Chapter 420: Preparations before the final charge
“Woooooooo——”
The sound of the horn was still flying in the dark clouds, and a few crows came after smelling the smell, greedily picking up the corpses hovering in the sky.
Among the hills and streams, horse hooves kept crisscrossing and chasing each other, and the knights of Kush and the knights of the church constantly staged dramas of interception, pursuit and entanglement.
The ones blocked by the Knights of Kush and Knights of North are the country knights of Lower River.
The densely packed spears vibrated with the footsteps, and the steel forest formed by the spear tips merged with the forest on the hills behind them, almost blocking the dark clouds on the horizon.
The fireball dragged out a long tail of black smoke and light, roaring and falling in the square formation shoulder to shoulder.
One group of fires exploded, and the howling and fire-covered guards danced briskly on the grass.
"What should I do? What should I do?"
Guarded by a group of knights, Mizam completely lost the gloomy palace before, grabbing Arman's sleeve with sweat on his back.
At this time, Arman lost his previous good temper and just said coldly: "What else can we do? Let's fight."
"Fight↑Fight↓!" Mizam's tone suddenly rose. Even at e6, when he saw the people around him looking at him, he lowered his voice and said, "The Holy Lord is merciful. I can't bear to avoid killing people on the battlefield. Can you send a few square flag knights to escort me?"
" I’m afraid it can’t be done.”
“Why?”
“It just can’t be done. We can’t leave.”
Mizam became angry. He raised his voice and returned to his usual vicious look: "Is it possible that the church army can't fight without me?"
"It's hard to say." Arman finally said. Mizam saved face and said, "Let me just say this. As soon as you leave, the infantry phalanx will collapse.
The route will be crowded with broken troops, and the enemy's cavalry will collapse again. Cooperate with the devil's gun infantry to kill us."
"What should we do?" With the last glimmer of hope, Mizam asked, "Can't we go around?"< br>
Arman wiped the blood on his armor with the animal skin, and his frivolous eyebrows were almost on top of his eyes: "Go around? If I can go around, will I still wait here?"
The Salvation Army has such a long battle width and is guarded by cavalry on both sides. It would take at least a minute for the Order Company to get around it.
Taking into account the opponent's traveling speed, our own gathering speed, the interference of the opponent's holy cavalry and infantry, as well as the divination of the hussars and wizards, it is absolutely too late.
Even if it is a range of 300 meters or even 200 meters, Arman is confident to run out with the main force of the knights. After all, if the infantry is lost, it will be lost.
But now that Horn has done this, they are blocked here by the defeated troops of Koike City and their own infantry phalanx, and they have no time to escape.
Looking around the battlefield, under the shouts of various guard captains and sergeants, the guards are trying to turn back.
Their spear poles crossed and collided. Here someone was being pushed down and complaining, and there was a deserter being pushed around.
The original pin-zi formations in groups of three are all mixed together and become a chaotic formation.
Based on the current progress, it is estimated that the six rearmost phalanxes cannot be saved. Even if the front six phalanxes change in time, they will definitely not be able to withstand an attack from the Salvation Army.
In summary, it’s all over.
When Mizam led the whole army past Horn, the battle was over. It was just a disastrous defeat, a big defeat, and a minor defeat.
The overall battle situation is over, but it is not necessarily the case for Arman. As long as the strength of the main knight can be preserved, it can only be regarded as a small defeat.
Guards are like potato roots in the ground. They will grow after you dig them. You just have to wait two years at most.
Arman glanced at Mizam, remembered his identity, and said helplessly: "When we charge, you follow behind and break through the opponent's formation. This is the only chance. "
Mizam's gray face finally had some color. Despite this defeat, as long as he was given a pen and paper, although he could not turn defeat into victory, he could. Turn danger into safety.
"The squire knights are out!" Arman got on his horse and shouted to several knights, "try your best to slow down the opponent and leave enough time for the large square formation to change!"
"As you command, Your Excellency!"
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Smoke drifted past the side, and the wind wrapped the smoke and dust to form a light black cloud. The battle composed of ten legions Formation, moving forward at full speed.
Holding feather spears and wearing breastplates, the division captains strode back and forth, shouting at their hoarse throats, constantly blowing whistles and shouting amidst the footsteps, adjusting their formation and speed.
The rapid march just now and the vanguard battle with Countess Malika somewhat disrupted some of the Salvation Army's queues.
Walking at the forefront of the battle formation, Horn stared at the chaotic formation of the church army in front of him from a distance. There was no expression on his pale face. People who didn't know better thought he was distracted.
The wind blowing away the smoke hit Horn's face. Unlike the hot air around him, it actually had a slight sense of coolness. This inevitably made Horn wonder about the principle of this blowing spell. Could it be that they were generating air rather than pushing it?
Riding on the back of the flowered horse Grape and slowly moving forward in the battle formation, Horn gently stroked its mane, and heavy iron gloves covered the back of his hands, but it did not affect the gentleness of his movements at all.
In the realm of Horn's second-stage breathing technique, it is not too difficult to wear such a pair of heavy iron gloves.
"Your Majesty, why don't you go back?" Du Valon, holding his shield and sweating profusely, stood beside Horn and raised his shield high.
Surrounding Horn's battle formation, the squire knights were swimming desperately, arrows flying in the sky, falling on their helmets and armors, making a clanging sound.
From time to time, a messy sound of gunfire can be heard, and the next second, several knights who are too close will fall from their horses.
Although the squire knights were quite far away, it would be terrible if a stray arrow flew from somewhere and hit Horn.
"What are you afraid of? What you should do yourself must be done by yourself, and you can't do it by others." Horn put down the observation glass and said calmly.
However, looking at the nervous eyes of the people around him, he still sighed softly, grabbed the reins, and the legions around him passed by on both sides like a flowing stream.
"Have the two legions behind followed you?" Horn reined in his horse and turned to Du Vallon beside him and asked.
Because the legion was rotating to the right as a whole, the two outermost recruit guard legions still fell behind.
In order to prevent the command company from launching a side attack on this weak point, Horn temporarily adjusted the formation.
Among the more than 5,000 people from ten legions currently marching on the grass, the two legions at the front are the Guards legions that have always been in reserve.
"Following up, we are currently staying at the end as a reserve team." Du Valon confirmed with the messenger before continuing.
"Have the formations been adjusted?"
"Everything has been adjusted." Jeshka showed her big black and yellow teeth, "I'm just waiting for your order."
Looking at the church army that was becoming clearer in his field of vision, Horn finally couldn't help but reveal a smile.
He never expected that the opponent would actually leave his position and take the initiative to attack diagonally. Although this was the result of him passively leaving the bait, the effect was surprisingly good.
Starting from his own formation, Horn seemed to have run three to four hundred meters, but if the entire formation was viewed as a whole, he did not move very far.
When a Galar horizontal formation is fully deployed and leaves enough room for the gunman to maneuver, the battle width is about 90 to 100 meters.
Horn's diamond formation has four Galar horizontal formations on the first line, and there are Galar horizontal formations on both sides of the second line.
So with the maneuvering space between each horizontal formation, the battle width when the battle formation is deployed is 500 to 600 meters, and after turning into a marching column, there is still a battle width of more than 400 meters.
Horn seemed to have run a long way, but from a horizontal perspective, he only moved one position and turned half a circle.
The number of infantry square formations of the Church Army on the opposite side far exceeds that of Horn, so the battle width of even a large square formation is only 50 to 60 meters.
In addition, they are arranged in a zigzag shape, so with twice the strength of Horn, the battle width of the 12 large square formations is only 300 to 400 meters.
This means that it is difficult for the infantry of the Church Army to outflank Horn's Gallar Horizontal Formation, but after ensuring the maneuvering speed, the Gallar Horizontal Formation can easily outflank others.
It was this characteristic of Galar's horizontal formation that led Horn to make the decision to attack from the side, and used a clockwork leather cannon to forcibly defeat Baroness Malika and her bodyguard knights.
After leaving the Ibe Knights to struggle with the remaining Lower River Knights, Horn began to march eastward quickly and slowly.
When he learned the opponent's whereabouts from the hussar, he was ready for a flank attack.
But what he didn't expect was that the other party didn't seem to notice, and walked straight past Horn's face without taking any precautions.
Horn even saw them, but they still moved forward stiffly.
From just now to now, Horn couldn't figure out what trick Mizam was playing.
But he quickly realized that this was a great opportunity.
If you launch a side attack in the smoke and are too far away from the main formation, the command company will definitely notice it in advance and flee the battlefield.
If the attack is carried out from the side and rear, it will not only have a greater tactical effect, but may even block the command company.
This impromptu decision brought huge rewards to Horn.
Across from the moving steel forest, the church army's fragile back and panicked flanks had been exposed to Horn's eyes.
"Your Majesty, we have entered within a hundred meters of each other."
The distance of one hundred meters is calculated at a quick pace, which only takes two minutes.
"The four legions on both sides of the second line turned to regular steps, ready to welcome the impact of the opponent's knights. The Chinese army continued to move forward quickly, preparing to charge."
(End of this chapter)