Chapter 409 I have a special secret technique that can predict the weather
Under the gloomy sky, the war horse spit out stars and paved the soil with its hooves uneasily.
Riding on horseback, Horn held up a lookout glass and looked at the Alman Army not far away.
On the other side of the village full of barns, to the north of Horn to be precise, stands a group of colorful lights and shadows.
Unlike the uniform uniforms of the Salvation Army, these guards, wearing colorful costumes and even pajamas under their chain mail and armor, look like mosaic glass paintings on church windows.
They formed a long line, firmly guarding a raised area running from east to west.
On both sides of the Lacey River, hussars and Kush knights galloped with the squire knights in the Alman army.
The molten iron composed of war horses and swords flows rapidly on the yellow and green grass. Occasionally, when it crosses, blood foam mixed with sparks splash in the air.
The dust and fine sand raised by the horse's hooves fell on the water of the stream, polishing the originally smooth river surface into a frosted color, unable to reflect the blue sky.
Perhaps it is because the stream cannot reflect its brilliant appearance, and the sun hides behind the clouds.
During the hour-long confrontation between the Salvation Army and the Church Army, the originally clear sky was quickly turned dark blue by white and dark clouds.
When Horn's lookout glass was slightly raised, it was as if he was staring upward at the bottom of the sea.
"Will it rain?" Putting down the lookout, Horn asked Paslik beside him.
Paslik claims to have practiced a special secret technique that, although it causes pain, allows him to feel whether it will rain.
After listening to Horn's words, Paslik rubbed his knees and closed his eyes to feel it: "I didn't feel any pain in my knees and ankles. It was probably just a cloudy day."
Horn sighed with pity. He originally thought that if it rained, Jeanne would be able to exert her greatest fighting power.
The location of the Salvation Army at the moment is five kilometers away from the Church Army camp and eight kilometers away from the city of Rapids on the Beechburg-King Rapids Avenue.
Although Horn was careful enough, he still failed to achieve the expected surprise effect.
Originally, his plan was to advance to a small town near Rapid City after capturing Beechburg.
On the one hand, having buildings and positions can reduce the combat effectiveness of the knights, and on the other hand, it can reduce the pressure on the Rapid City defenders.
The plan originally went very smoothly. On July 21, he captured Beechburg, only 20 kilometers away from Rapid City.
But as expected, the accident happened again.
Previously in the town of Thyssen, Jeanne killed a young nobleman who called himself the "Chief Knight of Countess Marika".
She originally thought that, like most situations, this knight just used a name to scare people.
Initially, no one paid attention to this nonsense knight until dozens of scout cavalry arrived.
That rude knight was really the chief knight of Countess Malika's family.
He was originally sent by the Countess to Xiaochi City to investigate the situation, but he only temporarily stayed in Tissen Town.
Because the decoration was too gorgeous and it came with a mocking object like a heraldic flag, Jeanne couldn't help but send it to the Holy Lord with a flash of lightning.
When his subordinates failed to report the news on time, the Countess sent cavalry to investigate.
This investigation revealed that an army of tens of thousands of people appeared near Biqi Castle at some unknown time.
Then, there is the situation that Horn is facing now.
While traveling near the Vercingeoli Manor, they were blocked by an enemy that was twice their size.
Different from the wheat field terrain in Longsand County, Lower River County and Hotam County are similar in that they have continuous soil slopes of four to five meters up and down with water network and streams.
But unlike Hotam County, Lower River County is mostly populated by streams. After both sides of the reconnaissance cavalry encountered the enemy, Horne marched first.
The infantry and cavalry of both sides determined their current positions and formations after pulling each other and conducting reconnaissance.
Horn failed to grab a favorable terrain and could only look at the church army from a distance across a Y-shaped stream.
This time, he still used the diamond modified positional warfare mode, with two legions forming a group.
The frontline troops are composed of two groups of four Black Hat Legions, namely the First to Fourth Black Hat Legions, with a total of 2,000 people.
The second line of troops consists of two black hat regiments on the left and two new guard regiments on the right. They are 90 meters apart from the first line and stand on both sides of the two groups of regiments on the first line.
On the further right side of the second line is a large square formation composed of 2 pure spear recruits, the Black Hat Legion, and all 1,200 Koike City troops. They didn't have time to train in the Galar horizontal formation, and besides, they were only spearmen, so they were asked to form the most familiar Dunjar square formation.
This black hat army with pure spears was newly expanded half a month ago. The ratio of veterans to recruits is about one to four, and only senior officers have been replaced.
Most of these recruits were former guards. After simple political education and discipline training, and some veterans were placed, they went directly to the battlefield.
Horn has only one expectation for them, and that is to become a group of qualified line-filling babies, just to stabilize the line, and does not expect them to make any counterattacks.
Besides, they really can't do any counterattack, if we distinguish between heavy armor and light armor according to whether they are wearing armor.
Then the Black Hat Army has about half of the heavy-armed spearmen and one-third of the heavy-armed holy gunners, while the Guards has all the heavy-armed spearmen and half of the heavy-armed holy gunners.
The two recruits, the Black Hat Legion, with more than a thousand people, only had about a hundred pieces of armor, and it was estimated that only the soldiers in the front row could wear them.
How to develop more Holy Gunslingers is really a difficult problem.
The third line was directly behind the two groups of corps in the first line, with Horn leading two Guards corps.
They are located about 120 meters behind, with 80 wizards led by Mormont and 20 fireball crossbows sandwiched in the middle.
As for the remaining cavalry units, the Holy Gun Cavalry is on the left side of the first line, the Kush Knights are on the right side of the second line, and the North Knights are responsible for the rear guard and reserve beside Di Sanxian Horn.
The 2,000 skitarii guard the baggage and carriages on the right wing of the third line. 120 Koike Castle enlisted cavalry are responsible for guarding these baggage together with the skitarii.
The two sides are currently not making any moves. The Church Army sends out light cavalry from time to time to harass, while Horn is only making fine-tuning at the brigade level.
Both sides seemed to be waiting for something.
"Your Majesty, the scout we sent to Rapids City has returned."
Sissi's neutral voice sounded from behind Horn. Horn pulled the reins and turned around, only to see Sissi trotting over in light clothes.
Sissi always wore men's clothes on the battlefield. He pulled open some of his collar. From Horn's height, he could just see the glistening beads of sweat sliding down his white collarbone.
Horn asked helplessly: "What did the Rapid City say?"
Originally, according to the principle of avoidance of relatives, Sissi, as part of the decision-making team, should not have participated. On the front line.
Horn's original intention was to leave Sissi behind Bikini Castle, and then let Sissi come over after they reached Rapid City and stabilized.
Although Sissi was working under Horn on secondment, his staff was on Catherine's side after all, and he cared about her mother's family after all.
He was much more anxious than Horn when he learned that Rapid City was under siege.
After realizing that the entire church army was out, Horn came to the simplest conclusion: after the opponent had no hope of attacking the city, they decided to deal with the reinforcements first.
After all, there are lessons learned from the Koike City coalition forces. If it were Horn himself, he would make a similar decision.
Then the church army will come out in full force = empty troops in the rear + the main generals are absent = the rapids city cannot be captured.
But Sissi still couldn't let go and took the scouts to Rapid City in person, insisting on confirming the situation in person.
"Lady Catherine said." Sissi wiped the sweat from her forehead with a handkerchief, "The enemy's offensive has been very weak these two days. Let us take our time. Don't be too anxious and don't divide our troops. Be careful. They were ambushed."
"Look, it's pretty much what I said. Are you at ease now?" Horn said with a smile.
Sissi's face showed a few blushes of embarrassment: "I'm too nervous."
"It's okay, just leave a safety net." Horn picked up the lookout again Jing observed, "The scout you left is over there. If anything happens, you can come over and report."
After confirming that Rapid City had not been breached, Horn had plenty of time, because when it came to time, it entered the rhythm of positional warfare that Horn was familiar with.
The Battle of Pavia and the Battle of Montenegro were all like this.
Originally, today there is not much geographical advantage, and we cannot force the opponent to attack like Pavia and Montenegro.
In the end, neither party dared to take any risks and could only sit here in silence for an hour.
But after defeating Niedersall and rescuing Koike Castle, the situation was different.
"Let Mormont push out the fireball crossbow." Horn gave the order to Hakuto, "Please teach the army to eat 20 fireballs and 10 red dragon's breath fireballs first, and see if they still sit still."< br>
(End of this chapter)