Chapter 567 The advantage is mine!
A few black swallows jumped from the blue sky into the soil, lowered their heads and picked left and right in the grass, then picked up the yellow mud stuck to the weeds in their beaks and flew towards their own nests.
The slender wings stirred the air and almost collided with the red and blue butterflies swirling around the flowers.
The warm and scorching sun is shining overhead, and it’s a good time to lie in your yard and bask in the sun.
But at this moment, the soldiers wearing helmets and armor felt their heads were extremely hot.
Under the sun, more than 7,000 elite mercenary infantry were walking against the midday sun.
When they occasionally looked up, they could see groups of light cavalry fighting on the edge of fields and woods in the distance.
The windmill-style high-top boat-shaped helmet shone with silver light, absorbing the heat of the sun and turning the infantry's heads into stew pots.
Just during the march, the boat-shaped helmets made these elite mercenaries from the windmill land shed streams of sweat, leaving clearly visible marks on their withered faces.
Different from the round-brimmed helmets commonly used by Horn and others, these boat-shaped helmets have both ends turned up, somewhat similar to paper hats folded into small boats.
In order to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy, mercenaries who are still rich will buy feathers of different colors and insert them on their helmets.
Looking around while riding on horseback, on the khaki and turquoise land, a sea of colorful feathers undulates like an ocean with the footsteps of the soldiers.
This kind of feathers are collectively called feathers in the empire.
It’s just that the infantry have no more than two or three feathers, one palm long.
The long feathers and tassels on the knights' helmets can sometimes be dragged up their backs.
Prince Kong Dai's feathers today are relatively simple, only about 30 centimeters.
But the armor on his body is extremely gilded, with neck armor, shoulder armor, arm armor, body armor, skirt armor... and even gloves on his hands.
This set of armor is already thick and decorated with gilt and brass.
Its weight can be felt from the loveless, drooling face of the horse under the seat.
The white-hot fireball in the sky radiated majestic heat, but the prince seemed not to feel it. He looked at Elad beside him with a normal expression and asked: "Has the position of Short Hair been detected clearly? ”
"Five miles away, Your Highness, you are right. These farmers really stepped out of the car formation and prepared to confront us head-on." Elad looked solemn, "I saw that they have about twelve to sixteen squadrons. There are more than a thousand cavalry, including the savage army and wizards from Black Snake Bay, about ten thousand."
"Black Snake Bay has been very active recently." A fierce look flashed across Prince Kong Dai's face. Brutal.
Elad nodded: "The church has been unable to spare its hands recently. After a major siege in two years, they will be honest."
Almost every few decades, the empire will gather troops to carry out an encirclement and suppression of Black Snake Bay to prevent the secret party from becoming stronger.
But they will not completely wipe out the secret party, nor can they completely wipe out the secret party. They can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause.
The rapid sound of horse hoofbeats came from a distance wrapped in smoke. La Cunho, who returned after personally conducting reconnaissance, was riding a horse. When he saw Prince Condé, he frowned and said, "Charle, I don't think the terrain of the short-haired array is good." It's wonderful."
"If it's not good, it's not good. Is it possible that we can't fight? The ferry and the bridge are burned. If Meliya mentions it, it will be harder to fight than before." The prince's iron glove soothed the mane of the horse under his crotch.
Racunho thought for a moment, but could only find out helplessly that Prince Condai was right.
After the important river transportation stronghold of Zhishuiwu was occupied by the enemy, no matter how we fought, the opponent could transfer troops faster than us.
If we don't try to cross the river and take a detour, continuing to drag it will definitely cause Horn and Meliati to merge.
The area of the Ham River basically has this terrain, so it is better to attack early than late.
So, even if we know that the terrain is unfavorable, we have to fight.
"You guys, go scout the surroundings again to see if there are any ambushes." Prince Kong Dai shouted to his attendants, "Give me the order. After arriving at the village in front, the infantry will rest, urinate or defecate or Drink water and eat to solve the problem quickly, and we will set off in half an hour.”
Hearing the news that they can rest and that the war is about to begin, the whole army was much more tidy.
After they accelerated their march to the village, they began to handle chores and prepare weapons under the leadership of commanders at all levels in preparation for the next war.
Sitting under the shade of a tree, Prince Condai drank beer and ate rations, but carefully calculated his own capital.
The two elite mercenary groups have more than 6,000 people, the guards and sergeants are about more than 1,000 people, 4 command companies have 1,300 people, and there are more than 500 knights and mercenary knights who have taken refuge.
Different from the retinue of knights that Enrico led, Prince Condai’s men are all elite extraordinary knights of the same rank.
Even the tasks that the squire knights should do are left to the higher-level squire knights.
In terms of military strength alone, Prince Kong Dai is weaker than the Salvation Army.
But in terms of the individual combat effectiveness of the soldiers, excluding the influence of weapons and equipment, the demons are far behind. Although 5 Order Companies were lost previously, with the ability of the Order Knights, many more escaped or were seriously injured and recovered than ordinary knights.
So although there are only 4 companies of orders, Prince Condai has 437 order knights.
With so many Order Knights, even on the front line of the Kush River, they can easily touch any ogre warlord or the like, let alone a half-step knight like him.
When it comes to arranging troops, he is not afraid of Horn. When fighting alone, he is even better than that monster.
In short, the advantage is mine!
Viciously stuffing several pieces of half-cooked roasted monster meat into his mouth, Prince Condai chewed hard, and streaks of blood mixed with grease fell from his mouth, but he was completely unaware of it.
The attendants nearby moved away subconsciously. His Royal Highness's eating habits have become worse and worse recently, and his scarlet teeth are like wild beasts.
After resting for half an hour, the whole army went on the road again.
Next to the empty houses are farmlands that are forced to be abandoned in spring.
Rows of scattered ship helmets were crowded together, and cloth shoes and straw sandals trampled the weeds in the farmland into pieces.
The fences in the countryside were knocked down, the remaining pigs and sheep were taken away, and the berry bushes under the shade of the trees were trampled to pieces.
Hundreds of swallow-tailed flags were winding like a long dragon. The bodies of the knights in full armor from head to sole were bumping with the back of the horse, and the sun could not reach an inch of their skin.
The smell of flowers and smoke irritated the nostrils of the monks. They sat on horse-drawn carts and carefully protected the rickety holy oil jars placed in the straw with their bodies.
At about one o'clock in the afternoon, when the sun was at its hottest, Prince Condai and an army of nearly ten thousand people finally arrived at the battlefield - the river beach called Cheese Bay.
Prince Condai didn't understand why this place was called Cheese Bay. Could it be that cheese is rich here?
But after seeing it with his own eyes, he had to admit that the name had a real image.
Behind the shrubs and sparse woods, streams and ditches pass through both sides of the river beach.
The entire river beach runs north-south, and the terrain gradually increases from west to east. The westernmost river beach is covered with sand and gravel, while the easternmost highland is flat and open.
But the problem lies in the transition area from the river beach to the plain. It is not a gentle slope, but more than a dozen 10-meter-high mounds from low to high.
There are both connected parts and undulating parts between the mounds, just like the densely packed and interlaced holes in cheese.
The flat mounds are covered with fluffy grass and irises, and combined with the hollow corridors, it really looks like a piece of moldy cheese.
"I told you that the terrain is not very good." Racunio stood beside Prince Condai on horseback, his eyes crinkled as he looked at the helmet that sparkled with the river water in front of him.
Nearly a hundred black and red flags were flying, and soldiers in black stood on the mound in an extremely neat horizontal formation.
The twelve regiments of the Salvation Army formed a group of two, parallel to the Ham River, divided into two rows, staggered and overlapping, and occupied the high ground of the mound in advance.
The distance between the two rows before and after them is only thirty or forty meters, which is quite close, because the distance from the mounds in the back row to the mounds in the front row is more than thirty or forty meters.
On one of the steepest mounds, you can still see the trebuchet and fireball crossbow being assembled, and in the depression, you can also see the activities of the Black Snake Bay Savage Swordsman and Shieldman.
"Are we still attacking?" Alfors, captain of the third order company, looked at the mounded terrain in front of him, lowered his head and asked softly.
Prince Condai's eyelids trembled: "Why don't you attack? Are you afraid?"
"Not afraid." Alfors immediately replied, "It's just that the terrain is troublesome, I don't know... ”
The prince turned his horse sideways and stared at the battlefield for a while. He sneered and drew out the knight's sword from his waist:
"Alpheus, take the knights to the high ground on the left to hold down the formation. Don't charge yet."
"Yes, Your Highness!" Kissing the tip of the sword, Alfors immediately led the command company towards the high ground on the left wing, where the Holy Gun Cavalry was arrayed.
"Priest of Ageta, take the monks and follow Alpheus."
"Yes, Your Highness." There were holy mines and holy oil hung on a rope net around his waist. Jars, dozens of monks trotted towards the left wing high ground.
Prince Condai turned his attention to Griffin and Sternberg: "You two, listen to what I say next. Whoever fights well in this battle, I will seal Stonewall Town and the surrounding manors. To whom."
Griffin and Sternberg's breathing quickened.
“In this battle, you will be the vanguard, leading the Death Group and the Eagle Group to the side, forcing them to turn, consuming their physical strength and magic power.
Remember, We must shorten their battle line and reduce the wind power of their clockwork guns, so that the knights can take advantage of it. Do you understand?”
“Understood, your Majesty!”
The two infantry leaders immediately knelt down and patted their chests to obey the order.
(End of this chapter)