four Northland alliances have obtained so many garrison crossbows from somewhere. But according to our observations, these garrison crossbows seem to be It has been improved, the launch speed is faster, the movement is convenient, and it is very accurate. Just now I asked more than 10,000 grassmen to attack ten outposts. As you can see, these grassmen are not the material for the tough fight. The field is okay, but there is no way to attack these towers.

If you want to pull out these towers, you must have a disciplined and experienced infantry to attack. Our Fesabrunn family are all light cavalry, unable to do anything with these guard towers, and the role of our light cavalry is restricted by these guard towers. Your Royal Highness, I hope you can urge the other three principalities to send reinforcements as soon as possible. Everyone is in the same camp now. In any case, we must restrict the four Northland companies from occupying the southern province, otherwise everyone will not be peaceful in the future. "Grand Duke Feisabrun said frankly.

It is July 12th, 1778 in the Gailint Asian calendar. After the Norton family's Rock Legion arrived in the Southern Province, Archduke Fesabrun has confronted the four coalition forces in the North for nearly fifty days.

After the Rock Legion arrived, they set up camp in front of the defensive camp set up by Archduke Feisabrun. The Grand Duke didn't care. It was common sense to set up a barracks before launching an offensive. He just ordered the two legions under him to prepare for defense.

But what Archduke Feisabrun didn’t expect was that the Rock Legion had been setting up this barracks for too long. On the first day, the second day, and the third day, the Archduke finally felt something was wrong. He went to observe and discovered that the Rock Legion. This is not a military camp, but a defensive position, which is tighter and harder to conquer than the defensive camp arranged by the Grand Duke. Grand Duke Feisabrun caught the blind immediately. What is going on with this guy who came to set up a defensive position? Who is the offensive party!

After finally waiting for the Rock Legion to complete the defensive camp, the Rock Legion still did not launch an offensive, but began to build these outposts in Zhoubian. Under the protection of the Raging Bear Knights, a sentry tower took only ten days to build. The materials that are continuously transported from the rear to build the sentry tower are as long as they are assembled into a strong stone fort-type sentry tower. Of course, this is also thanks to the sufficient supply of vine glue.

When Grand Duke Feisabrun found that these guard towers had become insurmountable barriers that hindered the legion's scout Qingqi, he immediately ordered the reserve army that had just arrived to attack these guard towers. But the Grand Duke found with regret that the fierce reserve army had nothing to do with these towers, but suffered heavy damage. When the Grand Duke ordered the Reserve Corps to retreat, the Raging Bear Knights, which had been hiding for a long time, suddenly came out halfway and caught the Reserve Corps by surprise. The Reserve Corps lost almost half of its troops and retreated after a big defeat.

Archduke Fesabrun was caught in a dilemma. He found that the light cavalry, which was invincible on the grasslands, had no use in the southern province. The four Northland alliances used such a net-like sentry tower tactic to limit the family's light. Cavalry play space. Although it is possible to capture such a tower without fear of heavy casualties, Grand Duke Feisabrun knows that the gains are not worth the loss. Using the casualties of hundreds of family soldiers to capture a tower is purely a loss. It only takes ten days to build a sentry tower, but it takes several years to train a qualified light cavalry...

Seeing that these towers were built more and more, and occupied more and more places, the helpless Grand Duke Fesabrun began to consider whether to abandon his current transportation points, and choose other dangerous places to follow the example of the four Northland alliances. When he was on the sentry tower, he finally waited for good news: the Grand Duke of Sabaki Principality personally led 20,000 reinforcements to the Southern Province, and came to join the Grand Duke of Fisabrun.

Grand Duke Feisabrun was overjoyed. He put his idea on the reinforcements of the four principalities in the central region. His family was all light cavalry and lacked infantry to attack. However, the reinforcements sent by the four principalities in the central part were basically infantry, just in time for them to conquer these outposts, and then their family's border ranger could look for opportunities to inflict heavy damage on the four alliances in the north. Unknowingly, Grand Duke Fesabrunn’s thoughts have taken a big turn, even he himself did not realize it. Now he wants to find the Norton family armed forces to fight to the death, as long as the Norton family armed forces don’t stay at those whistles. Behind the tower and tight defensive positions.

In order to strengthen the persuasive power, Archduke Fesabrun deliberately selected more than 10,000 people who had violated discipline among the voluntary soldiers of the grass-barbarian tribes who came to the war and ordered them to attack the forward guard towers to redeem them. Sins committed. Of course, the Grand Duke did not hesitate to promise generous rewards after victory, and specially prepared huge log shields for them to resist the crossbow arrows shot from the guard tower. Although the archduke himself did not hope that the mobs could conquer these outposts~www.readwn.com~, these clumsy offensive performances still made the archduke feel shameless, but this also shows from another aspect. Archduke Feisabrun told the truth that the cavalry was really not good at attacking fortifications.

Grand Duke Sabagi is also a great swordsman with extremely rich battlefield experience, but he is a great swordsman of the first level, and he is still promoted successfully by relying on rare drugs. After watching this savage tackling performance, he smiled and said to Grand Duke Fisabrun: "His Royal Highness, the Four Central Duchys are very concerned about the war in the Southern Province. This is related to the long-term stability of the Central Four Duchy. We are determined The Southern Province is not allowed to fall into the hands of the four alliances in the North of the Antinac Kingdom. In addition to the 20,000 horses I brought, the other three grand princes will soon come with 20,000 reinforcements, and we will also Bring a large number of aid materials to your family.

Since we are allies, the four principalities in the central region will assume the responsibilities of allies. We will not sit back and watch your family fall into the situation of fighting against the invasion of the Antinac kingdom alone. As for how to conquer this outpost tactics of the four Northland alliances, we can wait for the other three princes to come and discuss a countermeasure. No matter what, we will stand together with the noble family and beat back the paws of the Antinac kingdom to the southern province. "

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