Chapter 280 We won!
With Armand's support, Horn stood on the hillside of Pavia.
He took off his helmet with difficulty, a smile on his lips, and a dry laugh coming from his throat.
At the foot of the hillside, the knights of the order who had their hands and big toes cut off, with heavy iron slave collars around their necks, lined up in fear and moved forward.
Farther into the wilderness, groups of holy gun cavalry and war monks were chasing the fleeing night watch guards and extraordinary knights.
Horn had somewhat anticipated Boillot's intention to hold on to the castle after the defeat before the war began.
The Salvation Army’s defensive battles and field battles are pretty good, but its only shortcoming is siege warfare.
They have no explosives or siege artillery, so they can only rely on siege methods such as digging and climbing walls to deal with the Castle of Joan of Arc.
If we really use this method of siege, we won’t even be able to defeat it within a year and a half.
At that time, many nobles on the Ibe Plains will react and send out extraordinary knights and imperial companies to attack from both inside and outside.
Therefore, there are two key points in this battle:
First, annihilate the Imperial Order Company or break down their organization;
Second, capture Fort Joan of Arc and the castle.
The tactics Horn designed for this are very simple.
Fort Joan of Arc launched a sneak attack and ordered Lien Zhan to face the enemy.
The entire Salvation Army marched to the vicinity of Fort Joan of Arc first. After being discovered on purpose, Horn led his troops to lure the enemy, while Jeanne led two legions and cavalry to hide in a nearby village.
The reason for this great effort is that if we launch a direct attack from Ashheard Town, it will be easily discovered by sentries and rangers.
So it must be to hide the traces and mobilize the main force of Fort Joan of Arc.
Horn did the opposite and took the initiative to use the exposed traces of the six legions to hide the march of Jeanna's two legions.
If the Salvation Army is discovered in an area and the Salvation Army is expelled, people will subconsciously think that the area is safe.
In this way, Jeanne could launch a surprise attack from a very close position to Castle Joan of Arc, otherwise she would be discovered by the patrolling knights halfway.
Horn led 6 legions to entangle Boilloux from the front, and Jeanne led 2 legions from behind to attack the Castle of Joan of Arc. After that, they attacked from the rear and wiped out all the troops.
During this period, Horn led six legions to lure the enemy, pretending to be an encounter, and lured the command company into the position preset a few days ago.
There is a stream slope here, Horn has set up a spider silk net, and it is raining lightly. It is the most perfect terrain and weather.
The only thing he miscalculated was the physical strength and combat effectiveness of the knights of the order, and the time it would take for Jeanne to come back after capturing Castle Joan of Arc.
But it doesn't matter, they finally achieved their strategic goals.
“Brother!” Jumping off the horse, Jeanne swung her braids and ran towards Horn.
But her originally happy and coquettish tone turned into a cry the moment she saw Horn, "You...you..."
"What's wrong with me? I and I You said, I killed an order knight with my own hands."
The raindrops hit Horn's body and washed away the blood stains on his body.
An iron piece was pierced in the middle of his left eyebrow, and blood soaked the left half of his face.
He couldn't open his left eye and didn't know if it was temporary or permanent.
The right hand hangs down weakly, with the thumb broken off. There is a short ax stuck in the shoulder armor, and the breastplate is full of marks from swords and bayonets.
From time to time, blood bubbles were blown out from the gaps in the leg armor. With his left shoulder leaning on Armand, Horn could barely stand.
"Brother, how did you..."
"What did you say?" Horn waved to her, "Go to the right and speak, I can't hear you from the left... That knight's secondary weapon was a hammer and spear, and he hit me on the left side of the face with a hammer. I don't care about martial ethics, but luckily I wore it. "Brother, I'm sorry...I'm late..."
"You did your best." Horn coughed, "Don't worry about that. It should be a perforated eardrum. I have breathing skills and a witch constitution, so the probability of recovery is very high."
Jean Na didn't answer Horn's words. She was crying and reached out to touch Horn's bloody body. face.
She almost no longer recognizes this face. Once it was the face of a farmer, then it was the face of a scholar, and now it looks like the face of a warrior.
Holding Horn's face with both hands, Jeanne's head suddenly came closer, and her chest pressed against his breastplate. The warm breath hit them, their foreheads touched, their eyes met, and their lips bumped together as if accidentally.
There was a faint scent of chamomile on the tip of my nose, and the soft thing that Horn's lips touched had the sweet smell of blood.
The blood of enemies is the Valkyrie's best lipstick.
“Yo!”
"Hey!"
There were countless booing sounds around him, and some even whistled, and even the wounded passing by on the stretcher sat upright.
“Boom——”
Released Horn’s neck, and before he said anything, Jeanne was already in a highly red-hot state.
“One more!” Victor, who was lying on the ground unable to move, shouted with his eyes sideways.
Rotating the crutches like flying, Coleman landed on one foot and rushed over: "Huh? Did you kiss me? Oops, I didn't see it."
"Kiss me! Kiss me!"
< br>"Woohoo!"
Listening to the commotion around her, the Valkyrie who had just killed everyone on the battlefield seemed to have turned into a little girl. She glared at them angrily, covered her face, and fled quickly. to the scene.
"Okay, stop teasing, stop teasing!"
Standing on the hillside, Horn cried and cried, finally suppressing the group of war monks who were still energetic and noisy after the battle.
With Armand's support, he limped to the hillside holding the gear sun flag.
From the flat ground to the hillside, nearly a thousand war monks lay down, reducing their number by nearly a quarter.
Similarly, there are more than 60 order knights, dozens of square flag knights and hundreds of attendant knights lying here.
Including the more than 20 command knights who were captured, the number of command knights who successfully escaped is estimated to be only single digits.
One of Prince Condai's nine command companies is basically explained here.
Of the 550 extraordinary knights who went on the expedition, less than 150 escaped. The entire extraordinary knights and nobles in the Kush territory were wiped out by Horn twice.
The total number of captured night guards and armored sergeants exceeded 1,200.
As for those French knights, they probably knew that Castle Joan of Arc had changed hands and ran away quickly without even avenging the 100 knights who stayed behind.
In other words, nearly 8,000 square kilometers of land in Kush has been controlled by the Salvation Army.
"Huh?"
Horn looked up at the sky.
The rain that had been falling for a long time finally stopped, the dark clouds dispersed, and half of the sunset appeared between the clouds and the mountains.
The mottled sunset glow adds colorful fine scales to the stream in the green grassland.
The scales shone like ruffled waves in the lake.
The blue hills stretch out the sunlight, drawing clear lines of light and dark between the sky and the earth like oil paintings.
Horn is standing at the intersection of the dividing line between light and dark.
The air became quiet, and the eyes of everyone present, including the war monks, the skitarii, the chaplains and even the prisoners, were all focused on Horn.
Everyone’s eyes were on Horn, the pope who had never charged personally in thousands of years, and the young man who led them to victory.
They were all waiting for him to say the last words, the words that everyone had been waiting for a long time. They wanted Horn to say it himself.
"Fellows! Monks! Believers!" Holding the sun gear flag high with his left hand, Horn announced to everyone with a tearful smile, "We have won!"
"Victory! ”
“We won!”
The cheers spread like an explosion.
(End of this chapter)